As of today, the number of medals for the Chinese team at the Winter Olympics has broken through the record. In addition to the medals, there are actually many Stories of the Winter Olympics that have been overlooked by 1.4 billion people. For example, China's ice hockey team, ice hockey is not our strength in the Winter Olympics for generations. But this ice hockey game is really tearful to watch, because behind the ice hockey team is the recognition of Chinese civilization and the love of the motherland by the descendants of Yanhuang. In men's hockey, there are a total of twenty-five players, fifteen of whom are naturalized players. Short track speed skating, there is a plan, the players are very understanding, because short track speed skating is our strength. Then joining the huge Chinese short track speed skating team can improve your strength very well. But ice hockey is not, and in many Winter Olympic sports, the level of ice hockey teams is very low and the treatment is average. Currently ranked thirty-second in the world, recruiting players is particularly difficult, and there are only a few thousand domestic registered players, which is quite embarrassing.
But even in this difficult situation, there are still fifteen players who choose and plan for the motherland without complaint. Ye Jinguang, the current captain of the men's ice hockey team, is a fourth-generation Chinese whose ancestors were Chinese laborers who were abducted from Guangdong to europe and the United States about 150 years ago to build railways. His parents have been searching for relatives in Guangdong to this day. Before returning to China, he was the most outstanding Chinese player in the history of professional ice hockey. As early as four years of college, he won the overall championship of the American College Hockey League with the team. If he continues to stay overseas, he can live very comfortably. But in 2017, he accepted the invitation and resolutely chose the weak Chinese ice hockey team. At the Olympic Games, he played at the age of thirty-six, although the final 2-3 loss to Germany, which ranked fifth in the world, the Chinese team achieved the record of the men's ice hockey team scoring the first goal at the Winter Olympics under his leadership.
The same story happened to zheng Enlai, vice captain of the ice hockey team. The first track and field athlete to break the world record since the founding of New China was Zheng Enlai's grandmother, Zheng Fengrong. On the year of his grandmother's eightieth birthday, Zheng Enlai gave up his canadian nationality and joined the Chinese ice hockey + team. In his own words, it was a tradition that perpetuated the family faith in the service of the motherland. He also has a younger sister named Zheng Ninali, who is also an Olympian. At the beginning, Zheng Ninali gave up all the points she had accumulated in overseas competitions in order to naturalize, and was suspended for three years. In the end, all the points were collected a month before the competition, representing China in the women's heptathlon competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games, creating the best result of domestic athletes in this event. A lot of people think that planning players should be for money, but if you look at the men's hockey and women's hockey games, you will find that they really love the sport. They really did their best for China on the field. These unpopular projects of the Winter Olympics actually have a long way to go, but they are not out of reach. We have achieved a breakthrough from zero to one.
This is also why our culture has not been interrupted for thousands of years. Because in every era, there are countless Chinese sons and daughters who firmly stand on the side of the motherland, relaying from generation to generation, and moving forward step by step.