High praise for 2022 progress

GENEVA - International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said on Thursday that he has no concerns about the 2022 Beijing Winter Games and that the IOC is perfectly satisfied with all the preparation work.

After discussing a report by the chair of the Games' coordination commission on Thursday, Bach said that Beijing 2022 had once again emphasized that the main motivation behind the event is to promote fitness and health in China.

The Beijing Games will be "using sports as a means for health to make two or three hundred million Chinese familiar with winter sports," Bach said.