Towards the future together | “Xue Rongrong” takes over the transformation of venues with people-oriented: pay attention to details and actively prepare for the Winter Paralympics – Xinhua English.news.cn

CCTV news: “Starting with details” requires not only carefulness and meticulousness, but also professionalism. From the official closing of the Yanqing Winter Olympic Village at 12:00 on February 23 to the official opening of the Yanqing Paralympic Village at 8:00 am on the 25th, the operation team completed 95 conversions within 44 hours. Not only did the Winter Olympic Village bid farewell to the Winter Olympics and welcome the Winter Paralympics, but the conversion of various competition venues was also proceeding rapidly.

This is the National Gymnasium. It is the same as the main competition items during the Winter Olympics. During the Winter Paralympics, it is still the main arena for ice hockey games. However, in the Winter Paralympic ice hockey event, athletes need to ride on sleds throughout the competition. In this case, there are many differences in the standard ice hockey rink requirements for the Paralympic and Winter Olympics. On February 21, the second day after the closing of the Winter Olympics, the conversion work was quickly started here. The first thing to do in the stadium conversion is to thicken the ice surface.

Qi Liang, Secretary General of the National Gymnasium, said: (The ice surface should be increased from 3.5 cm to 4.5 to 5 cm. Why thicken it? Because the Paralympic athlete is skating (competition), one end of the sled is for hitting the ball, and the other end is a point, which is to assist him in sliding to poke the ice. If the surface is relatively thin, it is easy to poke the primer of the ice.

Not only the ice surface, but also for the athletes who need to ride the sled throughout the whole process, a 300-square-meter imitation ice board is specially added to the passage from the locker room to the competition venue where these athletes are active, which is convenient for the athletes sitting on the sled to enter and exit freely. . For sitting on the sled, the line of sight is also lower, and the board wall in the waiting area for athletes has also been replaced with a transparent board wall.

Pan Zhongmin, Deputy Media Director of the National Gymnasium Venue Operation Team: Athletes should always pay attention to the changes on the field. Once it is time to make a substitution, his sled will open and go out, so this place must be transparent. At the same time, in order to do it finely, the thickness of the ice inside is as high as the thickness of the ice surface (on the field), which does not affect him going out.

In addition to taking into account the competition and preparations, in order to facilitate the athletes to be interviewed by reporters after the competition, in the mixed news interview area, the original baffle was also lowered from 1.2 meters to 60 cm.

Focus on the athlete and pay attention to every detail. The Beijing Winter Paralympic Games uses a total of 30 venues, including 5 competition venues such as the National Stadium and 25 non-competitive venues such as the Winter Paralympic Village.

Iliana Rodriguez, accessibility expert of the International Paralympic Committee: Everything is going very well at the moment. There are great operation teams here who are responsible for the different transitions, and their efforts all ensure that the Winter Paralympic facilities meet accessibility standards. .