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Published 15:51 5 Feb 2022 GMT
Updated 15:57 5 Feb 2022 GMT
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"They want people to believe them, to sportwash what they are doing. There is a Chinese idiom that translates as 'no 300 taels of silver are buried here.'
"It is when someone protests they are innocent too much. That is what I thought when I heard about the opening ceremony and the torch."
Meanwhile a spokesperson from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) defended the decision to choose Yilamujiang as one of the athletes to light the cauldron, claiming it was a "lovely concept." "This is an athlete who is competing here, she has every right wherever she comes from," they said."Whatever background she comes from to compete and she has every right whatever her background and wherever she comes from to take part in the Opening Ceremony.
"I think it was a lovely concept."
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