About the Games

Having won the bid for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games on 31 July 2015, Beijing became the first city in the world to have hosted both the summer and winter editions of the Olympic Games.

With a vision of “Joyful Rendezvous upon Pure Ice and Snow,” Beijing 2022 built on the legacies of the landmark Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and encouraged 300 million people across China to embrace winter sports.

The 109 events in seven Olympic winter sports were held in the three competition zones of central Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou.

Three competition zones

Beijing hosted four snow events (snowboard big air and freestyle skiing big air, men’s and women’s), plus all the ice events (curling, ice hockey and skating), making use of the legacy venues of Beijing 2008.

Yanqing, a suburban district of Beijing (80km to the northwest) and home to the famous Badaling and Juyongguan stretches of the Great Wall, hosted the Alpine skiing and sliding (bobsleigh, skeleton and luge) events.

Zhangjiakou, further to the northwest in the neighbouring Hebei province, hosted all the other snow events (snowboard, freestyle skiing, cross country skiing, ski jumping, Nordic combined and biathlon) in its Chongli district, a popular skiing destination.

The Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway, completed in 2019, cut travel time from Beijing to Yanqing to 20 minutes, and from Beijing to Zhangjiakou to 50 minutes.

Seven new events

The addition of seven new events - women’s monobob, freestyle skiing big air (men’s and women’s), and mixed team events in short track speed skating team relay, ski jumping, freestyle skiing aerials and snowboard cross - to Beijing 2022’s sports programme brought about the most gender-balanced Olympic Winter Games to date, with more female athletes (45.44 percent) and women's events than at any previous Games.

Spring Festival (Chinese New Year)

The Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 took place in February 2022, coinciding with the Chinese New Year (Spring Festival), the most important holiday in China. Local residents welcomed athletes from around the globe, encouraging them to enjoy the Chinese New Year festivities, the majestic landscape and the rich cultures of Beijing, Yanqing, and Zhangjiakou.