(Beijing Winter Olympics) Why are 10 gold medals and 9 German snowmobile sleds so powerful?
China News Agency, Beijing, February 20th: Why is 10 gold medals winning 9 German snowmobiles and sleds so powerful?
China News Agency reporter Guo Chaokai
On the 20th, with the "King of Snowmobiles" Friedrich and his teammates winning the gold medal in the men's four-person snowmobile almost without any suspense, all the snowmobile sleigh events of the Beijing Winter Olympics came to an end.
10 snowmobile sledding gold medals, the German Army won 9 gold medals, and dominated the "Snow Dragon".
This makes one wonder why the German team is so strong in the snowmobile sled project?
On February 20, the four-person snowmobile competition of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics was held at the National Snowmobile Center. Francesco Friedrich of the German team / Torsten Magis / Candy Bauer / Alexander Huller won the championship with a time of 3:54.30.
The picture shows the German team players Francesco Friedrich / Thorsten Magis / Candy Bauer / Alexander Schüller starting in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter He Penglei
A total of 10 gold medals were awarded in the snowmobile sled project of the Winter Olympics, including 4 for the bobsleigh event, 2 for the steel frame snowmobile event and 4 for the snowmobile event.
In addition to the women's single snowmobile gold medal won by American star Kelly Humphreys, the other 9 gold medals were swept away by the German Army, and the men's double snowmobile project German players even swept the gold, silver and bronze medals, their dominance can be seen One spot.
The creation of the "Dream Team" of German snowmobiles starts from the track hardware, youth training system and scientific and technological strength in Germany.
The first is the world's leading track hardware.
Compared with popular sports such as basketball and badminton, snowmobile sledding must have a professional track to ensure results.
At present, there are only 17 bobsleigh tracks in the world that meet the Olympic competition standards, and Germany has only 4 of them.
Since 1970, Germany has started to build professional modern snowmobile bobsleigh tracks, and is the country with the earliest and largest number of professional tracks in the world.
Innate advantages allow German athletes to receive more professional training at home without having to travel long distances to prepare for battles abroad.
"The track conditions in Germany are unmatched by other countries. We can receive professional training on the track since we were young." The statement of the men's snowmobile gold medalist Grothel is also a common feeling of other German athletes.
Secondly, the perfect youth training system has also continuously supplied a large number of snowmobiles and sledding talents to Germany.
In 1889, the world's first sleigh club was born in Germany. At present, there are hundreds of sled clubs in Germany, showing a trend of "blooming everywhere".
Thanks to this, German children are exposed to snowmobile sledding from an early age, and many schools also offer snowmobile sledding courses.
Big and small snowmobile and sled clubs, such as football clubs, establish contact with schools, find good seedlings, and finally transfer talents through layers of selection.
Take the four gold medalists in the sledding event of the Beijing Winter Olympics as an example. They have been training and competing together since they were 13 years old.
As Norbert Lock, the head coach of the German bobsleigh team, said, these four Olympic champions have achieved their achievements after more than 20 years of tempering. Although they were all injured when they were young, they became stronger after they recovered.
For the improvement of the German youth training system, Sun Fan, the leader of the Chinese steel frame snow team, also feels the same.
Previously, he led his team to prepare for battles overseas. In Germany and other foreign race tracks, a large number of teenagers and even preschool children could often be seen sliding down from the highest point of the bobsleigh track.
The formation of the German snowmobile sled "dream team" is also inseparable from the blessing of black technologies such as sports equipment and track simulators.
The German team has received support from large companies including BMW, and its snowmobile sled adopts the material technology and wind tunnel experiments of F1 racing cars, keeping up with the world's technological trend and always at the world's leading level.
Seemingly ordinary sleds and steel sleds contain various fine parts inside.
And each snowmobile is worth a lot, ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of yuan.
To ensure the safety of athletes when the speed exceeds 130 kilometers per hour, the internal technology content can be imagined. China will not officially deliver the first domestic snowmobile until September 2021, ending the long history of snowmobile equipment being monopolized by foreign brands. .
In addition, in order to familiarize German athletes with the "Snow Dragon" track in advance, the researchers designed the "Snow Dragon" track simulator for the German team. ".
In this regard, Marg Andreas Schmid, head coach of the Chinese national bobsleigh team, said that the German bobsleigh team has only slid more than 40 times on the "Snow Dragon" track in this Winter Olympics, but the track Data collection and simulation allow them to familiarize themselves with "Xueyoulong" in advance, so that they can still achieve good results in a small number of slides, and these are inseparable from the support of funds and technology.
From the leading track hardware to the perfect youth training system to the high-tech blessing, the success of the German bobsleigh team has provided a model for the development of the sport in countries around the world, and this is the root of its dominance of the "Snow Dragon".
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