The picture shows the scene of the opening ceremony of the winter project of the 11th Guizhou Provincial Games. Photo by Qu Honglun
Liupanshui, Guizhou, China, January 12 (Pu Wensi, Qu Honglun) The winter events of the 11th Guizhou Provincial Games (hereinafter referred to as the 11th Guizhou Provincial Games) opened in Liupanshui City, Guizhou Province on the 12th, which is the first time in the history of the Guizhou Provincial Games to set up a winter event.
The winter events of the Eleventh Games in Guizhou Province set up skiing (including cross-country skiing and cross-country skating) and land curling, of which cross-country skiing set up 8 sub-events in the men's and women's categories, cross-country skating set up 6 sub-events for men's and women's groups, and land curling set up men's teams and women's teams 2 sub-events, a total of 16 gold medals, attracting a total of 176 athletes from 9 cities and states in Guizhou Province to compete on the same stage.
The picture shows the award scene of the cross-country skiing competition of the 11th Guizhou Provincial Games. Photo by Qu Honglun
As a sub-item of the ski project of the Eleventh Games of Guizhou Province, cross-country skating wheels evolved from cross-country skiing and are an important means of summer training for cross-country skiing, while land curling is derived from the original curling sports on the ice, and its site requirements and maintenance costs are lower than those of real ice venues. These improvements and evolutions are conducive to the popularization and promotion of winter projects, and it is of great significance for China to implement the strategy of "expanding from the south to the west and expanding eastward" of ice and snow sports, driving "300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", and promoting the expansion of ice and snow sports to the four seasons.
In recent years, Guizhou has seized the strategic opportunity of China's ice and snow sports "south exhibition, westward expansion and eastward expansion", and ice and snow sports have developed rapidly from scratch, so that more and more people in Guizhou Province have fallen in love with ice and snow sports. As a pioneer in the development of ice and snow sports and ice and snow tourism industry in Guizhou, Guizhou Liupanshui has built three unique natural ski resorts south of 26 degrees north latitude in recent years, created 21 various types of ski tracks, held a series of events and ice and snow sports into the campus activities of the winter tourism ski season in Guizhou Province for 6 consecutive years, formed the first ice and snow sports team in Guizhou Province and represented Guizhou in national events, and won the silver medal in the cross-country skating competition of the 14th Winter Games of China. The second China Youth Games curling and land curling all-around first place, China Curling Championship third place and other gratifying results. The Eleventh Games of Guizhou Province combined with the characteristics of sports projects in Liupanshui City, the host of the event, and set up a winter project for the first time, aiming to discover outstanding ice and snow sports reserve talents and publicize and popularize ice and snow sports.
The picture shows the athletes competing. Photo by Qu Honglun
On the morning of the 12th, cross-country skiing took the lead in starting at the Yushe Snow Mountain Ski Resort in Shuicheng District, Liupanshui City. On the same day, the low temperature and foggy weather added a lot of difficulty to the competition, and in the first women's team short distance (traditional technology) competition, two members of the Guizhou Liupanshui City representative team Kang Fang and Guilan tacitly cooperated and won the championship with an excellent result of nearly 6 minutes ahead of the second place. "Thanks to the coach's careful guidance and more than three years of hard work, we won the gold medal. This victory also gives us great encouragement and confidence, hoping to one day stand on the podium of the Winter Olympics and add glory to the country. The two players could not hide their excitement in an interview with the China News Agency reporter, and decided to launch a sprint to the Winter Olympics.
"Guizhou ice and snow sports started from scratch, in February 2021, the Guizhou Provincial Winter Sports Management Center was officially established, and actively organized athletes of the right age to participate in the cross-border cross-border selection of national ice and snow projects." Xiao Jun, deputy director of the Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau, told the China News Agency that as of now, Guizhou has sent dozens of ice and snow athletes to the state, and two athletes have entered the National Training Team of China's Ice and Snow Projects and are actively preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics. (End)