The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is getting closer and closer, and the preparations of Chinese ice and snow athletes have also entered the final sprint stage, and they are rubbing their fists and racing against the clock. People's Daily launched a series of reports on the "Sprint Winter Olympics" to track and report on the latest preparations for Chinese ice and snow athletes.
Seats for the Winter Olympics snowmobile and steel frame bobsleighs are out
Recently, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics Snowmobile and Steel Frame Bobsock Olympic Points Race came to an end, and the International Snowmobile and Steel Frame Snowmobile Federation (IBSF) released the Beijing Winter Olympics participation quota plan for each project. At present, the Chinese team has won 2 seats in the four events of women's single snowmobile, women's double snowmobile, men's double snowmobile and four-person snowmobile.
Sun Kaizhi and Li Chunjian, the helmsmen of the China Snowmobile National Training Team, won seats for the men's double snowmobile and four-person snowmobile events for the team, while helmsmen Ying Qing and Huai Mingming won seats for the Chinese team in the women's single snowmobile and double snowmobile events. In addition, the Chinese team won 2 seats in the men's steel frame snowmobile and the women's steel frame snowmobile, and was able to send 2 men and 2 women to participate in the Winter Olympics. The Russian Olympic Committee and germany teams won full quotas.
This season, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national training team performed well in the Olympic points race, winning 8 European Championships, 2 Intercontinental Cups and 1 World Cup. According to the selection method recently released by the Winter Games Center of the State General Administration of Sport, the steel frame snowmobile will determine the list of athletes in the form of an Olympic selection competition, and the selection competition will be held from January 21 to 22. The final scoring standard of athletes in the selection competition is a percentage system, and the final score of athletes is composed of three parts: sliding performance, push performance, and athlete key performance indicators. If the selection competition is not held as scheduled, the athlete selection will be determined by the points of the remaining evaluation items, and if all the evaluation items do not meet the evaluation conditions, it will be determined by the current year's IBSF points ranking in high and low order.
The women's U-shaped snowboarding venue china competed in full
On January 16, the 2021-2022 FIS Snowboarding World Cup Lex ended in Switzerland. In the women's U-shaped field skills final, China's Cai Xuetong finished seventh in the competition, but she finally won the World Cup overall title this season, which is also the seventh time in her career that Cai Xuetong has won the season championship.
Cai Xuetong competes in the Snowboard U-Track Skills World Cup in Lux, Switzerland. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Cheng
There are three races in this season's Snowboard U-Track World Cup, with Cai Xuetong winning the championship at Copper Mountain and runner-up at Mammoth Mountain in the United States. After the game, Cai Xuetong's total World Cup points rose to 216 points, ranking first. Japan's Senna Tomita was second with 190 points, Mitsuki Ono was third with 175 points and Castellet was fourth with 120 points. Wu Shaotong ranked tenth with 85 points. Chloe King is eighth with 100 points. In the end, Cai Xuetong won the seventh World Cup championship of her career.
It is worth mentioning that in the updated Olympic standings of the International Snow Federation after the game, as many as 5 female players in China ranked in the top 25, and 7 entered the top 30 of the women's standings. According to the regulations, U-shaped venue skills have 25 places for men and women at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and each team can have up to 4 men and women, which means that the Chinese women's team has achieved full participation. The Chinese men's team had 3 people who exceeded the Olympic points entry line.
Beijing Winter Olympics Trials 8 athletes were selected for the speed skating squad
On January 15, the Chinese speed skating national training team in the 27th National Ice and Snow Sports Training and Research Base ended the first round of three competition days of the Beijing Winter Olympics Selection Competition, according to the rules of point ranking, male athletes Lian Ziwen, Wang Haotian, female athletes Han Mei, Li Qishi, Jin Jingzhu, Yin Qi and other 6 people successfully entered the 6 men, 8 women's big list, plus Gao Tingyu, Ning Zhongyan, who have locked the qualifications in advance, the continental Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating project list has been determined 8 people.
According to reports, after the end of this round of competition, the speed skating national training team will organize a second round of selection competitions to determine the remaining large list of personnel, and athletes who have been qualified will no longer participate in the second round of selection.
According to the qualification system for the speed skating event of the Beijing Winter Olympics of the International Skating Federation, although through the outstanding performance of the previous four World Cups, the mainland won 22 small events, 6 men and 8 women with a total of 14 places, but in the end, several people in the big list can be on the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and wait for the final allocation of places for the International Skating Federation on January 22.
Snowboard slope obstacle course skills and big jumping Su Yiming locked in the winter Olympic ticket for China
On January 15, the 2021-2022 FIS Snowboarding World Cup Slope Obstacle Course competition in Lex ended in Switzerland, and Chinese teenager Su Yiming finished in the men's final with tenth place. According to the International Snow Federation's updated Olympic points rankings after the competition, Su Yiming became the only Chinese athlete to exceed the Olympic points finalists in the snowboard slope obstacle course and big jumping event.
It is understood that with the end of this competition, the Olympic points competition of snowboard slope obstacle skills and big jumping events is also over. It is worth mentioning that at the Beijing Winter Olympics, snowboard slope obstacle course and big jumping, the two events share a seat, the participants must be in both events at the same time, each team can get up to 4 seats for men and women, and there are a total of 30 seats for men and women in these two events.
In the women's Olympic standings, no Chinese athlete can surpass the Olympic points entry line, but the Chinese team has previously activated the host qualification and thus won a place. The Chinese woman with the highest number of points is Jung, who ranks 43rd in the women's Olympic standings with 52 points.
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