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Olympics 2022 in Beijing: opening ceremony, sports, participants - all information about the winter games

2022-02-10T11:35:33.004Z


Olympics 2022 in Beijing: opening ceremony, sports, participants - all information about the winter games Created: 02/10/2022 12:26 p.m The Olympic Flame for the 2022 Winter Olympics © Zhang Chenlin / dpa From February 4 to 20, 2022, the Winter Olympics will take place for the 24th time in sports history. For 16 days, the Chinese metropolis Beijing will be the center of attention. Beijing – In


Olympics 2022 in Beijing: opening ceremony, sports, participants - all information about the winter games

Created: 02/10/2022 12:26 p.m

The Olympic Flame for the 2022 Winter Olympics © Zhang Chenlin / dpa

From February 4 to 20, 2022, the Winter Olympics will take place for the 24th time in sports history.

For 16 days, the Chinese metropolis Beijing will be the center of attention.

Beijing – In February 2022, the 24th Olympic Winter Games will take place in and around Beijing.

After Pyeongchang (South Korea), the major event is being held on Asian soil for the second time in a row.

The first venue for an Olympic tournament was the French town of Chamonix (1924).

At that time, 16 nations took part.

In the meantime, the number of participating delegations has grown to almost 100.

The competitions held have also multiplied.

Until 1992, the Summer and Winter Olympics were always held within the same year.

The winter games now take place every two years, alternating with the summer games.

The next Winter Olympics are scheduled for 2026.

The Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo will act as hosts.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: The Opening Ceremony

The opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is scheduled for Friday, February 4th.

The competitions start two days before.

On Wednesday, February 2nd, the sport of curling will be the focus of events.

There will also be curling on Thursday, February 3rd.

In addition to curling, the first decisions are made in ice hockey (women) and freestyle skiing.

The actual opening ceremony takes place in the National Stadium in Beijing, where the Olympic flame is lit to mark the beginning of the sporting competition.

It will then burn for a period of 16 days and expire at the end of the Games on February 20th.

Spectacle or spartan ceremony?

The focus of the opening ceremony is the entry of the athletes.

Representing their nations, they walk through the national stadium of the Chinese capital.

Athletes from 86 national associations are expected.

The arrival and departure of the Olympians is traditionally supplemented by a supporting programme.

In addition to a sporting block, there could also be an official block that is primarily dedicated to the spoken word.

Details are not known as the organizers are planning one or two surprises.

This also applies to the show block, which is subject to strict secrecy.

A lot will be due to the pandemic development, so short-term changes or modifications can be expected.

Given the occasion, a reduced,

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: The sports

The competitions at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will serve the following sports:

  • biathlon

  • Bobsledding

  • ice skating

  • curling

  • ice Hockey

  • tobogganing

  • skiing

Individual sports have subdivisions into disciplines.

A distinction is made between bobsleigh and skeleton in bobsledding, and between figure skating, speed skating and short track in ice skating.

In skiing there are competitions in freestyle skiing and alpine skiing, snowboarding and Nordic skiing.

The Nordic skiing section also offers the sub-groups cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined.

A total of 109 competitions will be held, with seven competitions added to the Winter Games in Pyeongchang (2018).

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Monobob and big air skis

Modifications exist, for example, in biathlon.

In Beijing, for example, there is only one mixed relay (4 x 6 kilometers) instead of two.

There's also news for ice skating and Nordic skiing: a mixed team competition has been set up for the short track and ski jumping disciplines.

In the future, there will be a sub-item “Monobob for women” for bobsledding.

The snowboard section, which is part of skiing, will receive a mixed competition in the cross category.

The ski discipline Freestyle Skiing is also coming up with innovations: A mixed team competition in jumping was initiated as well as a ski jumping competition called Big Air.

Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: The Nations

More than 800 athletes are on site at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

They are divided among 86 nations.

The lion's share in terms of active and participating countries falls on the European continent.

49 countries are sending 406 athletes to China, including renowned winter sports nations such as Switzerland, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic.

While Switzerland sends 65 women and men to Beijing, 35 represent the colors of the Federal Republic of Germany.

The nations of Cyprus, San Marino, Kosovo, Malta, Monaco, Azerbaijan and Albania delegate only one athlete each.

80 Chinese against a Kyrgyz

A total of 174 athletes are coming to the Chinese metropolis from the American continent.

They represent twelve countries.

By far the most Olympians come from the USA and Canada (76 each).

Haiti, Ecuador, Peru and Puerto Rico are each represented by a unique athlete.

As expected, the People's Republic of China stands out from the group of Asian countries (18).

It has a home game and with 80 men and women the most participants on board.

One athlete each from India, Taipei, Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan will join the pool of athletes.

In this context, the lone fighters from East Timor and Kyrgyzstan also have exotic status.

Russia is armed

Competitors from Africa are also present, albeit in far fewer numbers than at the Summer Games.

Only five chosen ones have booked a flight to Beijing.

Eritrea, Kenya, Madagascar, Morocco and Nigeria each have an ace up their sleeve.

Oceania is quantitatively similarly sparsely populated.

Here, seven men and women made the Olympic qualification.

They come from two countries, with Australia sending four and New Zealand three athletes to the Middle Kingdom.

What remains is the great nation of Russia, which, after host China, provides the most athletes with an Olympic passport.

79 Russians have Olympic medals in mind.

Olympic Winter Games 2022 in Beijing: TV broadcast

The German TV broadcast of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will be provided by the three channels ARD, ZDF and Eurosport.

The latter broadcaster is the main owner or primary licensee of the broadcasting rights.

As such, Eurosport has sold sub-licenses to ARD and ZDF, which in turn have access to selected Olympic Games events.

The triumvirate broadcasts all the decisions of the prestigious competition.

Some of the decisions are made during the night hours, transferred to Central European Time (CET).

This is because Beijing is seven hours ahead of the Central European time zone.

As a result, the transmissions begin at two in the morning (CET) and usually end in the course of the afternoon.

Olympic Winter Games 2022 in Beijing: The venues

The hosting of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will be spread over three locations.

In addition to the Chinese capital Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou are involved in the sporting events.

A total of twelve sports facilities are available to the athletes to practice their skills.

The majority of the sports facilities are in the capital.

Beijing is making seven arenas available.

Only two are new, five were built for the 2008 Olympic Games and will be used again.

The national stadium (80,000 seats), the national indoor stadium (18,000 seats), the Wukesong indoor stadium (9,000 seats), the capital indoor stadium (18,000 seats) and the so-called Ice Cube (ice cube, 4,500 seats) are subject to renewed use.

As new buildings, the National Speed ​​Skating Hall (12.

New arenas in Yanqing

Not far from the capital is the municipal district of Yanqing.

Two arenas are available for athletes.

Both were built specifically for the Winter Games.

The sports bobsledding and skiing are served.

The latter sport is represented by the Alpine skiing discipline.

The specially built facility in the National Alpine Ski Center in Xiaohaituo is ready for this.

The resort is located in a forest north-west of Beijing.

The highest point is 1,200 meters above sea level.

The bobsledders are active on the artificial ice track of the brand new National Sliding Center.

Luge and skeleton are on the agenda.

Impressive double jump

Two new sports facilities are also waiting for the active in Zhangjiakou.

One is the Kuyangshu Nordic Ski and Biathlon Center and the other is the Genting Ski Resort in Hebei.

The area where ski jumpers work is already there: the National Ski Jumping Center with its impressive double hill.

Source: merkur

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