BEJING, Jan 23 to work and began to receive members of foreign delegations, while their official opening will take place on January 27, when the bulk of athletes from all over the world will begin to arrive, the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee said. Martha. The upcoming Games are notable for the fact that the competitions will be held in three clusters at once — Beijing (hockey, figure skating, speed skating, curling), Zhangjiakou (biathlon, cross-country skiing, snowboarding, ski jumping) and Yanqing (alpine skiing, bobsleigh, skeleton and luge sport). Accordingly, there are also three Olympic villages for the Winter Olympics in China. Designing, selecting a site and building villages took about five years, China is fully prepared to provide a warm welcome and service to athletes and official delegations from all over the world 24 hours a day during the Olympics and the Paralympic Games. All villages are included in the so-called «closed circuit», organized due to the pandemic, from which it is impossible to leave. You can move between villages and Olympic venues on specialized buses along a dedicated Olympic lane, and there is also a high-speed train between Beijing and Zhangjiakou. on the occasion of which the villages will be decorated with traditional red lanterns and hieroglyphs for «happiness» cut out of red paper.
