In just 12 hours, the mixed doubles combination of the Chinese curling team Fan Suyuan / Ling Zhi has defeated the world's powerhouses Switzerland and Australia to win two consecutive victories in the Winter Olympics, which showed a good competitive temperament for the young players, dared to fight on the field, and did not be soft at key moments, netizens praised them both.
During the competition, Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi's northeast dialect resounded throughout the audience, and there were countless fans.
"This curling is not good", "Give it out", "Don't hit it", "Let it suck"... In the Winter Olympic Games, the appearance of a sentence of Northeast Dialect made the audience feel more intimate.
As the first pair of curling teams to appear, Ling Zhi and Fan Suyuan are both young post-90s, participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, which provoked the Chinese Olympic team.
Born in 1994, Ling Zhi, 27, has been practicing curling since 2009, specializing in team sports. In 2019, Ling Zhi began to focus on mixed doubles, and played with his partner Yang Ying at the 2021 Mixed Doubles Curling World Championships, finishing 9th.
Fan Suyuan was born in 1996 and is a native of Jilin Province. Originally, Fan Suyuan practiced speed skating, until 2014, when he was favored by the coach of the Jilin Curling Team and switched to curling. Since 2019, Fan Suyuan has focused on mixed doubles matches, and her partner was originally Nan Jiawen, who was runner-up at the 2020 World Curling Tour.
In November 2021, the national team's six-week curling Olympic trials kicked off. In the first two weeks of the competition, Ling Zhi and Fan Suyuan performed outstandingly, formed a new partner, and stood out in the next four weeks of selection competitions to qualify for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Strictly calculated, Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi officially started partnering less than 3 months ago.
Although they have not worked together for a long time and have not had the experience of participating in the Olympic Games, the young pair has continued to be in good shape since the first competition of the Olympic Games.
In the first match on the night of February 2, facing the Olympic runner-up and the Swiss combination of Perey/Rios, Ling Zhi and Fan Suyuan, whether it was the backhand or the first hand, were steady and steady, grasping the initiative on the field, and finally relying on the extra round to win.
On the morning of February 3, the two played against the Australian duo of Hewitt/Gill, continued to play steadily, and finally won 6-5.
The two victories of Fan Suyuan and Ling Zhi brought the opening of the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation, and also swept away the obscurity brought by the previous chinese sports defeat in Vietnam due to the fiasco of the national football team, netizens are very fond of the young pair, especially they have repeatedly emerged in the game northeast dialect, which makes netizens feel very cordial.
"Hey!" After throwing a pot, Fan Suyuan shouted "tactics": "Brother Zhi, come again, full strength!" ”
Ling Zhi also shouted in the Northeast dialect: "Bump! Go you! When he threw a good ball, he said again: "This one gave me a hard kick, a little cramp." ”
When discussing tactics, the two also loudly "nagged": "Give it a whole out!" "Let it stumble!" ”
Many netizens said that looking at the two people with high appearance, from time to time, they shook out the Northeast dialect, the picture was full of joy, and there were countless fans for a while.
According to the Winter Olympic schedule, the curling mixed doubles will start a large round robin tournament on February 2, and Ling Zhi and Fan Suyuan will play again tonight after successive victories over Switzerland and Australia, facing the veteran powerhouse Sweden.
After that, the Chinese team will face Canada, the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, Italy and the Czech Republic.
On February 7, all participating teams will decide the final four places by points.
On February 8, the mixed doubles event was finalized to determine the final gold medal.