The most eye-catching stars in the Beijing Winter Olympics are Gu Ailing, Su Yiming, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and other athletes who compete for gold and silver, and there is also a "commentator" Wang Mao who can even suppress Huang Jianxiang.
In addition, videos and advertisements of Winter Olympic gold medalists such as Dayang Yang and Han Xiaopeng can often be seen in major media, who were once heroes of the Mainland Winter Olympics.
However, in the author's memory of the Winter Olympics, there is a group of athletes who have not won gold medals, they are also the heroes of the Winter Olympics, and it is they who opened up the attention of the Chinese people to the Winter Olympics, so that the later gold medals and glory became a natural success.
First, the winter Olympics enlightenment - Ye Qiaobo
The author's first impression of the Winter Olympics came from Ye Qiaobo, at that time only knew that she was a skater, but could not distinguish the difference between speed skating and short track speed skating, the deepest memory is that she broke her knee on the ice, the doctor found that there were 8 free broken bones in her knee, Ye Qiaobo once could only sit in a wheelchair, with these injuries she won seven gold medals and nine silver medals in seven world championships, her deeds are also known as "Ye Qiaobo Spirit".
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, Ye Qiaobo alone won two consecutive silver medals in the 1000 meters and 500 meters, and the gap between the two times was very narrow, one of which was 0.02 seconds.
Although he did not win the gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games, Ye Qiaobo achieved a breakthrough of zero medals in the history of the Winter Olympic Games in the mainland, which is also of great significance, and more importantly, Ye Qiaobo opened up the understanding of many audiences about the Winter Olympic Games, and the Winter Olympics also officially entered the vision of the national audience.
2. Artistic expression - Chen Lu
In the 1990s, Central Radio often played videos of figure skating and ice dance competitions in the afternoon, and the contestants inside were all foreigners, dancing on the ice in stunning costumes and skates, and at first glance, they felt that this was "something that foreigners played".
Until one day, it should be 1995, a Chinese girl won the figure skating world championship, her performance shocked the country, who could have imagined that such a "foreign talent play" competition would actually be a Chinese to win the championship.
In fact, as early as the previous year, at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, Chen Lu won the first Winter Olympic medal in the history of mainland figure skating with a third place.
In the case of unprecedented attention, Chen Lu lost to Guan Yingshan at the 1996 World Championships, and in the 1997 World Championships, she only finished 25th in a serious decline in form.
In the case of unfavorable circumstances, the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Chen Lu returned, her main opponent was the Chinese-American Guan Yingshan, the word "artistic expression" was repeatedly mentioned in the competition. Chen Lu uses the beautiful "Liang Zhu" as a free and slippery soundtrack, and its artistic expression is bursting.
However, after the mantis cicada catcher Huang Que, chen Lu and Guan Yingshan are behind a little girl Lipinsky who is known for her technical ability, and she defeats two ice beauties with super artistic expression with extraordinary technical ability, and Chen Lu ranks third. The figure skating women's singles final at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano also left a brilliant scene in the history of the Winter Olympics.
Chen Lu's performance opened up the chinese people's cognition of figure skating, and since then the mainland has gradually become a strong country in the field of figure skating, and achieved a breakthrough in the gold medal through pair skating.
Chen Lu's song "Liang Zhu" at the Nagano Winter Olympics is her Winter Olympics masterpiece, although it is only a bronze medal, but her extraordinary artistic expression can be called the most representative work in the history of mainland figure skating, originally thought that it would be the beginning of the mainland women's single skating, but did not expect it to be more like a singing, and then more than twenty years in the mainland in the field of women's single skating has not been able to appear comparable to Chen Lu's ice butterflies.
Third, there is only one step away - Li Jiajun
Short-track speed skating entered the Winter Olympics in 1992, and since then the project has become a breakthrough point for the mainland to win the winter Olympic gold medal, but it was not until the Turin Winter Olympics 10 years later that the winter Olympics realized the winter Olympic gold medal dream by Dayang Yang.
In this decade, there have been many times when we are only one step away from the winter Olympic gold medal, and the most mentioned name is a thick-looking northeastern man, Li Jiajun.
Li Jiajun first became famous in 1996, when he won the mainland's first men's world championship in the men's 1000m final of the short track speed skating World Cup, and in 1997 he also broke a world record and was considered one of the most likely athletes to achieve a gold medal breakthrough at the Winter Olympics.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Li Jiajun lost to a South Korean athlete in the men's 1,000 meters and won a silver medal at a distance of one knife tip, which was also the first medal won by a mainland male athlete at the Winter Olympics.
Since then, Li Jiajun has won several medals at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and the Turin Winter Olympics, and although he has won numerous world championships and broken many world records, he has always missed the winter Olympic gold medal.
Li Jiajun actually has the strength to win the winter Olympic gold medal, but only one step away from the result In addition to personal bad luck, the factors of too honest and lack of teammate cooperation on the field have to be mentioned, he has repeatedly encountered black hands in the game, the American player Apollo even pressed his hand to his thigh and no one cared, those years Li Jiajun's encounter on the field is also the epitome of the mainland short track speed skating team.
When Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and others competed for gold and silver on the field, the competition environment they encountered was already a new look compared to that year, and the efforts of the predecessors were also for the rise of the younger generations, and the glory of the younger generations was inseparable from the contributions of the predecessors.
Fourth, and them
Li Yan, known as the "godmother" of mainland short track speed skating, was also a short track speed skater, she won the gold medal (exhibition competition) in short track speed skating in the women's 1000 meters at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, and the silver medal in the women's short track speed skating 500 meters at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, which was the first Olympic medal in the mainland short track speed skating world.
In 2006, Li Yan returned to China as the head coach of the short track speed skating team, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the Chinese women's team won four gold medals in the 500 meters, 1000 meters, 1500 meters and 3000 meters relay, creating extraordinary results in the Winter Olympics.
Freestyle skiing aerial skills are the traditional strengths of mainland snow sports, Han Xiaopeng has achieved a double breakthrough in the first gold medal of the winter Olympics men's gold medal and the first gold medal in the snow event, Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang and Li Nina have also been famous.
The one who actually opened a medal account for the project was Xu Yuanyuan, who won the silver medal in freestyle skiing aerial skills at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, achieving a breakthrough of zero medals in the continental snow sports.
There are "four golden flowers" in the mainland short track speed skating world, they are Big Yang Yang, Little Yang Yang, Wang Chunlu and Sun Dandan, of which Big Yang Yang became a person like Xu Haifeng, won the first gold medal in the history of the Mainland Winter Olympics at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, and behind her there is also a little Yang Yang who is also worth remembering.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, She won three silver medals in the short track speed skating women's 500m, 1000m and 3000m relays, just one breath away from the breakthrough of the gold medal zero, and the good performance of her and her teammates laid the foundation for zero breakthroughs at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics four years later.
There are also many people, Zhang Yanmei, An Yulong, Pang Qing tong jian, Zhang Dan Zhang Hao... They have not won the gold medal of the Winter Olympics, but they are also the heroes of the Winter Olympics on the mainland.
When a new generation of Winter Olympic athletes are on the field, we must not forget those who have worked hard in the history of the Winter Olympics.