Because the jumps span only a couple of hundred feet - compared to several thousand on slopestyle courses - they’re a strong fit for live audiences.Įven better, you don’t need a mountain to put on a big air event. The discipline is a sort of high-risk home run derby for snowboarding and freestyle skiing, taking one element of the sport and pushing it to its extreme. The Beijing Organizing Committee is even based out of the park’s offices. Facilities were carved into the complex’s infrastructure to help Chinese athletes train in short track speedskating, figure skating, ice hockey and curling. It’s also central to China’s efforts to encourage 300 million people to participate in winter sports in conjunction with these Games. “This feels like it was created in a virtual world, in a video game,” American freeskiier Nick Goepper said. The yards host dance showcases in the summer, and architects plan to transform one of the massive cooling towers hovering over the big air jump into a wedding venue. One of the blast furnaces was given a face-lift and turned into a steampunk-style event space with shops, commercial offices and a museum. Rusting factories and machinery remain, but the space between has been filled by grassy lawns, glassy ponds and a good deal of greenery. The sprawling campus has been converted into a bizarre, yet beautiful, city oasis. Dentsu and others charged in Tokyo Olympic bid-rigging probeĬhina closed the factory in conjunction with the 2008 Summer Games, seeking to clean up its image, as well as its air.
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