Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Best bits in pictures
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The Games officially got underway on 4 February with the Opening Ceremony which took place at Beijing's national stadium, which is also known as the Bird's Nest Stadium because of how it looks. Here you can see the Olympic torch being lit during the ceremony.
Snowboarding's Big Air competition made its Olympic debut this year, as did 17-year-old Su Yiming of China, who took gold in the event in his first ever Games. He also picked up silver in snowboarding's slopestyle competition and was this year's youngest male gold Olympic medallist.
In the women's Big Air competition, France's Lucile Lefevre decided to mark her retirement from snowboarding by doing her final Olympic run dressed as a tiger!
2022 was a record-breaking Winter Olympic Games for Norway. The team won 16 gold medals, which is a record for a single country at a Winter Olympics! Johannes Thingnes Bø (seen here wearing the number 1 bib) picked up four of those medals in the biathlon.
Belgian speed skater Bart Swings (pictured in yellow) won the gold medal in the men’s mass start event after a hard fought race. It was a big moment for Belgium, as they hadn't won a Winter Olympic gold medal for 74 years!
Team GB had to wait until Day 15 to win their first medal of the Games. The men's curling team brought home silver after narrowly being beaten 5-4 by world champions Sweden in the final.
Team GB's only gold medal of these Games came on the last day, when the women's curling team beat Japan 10-3 in the final. It certainly got them jumping for joy!
The Beijing Winter Olympics came to a close on Sunday 20 February in a touching ceremony. International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for political leaders "around the world" to be inspired by the athletes' "example of solidarity and peace".
"This unifying power of the Olympic Games is stronger than the forces that want to divide us," he said. Almost 3,000 athletes competed in 109 events across 15 disciplines during the past two weeks.
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