China's Yan Wengang won the bronze medal in the men's steel frame snowmobile event at the Beijing Winter Olympics on the 11th. Not long after the competition, Yan Wengang won the medal at the award ceremony held at the Yanqing National Bobsleigh Center.
"Why did Yan Wengang get the medal for the first time after the game?"
"Isn't it a golden ice pier first, and then a medal?"
The award ceremony for the Winter Olympics is different from that of the Summer Olympics. Because of the cold weather in the Winter Olympic Games, after the competition, the ceremony of awarding souvenirs is usually held in the stadium, and then come to the award square specially set up by the Winter Olympic Games to hold a grand award ceremony for the winning athletes. But Yan Wengang's steel frame snowmobile event is an exception.
Gao Tian, deputy director of the Cultural Activities Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and director of the Zhangjiakou Awards Plaza Operation Team, said that the medal awarding ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics involved three scenes, one was to award medals in the award square, one was to award medals at the competition venue, and the other was to award medals at the closing ceremony.
The medal awarding ceremony of the steel-framed snowmobile project attended by Yan Wengang belongs to the second scenario, that is, the medal is awarded at the competition venue. According to reports, the Yanqing Division and some competition venues in Beijing directly award medals at the venue, of which Yanqing has 21 projects and beijing division involves 5 projects. Since the steel frame snowmobile project was held in Yanqing, he won this valuable medal not long after the race.
The award ceremony held in Yanqing not only allows athletes to feel the excitement and glory of this victory after the game, but also allows them to get a full rest in the subsequent time, reflecting the concept of running the game with athletes as the core. "Athletes [from Yanqing] are no longer allowed to come to Beijing Awards Plaza to receive awards, and the most important thing is to fully consider the distance from Yanqing to Beijing." Gao Tian said.
The Beijing Winter Olympics set up the Beijing Awards Square and the Zhangjiakou Awards Square, which awarded a total of 81 medals for the project. Among them, the Beijing Awards Plaza awarded medals for 32 projects, and the Zhangjiakou Awards Square awarded medals for 49 projects, and the award square ran from February 6 to 19.
In addition, in accordance with the practice of the International Olympic Committee, at the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, medals for the cross-country skiing in Zhangjiakou will be awarded for the men's 50 km collective departure and the women's 30 km collective start.
Considering the epidemic situation, one of the main principles of the Awards Ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics is contactless awarding: the awarding guests send souvenirs and medals in trays, and athletes take souvenirs and medals from the tray without contact.
(People's Daily News)