The Olympic Winter Games in Beijing will see the largest Team USA ever assembled for the quadrennial competition.
More than 220 athletes will participate in a flurry of events on stages of ice and snow to be seen on screens all around the world but only live in muted venues with invited attendees. The Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee announced in mid-January it stopped selling spectator tickets because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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