(Beijing Winter Olympics) China-Singapore Times Review: Beijing Winter Olympics, a "spring rain" for "ice and snow"

　　China News Agency, Beijing, February 20th, title: Beijing Winter Olympics, a "spring rain" for "ice and snow"

　　China News Agency reporter Wang Zumin

　　The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics closed on the 20th. The Chinese delegation won a total of 15 medals, 9 golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronzes, creating their best record in a single Winter Olympics.

On February 19, the figure skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics came to an end, and the Chinese team Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the gold medal in the last single event "pairs skating".

　　The answer was surprising, but not surprising.

Because 7 years ago, all this has been laid foreshadowing.

　　On July 31, 2015, Beijing officially won the right to host the 24th Winter Olympic Games in 2022.

From this day on, China has begun to plan the world's first "Double Olympic City" of ice and snow.

　　In the past seven years, nearly one-third of China's Winter Olympics events have been built from scratch.

Since 2015, China has set up national teams in nearly 30 disciplines, and a large number of outstanding athletes from track and field, martial arts, gymnastics, rowing and other sports have been brought together to "ice and snow" through cross-border selection, and the number of Chinese ice and snow sports athletes has increased exponentially.

On February 20, the four-person snowmobile competition of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the National Snowmobile Center.

The picture shows Chinese team players Sun Kaizhi/Wu Qingze/Wu Zhitao/Zhen Heng starting in the game.

Photo by China News Agency reporter He Penglei

　　At this Winter Olympics, the largest Chinese delegation participated in the most complete events, and won more than 100 seats in all 7 major events, 15 sub-events and 109 sub-events, which was the same as in 2018. The Chang Winter Olympics has added nearly 50 events, of which more than 30 events are the first to appear on the Winter Olympics stage.

　　In the past seven years, China's Winter Olympics projects have gone from partial to complete.

In the past, the Chinese Winter Olympic Corps, whose overall level was relatively backward, still had a serious "lame" phenomenon.

In the previous 11 Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation won a total of 13 gold medals, of which 12 came from ice and only one from snow.

On February 20, Chinese team player Bayani Garin (No. 35) was in the game.

On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics cross-country skiing women's 30km group start (free technique) competition was held at the National Cross-Country Skiing Center.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita

　　With the full development of China's Winter Olympics and the 7 years of hard work, the pattern of "strong ice and weak snow" has completely changed at this Winter Olympics. Of the 9 gold medals awarded by the Chinese delegation, 5 came from snow sports. .

　　In the past 7 years, the development of China's ice and snow sports has grown from weak to strong, and the sky has been cleared.

China first participated in the Winter Olympics in 1980, and after 22 years of waiting, it won its first Winter Olympics gold medal in Salt Lake City in 2002.

On February 19, the night view of the Torch Platform of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was dazzling.

Image source: Visual China

　　In the previous 11 Winter Olympics, China has won the most gold medals in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics with five.

In this Winter Olympics, the total number of gold medals of the Chinese delegation not only far surpassed that of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, but also surpassed the United States and ranked third in the gold medal list.

　　In the past seven years, a large number of young people have entered the ice rink and snow under the call of the "Beijing Winter Olympics", becoming the stars of hope for the development of China's ice and snow sports.

In this Winter Olympics, 18-year-old Gu Ailing won 2 golds and 1 silver, Su Yiming under 18 won 1 gold and 1 silver, and the two "post-00s" Li Wenlong and Zhang Chutong of the short track speed skating team won 1 silver and 1 respectively. Bronze...According to official data, 131 athletes from the Chinese delegation participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, accounting for 74.43% of the total number of athletes.

　　From the perspective of competitive sports, the "Beijing Winter Olympics" sounded the rallying call.

Under the strategy of "one game of chess across the country", the Chinese Winter Olympics project has developed by leaps and bounds.

For ice and snow sports, the "Beijing Winter Olympics" is a summoning order to promote China's ice and snow sports "south expansion, west expansion and eastward expansion", China's "ice and snow territory" is expanding, and ice and snow sports "difficult to get out of Shanhaiguan" are permanently sealed as history .

　　In an interview with the media, Wang Hui, deputy secretary-general and press spokesman of the Beijing Winter Olympics Bidding Committee, once said that when Beijing bid for the Winter Olympics, the number of people participating in ice and snow sports in the world was 270 million.

Therefore, when China promised that if Beijing hosted the Winter Olympics, it would "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", which aroused doubts from many people.

　　But now, China has fulfilled its promise.

As of October 2021, the number of participants in ice and snow sports in China has reached 346 million, and the participation rate of residents has reached 24.56%.

　　International Olympic Committee President Bach said that such a vision can only be realized in China, "it can be said that a new era has been opened".

China has realized the vision of 300 million people participating in ice and snow sports, which will greatly change the world's winter sports landscape and drive the development of the global winter sports industry.

　　Yes, new territory, new era!

This is the huge wealth that the Beijing Winter Olympics has left to China, the Olympic Games, and the global ice and snow sports.

　　The successful holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics has driven "cold ice and snow" to become a "hot fashion".

This year's ice and snow event was held during the Chinese Spring Festival, and "Chinese Red" and "Ice and Snow White" became the most popular colors of this traditional festival.

It can be predicted that in the future, China's Winter Olympics results will surely achieve greater breakthroughs, and China's ice and snow sports will also form a more vigorous development trend.

　　If Beijing successfully won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015, it sowed a seed of "ice and snow" in China, and seven years of preparation made it take root.

Today, the successful hosting of the Beijing Winter Olympics is a spring rain that fell for "ice and snow", nourishing it to become "Yanshan Snowflakes as Big as a Feast".

　　The opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympics coincides with the beginning of spring, the first of the 24 traditional Chinese solar terms, and the day before the closing is the second solar term, rain.

This "spring rain" is just in time.

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