The Olympic Games have been held for more than a hundred years, why is it that only Beijing has become a double Olympic city, and can it host the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games?
This, of course, is for geographical reasons. Circled, this year's geography exam may have this question, why only Beijing has become the city of the Double Olympics.
You see, the Summer Olympics are a little better, the geographical requirements are not high, as long as there is money, so the distribution is wider, but it is also basically distributed in the northern hemisphere, after all, there are more countries here and the economy is better. The Winter Olympics will have much higher geographical requirements. First, the temperature is required to be relatively low, below zero degrees, so as to preserve the artificial snow of the venue, but it cannot be too low, and athletes who are too low are prone to frostbite, and athletes cannot stand it.
Therefore, the host city is generally between 40 degrees north latitude and 70 degrees north latitude. The golden area for skiing is latitude 43° north. Second, many snow projects are mountain projects, so the city needs to have mountains. The slope should also be more appropriate.
The fact that there are mountains and the temperature is low will inevitably determine that the size of the city will not be too large, because only the plain area can support the big city.
Therefore, the host country of the Winter Olympic Games is completely different from the Summer Olympic Games, and the summer Olympic Games are hosted by well-known large cities, while the Winter Olympic Games are basically second- and third-tier cities, and the population is not large.
Look at the city that has already hosted the Summer Olympic Games, why did not hold the Winter Olympics, London is the city that hosts the Olympic Games the most, but London is a temperate oceanic climate, and the temperature in February is not low, basically above zero. The same is true of European cities such as Paris and Berlin, which are about the same latitude as our northeast, but Europe is affected by the Warm Atlantic Current, so it is much warmer. Therefore, there are many cities in Europe that host the Winter Olympics, but they are basically cities that are far from the sea and revolve around the Alps.
The weather in Moscow is cold enough, but a little too cold, the most important Moscow has no mountainous terrain, the highest mountain is only two hundred meters, called Sparrow Mountain, do some amateur play can also be, the Olympic level is not enough, like alpine skiing downhill and super big slalom need to drop in the 800-1000 meters of the mountain. So Russia has arranged the Winter Olympics in Sochi, which is located in the Caucasus Mountains and is a tourist attraction, and the venues built will not be wasted.
Therefore, the temperature in Europe's big cities is basically too high, can not run the Winter Olympic Games, can run the Winter Olympics are small and medium-sized cities, to run a Winter Olympics has been very difficult, there is no spare energy to run a larger Summer Olympic Games.
Looking at East Asia, South Korea's Summer Olympic Games were held in Seoul, the Winter Olympics were held in Pyeongchang, why the Winter Olympics were not held in Seoul, one is that Seoul's ice and snow conditions are not as good as Pyeongchang, and the other is that South Korea wants to copy the route of Sochi, which became the world's top ski resort after hosting the Winter Olympics, invested more than 50 billion US dollars that year, and it is said that it has now all returned to the capital and earned. South Korea also wants to turn Pyeongchang into a second Sochi to attract ski enthusiasts from all over the world, especially Chinese tourists. But I didn't expect that the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics would be general, there were many controversies, and soon the epidemic came, and the Chinese did not go, and South Korea's idea of taking advantage of the Olympic Games to build a tourist resort was frustrated. Cities with tens of thousands of people have invested more than ten billion DOLLARs.
There is also Japan, where the Winter Olympics are not held in Tokyo, but in Nagano, Sapporo, of course because of the heat in Tokyo, Tokyo is a subtropical oceanic monsoon climate, february temperature is very high, basically above zero.
Therefore, the conditions for being able to host the Winter Olympics are too harsh, and these conditions will basically limit the size of a city not to be too large, resulting in the fact that those who can host the Winter Olympics will not have the financial resources to run the Summer Olympic Games. Beijing is one of the few that can meet these conditions, Beijing is a temperate monsoon climate, this climate is characterized by high temperature and rainy summer, cold and dry winter, plus Beijing is surrounded by mountains on three sides, relying on mountains and seas, the MingTang is wide, can run the Summer Olympic Games, can also hold the Winter Olympics, which has become a city of double Olympics. But it may not be the only one. In cities that have already hosted the Winter Olympics, Vancouver has the financial resources to host the Summer Olympics. Milan is going to host the Winter Olympics in 2026, and he has also bid for the Summer Olympics, so Milan also has the hope of becoming the next city of the Double Olympics, but even if it is to be held, it may be fifty years later.
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