Wonderful Winter Olympics | strong "skills" to help Yin Zheng improve his performance

Yin Zheng's realization of the dream of boarding the Winter Olympic Games and achieving good results are inseparable from the improvement of the overall environment for the development of China's steel frame snowmobile sports and the assistance of "technical force".

Steel frame bobsleigh sports have a history of more than 100 years in Europe and the United States, but the mainland has not carried out this sport before 2015. From the establishment of the national training team for steel frame snowmobiles to the cross-border cross-border selection of outstanding athletes, and then to the construction of China's first steel frame snowmobile professional track, the basic conditions of China's steel frame snowmobile sports are getting better and better during the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle.

Yin is in the game. Hebei Daily reporter Huo Yanen photographed

Before the establishment of professional tracks, the training and competition of the steel frame snowmobile national training team was mainly carried out in Canada and Germany, and the slow starting speed of the cart and the easy mistakes in key corners have always been the shortcomings that plague Chinese athletes. As the first bobsleigh track in China, the "Snow Dragon" track has become the 16th professional track in the world, which provides a venue guarantee for the steel frame snowmobile national training team.

Technology is just as important. 16 to 18 steps is the average number of steps a steel frame bobsleigher from departure to boarding, and how to improve the efficiency of each movement in this limited number of steps is crucial. The digital scientific training assistance platform developed by the scientific training team of the Winter Games Center of the State General Administration of Sports makes Yin Zheng's daily training more targeted: it can accurately capture the details of Yin Zheng's every action, analyze the acceleration curve, let Yin Zheng understand when to use better force, and provide help for him to develop a more scientific training program.

Precision training has also allowed Yin Zheng to make rapid progress. How to reduce wind resistance in racing projects is very critical, and wind tunnel testing is a very effective way. At the Erqi National Ice Sports Training Base, through the wind tunnel test, Yin Zheng learned what kind of best posture he should maintain on the steel frame snowmobile, which is the most friction-reducing and time-saving, and through repeated practice, he constantly corrected his posture, and his performance was improved. (Hebei Daily reporter Zhang Jing)