Miller, Oban Yongli, Kelios, Sprawl, Osipov these people just look at the name you must think of foreigners, but they are indeed Chinese, but also represent 1.4 billion Chinese stood on the ice hockey field of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the women's team returned to the Olympic family after 12 years of absence, and the men's team filled the Olympic gap of China's men's ice hockey. So why are their names so Westernized? Because they are the forerunners in the wave of sports planning in China.
In preparation for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the South Korean ice hockey team started a big wave of planning, and at the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan, South Korea beat the Chinese team that had swept them 10-0. The reason is simply because they have 6 Canadians in their lineup. As the host of the 2022 Winter Olympics, at this level, it is impossible to impress the members of the Ice Association and approve of the Chinese team participating in the Winter Olympics. As a result, China began to follow South Korea's plan, conducting drafts around the world and welcoming those ice hockey players of Chinese descent to represent China.
South Korea reached the top group of the World Championships with 6 Canadians, and naturally qualified for the Winter Olympics, the Chinese women's team hovered between A A and A B, and the men's team could only survive in B B.
In May 2018, the International Hockey Federation hesitated to vote in favor of the Chinese men's and women's ice hockey teams, allowing them to qualify for the Winter Olympics without having to participate in the qualifiers. The decision also broke with the convention that hosts could not qualify for the Winter Olympics by participating in qualifiers.
How to lose to those strong teams in the Winter Olympics has become a big problem that the Chinese ice hockey team needs to overcome in 4 years.
China's planning in ice hockey is still fruitful, and the women's team has even won the mainland ice hockey league championship. Miller, Zhou Jiaying, Kang Mulan, and Lin Qiqi are all good at planning to return to China.
On the man's side, it is also the creator of one history after another. They scored their first continental hockey league goal, won their first game and made it to the playoffs for the first time. Captain Ye Jinguang scored 100 points.
After the men's team lost 2-7 to Canada yesterday, the journey of the Chinese men's and women's ice hockey team at the Beijing Winter Olympics is over. The women's team was not afraid of strong opponents, repeatedly turned the tables against the wind in the case of falling behind, defeated Denmark, defeated Japan on penalties, and Sweden were reversed in the last moments with the lead. It was almost a point to enter the quarterfinals, but to return to the Olympic arena and win, this Chinese women's ice team is already a winner.
In the matches against the United States, Germany and Canada, although the score was not so good, it did not fall behind in the game. In the match against Germany, Fu Shuai scored the first goal in the history of Chinese ice hockey.
They all have a great job if they don't play hockey, the most reassuring goalkeeper of female ice, Zhou Jiaying, was once a financial talent on Wall Street, and the captain of the men's team, Ye Jinguang, is an excellent graduate of criminal investigation. They couldn't give up that ice hockey love, and they all accepted the call of their home country. They showed Chinese ice hockey in front of the world, and they wrote Chinese ice hockey into the history of the Winter Olympics. Whether they are chinese or not in the future, they are now Chinese, they represent our 1.4 billion Chinese, and all of them deserve our respect and cheer for them.