Yes, humans can fly in the new Olympic Winter Games venue.

The only new outdoor snow sports venue Beijing has built for the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics will help athletes get as close as possible to the thrill of flight.

The venue, located within the Shougang Industrial Park in Beijing’s Shijingshan District, is aptly named Big Air Shougang and features a steep, winding ramp that will remain intact after the Olympics.

Next year, four gold medals will be awarded at the venue—two in snowboarding and two in freestyle skiing. Subsequently, as a key legacy of both the Winter Olympics and Paralympics, the site will be seamlessly integrated with surrounding facilities and opened to the public as a sports and leisure park.

Pan Xiaozhi, head of the Big Air project operations team at Beijing Shougang Construction Investment Co., Ltd., stated: “Next year, Big Air will host two Olympic snow sports—snowboarding and freestyle skiing—both of which are expected to be enthusiastically embraced by young audiences.”

Pan said that big-air competitions involve high-risk aerial maneuvers performed on snowboards and skis, typically staged at temporary venues such as city squares or stadiums. “The atmosphere of the event is more like a grand party, with music, beer, and energetic young people,” Pan added.

The park operator stated that Shougang’s large navigation channel, with a ramp measuring approximately 160 meters in length and 60 meters in height, will become one of the world’s first permanent venues for major canal‑racing events.

The site seamlessly integrates with the former industrial landscape, where undulating modern ramps contrast sharply with the four cooling towers built over the past 50 years and the renovated old oxygen‑production plant now serving as a service facility. “The architecture was designed in line with the Olympic Games’ sustainability principles, and we retained many industrial elements in our design,” Pan said.

(From ChinaDaily)