Despite all the high-tech tricks, political posturing and pyrotechnics, the best part of the Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics proved to be the athletes. Competing the past two w…
Despite all the high-tech tricks, political posturing and pyrotechnics, the best part of the Closing Ceremony of the 2022 Beijing WinterCompeting the past two weeks amidst rising international tensions, pandemic quarantines and with a heavy-handed host, the participants injected a bit of fun this morning into the tightly scripted affair.
This year’s Winter Olympics was unique in many ways, but it may not be a bad idea for future games to let the actual athletes rule the roost more often. Certainly it would be a vast improvement in comparison to this year’s stilted closing ceremony.
As the fallout from doping scandals continue and a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine looms, the icy two-hour affair from China’s capitol simply pretended that diplomatic boycotts and other criticism of the Middle Kingdom’s alleged genocide against the Uyghur population and other mostly-Muslim ethnic groups never occurred as Beijing sought to present a formidable face to the world and its domestic audience.’s Bach ventured in his predictably banal speech today.
In that vein, the mild rebellion of tardy competitors was one of the few spontaneous moments in an otherwise unsurprising didactic event shown live and without commentary on
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