After the long four-year wait, the Winter Olympics finally returns in 2022, as some of the world’s most talented athletes descend on Beijing for the 24th edition of the Games.
This year’s event will kick off on Friday, and gives a new breed of competitors the chance to write themselves into Winter Olympic folklore.
Across the event’s 98-year history the Games' greatest winter athletes have come away with one of sport’s most coveted prizes, an Olympic medal.
