On the afternoon of March 2, the Yanqing Awards Plaza of the Winter Paralympic Games was about to conduct a full-element drill of the award ceremony, but the computer in the director's room of the Olympic Broadcasting Service Company "went on strike". "The computer screens are all in Greek, and it's definitely too late to call a translator." Yan Ziji, the venue's technical manager, said that with absolute familiarity with the computer-run system, the technicians could not understand Greek, but still completed the repair before the rehearsal began. After the drill, the staff of the Olympic Broadcasting Service specially sent a commemorative badge to the technical team to express their gratitude.
Group photo of the technical team
The Winter Paralympic Yanqing Awards Plaza was built in the Beijing World Garden Park International Pavilion, and the medal awarding ceremony of 27 competitions in the Yanqing Area of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games will be held here. The large-format glass curtain wall in the venue, the 94 steel "snowflakes" on the ceiling, and the "tree of life" on both sides of the stage decorate the Winter Paralympic Yanqing Awards Plaza into a crystal clear "Snow Crystal Palace". The technical team led by Yan Ziji is responsible for the service and guarantee of key technologies such as information, communication, cable TV, network security, audio and video, radio management and other key technologies in the venue, and is the unsung guardian behind the stable operation of "Xuejing Palace".
The technical team is having a live meeting
The reporter found that in the "Snow Crystal Palace", from the athletes' entrance to the changing area, the rest area and then to the main stage, there is no floor. "Maybe because I'm a Virgo, I'm doing things with special attention to detail." Yan Ziji half-jokingly said that "Xuejing Palace" as the Winter Paralympic Games Yanqing Awards Plaza, there will be many disabled athletes to visit during the game, the technical team in the production of cable laying program, deliberately some of the original "ground" cables, designed to walk the wall, walk the roof, although the amount of work is a lot larger, but for the disabled to provide convenience.
Barrier-free access to the mixed interview area
Near the main stage, two technical team members, armed with monitoring equipment similar to "oars", raised overhead from time to time, changing directions, as if they were catching something. "They caught radio signals breaking into a dedicated channel." Tsubame said that during the medal ceremony, the director and the members of the broadcast team communicated with each other and needed a dedicated radio channel. If there is a device that breaks into a dedicated channel, it may affect the broadcast, "The equipment that has already applied for frequency will have a special label; in order not to let go of every potential interference signal, it will have to go back and forth inside and outside the venue." In just half a day, the two technicians had already walked nearly ten thousand steps.
Technicians are monitoring radio signals
Working in the awards plaza, isn't it possible to witness the glory moments of many athletes? The 32-year-old Xie Xin shook his head and said: "Where the responsibility lies, when the award is awarded, I will go to the computer room to monitor the operation of the equipment." Neither the socket nor the indicator light can go wrong. Xie Xin's work place is on the basement floor, open the door, and what comes into view is a communication equipment, and the thermometer shows that the temperature here exceeds 30 degrees Celsius, "Although it is to ensure the award of ice and snow sports, I must wear short sleeves." Xie Xin said with a smile that the special thing about this job is that 365 days a year are in the middle of summer.
Technicians are inspecting the underground machine room
Yan Ziji, 29 years old this year, said that many of the technical team of the "Xuejing Palace" are young people like him, "everyone is willing to endure hardships, has motivation, and works a beautiful job!" He told reporters that this team has previously served to guarantee the Beijing Awards Plaza of the Winter Olympics, achieved "zero mistakes", and now transferred to the Yanqing Awards Square of the Winter Paralympic Games, and everyone's goal has not changed - twisted into a rope to ensure the stable operation of the awards square!