With the mass ice and snow sports in full swing, Hebei's ice and snow competitions have also made great progress from scratch and from strong to strong in the six years of preparing for the Winter Olympics. At present, the province has set up 18 winter sports professional teams, ranking third in the country, 32 athletes have entered the national team training, the number of selected people is the fourth in the country, and eight ice and snow athletes are about to enter the Beijing Winter Olympic Games.
Select outstanding talents to improve the level of competition
Hebei is based on reality, comprehensive consideration, and promotes the coordinated and synchronous development of ice and snow talent selection and competition level improvement, so that ice and snow competition in our province has made great progress in a short period of time.
Steel frame snowmobile cross-border cross-item selection. Image from China Sports News
In the selection of ice and snow competition talents, Hebei has achieved eclecticism: on the one hand, cross-border cross-discipline selection of "seedlings", from the summer sports athletes to select a group of potential athletes to participate in winter projects; on the other hand, the use of provincial enterprises joint office, provincial and municipal joint office, provincial school joint office model for talent training. Wang Dong, deputy director of the Winter Sports Center of the Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau, said: "Cross-sports athletes can use the original training programs to complement each other's advantages, so the progress is very fast; joint training with cities, enterprises and schools can expand the selection of materials and better mobilize the enthusiasm of athletes; more importantly, the establishment of ice and snow leagues and ice and snow games and the construction of the 'pyramid' event system can also continuously send talents for winter projects in our province." ”
The Beijing Winter Olympics is the fourth Winter Olympics in which Cai Xuetong participated. Image from Xinhua News Agency
In the cultivation of ice and snow competition talents, Hebei borrowed the stone of other mountains to make up for shortcomings, actively learned from the training experience of brother provinces that carried out ice and snow sports earlier, and carried out joint training of talents. Among them, figure skater Jin Boyang and snowboarder Cai Xuetong, jointly trained with Heilongjiang, a strong province of ice and snow, have both qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
China Snow Sports College of Beijing Sport University settled in Laiyuan, Hebei Province. Great Wall Network Jiyun client reporter Xu Fulei photographed
In addition, the completion of the Chongli Plateau (National Comprehensive) Training Base, the Chengde National Snow Project Training Base, and the Laiyuan National Ski Jumping Training and Scientific Research Base has provided convenient conditions for the development of winter sports projects in our province; the china Snow Sports College of Beijing Sport University has settled in Laiyuan, which has also laid the foundation for the training of future snow sports competition talents in Hebei.
Based on their own advantages, expand the size of the team
The Hebei women's ice hockey team trains in Changchun.
On the basis of selecting and cultivating ice and snow talents, Hebei, as the only co-host province of the Beijing Winter Olympics, has demonstrated its determination to make the winter sports project bigger and stronger, He Jianghai, deputy secretary general of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee and deputy secretary of the Zhangjiakou Municipal Party Committee, once said: "The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be held at the doorstep of the family, so we must base ourselves on the strengths and development priorities of ice and snow sports on the mainland, focus on the projects that Hebei has relative advantages in, expand the size of the team, and strive to make a difference in the Winter Olympics." ”
In 2021, Tian Yaxiao (first from right) won the national alpine skiing A medal for the first time on behalf of Hebei. Image from Hebei Daily
In the past six years, based on its own advantages, Hebei has broadened its thinking, actively innovated, and used cross-border cross-projects, joint training and other models to achieve remarkable results in the construction of winter project teams. Wang Dong, deputy director of the Winter Sports Center of Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau, introduced: "Hebei has only one winter sports team for alpine skiing in 2016, and now the 18 teams involved in the projects have covered 7 major events set up by the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, 6 major events and 14 of the 15 sub-events, basically achieving comprehensive coverage and achieving leapfrog development. ”
The development results are remarkable, and eight people went to the Winter Olympics
Li Chunjian (left) is the first athlete in Hebei to participate in the Winter Olympics.
On January 27, the list of Chinese sports delegations for the Beijing Winter Olympics was officially announced, and 8 athletes from Hebei were selected to compete in 7 sports, achieving leapfrog development compared with only 1 participant at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Yin Zheng's strong rise is worth looking forward to.
Li Chunjian, a snowmobile athlete who participated in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, will strive to go further at the Beijing Winter Olympics after four years of experience; Yin Zheng, a steel-frame snowmobiler who has won five championships and one third place in six races of the Two European Cups and two Intercontinental Cups this season, is in good shape and is worth looking forward to; youngster Li Qianhua will work with his teammates to reshape the glory of Chinese women's ice hockey in the 1990s; cross-country skier Chen Degen, Liu Rongsheng and biathlete Yan Xingyuan's participation has allowed Hebei athletes to appear on the snow sports field of the Winter Olympics for the first time; figure skater Jin Boyang and snowboard women's U-shaped track skill athlete Cai Xuetong will also fully demonstrate the fruitful results of the winter sports joint training.
Women's ice hockey player Li Qianhua. Image from China Sports News
The opening of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games is imminent, and 8 Hebei ice and snow athletes are about to appear on the world-renowned Winter Olympic Games, they are the hard-won achievements of Hebei Ice and Snow Competition in the past six years, and they are also looking forward to their creation of new glory in Hebei Ice and Snow.
Source: Ji Yun
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Organizer: Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau
Producer: Guo Lijun
Editor's proofreading: He Wanxuan