The International Olympic Committee says: "Thank you." Specifically: Thomas Bach says thank you to the volunteers, the number of whom the Chinese hosts in Beijing planned so generously in February that many of them spent a significant part of the Olympic weeks with them exciting activities, for example standing around for hours without any apparent purpose.
And without compensation.
The athletes, on the other hand, worked really hard and weren't paid.
Further in the text: Thomas Bach thanks "our Chinese friends".
We don't want to be left behind.
Thanks and greetings go out, for example to those who were entrusted with evaluating the images from the press center.
You know which images we mean: the files with the recordings of the cameras aimed directly at the journalists' laptops.
Don't let us complain, friend!
Why did the IOC President send his letter this week?
Because the last volunteers were now allowed to leave the compulsory Corona quarantine.
The reunion with friends and families will certainly be highly emotional, writes Bach.
Certainly.
Let's hope nobody has to go back to Shanghai.
Otherwise it could take a while for the emotional reunion.