On February 20, 2022, the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, on the gold medal list, in addition to Norway's uniqueness, many people found that they did not see Germany blossom in various sports, how well it performed, why did it rank second in the gold medal list?
Take a closer look, 10 bobsleigh gold medals, Germany won 9, 10 gold medals, 4 snowmobile projects, 4 bobsleigh projects, 2 steel frame snowmobile projects, in addition to letting the United States take away a women's single snowmobile, other Germans have taken away.
In fact, most of the German silver and bronze medals were also won by sleigh cars, so why is the German project so great?
The reason for the strength of this project in Germany has a lot to do with the importance of young people, many German children have joined the bobsleigh club since childhood, and many parents are willing to let their children participate in this project because they want to exercise their will.
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In 1889, Germany gave birth to the world's first bobsleigh club, there are hundreds of bobsleigh clubs throughout Germany, many schools also have bobsleigh courses, these clubs are like football clubs, establish contact with schools, find good seedlings from them, and finally through layers of selection uninterrupted talent. The head coach of the German team, Locke, said of the training of young people to engage in the sport: "German bobsleigh athletes have been exposed to this sport very early, the youngest is four or five years old, and some are also seven or eight years old. There are many famous circuits in Germany, and the level of domestic competition is also very high. Of course, there are equally good athletes in many European countries who have come to prominence through youth competitions. "The sport is particularly popular and developed in Bavaria, southern Germany, where many children play bobsleigh from an early age because of traditional customs and the love of their parents. Moreover, from the perspective of school education, German schools also offer bobsleigh courses, which makes the sport more popular, and in the process, if good seedlings are found, they will be sent to some elite schools of winter sports to train.
There will be many ways out for teenagers in the future, some can train and participate in various competitions while going to school, some can enter professional clubs, some can also enter the bobsleigh bases of institutions such as the German Bundeswehr, and some can engage in other occupations and maintain a certain intensity of training. Locke said that in any sport, as a grassroots coach, you must cultivate your children's interest in the sport from an early age, rather than training them with coercion, and only after they love the sport will they really engage in the sport. Germany has good track hardware, which allows them to train and race from big to small. However, it is essential that Germany has good scientific and technological support. BMW, for example, has given strong support to this project, and in 1996 they used a lot of black technology from racing cars for this project, and also established a new bobsleigh academy (BMW-Rodel-Akademie), with several experts specializing in research and optimization. Among them, BMW engineer Julian von Schleinitz is very well-known, because he himself was a junior world champion in bobsleigh competitions, so the application of sports + technology is most suitable for him.
Steel frame snowmobile
The gritty character of the Germans is inseparable from their love of the sport. Although many people are injured when they are young, they become stronger after recovering from injuries.