In Beijing, which for this Olympics has set up three athletes' villages according to the facilities of the various competitions and the relative distances, the first living delegations of the Winter Games have arrived.
Two of the villages are located in areas that are part of the Chinese capital, while the third is in Zhangjiakou, a town located about 200 km from Beijing and which will host the tests of freestyle, snowboard, biathlon, ski jumping and cross skiing. -country.
Athletes from these disciplines will therefore stay here.
The official inauguration of the Olympic villages is scheduled for Thursday 27, but in the meantime, as the cameras of local broadcasters and the Brazilian Globo have documented, the first delegations have arrived, representing a part of the Swiss contingent (the first ever to arrive ), Great Britain, Canada and the United States.
The images also show many streets in Beijing covered with snow, a sign that the climatic conditions of the city are for now ideal for the conduct of the races.
In addition to that of Zhangjiakou, the athletes' villages are located one in the central area, for those who will compete in curling, ice hockey, figure and speed skating, snowboard-big air, while the one for skiers, bobsleds, sleds and skeleton specialists is located in Yanqing, an area on the northern outskirts of Beijing and which is 900 meters above sea level.