On January 22, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics held a second rehearsal at the National Stadium "Bird's Nest". The rehearsal carried out a full-process, all-element drill, and the brilliant fireworks lit up the night sky of the "Bird's Nest" that night. Image source: ICphoto
Beijing, January 25 (Reporter Yue Chuan) The Winter Olympics and the Spring Festival met, and China's "New Year's Taste" gave this ice and snow event more connotation. In the traditional celebration of the small year, the Beijing Winter Olympics entered the countdown to the last ten days.
When Beijing won the right to host the Winter Olympics in 2015, and when the 2018 Winter Olympics entered Beijing time, this "double Olympic city" that existed in the future once left unlimited room for the world to imagine.
Today, the future is here.
On January 20, the construction of temporary facilities in the public area of the Olympic Park of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games has been completed, with a total area of about 41,000 square meters, including event services, catering service areas, volunteer homes, medical stations and other rooms. The picture shows the large-scale art landscape "Five Rings" in the public area of the Olympic Park, and the "Five Rings" will present different landscape effects day and night. China News Service reporter Zhang Yu photographed
From Pyeongchang to Beijing, a long journey of 1440 days and nights ends at the end. It is the highest temple of winter sports in the world and a stage that all ice and snow athletes dream of.
They focus on the world. This is especially true for the host players.
Expanding the area, fixing the point, refining the troops, and sprinting, the Chinese legion has gone through the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle in accordance with the established strategy. A breakthrough is followed by a bigger breakthrough, a step forward followed by a larger leap...
The Chinese ice and snow athletes who have accumulated in four years, gathered sand into a tower, and constantly spurred themselves on have finally come to the stage of their dreams.
Data chart China News Service reporter Jia Tianyong photographed
At the front of the line, it is still short track speed skating. According to the schedule, on the first gold medal day of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese short track speed skating team will impact the first gold of the Chinese delegation in the mixed team relay event.
As the "pioneers" of Winter Sports in China, the short track speed skating team is the focus of the spotlight. So far, the Chinese delegation has won a total of 13 gold medals since participating in the Winter Olympics, and 10 of them have contributed to the short track speed skating event. The performance of this team is a barometer of the achievements of the Chinese delegation.
Infographic: Ren Ziwei in the game
In the 4 races of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup this season, the Chinese team won a total of 7 championships, and ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing and other famous players have won gold performances. Under their leadership, the ten athletes selected for the Winter Olympics list are preparing for the battle in Shougang Park, striving to defend the honor of "Master of Kings".
Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, Peng Cheng/Jin Yang, these two golden pairs of figure skating pair skating, are also preparing for the final battle in Shougang Park. Especially Sui Wenjing/Han Cong, the regret of Pyeongchang's 0.43 points is a thing of the past, and Beijing is the most perfect place for them to realize their Grand Slam dreams.
Data chart: Sui Wenjing, Han Cong
4 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals totaling 9 medals, which is the transcript handed over by the Chinese speed skating team in the 4 World Cups this season. In the competition, a total of 4 people broke the national record, including the same person who broke the personal best situation many times, and a total of 36 people created personal bests.
This team is like a train that is accelerating towards its destination, and Ning Zhongyan and Gao Tingyu play the role of the front of the train. Ning Zhongyan won 3 gold and 2 silver in this season's World Cup, and Gao Tingyu also reached the championship podium. In the 27th National Ice and Snow Sports Training Base, they are sweating like rain with their teammates and sprinting towards the goal in their hearts.
The freestyle skiing aerial skills national team with Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu, Qi Guangpu, Jia Zongyang and many other world famous players is the vanguard of the Chinese delegation to compete for gold and silver. On each of them, on their chests, they have gold medals from this season's World Cup. Before competing in individual events, they had the same goal as the group – to never let the Mixed Team's Olympic gold medal fall by the wayside.
On January 21, 2020, local time, Lausanne, Switzerland, the award ceremony of the 2020 WinterGreen Olympics freestyle ski U-shaped venue, Gu Ailing won the gold medal. Image source: ICphoto
In addition to the advantage area of aerial skills, the number of gold rushing points in Chinese skiing projects has increased, and Gu Ailing has contributed to it. After returning from injury last December, in just 37 days, she won 6 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze in various international competitions she participated in. If Gu Ailing continues to make history at the Beijing Winter Olympics, I am afraid that no one will be surprised by this.
Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu, the powerful sister flowers, will work together to meet the challenges brought by Chloe-Jin. There is also Su Yiming, 18-year-old who not only won a valuable gold medal in the Snowboard Jump world cup, but also won the Guinness World Records certification for the ultra-difficult action of the 1980-degree grasp of the inside turn.
Like Gu Ailing, Cai Xuetong, Liu Jiayu and other famous players, Su Yiming is also in Chongli, making a final attempt for his dreams.
Su Yiming is in training at the Winter Games Center
Among the Chinese delegation, there are countless "Su Yiming" who are constantly creating their own new ceilings. It is precisely because of them that looking back at this road of preparation at this time, China's ice and snow sports performance has made a leap forward.
When Beijing won the right to host in 2015, about one-third of the 109 sub-events set up for the Winter Olympics belonged to a blank piece of paper in China and was never carried out.
At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Chinese ice and snow athletes participated in a total of 53 sub-events, accounting for about half of the total number of projects, which was the largest number of projects participated in by the Chinese delegation in previous Winter Olympics.
In this Winter Olympics, the Chinese Legion will once again refresh its own record for the number of projects participating, which is beyond doubt.
Beijing, the "City of Double Olympics" from summer to winter, has bred new dreams for Chinese ice and snow athletes. Their stories are about to start telling from this moment. (End)