Going extreme

Winter is winding down and the ski season only has a few short weeks left, so if you want to hit the slopes before the snow is gone, you’d better get busy.

Yang Yang is hungry for medals

China’s short track speed skater, Yang Yang, who became a national hero after winning both of China’s 2002 gold medals, is competing in her third Olympics and is hopeful securing gold.

If you want to feel young, go snowboarding

This year, another snowboarding promotion company Crystal Entertainment arrived in Beijing. The team is made up of four French guys – Nicolas Ciriego, a professional freestyle snowboarder, Sebastien Rognard and Jerome Barbaray, experts in snowpark construction, and Morgan Lefevre, a marketing director.

China’s top seven ski resorts

Skiing is officially in season and in China, that means knowing your resorts. The statistics aren’t in yet, but seasoned skiers will tell you China’s skiing options are improvg exponentially:

Ski resorts around Beijing

For a skiing or snowboarding novice, the point is not how to ski or snowboard perfectly, but to go to the resorts and have a try!

The figures of Torino 2006

15 disciplines: biathlon, bobsleigh, Nordic combined, curling, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, ski jumping, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, short-track, skeleton, luge, snowboard