Guangdong (Shenzhen) held an event to celebrate the 100-day countdown to the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.
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Nandu News 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 2022 Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics countdown 100 days and the launching ceremony of the national ice and snow season theme activities. Wang Yuping, director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, said 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 snow capital".
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 locally, 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 standard ice hockey air film hall with a 26m ×60m, which is the only Olympic standard ice surface in South China, which can meet the requirements of large-scale ice events.
Wang Yuping, director of the Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau, 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. "In the year approaching the Olympic Games, we share a passion for ice and snow to help the Winter Olympics, and also look forward to the post-Olympic era, the southern city can continue to build a 'summer and snow capital'." Written by: Nandu reporter Wang Yayun
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Event: More than 20 Guangdong athletes are expected to compete in the Winter Olympics
There are currently nearly 20 professional ice and snow sports clubs in Guangdong Province, and there are more than 20 Guangdong athletes who are expected to qualify for next year's Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition to the professional players from Shenzhen Kunlun Hongxing Women's Ice, Guangdong athletes may appear in many sports, including figure skating, bobsleigh, and snowmobiles.
Planning: Next year's provincial games will increase the number of ice and snow sports such as figure skating
Compared with many northern provinces, the development of ice and snow projects in Guangdong started relatively late, but the development speed is very fast. The most recent provincial figure skating youth competition attracted more than 200 entries, many of whom were natives of Cantonese. In fact, next year's Guangdong Provincial Games will also add ice and snow sports such as figure skating.
Status: Guangdong children are also competitive in ice and snow sports
"Guangdong athletes are not uncompetitive in ice and snow sports, on the contrary, we have our own advantages." Liao Zhijuan, the leader of the Guangdong Provincial Figure Skating Team and deputy secretary-general of the Provincial Ice and Snow Association, said, "For example, in the selection of our figure skating seedlings, the southerners are more slender, the movements are flexible and light, and may have more advantages." Liao Zhijuan 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 children were favored by the foreign coaching expert team to join the sled project, "Some of these children used to practice weightlifting, some practiced athletics, and foreign teachers also felt that these children met the conditions required for sled sports, so half of them were selected, even higher than some northern ice and snow sports provinces, which shows that Guangdong children engaged in ice and snow sports are not without physical advantages." ”
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Peng Zhiming: Jumping from amateur to national team "will do my best to play every game"
On the day of the interview, the reporter met three new figure skaters in Guangdong, who are currently the best among the young figure skaters in China.
The 18-year-old Peng Zhiming is one of the fastest rising stars in the figure skating industry in Guangdong and even in China in recent years, as a Hunan-born athlete who settled in Shenzhen, he studied ice hockey at an early age and transferred to figure skating at the age of 10. At the age of 16, he attracted attention because he jumped out of Axel's three-and-a-half-week difficult move in a short program in the Chinese Figure Skating Club League – at that time, there were only three domestic active athletes who could steadily master this move: Jin Boyang, Yan Han and Zhang He. Even former national team men's singles player Li Tangxu sent a Weibo sigh: "The master is in the folk! Peng Zhiming, who was an amateur at the time, was also selected by the national team, 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 we still need to learn from our predecessors." "If Peng Zhiming wants to represent China at next year's Winter Olympics, he also needs to fight for more points in the three events at the end of this year. The young man, who has achieved some results in many major competitions such as the Asian Youth Championships, said in a low-key manner that he was not too sure of winning the Winter Olympics tickets, but "I will do my best to play every game.".
Mo Tong: When I first competed, I didn't wear a costume and wore a small flower jacket to wait
Mo Tong, a female figure skater trained with Peng Zhiming, is an authentic Dongguan native, who first came into contact with figure skating because of a 10 yuan skating experience ticket advertising text message received by her mother, 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, the 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 during the competition, Mo Tong was also wearing her own small flower cotton jacket on the sidelines, while some other provincial players, especially the players of 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 that it was her when I saw the small flower cotton jacket from a distance." ”