The 2022 Winter Olympics, officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games and commonly referred to as Beijing 2022, is an international winter multi-sport event held in Beijing, China and the surrounding areas of Yanqing District and Chongli District.
Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics: Alpine skiing| Biathlon| Bobsleigh
The 2022 Winter Olympics is the first Winter Olympic Games in China, the second overall Olympics in China, and the last of three consecutive Olympic Games in East Asia (after the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo). ) Japan). Beijing is the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Alpine skiing
Alpine skiing, or downhill skiing, is the pastime of sliding down snow-covered slopes on skis with fixed-heel bindings, unlike other types of skiing (cross-country, telemark, or ski jumping) with free-heel bindings. use skis. , Whether for recreation or sports, it is commonly practiced at ski resorts, which offer services such as ski lifts, artificial snow making, snow grooming, restaurants and ski patrol.
“Off-piste” skiers—those skiing outside the boundaries of the ski area—can use a snowmobile, helicopter, or snowcat to get them to the top of the slope. Back-country skiers use special equipment with free-heel mode Can, including ‘sticky’ skins, to prevent them from sliding backwards when climbing on ski bottoms, then locking the heel and removing the skins for their descent.
Alpine skiing has been an event at the Winter Olympic Games since 1936. A competition related to the modern slalom was started in Oslo in 1886.
Biathlon
Biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is regarded as a race in which competitors ski down a cross-country trail, the distance of which is divided into shooting rounds. Shooting rounds do not take place per time, but depending on the competition, missed shots result in extra distance or time added to the contestant’s total.
A biathlon competition consists of a race in which competitors ski through a cross-country trail system whose total distance is divided into two or four shooting rounds, half in a prone position, the other half standing. Based on shooting performance, additional distance or time is added to the competitor’s total skiing distance/time. The contestant with the shortest total time wins.
Bobsleigh
Bobsleigh or bobsleigh is a team winter sport that involves timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, also known as FIBT, from the French Fédération Internationale de bobsleigh et de tobogganing. National competitions are often governed by bodies such as the United States Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, the Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton, and the German Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton Federation.
The first bobsled was built in the late 19th century in St. Moritz, Switzerland, by wealthy tourists from Victorian Britain who stayed at the Palace Hotel owned by Caspar Badrut. Early sledges were adapted from boys’ delivery sleds and toboggans.
