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Beijing Winter Olympics 2022: Best bits in pictures

Opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics 2022Reuters

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.

Yiming Su performing a trick during the Big Air eventGetty Images

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.

France's Lucile Lefevre dressed as a tigerReuters

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!

Quentin Fillon Maillet of France, Johannes Thingnes Boe of Norway and Eduard Latypov of the Russian Olympic Committee in action at 2022 OlympicsReuters

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 celebrates winning gold in men's mass start eventEPA

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!

GB's men's curling team celebrate winning silverPA Media

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 women's curling team celebrate after winning goldPA Media

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 Winter Olympics closing ceremonyGetty Images

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".

Fireworks explode over the National Stadium, during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics closing ceremony.Reuters

"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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