CANBERRA, April 1 (Xinhua) -- From the smile on the faces of volunteers to the bobsled track that resembles a dragon, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games remain fresh in many people's memories. When Australian athletes, officials and reporters gathered at an event hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Australia weeks after the competitions, they shared their experiences and expressed wishes to visit Beijing again.
BEIJING, March 22 (Xinhua) -- He Yufeng, 63, the "protector" of the Guishui River in the suburban Yanqing District of Beijing, has volunteered to clean up the garbage along the river for more than 20 years. "I had two wishes -- one was to become a torchbearer at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the other was to protect the environment of Yanqing, one of the three competition zones of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics," she said.
LANZHOU, China, March 22 (Xinhua) -- Guo Yujie is set to remember the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games for years to come. As one of the flagbearers of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony, Guo won a gold medal in the Para biathlon women's sprint standing less than 24 hours after the ceremony.
SYDNEY, March 20 (Xinhua) -- Australian athlete Patrick Jensen's optimistic nature has taken him a long way - most recently to the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympics where he competed in a range of Para-Alpine ski events for the visually impaired. Now back at home in the New South Wales' (NSW) seaside town of Newcastle, Jensen happily recounts with experiences in China's snowy mountainsides earlier this month at his second Paralympics.
