According to Yang Yang, executive deputy director of the Yanqing Venue Group of the Winter Olympic Games and executive deputy director of the National Alpine SkiIng Center, in Yanqing, the venue group responsible for the preparation of the Winter Olympic Games and the operation of the venues in Yanqing is a venue group team, which is a significant difference from the operation team of the 6 single venues of the Winter Olympics such as the National Aquatics Center and the National Gymnasium in Beijing.
The Winter Olympics Revealed
Please come to the Meteorological Bureau's expert team of up to 2,000 people
The average age of the running team is about 35 years old
A test match has been successfully held
Specific to the venue operation team of the National Alpine Ski Center, including the director of the venue, the deputy director, the secretary-general, and then the person in charge of various technical fields and ordinary staff, there are currently 55 people in the Yanqing office, with an average age of about 35 years old, not only young and strong, but also the best age group for the combination of work experience and physical strength and energy, which has laid a good foundation for being able to fully prepare for and ensure the operation of the Winter Olympics. The real operation team competition scale, coupled with technical personnel, domestic and foreign referees, volunteers, contractors, etc., the maximum number of personnel can exceed 2,000 people, is the real large-scale Winter Olympic venue operation team.
Yang Yang introduced that in fact, he and the operation team of the Alpine Ski Center have already entered the scene for the second time, because the National Alpine Ski Center is the only venue to conduct two large-scale test matches before the Winter Olympics, namely the World Cup Men's Alpine Skiing And the World Cup Women's Alpine Skiing, which were originally scheduled for February 2020 and early 2021, but due to the arrival of the epidemic, the two test matches could not be completed. The current Alpine Ski Center's operating team has basically maintained the team base when it was first formed, and the test event has become a smaller National Alpine Skiing Invitational tournament and a national Paralympic Alpine Skiing Invitational, which has been successfully held from February 16 to 26 this year.
The main difficulty is to struggle with nature
Weather forecast accuracy has exceeded 80%
Through this test event and the alpine skiing competition held at the 14th Winter Games held last year, the team gained very valuable data, experience, and of course saw some exposed problems, so that they had enough time to cooperate with the relevant parties to rectify. In terms of specific venue facilities maintenance, repair, maintenance, etc., the venue team also encountered some difficulties, mainly reflected in the matter of fighting with nature.
Yang Yang said: "Unlike indoor winter sports, alpine skiing competitions are largely 'relying on the sky to eat'. There is no special cumulative weather data in the history of the Yanqing Competition Area, and it was not until after the success of the winter olympic bid that the weather data collection work in this area began in 2017, and it was less than 4 years after the full count. In order to do a good job in weather forecasting during the Winter Olympic Games, the operation team also invited an expert group of the China Meteorological Administration, and in recent times has been hiding in the mountains with the staff drawn from the alpine team, overcoming the difficulties caused by the invasion of high cold, strong winds, sand and dust, and doing special weather data collection and measurement and forecasting work. During the Winter Olympics, experts from the China Meteorological Administration will also be integrated into the alpine skiing team as members of the operation team. Judging from the forecast of meteorological staff during this time, their accuracy rate of weather changes and weather forecasts has exceeded 80%. ”
Yang Yang also told the Beijing Youth Daily reporter that in the test activity in mid-to-late February, several extreme changes in the weather really let them catch up, which also allowed them to accumulate experience in the future to solve similar sudden weather changes, which is a good thing.
"Specifically, it's high winds, snowfall, high temperatures, melting snow, and we've all encountered it. Catching up with the snowfall in Yanqing during the National Alpine Skiing Invitational, it is said that snowfall has little impact on ordinary outdoor winter events, but the surface of the track of alpine skiing is icy snow. In order to make the athletes skate faster and safer, while ensuring the fairness of the race, the track should be watered after the snowmaking is completed, so that a hard icy snow track surface will be formed after encountering low temperatures. As a result, alpine skiing does not want to have natural snowfall in the middle of the competition. After this snowfall, our team, together with all the staff who participated in the test event, were able to wear ski equipment and carry equipment up the mountain to clear the snow. On such a cold day, everyone was sweating because of the snow removal work. In the subsequent Paralympic testing activities, when the hot weather caused snow melting, the muddy slopes made it difficult for the Paralympic athletes to compete, and we hurried to pour salt on the slopes. Overall, this testing campaign has really achieved its purpose, and we have accumulated a wealth of experience. He said.
There are great challenges
Have the confidence to break precedent and achieve miracles
Yang Yang said: "The International Snow Federation officials have said that alpine skiing is the most difficult event in the world to organize, and the main reason for the difficulty is that there are a large number of competition organizers working on the track. Since the surface of the alpine skiing track is icy snow and the slope of the track reaches more than 68%, very high requirements are put forward for the gliding ability and working ability of the staff themselves. In addition, the alpine ski competition organization involves a number of positions such as line drawers, ski levelers, track maintenance personnel, and installation of finishers. Every day, people get up at 5 o'clock and go to the track before 7 o'clock for maintenance work. In this test activity, everyone fought continuously for more than ten days, and during the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, they had to fight for about two consecutive months, every day. Therefore, the difficulty of organizing the competition of alpine skiing is very high, and it is a very hard job. ”
Finally, Yang Yang pointed out, "In recent years, there has never been a Winter Olympic Alpine Skiing Competition that was directly launched without hosting a World Cup, and now such a thing has allowed us to catch up, which is a big challenge." Of course, we will fully meet such challenges, and we are confident to do a good job, overcome difficulties, break precedents, and achieve miracles. ”
Winter Olympics and Security
Rescue helicopter 5 minutes up to the track Doctor is all ski masters
During the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, ensuring the personal and even life safety of the players is the first priority of the medical workers on the field, or the physical conditions of the audience and staff on the scene are unexpected, and the medical security team members of the venue are the first to stand up and escort people's health and safety. Wang Li, the medical manager of the national alpine ski center operation team, is an important member of the medical security team, he is not only a highly skilled healer, but also a hidden ski master.
Wang Li told the Beijing Youth Daily reporter that alpine skiing is one of the fastest and most difficult projects in the Winter Olympics, especially in the racing race, the fastest speed of athletes rushing down from the top of the mountain can reach about 140 km / h, once the technical action is not in place, it is very likely that the competition accident will occur, causing personal injury to the athletes, at this time, it is necessary for the medical rescue team on the field to participate in the rescue at the fastest speed, and then use the fastest speed to transfer the injured to the designated hospital, so that the athletes can get timely treatment. Guarantee their lives.
Wang Li said that the end area of alpine skiing competition and racing has established athlete medical stations and spectator medical stations respectively, and each medical station should be equipped with two ambulances from the Beijing 120 Emergency Center, a total of 8 ambulances. Each athlete's medical station should be equipped with 4 doctors and 4 nurses, and the audience medical station should be equipped with three doctors and three nurses, and the medical staff on each ambulance should be equipped with three. On the alpine skiing competition and racing track, every 300 or 400 meters to set up a track medical station (FOP medical station), each track medical station is equipped with 2 ski doctors and 4 patrol members, which is to facilitate athletes once injured to the nearest, timely treatment. Coupled with the supporting crew of the rescue helicopter and medical staff, the number of medical team members in the alpine ski resort can reach 189 during the Winter Olympic Games, and the number of this team will increase to 195 during the Winter Paralympic Games.
Speaking of helicopter rescue and rescue, Wang Li told the Beiqing Daily reporter that this is the biggest difference between alpine skiing and other winter project rescue, and it is also a mandatory requirement of the International Snow Federation, which is a must. On March 17, the National Alpine Ski Center held a full-process, all-element helicopter medical rescue exercise. More than 20 people, including medical personnel from the Beijing Red Cross Emergency Rescue Center (999), the Beijing Red Cross Emergency Rescue Center, and a H155 rescue helicopter and an H135 medical helicopter jointly dispatched by CITIC Marine Helicopter Co., Ltd., as well as its supporting crew, medical care, helicopter dispatch and related management personnel, participated in the drill. Wang Li said that the two helicopters, which are responsible for rescue and transfer tasks, will be parked in the parking lot of Yanqing World Portuguese Garden during the race, and once the rescue is needed during the race, it will take only 5 minutes to fly from the park to the venue.
Speaking of the doctors and patrol members of the track medical station (FOP medical station), they must have both medical skills and certain skiing skills to be competent. Wang Li himself is a doctor and a ski master. He said that according to the requirements of international ski medical guidelines, athletes fell anywhere on the track and were injured, and medical rescuers had to be on the scene within 4 minutes. This requires doctors undertaking medical rescue tasks to be skiing skilled enough to skillfully slide down to injured athletes within the icy snow slopes where athletes compete.
"To this end, we have been training skiing skills for ski doctors who voluntarily signed up for the Winter Olympics medical services in Beijing and Hebei province since the 2018-2019 snow season, and now everyone is a ski expert at advanced level." Wang Li said.
Winter Olympics Pavilion
Xiaohaituo Mountain witnessed the miracle of China's construction
Alpine skiing combines speed and skill and has been called the "crown jewel of the Winter Olympics". In the Xiaohaituoshan area of Yanqing, 93 kilometers from the center of Beijing, the National Alpine Ski Center, which has passed the acceptance and successfully completed the recent test activities, will undertake alpine skiing competitions for the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2022.
Relying on the natural mountain shape of Xiaohaituo Mountain, the National Alpine Ski Center has built 7 ski tracks, with a total length of 21 kilometers and a drop of about 900 meters, which is the first alpine ski track in China that meets the Olympic standards and is currently one of the most difficult competition venues in the world. The departure platform is 2198 meters high. With a maximum gradient of 68%, ordinary people can hardly stand, but athletes can interpret speed and passion, and there will be competitions in downhill, super slalom, big slalom, slalom and other events, which will produce a total of 11 Winter Olympic gold medals. The most difficult event in alpine skiing, the men's downhill track, starts at 2,190 meters above sea level, finishes at an altitude of 1,360 meters, has a vertical drop of 830 meters and a track length of 3,085 meters. It is also the highest building in Beijing, the area has excellent natural conditions, abundant water resources, and all indicators have reached the technical standards of alpine skiing. The National Alpine Ski Centre can accommodate up to 8,000 spectators at the same time, and the venue is 8,000 meters from the Olympic Village, with a 10-minute drive.
In the more than two years from April 28, 2013 to July 31, 2015, experts from home and abroad went to Yanqing District to investigate the drop, climatic conditions and water source conditions of Xiaohaituo Mountain, and finally used it as the site of the project. When experts surveyed at that time, they found that there was a huge mountain in Yanqing that could meet the gap requirements of alpine skiing competitions, so when bidding for the Winter Olympics, this mountain was selected to host alpine skiing competitions. Finally, after being certified by the International Snow Federation, the mountain was selected as the venue for alpine skiing at the time of the bid. Along the way, under very difficult conditions, the completion of the National Alpine Ski Center can be said to be another proof of the miracle of Chinese construction.
At present, the National Alpine Ski Center has completed the construction task of 7 tracks and auxiliary facilities, and in December last year, it passed the site inspection certification of the International Snow Federation, and the National Alpine Ski Center has the conditions to run the competition. In February this year, the National Alpine Ski Center completed the relevant testing activities. According to the plan, in the future competition, the participating athletes can take the cable car from the Winter Olympic Village to the end area, the middle platform, the summit platform and the end area of the race.
This edition / reporter Liu Ailin
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Winter Olympics drills
The two Winter Olympics are equally exciting
The Beijing Winter Paralympic Games has set up six major events and 78 minor events, including Paralympic alpine skiing, Paralympic snowboarding, Paralympic cross-country skiing, Paralympic biathlon, Paralympic ice hockey, and wheelchair curling. At the National Alpine Ski Center in Yanqing, Beijing, paralympic alpine skiing competitions are played. Dong Xuemo, deputy director of the Venue Service of the National Alpine Ski Center, believes that the participation of the disabled in sports can not only promote rehabilitation, but also help enhance the confidence of the disabled to break through limitations and obstacles and rebuild their lives, because through sports they have proved to the world, "I am an ordinary person like you." Dong Xuemo said, "The two Winter Olympics are equally wonderful, and from the perspective of our service team, this sentence is to go all out to provide the most convenient service for athletes participating in the Winter Paralympic Games, so that they have a sense of home, and at the same time create the same competitive atmosphere as the Winter Olympics for them." ”
Dong Xuemo was very emotional when talking about the National Paralympic Alpine Skiing Invitational Tournament held at the Alpine Ski Center from February 23 to 26. He said he was deeply moved by the spirit of self-improvement of the disabled Winter Olympic athletes. One of the 25 athletes in the competition, Zhang Haiyuan, a veteran born in 1977, won the second place in the invitational competition, and she won the women's long jump championship for the Chinese Paralympic team as early as the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, while also breaking the world record. This "big sister" who lost her left leg since childhood had to participate in the Paralympic Games to strive to participate in the Winter Paralympic Games in 18 years, such actions proved her ability to participate in social life and sports with her body and will, and showed her ambition and courage to break through the limitations of life with spirit and perseverance. "The deeds of Zhang Haiyuan and other Paralympic athletes are the driving force behind our service team to work hard with all their might." He said.
According to Dong Xuemo, through this test activity, their team has mastered a lot of practical data, which will provide a favorable basis for the service guarantee of next year's Winter Paralympic Games. For example, how to better carry winter Paralympic athletes from the Winter Olympic Village to the field, how to facilitate the winter Paralympic athletes' pre-game and post-game clothing, the replacement of sports equipment used, etc., in fact, a sentence is "barrier-free service".
Dong Xuemo said that in terms of accessibility requirements for the Winter Paralympic Games, the barrier-free construction standards will be very high due to different sports projects and customer groups. In particular, it is necessary to establish and improve the facilitation of the passage of winter Paralympic athletes in the athletes' village, the convenient living environment in the room and the barrier-free transportation vehicles, the barrier-free cable car ropeway system, and so on. Athlete streaming must meet specific accessibility requirements, in addition, in the athlete training competition for the wax room, the stadium lounge and the snow field area wheelchair, ski replacement, storage space, in the award, catering and other aspects, must take into account the needs of winter Paralympic athletes, has been specific training for the relevant service personnel. Dong Xuemo said: "Not only winter Paralympic athletes, but also some officials, spectators and even media reporters participating in the Winter Paralympic Games, as well as people with disabilities and other barrier-free service needs, our barrier-free services should be aimed at all kinds of people." ”
In terms of medical care for Paralympic athletes, Dong Xuemo talked about how different from the Winter Olympics. Dong Xuemo said that when disabled athletes participate in the winter Paralympic Games training and competition because of physical disabilities or dysfunctions, in addition to the prescribed competition equipment and equipment, some athletes need to wear sports prosthetics, special competition seats or use wheelchairs and other assistive devices, and the competition rules regard sports prostheses or assistive devices as a "part of the body" of athletes. In Paralympic alpine skiing, lower limb amputees can compete in a standing position wearing a sports prosthesis or using a seated skier and a sitting posture. "Therefore, when we are in the Winter Paralympic Games, in addition to establishing medical sites in the usual sense, we provide special wheelchair and prosthetic maintenance services to provide basic maintenance support for athletes, just as it is as important as the Winter Olympic athletes may be injured in the competition and need to provide medical treatment in time." Dong Xuemo said.