What you should know about the Winter Olympics:
1. Skiing originated and developed in the Scandinavian countries. The key elements of skiing are "stand", "board", "snow" and "slide". After a long period of development, the official skiing competitions include alpine skiing, Nordic skiing, freestyle skiing, biathlon skiing and snowboarding.
2, biathlon in fact also belongs to the category of snow sports, but it is not just about the snow, by cross-country skiing and shooting two different characteristics of the combination of the competition program together, so it requires athletes to have the ability to move to static, but also by the static ability to turn.
3. The Winter Olympics have generally been held in cold-weather ski resorts, which are often far from large cities. Before Beijing, the only capital city to have hosted the Winter Olympics was Oslo, Norway.
4. The 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing will be held jointly in the cities of Beijing and Zhangjiakou. This is the first time in the history of China to host the Winter Olympics.
5. At the Winter Olympics, some sports had long refused female athletes to participate, such as cross-country skiing and ski jumping, in which ski jumping did not allow female athletes to participate until the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014.