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China's Winter Olympics Training Base For Ski Jumpers Unveiled
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1:31Now PlayingChina’s Olympic ski jumpers are preparing for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the new National Ski Jumping Training and Research Base in Hebei Province.
Located in the Laiyuan County of Hebei's Baoding City, the National Ski Jumping Training and Research Base serves as one of the three state-level winter sports training bases of the 2022 Games.
Practicing on grass instead of snow, the ski jumpers can improve themselves on the slides, which simulate those at the formal competition venue in Chongli.
Several cutting edge technologies have been applied in the construction of the Laiyuan training base, to mimic a winter environment and provide players with an authentic practicing experience.
"The side tracks, what we call assist slide ways, are made for athletes to fit their ski boards. We apply ice in these slide ways during the wintertime while we use high-technology materials and water sprays in the summer to imitate the friction of ice," said Zhao Zhankun, a staff member of the training base.
In addition to the outdoor venue, indoor training needs can also be met at the base, which has the world's biggest ski jumping wind tunnel laboratory. The lab owns a wide range of equipment to support athletes' full-procedure training.
Thanks to the National Ski Jumping Training and Research Base, Chinese ski jumpers no longer have to travel abroad to conduct regular training in specific seasons.
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