Just a couple of months after Beijing won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in July, 2015, Beijing 2022 competition zone Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, set up a very unique winter sports training school, the Zhangjiakou Youth Winter Olympic Games School. Distinct from usual sports schools in China, this one was established inside Zhangjiakou Xuanhua No. 2 middle school and offers characteristic ice and snow courses to the students.
Xuanhua No. 2 middle school students are able to finish their regular school education while they receive winter sports training according to their interest.
Over the past 6 years, this school has established many professional sports teams such as alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, snowboarding and U-shaped field skills, and hired professional athletes and coaches to teach its students, and a number of students athletes have been selected into the provincial team and the national team.
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