Beijing 2022 to send staff to Pyeongchang Games for post practice

2017-10-12

The organizers of the Beijing 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will send 41 staff members on secondment for post practice during the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Pyeongchang next year.

The Organizing Comittee of Beijing 2022 announced the secondment program, together with a Games-time Observer Program, on Wednesday at its headquarters, which is a repurposed steel factory in Beijing.

According to Yan Cheng, director of the human resource department at the Beijing 2022 Organizing Committee, the 41 on secondment will work in positions such as venue management and competition operation in the Pyeongchang 2018 Organizing Committee. They will be divided into five groups, and the first group will travel to Pyeongchang next month. They will work and live in South Korea for as long as four months.

"I will be working on the post of social media editing manager and will work in different venues during the Games," said Lin Siling, a 35-year-old lady who will spend four months on secondment. "I will consider myself as a student in Pyeongchang, learning as much as I can and trying to get fully prepared for the 'final exam.""

Xinhua