National Speed Skating Oval
The National Speed Skating Oval is a speed skating arena which is the only new venue planned to be built on Beijing's Olympic Green for the Winter Olympics. It will host the 2021 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships and the speed skating competitions at the 2022 Winter Olympics. It was built on the location of the former Olympic Green Hockey Field used for Field hockey at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
It will be able to accommodate 12,000 spectators according to the bid book. After the games it is foreseen to use it as a public skating venue and for ice hockey clubs.
It has been designed by architectural firm Populous. Construction will begin mid-2017, and be completed in 2019; first competition will be held in 2020.
