Beijing, 15 Dec (Xinhua) -- On the 15th, a reporter learned from the Beijing State-owned Assets Corporation that the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center, located in the underground space of the South Square of the National Aquatics Center, has been handed over to the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee for use. During the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the venue will serve as a sports experience center for the game, providing experience services based on curling events, which has become a major attraction during the Winter Olympic Games.
Interior view of the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center
It is reported that the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center is a supporting building of the National Aquatics Center, and is also an important functional carrier of the latter's "water and ice dual drive" concept. The "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center has a construction area of about 8,000 square meters and includes 1 ice rink and 4 curling tracks of the Winter Olympic Standard.
During the previous Beijing Winter Olympics International Test Match, the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center conducted a full-process experience test. Among them, the Winter Olympic theme focuses on displaying the overview of the previous Winter Olympic Games, the knowledge and equipment of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, providing the simulation experience of the Winter Olympics project and the VR experience of the Winter Olympics competition venues, etc.; the curling theme takes curling as the core, focuses on the introduction of curling culture, rules, equipment, and provides desktop curling games and standard curling track experiences.
After the beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center will be permanently retained and built into a multi-functional comprehensive ice sports platform that integrates ice events, mass fitness, professional training, sports tourism, ice performances, curling sports promotion, And Winter Olympic cultural bases, and is expected to receive more than 100,000 ice sports enthusiasts every year.
Aerial view of the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center
The reporter noted that with the full completion of the Beijing Winter Olympics project in Beijing, a series of newly built and reconstructed Winter Olympic venues will provide a large number of first-class winter sports competitions and fitness venues for Beijing. After the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games, Beijing is also expected to set off a new climax of the whole people's participation in ice and snow sports.
At present, in the Beijing Olympic Park and Beijing Olympic Forest Park area, the National Aquatics Center "Ice Cube" and "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center, the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon", the National Gymnasium "Ice Sail" and the expansion hall "Ice Castle", etc., are planned to open to the public as soon as possible after the games, and the ice and snow industry is regarded as an important part of sustainable operation and included in the long-term strategic planning of the venue.