A full-element drill of the award ceremony will be held at the Beijing Awards Plaza of the Winter Olympics, and the medal award ceremony will be undertaken for 32 events during the game.
Beijing News (Reporter Wu Wei) On the afternoon of January 3, the Beijing Awards Plaza, an important non-competition venue for the Beijing Winter Olympics, held an all-element drill for the award ceremony. The reporter learned from the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee that this is the first full-process makeup exercise at the Beijing Awards Plaza, which indicates that the Beijing Awards Plaza has the conditions for race-time operation.
The Beijing Awards Plaza is located between the National Stadium (Bird’s Nest) and the National Aquatics Center (Ice Cube) in the central area of the Beijing Olympic Park.
The awarding square is an important cultural feature that distinguishes the Winter Olympics from the Summer Olympics. As the host and exhibition venue of the Beijing Winter Olympics awards ceremony, Beijing Awards Plaza shoulders the important task of spreading the Olympic spirit. It will present the highlights of athletes around the world and demonstrate the charm of Chinese culture.
As an important non-competitive venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics, the Beijing Awards Plaza will award medals to the winning athletes in the Beijing competition area, raise the national flag (regional flag) of the country (region) to which the winning athlete belongs, and play the national anthem of the country (region) to which the champion belongs.
According to Wei Xiaomei, deputy director of the media of Beijing Awards Plaza, the temporary facilities of Beijing Awards Plaza were constructed by Beitou Group. The construction started on September 8, 2021, and it took more than three months to complete. The Beijing Awards Plaza will run for a total of 14 days (February 6 to February 19, 2022), undertaking the medal award ceremonies for 32 events of the Beijing Winter Olympics (1-4 events/day), and Olympic broadcasting services The company will conduct a global live broadcast of the award ceremony; in addition to the celebration ceremony, it will also gather more than 30 professional fields such as broadcast services, media operations, and event services.
The main stage of the Beijing Awards Plaza adopts the design concept of “Beauty and Co-existence”, which fully embodies the spiritual connotation of “the beauty of each, the beauty of the beauty, the beauty of the same, the world is the same” in the traditional Chinese culture, and embodies the beauty and coexistence of the global human family. Beautiful vision.
The stage design also incorporates the visual elements of the “Igloo”, which has both the characteristics of ice and snow and the warmth of “home”. Athletes from all over the world gather in the awarding square to respect, communicate and appreciate each other and spend the Chinese New Year together.
The Beijing Awards Plaza stage is creative, designed and produced by Beijing Beiao Group, the sponsor of the official sports exhibition and award ceremony service for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics. According to Yang Muzi, deputy general manager of Bei’ao Group, from stage creative planning to theme positioning, from the first stage hand-painted drawing to the completion of the “Igloo”, Bei’ao Group has assembled professional forces from all parties to carefully plan and implement carefully, and finally formed the winter The overall shape of the Olympic awards stage is organically integrated with the surrounding environment, complementing each other, blending and beautiful.
It is reported that before and after each award ceremony, live performances will be held on the awards plaza to highlight the atmosphere of the awards ceremony. Through cultural performances, light shows, and singing of the theme song “Salute to the Warriors” in the award plaza, it pays tribute to the award-winning athletes from all over the world. The world showcases Chinese culture.
On the evening of December 31, 2021, the awarding elements of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be officially released, including the award table, award tray, award tray placement table, customized version of the mascot souvenir of the award-winning athletes, award bouquet and award ceremony costumes .
The awards ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics is based on the theme of “Ice and Snow Glory”. Various award elements are combined with shining medals, cheering for the outstanding performance of the ice and snow athletes, paying tribute to the athletes’ fighting spirit, and at the same time showing Out of the unique charm of Chinese etiquette culture.
Podium
Taking the “Sky Blue” in the Beijing Winter Olympics color system as the main color, using core graphics and ice and snow lines, the overall image is simple and generous. The box body is made of recyclable and environmentally friendly materials. The honeycomb-shaped inner core increases the load-bearing capacity while reducing its own weight. The countertop is covered with low-temperature anti-skid soft pads to meet the requirements of ice and snow projects. At the same time, the modular assembly and assembly method is adopted, which can be quickly moved and assembled to meet the needs of rapid conversion from single-person projects to multi-person projects. The appearance design of the Paralympic Games podium is consistent with that of the Winter Olympics. In order to meet the needs of disabled athletes, a barrier-free ramp design has been added.
Award tray placement table
The award tray placement table will be used by the staff to secure the trays with medals and souvenirs in the awards venue in advance for the guests to use. The award tray placement table is divided into two types, large table and small table, which are used for multi-person events and single-person events respectively. The exterior color adopts “Tianji Blue” and “Beijing 2022” seal, which is suitable for the Winter Olympics and Paralympics. The outer cover of the large platform is made of highly elastic and breathable knitted fabric. Both models of the platform have been designed with counterweights to fully consider the safety of the outdoor stadium under the strong wind environment.
Award tray
The shape resembles an open book page, implying that through the Beijing Winter Olympics, a new chapter of Chinese culture and friendship between various countries has been opened to the world. The edge of the tray adopts a blue and white gradient design, presenting a “smudged” oriental aesthetic conception, symbolizing the integration of Chinese culture and world culture, and embodying China’s open, friendly, peaceful, and tolerant mind. The tray is made of environmentally friendly materials, and the surface of the tray is padded with a non-slip silicone pad to effectively prevent medals and souvenirs from slipping off.
Award-winning athletes customized version of mascot souvenirs
The customized version of the mascot souvenir is a souvenir awarded to the award-winning athletes at the souvenir award ceremony held in the competition venue. The overall design is based on Bingdundun and Xuerongrong, the mascots of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, and is supplemented by a garland woven of pine, bamboo and plum, forming an exclusive customized souvenir for the award-winning athletes. The pine, bamboo and plum, known as the “Three Friends of the Years and Colds”, symbolizes tenacity, tenacity and vigorous vitality, and expresses praise, respect and good wishes to the award-winning athletes. The wreath shape is made of golden PU filled cotton, which is soft and warm and easy to hold.
Award bouquet
In order to practice the concept of frugal and sustainable running of the Olympic Games, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympics will use hand-knitted knitting bouquets as award bouquets, which will be awarded to the award-winning athletes together with the medals in the medal awarding ceremony. The cashmere bouquet not only retains the shape of the bouquet in the Olympic award ceremony, but also implements the concept of sustainability. It implies warmth and harmony. It can be preserved forever and become “the Olympic flower that never fades.”
The awards bouquets for the Winter Olympics include 6 beautiful flower types including rose, rose, lily of the valley, hydrangea, laurel and olive, which symbolize friendship, tenacity, happiness, unity, victory and peace respectively. The bouquet ribbon is the color system of the Beijing Winter Olympics The blue in the middle, with the combination of shades, highlights the elements of ice and snow sports. In the Paralympic Winter Olympics awards bouquet, a blue cosmos is added to the Winter Olympics awards bouquet, which symbolizes strongness. The bouquet ribbon is yellow in the Beijing Winter Olympics color system, and the shades match, implying vigor and vitality. vigorous.
Award ceremony costume
There are three sets of plans. They are “Ruixue Xiangyun”, “Hongyun Landscape” and “Tanghua Feixue”.
The design of “Ruixue Xiangyun” is based on the two traditional Chinese auspicious symbols of “Ruixue” and “Auspicious Clouds”. The colors use Tianji blue and Xiaguang red, and combine traditional Chinese cross-collar right gussets and double-breasted jackets with modern clothing. While refining the core graphic elements of the Winter Olympics, the technique of “golden blue landscape” in traditional Chinese painting is transformed into the form of embroidery. The overall dress shows the Chinese charm with modern and simple techniques. It will appear in the award ceremonies of all snow stadiums during the game.
The design of “Hongyun Landscape” is inspired by the famous Chinese painting “A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains”, using the expression techniques of landscapes in Chinese paintings, combining traditional Chinese landscape images with mountain shadows in the core graphics of the Winter Olympics, blending classic and modern, blue and white The landscape leaps into the dressing room, achieving a simple, elegant, fresh and smooth visual appearance. It will appear in the award ceremonies of all ice stadiums during the game.
The design of “Tanghua Feixue” series is inspired by traditional Chinese Tang Dynasty fabrics, refined and simplified patterns and snowflake patterns, combined with the light patterns in the core graphics of the Beijing Winter Olympics, rich in Han and Tang dynasties and the spirit of the times, meaning openness The heart of welcome all countries in the world to participate in the event. It will appear at the award ceremony in the awards plaza during the game.
The three series of award-giving costumes are divided into leader costumes and pallet costumes, which are distinguished by blue and red respectively. Each set of award clothing includes jackets, hats, gloves, non-slip boots, self-heating thermal underwear and other sets.
■ Secret
Ceremonial clothing for awards can keep warm at -30℃
During the game, the lowest temperature in the awards square of Zhangjiakou competition area is likely to reach minus 30 degrees Celsius. The ceremonial costumes for the awards should not only present the dignified and generous image of the ceremonial staff, but also meet the requirements of cold protection and warmth.
According to the relevant person in charge of Bei’ao Group, after many discussions and repeated comparisons and tests, the three sets of award ceremony costumes are all made of polyimide fiber materials according to different award scenarios. This material has been applied in the aerospace field and has the advantages of high and low temperature resistance, good skin adaptability, and low thermal conductivity of the material itself.
The production team strictly controls the design plans, fabrics, and production techniques of the award-giving clothing. Repeated researches on the use of clothing fabrics and the use of different materials in low-temperature environments and thermal insulation performance. After low-temperature thermal insulation tests, the problem of thermal insulation is finally solved. From the initial design of the clothing to the formal delivery, the production team lasted 20 months to ensure the smooth appearance of the award ceremony costumes.
Recyclable and environmentally friendly materials are used for the podium, etc.
The production of materials such as the award table, award tray, and award tray placement table of the Beijing Winter Olympics also fully reflects the sustainable development, and they are all made of environmentally friendly materials.
“The podium box is made of recyclable and environmentally friendly materials, and the honeycomb-shaped inner core increases the load-bearing capacity while reducing its own weight. The podium is covered with low-temperature and non-slip soft cushions to meet the requirements of ice and snow projects.” The relevant person in charge of Bei’ao Group introduced. Through modular assembly and insertion, the award table can be quickly moved and assembled to meet the rapid conversion needs from single-person projects to multi-person projects.
The stand is a unique awarding element in the “non-contact” award ceremony, and it follows the overall requirements of the International Olympic Committee for the non-contact award ceremony of the award ceremony. The storage table is divided into two types, large table and small table, which are used for multi-person events and single-person events respectively. The outer cover of the big platform is made of highly elastic and breathable knitted fabric. Taking into account the safety of use in the strong wind environment of outdoor stadiums, the two types of storage tables are designed with scientific counterweights.
217 people from 11 universities participated in the award ceremony training
The use and atmosphere creation of the Beijing Winter Olympics awards are inseparable from the guidance and support of the award ceremony personnel. From April to June 2021, after a three-month recruitment, a total of 217 candidates from 11 universities including Beijing Sport University, China Women’s University, and Capital University of Economics and Business participated in the award ceremony training.
In order to train a team of etiquette personnel that meet the technical standards of the International Olympic Committee and the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, the teacher training team has built a complete teaching system that includes teaching courses, action standards, awards streamlines and other professional content, and implemented basic knowledge Training from lectures to professional movement training, from etiquette marching combination to awarding synthetic exercises.
At the end of September 2021, the 45-day intensive training of volunteer candidates for the award ceremony was completed. After systematic training, they have been tested in actual combat in the “Meet in Beijing” series of winter sports events. They will deeply participate in the award ceremony service during the game and become a beautiful scenery on the stadium.Return to Sohu to see more
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