BEIJING, Jan 3, 2022 (AFP): The Beijing Winter Olympics begin one month on Tuesday (Jan 4) with diplomatic boycotts, the coronavirus and the fate of Peng Shuai all hanging heavy over the Games.
The Chinese capital on February 4-20 will become the first host of a Winter and Summer Olympics, having staged the Games in 2008, seen then as a coming-out party for what has since become the world's second-largest economy.
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