Kids in an ice hockey game. Yangtze River Daily reporter Yu Zhiyong photographed
Yangtze River Daily Wuhan client September 21 news (reporter Zhu Wenxiu correspondent Xiao Hong) put on a helmet, put on thick protective gear, holding a club, up and down on the ice rink like a fly, all are cartoon cartoons in the heroic character image, the ice rink is so domineering. On the 19th, the ice hockey competition of the Youth Sports Social Club Group of the 11th Wuhan Games ended, which is the second ice sports event added to the Municipal Games after figure skating. After a full day of fierce competition, Qingshan District won gold medals in the U12 and U14 categories, becoming the big winner of the project.
With the approaching of the Beijing Winter Olympics, ice hockey has risen rapidly in Wuhan in recent years, and more than 300 teenagers in Wuhan currently insist on ice hockey training, and many ice hockey rinks have hired foreign ice hockey coaches. In the national U series ice hockey competition held in October last year, the Wuhan U12 team won the third place in the national competition for the first time.
The first hockey tournament to enter the City Games has two categories, U12 and U14, regardless of men and women. Eight ice hockey teams from four urban areas, including Dongxihu, Jiang'an, Jianghan and Qingshan, competed. The competition venue is located in the original main media center of the Military Games, which was transformed in the first half of this year, and is now renamed wuhan international sports and cultural exchange center ice sports center, which is the ice sports center with the highest specifications and the best supporting facilities in Wuhan.
The Yangtze River Daily reporter saw at the scene of the game that the ice hockey players wore helmets, thick protective gear, and held clubs, just like the heroes in cartoon animation, and their heroic posture was very refreshing. The players came and went on the field, and the on-site confrontation was very fierce, and from time to time there were scenes of people turning over on their horses.
Chen Yunkai, a member of the Aoyama U14 team, was fierce on the field, scoring for the team many times, but after taking off the ice hockey suit, he was a shy little boy. Chen Yunkai is 13 years old this year, is a junior high school student, has been practicing ice hockey for 8 years, not only played hockey well, is the main center of the team, but also a primary school bully, cultural performance has long been in the top two in the class. After winning the first game, he said in an interview that he participated in the national U series ice hockey competition in the past year, was the main player of the Wuhan U12 team at that time, and participated in the city competition many times, as for the results, he said domineeringly: "As long as you participate in the city, you are a champion." Sure enough, after all the ice hockey matches at the Municipal Games, the Aoyama U14 team ranked first among the teams.
【Editor: Zhou Fei】