It’s already over, the Olympic flame extinguished, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics bowed out, this Sunday, February 20, with the ceremony, in the Bird’s Nest, officially closing the 24th edition, opened on February 04.
If curling inaugurated the 2022 Beijing Olympics, it was the ice hockey tournament that closed this edition, awarding the 109th gold medal to Finland, winner of the event, against the Russians.
All the medals have found takers. The final table, with this top 10, this top of the table that all the participating nations scrutinize every day, every moment, is dominated by Norway with its 16 gold medals, followed by Germany (12), China ( 9), USA (8), Sweden (8), Netherlands (8), Austria (7), Switzerland (7), ROC (6) and France (5).
Beijing, Zhangjiakou and Yanging were the scene of exploits and thrills, of 6 world records, of remarkable performances, in a spectacle offered by nearly 2,900 athletes, exactly 2,874, new Olympians or experienced participants, experienced, accustomed to the great competitions.
Olympians who woke up early in the morning, who stayed up late at night, here and there, in the 4 corners of the planet, provoking cries and tears of joy in some, tears of disappointment elsewhere, but producing both a beautiful and great trip to the heart of the Middle Empire and what men are capable of: making sport the vector of the most beautiful values.
And to keep from the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics only the memory of competitions, records, exploits and medals, would just be to miss the exploit that made this major world meeting possible: a perfect organization of the host country, magical opening and closing shows, and technological innovations that unquestionably distinguished this edition from all the others. China very early on integrated all the constraints of an unprecedented health context to imagine what will both facilitate relations and interactions, to ensure the protection of all those involved in the sporting event. Robots, applications, quality of transmission to the world public of the various events and their stages marked the Beijing Winter Olympics. For the occasion, the 5G Express, a train developed by China Media Group and China Railway was put into service in January, equipped with a mobile studio powered by 5G, allowing live transmission of all signals. . A world first!
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Victories are good, and the victory of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is China who finished 3thcoming out of it more than well with 15 medals including 9 in gold, the United States giving him the foot of the podium of the TOP 3, which is naturally to be underlined, knowing that a few years ago still, the practice of winter sports, especially skiing, were not widespread in the country.
The other victory of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is to have further democratized board sports in the country, and the country, driven by the dynamics of the Olympics, is waking up to it.
China is getting ready, inspiring and encouraging its young people, like the great sliding sports countries, to ski, toboggan and skate more. The numbers bear this out. In less than twenty years, China has gone from 10,000 skiers to nearly 15 million, with a goal of reaching 300 million skiers. As for the number of stations, it has tripled in 10 years, making China the 2th ski area in the world, with nearly 700 resorts, the first rank going to the Alps.
Chinese youth are not deaf to this transformation, displaying more and more a pronounced interest in sliding sports, with a clear determination: tomorrow to make their country the number 1 medalist in the Winter Olympics.
End clap therefore for the BEINJING Winter Olympics, but an appointment is made on Friday March 4, 2022 and until Sunday March 13, with the 2022 Paralympic Winter Games, still in Beijing, which will once again host hundreds of athletes.
As for the next Winter Olympics, in 2026, the presence of Italy alongside China to close the parade of nations present, meant that the next host country is Italy. And in the great tradition of the Olympic Games, China has actually handed over the Olympic flag to Italy, precisely to the representatives of the two cities that will host them: Milan and Cortina.
From “together for a common future” in China, to “everyone’s games” in Italy, Olympism clearly expresses the philosophy of the Olympic movement: to contribute to building a peaceful and better world.