What are the geographical conditions for Beijing to host the Winter Olympics?

Geographical conditions for Beijing to host the Winter Olympics: Beijing and Chongli, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province have good natural conditions and facilities respectively. Beijing has rich Olympic heritage, Zhangjiakou has complete and sufficient conditions for snow sports, and Yanqing County in Beijing also has natural conditions for building high-level venues.

Beijing belongs to temperate monsoon climate, characterized by high temperature and rainy summer and cold and dry winter. Considering the climatic conditions, the best time for the Beijing Winter Olympics is February-March, when the temperature is low.

Snowmaking work

The track of National Alpine Ski Center adopts ice and snow track, which is a major feature of alpine skiing track. In order to ensure that the competitors can reach the highest speed from 130 km/h to 140 km/h, the International Snow Federation has strict requirements on the hardness of the snow trail, so snow making has become a key link.

The snow-making work of National Alpine Ski Center started from 202 1, 1 1. In 2022, all the work of track snow-making, snow-pressing and shaping, safety protection and ice-like snow-making was completed on 28+0.

Competition lineup: July 2065438 19, the International Olympic Committee announced that the proportion of female athletes participating in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be further improved, and the proportion of male and female athletes will be more balanced. The number of male and female athletes reached 1578 and 13 14 respectively. Female athletes accounted for 45.44% of all athletes, setting a new record for the Winter Olympics. Female athletes participated in 46 events, which was also the highest in previous Winter Olympics.