Tournament Preview: China's two-game competition men and women curling to win

(Beijing Winter Olympics) Event Preview: China's two-sport competition men and women curling to win

Beijing, February 10 (China News Service) -- The Beijing Winter Olympics will produce seven gold medals on the 11th, and the Chinese team will attack in both ice and snow, and will hit the medals in the short track speed skating and steel frame snowmobile field.

On ice: Short Track Speed Skating Re-Punch Medal Men and women curlers go all out to win

Short track speed skating will be held in the women's 1000 meters 1/4 finals, semi-finals and finals, as well as the men's 5000 meters relay semifinals and men's 500 meters preliminary round, the Olympic Games has won 2 gold and 1 silver Chinese short track speed skating team will compete for medals again.

In the women's 1000m preliminaries held on the 9th, Chinese players Qu Chunyu, Han Yutong and Zhang Chutong joined hands to advance. However, the competition in the event was fierce, with Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 1500m gold medalist and South Korea's Choi Min-jing and defending champion and Dutch star Shu erting fiercely competing in the preliminaries, setting new Olympic records. In particular, Schulting has performed strongly in this Olympic cycle, winning all five gold medals in the women's event at last year's World Championships.

Italian veteran Fontana, who defended her title in the short track speed skating women's 500 meters at the Winter Olympics, also advanced to the first place in the group and became a strong contender for the championship. The Chinese team will go all out to impact the medals in this category.

In the men's 5,000m relay, the Chinese team, led by Winter Olympic champion Wu Dajing, was the runners-up in the last edition. In this Olympic cycle, with the sudden rise of Ren Ziwei and the growth of "post-00s" young players such as Li Wenlong, Zhang Tianyi, and Sun Long, the Chinese men's team maintains a strong team style and enters the final.

In the men's 500m preliminaries, the Chinese team that won a full quota of places will send the defending champion Wu Dajing, the double champion Ren Ziwei and the young sun long to join forces, looking forward to the 1/4 final on the 13th.

Curling will continue to play men's and women's round robins, with the Chinese men's team playing against Denmark and the women's team facing the United States.

In the first two rounds of the competition, the Chinese curling men's and women's teams were unfavorable. The men's team lost to Sweden and the Russian Olympic Committee respectively, suffering two consecutive defeats; the women's team also lost to Denmark in the first round of the 10th (on the evening of the 10th, the Chinese curling women's team will also face the world champion Switzerland). This time both teams need to fight for victory in order to be in a good position in the round robin rankings.

In addition to the men's hockey group round, the ice hockey arena will also play two quarter-finals of women's ice hockey, with the United States and the Czech Republic, Canada and Sweden fighting each other to take the lead in competing for two semi-final spots.

Snow: Yan Wengang steel frame snowmobile competition medal Veneer U-shaped pool staged a battle between the old and the new

The men's steel frame snowmobile will produce a gold medal after the end of the third and fourth rounds of competition on the 11th, and China's Yan Wengang is expected to compete for the medal.

After the first two rounds of competition at the end of the 10th, German players won the top two, and Chinese players Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng ranked third and seventh respectively, of which Yan Wengang's performance of 2:01.08 was 0.75 seconds behind the first-place German star Christopher Grotecher, and only 0.05 seconds away from the second place. In the first round, Yin Zheng also set a track starting record of 4.60 seconds.

Yan Wengang, who temporarily ranked third, said on the 10th that he hoped to play a better level tomorrow and the final result was better than today.

In 2015, after Beijing successfully won the right to host the Winter Olympics, China formed a steel-framed snow team. But the team improved so fast that it qualified for the Winter Olympics two and a half years later, making its Winter Olympic debut in Pyeongchang, when Geng Finished 13th.

In last year's World Cup, Geng Wenqiang won the first World Cup men's singles title for the Chinese team. Although Geng Wenqiang was not selected for the Winter Olympics this time, Yan Wengang and Yin Zhengjun are not bad and are expected to achieve a breakthrough for the Chinese team again.

The men's U-shaped track skills final will be held at the snowboarding course on the same day. The "god of veneers", The United States Team's Winter Olympic Triple Champion Shaun White, will face a powerful challenge from Japanese teenager Bumon Hirano, who is 12 years younger than him. Although the latter is less than 24 years old, he is already a silver medalist in two Winter Olympics. In the qualifiers on the 9th, Hirano Bumon came in first place to beat Shaun White, who finished fourth.

Four players from the Chinese team participated in the qualifying round for men's U-shaped field skills, but unfortunately no one reached the final. (End)

Source: China News Network