Beijing, 27 Jan (Xinhua) -- On 27 January, the Chinese sports delegation to the 24th Winter Olympic Games was officially established.
The total number of Chinese sports delegations at the Beijing Winter Olympics is 387, including 176 athletes, 164 coaches, team leaders, scientific and medical personnel and other sports team staff, and 47 youth league staff. The Beijing Winter Olympics is the largest participation in the history of Chinese sports delegations.
Of the 176 athletes, 87 were female and 89 were male. There are 20 athletes from 9 ethnic minorities, including Tibetans, Uyghurs, Manchus and Hui. The average age of the athletes was 25.2 years old, the oldest was 37 years old, ye Jinguang, a men's ice hockey player, and the youngest was 17 years old, he Jinbo, a male freestyle skier, and Peng Qingyue, a women's ski jumper.
Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu, Cai Xuetong and Liu Jiayu will participate in the Olympic Games for the fourth time, making them the athletes with the most Olympic games in the delegation.
There are 78 coaches, including 51 foreign teachers from 19 countries (regions) such as the United States, Canada, Russia, France, and Japan.
On February 22, 2018, in the men's 500m short track speed skating final at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, China's Wu Dajing celebrated after winning the championship. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Han Yan
When Beijing won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015, about a third of China's 109 sub-events had never been carried out; at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Chinese teams accounted for about half of the total number of projects.
The Chinese sports delegation completed the task of "participating in all 7 major events and 15 sub-events" of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and won a total of 104 sub-events and 194 seats (including 4 "in-competition" sub-events that need to be reconfirmed by other minor events of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games), accounting for 95.4% of all 109 sub-events. Compared with the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, when my athletes participated in 5 major events and 12 sub-events and 53 sub-events, 2 major events such as ice hockey and bobsleigh, 3 sub-events such as Nordic biathlon, and 47 minor events such as speed skating women's 5000 meters, the number of participating small events and athletes has increased significantly.
Of the 13 gold medals won in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics, 12 were in short track speed skating, figure skating and speed skating. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the representative teams of these three events are expected to "shoot three arrows at the same time" and continue to serve as the main force of the Chinese legion to compete for gold and medals.