What is the flower used to present the award at the Beijing Winter Olympics?

The flowers used for the Beijing Winter Olympics awards are pompoms.

The Beijing Winter Olympics awards bouquet includes six symbolic flower types: rose, moonflower, lily of the valley, hydrangea, laurel and olive, which symbolize friendship, resilience, happiness, unity, victory and peace.

Beijing Winter Olympics did not use fresh flowers, but chose woven pompoms, in order to never wither, at the same time the whole bouquet *** there are seven kinds of woven flowers, they are: roses to symbolize friendship, symbolize the toughness of the moon season, symbolize the happiness of the lily of the valley, symbolize unity hydrangea, symbolize the victory of the laurel, symbolize the harvest of the laurel, as well as the olive to symbolize peace.

Making of the Beijing Winter Olympics bouquets

The awards for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics will be made using 1,251 bouquets, with a cumulative total of 16,731 flowers***, which will be hand-knotted with pom-pom threads by hundreds of Chinese folk craftsmen.

Shanghai Grandma Reed is one of the people in charge of the Winter Olympics bouquet knitting program. As a Shanghai-level inheritor of the "Sea School Floss Knitting Technique," she is responsible for the design, training, quality control and final assembly of the award bouquets.