The Olympic flame for the 2022 Beijing Winter Games was handed over to the Chinese organizing committee in Athens on Tuesday. The ceremony was held in the Panathenaic Stadium, built entirely of marble. The first modern Olympic Games took place there in 1896. Only a few invited guests were admitted to the ceremony because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20 under strict hygiene protocols. The flame was lit the previous day with the help of a concave mirror and the sun’s rays at the ancient site of Olympia on Greece’s Peloponnese peninsu…