On the evening of March 29 and March 28, Beijing time, the Chinese national short track speed skating team was confirmed by the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport and officially announced its decision to withdraw from the short track speed skating World Championships to be held in Canada in April. This means that the Chinese short track speed skating team will lose a chance to participate in the World Series, which has a great impact on many athletes. Regarding the reasons for the withdrawal from the World Championships, the official mainly said: Considering that the national team does not have a head coach at present, and the epidemic situation is still severe, plus the athletes (after experiencing the Winter Olympics) need a period of adjustment, it is decided to withdraw from this season's World Championships.
Previously, due to the impact of the epidemic, after consultation between the International Skating Federation and the Canadian Skating Association, the Short Track Speed Skating World Championships scheduled for March 18-22, 2022 in Montreal, Canada, were postponed to April 8-10. But I didn't expect that the postponed World Championship Chinese team could not participate, because it directly chose to withdraw.
During the Winter Olympics, many coaches of the Chinese team left, including Russian coach An Hyun-so, who won 6 gold medals in the Olympic Games, but the Chinese team did not complete the renewal of the contract with An Hyun-so.
At this stage, the Chinese short track speed skating team is in a period of continuous development, the newly joined Lin Xiaoyu has the strength to impact the world championship, after 2 years finally obtained the qualification to represent the Chinese team, this time it did not have the opportunity to participate in the World Championships, and Han Tianyu, who did not qualify for the Winter Olympics because of injury, is just as strong, and the outside world is full of expectations for the new combination of Chinese short track speed skating. But now, the Chinese team has officially announced its retirement.
It is worth mentioning that the Chinese team chose not to participate in the World Championships, which has the greatest impact on veteran Wu Dajing, you know, during the previous participation in the Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing said that he did not know whether he would participate in the World Series in the future, although the follow-up Wu Dajing changed his mouth and said that he still wanted to continue to slide. But considering that Wu Dajing is about to turn 28 years old, it is unknown whether he missed the World Championships this time and whether he will have the opportunity to participate in the World Series next time. Years are always merciless for athletes, and the missing of an important race may be the end of a veteran's farewell to the field.
Of course, the General Administration of Sport, out of the health of athletes, does not want athletes to risk their lives is understandable, in addition, China's short track speed skating to compete in the Winter Olympics does take a lot of energy, and it is reasonable to need more time to adjust. In the future, I hope that the epidemic control overseas can be better, so that more Chinese sports athletes can participate in the competition normally, after all, the training of every athlete is for the competition, without the competition, the training of athletes is meaningless.
(Lin Xiaoxiang)