Sports diplomacy and key display
Li Xifan, Chairman of the Organizing Committee of PyeongChang Winter Olympics, 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 entered the stadium together to form a women's ice hockey team. 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, developing tourism projects with ethnic characteristics, teaching and writing Korean characters and other activities. Intelligent robots and 5G technology displays can be seen everywhere inside and outside the stadium, which also reflects South Korea's emphasis on the high-tech Olympics.
Experts pointed out that South Korea has vigorously carried out "sports diplomacy" through the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, highlighting cultural and scientific characteristics, and 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? All these should be fully planned and the platform of the Winter Olympics should be well used.
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 start on 20 18, 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.
Bach hopes to set a benchmark in Beijing by hosting the Olympic Games "the most economical in history".
Thrift is a special initiative recently advocated by the International Olympic Committee. Before the opening of this Winter Olympics, the International Olympic Committee issued "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 (about1300 million 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. Gangneung Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium is only the performance venue for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, and will be demolished after the games. Other venues are basically "meeting the needs of the 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, and will not affect the normal opening of the ski resort after the competition.
In order to save costs, the Organizing Committee omitted the shuttle bus operation in many "non-competition venues", and many project venues did not have shuttle bus "stops" at all, but only set up stops on the roadside. However, because the organizing committee provides shuttle bus information to the mobile phone client, it is convenient to check the time, so the overall shuttle bus runs orderly.
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 large part of the Olympic operation investment, but the peak occupancy period of the Olympic Village is actually only two days. Many teams often choose to stay in hotels next to training venues in order to ensure training, resulting in a lot of beds being wasted in the Olympic Village. In addition, the Olympic Village restaurant is now open 24 hours a day. In the future, it may be just because of training and jet lag, so it is necessary to ensure that some athletes have food when they come to the restaurant.
But she also reminded that while reducing the budget, we should also protect the Olympic value and its attraction, especially the athletes' experience. Since the guarantee of PyeongChang Winter Olympics basically depends on the independent support of the organizing committee, some spectators and reporters also reported that there were not enough car ferries and the catering in the venue could not keep up.
The opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the ice events will be held in downtown Beijing, while the snow events will be held in Yanqing and Zhangjiakou, similar to the situation in Pyeongchang. Li Xifan said that how to transport the contestants and spectators of snow events during the competition requires careful preparation in advance.
The Pyeongchang Challenge reminds Beijing to take a warning.
The PyeongChang Winter Olympics also encountered many challenges, such as norovirus, cold weather, volunteer treatment, and transportation between venues, which also reminded Beijing to take a warning.
Li Xifan said, firstly, the Winter Olympics happened to coincide with the Korean Lunar New Year holiday. At the peak, more than 200,000 people came to watch the games, but the population of the area where the games were held was only 6,000, so it was difficult to get transportation and accommodation. Therefore, it is very important to solve the surge in personnel transportation and accommodation needs in a short time during the Games. Secondly, the outdoor temperature of the snow project is more than MINUS 20 degrees Celsius. At first, volunteers in Pyeongchang also had a lot of dissatisfaction with the organizing committee, so there should be sufficient plans to ensure the warmth and health of athletes, staff and volunteers.
In Pyeongchang, the business backbone selected by the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee 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 50 thousand spectators. Because there are no public transportation tools such as subway and bus nearby, a large number of people have waited for two or three hours in the cold wind and have to rely 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 this time, we should make good use of the city's public transport system and coordinate evacuation.
China is short of talents in the planning and design of ice and snow sports venues, competition organization and management, competition technical support and so on. In fact, South Korea also has this problem. Xu Jicheng, deputy director of BOCOG's press and publicity department who visited Pyeongchang Alpine Ski Center, said that Pyeongchang led the track team of Sochi Winter Olympics with 150 people as a whole, and the organizing committee assigned 130 Koreans to form a mixed team. After the international team left, 130 Koreans became senior experts. This method can also be used for reference in Beijing.
In terms of the popularity of ice and snow events, Korean local audiences are not interested in traditional popular winter Olympic events 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 what to do" of ice and snow events is also very important for creating a good atmosphere for the Winter Olympics.