OLYMPIC DREAMS SET FOR GOLD IN CHINA This month sees the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games take place in China. The capital of the People’s Republic of China is officially the 1st city to host both the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. As athletes from around the world gather to achieve human greatness in their fields, the People’s Republic of China hosts the world for a spectacular feast of stunning settings for the games. Against the backdrop of the health crisis, China has brought the winter athletic teams to China to prove that against the health crisis and political instability that united we are stronger together than apart. The Beijing Olympic 2022 emblem combines traditional and modern elements of Chinese culture, as well as features the passion and vitality of winter sports. Inspired by 冬, the Chinese character for ‘winter’, the emblem resembles a skater at the top and a skier at the bottom. The flowing ribbon-like motif between them symbolises the host country’s rolling mountains, Olympic venues, ski pistes and skating rinks. It also points to the fact that the Games will coincide with the Chinese New Year. The use of blue in the emblem represents dreams, the future and the purity of ice and snow, while red and yellow – the colours of China’s national flag – symbolise passion, youth and vitality.
The slogan ‘Together for a Shared Future’ is the official motto of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022. The motto represents the power of the Games to overcome global challenges as a community, with a shared future for hum ankind. The words reflect the necessity for the world to work together towards a better tomorrow, especially given the difficulties f aced throughout the ‘’health crisis’’. ‘Together for a Shared Future’ demonstrates unity and a collective effort, symbolising the core values and vision of the Olympic Movement, and the goal of pursuing world unity, peace and progress. It was selected from 79 motto proposals from Chinese universities. This Olympics sees 2 new and unlikely nations take to the winter games stage for the 1st time; the Caribbean island nation of Haiti and the desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Haiti’s Richardson Viano competes in the men’s giant slalom event, while Saudi Arabia’s Fayik Abdi will become Saudi Arabia’s first Winter Olympian when he competes in the Alpine skiing. Saudi Arabia will also be the 1st Gulf nation to ever appear at a Winter Olympics.
