Olympic Winter Games 2022

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XXIV Olympic Winter Games
2022 Winter Olympics lettering
一起向未来
Yīqǐ xiàng wèilái
( Together for a Shared Future )
Venue: Beijing ( People's Republic of China )
Stadion: Beijing National Stadium
opening ceremony: February 4, 2022
Closing Ceremony: February 20, 2022
Opened by: Xi Jinping
Disciplines: 15 (7 sports)
competitions: 109
← Pyeongchang 2018
Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026 →
Medal table
(after 32 of 109 decisions)
place country G S B total
1 Norway Norway (NOR) 4 1 4 9
2 Sweden Sweden (SWE) 4 1 2 7
3 Netherlands Netherlands (NED) 3 3 1 7
4 China People's Republic People's Republic of China (CHN) 3 2 – 5
Germany Germany (GER) 3 2 – 5
6 Italy Italy (ITA) 2 4 1 7
7 Olympia ROC (ROC) 2 3 5 10
8th Austria Austria (AUT) 2 3 2 7
9 Slovenia Slovenia (SLO) 2 1 2 5
10 France France (FRA) 1 4 – 5
... ... ... ... ... ...
13 Switzerland Switzerland 1 – 2 3
Complete medal table

The XXIV Olympic Winter Games ( Chinese  2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会, pinyin 2022 nián dōngjì Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì ) will be held from February 4th to 20th, 2022 in the Chinese capital Beijing . This is the first time that the Winter Games will take place one after the other ( 2018 , 2022) in two Far East Asian cities. Beijing is the first city to host both the Summer Olympics (2008) and the Winter Olympics.

Choice of Venue

On June 6, 2013, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened the first phase of the bid process to host the Games. Interested cities had to submit their application to the IOC by November 14, 2013 at the latest. Ultimately, only the cities of Almaty and Beijing upheld their bid.

The vote on the venue took place at the 128th IOC Session on July 31, 2015 in Kuala Lumpur , with Beijing winning 44-40 against the Kazakh city ​​of Almaty . After technical problems in the first round of voting, in which 89 out of 100 IOC members took part, a further round was carried out in which 85 votes were cast. IOC President Thomas Bach abstained.

The alpine competitions are mainly held in Yanqing , the Nordic ones in Zhangjiakou .

election results
city Country election result
Beijing China People's Republic People's Republic of China 44
Almaty Kazakhstan Kazakhstan 40

competition venues

Beijing

National Stadium – Opening and Closing Ceremonies
National Indoor Stadium – Ice Hockey
Wukesong Indoor Stadium – Ice Hockey
National Indoor Stadium – figure skating, short track
National Swimming Center – Curling

Yanqing

Zhangjiakou

spectator

Official spectators may attend the event. First of all, local spectators should also get tickets for the event. In mid-January 2022, however, it was decided that there would be no free ticket sales within the People's Republic and only selected local spectator groups would be invited to the games. This was justified with the COVID-19 pandemic .

competition program

There are to be 109 competitions (52 for men, 46 for women and 11 mixed competitions) in 7 sports/15 disciplines. That would be 7 competitions more than in Pyeongchang 2018 - the number of sports/disciplines should remain the same. The changes planned so far are detailed below:

  • In short track and in ski jumping , a mixed team competition is to become Olympic.
  • In bobsleigh , the monobob for women is to expand the program.
  • In freestyle skiing , a mixed team competition in jumping and big air for men and women is to be added.
  • In snowboarding , a mixed team competition in snowboard cross is to expand the programme.

Olympic sports/disciplines

Number of competitions in brackets

Time schedule

The schedule includes events from February 2nd to 20th, 2022.

Time schedule
discipline Wed
2 		Thu
3 		Friday
4th 		Sat
5 		Sun
6 		Mon
7 		Tue
8 		Wed
9 		Thu
10 		Friday
11 		Sat
12 		Sun
13 		Mon
14 		Tue
15 		Wed
16 		Thu
17 		Friday
18 		Sat
19 		Sun
20 		decisions
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February
Olympic rings.svg opening ceremony
Biathlon pictogram.svg biathlon 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 11
bobsleigh
sport		 Bobsleigh pictogram.svg bob 1 1 1 1 4
Skeleton pictogram.svg skeleton 1 1 2
Curling pictogram.svg curling 1 1 1 3
Ice hockey pictogram.svg ice Hockey 1 1 2
ice skating Figure skating pictogram.svg figure skating 1 1 1 1 1 5
Speed ​​skating pictogram.svg speed skating 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 14
Short track speed skating pictogram.svg short track 1 2 1 1 2 2 9
Luge pictogram.svg luge 1 1 1 1 4
skiing Freestyle skiing pictogram.svg freestyle skiing 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 1 13
Alpine skiing pictogram.svg Alpine skiing 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 11

Nordic skiing		 Nordic combined pictogram.svg Nordic combination 1 1 1 3
Cross country skiing pictogram.svg cross country skiing 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 12
Ski jumping pictogram.svg ski jumping 1 1 1 1 1 5
Snowboarding pictogram.svg snowboarding 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 2 11
Olympic rings.svg closing ceremony
decisions 6 6 9 10 6 8th 7 6 7 5 9 7 6 4 9 4 109
Wed
2 		Thu
3 		Friday
4th 		Sat
5 		Sun
6 		Mon
7 		Tue
8 		Wed
9 		Thu
10 		Friday
11 		Sat
12 		Sun
13 		Mon
14 		Tue
15 		Wed
16 		Thu
17 		Friday
18 		Sat
19 		Sun
20
February

color legend

  • opening ceremony
  • Competition day (no decisions)
  • Competition day (x decisions)
  • Show Skating (Figure Skating Gala)
  • closing ceremony

    • subscriber

    Overall, athletes from 91 nations qualified for the games. Haiti and Saudi Arabia make their Winter Olympics debuts. Kenya initially qualified but withdrew its participation in January 2022. The classification in the following table is based on the membership of the individual National Olympic Committees in the respective continental umbrella organizations.

    Participants of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
    Europe (1692 athletes from 50 countries)
    America (477 athletes from 15 countries)
    Asia (420 athletes from 18 countries)
    Oceania (60 athletes from 3 countries)
    Africa (6 athletes from 5 countries)
    Other (212 athletes from one country)
    • Olympia ROC  (212)
    (number of athletes)
    *participation in the Winter Games for the first time

    Corona cases

    Despite strict requirements for the entry of Olympic participants, a large number of corona infections occurred in connection with the Olympic Games in Beijing. A total of 353 corona cases have been registered since January 23 (as of February 5, 2022).

    The corona infected people are transported from their hotels in ambulances to special quarantine hotels, where they have to spend a ten-day quarantine in a hotel room. Those affected can only leave the hotel before the end of the ten-day period after two negative PCR tests at least 24 hours apart. After ten days, only a negative PCR test is required.

    In the German Olympic squad, figure skater Nolan Seegert and Nordic combined athletes Eric Frenzel and Terence Weber became infected with Corona.

    A number of favorites in their respective disciplines missed all or part of the Olympic Games due to corona infections, including Marita Kramer , Daniel-André Tande , Johann André Forfang and Nikita Tregubow .

    mascot

    The mascots are giant panda Bing Dwen Dwen and Chinese lantern Shuey Rhong Rhong.

    media

    The European television and multiplatform broadcasting rights were sold by the IOC to Discovery Communications , mother of Eurosport . On August 11, 2017, the media group and the broadcasters ARD and ZDF agreed on the acquisition of sublicenses after long negotiations. The two German broadcasters are now allowed to broadcast "live segments" from the next four Olympic Games on radio, television and also in their media libraries. However, at the 2018 Winter Olympics, only "extensive highlights" were broadcast from the figure skating, short track and snowboarding competitions.

    Even in the run-up to the Winter Games, international journalists reported on massive hindrances to their work by the Chinese authorities. A report by the Foreign Correspondents Club in China (FCCC) speaks of insults, threats and bans on entry. The journalists' association also complained about the politicization of the Winter Games by the Chinese leadership.

    According to research by the British daily The Guardian , China's state leadership has hired an "army of western social media influencers" to spread the state narrative of supposedly undisturbed winter games in the context of the Olympic Winter Games. Among other things, influencers who are active on TikTok and Instagram are mentioned.

    Diplomatic boycott for human rights violations

    As of March 2021, more than 180 human rights organizations and politicians had called on the United States to boycott the 2022 Winter Games . They cited the suppression or forced Sinicization of the Uyghurs and the repression of the activists of the Hong Kong protests in 2019/2020 as justification . This authoritarian policy disqualifies Beijing from hosting the Winter Games.

    On December 3, 2021, Lithuania announced a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Games after China suspended trade ties with Lithuania over a dispute over Taiwan 's status . Three days later, the US government under President Joe Biden announced that it would not be sending any diplomatic or official representatives to the Winter Games. The reasons given were human rights violations, including the persecution and re-education of Uyghurs and crimes against humanity in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region . The case of Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai also contributed to the diplomatic Olympic boycott . A complete boycott was refrained from because one did not want to punish the athletes. Australia , New Zealand , Canada and the United Kingdom joined the diplomatic boycott. Following the diplomatic boycott initiated by Joe Biden, the US government requested three-month stay visas for 18 officials to provide "security support operations" for the Winter Games. Likewise, the government of Japan stated that no government ministers will travel to the Winter Games in China. Similarly, the governments of Estonia , Latvia and Belgium are diplomatically boycotting the Winter Olympics. On December 29, 2021, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock announced that she would not be traveling to the Winter Games in China, as did German Sports Minister Nancy Faeser in January 2022 . The government of Sweden said it would not send diplomatic representatives to China because of the corona pandemic. On January 14, 2022, the governments of Denmark and the Netherlands also announced that they would not send diplomatic representatives. Shortly before the start of the games, the government of India also announced a diplomatic boycott of the games in China.

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    itemizations

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