Comrade Xi's cunning plan: He gets wiry biathletes and muscular bobsleigh pushers into his parched, snow-free low mountain range to show the kids who are always playing in front of their consoles that sport in the fresh air doesn't have to have any deeper meaning.

So that in the future, young Chinese will also be able to talk about the advantages of the Gundersen method in addition to the Great Chairman's most brilliant flashes of inspiration.

But if you say Nordic, you also have to be able to combine.

So why not seize the opportunity presented by guests from all over the world trapped in the bubble?

Wouldn't it be laughable if the washcloths from Europe and America weren't a little too soft.

Every course makes you slim, and that's why all courses have been eliminated.

Travel only by bus, even within the bubble.

It's only 250 meters from the ice rink to the training hall, everything behind the fence and closed off from the public?

Under no circumstances on foot!

That's what the electric car is for.

On reservation, at least half an hour in advance.

Not that anyone else gets spontaneous ideas.

Good times for bus drivers.

Nothing works in Beijing.