Why the Winter Olympics is not like the Summer Olympics to award medals to athletes immediately after the game?

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Why do the Winter Olympics set up awards plaza? Why the athletes after the completion of the game, not on the spot in the competition's venues for the award? For this question, the reporter interviewed the Beijing Winter Olympics Beijing Award Plaza Venue Operations Team Director Rong Dali.

Rong Dali told reporters that the Winter Olympics is different from the Summer Olympics, one of the iconic features, is a separate set of awards square. It is a tradition of the Winter Olympics that all medals are held in the Awards Plaza, conditions permitting.

"Precisely, the setting up of a separate awards plaza is, I think, one, a tradition, and two, a decision dictated by the characteristics of snow and ice sports and outdoor sports." Rong Dali said that the competition venues of some Winter Olympic programs, it is suitable for competition and spectating, but not so suitable for awards. And the athlete award is both the athlete's high moment, but also the spread of the Olympic spirit of the rare moment, in the more suitable for the awarding of the venues award, the award-winning athlete's experience of receiving the award and the spread of the Olympic spirit will be more favorable.

Beijing Awards Plaza is located in the center of Beijing Olympic Park between the National Stadium (Bird's Nest) and the National Aquatics Center (Ice Cube), with an overall area of 18,000 square meters, and an actual area of 12,000 square meters, which is a fully constructed outdoor venue.

In accordance with the design of the Beijing Awards Plaza, the stage design into the "snow house" visual elements, both snow and ice characteristics, but also "home" temperature, athletes from all over the world gathered in the Awards Plaza, mutual respect, mutual exchange, mutual appreciation, **** The year of China.

Rong vigorously introduced, in accordance with customary practice, each Winter Olympics are set up award plaza, award plaza in the open-air environment for the award ceremony.

Beijing Winter Olympics is different from the previous Winter Olympics, is held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou three areas (Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou areas). Beijing and Zhangjiakou have separate award plazas. Yanqing district has only two venues, taking into account the impact of extreme weather, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has agreed with the International Olympic Committee that the medals produced by the two venues in Yanqing district will be awarded in situ in these two venues.

According to the plan, the awards for the 32 competitions in the Beijing area are in the Awards Plaza. "It is not that there are only 32 projects in the Beijing competition area, there are still individual projects to be awarded in situ due to time, which is also arranged according to the competition schedule." Rong Dali said.