Seven new events at 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Seven new events have been added to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics program, which paves the way for the highest representation of female athletes at the event, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Wednesday.

IOC’s executive board approved women’s monobob, freestyle ski big air (men and women), short track mixed relay, a ski jumping mixed team event, mixed gender team aerials and a snowboard cross mixed team event.

– The addition of these new events for Beijing 2022 reflects our continued commitment to make the Olympic Games programs more youthful and gender balanced – IOC sports director Kit McConnell said in a statement.
With this decision, the Beijing games will see an increase in female representation from 41% in Pyeongchang to 45.44%. A total of 46 women’s events will see 1,314 women athletes competing. The overall number of athletes was trimmed to 2,892.

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2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

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womens monobob

freestyle ski big air

short track mixed relay

ski jumping mixed team event

mixed gender team aerials

snowboard cross mixed team event

new events at 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

Kit McConnell