BEIJING – They have come to an end, the strangest, most controversial, most unwelcoming Olympic Games of our lifetime.
Walled off from the outside world in order to succeed, accompanied every step of the way by questions about China’s human rights abuses, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games ended their bizarre 17-day run on a frigid Sunday night at the Birds Nest, China’s National Stadium.
We have never seen anything quite like these Olympics. They will be deemed a success only because they were not an abject failure. The closed-loop fortress worked; COVID-19 did not explode and run rampant through the Games.