Guiyang, May 15 (Xinhua) -- On May 15, the ceremony of the Chinese national canoe slalom team for the Paris Olympic Games was held at the Xiasi canoe slalom training base in Kaili City, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province.
It is reported that including Quan Xin and Huang Juan, who have qualified for the men's kayak and women's canoe events in the slalom event of the Paris Olympics, the Chinese team will travel from Beijing to Europe on the 18th, and then conduct pre-Olympic adaptation training and competitions in France, Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland.
Su Ke, deputy director of the Water Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, said that this time to Europe, the Chinese team will also participate in the slalom World Cup sub-station in order to compete for the Olympic qualification of the extreme slalom event.
Quan Xin from Fujian Province reached the semi-finals of the men's single kayak event at the Tokyo Olympics, finishing 17th. Huang Juan, 21, from Guizhou, won the slalom women's single canoe title at last year's Asian Games in Hangzhou, and then won the Asian Canoe Slalom Championships, securing an Olympic qualification for China. In March this year, Huang Juan won the 2024 National Canoe Slalom Spring Championships and qualified to represent the Chinese team at the Paris Olympics.
Quan Xin and Huang Juan will compete in the 2024 Canoe Slalom World Cup in Germany, the Czech Republic and Poland from May 26 to June 18, which will help them understand their opponents, stay in shape and adapt before the competition.
At the beginning of April this year, the national canoe slalom team arrived at the Shimono training base to prepare for the Paris Olympics. Built in 2006, the base mainly serves the preparation training and competitions of the national team and the provincial team, and has hosted many international and national slalom competitions.
Photo: Courtesy of Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau