Today, the Chinese short track speed skating team announced the list of athletes who will compete in several short track speed skating World Cups, and Wu Dajing, Fan Kexin and other famous players are all listed.
However, the relevant news about naturalized player Lim Hyo Joon has not yet given a response, and the recent appearance of coaches Kim Sun-tae and Ahn Hyun-so, two members of the Chinese coaching team, has been questioned.
Ahn Hyun-so, who won six Winter Olympic gold medals for Russia and South Korea, is one of the greatest athletes in the history of short track speed skating.
Jin Shantai has been the head coach of short track speed skating in Changchun City for a long time, and also has the experience of coaching the Japanese national team, whether it is the athlete period or the coach period has a very good resume, he also replaced Li Yan as the new short track speed skating head coach in 2019.
But some netizens may still question why the Chinese team chose two Koreans as head coaches.
It is no wonder that in the large-scale competitions of the past decade, South Korea and China can be described as a pair of old rivals on the ice rink.
Short-track speed skating first became a Winter Olympic event in 1992 (when the Winter Olympics and Summer Olympics were still in the same year), and throughout the 90s, China was still at a disadvantage in the competition with South Korea, and only won two silver medals in the two Winter Olympics, and Li Yan was the athlete who won the first medal for the Chinese short track speed skating team.
South Korea won six gold medals. After entering the new century, after Da Yang Yang won the first gold medal for China in the Winter Olympics, the Chinese team in Salt Lake City achieved a surpass over South Korea.
But four years later in Turin, the South Korean team also completed the counter-overtaking again, and since then, in various intercontinental competitions, China and South Korea have always been chasing each other, and the two teams have always been in the first echelon of the world's short track speed skating.
Talking about the classic "battle" with South Korea, zhou Yang's 1500-meter super counterattack at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics is believed to make countless ice fans remember it vividly.
In the case of two teammates in the semifinals out one after another, Zhou Yang, who was fighting alone, could only choose to lead the way at the beginning, but with six laps left, Zhou Yang fell to fourth place because of the turmoil of American Lukele, and the South Korean team took advantage of multi-person combat to maintain the lead.
Just when everyone was about to give up hope, Zhou Yang began to catch up in the outer road, using the koreans who are best at the outside road to surpass the first place, and finally won the championship, which also broke the monopoly of the Korean team on this project.
The Chinese women's team also won all four gold medals at that Winter Olympics, and the 3,000-meter relay was also deeply impressed by the game in which the South Korean team fouled from silver to gold.
At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, it was the unexpected exit of the team's main player Fan Kexin, making Li Jianrou, who was not yet pinned on hope, the only Chinese athlete to stand on the stage of the 500-meter final.
The calls for victory, including Christie, Park Seung-chi and Fang Thana, are all louder, but the arena never knows what will happen in the next second.
Three foreign athletes fell down en masse, eventually achieving Li Jianrou's championship and the Chinese women's team's four consecutive short track speed skating 500 meters.
In Pyeongchang in 2018, it was collectively called the "darkest" Winter Olympics, and the South Korean team relied on the advantages of the home field to get 3 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze excellent results ranked first among the delegations.
The Chinese team has suffered one unjust penalty after another, and there has not been a gold medal before the closing day of the short track speed skating event.
But on the night of February 22, 2018, Wu Dajing's domineering victory in the men's 500m field excited countless Chinese people, and he became the new leader of the Chinese short track speed skating team.
In the next few months, the Chinese short track speed skating team will participate in four consecutive World Cup competitions, after two years of being affected by the epidemic, the Chinese team has been in a closed training camp, and the purpose of this time is also to obtain a full Olympic qualification.
What kind of spark can be sparked by the new team of China and South Korea, we wait and see the wonderful performance of this former king's division in next year's local Olympic Games!
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