Can you tell me about the Winter Olympics?

Introduction: The Winter Olympics are referred to as the Winter Olympics and the Winter Olympics. Mainly held by regions around the world, it is the world's largest comprehensive winter sports meeting. It is held every four years and has been held alternately with the Summer Olympics since 1994. Participating countries are mainly distributed around the world, including Europe, Africa, America, Asia, and Oceania. Sponsored by the International Olympic Committee. The number of sessions will be calculated based on the actual number of times held.

In 1986, the International Olympic Committee Plenary Session decided to separate the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics from 1994 and hold them every two years. The 1992 Winter Olympics was the last Winter Olympics to be held in the same year as the Summer Olympics. meeting. Since the first session in 1924, as of 2018, 23 sessions have been held, one every four years.

The 24th Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou, China from February 4, 2022 to February 20, 2022.

Development history:

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the shadow of the Olympic Games slowly took shape.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, some ice and snow sports such as skiing, sledding, skating, ice hockey and other projects gradually became popular and developed in European and American countries.

In 1887, Norway established the world's first ski club

In 1890, Canada established the world's first ice hockey association.

The International Skating Union was established in the Netherlands in 1892.

In 1893, the first men's speed skating championship was held in Amsterdam.

In 1908, France established the worldwide International Ice Hockey Federation.

With the increasing popularity of ice and snow sports, Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, suggested holding the Winter Olympics separately. However, due to the successful holding of the Nordic combined sports in Scandinavia in Europe in 1901, it was being delayed.

Figure skating was added to the 4th Summer Olympics in 1908.

The 7th Summer Olympics was held in 1920.

The International Olympic Committee refused to accept Nordic combined events and added ice hockey. The addition of figure skating and ice hockey to the Olympic Games aroused great interest from the audience, but weather conditions caused a lot of inconvenience to the organizers. Although both events were held in April, most competitions and the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games were held in August. It won't be held until mid-month. This makes an Olympic Games take up to five months, which consumes too much manpower and material resources. In view of this, people tend to separate the ice and snow events from the Olympic Games and conduct separate ice and snow Olympics.

The official Winter Olympic Games were formed in 1924.

At that time, the city of Chamonix in France hosted what was then called the "Winter Sports Week". Two years later, the International Olympic Committee officially changed its name to the 1st Winter Olympics.

The Winter Olympics were originally scheduled to be held every four years, in the same year and in the same country as the Summer Olympics. Starting from the 2nd Winter Olympics in 1928, the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics were held in different countries. Since 1994, the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics have been held alternately with an interval of two years. In order to stagger the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics, only the 1992 Winter Olympics and the 1994 Winter Olympics were separated by two years.

Extended information:

The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics emblem is inspired by the Chinese character "winter" and uses the artistic form of Chinese calligraphy to combine the rich oriental cultural heritage with international The modern style is integrated to present a new image and new dream of China in the new era, conveying that in the new era China is striving to successfully host the Beijing Winter Olympics, realize the dream of the Winter Olympics, and achieve the goal of "300 million people participating in ice and snow sports" to realize the sports The dream of a powerful country, the unremitting efforts and beautiful pursuit of promoting the development of world ice and snow sports, and making new contributions to the international Olympic movement.

The upper part of the emblem graphic shows the figure of a skater, and the lower part shows the heroic posture of a skier. The dancing lines in the middle are smooth and full of rhythm, representing the undulating mountains, competition venues, ice and snow slides and festive flying ribbons of the venue. It adds a festive and festive visual experience to the emblem and also symbolizes that the Beijing Winter Olympics will be held during the Chinese Spring Festival. .

The main color of the emblem is blue, which means dreams and future, as well as the brightness and purity of ice and snow.

The red and yellow colors are derived from the Chinese national flag and represent the passion, youth and vitality of sports.

The shape of the "BEIJING 2022" font draws on the characteristics of Chinese calligraphy and paper-cutting, which enhances the cultural connotation and expressiveness of the font, and also reflects the overall sense and unity with the emblem graphics.

References Winter Olympic Games-Baidu Encyclopedia