Google welcomes the Winter Olympics with an animated doodle

Google celebrates with an animated doodle, today February 4, the start of the 2022 Winter Olympics held in Beijing, an atypical event that will take place entirely within a “bubble” to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

“The competitive creatures featured in today’s Doodle have gathered from around the world under the winter skies to keep their cool and freeze their opponents. Who will pounce on victory and run home as an international legend? it reads on the Google page.

Beijing will become the first city to host both the summer Olympics – it did so in 2008 – and winter and according to Chinese President Xi Jinping, “will offer the world safe and splendid games.”

The games will have exceptional prevention measures against COVID-19 including the complete isolation of athletes and workers from abroad from the Pekingese population throughout their stay.

Since the closed circuit protocol officially began on January 4, just a month before the opening of the Olympic Games, athletes and specialists from abroad have been received at the airport by personnel dressed in protective suits and subjected to PCR tests, after which they will have no contact with the Pekingese population.

In line with these restrictions, during the Olympic event tickets will not be sold to spectators from abroad and only “designated spectators” who meet the “requirements of the prevention measures against the pandemic” will be able to witness the live events, as announced by the organizing committee last month.

The Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, and the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, have also confirmed their presence in Beijing -or have already arrived-, while Spain will be represented by its Minister of Culture and Sport, Miquel Iceta.

But more than on the presences, the magnifying glass will be on the burning absences of several Western countries that, led by the United States and the United Kingdom, decided to apply a diplomatic boycott of the Olympic event in response to the alleged violations of human rights in the country, which China denies.

With information from EFE

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Source: Elcomercio

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