The Ice Ribbon, built for the 2022 Winter Olympics, with a public skating hall for the long-track oval
Currently out of season The operator's notice of 26 May 2026 says the Oval has been closed to visitors since 29 May 2026 and that the reopening date will be announced separately; an earlier notice (12 March 2026) had already suspended the skating experience from 17 March. No later notice reopens it, and the home page's skating-experience hours still read "——". On 18 October 2026 the ticket page of the Oval's WeChat service account (国家速滑馆公众服务) had no tickets on sale. Official schedule update
The National Speed Skating Oval, nicknamed the Ice Ribbon, was the only newly built ice venue in the Beijing zone of the 2022 Winter Olympics and the first speed skating venue in Olympic history to use carbon dioxide as its refrigerant. Its glass facade of 3,360 curved and flat panels carries 22 swirling ribbons, and its ice surface of about 12,000 square metres is the largest in Asia.
It was built and is run as a public-private partnership by the National Speed Skating Oval Operation Company, founded in February 2018. The foundation stone was laid on 28 April 2017, completion was filed on 28 July 2021, and in February 2022 skaters set 13 Olympic records on its ice, one of them a world record.
After the Games the oval opened its first-phase long-track ice, about 6,000 square metres, to the public for a 90-minute skating experience.
Admission, rentals and arrival details, researched from official rink information. Source checks stay current for 30 days.
A skating ticket covers the tour of the venue and 90 minutes of skating, with skates and protective gear; a skating aid costs CN¥50 per 90 minutes extra, and overtime is CN¥10 for each 15 minutes, any part counting as 15.
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Skates and protective gear come with the ticket, or you can bring your own.
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An adult with a skating ticket can bring one child aged 6 or under, or up to 1.2 metres tall, into the skate-up area free; the child does not skate.
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Cars can park in the Oval's underground car park, at the visitor's own cost.
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The skate-up area has 34 lockers and free bag storage.
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