Dwell tv might be unpredictable, however a correspondent for a Dutch tv firm bought greater than he bargained for when he was manhandled whereas reporting from the Beijing Winter Olympics in a clip that has gone viral.

Sjoerd den Daas was reporting for Dutch public broadcaster NOS exterior the Nationwide Stadium, often known as the Hen's Nest within the Chinese language capital the place the Video games' opening ceremony came about on Friday night time.

Den Daas was chatting with the digital camera when he was interrupted by a safety volunteer who began yelling at him and tried to tug him out of shot. One other guard appeared in entrance of the digital camera and tried to cease the published earlier than the confused anchor within the studio took over.

As of Saturday morning, the clip of the encounter had been considered greater than 750,000 occasions.

In a Twitter thread, den Daas defined the circumstances of the altercation. He stated that his group had spent a while establishing a reside location for filming by the stadium after police directed them away from a cordoned off space.

"Simply after we had gone reside, I used to be forcefully pulled out of the image with none warning by a plainclothes man sporting a crimson badge that learn, 'Public Security Volunteer.' He didn't determine himself," he tweeted.

He stated that on the similar time, one other man took his group's gentle set up and that "when requested, they could not say what we had accomplished incorrect.

"We had been in a position to proceed our TV reside from a parking zone across the nook."

Den Daas stated over the previous few weeks, he and different international colleagues had been "hindered or stopped a number of occasions by the police whereas reporting on topics associated to the Video games."

"Due to this fact, it is laborious to see final night time's incident as an remoted incident," he tweeted, "and now again to work."

There are considerations over whether or not the media will be capable of do their jobs freely in China in the course of the Video games.

However spokesman for the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) Mark Adams stated "these items do occur and I feel it is a one-off."

He stated that athletes and media would have unfettered entry to a "closed loop" in the course of the Video games, which incorporates the venues, the media centre and the lodging, Reuters reported.

Nevertheless, NOS denied the IOC's claims that it had spoken with the broadcaster and tweeted that the incident "is more and more turning into a day by day actuality for journalists in China."

"He's tremendous and was in a position to end his story a couple of minutes later."

Newsweek has contacted the IOC and de Daas for remark.

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Fireworks over the Nationwide Stadium in Beijing, in the course of the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Video games, on February 4, 2022. A Dutch reporter was confronted by a Chinese language official whereas reporting exterior the stadium.Lu Ye/Getty