The 2022 Winter Olympics short track speed skating mixed relay has medals, but the ceremony for awarding the medals takes place the day after the short track speed skating mixed relay finishes.
The Chinese team of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei won the short-track speed skating mixed team relay final at the Beijing Winter Olympics in 2 minutes, 37 seconds and 348 seconds, winning the first gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the Games. But at the end of the game, stand on the podium gold, silver and bronze medal three teams, are just from the hands of the guest of honor received the mascot "Ice Dun Dun" only, and there is no medal, raise the national flag, play the national anthem ceremony. In fact, the more solemn ceremony was held the next day in the awards square.
The Winter Olympics and the Summer Olympics have different award forms. The awards plaza is an important feature that distinguishes the Winter Olympics from the Summer Olympics. In the Summer Olympics, the awards are presented directly on the field of play at the end of the competition. Due to the colder weather of the Winter Olympics, after the competition, usually held in the stadium first awarded souvenirs ceremony, and then to the special awards plaza to hold a grand awards ceremony.
This tradition has continued since the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. At each subsequent Winter Olympics, the medal presentation was held in the Awards Plaza. In addition to award ceremonies, celebratory performances and other events are also held in the Awards Plaza.
A bouquet of "never-fading Olympic flowers" will be presented to the winners along with the medals at the ceremony. In addition, compared with the previous Winter Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics awards ceremony also added a new highlight. Athletes to get the medal will walk off the stage, you can be on the side of the stage through the screen and family members first real-time interaction, to share the joy of winning the medal, each person for about 20-30 seconds. This link has appeared in the Tokyo Olympics, is the first time in the Winter Olympics to use.
Three award plazas for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics
The Beijing Winter Olympics will have three award plazas in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou: the Beijing award plaza stage is called "Beauty and ****" and is located between the National Stadium and the National Aquatics Center, full of "beauty and ****". Between the National Stadium and the National Aquatics Center in Beijing, full of "welcome guests from all directions, *** degree of Chinese New Year" good meaning; Yanqing Winter Paralympics award plaza stage called "Tree of Life", located in the International Pavilion of the World Park in Yanqing, Beijing, the ice and snow as the main scene of the towering trees, to show that the Winter Paralympics athletes work hard, the spirit of endless style; Zhangjiakou awards plaza stage called "passion for the dream", located in the center square of Prince Town Ice and Snow Town, Chongli, Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, the design of the integration of skiing posture and snow mountain modeling, showing the purity of snow and ice and skiing dynamics.
Opened during the Beijing Winter Olympics are the Beijing Awards Plaza and Zhangjiakou Awards Plaza, with the former running for 14 days and 32 event awards ceremonies to be held; and the latter running for 14 days and 49 event awards ceremonies to be held.