St. Petersburg, Jan 19, Sergey Yaremenko. More than 28,000 journalists have been accredited for the Beijing Olympics, said Lucia Montanarella, deputy head of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) media department. The Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing from February 4 to 20.» more than 28,000 journalists. In Tokyo, due to anti-epidemic measures, we were forced to limit the number of seats for the press at sports facilities. Now our Chinese friends are doing everything to maintain the planned number of seats for journalists so that everyone can work in comfortable conditions, «- Montanarella said at a press conference.