The 2022 ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships will be held in Montreal, Canada, from April 8 to 10. After the Chinese short track speed skating team ended the competition and isolation of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and other main players were in a state of vacation, and there has been no news of training and preparation.
On the evening of March 28, the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport determined that the Chinese team withdrew from this year's short track speed skating World Championships. There are three main reasons, one is that the national team currently has no head coach, the second is that the epidemic is severe, and the third is that athletes need to adjust.
The Chinese short track speed skating team achieved a good result of 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at the Beijing Winter Olympics last month. After the game, head coach Kim Sun-tae and technical coach Ahn Hyun-so both returned to South Korea to reunite with their long-departed family. Whether they will renew their contract with the Chinese team in the future is still unknown. And if the contract is not renewed, who will lead the Chinese short track team to the 2026 Winter Olympics?
Fan Kexin and Kim Sun-tae
As for the epidemic, the current epidemic prevention situation abroad is grim, and some players of the Chinese badminton team who have just competed in the full British Open have contracted the new crown, and the whole team has collectively withdrawn from the subsequent Swiss Open Badminton Championships. After resting in place, the team members went to a training camp in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to prepare for the Toyo Cup in May.
In addition to the short track speed skating team, the Chinese figure skating team did not participate in this year's World Championships, and finally the Japanese athletes won the men's and women's singles championships, and the American combination won the pair skating; China also withdrew from this year's mixed doubles curling world championships due to the epidemic (held in Geneva, Switzerland on April 23-30).
It is worth mentioning that former South Korean short track speed skating winter olympic champion and now Chinese short track team player Lin Xiaoyuan can represent the Chinese national team after March 10 this year. Now that the Chinese team is absent from the World Championships, Lin Xiaoyuan's debut for China can only be postponed, and the earliest will have to wait until the new season of the short track speed skating World Cup that starts in October this year.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, Lin Xiaoquan once posted a message calling out to his Chinese teammates: "Wait for me! Wait for me to come back! I'm going to fight alongside you!" ”