Yan Wengang picks copper to let the world witness the "Speed of China"

Live Bar February 12 news From scratch, the speed of the Chinese team's progress is like a high-speed snowmobile on the "Snow Dragon" track tonight. On the evening of February 11, in the men's steel frame snowmobile competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Yan Wengang, a young player who participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, won the third place in 4 minutes 01.77 seconds, proving the strong strength of the team with a valuable bronze medal, and also achieving a breakthrough of "zero" medals for Chinese steel frame snowmobilers in the Winter Olympics. This is the seventh medal won by the Chinese delegation at the Winter Olympics, and it is also the first time that Chinese male athletes have stood on the Olympic podium in the steel frame snowmobile event. The young general, born in 1997, rewrote the history of China's steel frame snowmobile.

Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng have pushed China's steel frame snowmobile to a new height, and through this window of the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's steel frame snowmobile is also getting more attention.

The steel frame snowmobile is an ancient and typical sport at the Winter Olympics, which has become an official sport as early as the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz. But it was nearly a hundred years before the long-established sport began to develop in China. After the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team was established in 2015. Although the establishment of the team is not long, this young team has made breakthroughs in the two Winter Olympic cycles of Pyeongchang and Beijing. On the "Snow Dragon" track of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese steel frame snow team also showed the world "Chinese speed".

How does China's steel frame snowmobile "from scratch"?

At the earliest, there were no professional steel frame snowmobile athletes in China, and the steel frame snowmobile national team began to select materials after its establishment. In the field of steel frame snowmobiles, cross-border cross-item selection is a fairly common selection method. Amy Williams, the women's champion at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Liz Jarnold, who won the women's division at the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics, and Yoon Chengbin, a South Korean who opened the record for Asian athletes at the 2018 Winter Olympics, were all transferred from athletics. This is because the steel frame snowmobile project requires athletes to have excellent explosive power, to be able to provide enough acceleration for the steel frame snowmobile during the starting stage of the cart, and the physical fitness of the track and field athletes is quite similar to the conditions required for the steel frame snowmobile project.

Referring to the foreign steel frame snowmobile team selection standards, in August 2015, the steel frame snowmobile national team completed the first cross-border cross-border selection, Geng Wenqiang, who made history for the Chinese team at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and Yan Wengang, who appeared at the Beijing Winter Olympics, are from this selection, before joining the team, both were long jump athletes.

For the new players who crossed the discipline, the steel frame snowmobile is still an unfamiliar sport, and the team has been updating its members between trying and running in. After the completion of the initial selection, the steel frame snow team completed several cross-border cross-item selections. Yin Zheng, a sprinter who previously studied at Beijing Sport University, joined the team in 2017.

After selecting the right athletes, the journey of the steel frame snowmobile national team has just begun. At that time, there was no steel frame snowmobile track in China, and the team could only travel to Europe and North America in the winter, getting familiar with the characteristics of each track little by little, and initially the team members could only rent or reuse the equipment that was eliminated by others, and the accidents and injuries caused by the improper equipment were inevitable. During the summer training, the team members of the steel frame snowmobile will carry out some physical training in China, and use the simulated trainer that replaces the steel blade with a wheel to practice the cart departure technique.

With the approaching of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the completion of the construction of the National Bobsleigh Center, the steel frame snowmobile national team has a standard track "Snow Dragon" in China, and also has more complete training facilities. The National Bobsleigh Center is equipped with a training hall dedicated to the departure of the practice track, and the digital scientific training assistance platform developed by the Scientific Training Group of the Winter Sports Center of the State General Administration of Sport is also put into use here.

In addition to having its own home track and a more scientific training environment, the steel frame snowmobile national team has its own equipment, and the previous rental and recycling of other people's equipment has become a history. At the Erqi Training Center in the southern suburbs of Beijing, the team members will also use wind tunnel experiments to grasp the best posture for sliding on steel-frame snowmobiles, and test and improve the equipment.

In the past, in the steel frame snowmobile field, the one-piece suits and steel frame snowmobile shoes designed and manufactured by European and American sports brands occupied the mainstream, but the Chinese team members will wear boots designed by ANTA original design to be lighter and can effectively reduce wind resistance in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. After testing, the boots can improve by an average of 0.023 seconds compared to other brands in the starting propulsion phase. Sometimes the difference between the winner and loser of the steel frame snowmobile project is accurate to the unit of 100 minutes and seconds, and the starting of the push cart is the most important technical link of the steel frame snowmobile race, and it is of great significance to be able to increase the speed at this stage. Just as "if you want to do a good job, you must first use it", for athletes, they can improve their performance with equipment and equipment, and they can also invest more energy in other technical aspects other than the start of the cart.

(Sports Network)