The Olympic flame (火焰) has been put out, bringing down the curtain on the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
At Beijing 2022, a total of 2, 877 players from 91 countries and regions competed for 109 gold medals. Through seventeen days of performances on the ice and snow, seventeen Olympic records (记录) , including two world records, were broken.
Beijing 2022 was the first international multi-sport event to be held on schedule during the COVID-19 pandemic. Players were kept safe within a closed loop (闭环) , preventing any imported cases (输入性病例) from spreading to the outside public. "With an infection rate (感染率) of 0. 01. It was one of the safest places on the planet. If not the safest place on the planet, and this is a great achievement." said Tomas Bach.
The popularity of ice and snow sports is growing around China. 300 million people join in winter sports. Winter sports faculties (设施) have even spread to the southern parts of China where winters are warmer. For example, an indoor ski field opened in Guangzhou. The Sunac Snow Park is as large as 22 soccer fields and has received more than 2 million visitors since it opened in 2019, reported Xinhua.
