Count down with your heartbeat. Tonight at 8 o'clock, from the opening of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, there are still 100 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes, and the historical moment has officially entered the 100-day countdown. At that time, Beijing will be the first "double Olympic" city to host both the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games, writing a new chapter in the history of the Olympic Games.
On the occasion of the 100-day countdown to the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, Upstream News specially launched the special planning report of "100 Days Countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics", let us count down together, witness this historic moment together, and look forward to the arrival of the Winter Olympics together!
On October 26, exactly one hundred days after the opening of the 2020 Beijing Winter Olympics, the athletes of 29 Chinese ice and snow national training teams also entered the final sprint preparations. Since Beijing won the right to host the Winter Olympics in 2015, after 6 years of development, the Chinese delegation's Winter Olympics participation projects, from 53 in the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, to the realization of biathlons, bobsleighs, curling, ice hockey, bobsleigh, skating and skiing in 2022, 7 major events and 109 sub-events have all participated, realizing the leapfrog development of ice and snow sports, and gradually reversing the impression of the outside world on China's ice and snow sports "ice is strong and snow weak", although because of the epidemic, preparation has been greatly affected. But the all-out Chinese Ice and Snow Legion is expected to achieve a historic breakthrough at home.
At present, short track speed skating, speed skating, figure skating, freestyle skiing aerial skills and other sports are still the traditional advantages of the Chinese Legion, and at the same time, great progress has been made in freestyle skiing U-shaped tracks and slope obstacle courses, snowboard women's U-shaped courses, snowboard men's slope obstacle courses and big jumps. Gou Zhongwen, director of the State General Administration of Sports, said the number of medals in the Beijing Winter Olympics is expected to exceed the best in history.
Short track speed skating
Wu Dajing
In the Chinese Winter Olympic team, the short track speed skating team undoubtedly undertook the heavy responsibility of winning gold, on October 24, the first test match of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the "Meet in Beijing" 2021/2022 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup Beijing stood at the Capital Gymnasium, the Chinese team performed well on the last competition day, winning two relay gold medals, but performed poorly in the single event, only Ankai won the bronze medal in the men's 1500m final.
In the men's 500m race, Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Wu Dajing was sent off for a run-steal foul in the final. Ren Ziwei suffered a rematch in the men's 1500m, but did not qualify for the final due to lack of physical strength. In the women's 1000m final, Zhang Yuting won the fourth place, and Han Yutong and Guo Yihan did not qualify for the semifinals.
After the game, Fan Kexin, the captain of the women's team, said: "I have not participated in international competitions for more than two years, which has an impact on everyone. I believe that in the next few World Cups, everyone will have a better performance in individual events. ”
The men's 500m champion Wu Dajing, who had high hopes, performed unsatisfactorily in the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, and the dominance of the 500m event was strongly impacted, and the strongest opponents, South Korea, Hwang Dae-hyun, Lin Hyo-joon, Park Ji-won, Lee Joon-so, etc. formed a group advantage, and the Hungarian brothers Liu Shaoang and Liu Shaolin were also strong.
The women's team did not win gold in the 500, 1000 and 1500 meters events, and was even at a disadvantage in the competitive landscape. "First Sister" Fan Kexin is not easy to break out of the siege.
However, with the progress and maturity of Han Yutong and Zhang Chutong, the women's team has the strength to impact medals in the 1000 meters and 1500 meters long distance events, if the state adjustment is excellent, the Beijing Winter Olympics can still have a difference, and the Korean women's team is still a big hit in the 1500 meters.
However, the Beijing Winter Olympics have added a short track speed skating mixed relay, which will determine 3 gold medals, and the Chinese short track team still has the opportunity to turn around in the relay.
figure skating
Sui Wenjing/Han Cong
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong only passed the pair skating gold medal by 0.43 points, and in the following three years, the pair has not been defeated, which can be called the "first combination" of today's pair skating.
After winning the World Championships, the Four Continents Championship and the Finals, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong are missing only one Olympic gold medal.
In the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, in addition to the fourth place in the 2019 World Championships, the Peng Cheng/Jin Yang combination has medals in every race that Peng Cheng/Jin Yang participates in, and the stable performance of multiple seasons has also made the pair gradually join the ranks of the pair skating "card competition group".
However, Russian pair skating is still strong, there are many pairs of medal and even gold medal competitive combinations, European Champion Boykova / Kozlovsky, in the 2019-20 season, the highest score even surpassed Sui Wenjing / Han Cong, World Championship medalist Tarasova / Morozov, won the all-Russian Championships this season, in addition, Pyeongchang Winter Olympic gold medalist, German combination Safshenko / Masot is also gradually resuming training after the epidemic subsided.
Jin Boyang's emergence gave the Chinese men's singles the hope of winning the winter Olympics, and the fourth place in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics has been the best result in the history of the Chinese men's singles skating in the history of the Winter Olympics.
2019 Four Continents Championship and World Championships, Jin Boyang won the second place and fifth, in the 2019-20 season, Jin Boyang won the third place in the Shanghai Super Cup and the China Cup, and the 2020 Four Continents Championship Jin Boyang ranked fourth, after a year of polishing, Jin Boyang also hopes to impact the good results at home.
Freestyle skiing U-shaped grounds
Gu Ailing
As early as the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the women's U-shaped freestyle skiing venue has been regarded as a project that the Chinese delegation is expected to have a dark horse. Zhang Kexin, who was only 16 at the time, not only won her first World Cup title during the Winter Olympic season, but also reached the final of the project in A historic way in Pyeongchang and finished 9th.
Coupled with the sudden rise of Li Fanghui, the "post-00s" team of freestyle skiing U-shaped venues is expected to achieve a medal breakthrough at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
The addition of Gu Ailing in the Beijing cycle undoubtedly upgraded the goal of the Chinese team at the home Winter Olympics from "competing for cards" to "fighting for gold", and the Chinese team also has a more group advantage.
Gu Ailing won 2 gold and 1 bronze at the Winter World Extreme Games held at the end of January this year, known as "China's next Olympic superstar", and is also considered to be the gold competition for the women's U-shaped venue and slope obstacle course of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the U-shaped field, Gu Ailing's difficulty is slightly inferior, but her advantage lies in the stability of the air lag height and sliding, the original main slope obstacle skills, Gu Ailing herself is already a regular visitor to the World Cup podium, but as the only Chinese player who has the ability to enter the final and compete for the gold medal, Gu Ailing needs to face the impact of many European and American players.
Freestyle skiing aerial skills
Xu Mengtao
Freestyle skiing aerial skills were the first snow sports of the Chinese delegation to achieve a gold medal breakthrough at the Winter Olympics, and veterans such as Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu and Jia Zongyang have gone through four Winter Olympic cycles.
Xu Mengtao, who accidentally folded at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, completed the meniscus surgery on his legs in March 2018 and was in a stable state after his comeback, and in the 2019-20 World Cup, Xu Mengtao can already complete 3 different three-week platform actions, and can still get the second place in the season in the absence of two games, with the strength to impact the highest podium.
In addition, Veteran Xu Sicun, who has been plagued by injuries, has also mastered at least two three-week platform movements and has stood on the World Cup podium for two consecutive seasons. Pyeongchang Winter Olympics runner-up Kong Fanyu returned to the field after knee surgery, and in the first season of the return, he basically recovered the two-week platform difficulty and tried the three-week platform action, and the air skills women's team formed a group advantage of competing for gold.
Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu returned to the field in the fall of 2019 after a one-season break, and the first World Cup match between the two basically regained the difficulty before the off-season, and each had a medal in the account.
The newly established aerial skills mixed team event at the Beijing Winter Olympics is regarded as the new snow sports of the Chinese team.
Snowboarding U-shaped track and slope obstacle course skills
Liu Jianning
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Liu Jiayu achieved an Olympic medal "breakthrough of zero" for Chinese snowboarding with a silver medal, and Cai Xuetong won the fifth place. A year later, the two veterans of the veneers will continue to play hand in hand at home to the Winter Olympics.
In the 2019-20 season, in the case of Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Chloe Jin's truce, Liu Jiayu and Cai Xuetong fought fiercely for the top spot in the World Cup table, and finally Cai Xuetong took the "Crystal Ball" trophy for the sixth time and won the professional US Open. Liu Jiayu, who passed by the "crystal ball", won medals in five World Cup matches, and if they want to fight for the gold medal at home, the two still have to climb the mountain of Chloe King.
At the beginning of the year, Su Yiming, a "little plug" born in 2004, became popular on social media with the difficult action of turning 1800 degrees (Cab 1800) for five weeks, which made more Chinese people hear about the snowboard slope obstacle course for the first time.
At present, Su Yiming has gradually moved closer to the ranks of first-line players after completing the Triple Cork 1620 degrees.
speed skating
Ning Zhongyan
In the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, Ning Zhongyan, born in 1999, emerged from the world, and in the 2019-20 season, he won the runner-up in the men's 1000 meters in the first leg of the World Cup in Belarus, breaking the medal drought of Chinese speed skating in the event; in the World Cup Kazakhstan, he won the gold medal in the men's 1500 meters in 1 minute 44 seconds 91 and broke the field record, beating Pyeongchang Winter Olympic champion Nius.
Entering 2020, Ning Zhongyan slipped faster and faster, the World Cup Canada won the silver medal in the 1500 meters with a time of 1 minute 43.262 seconds, setting a new personal record, and at the Speed Skating World Championships in February 2020, Ning Zhongyan once again set a new personal record in the 1500 meters.
Because of the epidemic, Ning Zhongyan has not participated in international competitions for a long time, but he is very satisfied with the current preparations, "I am full of confidence in preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the goal is to win the gold medal." ”
curling
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Chinese curling women's team lost 4 wins and 5 losses to the semifinals, and Wang Rui/Badexin, who ranked first in the Olympic points, lost a good game, and the final round of the round robin also failed to qualify for the final four.
The Chinese women's team started the 2019 World Championship with 5 consecutive wins, unfortunately, after 7 games with 2 wins and 5 losses, after entering the resumption, it was reversed by the Swiss team and missed the final four, but it was also the first time in eight years that the Chinese women's team broke into the World Championship rematch, and also made the winter Olympic champions and runners-up Sweden and South Korea become the losers. However, Fu Yiwei/Zou Dejia were fourth in the group at the 2019 Mixed Doubles World Championships and failed to reach the round of 16.
In addition, the Chinese women's team won the Asia-Pacific Curling Championship in the new cycle, and at the Beijing Winter Olympics, it was still difficult for the Chinese women's team and the mixed doubles team to win the medal.
Upstream journalist Tang Hao