the pyeongchang winter paralympic games closed on 18, and the winter Olympics bid farewell to pyeongchang and came to Beijing. What experience and lessons does Pyeongchang have in hosting the Games that Beijing can learn from? Experts such as IOC officials, officials of the local organizing committee and officials of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee made suggestions when interviewed by Xinhua News Agency.
Sports Diplomacy and Highlights
Li Xifan, chairman of Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, said that the focus of this competition is to build a "cultural Olympics", "peace Olympics" and "high-tech Olympics", among which "peace Olympics" is of historic significance to South Korea. At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, the DPRK and the ROK jointly entered the stadium and formed a women's ice hockey team to participate. This is the first time in the history of the Olympic Games that the two countries have teamed up to participate.
The host attaches great importance to cultural display, such as opening libraries in the Olympic Village and the Media Village, tourism projects with ethnic characteristics, teaching and writing Korean characters and other activities. Intelligent robots and 5G technology displays for sweeping the floor can be seen everywhere inside and outside the stadium, which also reflects South Korea's focus on the high-tech Olympics.
Experts pointed out that South Korea is making great efforts to carry out "sports diplomacy" and highlight cultural and scientific characteristics through the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, while the Beijing Winter Olympics also needs to be considered. What does China hope to highlight through the Beijing Winter Olympics? What ideas and new ideas do you want to bring to the world? How to show the image and cultural self-confidence of a big country? These should be fully planned and the platform for the Winter Olympics should be well utilized.
Bach, president of the International Olympic Committee, hopes that apart from the tangible legacy, the Beijing Winter Olympics will leave a great intangible legacy. The emblem of Beijing Winter Olympics was officially released last year, and the collection of mascots will begin in 2118, followed by the collection and release of the slogan of the Winter Olympics. Experts believe that we should make good use of these nodes of the Winter Olympics to spread culture and ideas.
The "most economical" Olympic Games in history. Bach hopes to set a benchmark in Beijing.
The frugal hosting of the Games has been specially advocated by the International Olympic Committee recently. Before the opening of this Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee introduced the "new rules" for hosting the Olympic Games, which President Bach called "the most economical in history". Bach hopes that the Beijing Winter Olympics will set a new benchmark for the implementation of this new regulation.
The total investment of PyeongChang Winter Olympics is about 14 trillion won (about 13 billion US dollars), which is much less than the last Winter Olympics in Sochi. Many Olympic facilities in Pyeongchang can be dismantled after the Games, which not only reduces capital investment, but also saves maintenance and management costs. The Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium in Gangneung is only the performance venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games, and will be demolished after the games. Other venues are basically "meeting the needs of competition". The venue operation center of Phoenix Snow Park has three functions: venue operation, venue communication center and venue meeting room, but it is only a simple container house, which will be demolished after the competition, which will not affect the normal opening of the ski resort after the competition.
in order to save costs, the organizing Committee has omitted the shuttle bus operation in many "non-competition venues", and many project venues have no shuttle bus "stations" at all, but only set up stations on the roadside. However, because the organizing committee provides the mobile phone client with shuttle bus information, it is easy to check the time, so the overall shuttle bus runs in an orderly manner.
Yang Yang, a member of the International Olympic Committee who just stepped down, said: "The new rules for hosting the Olympic Games introduced by the International Olympic Committee are subversive." For example, the Olympic Village is a big part of the Olympic operation investment, but the peak occupancy period of the Olympic Village is actually only two days, and many teams often choose to stay in hotels next to training venues in order to ensure training, resulting in many beds being wasted in the Olympic Village. In addition, the Olympic Village Restaurant is now operating 24 hours a day. In the future, it may only be necessary to ensure that some athletes have food when they come to the restaurant due to training and jet lag.
However, she also warned that while reducing the budget, we should also protect the Olympic value and its attraction, especially not affecting the athletes' experience. As the guarantee of the PyeongChang Winter Olympics basically depends on the independent support of the organizing committee, this time, some viewers and reporters also reported that car ferry is not enough and the catering in the venue can't keep up.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the ice events will be concentrated in the urban area of Beijing, while the snow events will be held in Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, which is similar to the situation in Pyeongchang. Li Xifan said that how to transport the contestants and spectators of snow events during the games requires careful preparation in advance.
the pyeongchang challenge reminds Beijing to take a warning
the pyeongchang winter Olympics has also encountered many challenges, such as norovirus, severe cold weather, treatment of volunteers, and traffic between venues, which also reminds Beijing to take a warning.
Li Xifan said, firstly, the Winter Olympics happened to coincide with the Korean Lunar New Year holiday, with more than 211,111 people coming to watch the games at the peak, while the population in the area where the games were held was only 6,111, so it encountered difficulties in transportation, accommodation and other supporting facilities. Therefore, how to solve the surge in demand for personnel transportation and accommodation in a short period of time during the games is very important; Secondly, the outdoor temperature of the snow project is more than MINUS 21 degrees Celsius, and the volunteers in Pyeongchang also have a lot of dissatisfaction with the organizing committee at the beginning, so there should be sufficient plans to ensure the warmth and health of athletes, staff and volunteers.
in pyeongchang, the business backbones selected by BOCOG personally participated in various positions and found many bright spots and shortcomings. For example, after the opening ceremony, there was a problem with the evacuation of nearly 51,111 spectators. Because there was no public transportation such as subway and bus nearby, a large number of people waited for two or three hours in the cold wind, relying only on the car ferry provided by the organizing committee. Experts believe that the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be held in the "Bird's Nest". At that time, we should make good use of the city's public transport system and coordinate the evacuation.
China is short of talents in the planning and design of snow sports venues, competition organization and management, and technical support for competitions. In fact, South Korea also has this problem. Xu Jicheng, deputy director of the Press and Publicity Department of BOCOG, who visited Pyeongchang Alpine Ski Center, said that Pyeongchang introduced the 151-person track team of Sochi Winter Olympics as a whole to lead the team, and the organizing committee assigned 131 Koreans to mix the teams. After the international team left, these 131 Koreans became high-level experts. This method can also be used for reference for Beijing.
In terms of the popularization of ice and snow events, Korean local audiences are not interested in traditional popular events of the Winter Olympics, such as biathlon, alpine skiing and cross-country skiing, and the Beijing Winter Olympics is also facing the same problem. Experts believe that how to introduce ice and snow competitions, especially snow events, in four years to help people make up for the "should know and should meet" of ice and snow events is also very important for creating a good atmosphere for the Winter Olympics.