CCTV news: The Winter Olympics will be officially opened on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year, adding a sports feast to this Spring Festival. There are many main dishes in this sports feast, skiing, skating, ice hockey, curling, etc., if you want to taste the taste of it, it is essential to understand the rules; and if you want to feel more fun, some interesting stories in the history of the Winter Olympics are also necessary to understand. Today's Winter Olympic cold knowledge, let's listen to the sharing of ice piers and snow melting!
The countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has been counted down, how many gold medals will be produced in this Winter Olympics?
This Year's Winter Olympics set up a total of 7 major events, 15 sub-events, 109 minor events, the total number of gold medals reached 109.
The 109 gold medals make the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics the winter Olympics with the most gold medals.
Looking back, what were the first winter sports to enter the Olympic Games? Yes, it is – figure skating.
The IOC added figure skating to the 4th Summer Olympics in 1908, the first winter sport to appear in the Olympic Games. So, which of the seven major events of the Winter Olympics was established the most recently?
The answer is – curling. At the first Winter Olympics in 1924, curling appeared on the international sports stage as a performance project, and it was later listed as a winter Olympic performance event five times.
In 1993, the International Olympic Committee decided that curling would be included as an official Olympic sport for the Winter Olympics starting at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Some events at the Winter Olympics have long denied female athletes, such as cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
Among them, ski jumping was not fully lifted for women until the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
The Nordic 2ndrathlon competition, which is jointly formed by these two events, was also open to male athletes for a while.
But "son preference" has long been the history of the Winter Olympics. Today, all Winter Olympic sports are open to female athletes.
In the Winter Olympics, there is a sport called bobsleigh. Its speed is affected by three factors: one is weight, the other is air resistance, and the third is friction.
At the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway, Germany sent a bobsleigh team of four hunks.
Together, they weighed more than 1,000 pounds and managed to win the event.
In this regard, the Winter Olympics made up for the loopholes in the rules of the game in time and proposed weight restrictions for the players.
After talking about so many competition items, let's also talk about the bidding city. The "lucky ones" in the history of the Winter Olympics have successfully hosted two Winter Olympic Games.
They are St. Moritz in Switzerland, Lake Placid in the United States, and Innsbruck in Austria.
As the city of the "Double Olympics", Beijing has also created a new history of the Winter Olympics.
From the Summer Olympics to the Winter Olympics, from the preparation to the holding, this is the glorious years of the "City of The Two Olympics", and it is also its sonorous step towards the future.