For the 2022 Games, media workers will receive a new media package which contains items such as notebooks, pens, items for daily use like insulated cups, hats and cultural souvenirs depicting paper-cut window grilles or Chinese knots. Photo: Screenshot from web

Foreign reporters have been spotted carrying bags from the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing as they run around venues for the 2022 Games.

For example, in a video circulating on social media, a reporter, carrying a black backpack with a Beijing Summer Olympic logo printed on it, is seen checking in at a desk inside the media center for the 2022 Games in Beijing. 

Similar media bags, made 14 years ago in Beijing, have also been seen in the company of many journalists at many other Olympics such as those in Tokyo, Rio, and London.

In 2021, an Iranian reporter who covered Beijing 2008 told the Xinhua News Agency while covering the Tokyo Olympic Games that he always carries his Beijing bag when covering the Olympics.

"All the Olympic Games I carried it."

"I have covered four Olympic Games. Each time I carried the Beijing media bag, because its quality is very good. It is specially designed for professional photographers," he said.

For the 2022 Games, media workers will receive a new media package which contains items such as notebooks, pens, items for daily use like insulated cups, hats and cultural souvenirs depicting paper-cut window grilles or Chinese knots.

The media center of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics has officially launched its trial closed-loop management ahead of the competition. From January 4 to 22, more than 1,700 media staff members from all over the world are expected to work at the Olympic venues, Xinhua reported on Wednesday.

Global Times