Beijing News Express (reporter Ma Jinqian) Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics preparations have entered the sprint stage, what is the ice effect of the newly completed new venue? How are athletes preparing for training? On January 22, on the eve of the opening of the Fourth Session of the 15th Beijing Municipal People's Congress, Shen Xue, a deputy to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress and vice chairman of the China Skating Association, came to the interview room of the two sessions of the Beijing News Qianlong Network to chat with netizens about the daily training of figure skaters at the Current Winter Olympics and the promotion of ice and snow sports that he has long been concerned about.
Shen Xue, deputy to the Beijing Municipal People's Congress and vice chairman of the China Skating Association. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
Figure skaters complete their first first attempt at the new ice rink
At the end of 2020, the renovation and expansion of the Capital Stadium was completed, with a total of five ice surfaces serving the Winter Olympics. The venue will undertake two competitions, short track speed skating and figure skating at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, and will produce 14 gold medals.
"The first body is a venue that I am very familiar with, and Hongbo and I have been training in the first body since 1994, and when we came back here and saw the appearance of the first body after the renovation, it was very shocking." Shen Xue said. Not long ago, figure skaters preparing for the Winter Olympics made their first test here. "I also brought my own skates on my first day of skating."
The ice surface is different in that it uses carbon dioxide to make ice. This technology is currently the world's most advanced and environmentally friendly ice-making technology, carbon emissions tend to zero, ice surface temperature difference can be controlled within 0.5 °C, not only efficiency increased by 30%, cooling is also very uniform.
In addition, there is a giant projection screen of 1332 square meters at the top of the venue. "The light and shadow picture can have different effects depending on the rhythm of the game and the change of music." Shen Xue said that this will not only create a fantastic competition experience during the Figure Skating and Short Track Speed Skating Competition at the Winter Olympics, but also attract the public to participate in ice and snow sports after the games.
Training day after day, up to six or seven hours on ice
At present, the preparation for the Winter Olympics has entered the sprint stage, and Shen Xue said that athletes train day after day, which is relatively boring. "Wake up and exercise early, then eat breakfast, and start the normal training schedule of the day at 8 o'clock." According to her, figure skating is divided into 4 events: men's singles, women's singles, doubles and ice dance. Each program has its own training room, and an ice training session lasts one and a half hours, followed by 45 minutes of land activity.
During normal training, each athlete has two ice training sessions a day, in addition to land training, physical training, dance lessons, relaxation stretching and other content. During the choreography, it takes six or seven hours to grind the details on ice.
Since the successful olympic bid, many figure skating teams have cooperated with the international top advantage project teams. "For example, in the ice dance project, before the epidemic, we were completely trained abroad and cooperated with front-line teams abroad. Now only online teaching can be used, and the training of athletes is arranged in the morning and night, which is suitable for foreign countries. ”
Figure skating is a combination of competitive sports and art. In addition to the perfect program in the arena, the personal abilities that figure skaters need to develop are very wide-ranging. Shen Xue introduced that in addition to the physical training of running 3,000 meters, there are also small muscle group training, balance ability training, lumbar and abdominal back muscle training, as well as ballet, national standard, tango, Latin, modern dance, classical dance and other dance training.
How to decompress athletes in boring training? Shen Xue said that at present, it is mainly through the organization of various competitions to stimulate the training of athletes, but also there are team competition activities for relaxation. "When cheering on the players present, everyone dressed up in different styles, wore various decorations on their heads, wore some doll costumes, and released their nature more when they cheered and shouted, relieving stress." Shen Xue said that he usually pays attention to chatting with the athletes in the team to understand the psychological conditions of the young generation.
Develop figure skaters in collaboration with the Dance Academy
"In fact, the winter project is weaker than the summer project, and our ice project is relatively stronger than the snow project." The development of competitive sports in our country is also stronger than that of mass sports. The promotion of ice and snow sports is still a topic of great concern to Shen Xue.
In recent years, Shen Xue has been committed to promoting ice and snow into the campus. The figure skating project is currently cooperating with the Beijing Dance Academy, starting from the cross-border cross-border selection in 2018, selecting talents to participate in figure skating training in the national standard dance, and obtaining a good ranking in the national club league. In 2019, we jointly established an ice experiment class to recruit students who have both a foundation in figure skating and dance. Later, high-level sports teams were gradually formed, and coaches were assigned by the National Figure Skating Association to guide the training.
The daughter of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo inherited the excellent genes of her parents and won the championship in the national competition. Talking about "female parental work", Shen Xue said that her daughter has been cultivated in the skating rink since she was a child, but her original intention for her children to participate in sports training is still based on physical exercise, "At the same time, competitive sports are also helpful for children's mental training and overcoming difficulties." ”
Beijing News reporter Ma Jinqian photojournalist Tao Ran
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