The picture shows Zhao Dan. Courtesy of Hohhot Municipal Government
Communication: Interview with Zhao Dan, flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics: "I give myself a 6-point score for the performance of the Winter Olympics"
China News Network Hohhot, February 21 Title: Interview with Zhao Dan, flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games: "I give myself 6 points for the performance of the Winter Olympics"
China News Network reporter Li Aiping
Zhao Dan, who is quarantined in Yanqing, Beijing, spoke to a China News Agency reporter on the phone on February 21 about her performance at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and she seriously scored herself 6 points.
The Chinese steel frame snowmobile athlete from Hohhot, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, saved the remaining four points for the next Winter Olympics in Milan. She expects to achieve better results in the next 4 years.
At this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhao Dan is an athlete who has received more media attention. On the evening of February 4, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was held, and as the female flag bearer of the Chinese delegation, she calmly walked through the scene.
Later, Zhao Dan said on Weibo: "Participating in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics as a flag bearer is a moment I will never forget in my life. ”
Zhao Dan recalled: "After entering the rhythm of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the special honor of the flag bearer will be cherished in his heart, and next, he must focus on the later games." ”
Zhao Dan, who entered the Chinese steel frame snow team in October 2018, is also the youngest athlete in the Chinese national team.
Time flies, in the past few years, Zhao Dan has gradually tasted the excitement and happiness of this sport from the initial strangeness and surprise of the steel frame snowmobile.
Foreign coach Patrick Shannon commented that Zhao Dan "has good physical condition and clear mind, and her sliding skills have always been stable, which has helped her adapt to different tracks".
Obviously, the evaluation of foreign coaches has given Zhao Dan confidence and strength in this sport, and also made her show a different talent.
In the domestic selection competition of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, she won the first place in four slides in both competitions, and finally entered the Beijing Winter Olympics with the first overall score.
Zhao Dan officially entered the Beijing Winter Olympics on the morning of February 11.
This day is also the debut of Chinese women's steel frame snowmobile athletes in the winter Olympics steel frame snowmobile event. After the first two rounds, Zhao Dan ranked 4th in total results.
On the evening of February 12, the women's steel frame snowmobile ushered in the last two rounds of competition.
In the 3rd round of slide, Zhao Dan ranked 9th with a time of 1:02.53, and slid out of 1:02.33 in the 4th round. Zhao Dan, who had a total score of 4:09.52 in the four rounds, ranked 9th, and another Chinese player, Li Yuxi, ranked 14th with a total score of 4:10.59.
According to the Inner Mongolia Sports Bureau, steel frame snowmobile sports in Europe and the United States have been carried out for more than a hundred years, China only began to form a steel frame snowmobile national team in October 2015, due to the lack of training venues, athletes usually summer in the domestic simulation training, winter to train abroad.
Analysts said that this year's Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese female athletes not only completed the debut of the winter Olympics steel frame snowmobile project, in a sense also created history.
"In the next 4 years, what I have to do is how to narrow the gap with the top international players."
Zhao Dan hopes to bloom his best self at the Milan Winter Olympics, which is why he scored 6 points at the Winter Olympics on his doorstep.
"The spirit of sportsmanship is to fight and win glory for the country." In the next 4 years, Zhao Dan will still chase his dream accompanied by a steel frame snowmobile. (End)