Beijing 2022
The Olympic Games in Beijing, China, in 2022 were the 24th Winter Olympics held in the city of Beijing, after it defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in the final vote.
Beijing became the first city in the history of the Olympic Games to host both the Winter and Summer Games. (2008).
Many of the facilities used by the hosts in the 2008 Summer Games were also used in the Winter Games of 2022. This was the third consecutive time that Asia hosted the Olympic Games – Pyeongchang 2018, Tokyo 2020, and Beijing 2022.
The Olympic program included 109 medal events in 7 different sports, divided into 15 disciplines. The introduction of seven new events, including two women’s events and four mixed events for both men and women, made the Beijing 2022 Games the most gender-balanced Winter Games to date, with 54.56% male and 45.44% female participation.
The National Stadium in Beijing, known as the “Bird’s Nest,” hosted the opening and closing ceremonies and the Olympic Village in Beijing, which served the athletes during the summer games in 2008, and served them again this time.
Additional Olympic villages for athletes and delegation members were also established in the cities of Yancheng and Zhangjiakou.
These were the 8th Olympic Games in which an Israeli delegation participated since Israel began its participation in the Winter Olympic Games in 1994. The 2022 Olympics took place from February 4 to February 20 of that year.
The Israeli delegation consisted of 6 athletes, four men and two women, who competed in three sports: figure skating, short track speed skating, and Alpine skiing.
Alpine skiing – Barnabas Szollos (Men’s downhill, Men’s super-G, Men’s combined, Men’s giant slalom, Men’s slalom).
Noa Szollos (Women’s super-G, Women’s giant slalom, Women’s slalom)
Figure skating – Alexei Bychenko (Men), Hailey Kops and Evgeni Krasnopolski (Pairs)
Short track speed skating – Vladislav Bykanov (500 m, 1,000 m, 1,500 m).
