Bringing more development opportunities and making great progress in youth ice and snow sports
Winter Olympics leave a rich legacy for the "Ice and Snow Generation"
From a sheep herd to a ski instructor, this is the story of a farmer named Lang Enge in Yanqing, Beijing, starting in the summer of 2017.
That year, Beijing and Zhangjiakou won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, and the Haituo Mountain in Yanqing, which Lang Enge is familiar with, will be built into one of the three competition areas of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Lang Enge remembered that the atmosphere of the Winter Olympics in the village heated up sharply at that time, and a high-standard ski resort was about to be built in the surrounding area.
This young man who loves skiing since he was a child also wants to change careers and eat "ice and snow rice".
He sold 300 sheep, passed the certification of international ski instructors and instructors, and established a farmer ski team with a dozen young people in the village, serving as ski instructors.
For farmer Lang Enge, the Winter Olympics in Haituo Mountain will bring changes to the way he makes a living.
From the perspective of the mission of hosting an Olympic Games, in addition to showing the Olympic motto of "faster, higher, stronger - more united", it should also bring more development opportunities to the host site, especially human development.
Zou Xinxian, director of the Winter Olympics Culture Research Center at Beijing Sports University, believes that leaving development opportunities is actually an important part of the Olympic legacy.
Zou Xinxian said that the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics are the first Olympic Games that have comprehensively planned and managed the Olympic heritage since the "Olympic 2020 Agenda" was promulgated.
Creating a rich legacy of the Winter Olympics and bringing long-term benefits to the general public, the host city and the country is an important part of the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Zou Xinxian also mentioned that the Olympic Agenda 2020 highlights the three themes of sustainability, youth and credibility.
Since my country made a promise to "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow" when it bid for the Winter Olympics, and set a green, shared, open, and clean Olympic concept during preparations, this Winter Olympics perfectly exemplifies this. Three themes.
Leaving an educational legacy for the "post-Winter Olympics" period
18-year-old rookie Su Yiming won two gold medals and one silver medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
As his fan, Bai Xinyan, a student at Diandian Road Primary School in Shijingshan District, Beijing, was invited to watch Su Yiming's gold-winning competition on February 15.
She treasured a handwritten reply letter Su Yiming gave her when preparing for the Winter Olympics.
Su Yiming said in the letter: "As your big brother, at this time, I am training hard to achieve good results in the Beijing Winter Olympics and win glory for the motherland. I hope you will work as hard as I do."
Bai Xinyan's school is the closest school to the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, less than 1,000 meters away.
The unique advantages make this school popularize ice and snow sports very early and become a national Olympic model school.
The school has elements of the Winter Olympics everywhere, and even a Winter Olympics Museum, as well as a real curling hall.
More than 300 students in the school have achieved 100% access to real ice and real snow. The school's cross-country skiing team and curling team have achieved good results in national competitions.
Ding Xiao, a physical education teacher at Dianchang Road Primary School, said that in the past seven years of promoting ice and snow sports, children have experienced the charm of ice and snow culture in winter Olympic courses, theme activities, and practical tasks, learned to be tough, and better understand the rules, Respect, but also responsibility and responsibility.
Different from the young Ding Xiao, who focused on ice and snow sports teaching as soon as he entered the industry, Zhou Chenguang, a physical education teacher at Yangfangdian Central Primary School in Haidian District, has been teaching for more than 30 years. Since 2001, he has been promoting the simulated Olympic Games in schools. Can.
The school's dry land Winter Olympics project was first carried out in a large conference room of 180 square meters. The conference room was covered with simulated ice, and children could try short track speed skating, ice hockey, curling and other Winter Olympic events. .
Zhou Chenguang is both a promotion teacher and a torchbearer of the Double Olympics.
He said the honor is for the nearly 600,000 physical education teachers across the country he represents.
In recent years, Xinxian Zou has participated in the compilation of the sports heritage report in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Heritage series.
She said that the innovative exploration of ice and snow sports into campus activities represented by the practice of Diandian Road Primary School has not only popularized the knowledge of the Winter Olympics among young people, but also promoted the participation of campus ice and snow sports, which is very important for the campus in the "post-Winter Olympics" period. The promotion of ice and snow sports has produced a significant demonstration effect and has become a unique Olympic educational legacy for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics.
Data show that by the end of 2020, my country has identified 835 "Olympic Education Demonstration Schools" and selected 2,062 schools with ice and snow characteristics.
Zou Xinxian further explained that, according to the definition given by the International Olympic Committee, the Olympic heritage is the result of realizing the vision of the Olympic Games, which includes tangible heritage such as venues, as well as intangible heritage such as national pride, a sense of healthy life, and education.
Sowing the seeds for the "Ice and Snow Generation"
This Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's ice hockey team set foot on the Winter Olympics for the first time.
Before the game, the 37-year-old captain Ye Jinguang made this statement on social media: "If there is a Chinese athlete who stands on the highest stage of ice hockey in 20 years, and people ask him why he practices ice hockey, he will answer 'In 2022, I see The Chinese team's game', that's the success of our generation."
In many interviews between the games, Ye Jinguang repeatedly mentioned that although Chinese ice hockey still has a long way to go, he hopes that this Winter Olympics will plant the seeds of ice hockey in the hearts of more young people.
This coincides with the prevailing view in the academic world—competitive sports need to be promoted together with mass sports, especially group sports need to have a broad mass base.
Zou Xinxian said that in the process of preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, my country has always emphasized mass participation in ice and snow sports. The most well-known is our commitment to "drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" when we bid for the Winter Olympics.
That promise was fulfilled before the Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off.
In January this year, the National Bureau of Statistics released data saying that from the successful bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics to October 2021, the number of people participating in ice and snow sports in my country was 346 million, and the participation rate in ice and snow sports exceeded 24%.
Under the strict logic of statistical investigations, there are vivid cases.
According to Xu Hejian, spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Government, the Winter Olympics has accelerated the popularity of ice and snow sports among the people in Beijing, from cold sports to hot sports, especially the youth ice and snow sports have made great progress and become the ice and snow generation.
Xu Hejian specifically mentioned that there are now more than 5,000 registered youth ice hockey players in Beijing, laying a solid foundation for the sustainable development of ice and snow sports.
In the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics Legacy Case Report (2022)" co-authored by Zou Xinxian, the Beijing Youth Ice Hockey Club League became one of the cases.
When this event was founded in 2008, only 4 teams and about 60 people participated. After my country successfully bid for the Winter Olympics in 2015, it ushered in explosive growth.
In the 2012-2013 season, the league had 455 participating athletes, 5 clubs and 24 participating teams.
In the 2021-2022 season, nearly 3,600 participating athletes, 25 clubs and 256 teams will participate.
At present, the event has become the largest youth ice hockey event with the longest time span in Asia.
In recent years, Beijing's youth ice hockey has built a relatively complete system of four levels, including schools and training institutions, district-level sports team systems, municipal-level sports team systems, and professional sports echelon systems. There are more than 2,500 ice hockey events every year.
Zou Xinxian believes that the league is not only a stage for the majority of youth ice hockey fans to compete on the same field, but also an important platform for popularizing and promoting youth ice hockey and reserving outstanding youth ice hockey competitive talents. The most vivid legacy of the popularization and development of snow sports.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing aerial skills final, Chinese team veteran Xu Mengtao shouted in the sky, "Come on! Fight!" This left a deep impression on Qiu Zhaoyi, a professor at the Beijing Institute for Advanced Studies in Olympic Sports.
The FIS freestyle skiing international A-level referee said that at this Winter Olympics held at home, young Chinese athletes showed the energy of "taking the lead and working hard", this kind of spirit of daring and daring to fight. It is also the positive legacy of the Winter Olympics to the whole society.
Sharing ice and snow dividends can be expected in the future
Xu Zhensheng, 36, is a staff member of the technical training area for the alpine skiing event at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In the year Beijing successfully bid for the Winter Olympics, he, like Lang Enge, was also a farmer in Haituo Mountain.
In the past few years, his daily life has been filled with the stories of the Winter Olympics: at first, he participated in the field reconnaissance of the Winter Olympics bid, witnessing the familiar land turned into a competition field; later he joined the Yanqing Haituo Farmers Ski Team.
After participating in the training of the Swiss Ski Coach Federation and obtaining the qualification of professional ski coaches, the ski team began to popularize ice and snow sports in primary and secondary schools in Yanqing.
As of July 2021, the ski team has provided more than 4,000 ice and snow sports training for local primary and secondary school students.
Later, Xu Zhensheng also learned skills such as driving a snowmobile.
The backbone of the ski team in those days now has a "job" of ice and snow - coaching, opening farmhouses, and even attracting young people who work outside to return to their hometowns to start businesses.
The Winter Olympics are not the end of Beijing's hosting of ice and snow events.
As the world's first "Double Olympics" city, Beijing's new goal is to build an "International Sports City".
Meng Qianghua, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Sports, said that Beijing will prepare for international events such as the FIS Snowboard World Cup and Freestyle Ski Jumping World Cup, and actively bid for the FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup, the ISU Figure Skating World Championships and other events, while encouraging the market Hold high-level business events.
In Xu Hejian's view, from ice and snow events to ice and snow tourism to sports consumption, the ice and snow economy is also becoming a new economic growth point for Beijing.
The newly-built National Speed Skating Hall "Ice Ribbon" has a light and shadow flow, the National Ski Jumping Center "Xue Ruyi" is proud of the peaks, and the National Snowmobile and Sled Center "Xue Youlong" is winding and agile. These venues have become landmark buildings in the host city.
These landmark buildings, together with a large number of international-level ice and snow venues, provide venue guarantees for building an international ice and snow consumption destination. The future of the ice and snow industry in the "post-Winter Olympics" era can be expected.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Liu Shixin Source: China Youth Daily
February 22, 2022 Version 01