In order to stimulate the relative backward winter sports, Beijing formally announced its bid to the IOC as a candidate city for the 2022 Olympic Winter Games in November, 2013.

Yang Yang, who was retired in 2006 and elected as the IOC member in 2010, played an important role in Beijing's bid committee.

"I was sweating a lot and felt uncomfortable," Yang said, recalling her inspection trip with the IOC group at Beijing in March, 2017, "after all the work finished, I went to the hospital and confirmed pregnancy."

When the IOC awarded the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing as China's capital became the first city ever to host both summer and winter Olympics On July 31, 2017, Yang, who was six months pregnant, bursted into tears.

With less than three years ahead of the 2022 Olympics, Beijing now is taking steps to comply with Olympic Agenda 2020 by putting on a Games that is "green, inclusive, open and clean" to honor China's commitment to host a "fantastic, extraordinary and excellent" Games.

"Beijing 2022 can set a new benchmark for a sustainable Olympic Games, on one hand benefiting from the legacy of the Beijing 2008 and on the other developing a new winter sports destination in a sustainable way," the IOC president Thomas Bach spoke highly of how China's ideas contributed to the international Olympic Movement.

"Just think about the 300 million participants in winter sports. It is a remarkable contribution to the Olympics in itself," Yang Yang stated, who opened the Feiyang Skating Center to encourage more people in the country to participate in winter sports. "The dream enables us to see the future, motivates us to move forward, and constantly surpass ourselves."

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