Pictured: On January 3, overlooking the snow shaping work site of the Shougang Ski Jump. Photo by He Luqi (People's Vision): Customized mascot souvenir of the beijing Winter Olympics winning athletes. Xinhua News Agency photo: On December 30, 2021, foreign volunteers of the Beijing Winter Olympics took a group photo at the Wukesong Sports Center in Beijing. Photo by Ju Huanzong, Xinhua News Agency: Ski enthusiasts ski at a ski resort in Zunhua City, Tangshan, Hebei Province, on December 26, 2021. Photo by Liu Mancang (Xinhua News Agency)
On February 4, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will kick off. Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his 2022 New Year message that we will dedicate a grand Olympic event to the world. The world is looking forward to China, and China is ready.
The grand event is coming, and this newspaper will launch the "Together to the Future - Beijing Winter Olympics Special Edition" from today, focusing on the sprint road of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and looking forward to the moment when the curtain of the Beijing Winter Olympics is opened.
- Editor
Winter Olympics: Ice and snow making Everything is ready
From October to December last year, a number of test activities for the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games were held in the three major competition areas. Athletes and coaches around the world have deeply felt China's painstaking efforts to ensure the construction and operation of the Winter Olympics, and praised the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games.
At present, all 12 competition venues of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games have been completed and have the conditions for running the games, and the operation teams of the competition venues and non-competition venues have all been assembled and the personnel are in place. As the winter Olympics begin as the month countdown begins, venues in each region are making final preparations.
Recently, the Beijing Winter Olympics competition venue Shougang Ski Jump started the track shaping work. After the snowmaking of the track body is completed, the shaping expert will drive a snow groomer, push the snow made in the end and middle sections of the track evenly up the track and form a basic snow layer, and then use the snow to make the track starting platform and continue to shape it.
On January 4, the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing began ice-making work in the competition hall and training hall to welcome the upcoming Winter Olympics short track speed skating and figure skating competitions. Due to the different ice requirements of the two events, the ice surface conversion during the Winter Olympics will be carried out frequently. To this end, the venue team has tried many times and completed the pouring work within two hours.
Located in the National Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou, the stream and the landscape lake complement each other in the track area. During the Winter Olympic Games, a total of 11 biathlon events will be held here. The track design has been repeatedly demonstrated, and the natural state has been preserved to the greatest extent, which has enhanced the global image of the venue area. After the race, it will also provide a venue for international events and the popularization of snow sports.
Ice And Snow Athletes: Sprint all out and write history
Achieving the beijing Winter Olympics in all projects is one of the goals of Chinese ice and snow athletes. In more than two years, many of China's ice and snow projects have been realized from scratch, and some have reached the world's advanced level. In the past six months, Chinese ice and snow athletes have actively participated in overseas competitions, striving for points and qualifications for the Winter Olympics. By the end of last year, the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation had been shortlisted in 7 major events, 15 sub-events and 93 minor events in real time, and had won 172 Olympic participation seats, and 161 athletes were expected to participate in the Winter Olympic Games.
In the figure skating event, the Chinese team held full qualifications for the men's singles, women's singles, pairs skating, ice dance and all five sub-events of the group. Among them, the runners-up of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics Sui Wenjing / Han Cong are in excellent form this season, winning two gold medals in the Figure Skating Grand Prix in Canada and Italy, making full preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the short track speed skating arena, the Chinese team also took 10 tickets to the Winter Olympics. Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing in the men's event and the newly added mixed relay event are the gold hotspots of the Chinese team. In the speed skating event, the Chinese team has won 12 of the 14 sub-events, and Ning Zhongyan and Gao Tingyu have performed outstandingly this season and are expected to stand on a higher podium.
In the past"ice strong and snow weak" snow project, the Chinese team broke through one after another. Gu Ailing won two consecutive gold medals in U-shaped track skills at the Calgary Leg of the Freestyle Skiing World Cup, and was also at the top of the slope obstacle course and the big jump event. Veterans Xu Mengtao and Qi Guangpu led the freestyle skiing aerial skills team to win the mixed team gold medal in the World Cup sub-station competition twice. Snowboarding double sisters Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu are also continuing to insist on the dream of the Winter Olympics.
Winter Olympic House: comfortable and warm Waiting to stay
At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the Beijing Winter Olympic Village (Winter Paralympic Village) is full of flavor - the big red lantern is hung high, and the emblem of "Winter Dream" and the snowflake elements shine together... The Winter Olympics are approaching, and everything in the Winter Olympic Village is full of joy.
During the Winter Olympics, the Winter Olympic Village will become the "home" of athletes from all over the world, and comfort and practicality are very important. Walking into the athletes' apartment in the Winter Olympic Village, the rooms are clean and tidy, warm and elegant, and each athlete has a comfortable living space. In order to ensure the athletes' sleep during the game, the apartment bed is made of memory foam material, which is not only comfortable and strong, but also can be adjusted to different use scenarios such as sleeping posture and sitting posture as needed.
In terms of catering, the catering service standards, time and content of the three major olympic villages are completely consistent. During the competition, the athletes' menu has up to 678 dishes, which are rotated every 8 days as a cycle, and the ratio of Chinese and Western food is 3 to 7, so that athletes can eat healthy, nutritious and safe.
On January 23 this year, beijing Winter Olympic Village will pre-open the village, and officially open the village on January 27. At that time, the Winter Olympic Village (Winter Paralympic Village) will provide a variety of comprehensive services to meet the needs of the participants. At present, in Beijing Winter Olympic Village, a gym with more than 200 kinds of fitness equipment, 4 self-service laundry rooms are in place, and bookstores, supermarkets, and post offices are already functional.
At the same time, in order to meet the needs of the Winter Paralympic Games, the athletes' villages in the three major competition areas have achieved full coverage of barrier-free facilities in open areas, and the number of barrier-free toilets in apartments is higher than ordinary standards. After the conclusion of the Winter Olympic Games, all three major competition areas can complete the transition from the Winter Olympic Village to the Winter Paralympic Village within 44 hours.
After the games, the Winter Olympic Village has also been reasonably utilized - the Winter Olympic Village in Beijing will become a high-end talent apartment in Beijing after the Games; the Winter Olympic Village in Yanqing District will be built and operated after the game in accordance with the four- and five-star two-star hotel models; and the Winter Olympic Village in Zhangjiakou District will be rented or sold as a ski apartment after the game.
Award element: Chinese style Ice and snow glory
"Ruixue Xiangyun", "Hongyun Landscape", "Tang Hua Feixue" - the beautiful award ceremony is full of Chinese style; "Champion Dragon Costume" - "Upgraded Version" Of the award-winning costume is amazing and new... Recently, the award elements of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games and the awards uniforms of the Chinese sports delegation were unveiled, which made people's expectations for the Winter Olympics add a few points.
The award ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games was created with the theme of "Ice and Snow Glory". The podium uses "Tianji Blue" as the main color, using the core graphics of the Beijing Winter Olympics and ice and snow lines. The award-winning athletes' customized mascot souvenirs are based on "ice piers" and "snow rongrong" respectively, supplemented by garlands woven from pine, bamboo and plum. The bouquet is made of handmade velvet thread, including rose, moon season, bell orchid, hydrangea, laurel and olive, which symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace respectively. The Winter Paralympic Awards bouquet adds a blue cosmos, symbolizing strength.
The "Champion Dragon Suit", which has been screened many times at the Tokyo Olympic Games, has made many upgrades to meet the characteristics and needs of the Winter Olympic Games. This medalwear carefully designed and created by Chinese sports brand ANTA is mainly red and white, with high technology content, taking into account the characteristics of ultra-light and warm. The clear red lines of the award are gathered on the central axis, implying that partners from all over the world are converging in China and conveying the concept of "world co-prosperity". In addition, the scientific and technological attributes of the award-winning equipment are equally outstanding, taking into account the lightness while achieving ultra-light warmth at minus 20 °C. The winning shoes feature nitrogen technology and carbon plate support embedded in the arch of the foot, combined with a convenient BOA lace-up system, which combines comfort and convenience.
Epidemic prevention measures: closed-loop management to meet challenges
In the context of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games are hosting, and the work of epidemic prevention and safety is facing great pressure and challenges. Recently, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, the International Olympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee jointly issued the second edition of the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Olympic and Paralympic Epidemic Prevention Manual", which put forward 6 basic principles such as vaccination and closed-loop management.
According to the "Epidemic Prevention Manual", all Olympic-related personnel entering China, from entry to departure, the whole process implements a closed-loop management policy of the whole process, full closure and point-to-point. At the same time, the closed loop provides special car transportation services for the Olympic-related personnel, and the closed-loop transportation such as high-speed rail, shuttle buses, and toll card taxis can be used to and from the station, venue and workplace.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Winter Games, people in the closed loop need to undergo daily nucleic acid testing, and if the test and retest results are positive, they must be isolated or treated. If an asymptomatic infected person appears, he will be sent to a special isolation facility, and can participate or work conditionally after meeting the criteria for lifting isolation; symptomatic infected persons will be sent to a designated hospital, and after meeting the discharge criteria or lifting the isolation criteria, they can leave the hospital and isolation facilities; the resulting close contacts need to live alone in accordance with the policy, and after meeting the relevant policies, they can carry out competitions or work under conditions.
Han Zirong, full-time vice chairman and secretary general of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, said that during the Winter Olympic Games, a large number of Olympic-related personnel from different countries and regions will come to China, the crowd will increase, and the emergence of a certain number of positive cases will become a high-probability event. It is hoped that all stakeholders will strictly implement the provisions of the Epidemic Prevention Manual, jointly respond to the challenges of the epidemic, strive to ensure the safety of all participants, ensure the safety of the host city, and ensure the safe and smooth holding of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The world is looking forward to: meeting in Beijing full of confidence
In his New Year's speech recently, IOC President Bach said that he looked forward to the success of the Beijing Winter Olympics and was full of confidence in hosting a safe Winter Olympics.
Bach said the international community's support for the Beijing Winter Olympics is clear and widely welcomed. The resolution on the Olympic Truce at the Beijing Winter Olympics adopted by the United Nations General Assembly once again proves that the mission of uniting the world can only be achieved if everyone respects the Olympic Games and transcends political differences.
In the preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, China has always adhered to and practiced the concept of green, shared, open and clean Olympic Games, demonstrating the morality and responsibility of a real big country. As the Winter Olympics approach, athletes from all over the world are looking forward to a trip to Beijing day by day, and they are full of confidence in China's hosting of the Winter Olympics. Many countries have spoken out in support of the Beijing Winter Olympics, opposed the politicization of the Olympic Games and sports, and believed that the Beijing Winter Olympics will promote world peace and development.
China is welcoming outstanding ice and snow athletes from all over the world with open arms. On this magnificent stage of ice and snow sports, ice and snow athletes around the world will stage countless wonderful stories and sow the seeds of peace and friendship.
Two-time Winter Olympic gold medalist and Japanese figure skater Yu Yushin said that he hopes to debut in Beijing with a successful four-and-a-half jump to achieve the defense of his title; American snowmobile rider Church said that the opportunity to go to Beijing to participate in the Winter Olympics is a manifestation of the unity of the world, looking forward to experiencing the charm of the Beijing Winter Olympics, including beautiful venues; Norwegian curler Skarslien said that he had only learned about the curling field of the Beijing Winter Olympics through photos, and was very much looking forward to coming to Beijing to participate in the Winter Olympics and feel a great Winter Olympic field.
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