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National Sliding Centre
The Yanqing National Sliding Centre is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton (sport), skeleton track in Yanqing District, a suburban district in Beijing. Also known as “The House of Speed” this venue hosted the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton events for the 2022 Winter Olympics. The track has 16 curves with different angles and slopes. Events hosted * Bobsleigh at the 2022 Winter Olympics * Luge at the 2022 Winter Olympics * Skeleton at the 2022 Winter Olympics References Venues of the 2022 Winter Olympics Bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton tracks Olympic bobsleigh venues Olympic luge venues Olympic skeleton venues Sports venues in Beijing Sports venues completed in 2020 2020 establishments in China Yanqing District {{PRChina-sports-venue-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yanqing District
Yanqing District (), formerly known as Yanqing County before 2015, is a district of the municipality of Beijing located northwest of the city proper of Beijing. The district consists of 3 subdistricts, 11 towns and 4 townships, and borders the Beijing districts of Huairou to the east and Changping to the south as well as the Hebei counties of Huailai to the west and Chicheng to the north. The district hosted the Expo 2019, and hosted alpine skiing, bobsled, luge and skeleton during the 2022 Winter Olympics. History In the Tang dynasty, Guichuan County, named after the Gui River, was established and belonged to the Gui Prefecture in Hebei, with a defensive military city. Eventually in 1952, it was reassigned to the Zhangjiakou Special Zone :zh:张家口专区">zh.html" ;"title=":zh:张家口专区.html" ;"title="nowiki/>:zh:张家口专区">zh">:zh:张家口专区.html" ;"title="nowiki/>:zh:张家口专区">zhin Hebei Province, and in 1958, it was transferred to Beijing. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
