At 20:05 on February 2, the beijing winter olympic curling mixed doubles event will be held in the "ice cube", which will be the earliest event to start the Beijing Winter Olympics. With the announcement of the participation list of the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation last week, the chinese curling team's lineup has also surfaced, this team has the youngest average age among the participating teams, and the competition experience is relatively lacking, but "the newborn calf is not afraid of the tiger", looking forward to the young Chinese curling team to be able to spell out good results in the Winter Olympics at home.
The 2021 World Women's Curling Championships were held in Calgary, Canada, with China's Han Yu in the competition.
A group of people with brushes make a maneuver on the ice, a stone like a giant chess piece glides on the ice... Curling has always been a "magical" sport in the eyes of Chinese audiences. Curling is known as "chess on ice", is one of the oldest team sports in human history, and at the same time has high requirements for intelligence and team coordination ability, it is not easy to get started, and the learning cycle is also long, so it is a sport with high requirements for the comprehensive ability of team members.
Jiang Xindi
The five players of the Chinese men's curling team are Ma Xiuyue, Zou Qiang, Wang Zhiyu, Xu Jingtao and Jiang Dongxu. The five players of the Chinese women's curling team are Han Yu, Wang Rui, Dong Ziqi, Zhang Lijun and Jiang Xindi, of which Jiang Xindi and Wang Rui participated in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The mixed doubles players are Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi.
Dong Ziqi
The Chinese women's curling team, with its youngest captain and just two years old, carries the hope of recreating the glory of the golden generation of Chinese women's teams in the early 21st century.
The Chinese women's curling team has experienced an unusually shining time. At the 2008 World Championships, the Chinese women's curling team, which had been in the team for only 5 years, won the silver medal at the World Championships, and a year later, it achieved a breakthrough of zero for China and created history. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, under the leadership of the legendary female player Wang Bingyu, the Chinese team won the bronze medal. Wang Bingyu, Liu Yin, Zhou Yan and Yue Qingshuang created the first golden age of Chinese women's curling. However, in the following years, the Chinese women's curling team was not able to continue the legend, and was eliminated in the round robin stage of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Wang Rui
However, in recent years, China's women's curling has made great progress, and the strength of the national team is also improving. In preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Olympic cycle, the national team also implemented new reform measures and adopted a mechanism of "competition for posts". The team that has been training for a long time at the Shougangyuan Curling Training Center, the base camp of the curling national team, is commonly known as the "big country training team", and every time a team representing China is selected to compete in international competitions, it is carried out through the way of selection, and which team wins the championship, which team is sent to participate. In the 2019 Curling World Cup before the epidemic, Jiang Yilun's team representing China competed in the final success through nine deaths. Under such rigorous training, the Chinese women's curling team has grown up little by little, although there is still a gap with the world champion, but in the 2019 Asia-Pacific Curling Championship, it won the championship title, and the distance from the world's strongest team is a little closer.
Zhang Lijun
This year's tournament was held on the doorstep, and the improving curling women's team was also pinned on higher hopes. The Chinese women's curling team is in the roster: Jiang Xindi at first base, Zhang Lijun at second base, Dong Ziqi at third base, Han Yu at fourth base, with Wang Rui as a substitute. The captain is Han Yu, the fourth baseman. The team members are selected layer by layer and finally stand out from the crowd.
Captain Han Yu is a "post-00s" born in 2000, known as a talented girl in Chinese curling, and she is also the youngest captain of the team participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics. Han Yu entered the national team in 2018, and a year later, after becoming captain, she led the team to win the 2019 Asia-Pacific Championship and finished 10th at the 2021 Curling World Championships. Jiang Xindi, who was the fourth base of the national team, is the relationship between niece and aunt, and the two have also played in the same team, becoming a rare "aunt-nephew combination" on the field. Jiang Xindi also went to Pyeongchang as a substitute, but did not have a chance to play. Wang Rui is the only player among the four with real Winter Olympic experience, having beaten the United States, Finland and Norway with the team.
Due to the epidemic, the team, which has just been formed for two years, really lacks the opportunity to compete with high-level teams, and the 2021 World Championships is their only experience in the competition. Although it was not easy along the way, the good team atmosphere in the team supported everyone to get to where they are today, and also made everyone full of hope.
"Trust" is the key word in curling competitions, and this is also the greatest wealth of chinese women's curling teams that help each other in difficult times, and will definitely help them on the field at home. It is expected that the invincible Chinese women's team can realize the dream of rejuvenation in Ice Cube and create an era that belongs to them.
Courtesy of Visual China
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Source Client The Winter Olympics | Reporter Li Ge
Edited by Kang Dian
Process Editor Wu Yue