What is the time difference?
The time difference is 7 hours.
When it is 10 a.m. in Beijing, it is 3 a.m. in Paris.
To discover
The complete program of the Beijing Olympics 2022
The Tokyo 2020 Olympics medal table
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When do the Olympics start?
Curling opened the competition program on Wednesday, before the start of the women's ice hockey tournament and the women's freestyle ski qualifications on Thursday.
The first medals will be awarded on Saturday morning (at 8.45 a.m. in cross-country skiing with the women's skiathlon and speed skating, and at 9.30 a.m. with the women's 3,000 m).
When will the opening ceremony take place?
The opening ceremony will take place on Friday at 1 p.m. in the "Bird's Nest", the Olympic stadium in which Usain Bolt shone in 2008. Director Zhang Yimou ("Wives and Concubines") who had orchestrated the ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in 2008. He announced 3,000 extras to participate in the various tables.
The closing ceremony, on February 20, will also be held in the same venue.
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What are the venues for the 2022 Olympics?
There are 3 poles (Beijing, Yanqing, Zhangjiakou) and 12 competition sites.
In Beijing, the "Water Cube", which hosted swimming in 2008, will be the scene of curling.
Figure skating and short-track will take place in the sports hall, speed skating taking place in the “Ribbon of Ice” and the spectacular Shougang Big Air built on the site of a former steelworks will be an object of curiosity .
In Yanqing (75 kilometers northwest of central Beijing) the alpine skiing, bobsleigh, luge and skeleton events will take place.
In Zhangjiakou (230 km from Beijing), the biathlon, freestyle skiing, ski jumping and cross-country skiing competitions will be held.
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On which channels to follow the 2022 Olympics?
On France 2 and France 3 (from 2 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.).
The novelty of the system is the creation of a Beijing 2022 h24 digital channel (This 100% image channel will start from the very first event of these Games and will broadcast non-stop, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all the events live, delayed or in replay until February 20).
Eurosport (holder of all broadcasting rights for the Beijing 2022 and Paris 2024 Olympic Winter Games) announces, for its part, more than 1,000 hours of live competition on its digital and television platforms.
What are the French chances in Beijing?
The French delegation (88 athletes) can hope to beat its record for medals (15, in Sochi and Pyeongchang) and gold medals (5, in 2018).
Gabriella Papadakis-Guillaume Cizeron (figure skating), Quentin Fillon Maillet, Émilien Jacquelin and Justine Braisaz-Bouchet (biathlon), Alexis Pinturault, Tessa Worley and Clément Noël (alpine skiing), Perrine Laffont, Tess Ledeux and Kevin Rolland (freestyle skiing) and Chloé Trespeuch (snowboard) are the headliners of the French delegation.
According to the forecasts of the specialized site Gracenote, France would win 19 medals (including 4 gold) in Beijing.
What's new in the program?
There is no new sport on the program but 7 new events.
In freestyle skiing, the men's and women's Big Air and a mixed team event.
In snowboard cross, a mixed team event.
In ski jumping, a mixed team event.
In short-track, a team relay.
And in bobsleigh, a women's "mono bob" event.
15 disciplines are on the program (biathlon, Nordic combined, freestyle skiing, ski jumping, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, for snow; bobsleigh, curling, ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, short-track, skeleton, ice luge).
For 51 men's events, 46 women's events, 12 mixed events.
What about spectators?
As early as September, the IOC announced that there would be no foreign spectators due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Chinese organizers then indicated in January that no tickets would go on sale but that invitations would be distributed.
Without specifying the number.