In the men's ice hockey group A game of the Beijing Winter Olympics held on the evening of the 10th, the Chinese men's ice hockey team made its debut at the Winter Olympic Games, and finally lost to the world's fourth-ranked United States team 0-8. After the game, Chinese coach Zanata Ivano said after the game that for the Chinese men's ice team, the game took an important big step. "The Winter Olympics is a great opportunity to show Chinese young people what ice hockey is, so that they can better understand the sport and cultivate more tomorrow's stars, which is the biggest victory," he said. ”
The regular ice hockey game is divided into three quarters, each of which is 20 minutes, with a 15-minute break between the games, and if the game is interrupted, it is necessary to stop the table. In the first quarter, the U.S. team took advantage of the scene, scoring a goal to take a 1-0 lead. Although the Chinese team was behind in the score, it also had a bright performance; in the second quarter, the American team continued to attack strongly, the Chinese team could not score goals although they shot, the score was frozen 4-0; in the last quarter, the American team completely occupied the initiative on the field, and the Chinese team was plagued by fouls, and repeatedly appeared to play less and more. In the end, the United States scored four more goals to win 8-0 against China.
For the "biggest victory" in the mouth of the head coach, The Captain of the Chinese team Ye Jinguang agreed very much, saying that he was very proud to finally stand on the Winter Olympics and wanted more Chinese young people to fall in love with the sport.
Ye Jinguang, 36, played a total of 22 minutes and 05 seconds in last night's game, making him the second-longest-running athlete on the Chinese team. He added: "We've been preparing for this for over 6 years and now I'm very excited. The result was not what we wanted, and we started well. We will summarize the good and bad places. Obviously, we still have some work to do, to prepare for the back games against Germany and Canada. ”
Although the debut was not satisfactory, team member Ying Rudi said in an interview, "I had a premonition of the gap in strength before the game, but after the game, I found that in fact, the gap between the two teams was not as big as imagined." ”
Team member Yuan Junjie wrote four words on the skates " to win glory for the country" . He said: "We are very excited, very excited to represent China in the Olympic Games, I specially designed skates. The first time we play in the Olympic Games, we will play better and better, and the second and third games we will improve a lot. ”
At this Winter Olympics, the Chinese team was divided into Group A together with the United States team, Canada and Germany. Several of China's group rivals are the world's strongest teams, and both the United States and Canada have won the Winter Olympics.
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Editor: Lu Yifeng
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