Olympic Volunteers: Ready to Go

The successful test run injected confidence into volunteers for the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics.

“Ithink most Chinese people share similar feelings about the Olympic Games,” said Jiang Yuxin from Peking University Law School. The 22-year-old is a volunteer for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. “When my parents and I watched the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, I wished I could be a part of the Olympics.”

In 2008, the seeds of love and passion for the Olympics were sown in Chinese people’s hearts when the Beijing Olympic Games was watched by millions. Thus, when the Olympic flame came to Beijing again after more than a decade, many Peking University students who cheered for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games before the TV as young kids signed up to volunteer for the 2022 Winter Olympics.

The National Aquatics Center, widely known as the “Water Cube,” was the venue for swimming and diving during the 2008 Olympic Games. For the 2022 Winter Olympics, it has been converted into the “Ice Cube” for curling events. In late October, the 2021 World Wheelchair Curling Championship, a test event for the upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics, was held at the National Aquatics Center. From October 14 to 30, a total of 92 volunteers from Peking University completed volunteering services for the test match. Their work involved eight general programs including venue management, COVID-19 control and prevention, transportation,