The most bloody ice, the hope and hardship behind it

The most bloody ice, the hope and hardship behind it

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Although he has interviewed three Summer Olympic Games, as a southern media person who interviewed the Winter Olympics for the first time, watching a top hockey game at the Wukesong Sports Center in Beijing is also a new and interesting audiovisual experience.

Let's start with vision. As soon as you enter the venue, the white, flat, huge ice surface, athletes dressed in bright and cool costumes galloped, violently colliding on the ice, shoveling up gusts of snow fog and disappearing in an instant. Under the rule that players can be changed at will without the referee's signal, three or four players can be seen at any time suddenly crossing the baffle, rushing into the ground, rushing too fast and falling to the ground, getting up and immediately joining the battle. There are too many people, too fast, the field needs four referees to "town the field", but also have to be fast, when the players rush over, in order not to block the game, but also have to quickly jump on the baffle, in time to dodge.

Auditory stimulation is also interesting. The "clanging" sound of clubs colliding, the muffled sound of heavy protective suits colliding with each other, the huge echo of the side baffle being hit, the urgent shouts of athletes... When the competition was fierce, the CCTV live commentator stood excitedly to explain, and the agitated voice was so loud that it passed through the long media stands and clearly reached the reporter's ears.

The coldest ice, the hottest game, worthy of the name!

Although it looks cool on the field, the women's ice hockey sport and the women's professional league of ice hockey are still much more difficult to promote in the world than the men's sports. Sixteen players from the Chinese women's ice hockey team are from Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Club, and Du Congfei, deputy general manager of the club, served as the "big butler" of the team at the beginning of the establishment of this team, leading them to the south and the north. She told the Yangcheng Evening News reporter that in the world, the treatment difference between women's ice and men's ice is still relatively large, in Russia and some Nordic countries, their professional clubs are relatively highly paid, but only to the extent that they can support themselves. Most of the female hockey players in the United States and Canada have their own jobs, and ice hockey is only a part-time job. The goalkeeper of the Finnish national team, Nora Leti, before joining the Shenzhen team, once joined the men's ice hockey league for a living, of course, her level is very high, and the position of the goalkeeper is relatively not too much collision and speed requirements.

Although Chinese women's ice hockey was once the world's top eight strongest team, it has always been relatively weak in the cultivation of reserve strength, which led to the subsequent trough, and the Chinese women's ice hockey registered players were once only about 200 people. But after the Beijing Winter Olympics successfully bid, after two Olympic cycles, this number increased tenfold to more than 2,000 people. Although there is still a big gap compared to the 70,000 registration figures in the United States, Canada and other countries, it is at least a good start.

Nowadays, Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Club and the national team have built a Chinese women's ice hockey team, club players have also had a big improvement in treatment, Du Congfei laughed and said that in the world women's ice range, Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing can be called a "giant", in addition to the salary increase, more importantly, by joining the world's top professional league, you can provide a platform for the team to get more opportunities to play with the world's top teams. The Beijing Winter Olympics is also an opportunity to let more children and parents know about the sport through the competitions held in Beijing, so that the market can get the opportunity to develop rapidly. Once this team gets good results, it will attract more people to join the sport of ice hockey, so that more children who were originally engaged in this sport have a goal to stick to.

Yangcheng Evening News special correspondent Su Jing

(Yangcheng Evening News)