News investigation: Beijing, hosting two Olympic sessions, proceeds with the Olympic dream

BEIJING, February 2, 2022 (Xinhua) for many people all over the world. Beijing may be just the capital of China and a city that is full of richness of its historical and cultural heritage.

But for many Chinese, it is a permanent symbol of the Olympic Games - the first city in the world that hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games.It preserves the Olympic spirit and goes on the Olympic dream..

- The fastest, cleaner and more experienced

Xue Shen came for the first time to Beijing when he was 18 years old in 1997 to join the study at Beijing University for Foreign Studies.

"My first impression was that there are a lot of opportunities in Beijing, especially for a student learning student like me," he recalls..

Chiwi specializes in the Swedish language.In the summer of 2001, when the entire city was in a state of euphoria after its victory in hosting the 2008 Olympics, Chiwi graduated from the university.

A total of 74,615 volunteers from 98 countries and regions helped organize the 2008 Olympic Games, including Xue, who provided the translation service for the Swedish team in the Olympic Village.He watched many competitions during the games, and he met two famous athletes until he took a picture with the late Kobe Bryant.

Those days were happy days full of activity, and Chiwi's face is always a big smile as he talks about his experience in Beijing 2008.After the Olympic Games, he visited the stadiums again for various purposes, the last of which was a visit to the Woxung Square, which hosted basketball matches at that time, to attend a concert.

As the development of Beijing witnessed, the public transport network expanded and the city became cleaner.

Now Chiwi has become an Olympic volunteer for the second time."The hosting of my city for a second Olympics after more than ten years is incredible, and I am lucky because I have become a volunteer in both events," he said..

The Olympic Games and Winter Winter include 2022, 27 thousand and 12 thousand volunteers, respectively, were chosen from more than a million candidates.

Xue saw many young faces in the volunteer team.He said, "I felt myself in 2008.".

While driving the car on Beijing's roads, Chiwi found some signs of road lanes that were dedicated to the 2008 Olympics that were still present, while in some other sections, she was already put on the 2022 Special Road neighborhood signs.

"In the past 14 years, communications technology has evolved in our country rapidly, making communication easier.China has more experience in hosting major events, and I am sure that the service provided by volunteers will be better this time..

- From luxury to sustainability

While Xiwa is busy learning winter sports games, Jiu Lynn is waiting for a test at the National Rapid Oval Center, which is called "Ice Plap".I had the chief engineer in its construction process.

The oval center is located in north of Beijing, about 3.5 km from the National Stadium, also known as "Bird's Nest", where the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics presented the Chinese culture to the world 14 years ago.

When I became an engineer at the Flying nest stadium in 2003, he was 35 years old.

The 80,000 -spectrum stadium is known as the largest steel structure in the world.

He said, "The construction of the Beijing National Stadium launched a new era in the construction industry in China and attracting a variety of innovations, many of which were updated in the following years and applied to the National Oval Center for Rapid Ski.".

Six of the 2008 Olympics stadiums are used in the 2022 winter games in an effort to reduce costs.The icebar is the only place for ice sports that were built from scratch specifically for the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Beijing 2022 pledged to provide green, sustainable and low carbon games, so Lee and his team had to address a series of technical problems to reduce steel use.The icebar features the widest full ice design in Asia, with an ice area of 12,000 square meters.The carbon dioxide cooler is used to make ice, which is the most friendly natural coolers to the environment and is used in the snow industry, with the aim of reducing the damage caused to the ozone layer.

In a team, about a third of the participating people worked, as it is, in construction work for both summer and winter games.

He said that "the Olympic stadiums showed the strength of a nation in certain ages," adding that "the bird's nest stadium dazzled visitors with its luxury, while the new ice strip reflected the new characteristics of development: the sustainability."

"It is an honor for me to participate in building both.".

- The beginning of a dream

The former skate.

The World Cup Gold Medal began to play a short track sport in 2001 when Beijing won the 2008 summer games for the summer games.

"I remember well people's celebrations at the time," Yu said, adding that "I realized that the Olympic Games are the most important stage for athletes and dreamed of the competition there one day.".

In the following years, the preparation for the 2008 Olympiad witnessed the 29 giant fingerprints that the fireworks were drawn by the sky of Beijing on a summer night to announce the launch of the long -awaited sports festival.

The 2008 Olympics raised the passion of ordinary people for sports.

The following year, that is, in 2009, the Chinese National Rapid Small Ski team chose Yu within the team.He won the second place in the 1000 -meter race in the World Cup in Quebec in the 2010/2011 season, and won gold medals in the 5000 -meter relay race with his teammates in the 2011/2012 World Cup in Shanghai and Nagoya.

But when he started that everything was going in the right direction, he was injured.He missed the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and retired.

But his Olympic dream lives in another form.

After spent two years in learning abroad, he moved to Jonah Province in South China to promote winter sports, and created a short track ski team in the province.Yu returned to Beijing and appointed an assistant to the national team coach in 2018.

In 2020, he joined a ski club in the Yancheng neighborhood of Beijing called Mangchchchitiwan, which means "the beginning of a dream"..He gave lessons to primary and middle school students in the club and helped training school teams.

It also training 16 trainees seeking to fulfill their sporting dream, just as he did before.

Yu returned to the memory, saying, "In our generation, most of the skaters were on the short track from northeastern China, where winter sports were common.".But the trainees who train them came from different parts of the country, including warm southwestern provinces such as Jonah and Sishuan.

The students and trainees, who were trained by his hands, were among the 346 million Chinese, participated in winter sports activities since Beijing succeeded in hosting the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in 2015, according to the Chinese National Statistics Authority..

In China there is now 654 ice ski circuit, an increase of 317 percent over 2015.The number of closed and exposed ski resorts reached 803, a height of 568 resorts in 2015.

Yu said he expected Yancheng to become a base of skiing on the short track in China.

Yu hopes that one day his students, as he dreamed of his childhood, can ski in the Olympic Square.But he would also like to see the embrace of more people for winter sports."I hope the winter games will be the beginning of their dream.".