On February 6, Hebei athletes Liu Rongsheng, Chen Degen, Jin Boyang and Li Qianhua participated in cross-country skiing, figure skating and women's ice hockey competitions. Among them, in the cross-country skiing men's double pursuit (15 km traditional technology + 15 km free technology) competition, Liu Rongsheng ranked 38th with outstanding performance, improving the historical best performance of Chinese athletes in the Olympic games by 12 places; figure skating team men's single free skating (Jin Boyang) fourth place (7 points); Chinese women's ice hockey team won 2-1 against Japan through penalties to lock up the quarterfinals.
★ Break through history! Set a record for the best chinese cross-country skiing men's doubles pursuit of the Winter Olympics
The Winter Olympics cross-country skiing men's double pursuit (15 km traditional technology + 15 km free technology) began, a total of 70 athletes from 36 countries participated, the Chinese team sent Shang Jincai, Liu Rongsheng, Chen Degen, Hades Badri Khan to participate.
In the final five kilometres of traditional technology, Liu Rongsheng ranked 33rd, Hades Badri Khan ranked 37th, and Chen Degen ranked 48th. After the traditional technology, there was a scramble for 15 km of free technology, and the four players of the Chinese team struggled to catch up, and Liu Rongsheng was particularly outstanding in the whole race, defeating Norway's Kleb (40th, 1:25:15.8), and finally ranking 38th with a score of 1:24:59.6, creating the best result in the history of the Chinese athletes in the Olympic Games (the previous best result was the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, Xia Wan created, 50th), and Chen Degen ranked 59th.
Liu Rongsheng (first from left) rushed across the final line
★ Playing with ease, Jimbo Yang set a personal best of the season
The Chinese figure skating team finished fifth in the first stage of the team competition and entered the gold medal competition in the second stage of the team competition for the first time in history. Jin Boyang made his second appearance for the Chinese team in the men's singles free skating event in the figure skating team event. The music chosen is the Spanish blind composer Prayer and Dance, which opens with a gentle guitar and gradually transitions to a climactic melody. In this game, his three four-week jump configuration was generally completed, of which the signature hooker had excellent quality around the four weeks, scoring 14.46 points, and the four-week jump of the outer point ice was successfully won, and the two three-and-a-half weeks were also roughly completed, and finally obtained a technical score of 78.26, a program content score of 76.78, and a total score of 155.04. By the time he completed the 9th of the 12 difficult moves in the competition, his technical points had already surpassed the full technical difficulty of the previous 2021 Grand Prix in Italy, creating a personal season best! Jin Boyang ranked fourth, taking seven points for the Chinese team and helping the Chinese team narrow the point gap with the fourth-place Canadian team to 1 point.
Jin Boyang in the game
★ Point kill! The Chinese women's ice hockey team defeated the japanese team to advance to the quarterfinals
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics women's ice hockey group stage match between China and Japan was played at the Wukesong Sports Center, and Hebei athlete Li Qianhua took the position of defender in the Winter Olympic lineup of the Chinese women's women's ice hockey team "20+3". In the first set, China fell behind 0-1, and in the second quarter, China's Hu Baozhen scored a goal, and the two sides entered extra time 1-1. Miller's goal in extra time was declared null and void, and the two sides ended up in a penalty shootout.
In the first three rounds of the penalty shootout, the Japanese team shots were successively defended by Zhou Jiaying, the first 3 rounds of both sides did not score, the fourth round of the game Zhou Jiaying made a contribution again, Miller poked the goal and broke the goal, and finally the Chinese team defeated the opponent 2-1 through the free kick battle, winning two consecutive wins, which is also the Chinese women's ice team's second victory over the Japanese team after 13 years.
Li Qianhua (No. 66) celebrates the victory with his teammates
On February 7, the Chinese women's ice hockey team faced Sweden, and the figure skating team competition ushered in the final, hoping that Hebei athletes would continue to work hard and achieve better results.
Source: Winter Games Center
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Organizer: Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau
Producer: Guo Lijun
Editor's proofreading: He Wanxuan