The International Olympic Committee will no longer sell tickets to the general public for the 2022 Beijing Olympics due to COVID.
of the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the virus over the weekend, just weeks before the city begins hosting the games on Feb. 4.The IOC said the change was "in order to ensure the safety of all participants and spectators.
" Spectators will instead be part of an "adapted programme that will invite groups of spectators to be present on site during the Games."Previously, based on coronavirus protocols released in September, the IOC was only selling tickets to spectators in mainland China who meet certain COVID-19 requirements.
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