"We all need love, and everybody puts their hands together." ...... With the end of the last note of the Beijing Winter Olympics theme slogan promotion song "Together to the Future", the winning athletes entered and the award ceremony officially began. At the Beijing Winter Olympics Beijing Awards Plaza Media Open Day on January 3, the Beijing Awards Plaza held its first all-element walkthrough of the award ceremony. This is the first time that the Beijing Awards Plaza has conducted an award ceremony with makeup drills, marking that it has the conditions for running during the competition.
The awards square is an important cultural feature that distinguishes the Winter Olympics from the Summer Olympic Games, and every day in the award square, the medals are awarded to the winning athletes, the national flag (district flag) of the country (region) to which the winning athlete belongs is raised, and the national anthem of the country or region to which the champion belongs is played. At the same time, performance activities were organized before and after the award ceremony to disseminate the characteristic culture of the host country in real time, set off the joyful atmosphere of the scene, and create an unforgettable highlight moment for the award-winning athletes. Beijing Awards Plaza is located between the "Bird's Nest" and the National Aquatics Center "Ice Cube" of the National Stadium in the central area of Beijing Olympic Park, covering a total area of 18,000 square meters, which is an outdoor venue for the whole lining.
According to Wei Xiaomei, deputy director of the beijing awards plaza, since the construction of the Beijing Awards Plaza began on September 8, 2021, it took more than 3 months to complete and undertook the medal awarding ceremony of 32 competitions in the Beijing Winter Olympics. During the Winter Olympic Games, the medal awarding ceremony for 32 competitions in Beijing will be held here, and a 20-minute comprehensive theatrical performance will be held before the start of each day, and a 5-minute light show will be held after the ceremony.
Volunteers conduct an award ceremony drill
The Beijing Winter Olympics coincided with the Chinese New Year, and reunion is the most representative festival feature of the Spring Festival. The main stage of Beijing Awards Plaza adopts the design concept of "beauty and coexistence", which fully embodies the spiritual connotation of "each beauty, the beauty of beauty, the beauty of beauty and coexistence, and the unity of the world" in traditional Chinese culture, and embodies the beautiful vision of the global human family of beauty and coexistence, harmony and symbiosis. The Beijing Awards Plaza stage is created, designed and produced by Beijing Beiao Group, the official sports display and award ceremony service sponsor of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Yang Muzi, deputy general manager of Bei'ao Group, said when introducing the design idea: "The stage design also integrates the visual elements of the 'igloo', which has both ice and snow characteristics and the temperature of 'home', and athletes from all over the world gather in the Winter Olympics award square on the occasion of the Chinese New Year Festival to share the highlight moment." "From stage creative planning to theme positioning, from the first stage hand-drawn paper to the completion of the "igloo" today, the overall shape of the stage in Beijing Awards Square and the surrounding environment have formed a perfect landscape of organic integration, mutual reflection, integration and beauty.
Before and after each award ceremony, the on-site team will carefully organize a series of live performances to set off the atmosphere of the award ceremony, and pay tribute to the award-winning athletes from all over the world through literary performances, light shows, and the theme song of the award square "Tribute to the Warriors", and spread the culture of the Winter Olympics to the world and display Chinese culture. Qin Zheng, general director of Beijing Awards Plaza, said that the performance will take "ice and snow passion, glory dream" as the theme, ice and snow temperament, sports theme, youth dynamics, and world style as the overall program style, integrate into the regional characteristics of Beijing, present the beauty of traditional and modern consensus with the performance style of youth dynamics and world style, highlight the atmosphere and elegant first good temperament of Beijing, the "City of The Two Olympics", create a warm, positive and interactive trend atmosphere, and leave unforgettable passionate moments for the on-site athletes, participating audiences and other groups.