Passions run high for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

[beijingwalker]

Passions run high for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

 

[beijingwalker]

I love skating!

 

[Kyle Sun]

A waste of money. 2008 is enough.

 

[Nilgiri]

Didn't know Beijing was hosting the next winter olympics. Tai hao le.

 

[beijingwalker]

A waste of money. 2008 is enough.

China enjoyed pretty good development after 2008 Beijing Olympics. Not a big deal.

 

[GHALIB]

Passions run high for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics

welcome to winter olympics 2022.

 

[TaiShang]

I guess Beijing is one of the very few cities (perhaps the only one) to host two Olympics.

China is utilizing this to drive interest toward winter sports and develop related infrastructure.

Beijing Summer Olympics is one of the very few ones that actually earned some profit (and all of the Olympics venues are now in use).

Winter Olympics will utilize most of the infra built for 2008. Newly built ones will continue to be hosting events and remain active.

China manages such major organizations well.

 

[beijingwalker]

I guess Beijing is one of the very few cities (perhaps the only one) to host two Olympics.

The first one in the world.

Beijing Wins 2022 Bid, First City to Host Both Summer and Winter Olympics
https://www.wnyc.org/story/beijing-wins-2022-bid-first-city-host-both-summer-and-winter-olympics/

 

[beijingwalker]

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Beijing has no natural snow so they use snow gun snow.

 

[beijingwalker]

Beijing's winter is very dry, but it does sometimes get very heavy snow, not this year though, it's hit or miss, depends on the luck.

 

[oprih]

China will win many medals in short track speed skating plus figure skating.

 

[TaiShang]

Beijing 2022 co-host city cooperates with e-commerce giant Alibaba for green Olympics

(Xinhua) 08:35, March 07, 2019


SHIJIAZHUANG, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Beijing 2022 co-host city Zhangjiakou will develop into a green digital economy city to implement the concept of Green Olympics as it has signed a cooperation agreement with China's e-commerce giant Alibaba recently, local authorities said Thursday.

Before Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015, Zhangjiakou was a backward city in terms of industry development. Iron and steel was its mainstay.

Zhangjiakou is transforming economic structure during its preparation process for Green Olympics. Big data industry is expected to be one of the mainstays.

According to the agreement, the two sides will achieve in-depth cooperation in Tmall supermarket settlement, big data equipment manufacturing, smart town, ant financial services as well as poverty alleviation and government services.

Meanwhile, Alibaba will provide sports service for Zhangjiakou, including consulting and planning, introduction of international sports events, organization of mass sports events and operation of stadiums.

Located some 200km northwest of Beijing, Zhangjiakou will host snowboarding, freestyle skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined and biathlon competitions at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.