Competitive sports have more than just champions! Completing a historic breakthrough can also win applause and praise.
At the Nordic Biathlon Intercontinental Cup held in Lower Tagil, Russia, China's Zhao Jiawen qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics in the individual standard platform + 10km event with a 22nd place result.
This made history, and the 20-year-old became the first Chinese Nordic biathlete to qualify for the Winter Olympics.
In order to accomplish this goal, Zhao Jiawen made unimaginable efforts for ordinary people. From the age of 12, he received cross-country skiing training, and then entered the Nordic two-country training team through cross-discipline selection.
At the age of 18, he won the Nordic biathlon small jump + cross-country 10 km men's single championship at the 2nd National Youth Games, as well as the national championship small jump + cross-country 10 km single championship, Zhao Jiawen's talent is beyond doubt.
Compared with traditional advantages such as short track speed skating and figure skating, the Chinese team started late in the field of snow sports. In particular, projects such as the Nordic biathlon are at a relatively backward level, and the gap with traditional strong teams such as Germany and Austria is obvious. Fortunately, after an Olympic cycle of efforts, Chinese athletes have the ability to compete with the world's strongest teams.
Zhao Jiawen's 22nd place result and the winter Olympics ticket this time is a major breakthrough in China's snow sports.
For this qualification, the whole team has put a lot of effort into this competition. The national Nordic biathlon team has introduced high-tech training methods to help the team members, and Zhao Jiawen himself sighed: "The state is getting better and better every day." ”
This time, the Nordic biathlon qualified for the Winter Olympics, which also laid a very solid foundation for the Chinese Ice and Snow Army to participate in all 7 major events and 15 sub-events of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"No matter how strong the foreign players are, or how many years they have been ahead of us, we have never been afraid to face them! On the contrary, they should be afraid of us. Because the Chinese team has made rapid progress in the past 6 years, we are full of confidence in this. ”
This is the voice of the Chinese snow sports boys, and this confidence will lead them to a higher stage.
'We do have a certain gap in the nordic level, but I feel that with just another 3 years or so, our team is very likely to be in the top 20 of the world."
This is Zhao Jiawen's promise, believing that he will fulfill the small goals he has set. In this process, "China Sports" is also ready to "dream of Beijing" with the majority of Chinese athletes.