On the evening of February 11, in the men's event of the steel frame snowmobile at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese athletes set a double record, Yan Wengang won the first steel frame snowmobile winter Olympic medal in the history of the mainland, and Yin Zhengze created a "world first", that is, the "track departure record".
They, make history!
In 2015, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team was established, which is quite far from the traditional strong teams such as Germany and Hungary, and even nearly 100 years later than Germany.
From scratch to have, it started late, but the development was fast. In January 2016, just two months after the team was formed, the Chinese team participated in a steel-framed snowmobile international invitational tournament held in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and Geng Wenqiang, who had been training for more than two months, won the bronze medal and Yan Wengang ranked tenth.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang
Geng Wenqiang represented the Chinese team in the competition
This is the first time that Chinese athletes have stood on the steel frame snowmobile track of the Winter Olympics
In the end, Geng Wenqiang won the 13th place, creating the best result of the Chinese steel frame snowmobile at the Winter Olympics. At that time, Geng Wenqiang was the only Chinese player to qualify for the competition. In the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's steel frame snowmobile was contested by Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng, which was a new breakthrough.
The winter Olympics steel frame snowmobile project ranking
Sort by the total time it takes to glide on four wheels
The person who spends the least time wins the gold medal
The first two rounds of the men's steel frame snowmobile at the Beijing Winter Olympics were held on the 10th, and Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng successfully entered the second two rounds with the results of 3rd and 7th places.
After the third round of skating, Yin Zheng and Yan Wengang advanced to the fourth round with the results of 4th and 6th places.
In the first two rounds of the race, Yin Zheng's starting performance ranked 1st, with a record time of 4.60 seconds in the first round and a stable time of 4.62 seconds in the second round.
At the start, the participants push the steel frame snowmobile forward, get the starting speed by running, and then quickly lie on the steel frame snowmobile and slide down sharply. The process of pushing the cart is also the only thing that can be stored during the race.
Before 2015, because the project has never been carried out, so the Chinese steel frame snowmobile athletes are transferred from other sports, Born in 1997, Yan Wengang, originally practiced long jump project, in 2016 through the cross-border cross-project policy, only to join the national steel frame snowmobile training team. In just a few years, he completed his metamorphosis on one of the unfamiliar projects.
Congratulatory letter from the Winter Games Center of the General Administration of Sport!
The good news came, and a congratulatory letter was sent from the Winter Games Center of the General Administration of Sports, which mentioned:
Yan Wengang is not afraid of strong hands, dare to fight, in the case of the world's masters outstanding performance, with a score of 4 minutes 1 seconds 77 for the delegation to fight a valuable bronze medal, this is the first steel frame snowmobile Winter Olympic medal in the history of the mainland; Yin Zheng ranked 5th with a time of 4 minutes 2 seconds 13, and created a track departure record with a time of 4.58 seconds, sliding out of the world speed on the Chinese track!
The congratulatory letter reads:
It is hoped that the National Steel Frame Snow Team will continue to make efforts, continue to do a good job in the procedural participation of the steel frame snowmobile women's project, and constantly break through itself. It is hoped that the national teams of the delegation will be unswerving, work hard, show the exquisite skills and uplifting spirit of Chinese ice and snow athletes with good play on the field, strive to complete the set participation goals of the Beijing Winter Olympics, strive for greater glory for the party and the people, and make greater contributions to the realization of the dream of a sports power!
Why can China make history in steel-framed snowmobile projects?
In 2015, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team was established, and in 2018, it was only on the Winter Olympic track for the first time. So why can Chinese athletes achieve a historic breakthrough in the steel frame snowmobile project at the Beijing Winter Olympics?
First of all, it is necessary to understand that although the starting position is different, the three sports of bobsleigh, steel frame snowmobile and bobsleigh use the same competition venue. At the same time, the three major skiing sports of bobsleigh, sled and steel frame snowmobile have higher requirements for equipment and training venues, and have always been the dominant projects of developed countries in Europe and the United States.
"There are no exactly the same mountains in the world, so there are no exactly same tracks." It is also affected by the venue factor, in the previous Winter Olympic games, the host has had a good performance of different degrees in the three events.
△ Korea Olympic Skating Center
For example, the South Korean team achieved historic breakthroughs in several events at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, including Yin Chengbin in the men's steel-framed bobsleigh event, who won the championship in 3:20.55, becoming the first Asian athlete to win the gold medal in the Winter Olympics event.
△ Yin Chengbin
The reason is that for the host runner, because they have more time to adapt to the training on the track of the race, they can also have a slight advantage in their familiarity with the track.
According to NBC, the main broadcaster of the International Olympic Committee, in a news report:
Yoon Sung-bin trained for thousands of hours on a glide track built on South Korea and is more familiar with the venue than any other runner, which is the most important reason why Yoon Won the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. In addition, at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the host Korean team won 1 gold and 1 silver in the steel frame snowmobile and four-person snowmobile event. At the Sochi Winter Olympics, Russia performed the same in the sliding event.
So after Beijing won the right to host the Winter Olympics
How to make the most of the advantages of the host
It has become the top priority of the coasting project
It is understood that the Snowmobile Competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics is held in the "Snow Dragon" - National Bobsleigh Center. This is the world's 17th and the country's first newly built bobsleigh track. One of the most distinctive is the 11th corner, the 360-degree roundabout, which looks like a dragon soaring over a ridge from a distance.
It is worth mentioning that it is also the first national team to train in the Beijing Winter Olympics. Therefore, at the official competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics, with the familiarity with the venue environment of the "Snow Dragon", the Chinese sliding project also achieved better results than in history.
Of course, behind any increase in athletic performance
It is inseparable from the hard work of athletes and coaches
There is also the help of scientific and technological means
In addition to the advantages of the host, although China's bobsleigh sports started late and had a large gap, they took advantage of the opportunity of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games to make sufficient efforts in material selection and training, competition experience accumulation and scientific and technological assistance (such as VR virtual training system). For example, Yan Wengang is a "cross-border" entry into the national steel frame snowmobile training team.
"The first winter of practice was to grit your teeth and survive"
"Because of the unskilled movements, the whole body will be bruised."
Now for Yan Wengang, all the efforts are worth it; for the Chinese steel frame snow team, the medal "zero breakthrough" is a day worth remembering.
It is reported that the National Bobsleigh Center undertook all the competitions of the three sports of Beijing Winter Olympic Snowmobile, Steel Frame Snowmobile and Bobsleigh, resulting in a total of 10 gold medals. This time, the Chinese players also achieved the full project participation, let us wish them all a good performance!
Comprehensive: Oriental Network, Xinhua News Agency, China Youth Daily, Jimu News, etc
Part of the text reporter: Liu Hui
Source: Orient Net