The logo might be new however a portion of the scenes will be natural as Beijing changes from summer to winter Olympic host city
What has swimming extraordinary Michael Phelps have to do with twisting?
On a superficial level not much, but rather transform water into ice at a notorious Olympic scene, and it is an alternate story.
The 10-path pool where the American won eight gold decorations in 2008 has been changed into a four-track twisting arena for the 2022 Games as Beijing gets ready to turn into the principal city to have both summer and winter Olympics.
It isn't only the Chinese capital that is trading donning seasons; there are competitors exchanging mentors for skates as they seek after a double Olympic dream.
With 100 days to go before the activity gets going on 4 February, we take a gander at how some recognizable places and faces are preparing for the greatest winter game.
From Water Cube to Ice Cube
Beijing will reuse five of its scenes from the late spring Games as a feature of its maintainability points.
One of the most significant from 2008 was the Water Cube - a case formed structure, clad in a honeycomb of straightforward pads and illuminated in blue that facilitated the swimming, jumping and creative swimming.
The enormous air pocket wrapped box had its offices, lighting and ventilation revamped to turn into the twisting setting, and when the Games are over it will switch occasionally between an aquatics and ice scene.
Swimming at the 2008 Olympics
From swimming...
The other key setting from 13 years prior, the Bird's Nest arena, will likewise get another Olympic appearance when it has the opening and shutting functions.
At the mid year Games, this was the place where the sports occurred just as the functions that incorporated the handover to London 2012 including David Beckham and a multi level bus.
Birds Nest with firecrackers
The Birds Nest facilitated extreme opening and shutting functions in 2008
Ice hockey will be occurring at two of the settings utilized in 2008 - the National Indoor Stadium that facilitated musical tumbling, trampoline and handball and the Wukesong Sports Center that was home to the ball.
Short-track and figure skating is being held at the Capital Indoor Stadium, where volleyball was played in the mid year Games.
US b-ball
The United States won men's Olympic gold in b-ball at the Wukesong Indoor Stadium in 2008...
There is one new scene in the current Olympic Park, where the National Speed Skating Oval - nicknamed 'The Ice Ribbon' - presently remains on a space that was previously utilized for hockey and arrow based weaponry.
The main other site being utilized in Beijing is the new Big Air Shougang, which is on a previous steel factory site away from the Olympic Park, while the sliding, skiing and snowboard occasions happen at two different center points connected inside an hour by rail from Beijing.
'I had seven days off' - competitors changing from summer to winter Games
Greg Rutherford and Vincent de Haitre
While Greg Rutherford (left) is looking for a colder time of year Games appearance six years after his latest summer one, Vincent de Haitre (right) is meaning to do it a half year after his appearance in Tokyo
The Beijing 2008 scenes are exceptionally natural to British long jumper Greg Rutherford, who arrived at the last in the Bird's Nest on his Olympic presentation four years prior to winning gold in London.
On the off chance that things go to design, he could be in a bobsleigh this time round having been named in one of the Great Britain bobsleigh crews that will endeavor to meet all requirements for the Games.
While still somewhat unprecedented, there are sufficient points of reference of competitors exchanging among summer and winter Games for this to be a practical possibility - albeit no Briton has won decorations at both.
One more individual from Britain's bobsleigh crew, Montell Douglas, is likewise expecting to contend in Beijing once more, having dashed in the ladies' 100m in 2008.
Canadian Vincent de Haitre is taking the change to another level, however, as he expects to contend in Beijing only 180 days subsequent to showing up at the Tokyo Games.
Currently a double Olympian, having contended in speed skating at Pyeongchang 2018 preceding track cycling in Tokyo, the 27-year-old has a year not exactly ordinary to make the progress from summer to winter after the Covid pandemic postponed the late spring Games by a year.
He is the primary competitor to endeavor to do this in a brief time frame, albeit up until 1992 winter and summer Games were held around the same time so there are competitors who have contended at both around the same time.
"I had seven days off when I got back, which isn't a great deal," he told BBC Sport. "At the point when the cyclists had their slow time of year I was preparing with the skaters and when the skaters had their slow time of year, I went to the Olympics. It's been a genuine battle to remain solid and furthermore stay spurred.
"Doing wear is intrinsically an agonizing action - your pulse goes so high you taste blood, your legs consume, your back is sore constantly, your knees hurt, you need to see the physios two times per week.
"It's picking exertion and hard exertion on an everyday premise and you've not gotten an opportunity to simply do nothing.
"I have acquired the admiration of my colleagues [in both sports] by testing myself with something not very many have at any point done and nobody has done it in this time period.
"This has certainly been the most difficult thing I've needed to do in my athletic profession. Right now getting to the Olympics is the objective, yet once there simply being there isn't the objective any more, it's to be serious."
From halting precipitation to making snow at settings
The snow machines will be occupied for Beijing 2022
It isn't just the indoor settings and a few competitors who have been changed from summer to winter.
With Beijing's normal temperature in February above freezing and winters commonly dry, the conspicuous test for a Winter Games is an absence of snow.
Zhangjiakou - which is facilitating the majority of the ski and snowboard occasions - midpoints eight creeps of the white stuff each year, while Yanqing - home to the sliding and elevated skiing - gets only two inches.
The appropriate response, clearly, is phony it.
It won't be whenever Beijing first has utilized synthetic climate to battle the normal conditions at a Games, with the Chinese government having cultivated the mists before the 2008 opening function to make a storm somewhere else and keep the arena dry.
That elaborate terminating rockets loaded with silver iodide gems into downpour mists over suburbia of Beijing.
This time it will be snow guns discharging super-cool water from repositories and lakes to launch ice precious stones and make pistes on the inclines.
Beijing isn't the principal winter Games to need snow - Pyeongchang 2018 and Sochi 2014 both utilized fake snow and even Vancouver in 2010 had trucks of it being acquired to the dissolving Cypress Mountain scene.
Recall the expressions of the International Olympic Committee at the hour of the Chinese bid for the Games: "Because of the absence of normal snow the vibe of the scene may not be tastefully satisfying."
There is, maybe, a lining in that (snowless) cloud - it very well may be a fast switch back to summer sports again a short time later.
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