Qilu Network Lightning News on February 23, Shandong TV Sports Channel news, Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games will open on March 4. Of the 18 athletes from the Chinese ice hockey team who participated in the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, nine were from Shandong. They will also show their Shandong strength in the Winter Paralympic Games.
Known as the "Brave Game", the ice hockey tournament is a strong confrontation event, due to the rapid change of offensive and defensive rhythms, making the ice hockey game very enjoyable. In 2015, after the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games, the mainland Paralympic ice hockey program started from scratch. In September 2017, the China Disabled Persons' Federation, Qingdao Municipal People's Government, Shandong Provincial Disabled Persons' Federation signed a co-construction agreement with the National Paralympic Ice Hockey Team, and the Chinese Paralympic Ice Hockey Team was officially established in Qingdao. Since its inception, the Chinese Paralympic Ice Hockey Team has risen rapidly at an astonishing speed, selecting high-level athletes through many national championships and training camps, and implementing dynamic management and survival of the fittest. In just three years, the Chinese Paralympic ice hockey team has become one of the world's top teams.
According to the Shandong TV Sports Channel reporter, the ice hockey project of the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games will have 8 teams participating in the competition. The competition is divided into preliminary rounds, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals. According to the latest format of the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games, the event will adopt a new group model, that is, according to the existing international rankings of the 8 participating teams, they will be divided into two groups A (1, 2, 3, 4) and B (5, 6, 7, 8), each group will play a single round-robin group stage, the top two in Group A will directly enter the semi-finals, and the last two in Group B will be directly eliminated; the rest of the teams will be in the quarterfinals. In the semi-finals, a cross-elimination round is held, with the winner advancing to the final, the winner and the runner-up, and the loser finishing third and fourth. After fierce competition in Group A and Group B of the 2021 World Championships, eight teams from the United States, Canada, Russia, South Korea, the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia and China finally won the ticket to the Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games.
Wang Jianbin, deputy leader of the Chinese Paralympic ice hockey team, told Shandong TV Sports Channel reporter, "The Chinese Paralympic ice hockey team will usher in its first match on March 5, against Slovakia. At present, the team members are actively preparing for the national para ice sports competition training hall in Beijing's Shunyi District, and they will sit on the ice sled to chase their Olympic dreams. ”
Shandong TV Sports Channel Zhang Wei