Many were looking forward on Saturday (February 5) to the Games and and hoping China would win more gold medals than before as a host nation.At the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony on Friday (February 4), a cross country skier born in Xinjiang was one of the two final torchbearers to lit the fire.Dinigeer Yilamujiang, from Altay in China's western Xinjiang region, placed the lit torch onto a giant snowflake along with Zhao Jiawen, a 21-year-old biathlete, before it was lifted high above the spectators at Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium.