On January 27, 2022, the Chinese sports delegation participating in the XXIV Winter Olympic Games was officially established. The total number of Chinese sports delegations 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 2022 Winter Olympics is the largest participation in the history of Chinese sports delegations.
Among the 176 athletes, 87 were female athletes, accounting for 49.43%, and 89 male athletes, accounting for 50.57%. The average age of the athletes is 25.2 years old, the oldest is 37 years old (men's ice hockey Ye Jinguang), and the youngest is 17 years old (men's freestyle ski He Jinbo, women's ski jumping Peng Qingyue). 131 athletes participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, accounting for 74.43%; Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu and other athletes will participate in the Winter Olympic Games for the fourth time, which is the athlete with the largest number of participations in the Winter Olympics in the delegation. There are 78 coaches, including 51 foreign teachers from 19 countries including the United States, Canada, Russia, France, and Japan.
The Chinese sports delegation completed the task of "participating in all 7 major events and 15 sub-events" of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, 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, Chinese athletes participating in 5 major events, 12 sub-events and 53 sub-events, 2 major events such as ice hockey and sledding, 3 sub-events such as Nordic biathlon, and 47 sub-events such as speed skating women's 5000 meters have been added, and the number of participating small events and athletes has increased significantly.
The Chinese sports delegation said that it is necessary to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important instructions on the preparation of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, take morality, style, and clean gold medals as the fundamental follow-up, effectively enhance the ambition and courage to win glory for the country, actively display the spiritual outlook and competitive level of Chinese athletes in the new era in the Olympic arena, and ensure the realization of the goal of double harvest of sports achievements and spiritual civilization of the Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics: First, we must strive to create the best results in the history of the Winter Olympic Games. The second is to fully display a good spiritual outlook, work tenaciously on the field, never give up, be friendly and generous off the field, win without arrogance, defeat without discouragement, and show a good demeanor. The third is to resolutely achieve "zero occurrence" of doping in the Chinese sports delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics. The fourth is to strictly abide by the closed-loop management requirements of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and resolutely do a good job in epidemic prevention and control.
1980 13th Lake Placid Winter Olympics first competed in 28 athletes
2015 When the bid was successful: About one-third of the Winter Olympics were not carried out
2018 23rd Winter Olympics PyeongChang 53 sub-events 49 minor events were absent
2022 24th Beijing Winter Olympics 104 events 194 seats qualification 31 events - the first time to participate in the Winter Olympics
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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporter Kong Ning Li Li
Edited by Kang Dian
Process Editor Liu Weili