As of 19:00 today, the Chinese team ranked 6th in the medal table of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics with a score of 8 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze, breaking the two records of the number of gold medals and medals won in a single Winter Olympics, creating the best record in history.
In this event, the Chinese sports delegation achieved 7 major events and 15 sub-events to participate in the whole project, and while continuing to maintain its advantage in traditional strengths, it also achieved a "breakthrough of zero" in 35 minor events.
With the Beijing Winter Olympics going in full swing, more events have ushered in the historic debut of Chinese athletes. The Chinese delegation has achieved "zero breakthroughs" in 35 events in Beijing.
Zhao Jiawen: "Micro fire" lights up the micro fire
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On February 17, the last game of nordic biathlon at the Beijing Winter Olympics was held. The Chinese team, composed of four post-00s athletes Zhao Zihe, Zhao Jiawen, Guo Yuhao and Fan Haibin, finally finished the competition with a tenth place result, and Zhao Jiawen officially ended his first trip to the Winter Olympics.
Zhao Jiawen is the first Nordic biathlete in mainland China to qualify for the Winter Olympics – last November, Zhao Jiawen finished 22nd in the Intercontinental Cup men's individual standard platform + 10 km cross-country skiing competition in Russia's Nizhny Tagil, locking in a winter Olympic seat.
Since the start of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhao Jiawen has also represented the Chinese team in the Nordic biathlon individual ski jumping standard platform/10 km cross-country and individual big jump/10 km cross-country skiing competition, ranking 43rd and 47th respectively.
At the opening ceremony, Zhao Jiawen, as one of the last torchbearers, put the small torch in his hand into the main torch platform. In a sense, Zhao Jiawen and his teammates are also like that little throbbing flame, which will one day become a burning trend.
"Maybe not today, not tomorrow, maybe not next month, but I'm definitely going to be the champion, I'm going to be wearing the national flag and playing the national anthem." Zhao Jiawen said this after completing the Nordic team competition.
The final Nordic combined event of the Beijing Winter Olympics was held on February 17. The Chinese team, composed of Zhao Zihe, Zhao Jiawen, Guo Yuhao and Fan Haibin, finished 10th.
Zhao Jiawen is the first Chinese athlete to compete in Nordic combined at the Beijing Winter Games. He did enough at a qualifying event in Russia to earn a place in the ongoing Olympics.
Zhao Dan: Female standard-bearer who crossed the project
On the evening of February 12, Zhao Dan, the female flag bearer of the Chinese sports delegation, ranked 9th in 4:09.52 in the women's steel frame snowmobile event at the Beijing Winter Olympics; another Chinese player, Li Yuxi, was 14th in 4:10.59.
This is the first time that a Chinese female steel frame snowmobile athlete has participated in the Winter Olympics, achieving a breakthrough in the project.
The Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team was established in 2015, which is quite far from the traditional strong teams such as Germany and Hungary, and even nearly 100 years later than Germany. Due to the short development time, lack of experience and talent reserves, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team can only select athletes from other projects in the mode of "digging the wall foot".
Zhao Dan, 19 years old this year, joined the China Steel Frame Snowmobile National Training Team in 2018 through the cross-border cross-item material selection policy. Previously, she was a triple jumper in the Inner Mongolia Hohhot Athletics Team. Her teammate, Li Yuxi, born in 1998, had previously studied hurdles at the Athletic Sports School affiliated with the Chengdu Sports Academy.
The steel frame snowmobile is one of the three sliding sports of the Winter Olympic Games, and the athletes need to lean over and stick to the steel frame snowmobile to glide at an extremely high speed, with an average sliding speed of up to 130 km / h, and the risk factor is extremely high.
Chinese flag-bearer Zhao Dan ranked 9th in the women's skeleton event at the Beijing Winter Olympic Games in 4:09.52 on Feb 12, while Li Yuxi ranked 14th in 4:10.59.
The development of the sport is at an early stage, and many people in China believe it's too dangerous for the general public. But skeleton riders Zhao Dan and Li Yuxi, who have just made their debut at the Winter Olympics, think otherwise.
"I think after such a long time training and preparing for this, Li Yuxi and I would really like the world and more in China to know about the skeleton and come to join us," Zhao said. "Skeleton might look dangerous, but it's actually very fun and thrilling. So I hope those risk-takers come to join us."
Chinese Bobsleigh Team: First time to participate, all finished
The competition in the bobsleigh event of the Beijing Winter Olympics has all been concluded a few days ago, and the Chinese bobsleigh team has handed over a valuable report card: the men's single bobsleigh won 24th place, the women's single bobsleigh won 29th place, the double bobsleigh won 17th place, and the team relay event won 12th place.
Although it did not qualify for the podium, the Chinese bobsleigh team qualified for the beijing Winter Olympics and successfully completed the race in all 4 sub-events, obtaining effective results. For this young team, which was only established after the success of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the average age of the four participants is less than 23 years old, and it is not easy to come by in the 2017 season.
IOC President Bach congratulated the Chinese team as soon as possible after the bobsleigh event and encouraged them to continue to maintain their good form, agreeing to see Milan in four years.
The Olympic luge events have come to a close in Yanqing, with Germany bagging gold in all four events. China has also broken new ground with its first Olympic luger.
While China is still lagging far behind Germany in luge, there's no denying that reasonable progress has been achieved over the past few years.
In addition, there are Xu Mingfu and Zhang Yangming, who started the first chinese athletes to participate in the winter Olympics downhill competition, Yan Wengang, who won the bronze medal of the men's steel frame snowmobile on the Olympic stage for the first time, Yang Qinglam, who accidentally withdrew from the snowboard women's steeplechase due to injury, and Feng He, who came off the bench...
Perhaps in many first-time competitions, we can't see Chinese athletes lifting the "golden pier", and even sometimes it is difficult to complete the competition. But every small step taken by Chinese athletes in these events may converge into a big step in the development of Ice and Snow Sports in China.
Admittedly, Chinese athletes are still far behind the world's best in some "niche" winter sports. But every small step taken by Chinese athletes in these events may add up to a giant leap in the development of winter sports in China.