The slope obstacle course "Snow Great Wall", located in the Genting Ski Park of the Zhangjiakou Area of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, has been praised by athletes and audiences around the world for its unique gliding fun and ornamentality. What kind of blueprint is the model for each stage on the "Snow Great Wall"? What are some hidden ingenuities that viewers are not easy to find in TV footage? The relevant person in charge of Genting Ski Park revealed the secrets to Xinhua News Agency reporters one by one.
Athletes at the Men's Steeplechase Qualification Tournament for Snowboarding at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing on Feb. 6. Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Chang took the photo
According to Wang Shitong, deputy manager of mountain operation at Genting Ski Park, before the construction of the "Snow Great Wall" officially began, the track shaper and German Dick Shulman had exchanged with him what kind of Great Wall landscape to use as a model. In the end, the Chinese and foreign shaping team led by Shulman decided to learn from Shanhaiguan.
"The shape of the 'small house' on the second stage of the props area is actually referenced from the Shanhaiguan City Tower. It is not only a landscape shape, but also a prop, and the cornice on the top is very visual. Wang Shitong said, "In public training, almost every athlete will want to jump up and play, and some people may not jump perfectly, but everyone wants to try." ”
In the official competition, the "little house" intuitively tested the courage and ability of the players - the athletes with relatively conservative difficulty choices would slide down from the iron rod next to them, while the top masters, including Su Yiming, successfully took their own posture on the "Chinese style" prop that appeared for the first time in the slope obstacle course.
It can be seen that the "small house" props are complete in appearance and strength.
On February 7, China's Su Yiming won the men's steeplechase final of the snowboarding event at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xiao Yijiu
The next stage of the Little House is fitted with props called "gun barrels," which, although common in ski parks, were added to the Shulman team.
"There's a detail that you probably don't notice from tv. I asked him (Shulman) why he had carved some curved lines under the 'gun barrel' platform, and he said it was a wave, a symbol of the ocean. So this design is actually a reference to the fort of the old dragon head of Shanhaiguan, and the prop itself is a cannon, which is very image. ”
Wang Shitong introduced that in the jumping platform area after the prop area, the shaping team also maintained the continuity of the visual language of the "Great Wall", regardless of whether the shape of the platform itself is shark fin or camel's back, there are city wall brick symbols on it.
Schulman's team, which brings together top Site Modification Experts at Home and abroad, is not the first time that the "Snow Great Wall" has been built in Genting.
"In fact, during the Beijing Winter Olympics test match, the track design here already had some prototypes of the Great Wall concept, but this time, the concept was more widely used." Wang Shitong introduced.
As an expert who has performed venue modification work for many international competitions such as the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Schulman himself is proud of the "Great Wall of Snow" that is now "completed": "This is the best work of our team so far. ”
(The original title is "Beijing Winter Olympics |.) Su Yiming's "Snow Great Wall" blueprint taken from Shanhaiguan)