olympics you might be surprised at the un so is china and just as in two thousand and eight when china first hosted the summer games beijing which doesn t so far have much of a winter sports tradition is aiming to be among the medal winners and that s why china has turned to norway a world power in sports like cross-country skiing for inspiration but expects. you have to get up early if you want to win an olympic medal thirteen chinese cross-country skiers meet with their no we can coach at eight thirty am they ski on artificial snow in shushan near little. most of the chinese skiers here are actually track and field athletes such as twenty one year old hannah t. now he plans to be a top skier rather and i had never never seen the boss cross-country skate wearing norway now staying long coming there to learn how to and there from the best of series norway and they in their work. they head up the slope with iron
cited ski industry report. it might sound like a lot, but that s less than 1% of the country s total population. like most winter sports here, skiing is growing fast. but so far lacks mass appeal. which is why this might seem surprising. beijing will host the next winter olympics in 2022 in a country with little winter sports tradition. but lots of olympic experience. in 2008, china put on a show at the summer olympics in beijing. come 2022, you ll see some of those same venues retrofitted for the cold events. three different areas host it all, not without their problems. start in mountainous where they have halfpipe and ski moguls. to do that you need snow. and nearly all of it on this mountain is made by machines. but organizers say there is plenty of fake snow to go around. so the focus is on building out competition sites. we have to have everything ready by 2020. right.