As Winter Olympics ebb in Beijing, smartphone synchronicity


A man uses his phone to film a screen outside a mall showing a live broadcast of the fireworks explode over the iconic Bird’s Nest Stadium during the closing ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing, on Sunday, Feb 20, 2022. — AP

BEIJING: The smartphones glowed. The irony echoed.

As part of the closing ceremony Sunday night for the most locked-down and sequestered Olympics in human history, a carefully curated crowd packed – well, dotted, really – the famed Bird’s Nest stadium as a warm and humanistic show unfolded.

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