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Beijing Winter Olympics: Everything you need to know about the 2022 Winter Olympic Games

 


Beijing Winter Olympics: Everything you really wanted to think about the 2022 Winter Olympic Games 

Beijing 2022 will be the principal Winter Games to be held in China 

It may feel as though the Summer Olympics have just barely completed, however the Winter Games are not far off! 

There are 100 days to go until the beginning of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing - and they'll be occurring under a half year after the Tokyo Summer Games finished. 

The 2022 contest will check the arrival of the Olympics to Beijing without precedent for 14 years. The city recently facilitated the 2008 Summer occasion. 

Here's beginning and end we know so far with regards to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games! 

The Olympic fire showed up in China last week 

When are the Beijing Olympics occurring? 

The Beijing Winter Olympics are planned to happen from fourth February to twentieth February 2022. 

The Winter Olympics happen at regular intervals and the Winter and Summer Games are customarily isolated by two years. 

Anyway as this present summer's Tokyo Games were delayed from last year in view of the worldwide Covid pandemic, the colder time of year variant of the overall game will have its fastest turnaround ever! 

The Paralympic Games will happen a month after the fact in the city, somewhere in the range of fourth and thirteenth March 2022. 

Mascots for Beijing GamesGETTY IMAGES 

Bing Dwen (L) and Shuey Rhon (R) are the authority mascots for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games

Is there a mascot? 

The International Olympic Committee (IOC), who are the coordinators of the Olympics, have uncovered the authority mascots for Beijing's games. 

The authority mascot for the Olympics is a panda called 'Bing Dwen'. Panda bears are local to China and are seen by numerous individuals as the country's public creature. 

In Mandarin Chinese "Bing" signifies 'ice', while "Dwen" addresses 'kids'. 

The authority mascot for the Paralympics is a Chinese lamp called 'Shuey Rhon', which communicates the wish for more incorporation and comprehension between societies of the world. 

In Chinese culture lamps address gather, festivity, warmth and light. 

Did you know? 

Beijing will turn into the principal city on the planet to have facilitated both the Winter and Summer Games - having kept the last down in 2008! 

Beijing public stadiumGETTY IMAGES 

Beijing's public arena is otherwise called the Bird's Nest in light of what it looks like! 

Where will the occasions happen? 

The 2022 Winter Olympics are planned to incorporate a record 109 occasions more than 15 disciplines in seven games - Biathlon, Bobsledding, Curling, Ice Hockey, Luge, Skating and Skiing. 

The occasions will happen in China's capital Beijing, just as towns in the adjoining Hebei territory. 

As occurred at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the opening and shutting functions of the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held at the Beijing National Stadium (otherwise called the Bird's Nest). 

Will observers be permitted to join in? 

Fans couldn't go to this current Summer's Tokyo Olympics, because of worldwide travel limitations and the rising number of Covid contaminations in the city. 

The Beijing games coordinators have reported that worldwide onlookers will not have the option to join in and that tickets will be sold "solely to observers living in China's central area" who meet the Covid countermeasures. 

The International Olympic Committee and International Paralympic Committee said it invited the choice to offer passes to observers from central area China. 

Did you know? 

The primary Winter Olympic Games occurred in 1924 and were held in Chamonix in the French Alps 

Lizzy Yarnold at 2018 Winter OlympicsGETTY IMAGES 

Lizzy Yarnold won Team GB's just gold decoration at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in the skeleton occasion 

Who to keep an eye out for? 

At the previous Winter Olympics that occurred in South Korea in 2018, Team GB won five decorations altogether, one gold and four bronze. 

Numerous qualifiers for Winter Olympic occasions are as yet occurring so we don't have the foggiest idea about the last Team GB line up yet, yet here are a portion of the names expected to partake. 

Free-form skier Gus Kenworthy won slopestyle silver in Sochi in 2014 and is a five-time X Games medallist, making him one of Team GB's most brightened competitors heading into Beijing. 

Laura Deas turned into the primary Welsh lady to win a Winter Olympic award four years prior and will most likely be expecting to make further history in Beijing. 

Katie Ormerod turned into Britain's first World Cup snowboard champion a year ago! She was a decoration most loved going into the 2018 Winter Olympics yet needed to pull out in the wake of breaking her wrist and heel during preparing. We can hardly wait to see her contend one year from now.

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