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The National Stadium [3] (国家体育场), a.k.a. the Bird's Nest (鸟巢), [4] is a stadium at Olympic Green in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. The National Stadium, covering an area of 204,000 square meters with 91,000 capacity, broke ground in December 2003, officially started construction in March 2004, and was completed in June 2008.
Beijing, [a] previously romanized as Peking, [b] is the capital city of China.With more than 22 million residents, [11] it is the world's most populous national capital city as well as China's second largest city after Shanghai. [12]
The National Indoor Stadium (国家体育馆), a.k.a. Folding Fan (折扇), is an arena located at Olympic Green in Chaoyang, Beijing, China. [2] [3] [4] The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 people, [5] and was constructed for the 2008 Summer Olympics. It is nicknamed the Fan (扇子, shànzi) due to its design resembling a traditional Chinese ...
Want to watch the 2022 winter Olympics? What to know about Beijing locations, new sports events, venues and weather for the upcoming Games.
In China, in and around the capital. There are three distinct competition zones . Beijing itself will host the indoor ice sports — hockey, figure skating, curling and speed skating — plus the ...
The bidding calendar was announced by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in October 2012, with the application deadline set for 14 November 2013. [7] The IOC Executive Board reviewed the bids from all applicant cities on 7 July 2014 and selected three cities, Oslo (Norway), Almaty (Kazakhstan), and Beijing (China), as the final candidates.
This week, Beijing will become the first city in the world to have hosted both the Summer and Winter Olympics. The 2008 Summer Games were a spectacular celebration, a sort of coming-out party for ...
Five cities and regions have been chosen by the IOC to host upcoming Olympic Games: the 2026 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games officially shared between two host cities (Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo); Los Angeles for the 2028 Summer Olympics; the 2030 Winter Olympics will be the first Olympic Games to be hosted by a region (the ...