Zhao Jiawen stood on the Nordic biathlon field of the Winter Olympics. @Xinhua News Agency
Gu Ailing freestyle skiing "phi gold and silver". @Xinhua News Agency
Yan Wengang steel frame snowmobile picking copper. @Xinhua News Agency
The Chinese men's ice hockey team competes with the world's strongest teams. @Xinhua News Agency
Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Zhang Zhe
Due to the postponement of the alpine skiing mixed team competition to today due to weather reasons, the record of the 35 sub-events that the Chinese delegation debuted at the Beijing Winter Olympics will be written on the last day of the Beijing Winter Olympics. However, at this Winter Olympic Games, the Chinese delegation not only created the best record in history, but also achieved the feat of "participating in all 7 major events and 15 sub-events", and won a total of 104 minor events and 194 seats, constituting the largest and most complete Chinese Winter Olympic Legion in history. Among them, the Chinese delegation achieved a "zero breakthrough" in 35 small events, becoming a "new force" in China's ice and snow "leapfrog development".
All-discipline participation shows "leapfrog development"
42 years ago, at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics in the United States, the Chinese Olympic Committee sent teams to participate in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time. At that time, China's ice and snow sports were not yet popular, and in the end, Chinese athletes only participated in 18 small events, and none of them entered the top six. In the past 42 years, generations of Chinese ice and snow athletes have made unremitting efforts to change the status of China's ice and snow in the Winter Olympic Games.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation sent 177 athletes to participate in the competition, and completed all 7 major events and 15 sub-events. In the first half of this Winter Olympic Games, China's ice and snow created the "first" or "best" in the history of Olympic participation in many sports, especially in snow sports.
Among the 15 sub-events, the Chinese delegation qualified for a total of 104 sub-events. Only five sub-events were not available in the four sub-disciplines of speed skating, freestyle skiing, snowboarding, and biathlon.
The Chinese delegation did not participate for the first time in all the sub-events of cross-country skiing, curling and figure skating, while 35 of the other 12 sub-events were participating for the first time. Among the 35 sub-events that participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, the Chinese team won a total of 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals, and 34 people (teams) won the 4th to 50th places, and the overall performance exceeded expectations.
According to the above data, we can basically find out the "family bottom" of China's ice and snow competition strength. Through the winter Olympic games, the Chinese ice and snowmen not only showed the world the results of leapfrog development, but also reflected their courage to fearlessly explore in the process of making up for shortcomings.
Two sub-fills
China's ice and snow Winter Olympics blank
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation participated in the Nordic blethlon and bobsleigh for the first time, filling the last two gaps in order to achieve "all-sports participation".
At the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics, the last male athlete to light the torch was Zhao Jiawen, a 20-year-old Heilongjiang boy, who was the first Chinese to participate in the Nordic biathlon of the Winter Olympics.
The Nordic biathlon is considered one of the most difficult snow sports, requiring both athletes to be able to ski cross-country over a certain distance and excellent body control and jumping ability. Nordic biathlon developed late in China, and the Chinese Nordic biathlon national training team was only established in June 2018. Most of the selected athletes, including Zhao Jiawen, have transferred from cross-country skiing and have a weak level of ski jumping. Ski jumpers need to jump from the jumping platform with a gap of more than 100 meters, which is almost an impossible task for Zhao Jiawen, who only received cross-country skiing training at that time. However, with the encouragement of his mother, Zhao Jiawen finally completed this challenge and represented China in a historic way to qualify for all the minor events of the Nordic biathlon at the Winter Olympics.
At this Winter Olympics, Zhao Jiawen not only participated in all three events in the Nordic biathlon, but also in the mixed team jumping event of ski jumping, and finally he completed all of them. Zhao Jiawen's ability to stand on the Nordic biathlon field at the Winter Olympics has been a major step forward in China's ice and snow sports.
Sledding used to be an underdog in China, not only starting late, but also lacking professional track training. In 2015, China formed its first national bobsleigh team, and not only did the athletes come across disciplines, but peng Junyue from Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, did not even see snow before practicing sledding. After more than 6 years, the Chinese bobsleigh team has made great progress in hard training and competition. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese bobsleigh team qualified for all 4 minor events. The completion of China's first bobsleigh track in Beijing's Yanqing District has also filled the gap in China's lack of professional tracks, further driving the popularity of bobsleigh sports in China.
Challenge yourself
To be able to finish is to win
Ski jumping and alpine skiing are the two most courageous sub-disciplines in skiing. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation's historic qualification for all the minor events in these two sub-events is undoubtedly a huge step forward.
In the past, the Chinese team has only participated in ski jumping competitions at the Winter Olympics. This time, the three Chinese team athletes Song Qiwu, Dong Bing and Peng Qingyue, who participated in the individual event of male and female ski jumping, all participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time. In just two years, the 18-year-old Song Qiwu has fallen in love with the feeling of "flying".
In addition, the National Ski Jumping Training and Research Base has built the world's largest and most complete ski jumping laboratory wind tunnel, which can simulate a variety of training scenarios, and the wind tunnel is only 500 meters away from the platform, which can realize the real-time switching of actions. With the blessing of high-tech means, the training quality and performance of athletes can be improved more quickly.
Alpine skiing is known as the "crown jewel" of the Winter Olympics, and athletes have to rush down from the top of the mountain at a speed of nearly 140 kilometers per hour. In the past, Chinese athletes only participated in the technical slalom and big slalom competitions at the Winter Olympics, and never appeared in the speed class of downhill and super slalom competitions. In 2017, the Chinese alpine ski team set up a downhill and super giant slalom program, and since then it has been undergoing life-challenging and arduous training in foreign countries for a long time, especially driven by Xu Mingfu and Kong Fanying, the Chinese alpine ski team successfully qualified for all 11 sub-events of the Winter Olympics. In the face of the "XueFeiyan", a 3-kilometer-long track with a vertical drop of 893 meters, China's female athlete Kong Fanying successfully completed all 5 individual events.
Surmount
Weaknesses improve significantly
China's cross-country skiing foundation is weak. In order to achieve the goal of participating in all small events in a single Winter Olympics, the Chinese cross-country skiing team has adopted a variety of means and made significant progress in a relatively short period of time. The Chinese cross-country skiing team has athletes from 14 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions who have switched from middle distance running, cycling, marathon, sanda, rowing and other sports. The foreign coaching team comes from Russia, Finland, Estonia, Germany and other countries, and the whole team has always been full of unity and harmony in the preparation cycle of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
After hard work, the Level of the Chinese Cross-Country SkiIng Team has continued to improve in the long-distance events, especially in the men's 50 km and women's 30 km events, and has achieved breakthroughs, and has qualified for all the small events. The Altay region of Xinjiang is considered the "origin of human skiing", and the female member of the Chinese cross-country skiing team from the region, Diniger Yilamujiang, is also a female athlete who served as a torchbearer with Zhao Jiawen at the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is a compliment to the progress of cross-country skiing in China.
The Chinese men's ice hockey team, formed in 2016, is the youngest team in the winter olympic hockey competition. From a "small white" team to the first time to participate in the Winter Olympics to compete with the world's top teams, the young Chinese men's ice hockey team has a tenacious spirit and achieved the record of scoring for the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics.
While the Chinese bobsleigh team completed the record of participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, the weak project of the Chinese steel frame bobsleigh also made an exciting breakthrough in this Winter Olympics. Yan Wengang won a record bronze medal in the men's singles event, and Zhao Dan finished 9th in the women's individual event.
Multiple new projects
Debut is the pinnacle
At this Winter Olympics, there are a total of 7 new sub-events, namely: short track speed skating mixed team relay, ski jump mixed team, freestyle ski women's big jump and men's big jump, freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team, snowboard obstacle course chase mixed team and women's single snowmobile.
In the short track speed skating mixed group relay, the Chinese team composed of Qu Chunyu, Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei won the first gold for the Chinese delegation, which opened the first cannon for the great harvest of the Chinese Ice and Snow Army in this Winter Olympic Games.
In the freestyle ski women's big jump event, Gu Ailing won a gold medal by surprise. In the freestyle ski aerial skills mixed team competition, the Chinese team won silver and showed super strength.
In these 7 new sub-events, the Chinese team won a total of 2 gold and 1 silver, and a number of post-00s new stars and "four dynasties elders" jointly composed the moving music of Chinese ice and snow athletes.
There is no doubt that the Chinese team has driven the good development of these new projects in the future through this Winter Olympic Games. For example, the Chinese freestyle ski team has participated in as many as 7 minor events for the first time at this Winter Olympics. In addition to Gu Ailing's stunning performance, Zhao Yang became the first Chinese athlete to stand on the winter Olympic freestyle skiing men's snow skill field; He Jinbo, as the first male athlete in China to be shortlisted for the winter Olympic freestyle ski jumping competition, completed the highest personal difficulty action of 1800 deflection bodies in two weeks.
As for snowboarding, the Chinese team also participated in as many as 6 minor events for the first time in this Winter Olympics. Su Yiming's birth has completely rewritten the history of the monopoly of gold medals in this project by European and American athletes, and more young people will fall in love with the sport in the future.
Take every small step
It will converge into one big step
In the process of the Chinese delegation's full participation in the Winter Olympic Games, China's ice and snow sports have also continued to "expand from the south to the west and east", realizing the rapid improvement of the level of ice and snow projects and the substantial expansion of the ice and snow sports territory.
According to Ni Huizhong, secretary general of the Chinese delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the 177 athletes participating in the competition came from 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, covering the area from Heilongjiang Province in the north, to Guangdong Province in the south, shanghai in the east, and to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in the west.
"These athletes are the 'tinder', they will become the basic force for provinces, autonomous regions and cities to participate in the National Games, become future coaches, managers, and drive more people to participate in ice and snow sports." Ni Huizhong said, "In addition, among the domestic technical officials of the Beijing Winter Olympics, there are a large number of athletes and staff who have participated in the early ice and snow training, and they are also 'tinder'." These people will make the foundation of the development of ice and snow sports in our country deeper, and make the participation in ice and snow sports more extensive. ”
Although in some of the "niche" events of the Winter Olympics, Chinese athletes do not have the strength to compete for medals, and even have a big gap with the world's top level, as Ni Huizhong said, every small step taken by Chinese athletes in these sports will converge into a big step in the development of China's ice and snow sports.
Source: Guangzhou Daily