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Beijing establishes ‘snow affairs work team’ for 2022 Winter Games

Beijing, host of the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, has a snow problem: Hardly any of the white stuff falls on the Chinese capital despite freezing temperatures.

Taking the matter in hand, the games organizing committee has set up a “snow affairs work team” and invited experts from Finland, Canada and other nations to help out, according to the official “2017 Beijing Fact File” drafted by the city government.

The work team would “expedite research on key technologies for making and preserving snow, and start to formulate a work plan to ensure suitable snow resources”, the publication said.

Also yesterday, Beijing Vice Mayor Zhang Jiandong said all venues and transport links for the games would be completed by the end of 2019, allowing Beijing to begin staging test events the next year. “Progress on all these projects has been moving ahead smoothly,” Zhang said.

Beijing was awarded the games in 2015, defeating Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the voting to become the first city to have been awarded both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

Beijing’s urban center will host indoor events such as ice hockey and figure skating, largely at venues left over from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.




 

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