in the bubble, pine fever
Tao, 21, with round glasses on his nose, dedicated his day off to it. If she made the trip between the mountains of Zhangjiakou and the capital, Beijing, that day, it was for this sole purpose: “exchange pins with athletes and reporters”, she announces with a big smile. → CHRONICLE. Beijing Olympics: in the Olympic […]
the end of Games locked in their bubble
China brilliantly succeeded in its Games, which ended on Sunday February 20, in sporting terms, ranking third nation against sixteenth place four years ago. But she knew she was being scrutinized on a completely different level: her management of the pandemic, as she never ceased to praise her “zero Covid” strategy. Here too, the results […]
Beijing Olympics: farewell, the bubble
Farewell, bubble. A kind of relief has been floating in the air for the past few days for the participants in the Beijing Games, happy to return home and leave the daily constraints and frustrations involved in life under a bell in China. The first of them being perhaps that of seeing the Great Wall […]