Sunny, cold weather greets athletes as Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Villages open Thursday
Beijing built three Olympic villages to house athletes and officials.
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Beijing’s 2022 Winter Olympic Villages officially opened Thursday. Athletes will live, dine and recreate in the villages. Each has an international zone with shops, services and leisure facilities, said the International Olympic Committee. The games run from February 4th to the 20th.
The village in central Beijing hosts curlers, ice hockey players, figure skaters, speed skaters and Big Air snowboarders and skiers.
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The athletes will enjoy lots of sun Thursday and Friday with a high of 37 degrees Fahrenheit on both days. Low temperatures will drop down to 22.
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Image 1 of 3Guess where the Czech Republic team members are lodging... (Photo by NOEL CELIS/AFP via Getty Images)
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Image 2 of 3A view of an athlete's room at the Beijing Olympic Village. (Photo by Emmanuel Wong/Getty Images)
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Image 3 of 3Part of the fitness center at the Beijing Olympic Village. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)
You may recognize the nearby "Bird's Nest" from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics. The stadium will host the opening and closing ceremonies.
The "Bird's Nest" National Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2008 Summer Games and will host the ceremonies for the 2022 Winter Games.
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Organizers converted the Aquatic's Center from the 2008 Games was into the curling venue.
The National Aquatics Center, known as the Ice Cube (left), the venue for Curling at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, and the National Indoor Stadium (right), the venue for Ice Hockey, is ready for athletes.
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Olympic organizers also built the world's first permanent Big Air skiing and snowboarding venue called the Big Air Shougang.
The Big Air Shogang is the world's first permanent venue for Big Air events. Olympians will compete here in freestyle skiing and snowboard Big Air events.
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Yanqing in northern Beijing hosts alpine skiers, bobsledders and athletes competing in skeleton and luge. According to the Beijing Organising Committee, the village is near the Alpine Skiing Center, which is nearly at a mile and a half elevation.
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The forecast shows more sun and highs of 33, with lows dipping into the low teens.
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About 100 miles northwest of Beijing, in the mountains, sits the Zhangjiakou Village. It houses snowboards, skiers, ski-jumpers, cross-country skiers and biathletes.
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The village stays below freezing for highs and drops to the single digits overnight.
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Beijing lies on a similar latitude to Denver, Indianapolis and Philadelphia. New York is 13 hours behind Beijing.