In Friday’s opening ceremonies, the prominent participation of the cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, whom China identified as of Uyghur heritage, seemed to carry a double message, louisahthomas writes.
For all their high-flown idealism, the Olympics are, and always have been, a counting game. There are clocks, points, medal counts. This year, at the Winter Games, in Beijing, there are twenty-nine hundred athletes, give or take, from ninety-one countries, competing in a hundred and nine events.
Now, of course, there are other, more troubling numbers to contend with: five million deaths worldwide from COVID, and more than three hundred positive cases, so far, among those inside the restrictive Olympic bubbles, including more than a hundred athletes and team officials. On Friday, the opening ceremonies—held in the same latticed stadium, the Bird’s Nest, as in 2008, and again directed by Zhang—were smaller, and more subdued. The stadium was half empty.
As a purely visual spectacle, the lighting of the cauldron was almost anticlimactic, particularly in comparison to the display fourteen years ago, when the gymnast Li Ning, suspended by wires, appeared to run with the torch around the top wall of the stadium in slow motion before lighting a fuse. This time, the flame merely flickered inside what looked like a large snowflake, which rose into the air and twirled.
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