On December 3, in the Erqi National Ice and Snow Sports Training Base in Beijing, the national speed skating team was training intensely.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
Chinanews client, Beijing, December 4 (Reporter Yue Chuan) The Beijing Winter Olympics will kick off on February 4, 2022.
At the two-month countdown to this sports event, the Chinese ice and snow athletes are aiming to achieve all events and achieve the best results in history, and devote themselves to the final sprint preparations.
As the "pioneers" of winter sports in China, the short track speed skating team is the focus of the spotlight.
So far, the Chinese delegation has won 13 gold medals since participating in the Winter Olympics, including 10 short track speed skating events.
To some extent, the performance of this team can be regarded as a barometer of the performance of the Chinese delegation.
Therefore, as the Winter Olympics approach, the preparations of the national short-track speed skating team have attracted more attention.
The four races of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup this season have just concluded. The Chinese team has won a total of 7 gold and successfully reached the goal of full participation in each individual event of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Data map: Ren Ziwei in the game
Right now, the best athlete in the team is Ren Ziwei. He has gold medals in all four World Cups, and two of them have reached the highest podium of 1500 meters.
As the gold medalist of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing also returned to his state in the final station and won the main 500m championship.
However, through the World Cup, the team also exposed some problems.
After the four races, the women's team had no gold medal in the single event, which is somewhat surprising.
Especially the women's 500 meters, this is the small event that the Chinese delegation has won the most gold medals in the Winter Olympics. Yang Yang, Wang Meng, and Li Jianrou have all won the title in this event.
At present, the Chinese team has returned to China. In the preparation for the sprint stage, the team still has shortcomings that need to be made up urgently.
After completing the first phase of the winter training mission in Aershan, the freestyle skiing aerials national training team moved to Finland and is participating in the competition for the opening match of the World Cup this season.
This trump card unit with many world-famous generals such as Xu Mengtao, Kong Fanyu, Qi Guangpu, Jia Zongyang, etc., is also the vanguard of the Chinese team's battle for gold and silver in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Due to the epidemic, this team was absent from last season's competition, so for the generals in the team, this is the first time to make an international appearance again after a long time.
It is the team's goal to re-adapt to the rhythm of the competition and strive for more qualifications for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the finished game at Luca Station in Finland, PyeongChang Winter Olympics third runner-up Kong Fanyu won the first day of the women's championship with 89.53 points, giving the team a good start to the Olympic season.
Subsequently, Xu Mengtao also won the gold medal in the individual competition. She also won the men's and women's mixed team championship with Jia Zongyang and Qi Guangpu.
As of now, Qi Guangpu and Xu Mengtao are ranked second in the men's and women's world respectively, and many Chinese players are among the best. The Chinese team still has a certain collective advantage in this field.
But if the goal is to target the highest podium in the Winter Olympics, the Chinese team must make good use of the next two months.
Data map: Su Yiming in training.
Image source: Winter Sports Center
The snowboard U-shaped field, the snowboard jump platform and the slope obstacle skills, the players of these two national teams are currently participating in the freestyle skiing World Cup Stimbot station in the United States, Liu Jiayu, Cai Xuetong, Gu Ailing and other famous players All in it.
Earlier, during the two-month training camp between Switzerland and Austria, exciting news continued to come from these two teams-Gu Ailing, Liu Jiayu, Su Yiming, Yang Wenlong, He Jinbo and others broke through their limits one after another and completed Brand-new difficult moves, writing a new history of snow sports in China.
Just in the Snowboard World Cup in the United States, the 17-year-old Su Yiming had an eye-catching performance in the preliminaries, and he became the first Chinese player to reach the finals in the event.
Also participating in the World Cup series in the United States is the Chinese speed skating training team.
Ning Zhongyan and Gao Tingyu have already picked up gold in this season's World Cup. These two players with high hopes are currently in good shape.
Geng Wenqiang completes another historic breakthrough in China's ice and snow sports. Source: Osports All Sports Photo Agency
In order to get more Olympic qualifications, the steel-framed snowmobile national training team is currently participating in the World Cup series overseas.
In the Austrian race that ended a few days ago, Geng Wenqiang won the men's singles championship with a total time of 1:46.04. This is China's first steel-framed snowmobile World Cup championship.
After entering the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, the performance of the Chinese steel-framed snow team has improved by leaps and bounds, and has gradually taken a place in the international competitions.
Especially as the team leader, Geng Wenqiang has constantly used his achievements to fill the gaps in China's ice and snow sports in this field.
The finals of the ISU Figure Skating Grand Prix were originally scheduled to be held this month, but due to factors such as travel restrictions in Japan, the final competition time is still being coordinated.
National figure skating training teams including Sui Wenjing, Han Cong and other world champions are actively preparing for the competition.
Data map: Sui Wenjing, Han Cong
The national ice hockey training team, which has been qualified for the Winter Olympics, is participating in the Continental Hockey League (KHL) in Russia to practice with matches.
In addition, some national teams are training in the Erqi National Ice and Snow Sports Training Base. For example, the Olympic trials of the national curling team are in progress.
Standing at the two-month countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese ice and snow athletes race against time and speed up the sprint.
Looking back on the road to preparing for the battle in the past four years, China's ice and snow sports performance has made leaps and bounds.
In the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Chinese team participated in 53 small events, accounting for about half of the total number of events set up. This is the most participated event in the history of the Chinese sports delegation in the Winter Olympics.
However, compared with the goal of achieving full-project participation (109) at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the two are far from each other.
On December 3, in the Erqi National Ice and Snow Sports Training Base in Beijing, the Olympic Trials for the National Curling Team is underway.
According to the schedule, the Olympic Trials for the Curling National Training Team is divided into 6 stations, one station a week, this is the second station after the Shougang Park.
The picture shows the athletes in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
When Beijing won the right to host this Winter Olympics in 2015, about one-third of these 109 sub-items were a blank piece of paper in China and had never been carried out.
But now, the national teams and training teams of these 109 minor events are all fighting with the goal of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
At the time of the two-month countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics, sprinting and preparing for the "full event participation" and "participation in color" is the common goal of all Chinese ice and snowmen.
In the last two months, I hope Chinese athletes will go all out for their dreams and leave no regrets!
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