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By Nick Dimengo Seattle (Knewz) — Despite a global pandemic, the Winter Olympics are still scheduled to begin Feb. 4 in Beijing. However, with that country enforcing a strict “zero-COVID” policy — with some of the harshest lockdown strategies in the world — officials for the event are worried about how that may impact athletes traveling to China over the next couple of weeks. Not only will athletes competing in the Winter Olympics undergo firm COVID-19 testing requirements, due to the omicron variant, Brian McCloskey — a member of the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Expert Panel advi…