During last year's Tokyo Olympics, IOC President Bach not only went to the table tennis arena to cheer on the Chinese team, but also gave the "Little Devil" Sun Yingsha a limited edition watch and exchanged commemorative badges with her. At the Beijing Winter Olympic Alpine SkiIng Field on the 7th, Bach witnessed the breakthrough made by Chinese alpine skier Xu Mingfu in the downhill project, after the game, he wished the other party good luck, also gave away a watch, and opened the gift box on the spot to show that the watch belonged to the limited edition.
Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, no Chinese athlete was able to board the track of the Winter Olympics' downhill race. Alpine skiing is one of the basic snow sports, in which downhill and super slalom are called "speed events", fast speed, large track drops, long length, so the training difficulty is very high. Before Beijing's successful bid to host the Winter Olympics, China's alpine skiing was far behind the world's leading level, and it had never even carried out training in downhill and super slalom, and the speed project was the short board of the short board. In order to achieve full-project participation, Xu Mingfu, who originally focused on alpine skiing technology, also included the speed category into the focus of the preparation.
The 24-year-old Xu Mingfu did it on the 7th, and he successfully finished the race, ranking 36th, with a top speed of 123. In the 5 km, another Chinese player, Zhang Yangming, was slightly sorry, he made a mistake in the opening stage and failed to complete the race. However, these two young men still opened the precedent for Chinese athletes to participate in the downhill competition of the Winter Olympics. Xu Mingfu is full of confidence in the future of alpine skiing in China, he believes that now that the first step has been taken, the future will definitely be better and better, Chinese willing to try something, if at the same starting line, will not lose anyone.
Text/Guangzhou Daily, New Flower City Reporter: Yang Min
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Guangzhou Daily Xinhuacheng Editor: Zhou Wanqi