Olympics win spurs schools to embrace new opportunities

Winning the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games has reinvigorated China's winter sports scene as schools across the country embrace cold weather activities to enhance students' physical education.

Spending part of their winter holiday at one of the Olympics venues has been an enlightening experience for students from Tsinghua University High School-Shangdi in Beijing. As part of the school's winter camp activities in January, 80 students and teachers visited Changchengling Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou, Hebei province, to learn how to ski and gain knowledge about the Olympics.

All 68 students participating in the camp improved their skiing abilities to a medium-advanced level after practicing four hours every day with trainers at the resort, according to the school's executive principal Xin Ying.