(Beijing Winter Olympics) Closing Day Highlights: Who is the new king in women's curling and men's ice hockey? The closing ceremony is worth looking forward to
China News Service, Beijing, February 19 (Reporter Wang Zumin) The 20th is the closing day of the Beijing Winter Olympics. The last 5 gold medals will belong to their owners. The closing ceremony in the evening will bring the Winter Olympics to a successful end.
Chinese team strives for good results
The alpine skiing finale mixed team competition originally scheduled to be held on the 19th was postponed to the 20th due to strong winds.
4 Chinese players will play together and strive for good results.
In this Winter Olympics, the Chinese alpine ski team achieved a historic breakthrough in full coverage of 11 events (5 men, 5 women and 1 mixed team). To be the "model worker" of the Chinese delegation, all of them have multiple roles.
Among them, 25-year-old Kong Fanying achieved the goal of Chinese athletes participating in and finishing all the individual alpine skiing events of the Winter Olympics in the first 5 individual events. She won the 15th place in the women's all-around, creating all the events of the Chinese alpine skiing Winter Olympics. The best result in the competition.
Xu Mingfu and Zhang Yangming also achieved historic breakthroughs in the two speed events of men's downhill and super giant slalom for the Chinese team.
The picture shows Kong Fanying in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter He Penglei
The 4-person snowmobile will have the final two rounds.
In the first two rounds of the competition on the 19th, the legendary German team Francesco Friedrich, who has won the gold medal in the men's double snowmobile at the Winter Olympics, temporarily topped the list with two rounds of 1 minute and 57 seconds.
China only established the national snowmobile team in 2016. The two Chinese teams with Li Chunjian and Sun Kaizhi as the helmsmen temporarily ranked 16th and 17th.
According to the rules of the four-person snowmobile competition, all participating teams will perform three-wheel skating first, and the top 20 teams will perform the last round of skating, and the team with the least total four-wheel skating time will win the championship.
Women's curling, men's ice hockey who is the new king?
The women's curling final will be played between Japan and Great Britain.
At the PyeongChang Winter Olympics four years ago, the two teams met in the bronze medal battle, and in the end, the Japanese team won the bronze medal.
The Japanese women's curling team has made rapid progress in recent years and has made continuous breakthroughs.
The last Winter Olympics was the first time that it won a Winter Olympics medal in this project, and this time it was the first time to advance to the Winter Olympics final.
Although the British women's curling team has always been among the top teams in the world, their performance has not been stable, and they may become the first women's curling gold medal for the Japanese team to win the Winter Olympics.
The Russian Olympic Committee will compete with Finland for the men's ice hockey gold medal.
As the defending champion, Russia's men's ice hockey strength has always been at the forefront of the world, and it is the favorite to win the championship before the opening of the Winter Olympics.
The North American Hockey League (NHL), the world's top professional men's ice hockey league, announced before the Winter Olympics that due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, NHL players will not participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
This has greatly reduced the strength of the two traditional powerhouses in men's ice hockey, the United States and Canada, and both teams have stopped in the top eight.
On February 18, the men's ice hockey semi-final of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the National Stadium. The Russian Olympic Committee team played against the Swedish team.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Mao Jianjun
The closing ceremony is worth looking forward to
The closing ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be held on the evening of the 20th.
At the press conference held a few days ago, director Zhang Yimou said that there are still no stars or professional actors at the closing ceremony, and athletes will be the protagonists of the closing ceremony.
From 2008 to 2022, Beijing has become the world's first "Double Olympic City".
According to reports, leading the audience to "travel" back to 2008 with unique means, presenting the ethereal and romantic through the power of science and technology, and interpreting the "city of two Olympics" in an artistic form will be the biggest attraction of the entire closing ceremony.
At the opening ceremony, traditional Chinese cultural elements such as the countdown to the twenty-four solar terms, Chinese "doors", "windows" and "water from the Yellow River rising from the sky" astonished everyone.
At the closing ceremony, which Chinese elements and Chinese-style romance will be presented is another highlight.
In this Winter Olympics, 18-year-old Gu Ailing won 2 golds and 1 silver, and Su Yiming, who just celebrated her 18th birthday, won 1 gold and 1 silver. These two teenagers with absolute strength in their respective fields are loved and sought after by the audience. .
Many audience members hoped that they could become the flag bearers of the Chinese delegation at the closing ceremony.
At the closing ceremonies of the previous multi-sport games, the presentation of the next host has attracted much attention.
Four years later, the 25th Winter Olympics will be held in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. It is also worth looking forward to how the artistic and romantic Italians will present their "Eight Minutes".
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