(Winter Olympics asks "Ji") In terms of the gender ratio of participating athletes, what are the highlights of the Beijing Winter Olympics?
China News Service, Shijiazhuang, December 27th. We know that due to reasons such as female physique and excessive risk of sports, some events in the history of the Winter Olympics have refused female athletes for a long time.
In order to increase the number of female athletes participating in the Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee announced that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics will add 7 new competition events, resulting in a total of 109 gold medals.
At the same time, the proportion of female athletes in the competition has further increased, and the ratio of male and female athletes has become more balanced.
Among them, the 7 newly added events are women's single snowmobile, short track speed skating mixed group relay, ski jumping mixed group, freestyle ski jumping platform (men and women), freestyle skiing aerials mixed group and single Snowboard obstacles chase mixed groups.
Compared with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, although the Beijing Winter Olympics has added 7 small events, the overall number of participants has decreased compared with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
In addition, increasing the proportion of female athletes participating in the competition has become a highlight of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, female athletes accounted for 45.44% of all athletes, which will set a record high in the number of female athletes in all previous Winter Olympics.
Female athletes participated in 46 events, which is also the highest in the previous Winter Olympics.
Kate McConnell, Director of Sports of the International Olympic Committee, said that the new events in the Beijing Winter Olympics reflect the IOC’s long-term commitment to establishing a younger and more gender-balanced Olympic event. He is also happy to see participating female athletes. Increase in number.
(Organized by Hao Ye)