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The 2022 Winter Olympic, also known as Beijing 2022, is scheduled to take place from February 4 to February 20, 2022, which is in the Chinese New Year period. Beijing, the first city to host both the summer and winter Olympics, is partnering with Zhangjiakou to host the winter games.
Dates
February 2–3: preliminary competitions for ice hockey, curling, and freestyle skiing
February 4: Opening Ceremony
February 4–20: events, competitions, and finals
February 20: Closing Ceremony
Events
A total of 109 events are set to take place in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Seven new events have been added, including ski jumping mixed team, snowboard cross mixed team and short track speed skating team relay. For the first time, a female athletes percentage of over 45.44% to attend the winter games has been reached, making Beijing 2022 probably the most gender-balanced Winter Olympics to date.
Tickets
On Sep. 30, the International Olympic Committee announced that tickets will be sold exclusively to those living in China’s mainland. Ticket booking hasn’t yet started. According to the report sent to IOC, there would be three types of tickets, tickets for the opening ceremony, tickets for events competitions, and tickets for the closing ceremony, costing from 50 to 4,882 CNY per ticket. The highest ticket prices are for the opening and closing ceremonies, from 732 to 4,882 CNY. Tickets for popular events are about 149 to 1,464 CNY, and tickets for general events are around 50 to 490 CNY.
21. What is special about 2022 Winter Olympic?
A. It will last for over 20 days in two cities.
B. It will be held during the Spring Festival.
C. More female events have been added.
D. The number of female athletes has increased.
22. What can we know about the tickets?
A. Tickets are not on sale yet.
B. Tickets will be more expensive.
C. Sport lovers everywhere can buy tickets.
D. Tickets for the opening ceremony are the most expensive.
23. What type of writing is this text?
A. A report. B. An introduction. C. A diary. D. An announcement.
