The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is about to kick off, and the Chinese curling team has officially announced the winter Olympic list. With the advantage of the host, the Chinese team will strive to surpass the results of the last PyeongChang Winter Olympics in the three events of men's team, women's team and mixed doubles. Curling originated late in China, coupled with the uneven construction of talent echelons, the backward level of athletes, the limited coaching ability and the harsh training environment, before the Turin Winter Olympics, the Chinese curling team had difficulty occupying a place in the world arena. The turning point came at the 2009 Curling World Championships, where the Chinese women's team represented by Wang Bingyu, Yue Qingshuang, Liu Yin and Zhou Yan went all the way through the barriers, and finally defeated the world's no. 1 Swedish team to win the championship.
This gold medal also made the first golden age of Chinese curling. Judging from the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, the Chinese curling team has experienced a cliff-like decline, and both the men's team and the women's team have not been able to achieve satisfactory results in the World Championships, Asian Championships, World Cups and other major competitions. Even in some of the top international competitions, the Chinese team was unable to qualify. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, whether the Chinese curling team can fight back and play a hearty turnaround battle in front of their hometown fathers and elders is the audience's biggest expectation.
Judging from the announced Olympic lineup, the five players of the men's team are Ma Xiuyue, Zou Qiang, Wang Zhiyu, Xu Jingtao and Jiang Dongxu; the women's team is played by Han Yu, Wang Rui, Dong Ziqi, Zhang Lijun and Jiang Xindi. Jiang Xindi and Wang Rui are veterans of the team, and both participated in the last Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The latest mixed doubles event added to the Olympic Games is also one of the highlights of the curling field of this Winter Olympic Games. The Chinese team sent a combination of Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi to create Chinese curling history at home. It is worth mentioning that the curling mixed doubles event will be the debut of the entire Chinese sports delegation at the Winter Olympics.
Can Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi get the opening red for the Chinese legion? The world curling arena has entered the stage of competing for the deer, and in the men's side, Sweden, Canada, Norway and Switzerland are all favorites to win the Beijing Winter Olympics. In terms of women, Canada and Sweden are still in a situation of competition, and the British team, the Russian team, the South Korean team and so on also have strong strength. Compared with these world's top teams, the Chinese team still has a big gap in terms of personal technical ability, game experience, and on-the-spot response.
Earlier, the coaching team of the Chinese curling team said in an interview that at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the goal of the men's team is to fight every opponent, and it is one to win. The goal of the women's team is to strive to enter the top 8 and further train the young players. As soon as this remark came out, many netizens could not help but sigh, "Chinese curling has actually fallen from a world champion to the point of being "passively beaten"." At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Chinese curling women's team won a historic bronze medal, which is the only Olympic medal won by Chinese curling so far. 12 years later, at the Beijing Winter Olympics, can they bring surprises to everyone?
(Luo Treasurer)