China News Agency, Beijing, July 11 (Reporter Xing Chong) The opening ceremony of the 2022 Short Track Speed Skating National Training Camp was held at the Beijing Capital Gymnasium on the 11th. 116 athletes including Beijing Winter Olympic champions Ren Ziwei, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting Athletes will participate in training camp training.
Zhang Jing, the former head coach of the Hungarian short track team, served as the general counselor of the training camp.
According to reports, this training camp focuses on the training and participation of the 2026 Milan Winter Olympics. It will last for one month. The first two weeks will mainly carry out basic physical training and testing. The athletes who meet the test standards will stay in the camp and enter the next stage. will return to the place.
In the next two weeks of the training camp, special physical fitness-based training and testing will be carried out, and the athletes will be ranked according to the test results. The points will be used as an important basis for selection into the national training team this season.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Jing, the head coach of the Hungarian short track team in the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, served as the general consultant of this training camp, responsible for the guidance of the overall training plan and the formulation of physical fitness assessment indicators.
Liu Chenyu, the leader of the national short track speed skating team and the person in charge of this training camp, said that in addition to professional athletes from traditional sports schools, players from social clubs and even roller skaters from all over the country signed up for the training camp.
In addition, after the training camp is over, a national short-track speed skating training team for the new season will be formed as soon as possible to prepare for various international events in the new season. The new coaching team will also be officially announced at that time.
Ren Ziwei, the short track speed skating men's 1000m and mixed relay champion at the Beijing Winter Olympics, said that physical training is the basis for every athlete to improve their competitive level. Make adequate physical preparations, hope to grow with young athletes, and pass on experience to them through training and competition.
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