Olympia 2022, Fotostory Ski-Resort Zhangjiakou Chinese workers install lights on a sign of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Chongli county, Zhangjiakou city, north China s Hebei province, 4 December 2015. Having competed at the Winter Olympics twice since 2010, Norwegian snowboarder Stale Sandbech is familiar with world-class ski resorts. But the experience of training at the Genting Resort Secret Garden in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, went beyond his expectations. As a proposed venue for snow sports in Beijing s 2022 Olympics plan, Secret Garden, a ski and tourism complex in Zhangjiakou s Chongli county, about 220 kilometers northwest of Beijing, has finished the initial design for freestyle skiing and snowboarding, and will cooperate with foreign event and resort operators to complete the rest of its facilities to high standards, the resort announced last week. The two snow events will be held on refurbished trails and at a new snowboard park designed by Ecosign, a Canadian resort-planning company that served the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. The park will have Asia s biggest half-pipe and International Ski Federation-standard slopestyle courses, according to the resort s plan. Ski resort in Zhangjiakou on track for world-class status 20151207_37147

Olympia 2022, Fotostory Ski-Resort Zhangjiakou Chinese workers install lights on a sign of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Chongli county, Zhangjiakou city, north China s Hebei province, 4 December 2015. Having competed at the Winter Olympics twice since 2010, Norwegian snowboarder Stale Sandbech is familiar with world-class ski resorts. But the experience of training at the Genting Resort Secret Garden in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, went beyond his expectations. As a proposed venue for snow sports in Beijing s 2022 Olympics plan, Secret Garden, a ski and tourism complex in Zhangjiakou s Chongli county, about 220 kilometers northwest of Beijing, has finished the initial design for freestyle skiing and snowboarding, and will cooperate with foreign event and resort operators to complete the rest of its facilities to high standards, the resort announced last week. The two snow events will be held on refurbished trails and at a new snowboard park designed by Ecosign, a Canadian resort-planning company that served the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics. The park will have Asia s biggest half-pipe and International Ski Federation-standard slopestyle courses, according to the resort s plan. Ski resort in Zhangjiakou on track for world-class status 20151207_37147