From October 21 to 24, the first leg of the 2021-2022 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup will be held in Beijing, which is also a test match for the Beijing Winter Olympics, and Winter Olympic champion Wu Dajing will lead 12 Chinese players to participate.
They are female team members: Fan Kexin, Guo Yihan, Han Yutong, Qu Chunyu, Xu Aili, Zhang Yuting; male team members: An Kai, Li Wenlong, Ren Ziwei, Sun Long, Wu Dajing, Yu Songnan.
On October 16th, the new season departure ceremony of the short track speed skating national team was held at the Winter Training Center of Shougang Park in Beijing, and the whole team collectively solemnly swore an oath to the national flag: "Carry forward the spirit of sportsmanship, abide by the rules of the competition, obey the referee, respect the opponent, unite and cooperate, implement the order, live up to the mission, dare to fight and win!" ”
Ni Huizhong, director of the Winter Games Center, said that the lineup of the World Cup is not the final lineup of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the Chinese sports delegation opens the door for every athlete who can fight well and has a good style.
In a large group photo of the national team officially announced, we saw the figure of former South Korean star and Pyeongchang Winter Olympics men's 1500m gold medalist Lim Hyo-joon. This is Lin Xiaojun's first public appearance on the team of the Chinese national team after naturalizing in China.
However, Lin Xiaojun's debut for China is not yet known. According to the regulations, players who want to change their nationality must play with the new nationality after three years of representing the previous country. Lim Hyo Joon last competed for South Korea in March 2019. Therefore, at the Beijing Winter Olympics next February, we should not see him.
In addition, the head coach of the new Chinese short track team is The South Korean Kim Sun-tae, who is the head coach of the South Korean national team in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Cycle, who has coached and lived in China for many years and is proficient in Chinese. Korean-Russian star Victor Ahn (Ahn Hyun-so) is a technical coach on the Chinese team who has won six Winter Olympic gold medals for South Korea and Russia. In the large group photo above, Kim Sun-tae and Victor-Ahn also appeared, fifth from the right in the second row and fourth from the right in the second row, respectively.