Countdown to Winter Olympics

Fluffy and light: The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics mascot, a panda named Bing Dwen Dwen (left), and Paralympics mascot Shuey Rhon Rhon, a ‘lantern child’, on display at the exhibition centre in Beijing.

BEIJING is the only city to have been chosen for two Olympic Games.

The Chinese capital caught the world’s limelight when it hosted the Summer Games in 2008, and now, it is prepared to enthrall global audiences at the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in 2022.