【推荐2】Know More about the Winter Olympic Games

	In 1921, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the 1924 International Winter Sports Week in Chamonix, France, and two years after the event ended, the International Olympic Committee officially recognized the event as the first Winter Olympic Games. The athlete Chares Jutlau from the United States won the first gold medal in the history of the Winter Olympics in the mens 500-meter speed skating.
	The last Winter Olympic Games were held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018.Short track speed skater Wu Dajing won the only gold medal for China. The Chinese delegation won a total of nine medals, second only to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Chinese athletes have achiever the best results in history in many sports.
	The 24th Winter Olympic Games in 2022 will be held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou. Beijing is the first city to host the Summer Olympics and the Winter Olympics. The ice project will be held in Beijing. The image ambassador（大使） for this Winter Olympic Games is Shen Xue. The opening ceremony will be held at the Birds Nest. Chinas first participation in the Winter Olympics was the U. S. Lake Plesid Winter Olympics. Chinas first gold medalist at the Winter Olympics was Yang Yang.

【推荐3】The year 2022 will be a big year for sports in China. That’s because it will hold not only the 24th Winter Olympics in Beijing, but also the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.

On Aug. 6th, 2018, the official emblem (会徽) for the Hangzhou Asian Games was released (发布). The city won the hosting rights for the 2022 Asian Games in 2015. It will be the third Chinese city to host the Asian Games after Beijing and Guangzhou in 1990 and 2010.

First held in 1951, the Asian Games is the largest multi-sport event in Asia. It also means a lot to China. The Beijing Asian Games was the first large international sports event to be hosted by China, China News Service reported.

To make the Games a great success, Chinese people worked hard to prepare. Beijing built a great number of roads and gyms, including the famous Beijing Olympic Sports Center and Asian Games Village. The Games helped the world see China and its achievements. Since then, China has improved its global image (国际形象), China Youth Daily reported. For the 2022 Asian Games, Hangzhou has already started building 33 sports venues (场馆), according to China Youth Daily. The themes of the Hangzhou Asian Games are “green, smart, economical (节俭) and civilized”. All the Games’ buildings will be environmentally friendly.

Gu Ailing（Eileen Gu）is a freeskier（自由滑雪运动员）with an American father and a Chinese mother.     1     But in June 2019, she became a Chinese citizen and chose to compete for China.

Gu Ailing started to learn skiing in 2006.     2     At the age of nine, she was able to ski well and started to win her first gold medals.     3     In 2020, she won two gold medals for China at the 3rd Winter Youth Olympic Games. In 2021, she won two gold medals for China at the X Games in the US. This year she won two gold medals for China at the 2022 Winter Olympic Games.

Although Gu Ailing was American, the 18-year-old girl has always been proud of her Chinese roots（根）. She speaks Chinese with Beijing accent（口音）and calls herself “a Beijing girl”. She spent her summer vacation in Beijing every year with her mother when she was young.     4     She had a good relationship with them. In her free time, Gu Ailing has many hobbies, such as running, riding horses and playing football.     5    

【推荐3】What's the meaning of "dark horse"? It's someone who wins when no one expects it.

Han Xiaopeng took China's first gold medal on snow. He became an Olympic "dark horse” by winning the gold medal in men’s freestyle aerial skiing(自由式空中滑雪) in Turin, Italy. He made two almost perfect jumps for the highest score, Han had never won a world gold medal before, let alone(更不用说) in the Olympics!

“I never thought this would happen, " said the 23-year-old boy. "I feel like I'm in a dream. " It's China’s second gold medal at the Turin Olympics. But more importantly, Han's gold medal was the country’s first ever in a snow sport. In 2002, China’s Yang Yang won the gold medal for speed skating at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, US. Just because Han's win was unexpected doesn't mean that he didn’t work hard.

Han grew up in Jiangsu Province. Before he started his training on the snow, he used to be an acrobat(杂技演员) at a circus.In1995, a coach found his talent. The coach, Yang Er'qi, said Han had the agility(灵活性) and courage to be a ski jumper. When Yang first took the 12-year-old boy to northern China, the boy couldn't swim, skate or ski. But he wasn’t afraid of the high diving platform (跳台)and kept on training.

Han almost left the sport after hurting his knee months before the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic Games. In that Olympics he only got 24^th. “I was hopeless at that time, but my family and the coach stood firmly behind me, helping me through”, he recalled .

Han Xiaopeng worked so hard that he won the gold medal in the Olympics at last. Because of his success, more and more people in China are becoming interested in skiing.