XXIV Olympic Winter Games 2022 in Beijing

About games

• Beijing is the host city of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022. The games were held in three clusters: Beijing, Yanqing, northwest of the capital, and Zhangjiakou, which is located 200 km from Beijing, and can be reached by high-speed train in an hour.

• The Games featured competitions in 15 disciplines in the following sports: biathlon, bobsleigh and skeleton, alpine skiing, curling, speed skating and short track, cross-country skiing, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, hockey, luge, snowboarding, figure skating, freestyle.

• 109 sets of medals were awarded, seven more than at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang. New disciplines are included in the program of competitions in bobsleigh, short track, freestyle skiing, ski jumping and snowboarding.

• The official mascot of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in 2022 in Beijing is a giant panda named Bing Dundun. The global competition, announced by the Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee, attracted 5,800 sketches of the mascot not only from China, but also from 35 countries around the world. The choice of panda as the mascot of the Beijing Games was predictable, because the big panda is the national symbol of China. The panda was also one of the five mascots of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008.