(Beijing Winter Olympics) The establishment of the Chinese sports delegation for the Beijing Winter Olympics has created the largest participation scale in history

  China News Service, Beijing, January 27. According to the "China Ice and Snow" account of the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China, released on the 27th, the Chinese sports delegation to the 24th Winter Olympics was officially established on the same day.

The Beijing Winter Olympics is the largest Winter Olympics in the history of Chinese sports delegations.

  It is reported that the total number of Chinese sports delegation for the Beijing Winter Olympics is 387, including 176 athletes, 164 team staff such as coaches, team leaders, and medical staff, and 47 team staff.

The Beijing Winter Olympics is the largest Winter Olympics in the history of Chinese sports delegations.

  Among the 176 athletes, 87 were female athletes, accounting for 49.43%; 89 were male athletes, accounting for 50.57%.

There are 20 athletes from 9 ethnic minorities, including Tibetan, Uyghur, Manchu, Hui, Kazakh, Hani, Jing, Korean and Buyi, accounting for 11.36%.

  The average age of Chinese sports delegation players is 25.2 years old, the oldest is 37 years old and the youngest is 17 years old.

131 athletes participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, accounting for 74.43%; Xu Mengtao, Jia Zongyang, Qi Guangpu and other athletes will participate in the Olympic Games for the fourth time, and they are the athletes with the most participation in the Olympic Games in the delegation.

  On the same day, the first 6 national teams of the Chinese sports delegation strictly implemented the relevant epidemic prevention and control requirements and entry procedures of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, and entered the Winter Olympic Village safely and smoothly. Various adaptive trainings will be carried out in an orderly manner.

Among them, the national men's ice hockey team and the national women's ice hockey team settled in the Beijing Winter Olympic Village; the national cross-country skiing team, the national freestyle snow skiing team, the national biathlon team, and the national snowboard parallel giant slalom team successfully settled in the Zhangjiakou Winter Olympic Village .

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