Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, January 27, 2019 Title: They are worth locking in the Winter Olympics without changing stations
These people in the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation deserve special attention
Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhang Han, Li Chunyu and Wang Chunyan
The Chinese sports delegation for the Beijing Winter Olympics was officially established on the 27th, with a total of 387 people, including 176 athletes. The Grand Event at the Doorstep, which has been eagerly awaited for 6 and a half years, has become the largest Winter Olympics in the history of the Chinese sports delegation. The task of "participating in the whole project" has been completed, who will march towards the goal of "brilliant", who has the most hope of raising the five-star red flag, and even letting the national anthem sound in the Olympic arena?
Figure Skating: Sui Wenjing/Han Cong
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong narrowly missed the gold medal with a marginal margin of 0.43 points; four years later, they returned to the Olympic season with "The Golden Bridge on the River of Sorrows", which they had skied in 2016-2017.
This piece is their free skating track when they first landed on the podium of the World Championships that year, and the old song is newly composed, telling how the "onion barrel" combination under the plague of injury and illness supports each other and grows together. In 2018, Sui Wenjing was forced to undergo a major operation immediately after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics due to a fatigue fracture in her right foot, and Two years later Han Cong underwent hip surgery.
On November 7, 2021, pair skating champion and Chinese duo Sui Wenjing (right) / Han Cong presented the gold medal after the award ceremony at the 2021-2022 Figure Skating Grand Prix in Italy. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jin Ma Mengni
The two once said that the original intention of choreographing this track five years ago was because Sui Wenjing had just experienced an injury at that time, and Han Cong became the "bridge" that helped her get out of the trap; in this cycle, the two had different injuries and became each other's "bridge".
"The bridge is not just between us, but also between us and the audience, between the referees, and even between everyone on our team." Sui Wenjing said, "We also hope that this bridge will be built between everyone and give each other warmth." ”
From the Beijing Winter Olympics Test Match and Figure Skating Asian Open in mid-October 2021 to the Canadian Grand Prix and the Italian Grand Prix, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong stood on the highest podium three times in less than a month, and their energy and physical strength were tested, but they were also inspired to better and better form and their determination to strive for the highest goal of the Winter Olympics.
In the latest pair skating world rankings, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong and another Chinese pair skating Olympian Peng Cheng/Jin Yang finished third and fifth respectively, while the other three seats in the top five were occupied by three Pairs of Russian pairs, including World Champion Misna/Gallamov. In the figure skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which will kick off at the Capital Gymnasium on February 4, the main theme of pair skating will be the dispute between China and Russia.
Short track speed skating: Ren Ziwei, Wu Dajing
Of the 13 gold medals won in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics, 12 are from short track speed skating, figure skating and speed skating, with 10 gold medals in hand short track speed skating taking the lead. Since Yang Yang achieved a "zero breakthrough" in the Chinese Winter Olympics at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, the Chinese short track team has had gold medals in all the Winter Olympic Games since then.
In this Olympic cycle, although the Chinese short track team has experienced two twists and turns, this Chinese ice and snow king division has basically maintained the level of a strong team in the 2021-2022 season.
In the four world cup races, Ren Ziwei had gold medals in each of the standings, including twice on the highest podium in the men's 1500 meters; Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Wu Dajing recovered in the last leg to win the men's 500 meters championship. The two also relied on their winning performance in the World Cup to lock in the Beijing Winter Olympics in advance.
Chinese ren ziwei (left) and Wu Dajing at the award ceremony at the Nagoya station of the short track speed skating World Cup on October 31, 2021. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Xiaoyi
The first gold medal in the short track speed skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be produced on the evening of February 5, and the event is the strongest mixed 2,000-meter relay of the Chinese team as a whole. In this season's four World Cup matches, the Chinese team won two gold, one silver and one bronze in the mixed relay competition, and the Chinese people may expect a golden whirlwind led by the red ace army.
Speed skating: Ning Zhongyan, Gao Tingyu, women's team chase
From a fresh name to a leading figure, Ning Zhongyan, who is almost a "post-00s", is a speed skating star who has truly jumped into the public eye in the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle. In 2018, he was selected for the Chinese speed skating team, and in 2019, he won the second place in the men's 1000 meters of the speed skating World Cup in Minsk, Belarus, making a breakthrough progress in this project for China's speed skating.
In 2021, he proudly displayed the results of his hard training on the international ice rink. With a strong performance in the men's 1500m and 1000m races of the Speed Skating World Cup Series and a personal best in the 1000m in Calgary, Ning Zhongyan became the leader of the Chinese speed skating team to attack the gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
On March 8, 2020, China's Ning Zhongyan was in the competition. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zheng Huansong
The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics won China's first men's speed skating Olympic medal for Gao Tingyu, which is also worth looking forward to. The 24-year-old speed skating "veteran" still won a gold and silver in the men's 500m event in the absence of some World Cup events this season. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, we have reason to expect him to go further.
In addition, in the women's team pursuit event, the Chinese team has won the Medal in the World Cup this season. So when talking about the Beijing Winter Olympics, Li Yan, head coach of the Chinese speed skating team, said: "We can look forward to something. ”
Freestyle skiing: Gu Ailing, Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu
Since Han Xiaopeng and Li Nina, the competitiveness of China's freestyle skiing program has been concentrated in the air skills, and this "tradition" is expected to be broken because of the emergence of Gu Ailing at the Winter Olympics.
Since the debut at the Winter Youth Olympics in early 2020, Gu Ailing has continued to perform strongly, winning several gold medals at the World Extreme Games and the Freestyle Skiing World Championships at the beginning of last year, and this season has won consecutive victories in the Freestyle Ski Jumping World Cup Stingbot Station in the United States, the U-Venue World Cup in Calgary and other competitions. Moreover, the 18-year-old has strong strength in the three small subjects of U-shaped field, big jumping platform and slope obstacle course, and at the same time, the "saving" quota for the Chinese team has also increased the gold points of the Winter Olympics in China's snow sports by three at once.
On January 1, in the International Snow Federation Freestyle Skiing World Cup calgary station in Calgary, Canada, China's Gu Ailing won the women's U-shaped track championship with a score of 92.80 points. Xinhua News Agency/Associated Press
In the traditional strength of the Chinese team, the air skills of the Chinese team, the host players with strong overall strength have not spared much momentum to impact the gold medal. In the World Cup competition in December last year, the Chinese team, which has been away from the field for a long time due to the epidemic, twice won the gold medal of the new small mixed team competition of the Winter Olympics, showing the thickness of the superior; Xu Mengtao, who will participate in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time, and Kong Fanyu, 28, also had the highlight performance of winning the women's individual championship in the scoring station, and their winter Olympic dream road was also shining.
Snowboarding: Su Yiming, Liu Jiayu, Cai Xuetong
Just five days ago, Guinness World Records announced that Chinese snowboarder Su Yiming's snowboard inner turn 1980 degree grip was certified; previously, the 17-year-old youngster won the gold medal at the Snowboard Big Jumping Platform in the United States, becoming the first Chinese person to stand on the world cup podium of the project, and then won the overall title of the Snowboard World Cup season and met the qualification requirements for the Beijing Winter Olympics in the Slope Obstacle Skills World Cup in Calgary, Canada. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, he will pursue "a unique light of his own".
On January 15, Su Yiming won the men's final of the slope obstacle course at the Snowboard World Cup in Lux, Switzerland. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Cheng
In addition, Liu Jiayu and Cai Xuetong, the women's snowboarding "Gemini Star", will join forces to fight in the Winter Olympics as the "Elders of the Four Dynasties". At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago, they finished second and fifth in the women's snowboard U-shaped field, respectively, setting their best records.