In a few days, the Beijing Winter Olympics will kick off. As the first “Double Olympic City” in the history of the Olympic Games, Beijing joined hands with Zhangjiakou to warmly welcome ice and snow athletes from all over the world to show their sports skills on the stage of the Winter Olympics. Guided by the Olympic motto of “faster, higher, stronger – more united”, this grand stage is not only a field for athletes to show their talents, but also promotes the Olympic Games of “mutual understanding, friendship, solidarity and fair competition” The spirit continues to flourish.
Taking the preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics as an opportunity, Olympic education activities have been widely carried out in various places. In the campus, in the community, in the enterprise… The Olympic education activities attract more and more people to participate in the vivid and interesting forms and rich and diverse contents. Under the upsurge of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports”, Olympic culture spreads more widely and infiltrates people’s lives.
Olympics come to you and me
In winter, at an indoor ski resort in Chongqing, students from Youyou Road Primary School in Yuzhong District are carrying out an ice and snow-themed activity to welcome the Winter Olympics. Through the instructor’s explanation and snow experience, the children developed a strong interest in skiing. The teacher who led the team introduced that when the Beijing Winter Olympics was approaching, the school took various forms to let students know about ice and snow sports and use practical actions to help the Winter Olympics.
Let more people participate in ice and snow sports, which is also the meaning of the Olympic movement. Teenagers are the future of ice and snow sports, and extensive and in-depth implementation of ice and snow sports into campus activities will spread the seeds of ice and snow sports in the hearts of young people, and the foundation of popular ice and snow sports will be more solid.
In recent years, primary and secondary schools in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province have built more than 160 campus ice rinks, which greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of local primary and secondary school students to play ice. Since 2015, more than 700,000 primary and secondary school students in Zhangjiakou City have participated in ice and snow sports experience, and the penetration rate of ice and snow sports has reached 100%. With the help of the preparation of the Winter Olympics, by the end of 2021, there will be 835 Olympic education demonstration schools nationwide, and 2,062 schools featuring ice and snow sports.
A few days ago, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics Youth Knowledge Reader (Primary and Middle School Editions), jointly compiled by the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and Beijing Publishing Group, was officially released, giving young people a more professional experience in watching the Winter Olympics. guide. In 2021, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee will carry out Olympic education teacher training online and offline, training more than 1,300 teachers from all over the country, radiating more than 600,000 students; inviting athletes, education experts, etc. to conduct more than 10 online live classes on the theme of the Winter Olympics , the cumulative number of views exceeded 2 million.
Ignite the passion for ice and snow sports
“In the 1997 Freestyle Skiing World Cup Australia, I chose the most difficult action for women in the world at that time. Skate, fly, turn, and land firmly. When the score was displayed on the scoreboard, the surrounding foreign athletes cheered. Come to me and congratulate me on winning the championship!” Guo Dandan has been passionate about his experience of winning the first world championship in Chinese skiing history to the audience over and over again since joining the Beijing Winter Olympics Publicity Team.
In 2017, the Beijing Winter Olympics Publicity Mission was established. For more than 4 years, this team of Winter Olympic builders and representatives of participants has traveled from Beijing to various places. The team continues to grow, and the responsibilities of the players have not changed: to popularize Olympic knowledge through their own experience, carry forward the Olympic spirit, and ignite people’s enthusiasm for ice and snow sports.
“Sport teaches us to strive for excellence in all our activities, to respect ourselves, to be united with our neighbors, to live in a friendly and peaceful atmosphere, and to follow the spirit of fair play in everything.” IOC President Thomas Bach said, “Sport is not only about competition, it is always more important to instill the sportsmanship, ideals and beliefs contained in it to the world.”
Following the footsteps of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Olympic education continues to advance. The Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee introduced the “Olympic Values Education” promoted by the International Olympic Committee. As of November last year, the Chinese versions of Olympic Values Education and Paralympic Values Education have distributed more than 60,000 copies to schools around the world.
On October 27, 2021, on the occasion of the 100-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the “Welcome to the Future” Chinese and foreign youth people-to-people and cultural exchange activities and the second “Sino-foreign people-to-people and cultural exchange ambassadors” 100-day countdown to the Winter Olympics will be online. conduct. Teenagers from more than 20 countries (regions) including Malaysia and Italy sang and expressed their enthusiasm for the Winter Olympics. Exchange messengers from 11 provinces in China sang and danced, extending a hand of friendship to friends from these countries (regions). With the Beijing Winter Olympics as a medium, the seeds of solidarity and friendship have quietly taken root and sprouted.
Build a better world together
“Sports make the world a better place”, the preparation process for the Beijing Winter Olympics provides a realistic model for the vision of this Olympic movement.
“More unity” is written into the Olympic motto, and “Together to the future” has become the theme slogan of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which will more strongly promote the trend of peace, friendship and progress.
The preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympics has given new practical significance to Olympic education with practical actions. The National Speed Skating Stadium has become the first speed skating venue in the world to use carbon dioxide ice-making technology. The completion of the Beijing-Zhangjiakou high-speed railway has established the Beijing-Zhangjiakou “one-hour economic circle”, and the goal of “driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports” has been achieved ahead of schedule… …The concept of “green, shared, open, and clean” throughout the preparations for the Winter Olympics has been fully reflected in venue construction, regional development, national fitness, etc., and it is also in line with the IOC’s future reform and development ideas. From focusing on sustainability, environmental protection, and the healthy growth of young people, the Olympic Movement has always been an active advocate and practitioner of building a better world.
The upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics will be an excellent carrier for Olympic education. “Through this grand event, the public will be widely inspired, and everyone will be encouraged to participate in sports, so as to promote the improvement of personal comprehensive quality. This is the embodiment of the value of the Olympic movement, and it is also the significance of carrying out Olympic education.” Beijing Winter Sun Bin, director of the Education and Public Engagement Division of the Press and Publicity Department of the Olympic Organizing Committee, said.
