Not long ago, the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport announced the list of athletes participating in the pair skating and ice dance events of the Chinese figure skating team at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The official announcement confirmed that two pairs of pair skating duo Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang and ice dance duo Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu were identified as participants in the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is also the first batch of athletes announced by the Chinese team for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
After the end of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, China's State General Administration of Sport put forward the goal of "comprehensive participation, comprehensive breakthrough and comprehensive driving". Among them, full participation means that the 109 sub-events of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games are fully established and all-disciplined. About a third of the 109 sub-items have not been carried out in China before, which is "a blank piece of paper".
Now, 50 days before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese Ice and Snow Corps is sprinting towards the goal of participating in all projects of the Beijing Winter Olympics. As of December 15, the Chinese team currently has 91 minor events qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics in real time, and the number of qualified athletes has reached 157, a total of 170 seats.
Since Beijing won the right to host the Winter Olympics in 2015, after 6 years of development, the Chinese delegation has achieved leapfrog development of ice and snow sports, and is gradually reversing the status quo of China's ice and snow sports "ice strong and snow weak", and the Chinese Ice and Snow Army, which is fully attacked, is expected to achieve a historic breakthrough at home.
The Ice Advantage event is in full swing
Short track speed skating, figure skating, speed skating are the first sports that Chinese ice and snow fans are familiar with and are familiar with. In these events, the Chinese legion has performed well in previous Winter Olympic Games. The Beijing Winter Olympics "home battle", the advantage of the project to go all out to achieve good results.
Since its first participation in the Winter Olympics in 1980, the Chinese delegation has won a total of 13 gold medals in the Winter Olympic Games, of which the short track speed skating team contributed 10 gold medals, which is the most stable gold rush point in China's ice and snow sports.
As a qualifier for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the recent short track speed skating World Cup is the first time for the Chinese team to appear on the international arena in two years. In the 4 World Cup matches, the Chinese team won a total of 7 gold medals. Among them, the Chinese short track speed skating team has achieved full participation in 6 single events and 3 relay events such as men's and women's 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters, and the Chinese team can send a lineup of 5 men and 5 women at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and each individual event has 3 Chinese players.
Among them, the 24-year-old Ren Ziwei performed eye-catchingly, and he had a gold medal in 3 consecutive races. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, he will attack the three individual gold medals in the 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters, and will also participate in the relay event with his teammates. He said in an interview: "I am eager to win the gold medal in every competition. I will attack the gold medal in all the competitions of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and I must go all out for the Olympic Games at my doorstep. ”
In terms of figure skating, in addition to the identified pair skating and ice dance combinations, the Chinese figure skating team has obtained a beijing winter olympic qualification in the men's and women's singles events, and the final participants will be selected after a total of 5 selection matches in 3 stations held between December 16 and January next year.
Last week, with the speed skating World Cup concluded in Calgary, Canada, the Olympic points race of the speed skating event at the Beijing Winter Olympics was all over. The Chinese men's team won 7 places in 4 individual events, and at the same time qualified for the team pursuit competition, and could send 7 athletes to participate in the Olympic Games. The Chinese women's team won 13 places in all 6 individual events, plus the team pursuit, a total of 8 athletes can be sent to participate. It is worth mentioning that in the final of the men's 1000 meters Group A, Ning Zhongyan won the gold medal in 1 minute 06 seconds 656 seconds. This is the first men's 1000-meter gold medal won by China's speed skating in the international competition, achieving another historic breakthrough in China's speed skating.
In the ice project, curling is also one of the projects that Chinese audiences care about. At present, the curling Olympic trials are currently under intense progress. It is reported that the selection competition has a total of 4 men's and women's four-person teams and 5 mixed doubles teams, with 1 race per week, 48 four-person matches and 60 mixed doubles matches for six consecutive weeks. After the 6 races, the strongest squad will be selected for the Winter Olympics according to the ranking of each team and the individual performance of the team members.
"Ice is strong and snow is weak" is expected to achieve a historic breakthrough
"In terms of weaknesses, Chinese players are also rapidly improving their performance," Said German Sports Television A few days ago, and in the men's single competition of the steel frame snowmobile World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, which ended at the end of last month, Geng Wenqiang won the championship with Britain's Weston and Germany's Grossel, which is the first World Cup champion in China's steel frame snowmobile project. According to the official website of the International Snowmobile and Steel Frame Snowmobile Federation, this achievement is enough to enter the history of sports.
In fact, in this Winter Olympic cycle, the original "ice strong and snow weak" situation of the Chinese Ice and Snow Corps has begun to change, in addition to the two advantages of aerial skills and snowboarding U-shaped venues, the addition of newcomers, the attempt to select cross-border materials and the help of foreign coaches, China has also made great progress in freestyle skiing U-shaped tracks and slope obstacle courses, snowboarding men's slope obstacle course skills and big jumping and other projects.
In the early morning of December 12, Beijing time, the 2021/2022 FIS Snowboard U-Shaped Venue World Cup in the United States Tongshan Station came to an end, and in the women's final, Cai Xuetong, the world's second-ranked Chinese star, won the crown with a score of 80.50 points. Born in 1993, Cai Xuetong has participated in three Winter Olympic Games and won six championships at the FIS World Cup, making her the woman with the largest number of World Cup overall champions in the snowboard U-shaped event.
Recently, this season's FIS Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills World Cup in Ruka, Finland, ended, and the Chinese team composed of Xu Mengtao, Sun Jiaxu and Qi Guangpu won the mixed team gold medal. This is also the second time that the Chinese Air Skills team has reached the top of the project after a week after winning the championship earlier this month. The mixed team competition in aerial skills is a new event at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the balance of strength between male and female athletes will be a major advantage for the Chinese team to strive for the gold medal in this event.
The emergence of new faces has given China's snow projects more expectations.
This month, 17-year-old Su Yiming made a splash at the World Cup in the United States, winning his first world championship in the snowboard jump event for Chinese athletes. And Gu Ailing, who is a year older than him, has long become a household star. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, she will compete in three events.
In the freestyle skiing project, the young Gu Ailing carries the great expectations of the Chinese people, and she has a strong gold rushing strength in the three events of freestyle skiing U-shaped field, big jumping platform and slope obstacle course. Not long ago, Gu Ailing, who returned from injury, made his season debut and won the big jump championship at the Ski Jump World Cup in the United States Templebot Station. She completed a forward-skating backflip for two weeks in the third jump plus two weeks of rotation for 1440 degrees, becoming the first female athlete in history to complete this action.
Li Yingchuan, deputy director of the State General Administration of Sports, previously introduced that at present, a total of 29 national training teams for ice and snow projects and 480 athletes are sprinting with all their might, striving to achieve good results at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and achieving the goals of all projects, all project team building and all project training in the 109 sub-events of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
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