The 24th Winter Olympic Games will kick off in Beijing on February 4, 2022.
The Sports Department of Chinanews.com launched a series of columns "Hundred Questions about Winter Olympics", aimed at popularizing Winter Olympic knowledge, answering hot questions, sharing interesting stories about ice and snow, and helping everyone have a better watching experience during the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The 37th Winter Olympics 100 Questions | Which Winter Olympics has the most participants?
Among the Winter Olympics that have been held so far, the largest is undoubtedly the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
On February 9, 2018, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics officially opened.
At that Winter Olympics, 2,833 athletes from 92 national and regional delegations participated in 102 small events, becoming the Winter Olympics with the largest number of participants and the most events in history.
Among them, athletes from Ecuador, Eritrea, Kosovo, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time.
The opening ceremony of the 23rd Winter Olympic Games in 2018 was held in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
The picture shows the lighting of the Olympic flame.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan
This is the first time that South Korea has hosted the Winter Olympics. Following the 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics and 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, the Winter Olympics settled in Asia for the third time.
There are 12 venues for the Winter Olympics, located in Pyeongchang, Gangneung and Jeongseon.
And China sent a delegation of 181 people to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, of which 82 Chinese athletes participated in 5 major events, 12 sub-events, and 55 minor events.
Compared with the Sochi Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation has achieved a major breakthrough in the scale of participating projects, winning Olympic seats for the first time in 1 major event, 2 sub-events, and 10 minor events.
On February 22, 2018, Chinese athlete Wu Dajing won the gold medal in the men's 500m short-track speed skating final at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Photo by Song Jihe, China News Agency reporter
Throughout the history of the Winter Olympics, the competition items and the number of participants showed an upward trend in general.
In 1924, at the first Winter Olympics held in Chamonix, France, there were 16 participating countries, 258 participants, and a total of 16 gold medals.
After nearly a hundred years of development, the scale of the Winter Olympics has expanded a lot, and it has become the world's highest-spec winter comprehensive sports event.
(Wang Hao)