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Beijing 2022: Life inside the Winter Olympics bubble

Robots serving drinks, temperature-controlled sleep pods and disinfectant everywhere.

These are the everyday scenes that Olympic athletes, officials and media covering the event will be living with for the next few weeks as the Winter Games get under way in the Chinese capital Beijing.

The 2022 Beijing Games are likely to be the most controlled international sporting event held to date.

The Tokyo Games last year proved that an Olympics could be conducted in a confined space in the age of the coronavirus pandemic. But China - wealthy, powerful and determined - has gone even further to create a vast system designed to ensure a virus-free Games.

Central to the whole plan is the "closed loop" environment - home to an estimated 60,000 athletes, team officials, media, volunteers and more. The world of the Beijing Games is made up of three main gated "bubble areas" spread over a 160km (100 mile) area.

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