National Ski Jumping Center "Snow Ruyi". Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Kehong
The "ice pier" is in the curling arena of the Winter Olympics. Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Mi photographed
"The big jump is steeper than it looks on TV, and Su Yiming and Gu Ailing really have a 'big heart.'" A few days ago, Lin Cong, a Beijing resident, took his family to the Shougang Ski Jump to punch the clock. Relive the scene of Chinese athletes winning the championship and enjoy the style of the Winter Olympic venues, the family is very excited.
On March 17, the north area of Beijing Shougang Park was opened to tourists, and the Shougang Ski Jump, the venue of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, attracted many citizens and tourists. It is understood that many venues of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games are planned to open to the public before May Day this year.
Olympic venues have witnessed countless shocking moments during the competition, and their continuous use after the games is also one of the important topics of the "post-Winter Olympics". Yan Jiarong, spokesman for the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said a few days ago that the post-game utilization of beijing winter Olympic venues mainly involves the comprehensive development of cultural tourism, the bid to host high-level events, and the opening to the public. In the process of preparation, the Beijing Winter Olympic Games planned in advance the multi-functional use of venues and auxiliary facilities after the games, inheriting the legacy of the Winter Olympics, so that the Winter Olympic venues can bloom brilliantly throughout the year.
Play with ice and snow at the Winter Olympics
Located in the old industrial park of Shougang in Beijing, the Shougang Ski Jump is the first ski jumping platform in the history of the Winter Olympics to be permanently retained after the Games. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, athletes took off from the jumping platform, and the industrial cooling tower behind them formed a stunning classic picture.
After the race, in addition to being open to the public and for tourists to visit, the Shougang Ski Jump will also take advantage of the advantage of "permanent retention" to carry out national fitness activities. Guo Xiaomin, deputy general manager of Beijing Shougang Park Sports Center, said that during the winter snow season, Shougang Park's self-operated "Ice and Snow Exchange" activity is planned to be held on the big jump platform. This means that ice and snow lovers can not only watch from a distance, but also experience the blessed land where Su Yiming and Gu Ailing "flew".
Not only in the Shougang Ski Jump, many ice and snow lovers are familiar with the Winter Olympic venues will open their doors to the public in the near future. "The venues of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games belong not only to the athletes, but also to everyone who loves sports." Yan Jiarong said.
The National Aquatics Center, a double Olympic venue, will be fully opened in April to experience the scene during the Winter Olympic Games. The so-called "race scene", according to Yang Qiyong, general manager of the National Aquatics Center, refers to the "Ice Cube" competition hall, the image landscape of the Winter Olympics, the grandstand during the game, and the curling track are fully retained; the sports display performances during the game continue to be staged; the mascot "ice pier" and "snow rongrong" continue to "go to work"... In the center of the venue, the audience will feel like they are in the beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.
In addition, the operation of the "Ice Cube" during the competition was also designed as an experience project. Visitors can transform into "Winter Olympic athletes", walk into the athletes' equipment area and dressing room, and also go to the track to throw curling, take the stage to present awards, give interviews, video connect with their families, etc., to experience the feeling of Olympic champions.
"The core of the opening up after the 'Ice Cube' is the 'all-round presentation of the original scene of the Winter Olympics, focusing on the original taste'." Yang Qiyong said.
As the only newly built ice competition venue in the Winter Olympics, the National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon" witnessed athletes from all over the world breaking Olympic records and world records 13 times during the Winter Olympics, and the "fastest ice" was unanimously praised. According to the plan, after the Winter Olympics, the "ice ribbon" will be opened to the public in sub-regions, and various popular ice sports projects will be carried out for the public, especially young people. The venue can make ice for different projects in different regions and standards, and receive more than 2,000 people to carry out various ice sports such as speed skating, short track speed skating, ice hockey, curling, figure skating, etc., and provide a venue for ice sports training.
Yang Yang, chairman of the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said that the facilities such as the Venues of the Winter Olympic Games, the Cultural Square, the International Olympic Academy, and the Ice and Snow Museum built for the Beijing Winter Olympics will continue to open in the future, providing the masses with rich ice and snow culture supply facilities and becoming an important heritage of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
High-level competitions continue
Running the games is the "job" of the Winter Olympic venues. According to the plan, the venues of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games will continue to bid for and hold high-level international events and various domestic events, organically combine the holding of major events with national fitness, and promote mass events and local development.
Yan Jiarong said that the relevant departments have established good contacts and cooperation with the World Curling Federation, the International Snowmobile Federation and other world single sports federations, and will actively bid for and host world-class events such as the World Cup in the future.
It is understood that when the Beijing Winter Olympics have not yet ended, the Beijing State-owned Assets Management Company, the owner of the National Aquatics Center, has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the World Curling Federation and the Chinese Curling Association to set up a World Curling Academy Training Center in the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center, hold international curling events and a series of curling training, and jointly promote the development of curling in China and the world. Yang Qiyong said that he hopes to continue to invest resources and walk out of the new road of curling industrialization with Chinese characteristics.
The National Bobsleigh Center "Snow Dragon" in Yanqing will also continue to serve as a competition venue. At present, the Bobsleigh Center has signed an agreement with the International Bobsleigh Federation to host high-level international events and provide training grounds for the national team and other training teams. At the same time, the "Snow Dragon" track is also reserved for the public experience departure, the vertical drop of the track from 121 meters to more than 40 meters for professional athletes, ice and snow lovers can come to the "Snow Dragon" in winter, safely experience the speed of snowmobile sledding.
In addition to actively bidding for international events such as the Snowboard and Freestyle Ski world cups, the Shougang Ski Jump is also expected to be comprehensively utilized in the summer and become a new landmark for extreme sports. Guo Xiaomin said that Shougang Park is docking with institutions such as the World Extreme Games (X Game), and the Shougang Extreme Park in the park will also be "linked" with the big jump platform, and extreme competitions such as BMX and skateboarding can be held in the big jumping platform area in summer.
"The elements and heritage of the Winter Olympics are invaluable, and we hope that these facilities, knowledge and culture will continue to bring value to the public." Yang Qiyong said.
The Zhangjiakou Area of the Beijing Winter Olympics has four competition venues: Genting Ski Park, National Ski Jumping Center, National Cross-Country SkiIng Center and National Biathlon Center. Zhen Guifeng, deputy director of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Sports Bureau, said that Zhangjiakou's ice and snow event venues have reached the world's top level, and the local government will use the venues to hold high-end events, continue to apply for international and intercontinental comprehensive ice and snow events, and hold single World Cup, intercontinental cup and points events in a timely manner, forming a normalization of high-end events.
Comprehensive development of cultural tourism
It is not only a sports venue, but also a sports, cultural tourism and leisure complex that serves the people - the Beijing Winter Olympics has proposed a "Beijing Plan" for the repeated use, comprehensive utilization and lasting use of venues, and the comprehensive development of cultural tourism is an important part.
Yan Jiarong said that Yanqing and Zhangjiakou will rely on snow venues to create "all-season, full-time, all-round" ice and snow entertainment centers, mountain resorts and summer tourist resorts. According to reports, the two competition areas will carry out snow project public experience and hold events in winter, and the non-snow season will take advantage of the cultural history and natural ecology of the competition area to develop regional characteristic tourism and leisure, mountain vacation, outdoor sports and other industries to achieve the four-season operation of winter Olympic venues.
The National Ski Jumping Center "Snow Ruyi" was designed with sustainable use after the race in mind. The "Sky Club" located in "Ruyi Handle Head" can accommodate nearly 1,000 people to watch and visit, and host various indoor events such as exhibitions and ceremonies. According to reports, Zhangjiakou will use "Snow Ruyi" and other winter Olympic venues to build a centralized display area for winter Olympic culture that integrates functions such as sightseeing and leisure, fashion catering, shopping and entertainment, exhibition performances, etc., and develop Olympic-themed cultural and creative products and Olympic venues film and television creation functions. At the same time, relying on the venues to build the Olympic Park, some of the Winter Olympic sports venues will be transformed into Olympic theme museums, making it an important window to display the unique charm of Olympic culture and Chinese culture.
Yan Jiarong introduced that the Shougang Park, where the Shougang Ski Jump is located, will accompany the citizens as the "Beijing Winter Olympic Park", so that Beijing, the "City of The Double Olympics", will have a "Double Olympic Park".
The "Beijing Winter Olympic Park" covers a total area of 171.2 hectares in Shougang Park, including the Shougang Ski Jump, the headquarters of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, the main operation center of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and the venue group of the National Winter Sports Training Center. Guo Xiaomin introduced that Shougang Park plans to make the big jumping platform an important stop on the Winter Olympic cultural tourism route, planning the Olympic cultural exhibition and display, so that the Winter Olympic venues can be integrated into the entertainment and cultural life of the public.
Liu Xinghua, director of the Heritage Management Department of the Overall Planning Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, said that the operation of the venues should be integrated into the overall development of the region, and the next step will be to rely on the resources of the Winter Olympic venues and the Olympic Park, inherit and make good use of the Olympic heritage, accelerate the construction of the Beijing-Zhangzhou Sports and Cultural Tourism Belt, help the construction of the "New Landmark of Capital City Rejuvenation", Yanqing "The Most Beautiful Winter Olympic City" and Zhangjiakou "All-Asia Ice and Snow Tourism Destination", and inject new impetus into the sustainable development of the city and continue to drive the long-term development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei regional integration.