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 70th Winter Olympics 100 Questions | Is the Winter Olympics fire always taken from Greece?

　　Nowadays, before the opening of each Olympic Games, it has become a common practice to collect fire in Greece.

However, in the history of the Winter Olympics, the first fire gathering location was Norway.

　　In 1924, Chamonix, France, hosted the first Winter Olympics in history.

But in the first five Winter Olympics, there was no torch.

It was not until the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics that the Olympic flame was officially burned in the main stadium.

　　Unlike the current Winter Olympics, the fire for the Oslo Winter Olympics did not originate from Greece. Way to collect.

This is very different from the familiar fire gathering ceremony of the Winter Olympics.

On October 18th, local time, the fire for the Beijing Winter Olympics was successfully collected in Ancient Olympia on the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece, the birthplace of the Olympic movement.

Before the site of the Temple of Hera, which has a history of more than two thousand years, the Olympic flame was once again ignited for Beijing.

　　Since then, it has become a common practice to collect the fire for the Winter Olympics in the host country.

It wasn't until the Innsbruck Winter Olympics in 1964 that the location of the tinder collection was moved to Greece, just like the Summer Olympics.

After that, the fire gathering ceremonies of the Winter Olympics will be held in Greece.

　　The fire collection of the Beijing Winter Olympics is no exception.

On October 18 last year, the Beijing Winter Olympics was successfully collected from the ancient Olympia site on the Peloponnese Peninsula in Greece.

On October 20th, the Tinder Welcome Ceremony for the Beijing Winter Olympics was held at the Olympic Tower.

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　　Subsequently, the Beijing Winter Olympics fired at the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, the capital of Greece, and was handed over to the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee by the Greek Olympic Committee.

In the early morning of October 20th, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics tinder arrived in Beijing.

　　According to the plan, the traditional torch relay will be carried out from February 2 to 4, 2022. The Beijing Winter Olympics will be carried in the three competition areas of Beijing, Yanqing, and Zhangjiakou, with a total of about 1,200 torchbearers.

The transfer route is based on ice and snow culture, historical culture, and Great Wall culture, presenting the natural scenery, humanistic characteristics and urban features along the way.

(Wang Hao)