China’s President Xi Jinping (left) and International Olympic Committee
President Thomas Bach examine the Beijing 2022 original announcement
paper during a visit to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland,
yesterday. Xi pledged to make the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games a
“remarkable, extraordinary and excellent event.” China will prepare and
host the Games in a green, sharing, open and clean-fingered manner, Xi
said, adding China will take the 2022 Olympics as an opportunity to
facilitate the nation’s competitive sports and mass sports.