Winter sports boom as Beijing Olympics near
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Participation in snow and ice sports is growing in China, putting the country on track to meet a key goal included in its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, a prominent International Olympic Committee member said yesterday.
IOC member Juan Antonio Samaranch Jr, who oversees preparations for the Beijing Games, said more than 200 million Chinese have engaged in ice and snow activities in the five years since the Chinese capital became the first city to win the rights to host both the summer and winter Olympic games.
鈥淲e welcome these news,鈥 Samaranch said at an online news conference. It means Beijing 2022 is approaching its objective of engaging 300 million Chinese people in winter sports.鈥
Beijing hosted the Summer Olympics in 2008 and won its bid to host the 2022 winter games, despite the relative unfamiliarity of most Chinese with skiing, skating and ice hockey.
A lack of mountain slopes and natural snow require sledding and sliding events be held far from the city, connected by new high-speed rail links.
China plans to compete in every event.
鈥淎 few years ago, we had almost no history in about one-third of the Winter Olympic sports,鈥 Chinese Olympic Committee vice president Ni Huizhong said.
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