On March 4, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics was held at the Beijing National Stadium.
The picture shows the video image in the center of the venue, all composed of Braille.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Yang Huafeng
China News Service, Beijing, March 13 (Reporter Yue Chuan) The Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics will end on the evening of the 13th.
The director of the closing ceremony, Shen Chen, said that the memory of the "City of Double Olympics" will be retained in a special way.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics is the 13th Winter Paralympic Games in history.
The theme slogan of the competition is "Towards the Future Together", with green, sharing, openness and integrity as the concept of running the Olympic Games.
The Beijing Winter Paralympics consists of 6 major events: Paralympic alpine skiing, Paralympic biathlon, Paralympic cross-country skiing, Paralympic snowboarding, Paralympic ice hockey, and wheelchair curling, with a total of 78 gold medals.
Disabled athletes from 49 countries and regions around the world chase their dreams in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou.
On March 4, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics was held at the Beijing National Stadium.
The picture shows the entrance of the Chinese delegation, with athletes Guo Yujie (front row right) and Wang Zhidong (front row left) serving as flag bearers.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
The Chinese sports delegation for the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games consists of 217 people, including 96 athletes, participating in all 6 major events and 73 minor events.
As of the 12th, the Chinese sports delegation has won a total of 58 medals with 18 golds, 18 silvers and 22 bronzes, ranking first in the gold medal list and medal list.
Compared with the 1 gold result achieved in the previous session, the competitive level has made a historic leap.
This reflects that with the opportunity of the Beijing Winter Paralympics, China's disabled sports industry has ushered in a new stage of vigorous development.
Among them, cross-country skier Yang Hongqiong won 3 gold medals in women's long, middle and short distance (sitting position), and alpine skier Zhang Mengqiu won 5 gold medals including 2 gold medals including women's giant slalom (standing position) and super giant slalom (standing position). medal.
In addition, Zheng Peng and Liu Mengtao each got two golds, Wu Zhongwei, Sun Qi, Ji Lijia, Liu Zixu, Guo Yujie, Liang Jingyi, Mao Zhongwu and Wang Chenyang were on the top podium.
On March 12, Chinese player Yang Hongqiong was in the game.
On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Cross Country Skiing Women's Middle Distance - Seated Competition was held at the National Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou Division.
China's Yang Hongqiong won the gold medal.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Bing
In the wheelchair curling final that ended on the 12th, the Chinese team composed of Wang Haitao, Chen Jianxin, Zhang Mingliang, Yan Zhuo and Sun Yulong defeated the Swedish team 8:3 and successfully defended their title.
In the PyeongChang Winter Paralympics, the wheelchair curling team achieved zero breakthroughs in gold medals and medals for the Chinese sports delegation.
As the event draws to a close, International Paralympic Committee President Andrew Parsons said on the 12th that the work done by the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has achieved everything the International Paralympic Committee hoped for.
Parsons believes that the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games are running smoothly and the feedback from the individual sports organizations, delegations, athletes, and various stakeholders of the International Sports Federation is very good.
"The competition organization of the Beijing Winter Paralympics has reached the expected level, and the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games will raise the level of the competition to a new level."
On March 10, the mascot "Xue Rongrong" of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games took a group photo with volunteers during the waiting area.
On the same day, "Xue Rongrong" appeared at the wheelchair curling competition site of the National Swimming Center.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
The closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympics is scheduled to be held at the National Stadium on the evening of the 13th, which will bring an end to this "ice and snow agreement" between China and the world.
At the same time, the "Bird's Nest" will become the only stadium in the world that has hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympics, Paralympics, Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics.
Shen Chen, the director of the closing ceremony, said in an interview that, different from the Winter Olympics, the closing ceremony of the Winter Paralympic Games will continue the concept of the opening ceremony and focus on expressing the stories of the disabled, so it fits the theme and freezes touching moments.
About 30% of the participating groups are disabled people and 70% are able-bodied people.
On March 4, the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics was held at the Beijing National Stadium.
The picture shows the torch lighting ceremony.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Bing
It is reported that the theme of the closing ceremony is "eternal in warmth", and special installations will be used to match the main visual image of "concentric circles". While recording the touching moments of the 9-day event, Beijing will always retain the great moment of Beijing as the "city of double Olympics".
Shen Chen said that he hoped to keep the entire Winter Olympics and the memory of the "city of double Olympics" in this way, so that future generations will remember it forever.
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympics, the idea of placing the main torch by blind athlete Li Duan was quite exciting.
How to present the final flameout and how to freeze the historical moment of the "city of two Olympics" is also the biggest suspense of the closing ceremony.
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