How the Winter Olympics are being received in China
Despite a campaign from China to increase enthusiasm for winter sports, many in the country are indifferent to the Games and excitement is more muted than in 2008.
BEIJING â The day of the Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony began clear and brilliantly sunny â a change from the choking smog linked to the city's coal-fired winter heating system, which permeated Beijing the week earlier.
Under the bright blue skies, Wang Jianzhi burnishes a pair of ice skates. He runs
