The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will make full use of the legacy of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to create a number of double Olympic venues. The National Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the National Aquatics Center was transformed into a curling competition venue, the Wukesong Sports Center and the National Gymnasium were transformed into ice hockey competition venues, and the Capital Stadium was transformed into a short track speed skating and figure skating competition venue. The transformation of these venues has applied the latest scientific and technological means to achieve "ice water conversion", "ice basket conversion" and "amphibious utilization", and has become a comprehensive sports facility serving national fitness, sports culture and leisure, and multi-format operation.
The new venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics are planned ahead of time for post-game use. After the competition, the National Speed Skating Hall in Beijing will hold various ice events all year round, widely carry out mass ice and snow sports, and become a multi-functional ice center for Beijing citizens to participate in sports. Shougang Ski Jump has become the world's first permanently retained and used ski jumping venue, which will host high-level ice and snow events at home and abroad after the race, carry out public ice and snow experience and extreme sports, and carry out various cultural activities in combination with industrial relics, becoming a new landmark of Beijing Winter Olympic Park. The National Alpine Ski Center in Yanqing Will continue to hold alpine skiing events in the post-race snow season, provide training grounds for professional ski teams, open to high-level public ski enthusiasts, and carry out mountain sightseeing and outdoor sports in non-snow seasons to achieve four-season operation. The National Bobsleigh Center will continue to serve as a competition and training venue after the race, undertake and hold various high-level related events, open public experience projects, and create a characteristic venue with dual attributes of large-scale events and public leisure experience. These Olympic venues have become an important intersection of sports, culture and international exchanges in Beijing, and a new landmark in the development of the capital.
National Aquatics Center
The National Aquatics Center hosted swimming, diving and synchronized swimming competitions during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and curling and wheelchair curling competitions during the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. Through the transformation of the overhead structure, the original swimming pool area was transformed into a curling venue, becoming the world's first "ice water conversion" venue. After the game, the competition hall will be able to host swimming events, but also organize ice events, and at the same time undertake large-scale cultural performance activities, so as to achieve the repeated use, comprehensive utilization and long-term utilization of the venue.
Capital Gymnasium
As the oldest stadium in Beijing, the Capital Gymnasium will usher in a new mission and identity in 2022 - the short track speed skating and figure skating venue of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Adhering to the important concept of "repairing the old as old" in the renovation process of the venue, not only by keeping the appearance unchanged to retain people's deepest memories of the capital gymnasium, but also widely adopting high-tech and sustainable development technologies, the capital gymnasium will continue to serve the capital ice sports as an "evergreen tree".
Genting Ski Park
Located in Chongli District, Zhangjiakou City, Genting Ski Park has three years of commercial operation experience before the successful bid for the 2015 Beijing Winter Olympics, and is the only venue in the seven snow competition venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics that has been transformed using the existing snow field. After the games, mass skiing and tourism and resort functions will be restored, while the remaining Olympic tracks will expand the functions of the venues, so that they have the ability to host world-class events, and enhance the level of post-race utilization and sustainable development of Genting venues.
National Stadium "Ice Sail"
As a venue for the Double Olympic Games, the National Gymnasium hosted gymnastics, trampolines, wheelchair basketball and other events at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, men's ice hockey, women's ice hockey and Paralympic ice hockey matches will be held. In the process of transforming the venues from the Summer Olympics to the Double Olympics, the National Stadium practices the athlete-centered concept, adds the characteristics of the Winter Olympic cultural architecture, creates green and sustainable venues, and will achieve more diversified utilization on the existing basis after the games, serving the public's sports and fitness and various cultural and sports activities.
Shougang Ski Jump "Snow Flying"
Shougang Ski Jump, also known as "Snow Flying Sky", is located in the north area of Shougang Old Industrial Park, as the only snow venue in Beijing, hosting snowboard and freestyle ski jumping events. The design of the platform shape is inspired by the curve of the jumping platform competition and the image of dunhuang's "flying sky" streamer. After the game, the big jumping platform will carry out national fitness, sports events, professional training, commercial and cultural activities, drive the diversified development of sports economy and society in Shougang Park and even west Beijing, and help Shougang Park build a new landmark for the rejuvenation of the capital city in the new era.
National Ski Jumping Center "Snow Ruyi"
The National Ski Jumping Center is the first ski jumping site in mainland China, with the longest ski track in the world, and undertakes 5 minor ski jumping events during the competition, and 3 minor events in the Nordic biathlon jointly with the National Cross-Country Ski Center. After the race, "Snow Ruyi" not only undertook high-standard ski jumping events, but also served the national fitness activities, carried out ski performances, mass skiing and other mass activities, further broadened the audience of skiing projects, and met the needs of the public skiing.
Wukesong Sports Center
Wukesong Sports Center hosted basketball competitions during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and women's ice hockey gold medals were produced during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Taking the preparations for the Winter Olympics as an opportunity, the Wukesong Ice Sports Center (also known as "Ice Linghua") was built on the southeast side of the Wukesong Sports Center as an ice hockey training venue, and the western square of "Ice Linghua" was transformed into Wukesong Sports Square. After the game, various venues and facilities including Wukesong Sports Center will work together to create a cultural, sports, leisure and entertainment complex.
National Alpine Ski Center "Snow Flying Swallow"
The National Alpine Ski Center is located in Yanqing District, Beijing, relying on the shape of Xiaohaituo Mountain at an altitude of 2198 meters, with a total length of 21 kilometers and a drop of about 900 meters, which is the first alpine ski track in China that meets the Olympic standards and is currently one of the most difficult competition venues in the world. After the game, the National Alpine Ski Center will become a world-class competition venue and project training base, a first-class mountain outdoor sports center in China, a leading public ice and snow and outdoor sports experience base in China, and a new engine for building the "most beautiful Winter Olympic City" Yanqing.
National Biathlon Center
Located in Chongli District, Zhangjiakou City, the National Biathlon Center is one of the new snow sports venues for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The design of the venue pays attention to the humanized design while meeting the competition standards, and fully considers the audience's viewing experience. Fully implement the concept of "green Olympic Games", pay attention to the respect and protection of the natural environment, and build green venues. In the future, the National Biathlon Center will focus on mass sports and fitness, and at the same time create a comprehensive tourist resort featuring biathlon sports to drive the long-term development of the region.
National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon"
The site of the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon" was formerly known as the archery range and hockey field of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the speed skating competition will be held, and the venue will adopt an all-ice design with an area of about 12,000 square meters, which can meet the competition requirements of five major categories of ice sports such as speed skating, short track speed skating, figure skating, curling, and ice hockey. After the race, the National Speed Skating Hall will become a multi-functional ice center integrating sports events, mass fitness, culture and leisure, exhibition and social welfare.
National Bobsleigh Centre "Snow Dragon Tour"
The National Bobsleigh Center is the only bobsleigh track in China, with a total length of about 1975 meters, a vertical drop of 121 meters, and 16 curves with different angles and different inclinations, including a unique 360-degree spiral curve. After the games, it will be used for high-level events and public ice and snow experience, and at the same time, relying on the track to build a characteristic resort hotel, holding concerts, outdoor exhibitions and other cultural and artistic activities, to achieve the winter Olympic cultural resources and surrounding tourism resources complementary and win-win.
China National Convention Center Phase II
During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the second phase of the China National Convention Center will undertake the important tasks of the main news center and the international broadcasting center of the Winter Olympic Games. After the game, it will form a world-class convention and exhibition complex with the first phase of the National Convention Center, serve all kinds of high-end government diplomatic activities and large-scale high-end exhibition activities, become the new urban "living room" of Beijing in the future, and play an important role in realizing the positioning of the capital as an international exchange center and meeting the needs of conferences and exhibitions.
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Winter Olympic reporter Pan Zhiwang, Liu Ping, Deng Wei photo
Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporter Wang Chen
Edited by Kang Dian
Process Editor Liu Weili