On the 18th, Kate, president of the International Kettle Federation, accepted an exclusive interview with this reporter.
Ms. Kate has been in Beijing for more than ten days, in addition to the "Ice Cube", she has also visited the Beijing Winter Olympic Venues such as the National Gymnasium and the Capital Gymnasium, which allows her to feel and evaluate the Beijing Winter Olympics from a broader perspective.
As the first question of the interview with her, this reporter asked him to tell him what she saw as the Beijing Winter Olympics?
Ms. Kate said in a very affirmative tone: "The venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics were unexpected, shocking enough! ”
Ms. Kate spends her time outside of work visiting many Of the Winter Olympic venues. Kate said all the venues for the Beijing Winter Olympics are world-class. Although I already had some psychological expectations before I came, when I came to Beijing and saw it with my own eyes, I still felt enough shock and impressed. Of course, Kate is most familiar with the "Ice Cube" that hosts curling competitions, and she says that the "Ice Cube" is "just amazing!" ”
On the afternoon of the 18th, at 2:30 p.m., the World Curling Federation, the Chinese Curling Association, and the Beijing State-owned Assets Management Co., Ltd. signed a tripartite strategic cooperation agreement at the National Aquatics Center. In this regard, Kate said that the main purpose of reaching the agreement and establishing the World Curling Academy is to vigorously promote the widespread development of curling in various parts of China. "Because curling fits into a wide age range, from 5 to 95 years old can play, it has a very low threshold. We also do not want to see that curling is limited to large cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, and the World Curling Federation hopes to promote curling to all parts of China with the other two partners signed today, and the establishment of the World Curling Academy is to provide various materials and talent reserves needed for this development in terms of technology, talent training, coaches and so on. ”
After the interview, Chairman Kate presented the reporter with the World Pot Federation Medal as a souvenir. She said she would return to China to take a break after the Beijing Winter Olympics. She will come back to Beijing on March 5 after the curling competition of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games begins.