Nandu News Reporter Wang Yayun October 27 is the 100-day countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Shenzhen Longgang District Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Ice Sports Center also held Guangdong (Shenzhen) celebration of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics countdown 100 days and the national ice and snow season theme activity launch ceremony as an important part of the 100-day countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics by the State General Administration of Sport as an important part of the series of activities to welcome the 100-day countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Wang Yuping, director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, said in an interview that he hopes to take the opportunity of the Winter Olympics to help the development of ice and snow sports in southern China and create a "summer and snow capital".
Guangdong (Shenzhen) celebration of the 100-day countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics was held in Longgang, Shenzhen. Photography Nandu reporter Li Zhanjun
Shenzhen unveiled the National Ice Hockey Training Base
The activities of the day mainly included Guangdong (Shenzhen) celebration of the 100-day countdown to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the launching ceremony of the national ice and snow season, the ice show and the unveiling ceremony of the Shenzhen Longgang National Ice Hockey Project Training Base. Among them, the Chinese women's national ice hockey team, which was trained by the Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club, also sent a blessing video from Russia because it was competing overseas. It is worth mentioning that since Kunlun Hongxing Women's Ice took root in Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province in 2017, Longgang District has introduced a series of international events such as the Mainland Ice Hockey League, the Russian Women's Ice Hockey League, and the Asia-Pacific Curling Championship, becoming one of the most intensive urban areas for high-end ice events in the country, and the women's ice team has also brought back an international event champion for Shenzhen in 2020, and also made them one of the most optimistic and popular gold winning teams at next year's Winter Olympics.
In order to help the national women's ice hockey team better prepare for the 2022 Winter Olympics in the local area, Longgang also provided a cultural and sports land of 8344.68 square meters, and the Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Club invested more than 28 million yuan to build a 26m ×60m standard ice hockey air film hall, which is the only Olympic standard ice surface in South China that can meet the requirements of large-scale ice events.
Shenzhen Longgang unveiled the national ice hockey project training base. Photography Nandu reporter Li Zhanjun
Wang Yuping, director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, fully recognized the achievements of Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club in the ice and snow hockey atmosphere of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area at the event and in an interview. He said that with the completion of the Shenzhen Longgang National Ice Hockey Project Training Base and the 2021 Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Ski Challenge, more series of themed ice and snow activities will come one after another. "In the near Olympic year, we share a passion for ice and snow to help the Winter Olympics, and we also look forward to the post-Olympic era, the city of the southern country can continue to build a 'summer and snow capital'."
He also pointed out that in fact, there are many Guangdong elements in the preparation process of the Winter Olympics, such as the designer of the mascot ice pier is a team from the Guangdong Academy of Fine Arts, and many Guangdong enterprises are involved in the hardware construction project of the Winter Olympic Games, including the Guangdong enterprise Vanke Group, which participated in the construction of the Yanqing Competition Area of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games and took the lead in the post-game operation of the Yanqing Winter Olympics. At the same time, Vanke Group is also the official partner of the Chinese national ice hockey team, helping the men's ice hockey team participate in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time, and providing training services for other ski national training teams, technicians and volunteers in the Winter Olympics.
Guangdong can also cultivate ice and snow champions
In terms of sports competition, it is reported that there are nearly 20 clubs in Guangdong Province that specialize in ice and snow sports, and there are more than 20 Guangdong athletes who are expected to qualify for the Beijing Winter Olympics next year, in addition to professional players from Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Women's Ice, including figure skating, bobsleigh, snowmobiles and other sports, There may be Guangdong athletes. The reporter also met three figure skating rookies on the day of the interview, according to reports that they are currently the best among the young figure skaters in China, even if some may not be able to participate in next year's Olympic Games, but their future is the same as the development of ice and snow sports in Guangdong, which is expected in the long run.
The 18-year-old Peng Zhiming is one of the fastest rising stars in Guangdong and even the domestic figure skating industry in recent years, as a Hunan-born athlete who settled in Shenzhen, Peng Zhiming studied ice hockey at an early age and transferred to figure skating at the age of 10. At the age of 16, Peng Zhiming attracted attention because he jumped out of Axel's three-and-a-half-week action in a short program of the China Figure Skating Club League - at that time, there were only three domestic active athletes who could stably master this action: Jin Boyang, Yan Han and Zhang He, while Peng Zhiming was only an amateur at the time, but he could jump such a difficult action, which caused a sensation for a while, and was regarded as a very talented figure skater. Even former national team men's singles player Li Tangxu sent a Weibo sigh: "The master is in the folk! Peng Zhiming was also selected by the national team as a result, becoming perhaps the first athlete in the history of domestic sports to jump directly from an amateur club to the national team.
"I think I still have a lot to improve." The shy boy told reporters that his idols are Jin Boyang and Zhang He, "The gap between me and them has narrowed in the past two years, but I still need to learn from my predecessors." And because the epidemic has caused some previous competitions to be stopped, if Peng Zhiming wants to represent China in next year's Winter Olympics, he also needs to fight for more points in the three events at the end of this year, but the young man who has achieved certain results in many major competitions, including the Asian Youth Championships, said in a low-key manner that he is not too sure he can win the Winter Olympics tickets, but "I will do my best to compare every stop."
Mo Tong, a female figure skater who trained with him, is an authentic Dongguan native, and she was first exposed to figure skating because her mother received a 10 yuan skating experience ticket advertising text message, and insisted on practicing. Liao Zhijuan, the leader of the Guangdong Provincial Figure Skating Team and deputy secretary-general of the Provincial Ice and Snow Association, still remembers the scene when he took Mo Tong to Harbin for the first time to participate in the national youth competition in 2017, "At that time, our Guangdong Ice and Snow Association was just established, and Mo Tong and I were the first time to participate in such a competition, and the two were frozen into popsicles as soon as they got off the plane." Liao Zhijuan laughed and said that when it came to the competition, Mo Tong was also wearing her own small flower cotton jacket waiting on the sidelines, while some other provincial players, especially the players in the ice and snow sports provinces, many of them had sponsors or customized uniforms, "I later joked with her that she was particularly conspicuous, and I knew it was her when I saw the small flower cotton jacket from a distance." ”
Dongguan girl Mo Tong is a post-00s Guangdong figure skater who has emerged in recent years. Photography Nandu reporter Li Zhanjun
Compared with many northern provinces, Guangdong's ice and snow projects are indeed developed relatively late, but the speed of development is very fast, the small flower jacket of the year is already a joke, and the recent provincial figure skating youth competition can attract more than 200 players to sign up, many of whom are natives of Guangdong, in fact, next year's Guangdong Provincial Games also added figure skating and other ice and snow projects. In this particularly long summer, people find that snow sports are not a field that locals can't do well.
"In fact, we Guangdong athletes are not uncompetitive in ice and snow sports, on the contrary, we have our own advantages." Liao Zhijuan said, "For example, in the selection of our figure skating seedlings, southerners are more slender, their movements are agile and light, and they may have more advantages in the selection." In addition to figure skating, Liao Zhijuan also revealed that she had previously led 6 children to Beijing to participate in the selection activities organized by the General Administration for the talent reserve of ice and snow projects, and as a result, 3 of the 6 children were favored by the foreign coaching expert team to join the sled project, "These children are from other teams in Guangdong, some of them used to practice weightlifting, some practiced athletics, and foreign teachers are also comprehensive considerations, especially in terms of physical coordination, they all feel that our Guangdong children are very suitable for the conditions required for sledding. Therefore, the proportion of being selected is particularly high, half of them are selected, even higher than some of the northern ice and snow sports provinces, it can be seen that our Guangdong children engaged in ice and snow sports is not without physical advantages. ”
More and more Children in Guangdong are falling in love with ice and snow sports. Photography Nandu reporter Li Zhanjun