The boss of the Olympics 2024 had to fly to Beijing, where begin the Olympic Winter Games 2022, Friday.
Le Monde with AFP
The Chairman of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Organizing Committee, Tony Estanguet, will not attend the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, taking place from 4 to 20 February. The former canoe specialist was diagnosed positively at the new coronavirus, announced Monday 31 January Paris 2024 at the France-Presse agency.
Tony Estanguet, whose state of health has not been specified, had to come to the Chinese capital during the first part of the Olympics 2022 – the last before those organized by the French capital – who start Friday. According to Paris 2024, the Director General of the Organizing Committee, Etienne Thobois, could move to observe the course of these games with a small team.
This summer, Tony Estanguet, Triple Olympic Champion of C1 Slalom in Sydney in 2000 in Athens in 2004 and London in 2012, went to Tokyo for the Olympic Summer Games, reported by one year, from 2020 to 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
“Zero Covid” strategy
Beijing has recorded Sunday the largest number of contamination cases for eighteen months, when the Chinese capital is preparing to welcome the Olympic Winter Games. These Olympics will take place in “closed loop” for participants, to prevent contact between them and the local population.
China, which intends to pursue its Zero Covid strategy, practically eradicated the epidemic on its soil since the spring 2020 thanks to massive screenings, targeted confines from the appearance of the first cases and a forty forty. Arrival on the territory.
But the authorities of the country are currently facing epidemic homes in several cities of the country, as well as within the “health bubble” of the Olympic Games.