Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating awards ceremony without medals and flag-raising because the weather is colder, the winning athletes arrived at a specific awards area before awarding medals to the winners and holding a flag-raising ceremony.
Unlike the Summer Olympics where awards are presented to the winning athletes at the competition venue immediately after the competition, due to the colder weather at the Winter Olympics, only souvenirs will be given to the winning athletes at the competition venue at the end of the competition, and medals will be presented to the winning athletes at a later date at the specific awards area and the flag raising ceremony will be held. The tradition has continued since the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano.
Compared with the previous Winter Olympics, the Beijing Winter Olympics awards ceremony also added a new highlight of the session, that is, the athlete to get the medal will be walking off the stage, can be in the side of the stage through the screen and family members the first real-time interaction to share the joy of winning a medal, each person for about 20-30 seconds. The link had appeared in the Tokyo Olympics, is the first time in the Winter Olympics to use.
Award Plaza Stage:
1, Beijing Award Plaza Stage is called "Mei Mei and ***", located in the city of Beijing, between the National Stadium and the National Aquatics Center, full of welcome to the guests, *** degree of China's year of the good significance.
2, Yanqing Winter Paralympics Awards Square stage called "Tree of Life", located in Beijing Yanqing World Park International Pavilion, to the ice and snow as the main scene of the tree, showing the winter Paralympics athletes to work hard, the spirit of endless style.
3, Zhangjiakou Award Plaza stage called "Passion for Dreams", located in the center square of Prince Town Ice Town in 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.