6 minutes! Really only 6 minutes! The preparation for the on-site awards is about to be completed, here is the venue with the most awards projects on the spot of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and the evaluation of the awards by the IOC members and the officials of the International Snow Federation on the alpine ski venues is: rigorous and fast! Performance perfect!
Award ceremony staff
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, there was no independent awards plaza in Yanqing. Originally planned, the medal winners in the Yanqing area to go to the Beijing Awards Plaza near the Bird's Nest National Stadium to participate in the award ceremony, considering that the distance between the venues in the Yanqing area and the Beijing urban area is too far, the athletes are too tired, at the end of November 2021, after consultation with the International Olympic Committee and the International Snow Federation, the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee notified the Yanqing Area that the alpine skiing project and the bobsled, steel frame snowmobile and bobsleigh project will hold the award ceremony at the venue.
For alpine ski resorts, due to the influence of natural conditions such as weather, it is difficult to hold the award ceremony smoothly. Moreover, the official of the International Snow Federation said that according to the actual situation, once the competition ends every day, there is only 6 minutes to prepare for the award ceremony with medals, flag raising and national anthem.
Unlike the Summer Olympics, one of the characteristics of the Winter Olympics is that most of the medals are awarded in a dedicated awards plaza. In recent Winter Olympic Games, the awards have never been so intensively carried out at the venue site, and this time it is the Winter Olympics awards under the serious epidemic. All 11 individual awards for alpine skiing at the Beijing Winter Olympics were held at the venue, and it was the event with the most awards awarded at the venues of the Winter Olympic Games.
Dong Xiangyang, award manager of the Yanqing venue group operation team, introduced that the preparation time for the award ceremony here was long before, and later it was stipulated that all the award preparations had to be completed in 6 minutes. Time is so tight, then the layout of the award must be in place, and the process must be precise. The podium, medals, and mascots are readily available, and the awarding volunteers also have to explain the process with the athletes and the awarding guests, which is also the first time that the Winter Olympics will be awarded without contact under the epidemic prevention and control.
"In 6 minutes, the awards will be awarded. When the last athlete slides across the finish line to prove that the race is over, 6 minutes are counted from then on. Athletes will not leave for the time being, will rest, and will also give brief interviews to reporters in the mixed interview area, which may be occupied for 1 minute or more, and these contents are counted in 6 minutes, which is very tight. Dong Xiangyang said.
Within 6 minutes, the concierge supervisor and the athlete supervisor should find the gold, silver and bronze medal winners as soon as possible, explain to them the process and requirements, and how to award the award under the epidemic prevention situation. Within 6 minutes, the organizers will also explain how to award the athletes to the international Olympic Committee and the International Snow Federation. At first, when the awards were rehearsed, 6 minutes was not enough, because 6 minutes had to complete 20 minutes of work. Therefore, later each link can only be carried out synchronously, and each link cannot have a problem, otherwise it will exceed 6 minutes.
The alpine ski resort awards team consisted of 24 people, 8 staff, 8 ceremonial staff and 8 flag raisers. The team had a well-staffed backup and worked tightly without any problems. Even the two award ceremonies on February 7 were successfully completed by the team. The team prepared the flags of all participating countries and regions in advance, continuously screened according to the real-time competition conditions, and finally screened to the top three, and the team quickly ironed and sorted out, with the national anthem that had been prepared for the appearance.
Panoramic view of the alpine skiing award ceremony
Today, the alpine skiing competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics is nearing its end. At first, the skeptical OFFICIALS OF THE SNOW FEDERATION exclaimed, "Perfect! That's great! I didn't expect it to be so rigorous and fast, and all the problems were gone. ”