...maybe it's lucky for China that the Olympics were not a draw for tourists and the interest of people all around the world. What with the problems China is facing right now, internally, as much as externally, such attention as a result may have been much worse. There will be elections soon, in China; while Xi is no moderate, other forces in this regime (parts of the military for example) are even more extreme. His association with the Olympics, this time, do not favour him.
...next, the Paralympics, pity, i say, they don't play first; it's a shame that no one will be watching them either.