Ice and snow advancing together are broad Interpretation of the Chinese delegation's Beijing Winter Olympics 9 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze

9 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze, this is the report card handed over by Chinese athletes at the Beijing Winter Olympics. It reverses the Chinese team's previous "ice strong and snow weak" situation in the Winter Olympics, it also includes a series of gold medals and medal breakthroughs, but while making great progress compared with itself, it should also be noted that the overall strength of China's ice and snow sports is still in the previous range, and there is still a broad space for improvement in the future.

Gold medals on the snow burst Bright spots on the ice

Nine gold medals put The Chinese team in third place in the gold medal list of the Beijing Winter Olympics, surpassing the previous Chinese team's highest position in the Gold Medal List of the Winter Olympics , the seventh place in 2010. This was first of all due to the excellent performance of the Chinese team in the snow sports competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Of the nine gold medals, five were in the snow event, surpassing the ice event for the first time.

Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, "ice is strong and snow is weak" has always been a label for China's ice and snow sports. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, China's first Winter Olympic gold medal was born on ice. Since then, before the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team has won a total of 13 gold medals in the five Winter Olympic Games, but only one gold medal in snow sports.

But at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the situation was completely reversed. He has brought the first snow gold of the Winter Olympics to China, and has always been the freestyle skiing aerial skill project of the Chinese team's winter Olympics snow rushing gold point, and this time contributed two gold medals in individual events. In addition, the Chinese team also won the freestyle ski women's U-shaped track skill, the women's big jump two championships and the snowboard men's big jump championship. It cannot be mentioned that three of the four silver medals won by the Chinese team at the Beijing Winter Olympics were also from snow, namely the mixed team of freestyle skiing aerial skills, the women's slope obstacle course and the slope obstacle course of snowboarding. Counting these 3 silver medals, the number of medals on Chinese snow also surpassed the ice with 8 to 7, and the color of 5 gold and 3 silver was obviously higher than that of 4 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze on ice.

However, the Chinese team was able to jump from the sixteenth place in the previous gold medal list to the third place in this year, and the ice project was also indispensable. Short-track speed skating, figure skating and speed skating are all events in which the Chinese team has won gold medals in the previous Winter Olympics, but all three events have won gold medals in one Olympic Games, and the Beijing Winter Olympics is the only one.

The core players are dazzling, and many breakthroughs have been achieved

Since 2002 until the last edition, the Chinese team has made a breakthrough in gold medals at every Winter Olympics. In 2002, Yang Yang's short track speed skating women's 500 meters opened the gold medal account of the Chinese team at the Winter Olympics; in 2006, Han Xiaopeng won the first gold medal in the winter olympics for China in the freestyle ski men's aerial skills event; 2010 was the commanding height of China's gold medals and medal counts at the Winter Olympics, when the Chinese short track speed skating team won all four gold medals in women's events under the leadership of Wang Mao, and Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the first gold medal in figure skating for China In 2014, Zhang Hong won China's first Winter Olympic gold medal in speed skating in the 1000 meters event, and in 2018, Wu Dajing won the first gold medal in the Chinese men's short track speed skating at the 500 meters.

At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team also achieved gold medals or medal breakthroughs in many sports by virtue of the performance of core athletes. For example, in the freestyle ski women's aerial skills project, the Chinese team's previous record in this project was 5 silver and 2 bronze, and it had never won a gold medal, and this time Xu Mengtao jumped to realize the dream. She also joined hands with Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu to win the silver medal in the newly added project, the Aerial Skills Mixed Group, which was also a breakthrough. Each medal won by Gu Ailing and Su Yiming this year is a breakthrough in the Chinese team's Winter Olympics program. This includes three gold medals in the women's U-shaped track skill for freestyle skiing, three gold medals for the women's big jump and the men's big jump for snowboard, and two silver medals for the women's slope obstacle course and the snowboard men's slope obstacle course. In addition, Gao Tingyu's speed skating men's 500m champion, Ren Ziwei's short track speed skating men's 1000m champion and his teammates won the newly added mixed project relay champion, which has never won a gold medal in the Winter Olympics before. Then there is Yan Wengang, whose bronze medal is China's first medal in the winter Olympics steel frame snowmobile event.

The vertical ratio has broken sharply The horizontal ratio has broad prospects

China's first participation in the Winter Olympic Games was in Lake Placid in 1980, and 12 years later, at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, Ye Qiaobo achieved zero breakthroughs in medals for the Chinese team. At that Winter Olympics, the Chinese team won 3 silver medals. After that, before the Beijing Winter Olympics, the medals won by the Chinese team in each Winter Olympic Games were 1 silver and 2 bronze in 1994, 6 silver and 2 bronze in 1998, 2 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze in 2002, 2 gold, 4 silver and 5 bronze in 2006, 5 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze in 2010, 3 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze in 2014, and 1 gold, 6 silver and 2 bronze in 2018. It is not difficult to see that the 9 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze achieved by the Chinese team at the Beijing Winter Olympics have made a significant breakthrough compared with themselves in terms of the number of gold medals and medals.

However, if the total number of medals of the Chinese team at the Winter Olympics since 1992 is listed, the situation is as follows: 15th in 1992, 16th in 1994, 12th in 1998, 11th in 2002, 11th in 2006, 8th in 2010, 11th in 2014, 14th in 2018, and 11th in 2022. Compared with before, the Chinese team's position in the medal table of the Beijing Winter Olympics did not reach a new high. This shows that on the big stage of the Winter Olympics, the overall strength of the Chinese team is still in the original range. To understand this problem, we may wish to take the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, where the Chinese team achieved a gold medal breakthrough, as an example. A total of 78 events were set up at that Winter Olympics, but 20 years later, the Beijing Winter Olympics, the number of competitions has expanded to 109. Therefore, although the gold medal performance and medal performance of the Chinese team in the Winter Olympics have improved greatly compared with themselves, there are still large pieces of virgin land that need to be reclaimed compared to the ever-evolving world ice and snow sports.