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With the concerted efforts of our Chinese Winter Olympic athletes, after Su Yiming won the silver medal in the men's slope steeplechase competition on snowboarding, another Olympic event broke through history.
Just last night, in the men's steel frame snowmobile race, China's Yan Wengang won a valuable bronze medal. Although it is the third place, it is of great significance, this is the first medal in the history of the Winter Olympics of the Chinese steel frame snow team! Undoubtedly, it has strengthened the confidence of the steel frame snowmobile project in the continuous rise of Chinese snow sports.
Before reviewing Yan Wengang's wonderful performance last night, Kan Qiujun first popularized a wave of steel frame snowmobile sports.
The sport first followed in 1892, when the Englishman Child used a bobsleigh made mainly of metal materials, which was gradually improved and operated, and this metal sled was given a competitive concept and had an official project name: steel frame steel bobsleigh.
The athletic style is to slide head-forward prone.
The body structure of the steel frame snowmobile is also very special, there is no steering and braking device! The bottom consists of a lead-block-weighted skeleton and two fixed tubular steel blades. The body is equipped with handles, which serve two purposes, one is to let the athletes push the snowmobile when they set off, and the other is to let the athletes stabilize their bodies in the body. The front and rear of the body are equipped with shock absorbers.
The track used for the steel frame bobsleigh race is 1200-1650 meters long, with a drop of between 100 and 150 meters. The sport has certain restrictions on the physical condition of athletes, and overweight athletes need to complete weight loss to comply with the rules of the competition.
Although athletes wear safety helmets during the race, and the design of the gowns and gloves protects the athletes as much as possible, all these protection measures seem to be worth mentioning in the face of the high risk of ultra-high-speed coasting.
Imagine rushing through more than a dozen corners at a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, a feast of speed that ordinary people dare not dare to try, and can be called "fast and furious" on ice! Therefore, due to the thrill of being too thrilling, the steel frame snowmobile sport was cancelled twice at the Winter Olympics!
Before the race, the runners have 30s to complete the starting action, one-handed car, then accelerate the run, and then quickly jump on the snowmobile and slide in a prone position.
As for how to adjust the heading, it is through the slight left and right movement of the head and body to control the state of the sled when turning, as well as the steel nails on the shoes, touching the ice surface can also play a role in controlling the direction and speed regulation. The high-speed flight in the middle allows the athlete to roll over and land, but when passing the finish line, it is necessary to "combine people and vehicles" to have a race result.
It can be seen that the steel frame snowmobile movement is not only a "big heart" exercise, but also needs to use delicate technology combined with accurate judgment in high-speed taxiing to complete the race.
Steel frame snowmobiling has a history of more than 100 years abroad, and every year at the Snow Games, you will find that this sport is the world of Europeans, and there are only a few Asian athletes.
China also formed its first professional sports team in 2015. At the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Geng Wenqiang made his debut in the event and finally finished 13th.
Just 4 years later, this year Yan Wengang has greatly improved the performance of China's steel frame snowmobile racing history. Last night, after 4 rounds of competition (the Beijing Winter Olympics were held in 4 rounds, ranking by the sum of 4 rounds), he broke through the "encirclement and suppression" of European and American players with a time of 4 minutes 01.77 seconds and successfully climbed to the podium!
I believe that this is just a good start, and the next Chinese athletes will definitely take faster, higher and stronger steps!