On Site, on Call
Feb 03, 2022
4 minutes
By Yuan Yuan
Equipped from head to toe with helmets and skis, the skiing doctors of the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 look very much like their potential patients, the athletes, except for the 10-kg backpacks they carry while working. Being dispatched to stations along the ski runs of the National Alpine Skiing Center in Yanqing, a northwestern suburb of Beijing, their task is to stand ready to treat injuries or medical emergencies at short notice.
They are members of the National Alpine Skiing Center’s Medical Dream Team. “We are required to attend to any injuries within four minutes,” said Li Rui, one of the
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