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Feb 4, 2022 · The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 took place in February 2022, coinciding with the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), the most important holiday in China. Local residents welcomed athletes from around the globe, encouraging them to enjoy the Chinese New Year festivities, the majestic landscape and the rich cultures of Beijing, Yanqing, and Zhangjiakou.
The Beijing National Stadium was an iconic venue in the Beijing Zone, and it is also known as the Bird's Nest (鸟巢; Niǎocháo). The Beijing National Stadium was the site that hosted the Opening and Closing Ceremonies for the 2022 Winter Olympics, but it was no longer a venue for any competition in 2022.
Aug 7, 2008 · In Beijing, almost 50 years separated the oldest from the youngest athlete: Japanese horse rider Hiroshi Hoketsu took part in his third Olympic Games at the age of 67, whilst Cameroon swimmer, Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo participated in the Games for the first time at the tender age of 12.
Since 2014, Beijing and Zhangjiakou have planted 47,333 and 33,000 hectares of forest and green areas respectively. Click here to read Beijing 2022’s Pre-Games Sustainability Report. Olympic Torch Relay. Beijing is the first city to have welcomed the Olympic flame for both summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games.
Beijing Olympics may refer to: 2008 Summer Olympics, games of the XXIX Olympiad; 2022 Winter Olympics, games of the XXIV Winter Olympic Games; See also.
See the list of teams and medals won by each. See table. Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Beijing 2022 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
Reports also indicated that the Olympics boosted the political careers of pro-Beijing politicians in Hong Kong, as many Chinese gold medal winners campaigned on behalf of the pro-Beijing DAB during the 2008 election, although any trend towards greater identification by Hong Kongers with Mainland China appears to have been short-lived.
