By Mariam Chehab and Teresa Schachtl, 10 February 2022
On February 4, the 24th Winter Olympics started in Beijing. 92 nations are competing in 15 different disciplines, however this year’s event seems to be overshadowed by political discussions and controversies.
Following the decision of the ICO to host this year’s games in China a lot of nations were outraged considering the human rights situation. Denmark, as well as other countries, have soon decided not to send any official representatives to China and are therefore boycotting the Winter Olympics.
We were wondering if the people in Aarhus were still interested in the event even though winter sports does not seem to be a big thing in Denmark. We have spoken to people in Aarhus and asked them whether they are following the Olympics and what their opinion about the controversies is. Thereby we discovered that even though people from Aarhus are quite interested in sports in general, they are not really following the Olympics and winter sports.