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This Olympics was the second and first Winter Olympics held amid the COVID-19 crisis.

Although it was evaluated that it was relatively successful in terms of quarantine, there were also various controversies.



Beijing Connect.

Correspondent Ji-Sung Kim, the International Olympic Committee IOC evaluated 'This Olympics was a success'?



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Yes, last year's Tokyo Olympics were held virtually without spectators, while this year's Beijing Winter Olympics were held with spectators, although limited.



During the two competitions, the number of athletes and Olympic officials who contracted COVID-19 was 547 and 437, respectively.



Considering that the Beijing Olympics were held in a situation where the omicron mutation, which has much stronger transmission power than in Tokyo, is spreading, the general consensus is that it is as successful as the quarantine.



The IOC assessed that China held the Olympics safely in difficult conditions.



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Yes, but the reaction from foreign media doesn't seem to be very good.

How is it?



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Even before the start of the tournament, diplomatic boycotts from Western countries including the United States followed, citing China's human rights issues in Xinjiang.



The Washington Post in the US criticized the Olympics as being remembered as a scandalous Olympics, amid controversy over biased judgments and misunderstandings that occurred during the match, as well as a doping scandal of a Russian figure skater.



Even so, the IOC gave China an opportunity to explain human rights issues at an official press conference, causing controversy.

Let's hear it for yourself.



[Yen Jialong / Spokesperson of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee: In my view, the so-called 'forced labor in Xinjiang' issue is a lie fabricated by a group with a different intention.]



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Yes, there were many controversies in particular this time.

Maybe that's why, during the Olympics, didn't anti-Chinese sentiments increase in Korea as well as in the world?



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Anti-Chinese sentiment in Korea is heightened due to the controversy over hanbok at the opening ceremony and the successive judgments of prejudice against our players.



Controversy over human rights issues is growing so much that a German athlete, who won two medals in the luge event, said, “I will never go to China again”. Anti-Chinese sentiment remains a task to be solved.



(Video coverage: Choi Duk-hyun, video editing: Park Chun-bae, CG: Park Cheon-woong)