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Beijing Winter Olympics 2022 - Statistics & Facts

The Winter Olympic Games 2022 are taking place in Beijing, China and are the 24th installment of the event. This year's Games, also simply referred to as Beijing 2022, comprise 109 events across 15 disciplines: Biathlon, Bobsleigh, Cross-Country Skiing, Curling, Figure Skating, Freestyle Skiing, Ice Hockey, Luge, Nordic Combined Speed Skating, Short Track Speed Skating, Skeleton, Ski Jumping, and Snowboarding. The discipline with the most medals to be won is speedskating with 23, followed by skiing with 13. A total of 2,893 athletes are competing in this year's Winter Olympics, of which 45 percent are female. Ice Hockey accounts for 547 of those athletes, followed by Alpine Skiing, Cross-Country Skiing and Freestyle Skiing with close to 300 athletes competing in each. The biggest gender gap in participation can be seen at Bobsleigh, with 117 male and only 46 female athletes. Conversely, Curling is the only sport with more female than male competitors.

Investment in the Games

China spent roughly 38.5 billion U.S. dollars on this year's event. The majority of investments in Beijing 2022 went into infrastructure, of which over 15 billion U.S. dollars financed Heibei's transportation system. Around 3.9 billion U.S. dollars was spent on event preparation, including labor costs, and 3.8 billion U.S. dollars was put towards venue costs. These costs were mostly for the Beijing Olympic Village, serving as accommodation for athletes, trainers, and journalists. Of the venues being used for the events, the Beijing Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, is the most prominent. It has a capacity of up to 91 thousand spectators and is due to host the opening and closing ceremonies of Beijing 2022. Other venues include the National Indoor Stadium with 18 thousand seats, the Capital Indoor Stadium with a capacity of 13 thousand and the Wukong Sports Center with space for up to 9,000 fans.

Fan expectations

Leading up to Beijing 2022, the Chinese have won a total of 62 medals at the Winter Olympic Games so far, 13 of which are gold medals, and more than eight out of ten Chinese respondents in a 2021 survey had high expectations for this year's Games. In the United States, roughly one third of respondents mentioned Beijing 2022 when asked which sporting events they would watch via streaming services in 2022. When it came to which sports in particular fans were looking forward to watching, Ski Jumping and Bobsleigh were the most popular Winter Olympic sports among Americans as well Britons. In both countries, Figure Skating was by far the most popular discipline among the female audience.

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Published by Statista Research Department, Feb 9, 2022

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