On February 27, the first Sunday after the end of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Shen Quanquan, director of the operation of the National Cross-Country Skiing Center in the Ancient Poplar Tree Venue Group in Zhangjiakou Racing Area (Chongli Core Area), still did not leave the "position" and was doing the epidemic prevention and control isolation before leaving in accordance with regulations. On this day, a full year and 4 months have passed since he settled here and worked in closure.
On October 27, 2020, the venue operation team of the National Cross-Country Skiing Center was formed. During the Winter Olympics, the National Cross-Country Skiing Center produced a total of 15 gold medals in cross-country skiing and Nordic biathlon skiing. Behind each gold medal, it is inseparable from the sincere cooperation and selfless dedication of this team.
For more than 400 days, the team's 26 business areas have been united and closely coordinated, and venue management, service support personnel and volunteers have worked together and worked hard. In particular, during the 16 days and nights during the event, the team overcame the unfavorable factors of high temperature snow melting and wind cooling, successfully completed the work tasks such as event organization and service guarantee, and achieved "zero errors in operation work, zero hospitalization of athletes, zero infection of team members, zero infrastructure failure, and zero complaints about service guarantee". They came from all over the country, with youth and sweat, the passion of ice and snow burned in the "off-road" world, and dedicated a "simple, safe and wonderful" Winter Olympic event for the world. IOC President Bach praised everything here with "Splendid (very good)"; IOC Vice President Samaranch Jr. left a message: "Thank you for the food provided by the cross-country family, thank you and congratulate you for your outstanding work"; International Ski Federation President John message: "To everyone: Thank you for hosting the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics perfectly, we will have a period later!" ”
1350 "laymen" became an iron army
Located in the valley southeast of the Prince City area of Chongli District, Zhangjiakou, the National Cross-Country Skiing Center covers an area of 106 hectares with a construction area of about 5,700 square meters, and is divided into a comprehensive area for venue operation, athletes, technical building, media center and broadcasting area from west to east. "Except for the 'Lu' glyph-shaped stadium technical building, which will be permanently retained, the other buildings are temporary construction and will be recycled after the game." Now that the temporary recycling work is 95% complete, this beautiful valley will be turned into a mountain park in the future, for people to ski in the winter and to become a forest oxygen bar in the summer. Shen Quan said affectionately.
"Looking at this familiar venue, are you reluctant to go?" When the reporter asked him, he replied: "It is not only reluctance, but also gratitude." Here, our team of 1350 people, each of them in their respective posts to do a good job in high standards, creating their own 'Winter Olympic career'; with the athletes of all countries to form a beautiful friendship between the level of officials, harvested warm blessings; as a temporary establishment of world-class sports event support personnel, we continue to improve the event service guarantee ability in practice, from a layman to an iron army; as the host country's main competition area venue service guarantor, we build venues, service events, is to build a hometown , service to the world. We deeply feel the great power of the new Olympic motto of 'faster, higher, stronger – more united', which is our inexhaustible motivation for the future together." ”
Even the coldest ice and snow can't stop the "perfect answer"
Off-road means outdoors, outdoors, means to withstand the test of cold weather.
The National Cross-Country Skiing Center is the venue for the longest (16 days) of the Zhangjiakou Division during the Winter Olympics——— on February 5, the Norwegian delegation won the cross-country skiing women's double pursuit here, winning the first gold medal at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics; according to the schedule, the women's 30 km collective departure was scheduled to start at 2:30 pm on February 20, which was the last gold medal and the last event produced by the Winter Olympics.
At 7 p.m. on February 19, when the Capital Gymnasium sounded "Golden Bridge on the Sorrow River" and people were cheering for Sui Wenjing and Han Cong's perfect performance, Shen Quanquan received an urgent task: the Arbitration Committee decided that due to weather reasons, the competition time of the cross-country skiing women's 30 km collective departure (freestyle technology) project was adjusted from 2:30 p.m. to 11 a.m. on the 20th.
"This means that we have to work three hours earlier on all of our links! In the world's top sports events, the game time should be temporarily advanced by three hours, which can be imagined how much demand and work pressure the event service guarantee team is! Shen Quan said that it was really a lot of pressure, but none of our team was intimidated by the sudden difficulties, under an order, timely adjustment of the daily operation plan, the members of the various fields did not say a word, immediately put into the adjustment of the "battle", they each took their place, worked together, busy for a whole sleepless night, at 6 o'clock in the morning of the 20th, all the adjustments required for the event support were prepared in place, "When I calmly and calmly reported to the superiors' The moment we were ready, my heart surged with infinite pride, thinking that this was really an iron army. Shen Quanquan sighed. Our stadium operation team used professionalism and efficient handling ability to deal with emergencies to ensure the high-quality and smooth completion of the event, which left a deep impression on athletes and officials from all over the world.
However, this is not the first time that this off-road iron army has encountered the test of temporary adjustment of the time of the event in this Winter Olympics. Another is the penultimate race held here – the men's 50 km group start (freestyle technique). Less than 2 hours before the race, the Arbitration Commission decided to postpone the race by 1 hour and adjust the distance from 50 km to 30 km. "This means that the organization of the competition, the maintenance of the venue, the change of the track, the handling of equipment, the control of the point, the management of the athletes' comprehensive area and the pre-race trial must be adjusted." Shen Quanquan said that no one in the team hesitated, immediately acted in accordance with the emergency plan, raced against the clock, overcame various difficulties, and ensured the smooth completion of the game.
"The venue made us feel at home"
"In order to provide high-quality guarantee services for athletes from all over the world to participate in the competition, we have implemented a 'grid' management, and the responsibility is implemented from post to person. Among them, the competition service team has 23 government selection personnel, 165 domestic technical officials, 92 sports professional volunteers and 49 sports general volunteers, responsible for completing the competition organization, venue maintenance, track layout, equipment handling, point control, athletes' comprehensive area management services and pre-race trial skating, etc., to provide athletes and team officials with training, competition, rest, meal and other environments. Shen Quanmin introduced that the competition service team should also work closely with partners, sponsors, suppliers and contractors to efficiently complete key technical services and guarantees such as timing and scoring, on-site performance processing and release, information, communications, audio and video, radio management and network security guarantees to ensure the smooth completion of the competition.
The waste removal team works more than 12 hours a day, in view of the large-scale snowfall, with the snow as the order, with the next clear, to ensure that the snow stops the road, the game is carried out on time; the catering team adjusts the meal time in real time according to the competition schedule, providing rich refreshments for the athletes; the traffic team sends two buses every 10 minutes at the same time during the peak period according to the demand for cars provided by the International Snow Federation every day, and the other time periods are based on the number of passengers, according to the frequency of every 10 minutes or every 30 minutes, to ensure that the athletes arrive at the scene in time and participate on time 3. Timely return; the medical team is all dressed and on duty in accordance with the requirements of epidemic prevention, 1 athlete medical station and 5 track medical points, timely and efficient medical rescue; the facility team implements 24-hour duty duty and regular inspection and inspection system every 2 hours, and solves the problem of freezing on the temporary toilets in the athletes' comprehensive area overnight; timely cleans up the snow after the snow transmission and transformation, technical transmission facilities and equipment and lines to prevent leakage, power outage, and signal interruption caused by snow melting.
It is worth mentioning that because one-third of the competitions of the National Cross-Country SkiIng Center are held in the evening, the team arranges the Winter Olympic mascot doll ice pier to interact with the audience before and during the competition; the special light show activity after the game is launched; in the unofficial delivery period, the "point of song" activity is also arranged, which not only creates a strong atmosphere and sense of ceremony, but also makes the entire venue full of "human touch"; the celebration ceremony team completes the award ceremony within 5 minutes after each game, so that the link is smooth and the process is smooth.
The thoughtful and meticulous service has been praised by athletes and team officials of participating countries in various countries. Norway's Nordic biathlon team commented: "For us in Norway, this Olympic trip was unforgettable! We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to China, Norway is a chilly country and the venue made us feel at home. Thank you for your contribution to hosting a wonderful Olympic Games! I hope that our arrival will also bring you pleasant memories. Hungarian off-road team coach message "Thank you for your support and help in the past 3 weeks. Your smiles, waving hands and warm and attentive service are unforgettable. Norwegian athlete Theresie Johaiyug, a three-gold runner at this Winter Olympics, wrote: "Coming to China, coming here, it's great, Chinese is superb." ”