At noon on the 3rd, the ice hockey game of the Beijing Winter Olympics is about to start. As one of the competition venues, the Wukesong Sports Center has everything ready, just waiting for the game to honk the horn and swing. On the 2nd, the reporter visited the Wukesong Sports Center. As a "double Olympic venue" that hosted the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, this comprehensive venue has achieved many self-breakthroughs and innovative upgrades during the preparation for the Winter Olympic Games, not only serving the Winter Olympics, but also serving the public in a new attitude in the post-Olympic era.
The U.S. women's ice hockey team conducts pre-match training.
Strive for the best viewing effect
In order to provide the audience with the best viewing experience, Wukesong Sports Center has comprehensively upgraded the lighting of the venue during the preparation for the Winter Olympics, and replaced the lamps and lanterns in the museum with 263 sets of LED lamps, which not only has higher clarity and more uniform lighting effect, but also realizes the instant lighting. "Even if they receive a TV broadcast at home, the audience can get super clear viewing results." Han Lifan, facility manager of the venue operation team, said.
The process of lighting retrofits has not been smooth sailing. "The requirements for broadcast lighting and sports lighting are different. When meeting the needs of broadcast lighting, the angle between the board wall and the ice surface will have shadows, affecting the athletes' competition; when meeting the lighting needs of the project itself, the picture captured by the camera will have light spots. In order to find a solution, the lighting experts of the International Ice Hockey Federation and the Olympic Broadcasting Service Company (OBS) have entered the field three times to survey, and after repeated debugging and calculation, eight sets of adjustment plans have been formulated. In the end, according to the optimal plan, the venue team manually adjusted the luminaires one by one by manually climbing the horse road, which basically met the two lighting needs at the same time. "This lighting scheme will also be retained for a long time, and in the future, other events and large-scale events held in the venue will use Olympic mode lighting." Han Lifan said.
Yuan Yinghui, the broadcast operation manager of the venue team, said that with the emergence and application of new technologies, Wukesong is also constantly upgrading in terms of broadcasting, and more "fun" broadcast methods such as 360-degree free viewing and VR live broadcasting will be unveiled in this Winter Olympic Games. "Over the years, Wukesong Sports Center has been actively seeking breakthroughs and innovations." Yuan Yinghui said, "After this change, the future venues will also provide a richer way for the audience to watch the games when hosting other events. ”
Foreign media entered the media center of the venue to carry out work.
The whole system of ice making business has been improved
As the "holy land" of basketball in Beijing, the "ice basket conversion" of Wukesong Sports Center has long been famous. In order to prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the venue has also undergone a comprehensive upgrade in the ice-making business.
According to Wang Fei, a staff member of the ice team of the venue and assistant to the main ice maker, on the basis of using high-tech materials and scientific process design, the venue has comprehensively upgraded the water treatment system during the ice making process of the Winter Olympic Games, installed a new ice making system, and imported transportation vehicles and ice surface operation equipment from Canada, where the ice and snow industry is developed. Over the past few days, whether it is a competition venue or a training hall, the ice conditions of Wukesong have been praised by the personnel of all teams. "In this regard, Wukesong can be said to have achieved a self-breakthrough." Wang Fei said.
The 14 leaders in the field of domestic ice making business from all over the country have also benefited a lot in the process of assisting the main ice maker. The latter is from the United States and is a top ice maker sent by the International Ice Federation. "Our local team has ice makers, truck drivers, and people who are engaged in ice management." Wang Fei believes that this is a "whole system" upgrade in the field of domestic icemaking, "the growth and training of personnel is of great significance, and after the Winter Olympics, it can also continue to serve the development of the domestic ice and snow industry." ”
The newly completed Wukesong Ice Sports Center will serve the public after the Winter Olympics.
High-tech ice rinks serve the public
The Wukesong Ice Sports Center, located on the southeast side of the competition venue, is a new venue. The venue was completed and put into use last year, this time opening an ice rink as a winter Olympic training hall, and in the future it will be opened to the public as a commercial complex with an ice rink as the core.
Wukesong Ice Sports Center covers an area of more than 38,900 square meters, with two floors above ground and two floors underground, two ice rinks and competition areas underground, and commercial facilities such as theaters, children's playgrounds, catering, and retail on the ground. According to Zeng Sheng, deputy manager of the venue team facilities, the venue uses more than 10,000 square meters of argon glass curtain wall, which is not only beautiful, but also has excellent thermal insulation effect, and is the world's largest single ultra-low energy consumption sports building. At the same time, the venue adopts carbon dioxide ice making technology that is more environmentally friendly than traditional technology, with higher ice making efficiency and better ice making effect, and the temperature of all angles in the museum is constant, and the ice surface texture is better, which is in line with the concept of "Green Winter Olympics".
Although this Winter Olympics is only used as a training venue, the ice rink in the ice center is also equipped with olympic standard locker rooms and a considerable number of seats, and the bucket screen, end screen and LED lighting system in the museum are readily available. "The Ice Center has fully considered the post-game utilization at the beginning of its design, and will be used for ice and snow entertainment, ice project training and folk events after the Winter Olympics, so that more citizens have the opportunity to feel the charm of ice and snow sports and share the heritage of the Winter Olympics." Zeng Sheng said.