2022 Winter Paralympics

The 2022 Winter Paralympics (Chinese: 2022年冬季残疾人奥林匹克运动会; pinyin: 2022 Nián Dōngjì Cánjí Rén Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì), officially known as the XIII Paralympic Winter Games and commonly known as Beijing 2022 Paralympic Games is an international winter multi-sport event for disabled athletes that is scheduled to take place in Beijing, People's Republic of China, from 4 to 13 March 2022.

See also: 2022 Winter Olympics

XIII Paralympic Winter Games
Host cityBeijing, China
Motto
  • Together for a Shared Future
  • (Chinese: 一起向未来)
Events78 in 6 sports
Opening4 March
Closing13 March
Opened by
President Xi Jinping (expected)
Cauldron
TBA
StadiumBeijing National Stadium
Winter
Summer
2022 Winter Olympics
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2022 Winter Paralympics

Beijing will become the first city to host both the Summer and Winter Paralympics. These games will be the first Winter Paralympics held in China. China will become the third country in Asia to host the Winter Paralympics after Japan (Nagano 1998) and South Korea (PyeongChang 2018).

Host selection
Main article: Bids for the 2022 Winter Olympics

As part of a formal agreement between the International Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee first established in 2001,[1] the winner of the bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics was also to host the 2022 Winter Paralympics.

Beijing was selected as the host city of the 2022 Winter Olympics after beating Almaty by four votes on 31 July 2015 at the 128th IOC Session in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

2022 Winter Olympics bidding results
City Nation Votes
Beijing China 44
Almaty Kazakhstan 40

Opening ceremony
Main article: 2022 Winter Paralympics opening ceremony

The opening ceremony is scheduled to be held on 4 March 2022.

Closing ceremony
Main article: 2022 Winter Paralympics closing ceremony

The closing ceremony is scheduled to be held on 13 March 2022.

Sports

78 events in 5 sports will be held during the 2022 Winter Paralympics.[2] In June 2019, the IPC dropped four of the six proposed disciplines for women's snowboarding (leaving only LL2 banked slalom and snowboard cross), as they did not meet the required viability benchmarks during the World Para Snowboard Championships.[3]

Venues
Paralympic clusters

Beijing Cluster
Olympic Green venues

Yanqing District Cluster

Zhangjiakou Cluster

Participating nations

On 9 December 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) banned Russia from all international sport for a period of four years, after the Russian government was found to have tampered with lab data that it provided to WADA in January 2019 as a condition of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency being reinstated. As a result of the ban, WADA will allow individually cleared Russian athletes to take part in the 2022 Winter Paralympics under a neutral banner, as instigated at the 2018 Winter Paralympics, but they will not be permitted to compete in team sports. On 26 April 2021, it was confirmed Russian athletes would represent the Russian Paralympic Committee, with the acronym "RPC".[4]

On 6 December 2021, the Biden Administration announced that the United States would diplomatically boycott the 2022 Winter Paralympics in response to China's alleged mistreatment of the Uyghur population. The diplomatic boycott means that no US government officials will attend the Paralympics in an official capacity. The boycott has no impact on athlete participation.[5]

As of 1 December 2021, the following 14 National Paralympic Committees have qualified.

Participating National Paralympic Committees
  1. Neutral athletes from Russia, competing under the flag of the Russian Paralympic Committee

Calendar

In the following calendar for the 2022 Winter Paralympics, each blue box represents an event competition. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each yellow box represents the number of finals that are contested on that day.[6]

 ● Opening ceremony    Event competitions    Event finals ● Closing ceremony
March Fri
4th		Sat
5th		Sun
6th		Mon
7th		Tue
8th		Wed
9th		Thu
10th		Fri
11th		Sat
12th		Sun
13th		Gold
Medals
CeremoniesOCCCN/A
Alpine skiing 6 6 6 3 3 3 3 30
Biathlon 6 6 6 18
Cross-country skiing 2 4 6 6 2 20
Para ice hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Snowboarding ● 3 ● 3 6
Wheelchair curling ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1
Total012871263912676

Branding

Emblem

The official emblem "Flying High" (飞得很高) was unveiled on 15 December 2017 at the Beijing National Aquatics Center. It is an inspiration of a skater and skier with a ribbon motif and the Chinese character "飞" (fēi, means fly), with the Paralympic colors and the Chinese flag colors. The emblem was designed by Lin Cunzhen who also created the Olympic emblem and the Nanjing 2014 Summer Youth Olympics logo.[7]

On 6 September 2020, the Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games announced that it has realigned the emblem due the International Paralympic Committee logo minor changes. The updated emblem adopts the same emblem collocation as the 2024 Summer Paralympics in Paris: the English words "PARALYMPIC GAMES" are removed, and the updated logo from the International Paralympic Committee in use since 2019 was placed. The organizing committee stated that this update "injects new vitality into the emblem."[8]

Mascot
Main article: Bing Dwen Dwen and Shuey Rhon Rhon

The mascot "Shuey Rhon Rhon" (Chinese: 雪容融; pinyin: Xuě Róng Róng) was unveiled on 17 September 2019 at the Shougang Ice Hockey Arena and was designed by Jiang Yufan.[9] The mascot is designed with lanterns as the prototype. Lanterns represent harvest, celebration, warmth and light. The wishful shape at the top symbolizes auspicious happiness; the continuous pattern of the dove of peace and the Temple of Heaven symbolizes the peaceful friendship and highlights the characteristics of the place where the place is held; the decorative pattern incorporates the traditional Chinese paper-cut art; the snow on the face represents the meaning of "a fall of seasonable snow gives promise of a fruitful year" (Chinese: 瑞雪兆丰年; pinyin: Ruìxuě zhào fēngnián). It also reflects the anthropomorphic design and highlights the mascot's cuteness.

See also

References
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  2. "Beijing 2022-Qualification Criteria". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
  3. "IPC Governing Board meet in Rome". International Paralympic Committee. 27 June 2019. Archived from the original on 26 August 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
  4. "IPC confirm details regarding RPC's Paralympic Games participation". International Paralympic Committee. 26 April 2021. Archived from the original on 20 May 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2021.
  5. CNN, Allie Malloy and Kate Sullivan. "White House announces US diplomatic boycott of 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing". CNN. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  6. "Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 2.3" (PDF). Beijing 2022 Official Website. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2021.
  7. "Beijing 2022 unveils official Paralympic emblem". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 10 March 2018. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
  8. "Beijing 2022 revise emblem for Paralympic Winter Games". 16 September 2020. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  9. "北京2022年冬残奥会吉祥物阐释". beijing2022.cn. 17 September 2019. Archived from the original on 18 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
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