The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are coming to an end. Above the ice and snow of the competition venue, there is the collision of speed and passion that everyone has attracted; in the igloo of Beijing Awards Plaza, it is an expression of glory and joy of beauty and commonality!
Beijing Awards Square, the dream and glory of the Winter Olympics, here carries the light of the gold medal bloom, the posture of the national flag flying, the moving melody of the national anthem; here shines the moments of athletes crying with joy, and the enthusiastic faces of the audience. Beijing Awards Plaza, it debuted with a new face, brilliantly presented with a perfect posture, and ended successfully with a beautiful figure!
The awards plaza is the main cultural feature that distinguishes the Winter Olympics from the Summer Olympics. As one of the main venues and exhibition places of the award ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Beijing Awards Plaza is positioned with unique functions, shoulders the heavy responsibility of disseminating the Olympic spirit, and presents the highlight moments of athletes to the world and highlights the characteristic charm of Chinese culture.
A stage for athletes to highlight moments
As an important non-competition venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Beijing Awards Plaza has experienced 14 award days since its inception on February 6, held 30 award ceremonies, awarded medals to more than 150 athletes from 17 countries, and Chinese athletes received 5 gold medals, 1 silver medal and 1 bronze medal at Beijing Awards Plaza. The operation team served more than 500 OBS (Olympic Broadcasting Service Company) staff and received nearly 1,000 media person-times, fully ensuring the smooth and smooth operation of the award ceremony, media services and audience organization. Nearly 5,000 people watched the award ceremony.
The daily award ceremony of Beijing Awards Plaza is alternated with Zhangjiakou Awards Square for global live broadcasting, and the two brother venues are tightly connected and tightly sewn together, and jointly present a simple and wonderful award ceremony to the world.
In order to ensure the perfect presentation of the award ceremony, the ceremonial team responsible for the award on the stage has been screened and trained layer by layer, and after nearly a year of rigorous training, taking the stage, guiding, and ending the plate, every action strives to be beautiful and accurate.
In order to raise the national flag and play the national anthem with zero mistakes, the national flag and national anthem field has formulated a total of ten links of the review mechanism, and the flag-raising device and the national anthem playback equipment have been backed up, and the final link has been supervised by special personnel on the spot, and each of the 30 games has been grasped with the strictest standards; the honor guard has always anchored the highest standards, maintained the best state, walked every positive step, and done every action, ensuring that the national anthem was not bad and solemn.
The most challenging award-winning athletes in the field of transportation have to face unexpected situations such as athletes' itinerary changes, forgetting to lead the award clothing, and rushing to the training ground every day, and it is necessary to ensure that the winning athletes must be picked up on time and returned safely in each game. Every work link of Beijing Awards Plaza fully expresses the high respect for the award-winning athletes and strives to create an unforgettable highlight moment for each award-winning athlete.
A pulpit that tells the story of China
The stage of Beijing Awards Plaza is named after "Beauty and Harmony", and the creativity comes from the visual elements of "Igloo", which has both ice and snow characteristics and the temperature of "home", symbolizing the full sincerity of Beijing to invite guests from all over the world to celebrate the Chinese New Year with the Winter Olympics as an opportunity, and embodies the beautiful vision of the beauty and harmony of the global human family. From stage creative planning to theme positioning, from the first stage hand-drawn paper to the completion of the "igloo" today, the professional forces of all parties have carefully planned and carefully implemented, and finally formed a perfect landscape of organic integration, mutual reflection, integration and beauty of the overall shape of the Winter Olympics stage and the surrounding environment.
At the award ceremony, accompanied by the exciting and majestic award ceremony music and live broadcast, the awards of each project were awarded in turn. The etiquette guides of the award ceremony made a stunning appearance dressed in the ceremonial costume "Tang Hua Feixue" with Chinese characteristics, and they led the winning athletes to the podium with smiles and standard movements. The award-winning athletes picked up the medals and the bouquet of awards woven from the tray held by the guests, ushering in the glorious moment of raising the national flag and playing the national anthem.
The music of the award ceremony played on the spot, using melodic fragments of the famous song "I Love You Saibei Snow", reinterpreted the familiar Chinese songs of the 1980s, showing China's continuous pursuit and yearning for ice and snow sports over the years. At the same time, the music of the award ceremony skillfully used the "chimes" and other representative traditional Chinese instruments for arrangement, and the playback image of the award music during the ceremony showed the Chinese elements, so that the award-winning athletes felt the sincere congratulations from the host country at the moment of being honored on the podium.
The award ceremony promotion song Salute to the Warriors played on the spot sang a deep confession to the pure and white ice and snow arena and the Olympic spirit of mutual understanding, unity and friendship, and fair competition, and was also the warmest cheer and respect to the Olympic athletes who worked the field.
The Beijing Winter Olympics coincided with the Chinese New Year, and reunions are the most representative features of the Spring Festival, with a series of live performances carefully organized before and after each award ceremony.
On the first day of the award ceremony, the band performed "2022 to Beijing" with great enthusiasm, fully mobilizing the atmosphere of the scene with a cheerful and enthusiastic rhythm, leading the audience to sing and dance together. Yang Dezhan, a young martial artist who appeared at the 2022 CCTV Year of the Tiger Spring Festival Gala with the landscape Tai Chi creative program, made his debut "Chinese Kung Fu" at the Beijing Awards Plaza as a special guest, allowing the audience to appreciate the charm of traditional Chinese martial arts. The song and dance performance "Together to the Future" conveyed the call for building a community with a shared future for mankind, highlighted the Olympic motto of "faster, higher, stronger - more united", and pushed the award performance to a climax.
After the award ceremony, the audience also enjoyed a beautiful light and shadow show. As part of the awards performance, the light and shadow show has four themes of "ice and snow, dynamics, national style and life", through projection technology and lighting design, and fully sets off the highlight moments of the award-winning athletes with Chinese light and shadow.
On the tenth award day of Beijing Awards Square, the Lantern Festival was ushered in, on the day of the Lantern Festival, Beijing Awards Square showed a different kind of joy and vitality, using its own actions to tell the story of China to athletes from all over the world, the lanterns in the athletes' waiting room were red and red, the Lantern that had just come out of the pot was steaming, the volunteers' origami, the riddles were eye-catching, and the bilingual riddles were written on one red lantern after another, which was interesting. Foreign athletes have participated, and Chinese culture has also burst into new sparks in such exchanges, creating a more diverse and inclusive picture. Taking these traditional Chinese festivals as an opportunity, Beijing Awards Plaza sincerely invites athletes from all over the world to gather at the Winter Olympic Awards Plaza on the occasion of the Chinese New Year festival to tell the wonderful Chinese story to the world.
A platform for spreading the Olympic spirit
The Winter Olympics itself is a global event that integrates multiculturalism, and under the Olympic spotlight, ice and snow athletes staged a peak competition, and different civilizations collided with each other, which is a full embodiment of the Olympic spirit. The best athletes from all over the world spread the Olympic spirit here, show their own national and national culture, and are appreciated and praised by the whole world. "The beauty of each other, the beauty of beauty, the beauty of the United States, the world is the same" Beijing Awards Square opens a new window for exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations, from "faster, higher, stronger" to "faster, higher, stronger - more united", the ceremonies held in beijing award square continue to witness the evolution of the Olympic motto, in the moment when the world is facing the epidemic, the award-winning athletes here show each other's unity and friendship, which will also make the Olympic spirit more sublimated.
As the only operating team to carry out venue conversion during the conversion period, the Beijing Awards Plaza operation team will be fully transferred to yanqing Winter Paralympic Awards Plaza after the Winter Olympic Games. In order to do a good job in the service of disabled athletes, guests and media around the world, the operation team will provide a full range of barrier-free services, facilities barrier-free, communication barrier-free and operation barrier-free. Yanqing Winter Paralympic Awards Plaza will invite artists from the China Disabled Arts Troupe to make wonderful warm-up performances, combined with the characteristics of the Winter Paralympic Games, to show the optimistic, confident and uplifting spirit of the disabled, and pay tribute to the winter Paralympic athletes of all countries (regions) around the world with vitality and imagination, and sing the praises of strength and dreams. We look forward to and welcome disabled athletes from all over the world to gather at the Yanqing Winter Paralympic Awards Plaza.