Executive summary:The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will open on February 4. The three major competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou are all ready. The Helicopter Aerial Photography Report Team of the Headquarters photographed the Winter Olympic venues in the three major regions from the air. Today, let’s first follow the lens of the reporter from the main station to see some venues in the Beijing competition area from the air.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will open on February 4. The three major competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou are all ready. The Helicopter Aerial Photography Report Team of the Headquarters photographed the Winter Olympic venues in the three major regions from the air. Today, let’s first follow the lens of the reporter from the main station to see some venues in the Beijing competition area from the air.
Zhao Jing, reporter from CCTV: The opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics is getting closer and closer. Beijing is regarding to write history and become the only “Double Olympic City” in the world that has hosted both the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. At present, the Winter Olympics venues are all ready, most of which were converted from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics venues.
Now what we see from the sky is the National Stadium, which is commonly known as the “Bird’s Nest”. This is the main stadium for the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. After 14 years, global attention will once once more focus on here. On February 4, the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics will be held in the “Bird’s Nest”, which will become the world’s first “Double Olympics venue” that has hosted both the Summer Olympics and the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. The much-anticipated opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics will focus on “building a community with a shared future for mankind”, showing the beauty of nature, humanity and sports.
Next to the bird’s nest is the National Aquatics Center known as the “Water Cube”. Due to the completion of the “Water Ice Conversion”, the “Water Cube” has also been transformed into an “Ice Cube”. The curling competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be held at the “Ice Cube”. Curling is called “chess on ice”, showing the beauty of stillness and the wisdom of trade-offs. On the evening of the 2nd, the curling competition will kick off at the “Ice Cube”, where the curling mixed doubles competition will be held, which is also the first event of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Now we see the National Stadium. It looks like a giant sailboat sailing in the central Olympic area, so it also has a nickname – called “Ice Sail”. Also as the “Double Olympic Venue”, the National Gymnasium once hosted the gymnastics, trampoline and other events of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, there will be exciting and fierce ice hockey games here, let us look forward to the “most burning ice” in the “Ice Sail”.
In the Beijing Olympic Park, many citizens are enjoying the fun of ice and snow sports. The Beijing Winter Olympics have injected huge impetus into the development of ice and snow sports in China. The goal of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports” has been achieved ahead of schedule.
In addition to the renovation of the original venue, the Beijing Winter Olympics also built a new ice competition venue – the National Speed Skating Stadium, which is also known as the “Ice Ribbon”.
The reason why it is named “Ice Ribbon” is because the exterior of the venue is surrounded by 22 ribbons and a curved glass curtain wall, like the traces of speed skaters sliding on skates. At the same time, 22 also represents the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. time. As a competition venue for speed skating, the “Ice Ribbon” uses advanced and environmentally friendly ice-making technology to create the “fastest ice”, which will gather the world’s top players and produce 14 gold medals.
In the west of Beijing city, there is a park that combines century-old industrial relics with modern culture and Olympic elements. International Olympic Committee President Bach has repeatedly praised it as a model of urban renewal. Now we take the helicopter of the main station, and what we see from the air is this park – Shougang Park.
On the shore of Qunming Lake in Shougang Park, and the remains of the four cooling towers, is the new competition venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics – Shougang Ski Jumping Platform. This is the only venue for snow sports competitions in the Beijing Division. The 164-meter-long track has a highest point of 60 meters. The thick snow has evenly covered the surface of the slide. The design concept of the “high-value” big diving platform is derived from the traditional “flying” shape in Dunhuang murals, so it is also called “snow flying”, and it looks like a smart crystal shoe from the side. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, there will be two competitions of the snowboard big jump and the freestyle ski jump, resulting in 4 gold medals. These two competitions test how athletes can complete a variety of difficult and ornamental movements in the process of taking off. Gu Ailing, a Chinese player familiar to many viewers and friends, will attack the gold medal here.
The Shougang Ski Jumping Platform has also set several world firsts: it is the first competition venue in the history of the Winter Olympics to be reused with the former industrial site, and it is also the world’s first permanently reserved ski jumping venue. After the Beijing Winter Olympics, it will become a professional sports competition and training venue and open to the public.
As the host, China is ready to welcome friends from all over the world to the future together.
Original title: A bird’s-eye view of the “Double Olympic City” at the Winter Olympics from another angle
