【Winter Olympic Questions】What is special about the award ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games?

When you watched the Winter Olympics before, did you ever have such a question: Why do the winners often not get medals in the awards ceremony? What is special about the winter Olympics awards ceremony compared to the Summer Olympics?

Taking the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as an example, in the post-match award ceremony, the winners stood on the podium after the game, and generally got a cute plush toy mascot, but there was no trace of the medal. In fact, such a special award method is set separately according to the uniqueness of the Winter Olympic Games.

Originally, due to the relatively cold weather during the Winter Olympics, for the sake of the athletes' physical considerations and other factors, after the end of the competition, only the winners will be awarded prizes in the competition venue, and later in the specific award area to award medals to the winners.

This tradition has continued since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. After each Winter Olympics, the medal awarding session will be arranged in the awards square. Since the Winter Olympics have many fewer competition categories than the Summer Olympic Games, the award ceremony is generally held at the end of the day to award medals to all the winners of the day.

In the awards plaza, in addition to the award ceremony, there are also celebration performances and other activities.

In fact, in the competition venue, the medal awarding ceremony in the award square will have the opportunity for more people to witness this glorious moment.

According to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games official sports display and award ceremony service sponsor Bei'ao Group previously revealed, in the Beijing Competition Area's awards square - Olympic Park Central District Celebration Square, the stage will be set up during the game, and seats will be placed to allow the audience to witness the award ceremony together.

The Zhangjiakou Awards Plaza is set up in princely city ice and snow town. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Zhangjiakou division will produce 51 gold medals, and the plaza will run for 14 days and hold award ceremonies for 49 projects; during the Winter Paralympic Games, the Zhangjiakou division will produce 46 gold medals, and the square will run for 7 days and hold award ceremonies for 44 projects.

(China News Network)