On the evening of January 18, 17 days after the countdown to the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, a huge outdoor ice rink of 600 square meters landed in the Oriental Pearl City Square. Backed by this landmark building known as the "Shanghai City Living Room", adults and children chase after me, ice hockey and figure skating compete to show the infinite charm of ice and snow sports to the citizens of Shanghai.
At the launching ceremony of the "Ice Flying" iCELiVE Oriental Pearl Ice Carnival, Yang Yang, the first gold medalist of the Chinese Winter Olympics, the vice chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the chairman of the Athletes Committee of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, and the founder of the Shanghai Feiyang Ice Sports Center, appeared on the ice, stepped on the ice knife and "danced", and sent a message: "On February 4, the Olympic flame will be lit again in the 'Bird's Nest', the Winter Olympics are the dream of our generation, and we also hope that the unique memory of the Beijing Winter Olympics can affect a generation." We also overcame all difficulties and brought 'Ice Flying' to the foot of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai as promised. Let's cheer on the Olympic athletes! ”
In this special winter Olympic season, the "ice and snow fever" is continuing to heat up in Shanghai. The 2022 "Flying Ice" iCELiVE Shanghai Oriental Pearl Ice Carnival is open from January 19 to February 24, covering the entire 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games time cycle, during which a series of ice experience and display activities will be carried out, and a variety of theme activities will be held during the Spring Festival, Valentine's Day and other festivals. On the ice rink, there will be professional coaches to guide the public, regardless of whether they have a skating foundation, they can participate in ice sports. At the same time, the ice rink will also carry out professional demonstrations of winter sports such as figure skating, short track speed skating, ice hockey, and team skating from time to time.
At the beginning of 2019, Yang Yang and his team took a rare outdoor ice rink in the south to the foot of the Oriental Pearl On the east bank of the Pujiang River to build Shanghai's first large-scale outdoor real ice rink. Yang Yang recalled the original intention of founding "Ice Flying": "12 years ago, when I first visited the outdoor ice rink in the center of the city at Rockefeller Center in New York, I experienced an ice and snow event that would make the city's winter very vivid, and I also hoped to create such a romantic winter in Shanghai. ”
This year's third "Ice Flying" will be opened in strict accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention. Yang Yang said that through the development of these years, many indoor ice rinks have emerged in Shanghai, but the outdoor ice rink of the Oriental Pearl still has special significance: "The ice rink located in the city landmark is more displayed and disseminated, which can attract more people to the ice and help achieve the goal of 300 million people participating in ice and snow sports." ”
Cao Zhiguang