Beijing Olympics loop life: Tight security, bus trips galore and aggressive swabbing
BEIJING — Not all the questions from back home have been about gold-medal performances. Not everyone wants to know why a certain skier fell in the slalom or those curlers went for broke with the hammer throw.
When family and friends — and readers — have queried a handful of Los Angeles Times staff at these Winter Olympics, they have often asked about life in the bubble.
These are the second Games under the pall of the pandemic, but Tokyo was far looser last summer. The Chinese have instituted a “closed-loop system” every bit as thorough and restrictive as it sounds.
The protocol affects nearly every aspect of our days in China, so we each picked an example that has affected us most.
Nathan Fenno on daily coronavirus tests
The first time I almost vomited on a woman in a hazmat suit came a half-hour after landing at Beijing Capital International Airport.
The thin probe she swirled around the inner recesses of my nasal passages
