On February 3, Beijing time, the day before the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, there will be three major competitions, namely curling, freestyle skiing snow skills and women's curling, and the Chinese delegation will attack in an all-round way.
On the same day, the Zhangjiakou Division will usher in the first race, and the freestyle skiing men's and women's snow skills preliminaries will be staged in the evening. The women's snow skill preliminary round will start at 18:00 and the men's snow skill preliminary round will be held at 19:45.
On January 30, Zhao Yang of the Chinese team was in training. Xinhua News Agency
The Chinese men's team has made history since its debut at the Winter Olympics
The top 20 qualifiers advance to the finals, and the order of the final matches is based on the reverse order of the qualification results. Five "swing action" referees are scored based on factors such as the quality and error of the athlete's swing action completion, and 2 "aerial skill" judges are scored according to the completion of the operation, the height and quality of the air.
Zhao Yang and Li Nan played in the men's and women's snow skills competitions for the Chinese team in freestyle skiing.
This is Zhao Yang's first time participating in the Winter Olympics, and he was at the World Cup in Ardouvitz, France, last December, to unlock the project's qualification for the Beijing Winter Olympics hosts. In that race, Zhao Yang finished 28th in the men's doubles competition, reaching the standard of the host who won the top 30 places in a World Cup this season.
China's Li Nan is training on January 30. Xinhua News Agency
Born in 1992, Li Nan finished 26th in the FIS Freestyle Skiing Snow Skills World Cup in Alpende-Huez, France, at the end of December last year, successfully qualifying for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the previous Winter Olympics standings, two Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champions, Mikael Kingsbury (Canada) and Perrin Lafon (France), each topped the men's and women's standings, and advancing to the final was their first goal on the way to defending their titles. In addition, Australia, Canada and the United States have shown strong overall strength in this project, and have all won 4 men and 4 women's Winter Olympic seats.
The overall strength of the Chinese team in this project is limited, and the national training team has only won 1 men's seat and 1 women's seat. However, the men's snow skills are the first time in the history of the Chinese team that they have qualified for the Olympic Games, and From the moment they appeared on the stage of the Winter Olympics, Zhao Yang made history.
China's Li Nan in training on January 31. On the same day, athletes participating in the freestyle skiing snow skills project of the Beijing Winter Olympics trained at Chongli Genting Ski Park. Xinhua News Agency
The Chinese coach won the Winter Olympics to find his biological father
It is worth mentioning that the head coach of the Chinese team is a Korean-American skier. He won the first snow sports medal of the U.S. delegation after the opening of the Winter Olympics in Turin winter olympics freestyle skiing men's snow skills competition, and became an "American hero" for a time.
At a press conference held after the game, Toby Dawson said humorously: "I want to know so much whose genes this handsome look of mine is inherited... Although I have met some people who claim to be my parents before, they all refuse to accept DNA testing. It seems that I can only spend more time slowly looking for it. ”
It turned out that Toby Dawson had gone missing at a market in Busan, South Korea, at the age of 3, and was later adopted by a ski instructor couple in Colorado, USA, and eventually grew into a skier.
After rising to fame after the Winter Olympics, Dawson was frequently exposed in the South Korean media, and many South Koreans began to pay attention to Dawson. In 2007, Dawson returned to South Korea to meet Kim Jae-so, who had been confirmed as his biological father.
In 2019, Dawson was hired as the head coach of the China Freestyle Ski snow skills national training team. In view of the late development of China's snow skill project and the characteristics of thin foundation, Dawson has formulated a step-by-step training goal, coupled with the oriental blood flowing in his bones, so the requirements for the team members are also extremely strict. The male players of the Chinese Snow Skills Team have finally made a historic breakthrough and successfully won the Winter Olympics seat.
Nandu reporter Tao Xinlei