The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will open on February 4. Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou are all ready. The helicopter aerial photography team filmed the Winter Olympic venues in three major competition areas from the air. Today, we will first follow the reporter's lens and look at some of the venues in the Beijing division from the air.
As we get closer to the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Beijing is about to write history and become the only "double Olympic city" in the world that has hosted both the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games. At present, the venues of the Winter Olympics are ready, and most of the venues were converted from the venues of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.
The National Stadium, also known as the "Bird's Nest". It is the main stadium for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After 14 years, the global eye will once again focus here. On February 4, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games will be held at the "Bird's Nest", which will become the world's first "double Olympic venue" that has hosted both the Summer Olympic Games and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic Games. The highly anticipated opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics will be expressed with "building a community with a shared future for mankind" as the core expression, showing the beauty of nature, humanities and sports.
Next to the nest is the National Aquatics Center, known as the Water Cube. Due to the completion of the "Water Ice Conversion", it has also changed from "Water Cube" to "Ice Cube". The Curling Competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be held in the "Ice Cube". Curling is known as "chess on ice" and shows the beauty of static movement and the wisdom of trade-offs. On the evening of the 2nd, the curling competition will start in the "Ice Cube" and compete in the curling mixed doubles event, which is also the first project of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The National Stadium resembles a giant sailing ship sailing in the Olympic Central District, so it also has a nickname called "Ice Sail". Also as a "double Olympic venue", the National Gymnasium once hosted gymnastics, trampoline and other sports in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, there will be a wonderful and intense ice hockey game here, so let us look forward to the "most burning ice" in the "Ice Sail".
In Beijing Olympic Park, many citizens are enjoying the fun of ice and snow sports, the Beijing Winter Olympics have injected great impetus into the development of Ice and Snow Sports in China, and the goal of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" has been achieved ahead of schedule.
In addition to renovating the original venues, the Beijing Winter Olympics also built a new ice competition venue, the National Speed Skating Hall, which is also known as the "Ice Ribbon".
It got its name "Ice Ribbon" because the exterior of the venue is surrounded by 22 ribbon-shaped, curved glass curtain walls, like the traces of speed skaters skating knives, and 22 also represents the time of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. As a competition venue for speed skating events, "Ice Ribbon" uses advanced and environmentally friendly ice-making technology to create the "fastest ice", which will bring together the world's top players and produce 14 gold medals.
In the western part of Beijing, there is a park that combines century-old industrial relics with modern culture and Olympic elements. IOC President Bach has repeatedly praised it as a model for urban renewal. By helicopter, you can see this park from the air - Shougang Park.
On the banks of Qunming Lake in Shougang Park, the remnants of the four cooling towers are complemented by the shougang ski jumping platform, a newly built competition venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics. This is the only venue in Beijing to conduct snow sports competitions, a 164-meter-long track with a highest point of 60 meters, and thick snow has evenly covered the surface of the slide.
The design concept of the "high-value" big jump platform is derived from the traditional "flying sky" shape in the Dunhuang murals, so it is also called "snow flying sky", which looks like a flexible crystal shoe from the side. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, four gold medals will be awarded in two events, snowboard jumping and freestyle ski jumping. These two competitions test how athletes can complete various difficult and ornamental moves during the air. Many viewers and friends are familiar with the Chinese player Gu Ailing will launch a attack on the gold medal here.
The Shougang Ski Jump also set several world firsts: it was the first competition venue in the history of the Winter Olympics to be combined with the former industrial site, and it was also the world's first permanently retained ski jump venue. After the Beijing Winter Olympics, it will become a venue for professional sports competitions and training, and will be open to the public.
As the host, China is ready to welcome friends from all over the world and move forward together into the future.