"Xinhua News Agency Representative Team" interviewed on the skiing field of the Winter Olympic Games

Yang Fan, the No. 1 player, has comprehensive skiing technology, and his unique advantage is that he is very familiar with the competition venues and event operations in Zhangjiakou Area, and since the 2017 Yunding Ski Park held the International Snow Federation World Cup, he has "passed" with many Chinese and foreign masters.

No. 2 player Chen Yichen participated in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympic Games, and the 2014 Nanjing Youth Olympic Games, and his point in the Winter Olympics was located at the National Alpine Ski Center located in the Xiaohaituo Mountain District of Yanqing, Beijing.

Lu Xingji, the No. 3 player, has successfully unlocked various snow fields in China, Europe and North America, and in January 2020, he also skated through the snow with THE NEW OLYMPIC champion Gu Ailing in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Zhang Chenlin, the No. 4 player, has a surprise encounter to share with everyone, let us feel his excitement together: "I photographed the ocelot in Yanqing Division! This is a national second-level protected animal, the activity is hidden, and it is rarely photographed outside the infrared camera set up, which shows that the ecology here is very good. ”

No. 5 player Yin Jiajie, known as a "cross-border cross-sport" player, was recommended to practice skiing after showing athletic talent in basketball, swimming and running, and now he has become a ski master.

No. 6 player Xu Chang, a native of Northeast China, sees only two seasons a year, snow season and waiting snow season, in order to consolidate and improve his skiing skills, he will practice land surfing in the summer.

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The above "players" are closely related to the Beijing Winter Olympics, which are in full swing. However, their figures often appear next to the arena, their style is always fixed behind the camera, and their names are also permanently stationed in the signature column of the Winter Olympics report - they are Xinhua reporters who can "slide the snow to interview". Excellent skiing skills help them rush to a higher competition site, grab faster news timeliness, and find a better shooting angle.

The Beijing Winter Olympics, which has already set the highest ratings in history, really let us experience the charm of ice and snow sports. If we talk about the "crown jewel of the Winter Olympics", it is not alpine skiing. Unfortunately, for a long time, China "did not have a reporter who can ski to interview", and many wonderful moments of alpine skiing can only be "beautiful alone" and are rarely recorded.

The history of photojournalism, like the Olympic movement, has always waited for a breakthrough. Since December 2019, Xinhua News Agency has successively sent more than a dozen text, photojournalists and technicians to the ski resort to train alpine ski photographers. "In 2019, Xinhua News Agency was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an international news agency and joined the International Olympic Photography Team, which means that Xinhua News Agency will arrange reporters to shoot the event at all venues of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Conquer the snowy mountains and freely reach any point, Xinhua News Agency reporters should not give in! Xu Jiren, director of the xinhua news editorial department of sports news, said.

As a result, in the ski resort on the ninth cold day, there were more groups of "amateur players" from the National Society.

Warm up flat, learn postures, and repeat the exercises until you form muscle memories... "The wind is strong, the sky is cold!" In north China, which is minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius, the solidity has taught me, a northeasterner, a lesson. Xu Chang sighed.

On the beginner road, the plough slid, fell and then climbed up..." I had no foundation at all, and on the first day of the snow, I 'shoveled' the coach, and I was even more afraid of the snow slope. Zhang Chenlin sighed.

Then go up the intermediate road, parallel sliding, trip after trip..." Go up the mountain at 8 o'clock in the morning, rest for 20 minutes after lunch, and then practice until the snow field closes, every day to skate twenty or thirty kilometers, when sleeping feel all over the body. Yang Fan recalled.

Then go up the advanced road, double black advanced road, complete the small rotation... It worked! After nearly 30 days of training, these "amateur players" have all obtained professional certificates - ISIA level 7 (point staff rotation) technical level certification. "If alpine skiing is a game for the brave, then alpine ski photographers are definitely 'fighters' among photographers." Nowadays, The National Society has a "fighter group"!

The Olympic spirit of advocating friendship and unity is also reflected in the new Chinese who wear snowboards and pick up snow poles to prepare for the Winter Olympics. "I was afraid of heights, I always fell behind when training, and my colleagues who had already slid down the mountain waved at me at the bottom of the mountain, applauded me, and gave me great courage and warmth." Yin Jiajie said.

In order to help everyone recover the sense of snow, near the opening of the Winter Olympics, Xinhua News Agency organized a ski retrain. And the reporters who are rubbing their hands have made sufficient preparations: snowboards, snow poles, snow helmets, snow mirrors, snow suits, snowshoes, snow claws, all equipped; cameras, handheld gimbals, 5G signal boxes, walkie-talkies, walkie-talkies, all adjusted; the thickest version of down jackets, three layers of sweater pants, two layers of thick bottom socks, a box of warm babies, all packed; all routes in the arena have been stepped on many times, the rules of the competition and the important documents of the International Snow Federation have been familiarized, and the past achievements, technical characteristics, and background information of the contestants have been completed. New Chinese people, they have all taken their places!

Since entering the closed loop of the Winter Olympics, this "Xinhua News Agency representative team" that skated and interviewed on snow has been "galloping" in the text, photography and video reporting of alpine skiing and freestyle skiing in Zhangjiakou And Yanqing areas, and under the blessing of skiing skills, it is closer to the athletes, more comprehensive in observing the field, and seeking "extraordinary views" in "dangerous places". "Four Dynasties Elders" Qi Guangpu's "Stepping on the Clouds to the Top", "Genius Teenager" Su Yiming's "Flying Cornice Walking Wall", "Frog Princess" Gu Ailing's "Leap against the Sky", Alpine Skiing Woman's All-around "Flying Sand and Snow", Freestyle Skiing Obstacle Chase Fast Passion... Wonderful moments "into my heart"!

Sliding snow to interview, how does the reporter feel?

"In the past, I couldn't ski, I could only climb the mountain with my back to the shooting equipment, wait for the cable car, sweat inside, and the cold wind was blowing outside, and it was very time-consuming, and I rushed to the press conference hall in a hurry, and I couldn't take a good seat." Now, just a few minutes after the game, you can slide into the play hall, only a little later than the athletes. Yang Fan said.

"Mastering skiing skills allows us to shoot on the slopes with a machine in hand, even while sliding, and it is also convenient to make some Vlogs for journalists to ski out of the camera, bringing everyone a more immersive reading experience." Skiing can also expand the scope of our coverage, and the staff who step on the snowboard, such as the field leveler, can also be our interviewee. Xu Chang said.

"It's not all about the benefits, it's also about unprecedented challenges." Chen Yichen said with a smile, "Skiing with equipment bags is different from the usual center of gravity of skiing, and most of the track is ice-like snow, like stepping on an ice shell, and the difficulty of sliding has risen sharply." When encountering uphill, you also have to carry a snowboard and wear crampons to climb the mountain, which consumes a lot of physical energy. In addition to ensuring their own safety, they must also ensure that the equipment and personal belongings are not left, otherwise it may affect the safety of the track and even cause the suspension of the race. ”

"But the rewards of these challenges are also great." Zhang Chenlin said, "American alpine skier and winter Olympics double-time winner Mikaela Shivlin made a mistake in the first round of the alpine skiing women's slalom competition, and was upset and early. That was the first time my colleagues and I tried to slide down the track to the point, and I just happened to shoot this scene. ”

"Skiing also makes journalists more empathetic to athletes and more understanding of these highly specialized and skillful sports." Lu Xingji said, "In the face of Su Yiming's controversial judgment of 'being given a low score', I interpreted it from the perspective of the official competition rules of the International Snow Federation; I also wrote a reasonable and well-founded response report on the foreign media smearing our artificial snow as unenvironmental and unsafe, which is also my little proud work." ”

"Once you go up the snowy mountain, it is several hours, and during the day it is basically supported by that breakfast, and at lunch, you often hand me a piece of chocolate and I hand you a bag of beef jerky." But—" Yin said, "European and American journalists who are used to skiing interviews, seeing our Chinese-faced counterparts gliding freely on the slopes, will give us a thumbs up and lean over to chat with us." At this moment, we felt that outside the arena, we also vaguely set a benchmark. (Reporter Wang Ruochen)

Source/ Xinhua Daily Telegraph

Editor/Ma Xiaoyan