From Hunting Grounds To Olympic Slopes
The Winter Olympics will turn 100 in 2024 and over the past 98 years, skiing has been an integral part of the Olympic Winter Games. Among the 109 events in the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, more than half relate to skiing.
“The Beijing 2022 Games feature the largest number of skiing events ever,” Shan Zhaojian, China’s first national skiing champion and torchbearer of the Games, told Beijing Review.
Man’s foray into skiing
The 84-year-old is not only a veteran skiing pro, but also an expert on the activity’s historical research. In 2005, he was the first to identify the earliest known evidence of humans skiing in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur
