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From February 4 to 20, 2022, the 24th Winter Olympics will be held in Beijing and Zhangjiakou. This is the second time that China has hosted an Olympic event after Beijing successfully hosted the Summer Olympic Games in 2008, and it is also the first time that the Winter Olympics have settled in China. Beijing became the only "double Olympic" city in the world to host the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games.
Recently, the People's Literature Publishing House launched the new book "China Winter Olympics" by writer Sun Jingyan, which is a long-form documentary literature that records the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics in a panoramic way.
The book lasted for many years, the author visited many cities at home and abroad, face-to-face interviews with more than 200 people from all walks of life related to the Winter Olympics, recorded the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics from brewing, bidding to preparation, full of twists and turns, hardships, challenges and opportunities of the process, vividly presented several generations of Chinese ice and snow athletes will win glory for the country, but also presented the determination and strength of China in the new era to continue to write the glory of the Olympic Games. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
Hosting the Olympics: Show the world China's strength
A foreigner once asked Sun Jingyan: "You Chinese why do you take the Olympics so seriously?" Sun Jingyan answered this question with a story.
In 1932, Liu Changchun, the "first person in the Chinese Olympic Games", represented China alone in the Los Angeles Olympic Games, when China's national strength was weak, athletes could not even get the travel fee, they could not afford to buy clothing, and they had to rely on Zhang Xueliang's sponsorship. One-man Olympics are both tragic and poignant.
"Why Chinese have such a strong Olympic complex and Olympic enthusiasm? It was due to a strong sense of patriotism and a desire to rejuvenate China. Sun Jingyan said that at that time, many Westerners thought that Chinese was still wearing a robe and a horse coat, combing big braids, poor and backward, not even electric lights, Chinese needed to use an international sports event to show themselves to the world.
In the bid to host the Olympic Games, the chinese people's support for the Olympic Games accounted for 80%, ranking first in the world. On the night of July 13, 2001, when Samaranch declared Beijing the host city for the 2008 Olympic Games in Moscow, Beijing boiled over, and a sea of passion and joy flooded the ancient city of Beijing.
Sun Jingyan said that on that day, she was a drop of water in this ocean, and this drop of water deeply felt the weight of the Olympic Games and national fortunes in Chinese's heart, and this scene was forever frozen in her memory. "Since the successful hosting of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, China's international status has risen rapidly, reversing the world's perception of China."
Sun Jingyan said that so far, the countries in the world that can host the Winter Olympic Games are basically developed countries, and China's ability to host the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games is a manifestation of its strong national strength.
Compared with other Summer Olympic events, China's Winter Olympics projects started late, and it was not until the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China that winter games and individual bidding competitions were held successively. Affected by factors such as venue and climate, the popularity of ice and snow sports in the mainland has not been high, and the number of people directly involved in ice and snow sports is very small.
"In the future, we will learn from the world's ice and snow sports powers and strive for 300 million people to go to the ice and snow." Sun Jingyan participated in the volunteer recruitment ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games in front of the Shougang Ski Jump. According to her, the number of volunteers registered worldwide has reached 1 million, which she said is the embodiment of China's strong national strength and the cohesion of the Olympic spirit.
Preparing for the Winter Olympics: Building the world's largest Winter Olympic venue
In preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics, in order to make up for the shortcomings of the mainland cross-country skiing project and improve the training level of athletes, the Jilin Beishan Four Seasons Cross-Country Ski Resort made snow in the civil air defense fortifications, which is the first case in Asia and the fourth case in the world at the international level of all-weather standardized cross-country skiing professional training site, which can enable athletes to train all year round.
Indoor ski track 1308 meters, Sun Jingyan walked the whole distance inside, wearing down jackets are cold, while the athletes are wearing thin clothes training, uphill and downhill alternately, a slide is more than 30 kilometers, but also to do short rush special training, clothes are wet, to the end of the time people are tired and paralyzed.
In the past, China did not have an alpine ski resort, bobsleigh track, U-shaped pool, ski jumping platform, etc. that can host the Winter Olympics and international competitions above the World Cup, in just a few years, these high-quality Winter Olympic venues have sprung up in China, Yabuli Ski Resort also has a smart snow field, which has been recognized by the International Snow Federation, the International Skating Federation and international single organizations, and some newly built Winter Olympic venues have become the world's largest.
Sun Jingyan has seen foreign high-quality Winter Olympic venues, in her view, China's new Winter Olympic venues are not inferior at all, "this is the advantage of China's national system, work together to do big things." ”
In the past three years, Sun Jingyan has witnessed the hardships of the yanqing race area at the beginning of construction, participated in their engineering seminars, ate a tasteless box lunch with them, interviewed them in a gray-headed manner on an all-terrain vehicle, and experienced heavy rain and bone-chilling winds on the construction site...
Nowadays, seeing the rise of alpine ski tracks and bobsleigh tracks in Yanqing Area; Snow Ruyi and Ice Jade Ring standing proudly in Zhangjiakou Division; ice ribbons and Shougang Industrial Park Ski Jumping Platform, Shougang Ice Hockey Hall, Curling Hall, Figure Skating Hall, Short Track Speed Skating Hall and a number of other Winter Olympic venues have come out, Sun Jingyan is particularly excited.
"Dry engineering, Chinese is world-class, and the descendants of Yanhuang are willing to endure hardships and are willing to work hard, which is the embodiment of the prosperity of the country." Sun Jingyan said.
The Road to Struggle: Show the image of a self-reliant and enterprising big country
China has won a total of 13 Winter Olympic gold medals, all of which come from athletes from Heilongjiang and Jilin provinces, and Ye Qiaobo, the breakthrough of China's winter Olympic medal zero, was born in Changchun, Jilin Province.
At the end of 1991, Ye Qiaobo went to Seoul, South Korea to participate in the World Speed Skating Competition, and when she was training on the ice at four o'clock in the afternoon before the race, the ice knife under her feet suddenly flew out, and people flew out of the ice. In the hazy night, Liu Jun, a translator of the International Department of the State Sports Commission, quickly took her to the auto repair shop, and the repairman said: "I can repair the car, not the knife." ”
Finally, Ye Qiaobo borrowed electric welding and soldering, and clumsily welded the ice knife tube. The next morning, she won two gold medals in the women's speed skating 500 meters and 1000 meters in her welded skates.
Today, in China, hiring coaches, renting sports venues, buying sports equipment and clothing, and asking doctors to heal injuries, all the state pays for athletes. The skates, sportswear, and ski equipment used by athletes have made great progress, as well as the core strength training of aircraft, the relaxation recovery of floating chambers, the recovery of pressure relaxation, the recovery of massage relaxation, etc., which have effectively strengthened the physical fitness of athletes and improved the level of exercise.
The author also made a special trip to Heilongjiang Province and Jilin Province to explore the struggle of China's ice and snow sports provinces.
Sun Jingyan followed the scene of the National Alpine Ski Championship in Yabuli Snow Field, Heilongjiang. Li Haitao, the director of Yabuli Snow Field, has worked on the mountain for 11 years, his face is tanned, he is familiar with every snow track and tree on the mountain, and his mind is focused on work. Cui Hongbin, head of the snow section of the Heilongjiang Winter Sports and Reserve Talent Management Center, had been a cat in the mountains for four months, his hair looked like a Chinese ape man, and he could not go to the barbershop during the epidemic, so he had to buy a clipper to cut his own hair.
Writing about the Olympic Games, Sun Jingyan has responsibility and joy from the depths of his heart. "When the 'footprints' of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games fill the sky, when the torch of the Beijing Winter Olympics is passed, what is shown to the world is the strong physique of Chinese, who was once despised as the 'sick man of East Asia', and what is shown is my dear motherland that is tenacious, hard-working, self-reliant, and enterprising."
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1. A Brief History of the Winter Olympics
(Ji Cheng, Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd.)
This book focuses on the historical context of the Winter Olympics, and comprehensively and meticulously sorts out and expounds the concepts, organizational models, event overviews, and cultural influences of the 23 Winter Olympic Games that have been held from 1924 to 2018. The book is not only a full record of the Centennial Winter Olympic Games, but also a history of the humanistic development of the Winter Olympic Movement that runs through the 23rd Winter Olympic Games.
2. "Let's Go to the Winter Olympics"
(Xinhua News Agency, Meng Ling Children's Book, Xinhua Publishing House)
The book is a popular science book for children to see, taking the Olympic games as a clue, allowing young readers to experience the whole process of the Winter Olympic Games in an immersive way. 3 Winter Olympic Villages, 5 Winter Olympic venues, 8 Winter Olympic themes, 15 Winter Olympic projects, hundreds of Olympic knowledge points, more than 200 interactive structural parts, nearly 1,000 days and nights of design and creation; from ice cubes to ice ribbons, from admission to spectators, from Winter Olympic Villages to high-speed rail stations, a book knows all aspects of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
3. "Ice Frolic Traces The Origin"
(Ren Yunfei, Beijing Publishing House)
This book is an academic monograph on the origins of ice frolics. The author uses a large number of documents and image materials to conduct in-depth research on the origin of ice frolic, as well as the time and place of origin, which not only refutes the sui and Tang origin theory, the song dynasty origin theory, and the ming dynasty origin theory of the ice frolic movement, but also further clearly puts forward the post-Jin origin theory. This book has certain significance for clarifying the origin of the continental ice frolic movement and has high academic value.
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