Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic speed skating venue completed (Xinhua) 10:44, December 26, 2020 BEIJING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) The construction of the National Speed Skating Hall for Beijing 2022, also known as the Ice Ribbon was completed on Friday and will start ice-making in January of 2021 , according to the Beijing Major Projects Construction Headquarters Office. As the only newly-built competition venue for ice events in the Beijing Winter Olympics, it covers an area of about 80,000 square meters and can accommodate about 12,000 spectators. During the Winter Olympics, it will host the speed skating competitions which offer 14 gold medals. According to the project manager, the venue has made innovative breakthroughs in its design concept, technical process, material selection and construction techniques. It adopts a high-tech curved curtain wall system, which is assembled out of 3,360 curved glass units, and successfully creates a ribbon shape that symbolizes the hig
“Ice Cube” for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics begins trial operation The National Aquatics Center, known as the “Water Cube,” has been converted to the “Ice Cube” and began trial operation on Dec. 21, 2020, according to the Beijing Major Projects Construction Headquarters Office. More than 800 junior high school students came to the curling venue for the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games on Dec. 21 to experience curling on four standard tracks.
Photo shows the curling field with four standard tracks at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. (Photo/Xinhua) The venue will start official operation from Jan. 1, 2021, said Yang Qiyong, general manager of the center.
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