CCTV News: Today (February 14), the main media center of the Beijing Winter Olympics held the tenth regular press conference of the competition stage. The relevant responsible persons of the International Olympic Committee, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and the Olympic Broadcasting Service Company answered questions from Chinese and foreign reporters.
Zhai Zhuang: The theme of today's regular press conference is "The Power of Women at the Winter Olympics", and IOC spokesman Mark Adams said that the proportion of female athletes participating in the Winter Olympics has reached 45%, which is also the highest proportion in the previous Winter Olympics.
Before the launch, IOC spokesperson Mark Adams again briefed on the latest viewership data. Just four days after discovery channels broadcast the Beijing Winter Olympics, the number of viewers exceeded that of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
IOC Spokesperson Mark Adams: A week after the Winter Olympics aired in Japan, 98 million people have watched it on TV, which means that 8 out of 10 people are watching the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is a very good result.
Yan Jiarong, spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said that among all 109 sub-events of the Winter Olympics, 46 women participated in the olympic games, and the new competitions also fully considered the proportion of female athletes participating.
Yan Jiarong, spokesperson of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee: Among the seven new sub-events, two are women's individual events, four are mixed group events, and only one is a men's single event, which also fully reflects the concept of promoting gender equality in sports in the Olympic Agenda 2020.
Yan Jiarong also said that in terms of the protection of female athletes, the comprehensive clinics of the three Winter Olympic villages of the Current Winter Olympic Games have specially set up women's treatment rooms and treatment rooms, equipped with professional gynecologists and diagnosis and treatment services, to provide necessary medical protection for female athletes. Yang Yang, chairman of the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, introduced that 14 of the 19 athletes on the committee are women, and these female members have also made great contributions to the smooth holding of the Winter Olympic Games.
Yang Yang, Chairman of the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee: Another area is the sports project management that I think everyone should pay great attention to during the Olympic Games, and we have a total of 11 project managers. Of the 11 project managers, 7 of us are women, which means that most of them are women who are responsible for the operation of the entire event, and they are proud of them.
The CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services said that for the media, the future needs to rethink the value of reporting on women's participation in the event.
Ioannis Exacos, CEO of olympic broadcasting services: More than 70 percent of men in the younger generation right now do watch women's sports, just like men's sports, so that's a really strong encouragement. As a broadcaster, we have seen that in this Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing's experience is one of the most high-profile events we have seen so far, it is a women's event.