(Winter Olympics asks "Ji") Why is Yunding Ski Park a competition venue upgraded from an existing ski resort?
China News Service, Zhangjiakou, November 16 (Reporter Chen Lin) Among the 7 snow competition venues of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, why is Yunding Ski Park the only venue that has been upgraded and transformed from an existing ski resort?
As one of the competition venues in Zhangjiakou for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, Yunding Ski Park will host 20 events in the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing and snowboarding, as well as the Winter Paralympic Games. Snowboard obstacle chase, slope slalom, two sub-items and 8 sub-items competition.
20 Winter Olympic gold medals will be produced here, which is the venue with the largest number of Winter Olympic gold medals.
Chen Rongqin, deputy manager of facilities at Yunding Ski Park in Zhangjiakou, Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, said that compared with other events in the Winter Olympics, freestyle skiing and snowboarding do not require as much track length and drop as alpine skiing, so It is the most ideal way to use the existing ski field in site selection, and it also saves resources.
In the history of the Winter Olympics, freestyle skiing and snowboarding usually used existing ski resorts for transformation.
Chen Rongqin said that Yunding Ski Park is the only snow competition venue in the Beijing Winter Olympics that relies on existing ski resorts.
In the process of planning and construction, making full use of existing resources and facilities, 4 of the 6 Winter Olympics tracks were remodeled on the original snow tracks, and only the shorter aerial and snow skills tracks were on the new slope. Construction, and some technical ski trails in the ski resort also use the original ski trails.
In addition, it is also the venue with the largest proportion of temporary construction facilities in a single venue.
It is understood that after the game, Yunding Ski Park will resume long-term operations such as public skiing and tourism and vacation, and it will also have the ability to continue to hold international-level skiing events.
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