From a century-old dream to the "city of two Olympics" Beijing Winter Olympics to show hard power

Source: Xinhua Net

The sails also rise

More than a hundred years ago, people of insight in China put forward the heavy "Three Questions of the Olympic Games": When will China send representatives to the Universal Movement Congress? When will I win the championship at the International Movement Congress? When will the Congress of the Movement of Nations be held in Middle-earth?

In 1932, Liu Changchun became the first Chinese athlete to participate in the Olympic Games; in 1984, shooter Xu Haifeng won the first gold medal, and China achieved a "breakthrough of zero" in Olympic gold medals; in 2008, the Beijing Olympic Games entered the annals of Olympic history with an unparalleled posture.

In less than 20 days, on February 4, 2022, the global gaze will converge on China, the Olympic flame will be rekindled in the "Bird's Nest", and Beijing will become the first "city of the Double Olympic Games", demonstrating China's "hard-core" strength.

"Hardcore" green Olympics

"Green Olympic Games, shared Olympic Games, open Olympic Games, clean Olympic Games" is a solemn commitment made by China to the world, and green Olympic Games is placed in the first place, and green has become the brightest background color of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. The Beijing Winter Olympics is the first Olympic Games to implement the Olympic Agenda 2020 in the whole process of bidding, organizing and hosting, and is also an Olympic Games that actively implements the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. For the first time in the history of the Olympic Games, the Beijing Winter Olympics will achieve 100% use of green electricity in all venues, and for the first time, the large-scale use of carbon dioxide ice making technology with carbon emissions approaching zero will be used, and the grand goal of "all carbon emissions generated by the Beijing Winter Olympics will be neutralized".

Integrate the Olympics into the city, not adapt the city to the Olympic Games. With Beijing's successful bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, the engine of Shougang's functional transformation has been ignited again. The silos that once stored ironmaking raw materials were transformed into the office area of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee; the refined coal workshop and surrounding areas were transformed into a national winter sports training center; and the "Shougang Four Ices" was created to undertake figure skating, short track speed skating, curling and ice hockey projects by combining industrial relics with modern technology.

A total of 39 venues were used in the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, of which 10 used existing venues to achieve a double conversion of winter and summer events. The "Water Cube" of the National Aquatics Center has become the "Ice Cube" that undertakes curling and wheelchair curling projects, and the basketball competition venue "Wukesong" has become the "Ice Diamond Flower" for ice hockey projects. All venues in each competition area have formulated a post-game utilization plan, which will bring long-term dividends to the local people, realize the vision of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" put forward by Beijing when bidding for the Winter Olympics, and make the Winter Olympics produce sustainable and good social effects.

"Hardcore" safety is running the Olympics

The world is looking forward to China, and China is ready. In the face of the natural unfavorable factors brought about by the fermentation of the new round of epidemic and the low temperature in winter caused by the new round of epidemic fermentation caused by the Global Mutation strain, China insists on putting the protection of the health and safety of Austrian-related personnel and the public in the first place, doing a solid job in epidemic prevention and control, and jointly formulating and issuing two editions of the Epidemic Prevention Manual with the International Olympic Committee. Strictly implement measures such as remote prevention and control, vaccination, closed-loop management, and nucleic acid testing to minimize the risk of imported and spreading the epidemic abroad, effectively protect the health of all participants and people in the host city, and ensure that the competition is carried out safely and smoothly as scheduled.

The winter Olympic epidemic prevention measures not only reflect the "hardness" of epidemic prevention and control, but also reflect the "temperature" of humanistic care. In order to reach a broad consensus among the participants and help everyone understand and then comply, before the release of the "Epidemic Prevention Manual", the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee organized a video conference on policy explanations to explain the manual and requirements to all parties, fully reflecting the humane epidemic prevention. In order to strive to enhance the event experience, during the preparation of the Winter Olympics, high standards will be done to achieve arrival and departure, accommodation, catering, transportation, medical care, security and other work, in accordance with the requirements of "precision and refinement", to create a "Beijing service" brand. Since the Winter Olympics coincide with the Chinese New Year festival, the organizing committee has also specially added many Spring Festival cultural elements to allow athletes from all over the world to better experience the joyful, peaceful and warm festive atmosphere.

IOC President Bach said that despite the challenges of the epidemic, the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics have progressed smoothly and smoothly, "almost a miracle". John Coates, vice president of the International Olympic Committee and president of the Australian Olympic Committee, used the word "remarkable" to evaluate the outstanding facilities and epidemic prevention and control work of the Winter Olympic venues.

"Hardcore" unity to run the Olympic Games

The era of the epidemic calls for the Olympic spirit of "greater unity". On December 2, 2021, the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted the Olympic Truce resolution of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and 173 countries participated in the proposal, setting a new high for the number of countries mentioned in the truce resolutions of the Recent Winter Olympic Games. At the just-concluded Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, China and Africa adopted the Dakar Declaration, jointly stressing their support for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Un Secretary-General António Guterres, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Argentine President Fernandez and other international dignitaries have confirmed that they will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics in China in the future, and multilateral mechanisms such as the G20 and multinational Olympic Committees have also spoken out in support of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

The Olympics have always been a stage for athletes. During the "Meet in Beijing" series of test matches, foreign athletes who came to China to participate in the competition praised the venues and events of the Winter Olympics, representing the real recognition and expectations of the athletes. Regrettably, however, some countries and some politicians have made incessant small moves in a vain attempt to politicize the Beijing Winter Olympics, turn the sports extravaganza into a "political show," create divisions, and provoke confrontation; this is not only a violation of the human rights of athletes, but also a blasphemy against the Olympic spirit, which runs counter to the trend of the times of unity and cooperation, and is doomed to end in failure.

From the answer to the "Three Olympic Questions" a hundred years ago, to the coronation of the world's first "Twin Olympic Cities", just as the emblem of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games "Winter Dream" is in sight, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games bring together the Olympic dream and Chinese dream of every Chinese. With the opening of the Winter Olympics approaching, the ancient capital of the millennium is ready to meet the moment of realizing the dream again, and China will be a good host, dedicated to a wonderful, extraordinary and outstanding Olympic event, and inject more unity, confidence and strength into the world. In 2022, meet at the Beijing Winter Olympics and look forward to the future together!