On January 8 in Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, the temperature was already very low, but Cui Yunkai, who was waiting for the meeting at the Qiqihar Railway Station, could not hide his excitement, and before leaving, he gathered the team together to encourage the march. The team's destination is Beijing, and as the only Chinese ice-making team at the National Stadium, they will methodically carry out the ice making work of the Winter Olympics under the leadership of the main icemaker Dorn Moffat. "The age structure of the players entering Beijing this time is a combination of old, middle and young, the oldest age is 64 years old, the youngest age is 32 years old, the longest ice making experience is more than 40 years, and the youngest is more than 10 years old." Cui Yunkai, the leader of the ice-making team of the Sports Bureau of Qiqihar City, Heilongjiang Province, introduced.
On January 9, after a short rest, the ice-making team threw themselves into the ice-making work of a total of 3,600 square meters of ice surface in the national stadium competition venue and training venue, laying the ice bottom, spraying white, drawing lines, and all the links could not tolerate sloppiness. Cui Yunkai's 14-person ice-making team is only one of the 65 people in Qiqihar who served the Beijing Winter Olympics, in addition to three on-site referees, 19 technical officials, 28 snow boys and 1 interpreter. They are hidden from the camera, but they are an indispensable part of running a "wonderful" Winter Olympics.
As the Winter Olympics approached, people from all over the world rushed to Beijing and Hebei to contribute to the Beijing Winter Olympics. Serving the Beijing Winter Olympics, regardless of regional provinces and cities, all over the country play a game of chess, and work together to contribute their respective strengths to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Zhang Zhiyuan participated in the ice work of the 2018 Curling World Championships
Zhang Zhiyuan, who is also an ice maker, is preparing for her departure, and she will depart from Shanghai, the same destination for Beijing. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhang Zhiyuan, as a member of the Chinese ice master team, will assist Mark Karen and other ice makers to provide professional ice making services for the curling competition venue "Ice Cube". In addition to the competition venues, the "Ice Cube" Ice Sports Center, which was used as a venue for citizens to experience during the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, was completed in just seven consecutive days by Zhang Zhiyuan and his colleagues. "Seeing that through their own efforts, the ice rink has grown from scratch, and everyone has a special sense of accomplishment." The ice surface of curling is very cumbersome, the core difficulty is that the ice surface has a layer of raised Xiaoice grains, called "freezing point", curling is actually sliding on top of this layer of ice point, the ice point is related to the quality of a track, may also affect the outcome of the game. Therefore, it is not easy for Chinese ice makers to have the opportunity to make ice for the world competition. Zhang Zhiyuan is full of expectations for this good opportunity to work with the world's best peers and learn from them, because with the Beijing Winter Olympics as a new starting point, Zhang Zhiyuan also has a dream: "I hope that one day, Chinese icemakers can also stand on the international stage." ”
Like Zhang Zhiyuan, who rushed from Shanghai to Beijing, were Wang Jue and Li Lingshu, who represented Chinese referees on the curling schedule of the Winter Olympics for the first time, and Bian Weihua, a 58-year-old INTERNATIONAL Skating Federation-level referee who will direct the short track speed skating competition of the Winter Olympics for the fourth time. With the finalization of the list of referees and domestic technical officials in various projects, there will be more than 30 referees, technical officials and scientific and medical support personnel in Shanghai to serve the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
After the "Meet in Beijing" series of test matches, Qin Shaoling took a group photo with his work partners in front of "Xue Ruyi".
There is no direct train, and Qin Shaoling, who departs from Yantai, Shandong Province, needs to change trains in Beijing, and his destination is "Snow Ruyi" in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, which is the place for ski jumping and Nordic biathlon at the Beijing Winter Olympics. "The selection of domestic technical officials is very strict, and the number of people participating in the selection of a single item is close to 500, and only more than 90 people have successfully been shortlisted. As the only domestic technical official from Yantai, I am honored to contribute to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Qin Shaoling said that in 2019, the Yantai Municipal Sports Bureau organized 11 people including Qin Shaoling to go to Beijing and Hebei to participate in training and selection, and after six rounds of training, only Qin Shaoling was selected in Yantai, and only 4 people in the entire Shandong Province were selected. Qin Shaoling's job is to be responsible for the maintenance of the landing slope site. The length, angle, temperature, wind direction, wind strength, brightness and snow quality of the landing slope greatly affect the athletes' competition performance. Landing slope leveling is crucial to whether athletes can land safely, and landing slope decoration not only enables broadcasting to achieve better visual effects, but also the key to judging the distance when athletes fly in the air. Therefore, every time the venue is practiced, he seizes the rare opportunity to not miss every detail to ensure that there are zero mistakes in the field work.
The Qiqihar ice team set out for Beijing
Sports academies have also sent a large number of ice and snow talents for the Winter Olympics. As the only higher sports college in Heilongjiang Province, Harbin Sports Institute, featuring ice and snow, has contributed 1 specially appointed expert of the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, 4 officials of the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, 15 staff members of the Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, 46 domestic technical officials including 4 competition leaders, and 3 ice makers, ranking first among the national sports colleges in terms of talent contribution rate to the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
The Winter Olympics coincided with the Spring Festival, and people who gathered for the Winter Olympics would also bring food from all over the world, Qin Shaoling smiled and said: "Teammates know that I am from Yantai, Shandong, let me bring seafood and mackerel dumplings to the past, and it will be lively during the New Year." I want to introduce them to the sea in Yantai. After the Winter Olympics, they will spread back to all corners of the motherland with the valuable experience accumulated in the actual combat of the Winter Olympics, and this is the significance of the "national chess game" to serve the Winter Olympics.