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 41st Winter Olympics 100 Questions | What is special about the award ceremony of the Winter Olympics?

  When you watched the Winter Olympics before, did you ever have such a question: Why don’t the winners often get medals in the awards session?

Compared with the Summer Olympics, what are the special features of the award ceremony of the Winter Olympics?

  Take the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics as an example. In the post-match awards session, the winners stand on the podium after the game, and usually get cute plush toy mascots, but no medals.

In fact, this special way of awarding awards is set up separately according to the uniqueness of the Winter Olympics.

On February 23, the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics short track speed skating men’s 500m medal award ceremony was held in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Chinese athlete Wu Dajing won the gold medal in the event. This was also the Chinese delegation’s participation in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The first gold medal.

The picture shows the group photo of the athletes who won the gold, silver and bronze medals.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Cui Nan


  It turned out that due to the relatively cold weather during the Winter Olympics and due to factors such as physical considerations of the players, after the competition, only prizes will be awarded to the winners in the competition venue, and medals will be awarded to the winners in a specific awarding area later. .

  This tradition has continued since the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics.

After each Winter Olympics, the awarding of medals will be arranged in the awarding square.

Since the competition categories of the Winter Olympics are much less than those of the Summer Olympics, the award ceremony is generally held after the end of the day, and medals will be awarded to all the winners of the day.

The picture shows the aerial photography of the construction site of Ice and Snow Town, Prince City, Chongli on August 11.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Zhang Fan


  In the awards plaza, in addition to the award ceremony, there will also be celebrations and performances.

  In fact, compared to the competition venues, the awarding ceremony of the medals in the awarding plaza will allow more people to witness this glorious moment.

According to the Beijing Winter Olympics official sports display and award ceremony service sponsor, Bei Ao Group previously disclosed that in the awards plaza of the Beijing competition area-the Olympic Park Central District Celebration Plaza, a stage and seats will be set up during the game to allow the audience to witness the award ceremony. .

Data map: The ground paving, green decoration and other projects of the awards plaza of the Beijing Winter Olympics Zhangjiakou Competition Area, located in the ice and snow town of Prince City, Chongli District, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, have been completed.

Issued by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Wu Diansen)

  The Zhangjiakou competition area awards plaza is set up in the ice and snow town of Prince City.

During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Zhangjiakou competition area will produce 51 gold medals, the square will run for 14 days, and 49 event award ceremonies will be held; during the Winter Paralympics, the Zhangjiakou competition area will produce 46 gold medals, and the square will operate for 7 days , Held the award ceremony of 44 projects.

(Liu Xingchen)