The Winter Olympics was blasted with a bone-chilling -24C making it one of the coldest Games in history - and a mind-boggling -34C is forecast this week.
The Beijing Games are on course to beat the previous coldest Games in Lillehammer, Norway, in 1994, when it averaged at around -25C.
At the time, locals feared it would be too cold for the reindeer at the opening ceremony of the Nordic games.