China will no longer sell tickets to the Beijing Winter Olympics due to COVID-19

A construction worker walks past the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games logo on a street in Beijing on December 11, 2021.

No tickets will be sold for the upcoming winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Beijing due to the “grave and complicated situation of the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Instead, organizers announced Monday that they would invite groups of spectators to attend the games in person.

“The organisers expect that these spectators will strictly abide by the COVID-19 countermeasures before, during and after each event as pre-conditions for the safe and sound delivery of the Games,” the Beijing 2022 organizing committee said in a statement.