Some time ago, did you get swept by this handsome Chinese player with glasses?
Chinese player - Ling Zhi
You may have seen a picture of this player, but you don't know the project he is participating in. Today we will introduce the Sven-wen-looking handsome athlete with glasses participating in the Winter Olympics project - curling.
Project Introduction
Curling, also known as ice skating, is a more figurative name, which is a competition to skate "stones" on ice.
Curling is a team competition with 4 players per team. It is known as "chess" on ice. When you hear chess, do you think curling is a mental game? In fact, it is not, it tests the brain power of the players at the same time, but also requires the players to have very good physical fitness.
Curling shows the beauty of movement and the wisdom of trade-offs. It made its first appearance at the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics and became a Winter Olympic event.
Venue Introduction
The curling competition venue is 44.5 meters long and 4.32 meters wide. When watching a curling competition, the players can often be heard shouting very loudly. Because the venue is too large, the communication between the team members basically relies on shouting.
One end of the ice track depicts a circle with a diameter of 1.83 meters as a player's tee zone, known as home runs. The other end of the ice track is also painted with a circle called a camp.
With the center point as the center of the circle, draw a concentric circle with a radius of 0.15 meters, 0.61 meters, 1.22 meters and 1.83 meters to the outside, and paint the two circles between the faces blue and the two circles inside red.
Contest Rules
When playing, each match is played against two teams. The match played a total of 10 rounds. When a team member pushes the curling out at one end of the track, two members of the team hold brushes in front of the curling slide, and quickly wipe the ice surface left and right so that the curling can accurately reach the center of the camp. Isn't it a bit like the pinball game I played when I was a kid?
Finally, when the players of both sides have finished throwing all the curling, the curling on the field is determined by the distance from the center of the camp, and the team with more points wins by 1 point per stone.
The state of the war in China
Although the curling project is still relatively young in the mainland, the results achieved are still very good! The Chinese women's curling team was only established in 2003, but won the 2009 Women's Curling World Championships! The best result in Chinese men's curling history was fourth place at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Curlers have a future to come!