Feet on ice knives, clubs in hand, speed, rushing blood boiling! A small ice hockey ball that attracts the attention of the whole world.
Ice hockey originated in Canada in the 19th century and has the dual attributes of ice sports and ball sports, also known as "ice hockey". Since 1924, men's six-a-side hockey has been a resident sport of the Winter Olympics. At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, women's events were added. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the ice hockey event will produce one gold medal for each man and woman.
It is worth mentioning that since 1998, the Canadian women's team has dominated the ice hockey field of the Winter Olympics with an absolute advantage of 4 gold and 2 silver. On the men's side, the defending champions Russia's Olympic team is expected to win Beijing again.
A hockey match consists of 3 innings, each lasting 20 minutes with a 15-minute break between rounds. Each team plays 6 players, and the player uses the club to hit the ball into the opponent's goal to score, and the team with the most points wins. One of the highlights of the ice hockey game is "full attack and full defense", the two sides of the attack and defense conversion is particularly fast, so the team members have great physical consumption and frequent substitutions.
If there is a draw after 3 innings, extra time will be played. Ice hockey extra time is a sudden victory method, which means that once one side has scored, the game is immediately declared over. If the extra time still ends in a draw, a penalty shootout will be played.
In order to make the game more enjoyable, reasonable collisions are allowed in the men's ice hockey game, but all kinds of foul penalties are also very meticulous, divided into small penalties, team small penalties, large penalties, violations, serious violations, suspensions. Penalty players need to stay in special areas, so there are often situations in which the number of players on both sides is not equal.
Because of this, hockey players are generally "fully armed". However, some team members will choose to wear a half-face helmet that exposes their mouths in order to pursue a broader vision. Therefore, there will be a special dental clinic on the hockey field to deal with emergencies.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's and women's ice hockey teams will directly qualify for the competition as the host, which is also the debut of the Chinese men's ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics. At that time, the competition will be held at the National Gymnasium and Wukesong Sports Center in Beijing, and the athletes are looking forward to turning a new page for Chinese ice hockey!
(Editor: Zhang Zheng Lao Xu)