Our newspaper, Ulanqab, February 22 (China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Shi Jia) Today, the schedule of the 14th National Winter Games has passed halfway, and a total of 29 gold medals have been produced, including 8 for the Liaoning team, Jilin team won 5 pieces, Hebei team 5 pieces, Chongqing team 4 pieces, Heilongjiang team 3 pieces. In addition, Xinjiang, Tibet, Guizhou, and Sichuan each won 1 piece.
Judging from the scattered results of gold medals, the ice and snow sports strategy of "expanding south, expanding west, and advancing east" has become a reality in the "14th Winter" competition.
For the first time in the "14th Winter", provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities were organized into teams to compete, attracting a total of more than 3,000 athletes from 35 delegations.
More than a dozen provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities including Guizhou, Tibet, Chongqing and Hubei have organized teams to participate in the National Winter Games for the first time. Although some delegations are competing for the first time, their strength cannot be underestimated.
On February 19, after the Tibetan team’s Yongqing Lamu was the first to cross the finish line of the women’s snowboarding youth group obstacle course, she raised her arms and cheered with excitement: “This gold medal makes up for being injured and not playing in the previous Winter Olympics. It’s a pity.” Yongqing Lhamo’s hometown is Purong Village, Wangda Town, Zogong County, Qamdo City, Tibet. In 2018, she switched from football to snowboarding. Ice and snow sports brought her many firsts: the first time out of the province, The first time to go abroad, the first time to participate in a competition, the first time to win a medal...
Mo Xiaoxue, a 16-year-old athlete from Chongqing, switched from track and field to cross-country skiing just because she saw the development momentum of ice and snow sports.
She has been practicing cross-country skiing for more than two years. She practices roller skating in Chongqing in the summer and skis in Northeast China in the winter.
Mo Xiaoxue told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily: "It was very novel to ski for the first time. From the initial discomfort, I have fallen in love with skiing now." Next, she will participate in the cross-country skiing youth group women's 10 Although she feels that her ability is mediocre now in the kilometer and women's individual sprint competitions, she also dreams of standing on the podium one day.
"At the beginning, our staff couldn't tell what winter sports were. It was only after the Beijing Winter Olympics that we had basic knowledge." said Huang Yi, director of the Guizhou Provincial Winter Sports Development Center.
In order to change this situation, respond to the ice and snow sports strategy of "expanding southward, expanding westward and heading east", and achieving the goal of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports", the Guizhou Provincial Sports Bureau conducts cross-border and cross-sport talent selection, "from track and field, gymnastics, A group of children were selected from wrestling and other sports to switch to ice and snow sports, and now these children have grown up." In addition, we have conducted in-depth cooperation with Heilongjiang Province to "use their advantages in venues, coaches, etc. to drive our athletes stand up".
The "Fourteenth Winter" originally scheduled to open in 2020 has been postponed for four years. The change in time has transformed the "Fourteenth Winter" from the "training ground" of the Beijing Winter Olympics to "300 million people taking to the ice and snow". "Inspection Station".
The "14th Winter" has also made these young athletes wait and look forward to it for 8 years.
Inner Mongolia athlete Jian Kaige has trained in countries with strong ice and snow sports such as Norway, Sweden, and Russia. He said: "In the past eight years, sports equipment, coaching levels, and event guarantees have been greatly improved. We have received more and more attention and attention."
Source: China Youth Daily