In 2008, the successful hosting of the Beijing Olympic Games not only allowed the world to see China's comprehensive strength, but also allowed cultural self-confidence to begin to take root. Fourteen years later, at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the focus of the Chinese people is no longer on the ranking of the medal table, but on a better and more comprehensive display of national culture, and the basis of this change is the self-confidence given to us by China's rapid development.
The best aspect of a country's comprehensive strength is infrastructure construction, comparing the Beijing Winter Olympics with the Tokyo Olympics in 5 aspects:
5. Living environment
Tokyo Olympics:
The Olympic Games, which is held every four years, as the world's top comprehensive event, the athletes who can be selected are the best in various countries and fields, and they uphold the Olympic spirit of "higher, faster and stronger" to provide a wonderful performance for the people of the world.
Athletes want a good competitive state, rest and sleeping places after training is particularly critical, but last year's Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee promoted environmental protection throughout the whole process, and the final effect was that the Olympic Village in addition to the buildings is bare flat land, the infrastructure inside is also called "medieval products" by many athletes.
The thing that was spat on the most was undoubtedly the bed made of recycled paper shells, which was 2 meters long and 90 centimeters wide, plus the total height of the recyclable mattress was 1 meter. This kind of bed is very unfriendly to athletes in basketball, high jump, weightlifting and other sports, although the maximum extended length of the paper shell bed is only 2.10 meters, while the traditional European interior line like Paul Gasol has reached 2.13 meters in height, and it is even impossible to straighten his legs at all.
The second is the width and weight-bearing limit of the bed, the bed width of 90 cm is full of targeting for athletes such as large kilogram weightlifting, judo, wrestling and so on. The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee officially claimed that the paper shell bed can bear a weight of 200 kilograms, and many athletes said that the paper shell cracked before the start of the Olympic Games.
Li Wenwen, the mainland women's weightlifting champion over 87 kg, directly chose to give up the paper shell bed and sleep on the ground in order to be in a better state in the competition. After the tokyo olympic games, some athletes launched online voting for previous Olympic games, and the reputation of the Tokyo Olympic Games was even worse than that of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, ranking first from the bottom in terms of opening and closing ceremonies, factory environment and public facilities.
Beijing Winter Olympics:
The Beijing Winter Olympic Village includes three functional areas: the operation area, the residential area and the square area, and is equipped with a comprehensive medical center to serve the sudden injuries and illnesses of athletes. Among them, the residential building form adopts the prefabricated steel structure, which has the advantages of light weight, environmental protection, fast construction speed and good seismic performance.
The apartment where the athletes live has excellent lighting, and the athletes in the Beijing competition area can climb on the balcony to look at the bird's nest, water cube and other landmark buildings. In order to improve the sleep quality of athletes, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee specially provided participants with memory mattresses, intelligent sensors, height-adjustable "black technology beds", as well as pillows that can be disassembled into blankets and a full range of bedding.
At the same time, each room is equipped with a multi-functional socket and telephone interface, equipped with an Olympic network interface and a TV interface, under the blessing of 5G technology, it can be connected with the Olympic Broadcasting Center, which is convenient for athletes to watch the game without delay and grasp the field information in real time.
In order to help athletes resist the cold, each room is equipped with a multimodal air conditioning system, which can be independently adjusted and equipped with automatic air purification. In the Beijing Winter Olympic Village, a large number of fitness equipment has been set up, including a large number of intelligent professional training equipment; in order to enrich the amateur life of athletes, there are also billiards, table football, 4D manned deep-sea simulator, space simulation cabin, 3D simulation ski machine and other entertainment facilities in the square area.
4. Geographical location and transportation
Tokyo Olympic Village is located in Harumi (far from the city) in Tokyo Bay, covering an area of about 44 hectares, consisting of three areas: residential area, operation area and Olympic Village Plaza, which can theoretically accommodate up to 18,000 people, athletes need to check in five days before the competition, and the exit procedure must be completed within two days after the event.
In order to recover the cost as much as possible, the price of the Tokyo Olympic Village is also ridiculously expensive, a bottle of the most common domestic drink converted into RMB nearly 20 yuan, and even a photo with souvenirs also needs to be charged. Despite this, due to the impact of the new crown epidemic and various factors off the field, the Tokyo Olympics have become the most expensive multi-sport event in the past 30 years.
Because the Olympic Village is a long way from the competition venue, the athletes only have buses to participate in the competition, and they depart at a relatively fixed time every morning, which causes many athletes to set an alarm clock every day, get up early to eat and catch the bus to the venue.
But such rules are not aimed at all athletes, such as the U.S. Gymnastics Team, which directly used the new crown epidemic as a reason, refused to stay in the Olympic Village, and chose to stay in a luxury hotel closer to the venue, while the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee chose to directly ignore this unreasonable request.
A total of three Olympic villages were set up at the Beijing Winter Olympics, namely in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, with a total construction area of 330,000 square meters, construction began at the end of 2017, and was fully completed and delivered to the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee in June last year. Its main body is composed of 20 13-storey to 17-storey apartment buildings, with a height of 60 meters, a 3-story garage underground, the overall structural form is an underground garage with reinforced concrete structure, and the ground is composed of an assembled steel structure.
In order to ensure that athletes can reach the competition venue in time, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee has invested 2363 vehicles in various events to ensure environmental protection, of which new energy vehicles account for more than 85%, according to environmental protection experts, during the entire Winter Olympic Games, these new energy vehicles will cumulatively reduce emissions by 11,000 tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 50,000 acres of forest carbon absorption a year.
In addition to sufficient guarantee vehicles, considering the congested traffic in Beijing, in order to reduce the time of athletes on the road, the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee has specially planned the Olympic lanes on the necessary roads in the relevant beijing areas, the external roads in the Yanqing Competition area and the airport arrival and departure routes, ensuring the exclusive right of way for The Olympic vehicles. According to the field measurements of relevant departments, the commuting time from the Olympic Village to the relevant competition venues does not exceed 15 minutes, leaving enough time for athletes to rest and prepare.
Third, diet
In 2011, a serious nuclear accident occurred in Fukushima Prefecture, just 200 kilometers from the Tokyo Olympic Village, which caused more than 100,000 local residents to leave their homes. In addition to the huge loss of personnel, the nuclear leak was serious for the waters around Fukushima Prefecture and biological radiation, and after the accident, many countries successively restricted the import of food and beverages from parts of Japan.
At last year's Tokyo Olympics, Japan prepared a wide variety of foods for athletes from all over the world, ranging from the famous local sushi, sashimi, ramen, tempura, sukiyaki, etc., to the national signature snacks, with thousands of varieties.
However, according to official data given by the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee, the food used in the Olympic Games came from 47 local Japanese prefectures, including Fukushima Prefecture, which was previously leaked. Interestingly, the official did not disclose which county the various ingredients came from, creating a feeling of "opening the blind box".
After learning this news, South Korea and Australia chose to bring their own food in order to protect the health of athletes, which also created the history of previous Olympic Games. Athletes and coaching team members in the mainland avoid eating Fukushima Prefecture specialties such as tomatoes, peaches, and various aquatic products as much as possible, so as to meet the physical fitness of the competition as the primary principle and no longer pursue the deliciousness of food.
Just as the so-called "people take food as the sky", China, as the world's "most able to eat" country, in terms of diet can be described as a full effort, the Beijing Winter Olympics set up a total of 12 kinds of dining tables, a total of 678 dishes from around the world, an average of about 200 dishes per day for athletes to eat, every 8 days for a cycle of rotation, the ratio of Chinese food and Western food is 3:7.
It is worth mentioning that the restaurant of the Beijing Winter Olympics does not have a chef and waiter, and the food required by the athletes is all made by more than 120 catering robots, which can meet the requirements of thousands of people eating at the same time and ensure 24 hours of service throughout the day.
Compared with the intelligent robot stir-fry, the process of serving is more advanced, after the diners place an order at the counter, they only need to sit in accordance with the number displayed in the receipt, and the plate containing the food will fall from the sky through the intelligent rail control, and the diners only need to take out the food.
In addition to food, the restaurant of the Beijing Winter Olympics also provides a variety of drinks, one of the most surprising to foreign athletes is the robot "hand-mixed" cocktail, athletes only need to choose the drinks they need, the intelligent robot will add the required materials in turn according to the program, and the shaking action required for bartending almost perfectly replicates the real bartender.
2. Competition venue
For the venue used for this Tokyo Olympic Games, many athletes frantically complained:
(1) Shrink the table tennis competition venue
According to the practice of international table tennis competitions, the length and width of ordinary table tennis competition venues are about 7 meters × 14 meters, and some large-scale events with higher specifications can even reach 8 meters × 16 meters, but the table tennis competition venue of the Tokyo Olympic Games is only 6 meters × 11 meters, which is a shrinkage of nearly 1/3. Such modifications will not only make the athlete's play space narrow, but also increase the risk of injury.
(2) The water quality of outdoor swimming competitions is not up to standard
In the Tokyo Olympic triathlon (swimming 1.5 km, cycling 40 km, running 10 km), Christian Blumonfer from Norway won the championship in 1 hour, 45 minutes and 4 seconds. Shockingly, the champion fell to the ground vomiting after crossing the finish line, and the runners who completed the race afterwards also had such a phenomenon.
The official reason given by the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee was that the weather was too hot at that time, but after the game, many participating athletes said that the swimming waters in the triathlon were smelly, the water quality was not up to standard, and accidentally drank into the mouth during ventilation, resulting in post-race vomiting.
(3) The layout of the equestrian competition venue is too strange
In order to promote local Japanese culture, the Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee has placed many famous local illustrations as obstacles in the equestrian venue, including sumo wrestlers, geisha motifs, sushi, tumblers and cherry blossoms.
Although this design is very distinctive, the designer obviously did not take into account the feelings of the players and the horse, and the extremely contradictory pattern made the horses of many players frightened, resulting in various mistakes and deductions, resulting in a number of powerful players being eliminated early in the preliminary stage.
Because the location of the Beijing Winter Olympics natural snowfall is insufficient, the snow required for the competition is all created by the snow machine, which works by dividing the water flow into small particles through a special nozzle under the action of high pressure and air (the farther the spraying distance, the better the snow quality), these small water droplets will solidify into ice crystals before falling to the ground, which is what people see artificial snowflakes.
According to the requirements of the competition, these manufactured snowflakes will also pass through steps such as water injection, snow pressing, and detection until the requirements of the competition are met. Judging from the actual snow experience of athletes, the venue of the Winter Olympic Games, whether it is the quality of infrastructure or the quality of snow, is the world's top, and the hard texture of snow is more conducive to racing projects.
In order to meet the needs of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the mainland has built 12 new world-class competition venues, whether it is outdoor skiing or skating with extremely high precision requirements, all of which meet the requirements of the International Olympic Organizing Committee, providing an extremely comfortable and high-quality competition environment for athletes.
1. Epidemic prevention management
In response to the growing COVID-19 pandemic, the Tokyo Organising Committee has issued a number of regulations, including that athletes and awardees must wear masks, podiums will be longer to maintain safe social distancing, athletes should wear their own medals when awarding awards, and to prevent the spread of droplets to the greatest extent possible.
From the overall point of view, the epidemic prevention model of the Tokyo Olympic Games follows the "bubble epidemic prevention method" used in the American professional basketball game (NBA), the so-called "bubble" is to isolate the players, coaches and related personnel in the venue, so that the venue seems to be wrapped in "bubbles" and isolated from contact with the outside world.
This kind of epidemic prevention measures are obviously inadequate in dealing with 11,000 athletes and related personnel, such as: the form of dining is still a self-help form, the hotels where athletes stay and the people in Japan live, and the temperature changes of athletes cannot be monitored throughout the process.
This led to a total of 276 people (24 athletes) infected with COVID-19 during the period from the beginning to the end of the Tokyo Olympics, which is obviously unqualified.
China, as the most successful country in the world for epidemic prevention, this report on the Beijing Winter Olympics is to come up with a series of high-tech products, of which the intelligent epidemic prevention robot is the most common product in the Olympic Village, which has its own perception function, which can quickly identify the identity of personnel (within 1 second), while taking into account intelligent temperature measurement, the error can be controlled within 0.2 degrees Celsius.
In order to be able to monitor the temperature changes of athletes in real time, the Beijing Winter Olympics for the first time launched the "underarm Band-Aid", which is a wearable intelligent thermometer, the size of only the size of a fingernail, is the world's smallest and most accurate intelligent thermometer, full of electricity can be used for nearly half a month.
The relevant personnel only need to paste it on the skin, and then download the application for binding, you can monitor the body temperature in real time, once the body temperature abnormality (more than 37.3 ° C), it will be the first time to report to the epidemic prevention system, which is very helpful for accurate and fast epidemic prevention.
In addition to the above two specific products, in order to comprehensively kill the epidemic in the cradle, the Beijing Winter Olympics launched the aerogel sample collection and testing equipment for the first time, which can test the air in the competition venue, and once the new coronavirus appears in the air, it will immediately call the police, and the relevant medical staff can learn in the first time, effectively killing the virus in the cradle.
In addition to the above epidemic prevention "black technology", the epidemic prevention department of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee has achieved the ultimate control of the epidemic, each athlete is a separate "bubble", the epidemic prevention personnel have achieved a closed loop throughout the whole process, and strive to achieve zero infection of the new crown epidemic in the Beijing Winter Olympics, so that people around the world can once again feel the anti-epidemic force from China.