Beijing, 4 Feb (Xinhua) -- February 4 is the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the day before the winter olympic short track speed skating event officially begins. On that day, the Chinese short track team did not appear in the training hall; South Korea, Japan, the United States and other teams completed training.
On January 28, participants in the short track speed skating event of the Beijing Winter Olympics trained at the Capital Gymnasium. Players from Canada, Poland, Latvia and Hong Kong, China, train. Photo by Ju Huanzong, Xinhua News Agency
Since the first competition day of the short track speed skating event will be born on February 5, the gold medal of the mixed team relay will be born, so the training on February 4 is also regarded as the "last practice" before the start of the race. According to the official schedule, the Training of the Chinese Short Track Team on February 4 is scheduled from 15:30 to 16:45, along with the United States, Australia and Germany. Until 4 p.m., the Chinese team did not appear in the training hall. The U.S. team and others trained during this period.
Another team with the strength to rush gold, the South Korean team, appeared in the training hall from 14:00 to 15:15 on the same day. After completing the warm-up on ice, the Korean team first conducted the men's and women's team's skating training, starting training, etc., and then carried out multiple rounds of relay training. During the whole training process, the atmosphere of the whole team was relatively harmonious, and the head coach called the team members to the side from time to time to teach the machine. Judging from the situation of relay training, the South Korean team is likely to send the strongest combination of Choi Min-jing, Lee Yoo-bin, Hwang Dae-hyun and Lee Joon-seok.
Hungarian team player Liu Shaolin (front left), who competed in the short track speed skating event at the Beijing Winter Olympics, trained at the Capital Gymnasium on January 28. Photo by Ju Huanzong, Xinhua News Agency
On the same day, a number of Korean media came to the training ground. Kim Pei-joon, a reporter from South Korea's East Asia Daily, said that the South Korean people are very concerned about the mixed team relay, the first gold medal in the short track competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In an interview after the training, Li Youbin said: "Today's training is almost the same as usual, and everyone completes it according to the coach's plan. Speaking of herself, the PyeongChang Women's 3,000m Relay champion said that although it is her second Winter Olympics, "it is still a little nervous to think of such an important competition tomorrow night."
On the 5th, the short track project of the Winter Olympic Games was officially launched. In addition to the gold medal in the mixed team relay of the new event of the Winter Olympics, the women's 500m preliminary competition and the men's 1000m preliminary competition will be held on the same day.
On February 1, Wu Dajing (front) of the Chinese short track speed skating team trained at the Capital Gymnasium. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Xu
The host Team China won all the medals in the Mixed Team Relay in the 2021-2022 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup Four-Stop Cup, including the first stop in Beijing and the third leg in Hungary, where the Chinese team won the gold medal. Judging from the four competitions, Ren Ziwei and Fan Kexin are the absolute main forces of the mixed team relay project, and in the selection of the other two sticks, head coach Jin Shantai has made different attempts by Wu Dajing, Sun Long, Zhang Yuting, Zhang Chutong and others.
In the game on the evening of the 5th, how Kim Sun-tae will line up the troops, how South Korea, the Netherlands, Canada, Hungary and other strong players will launch an impact on the Chinese team, and who will spend the mixed team gold medal that debuted at the Winter Olympics, everything will be revealed.
Editors: Shuwen, Wu Bowen, Yibo Cao, Xinyi Li (Intern)