Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Su Jing intern Gu Qiaoyan
The Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee recently announced the final version of the Winter Olympic games competition schedule on its official website. The Beijing Winter Olympics will open on February 4, and on February 5, the Chinese short track speed skating team will impact the Chinese delegation's first gold medal at the Winter Olympics in the mixed team relay event.
The Winter Olympics will be held from February 4 to February 20, with a total of 7 major events, 15 sub-events and 109 minor events. At present, the Chinese legion, as the host, has obtained 96 qualifications for the sub-event, and the number of athletes who have been shortlisted in real time has reached 168, with a total of 188 participating seats. With the efforts of the snow project in the past two cycles, the Chinese delegation has gradually changed the chronic disease of "ice strength and snow weakness", and the gold rushing point of this competition will increase compared with previous editions.
According to the schedule, curling, ice hockey and freestyle skiing will take the lead before the opening ceremony. February 5 is the first gold medal day of the Winter Olympics, and gold medals will be awarded in all six events: short track speed skating, speed skating, biathlon, ski jumping, cross-country skiing and freestyle skiing.
Among them, short track speed skating is the traditional advantage of the Chinese legion. On this day, the short track speed skating 2000m mixed relay race is the most certain gold medal point for the Chinese team. This is a new sub-event of this Winter Olympic Games, in this season's four World Cup matches, the Chinese team achieved an impressive result of 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze.
A few days ago, Yao Ming, chairman of the Chinese Basketball Association, revealed in an interview that the Winter Olympics are most concerned about the performance of Wu Dajing and Gu Ailing, who are also the two most eye-catching stars of the Chinese Legion at the Winter Olympics.
According to the schedule, the final of the men's 500m short track speed skating will be staged on the evening of February 13, and whether Pyeongchang Winter Olympic gold medalist Wu Dajing can defend his title is a big suspense. In several races of the short track speed skating World Cup this season, Wu Dajing's state was first suppressed and then raised, and he won the gold medal in the last stop. In addition, Ren Ziwei has the strength to compete for the gold medal in the men's 1500 meters on February 9.
On January 18, "Snow Princess" Gu Ailing returned to Beijing to prepare for the final sprint. She will make her debut at the Winter Olympics at the Freestyle Ski Women's Big Jump Qualifier, which begins on February 7.
She will "fight in three fronts" this year, participating in the big jump, slope obstacle skills and U-shaped field, the last two of which will start the qualifying round on February 13 and February 17 respectively. This season, the International Snow Federation praised Gu Ailing for "doing nothing but winning", with such momentum to break into the big stage of the Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing will become the brightest star.
The Chinese team also has the strength to rush gold in the ice sports figure skating. In the figure skating event, the Chinese team won one seat each for men's singles, women's singles and ice dance, namely Jin Boyang, Zhu Yi and Wang Shiyue/Liu Xinyu, and two seats for pair skating, with Sui Wenjing/Han Cong and Peng Cheng/Jin Yang respectively.
At the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the "onion barrel combination" Sui Wenjing and Han Cong defeated the German combination with a slight difference of 0.43 points. In this home battle, the "onion barrel combination" aims to rush the gold, but several pairs of Russian duos are strong, and there will be a dragon fight. They will make their debut on the morning of opening day on Feb. 4. On February 18 and 19, the pair skating short program and the pair skating free skating competition will begin.
In addition, the Chinese team has the strength to impact medals and even gold medals in speed skating, freestyle skiing aerial skills, snowboarding men's big jumping and other events, of which the air skills mixed team final will be held on February 10, the men's big jump qualification and final time are February 14 and February 15, respectively, 17-year-old "little bolt" Su Yiming is expected to bring surprises.
As a bobsleigh athlete from the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland, Peng Junyue, a rising ice and snow star in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, won a seat at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Previously, he won the men's double bobsleigh and team relay events in the bobsleigh event of the 14th National Winter Games of China held in October 2019, achieving a gold medal "zero breakthrough" for Guangdong in the history of the National Winter Games. At present, Peng Junyue is preparing for the bobsleigh event of the Winter Olympics, and the two competitions will be held on the evening of February 9 and 10. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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