The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics has entered the second day of competition, and tonight the short track speed skating mixed team relay will start, and the Chinese short track speed skating team will hit the first gold medal.
The performance of athletes on the field is the best proof of the glory of the country, but in addition to the individual performance of the athletes, the influence of other factors on the performance of the game cannot be ignored, and clothing is one of them. Practice has proven that the clothing used by high-level athletes in training and competition needs to have high performance. For racing events, 0.01 seconds is very important, and 0.01 seconds may lead to a medal.
In 2019, the state for the first time included the research and development of clothing equipment into the national key research and development plan, and established a project group of "key technologies for the research and development of high-performance clothing in winter sports and training competitions", and Liu Li, a professor at Beijing Institute of Fashion, as the project leader, was responsible for leading the team to carry out the research and development of training clothes for the National (Training) Team of the Winter Olympics.
Exclusive interview with the "Winter Olympic Observation Room"
Professor Liu Li of Beijing Institute of Fashion
Take us to reveal the design of the Winter Olympic suit
Behind the scenes
Liu Li is a professor at Beijing Fashion Institute
Director of the National Winter Sports Clothing Equipment Research and Development Center
If you want to speed skate clothing faster, you must develop the process of drag-reducing fabrics, eat the process thoroughly, and continuously optimize the texture, pit structure, striped structure of clothing.
All the data of the match suit will pass the test of the wind tunnel, and who is good and who is not good let the data speak.
The mainland's research and development level in aerodynamic drag reduction is world-class.
The protection of short-track speed skating clothing is also very important, the race situation is changing rapidly, and the clothing must have anti-cutting function.
While the fabric has strong anti-cutting ability, it must also be light and thin, so it is very difficult to develop.
The process of formation of winter project clothing process is very long, especially in this high-tech fabric, foreign countries have a certain technical blockade against us, coupled with the experience of foreign research and development teams is also very rich, Teacher Liu's team wants to catch up with them in an Olympic cycle, surpass them, it is very difficult.
At present, the athletes' competition uniforms of various sports in the Winter Olympic Games have been developed, "fast, protective, warm and beautiful" is the main purpose of the design of the winter Olympic preparation clothing, and the competition uniforms of the racing events are mainly "fast" and "protective".
The master contest is between 0.01 seconds, and the resistance of clothing and equipment decreases, which is helpful for athletes to improve their performance.
Short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics includes
Mixed group relay
Women's 500 U.S., Women's 1,000 U.S.
Women's 1500m, women's 3000m relay
Men's 500 U.S., Men 1,000 U.S.
Men's 1500m, Men's 5000m relay
A total of 9 gold medals will be produced
Tonight will produce the first gold medal in the short track speed skating mixed team relay final, don't miss it!
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Text: Sun Kaitai
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