Data map: Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games emblem sculpture stands on the ramp at the southwest corner of Jinyuan Bridge, West Fifth Ring Road, Beijing.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu

  Chinanews client, Beijing, November 24 (Wang Hao) The 24th is the 100-day countdown to the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing.

The breath of winter in Beijing is getting stronger, and the pace of the Paralympics is getting closer.

At present, the preparations for the event are being advanced in an orderly manner. This ice and snow event will write a new chapter in the history of winter sports for the disabled.

  In 2015, Beijing successfully bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Since then, the preparations for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics kicked off.

With the comprehensive completion and delivery of the Winter Olympics venues and supporting infrastructure that Beijing is responsible for, the construction of the Beijing Winter Olympics has now been fully transferred to the construction of temporary facilities for the Winter Olympics.

On November 12, 2021, the Beijing Winter Olympic Park is adjacent to the Shougang Park, and the ski jumping platform and the Shougang Bridge complement each other.

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  As the 100 days countdown to the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, the construction of barrier-free facilities in the venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics has been completed.

During the competition, all participants will enjoy the highest quality guarantee and the most user-friendly service.

In addition, the barrier-free upgrade of the Winter Olympics transportation facilities will be completed within this year.

  As an important test of preparations, since October, the test competitions for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics have been launched in Beijing, Yanqing, and Zhangjiakou.

  Among them, the 2021 Wheelchair Curling World Championships is the only disabled sports event in the "Meet in Beijing" series of test competitions.

The event demonstrated the humanistic care of the organizers in creating barrier-free services, and was recognized by many participants.

Winter Olympic curling venue The Winter Olympic curling venue, also known as "Ice Cube", was rebuilt from the 2008 Olympic Games venue "Water Cube" and is the world's first venue to achieve "water-to-ice conversion".

The picture shows the citizens experiencing the ice cube main stadium after the renovation is completed.

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  According to media reports, Kate Keysnes, chairman of the World Curling Federation, once praised: "The National Swimming Center is the best curling venue I have ever experienced in the previous Winter Olympics. Athletes’ locker rooms, barrier-free ramps and other facilities are provided. The design is very sophisticated and the consideration is very thoughtful."

  The Beijing Winter Paralympic Village is also doing the final preparations before the opening of the event.

The Beijing Paralympic Winter Games will set up a Paralympic Village in the three competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou.

According to the work plan, the Winter Paralympic Village will be pre-opened on February 23, 2022, officially opened on February 25, and closed on March 16.

  As the pace of the Winter Paralympics is approaching, the Paralympic athletes are also preparing for the battle.

  The Chinese wheelchair curling team is a team of kings. They won the first gold medal in the history of the Chinese sports delegation in the Paralympic Winter Games in Pyeongchang four years ago. The following year they won the championship in the wheelchair curling World Championships in one fell swoop.

At the World Championships held in October this year, the Chinese wheelchair curling team won the championship again.

At the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games, this team has high hopes.

On November 22, a reporter from China News Agency went to the China Paralympic Sports Management Center in Shunyi District, Beijing, to visit the Chinese wheelchair curling team preparing for the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing.

The picture shows Chinese team player Sun Yulong (front right) training with teammates and coaches.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu

  As a member of the "Golden Generation" of the Chinese women's curling team that won the 2009 World Championships, the head coach of the Chinese wheelchair curling team Yue Qingshuang is one of the team's contributors to winning the championship in Pyeongchang.

  In her view, compared with preparing for the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic Games four years ago, the current personal status and team cooperation of this team are more stable, but the biggest difficulty lies in the impact of the epidemic, lack of competition exercises, and it is difficult to know oneself and the enemy.

The second is the change in the mentality of the players. After all, the competition at home and the greater desire for honor has brought tension and pressure.

  Speaking of the goals of the Beijing Paralympic Games, Yue Qingshuang said that the whole team will strive for the best results.

But before the results come out, what needs to be done is to take every step steadily.

On November 22, a reporter from China News Agency went to the China Paralympic Sports Management Center in Shunyi District, Beijing, to visit the Chinese wheelchair curling team preparing for the 2022 Winter Paralympics in Beijing.

The picture shows the Chinese team members adjusting the ice brush.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu

  The Chinese Paralympic Ice Hockey Training Team is also actively preparing for the game.

In September this year, the Chinese team won the Paralympic Ice Hockey World Championship Group B championship with a record of five straight victories.

They may bring surprises at the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games.

  The Chinese Paralympic Snowboard Training Team also hopes to create good results in local competitions.

In 2018, in the Dutch Paralympic Snowboard World Cup, Sun Qi won two gold medals in the LL2 level of the men's slope slalom competition. This is the first time that a Chinese Paralympic snowboard event has won an international championship.

His performance in the Beijing Paralympic Winter Games is worth looking forward to.

  The Beijing Paralympic Winter Games will build the best "stage" for the Paralympic athletes from all over the world. All the hard work of the players at this time will be transformed into wonderful "performances" during the competition.

On November 22, a reporter from China News Agency went to the China Paralympic Sports Management Center in Shunyi District, Beijing, to visit the Chinese Paralympic Hockey Team preparing for the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Winter Games.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu

  Paralympic education is an important part of the preparations for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Taking the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games as an opportunity, a wide range of Paralympic education has been carried out in China, and positive results have been achieved in promoting the development of sports for the disabled and changing people's perceptions of the disabled.

  As of August this year, the total number of Olympic and Paralympic education demonstration schools nationwide has reached 835, and the number of special schools for ice and snow sports has reached 2062. This has formed an Olympic and Paralympic education and nationwide campus ice and snow sports in Northeast, North China, and Northwest China. Overall pattern.

  100 days later, Beijing in winter will usher in another grand event in the history of the Winter Paralympics.

China is making the final preparations for welcoming guests from all over the world, and hopes that every Paralympic athlete will be able to dedicate a wonderful performance here.

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