On January 30, Beijing time, there are still 5 days left before the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. As the most fiercely contested sport in the Winter Olympics, ice hockey has always attracted the attention of fans. Chinese men's and women's ice hockey teams have directly passed through the Beijing Winter Olympics as hosts, and in the face of strong European and American teams, the goal of the Chinese ice hockey team is to play their own level and strive to achieve better results.
Chinese women's ice was once the world's strongest team in Nagano Winter Olympics and finished fourth
In the 1990s, China Women's Ice was a world powerhouse, twice winning the fourth place in the Women's Ice Hockey World Championships, and emerging Guo Hong, a world-class goalkeeper known as the "Great Wall of China". At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, women's ice hockey became an official event of the Winter Olympics, and the Chinese team won the fourth place in history for the first time, just one step away from the podium.
Nagano Winter Olympics Chinese team family portrait
After entering the new century, the strength of Chinese female ice began to decline due to the replacement of the old and the new. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, the Chinese team won the seventh place. At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the Chinese team competed again at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, with the United States, Finland and Russia in Group B. As a result, the Chinese team lost 1-12 to the United States, losing two 1-2 to Finland and Russia, and losing all three games in the group stage. In the 7-8 ranking match, the Chinese team defeated Slovakia 3-1 to finish seventh.
The Chinese team at the Vancouver Winter Olympics is in the game
At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, The Chinese women's ice skaters failed to qualify for the qualifiers. The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is also the return of Chinese women's ice skaters to the Winter Olympic Games after 12 years.
Founded in 1963, the Chinese men's ice hockey team won two men's ice hockey championships at the Asian Winter Games in 1986 and 1990, and the best result at the World Championships was sixth in Group A. Due to its own strength, Chinese men's ice has never participated in the Winter Olympics. The Beijing Winter Olympics is also the first time that Chinese men's ice hockey has appeared on the Winter Olympic games.
Women's ice overseas training is effective Male ice naturalized players join to increase strength
In 2015, after Beijing's successful bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, China's ice hockey has developed rapidly. Up to now, the registered ice hockey population in the country has reached 67,000 people, many ice rinks have been completed and put into use, hundreds of mature coaches have coached, and youth ice hockey has been popularized.
Yu Baiwei
In order to improve its own level, China Women's Ice participated in the regular season of this season's Russian Women's Ice Hockey League under the name of Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Vanke Sunshine Team, training and playing in Russia for 5 months. In the Russian league, the Chinese team has achieved a record of 15 wins and 7 losses and ranks fourth. Before returning to China, the Chinese team also played two matches with the Russian U18 women's national ice team, winning 2-1 in the first game and losing 0-3 in the second game. Zhang Mengying of the Chinese team said: "These two games are also in preparation for the Winter Olympics, and the coach is running into the tactical system in front of the team, which has received good results. ”
The core player of the Chinese team is captain Yu Baiwei, who participated in the 2010 Winter Olympics. In addition, Liu Zhixin and Zhang Mengying are also participating in the competition for the second time. The Chinese team also has a group of Chinese naturalized players, such as Fei Anna, Kang Mulan, Linni, Rebecca and so on.
Zheng Enlai
Compared with the women's team, the overall strength of Chinese men's ice is relatively weak, considering the lack of domestic ice hockey talents, in the past two years, the Chinese team has improved its own strength by naturalizing and recruiting Chinese players who play abroad. Zheng Enlai, the grandson of the famous women's high jumper Zheng Fengrong, gave up his Canadian citizenship to naturalize in China, and his sister Zheng Nina also represented China as a naturalized athlete in the women's heptathlon competition at last year's Tokyo Olympics. Now, 24-year-old Zheng Enlai has also fulfilled his grandmother's wish to represent the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics. In addition to Zheng Enlai, there are pure Chinese players such as Liu Jie and Yuan Junjie, as well as Chinese and foreign mixed-race players such as Ye Jinguang, Luo Jia, and Jian'an.
Ying rudi
Among the many players, ying rudi, the son of the famous director Yingda, is also listed. In 2016, he participated in the NHL draft but unfortunately failed. In July last year, Yingrudi was successfully selected for the Chinese men's ice hockey training list, and finally successfully entered the chinese men's ice hockey winter olympics.
Regarding participating in the Winter Olympics, Ye Jinguang, a naturalized Chinese athlete, said: "As far as I am concerned, it is an honor to represent the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics. In addition, China's participation in the Winter Olympics is important for the future of Chinese ice hockey. ”
Chinese women's ice "four to three" The men's team scored is a victory
Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese women's ice and Japan, the Czech Republic, Sweden and Denmark in the same B group, the Chinese team is now ranked 20th in the world, the Japanese team is ranked 6th in the world, the Czech team is ranked 7th in the world, the Swedish team is ranked 9th, the Danish team is ranked 11th, ranking above the Chinese team, the Chinese team wants to achieve the goal of "four for three", the group stage must be ranked in the top two. In other words, win at least two games. For the Chinese team, the difficulty is not small.
The Chinese men's team has stronger group opponents, namely the top seed Canada, the 6th seeded American team and the 7th seedEd Germany team, the three teams ranked first, fourth and fifth in the world respectively. For the Chinese team, this is a super "death group" that cannot be uncompromised. The goal of the Chinese team is to avoid losing by a huge margin, and if they can score goals, they will win. (Huang Kai)
Attached: China team roster and schedule
Chinese women's ice hockey team
Defenders: Yu Baiwei, Liu Zhixin, Zhao Qinan, Li Qianhua, Huang Hui'er, Fei Anna, Wang Yulan
Forwards: Zhang Mengying, Fang Xin, Zhu Rui, Guan Yingying, He Xin, Zhang Xifang, Hu Baozhen, Kang Mulan, Lin Qiqi, Lin Ni, Lin Jiaxin, Rebecca, Miller
Goalkeepers: Chen Tia, Zhou Jiaying, Wang Yuqing
Chinese men's ice hockey team
Defenders: Jack Kelios, Ryan Spreel, Yuan Junjie, Liu Jie, Dennis Osipov, Zheng Enlai, Chen Zimeng, Yan Ruinan, Zhang Pengfei
Forwards: Ye Jinguang, Wang Taylor, Fu Jiang, Fu Shuai, Luo Jia, Jian'an, Wei Ruike, Ying Rudi, Yan Juncheng, Zhang Zesen, Zhong Wei, Guo Jianning, Xiang Xudong
Goalkeepers: Han Pengfei, Jeremy Dennis, Oban Wynn
Women's Ice Hockey Schedule
February 3, 12:10 China vs Czech Republic
February 4th, 12:10 China vs Denmark
February 6, 4:40 p.m. China vs Japan
February 7, 21:10 China vs Sweden
Men's Ice Hockey Schedule
February 10, 21:10 China vs. USA
February 12, 16:40 China vs Germany
February 13, 21:10 China vs Canada