CLOSED LOOP MANAGEMENT PROTECTS ALL

In order to deliver a safe Games, the Beijing Winter Olympics has been taking place in a closed loop. Samaranch Jr. said that China's public health authorities have done a lot of rigorous and comprehensive work, in which the closed-loop management has played a key role in the smooth operation of the Games so far.

"You have a very important gatekeeper at the airports that is doing tests when everybody arrives," he said. "We have prepared everybody to stay home, to stay calm, not to expose themselves and to do PCR test before they fly. So we are getting these people that get infected last minute were catching them up and putting them in isolation."

"Since there is no interaction between in and out of the bubble. Inside the bubble it is the Olympic world and all the Chinese people working in the organization of the Games. The outside is the Beijing and Hebei populations. We are safe and it's working," he added.