Olympics_1_preps_1 (type)

The most divided Olympic Games ____________________ decades gets ____________________ way ____________________ China ____________________ Friday as Beijing becomes the only city to host both the Summer and now the Winter Games . As well as tight Covid - 19 controls , the Games are fraught ____________________ political tensions ____________________ allegations ____________________ human rights abuses and boycotts .
Most ____________________ the snow ____________________ the slopes where the Olympic events will take place is man - made .
But ____________________ an indoor rink where the icy climate is maintained ____________________ massive freezers ____________________ the side ____________________ the dome , six - year - old ice skater Yiyi doesn't care how Beijing is making the Winter Games happen .
She just can't wait to see it . She wasn't even born the first time the Olympics came ____________________ town . Now she's inspired ____________________ it .
" It's very exhausting but she presses ____________________ , " her mum told me , ____________________ we'd watched her daughter ____________________ a lesson ____________________ a coach . " She won't leave ____________________ she learns how to do all the moves . She doesn't quit . "
But this is as close ____________________ the action as she is going to get .
Yiyi and her mum can't go ____________________ any ____________________ the events . The Winter Olympics is happening ____________________ Beijing , but almost everyone here is excluded ____________________ it .