02-02-2022, 03:21 PM
Exclusive: Beijing 2022 to deliver extraordinary Games in the most difficult circumstances: Samaranch
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In three days, the world will witness the grand opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, marking Beijing as the world's first city to hold both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. Juan Antonio Samaranch, chairman of the IOC Coordination Commission for Beijing 2022, told the Global Times in an exclusive interview on Monday that the organizing committee has prepared everything extraordinarily. In full confidence, the Beijing 2022 Games, with the best venues and best winter athletes from around the world, will deliver extraordinary Games in the most difficult circumstances.
"We have seen with great satisfaction how the organizing committee has prepared everything extraordinarily. We are extremely confident. We are very happy with how things are going," Samaranch told the Global Times, noting that although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) never doubted the abilities of the organizing committee to deliver, COVID-19 made preparation for the Games a complex and complicated project.
Still, the organizing committee worked under the most difficult circumstances, and they have delivered the same quality that they promised at the beginning, the IOC official said, after spending a couple of weeks in China and visiting all the venues. "I'm amazed and impressed by the quality of what I've seen," he said.
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