Tasting Games glory in the snow
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It鈥檚 a snowing spring day. Construction workers at the National Ski Jumping Center drill as they prepare to work on the interior decoration of the venue.
Chongli, a district of Beijing 2022 co-host city Zhangjiakou in north China鈥檚 Hebei Province, is gaining momentum in its preparation with less than one year to go before the Games.
At the Genting Snow Park, where freestyle skiing and snowboarding competitions will take place during Beijing 2022, skiers are testing their skills on the halfpipe piste. The site staged a testing program for Beijing 2022 in February.
鈥淎ll pistes of Genting are in place. Construction of snowmaking, cable, and broadcast light systems also have been completed. These infrastructures were put into test in February, and overall we think it鈥檚 been a success,鈥 said Wang Baoqi, vice president of Genting Resort Secret Garden Tourism Development Co Ltd.
鈥淔rom now, we will reconstruct this infrastructure with perfection, as the layout of some temporary setups will not be the same during the Games.鈥
鈥淭he test run amazed me,鈥 said Moon Hee-Jeoung, venue event manager of the Genting Snow Park. The South Korean came to China in December 2018 to aid the Beijing 2022 preparation.
鈥淒espite some challenges in staging the testing program, we moved forward as scheduled, which surprised me a lot,鈥 he said.
Historic link
With good natural light, rooms in the Olympic Village, which is around 10-minute drive from Genting, are poised to offer athletes and officials comfortable accommodation during the Games.
The village has over 2,700 beds to accommodate athletes during the Winter Olympics, while over 1,100 of them will be transformed to cater to Paralympic athletes, with accessible facilities in place in the village.
A historic element is integrated into the Olympic Village, as an ancient site from the Jin Dynasty (1115-1234) can be found next to the village.
According to Zhang Mingqi, a designer from the Architectural Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University, the ancient site has an overlap of six hectares with the Olympic Village. Although the village鈥檚 design plan had already started, the design team decided to readjust its plan and reallocate the village by 200 meters to the east.
鈥淲e hope to show Chinese traditional and historic culture to athletes from across the globe during the Games, integrating it with the Winter Olympics,鈥 said Zhang, adding the team plans to go without enclosures around the village to better fit into natural landscapes, history, and culture.
鈥淭he construction project in Genting has not been finished yet. I believe that after everything is completed, Beijing 2022 will be a very successful Games,鈥 Moon noted.
Wang also expressed his confidence in a successful Beijing 2022.
鈥淚n the bidding and preparing phases of Beijing 2022, we are equipped with a high-caliber mountain operation team. We are quite confident,鈥 he said.
Organizers have attached importance to the Games鈥 legacy throughout the Beijing 2022 preparation.
鈥淕enting will be open to public sightseeing free of charge after Beijing 2022, offering visitors some spectacular scenes during game time,鈥 Wang revealed.
Wang added there will be exhibition facilities in each of the three finish zones in Genting after Beijing 2022 to introduce the event that the zone has staged and relive some highlights of the Games.
鈥淭his will help the general public appreciate the glamor of the Winter Olympics and better understand the Olympic spirit.鈥
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