"Slow down." Liang Xiaodong, barrier-free manager of the ancient poplar tree venue group at the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, turned back and reminded, "Everyone hold your hands steady and be careful under your feet." On both sides of the technical building of the National Biathlon Center, temporary grandstands were built with steel structures. Able-bodied people wear heavy coats, and it is not easy to climb up the first level of the steel frame, but the disabled can take a special elevator on the side, and the elevator out of the elevator is an obstacle-free seat, saving great inconvenience.
As the only venue in the Chongli Ancient Poplar Tree Complex to host the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, the National Biathlon Center has created a barrier-free environment with considerate and perfect barrier-free facilities. On December 30, under the leadership of Liang Xiaodong, the reporter visited and experienced the barrier-free facilities in the National Biathlon Center, and felt the civilization and progress of society through the handrails that lowered the height, the signs with enlarged font sizes, and the gentle and wide ramps.
When it comes to accessibility, it is natural to associate it with the facilitation of people with disabilities. However, it is actually possible for everyone in society to use it, such as pregnant women, the elderly, infants and young children, people with weight bearings, and people with limited mobility. At the beginning of the construction of the venue, the National Biathlon Center built and improved facilities such as barrier-free passages, barrier-free toilets, barrier-free elevators, barrier-free changing rooms, barrier-free parking spaces, barrier-free seats, barrier-free ramps, etc. in accordance with the standards of the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Accessibility Guidelines", and checked the details of room door width, ground height difference, slope, and safety of auxiliary facilities one by one to ensure that the disabled people in each customer group enjoyed a safe, convenient and comfortable experience.
According to Liang Xiaodong, the National Biathlon Center will produce 20 cross-country skis and 18 biathlons at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, a total of 38 gold medals, and it is initially estimated that about 210 disabled athletes will participate here. In order to provide them with safe and convenient conditions so that they can successfully complete the competition, the National Biathlon Center has designed different barrier-free streamlines for sitting athletes and visually impaired and standing athletes in accordance with the physical conditions and actual needs of participating disabled athletes, combined with the characteristics of the venue. In particular, for the participating sitting athletes, the barrier-free streamline design and arrangement of the venue are particularly meticulous and sufficient, in addition to setting up 4 special sitting tracks of 900 meters, 2 kilometers, 2.5 kilometers and 3 kilometers, a special training warm-up snow track is also set up, and a wheelchair storage room is arranged in the position near the warm-up area; a 2.5-meter-wide, 2000-meter-long special passage to the starting and finishing area is set up, so that the sitting athletes can independently complete the warm-up, participation, and competition after changing the sitting posture ski. Wait for the results to be interviewed. Next to the steps leading to the anti-doping testing station for seated athletes, a ramp was laid according to local conditions to facilitate the passage of seated athletes in wheelchairs; The venue also set up a locker room for the seated athletes in the finish area, and lowered the height of the PVC fence in the mixed mining area under the premise of meeting the needs of epidemic prevention, so that the seated athletes could be interviewed. "The height of the PVC fence in the mixed interview area for able-bodied people is 120 centimeters, and the height of the sitting athletes is reduced to 60 centimeters." Liang Xiaodong said, "Sitting in a wheelchair, this height and athletes in a plane, reflect the equality." ”
In all the positions with height differences in the biathlon center, there are barrier-free ramps with slopes ranging from 3 to 5 degrees, and even the "ice jade ring" connecting the 3 venues of the ancient poplar stadium group is itself a super-large-scale barrier-free ramp. On this oversized barrier-free ramp, handrails are installed specifically for wheelchair users. "The height of the armrests used by able-bodied persons is 85 cm to 90 cm, and the height of the armrests for wheelchair users is 65 cm to 70 cm. This is our pre-arrangement based on the on-site experience of the disabled. Liang Xiaodong said, "These handrails can also emit light and change color, one can be used as a landscape, and the other is convenient for people with inconvenient vision." ”
On the barrier-free streamline for visually impaired and standing athletes, the National Biathlon Center has laid blind lanes, installed ramps, steps and handrails according to standards, eliminated the height difference at the door, checked for possible air safety hazards that may be at risk of meeting, and paid attention to providing barrier-free information. The anti-doping checkpoint is specially equipped with Braille and large-character anti-doping testing terms in Chinese and English to facilitate visually impaired athletes to clearly understand the relevant matters. Braille, large-character audience flow maps and venue profiles were also posted near the ticket booths for easy viewing and touching by all groups of people, especially the elderly and visually impaired. "We made the whole venue a barrier-free environment." Liang Xiaodong said, "This truly reflects the degree of civilization in our society. ”