{"id":1082314,"date":"2021-12-03T23:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T04:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1082314"},"modified":"2021-12-03T23:13:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T04:13:49","slug":"china-not-sure-if-2022-winter-olympics-site-will-have-public-spectators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-not-sure-if-2022-winter-olympics-site-will-have-public-spectators\/","title":{"rendered":"China Not Sure if 2022 Winter Olympics Site Will Have &#039;Public&#039; Spectators"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-not-sure-if-2022-winter-olympics-site-will-have-public-spectators%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1082314&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The manager of a Beijing venue that is set to host men\u2019s ice hockey events during the 2022 Winter Olympics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202112\/1240547.shtml\">told<\/a> China\u2019s state-run <em>Global Times<\/em> on Thursday Olympic coordinators have yet to determine if seats in the stadium \u201cwill be open to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Beijing\u2019s National Indoor Stadium will <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/en\/beijing-2022\/venues\">host<\/a> the men\u2019s ice hockey competition during the 2022 Winter Olympics in February. The venue has a capacity of roughly 18,000. About 6,000 of the stadium\u2019s seats may be available to the public during the Olympic Games after zoning and arranged seating for event-related personnel are taken into account, the <em>Global Times<\/em> reported on December 2.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it has not yet been determined whether the seats will be open to the public,\u201d the newspaper revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe number of seats to be opened depends on the epidemic situation in Beijing and nationwide at the time of the event,\u201d Lei Ming, a member of National Indoor Stadium\u2019s operations team, told the <em>Global Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is no epidemic in the country by then, more seats will be open. But if the epidemic is more serious, it is even possible that the seats will not be open to spectators,\u201d Lei said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18726410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1231396716.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18726410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1231396716.png\" alt width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">People wear protective masks as they walk in front of the logos of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at Yanqing Ice Festival on February 26, 2021, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>China has experienced a nationwide resurgence of its coronavirus caseload since mid-October. The epidemic started in a Chinese tour group that traveled from Shanghai to China\u2019s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in early October. According to Chinese state media, some of the travel group\u2019s members visited the China-Mongolia border town of Ejin Banner and contracted coronavirus from an unspecified foreign source. The tourists subsequently spread the virus throughout other Chinese regions as they traveled back home following the vacation.<\/p>\n<p>Publications such as the <em>Global Times<\/em>, an official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/page\/202110\/1237268.shtml\">implied<\/a> that the alleged foreign source of the outbreak came from Mongolia, though they have yet to provide evidence to support this theory.<\/p>\n<p>Beijing has been especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/11\/18\/beijing-limits-travel-into-city-just-79-days-before-2022-winter-olympics\/\">hard-hit<\/a> by China\u2019s surging coronavirus caseload in recent weeks. The Chinese national capital was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/10\/25\/coronavirus-forces-china-to-postpone-beijing-marathon\/\">postpone<\/a> the 2021 Beijing Marathon in late October after state health officials decided the event posed a public health risk. The event\u2019s&nbsp;organizers said they decided to call off the marathon \u201cuntil further notice in order to prevent the risk of the epidemic spreading (and) effectively protect the health and safety of the majority of runners, staff, and residents.\u201d The race was originally scheduled for October 31 and would have drawn roughly 30,000 participants and spectators to Beijing. The Chinese national capital is home to about 21 million people.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s last-minute decision to cancel the 2021 Beijing Marathon on October 24 \u2014 just one week before its scheduled start date \u2014 sparked speculation among international media that Beijing could struggle to successfully host the 2022 Winter Olympics, which will take place from February 2 through February 20. Organizers of the global sporting event have said the Games will be off-limits to spectators outside China in accordance with strict coronavirus protocol. The Winter Games promise to attract 2,900 athletes to Beijing in 63 days\u2019 time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The manager of a Beijing venue that is set to host men\u2019s ice hockey events during the 2022 Winter Olympics told China\u2019s state-run Global Times on Thursday Olympic coordinators have &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}