Focus interview： wonderful winter Olympics cheers for the breakthrough
Cctv news(Focus Interview): The schedule of the Beijing Winter Olympics is over half. These days, the heat on the ice and snow field has been very high, and the performance of China Legion is always a hot spot. This Winter Olympics is not only of special significance to China and Beijing, but also a breakthrough battle for the China sports delegation. Many events are the first time for China athletes to stand in the Winter Olympics.
The Winter Olympics entered the ninth competition day, and the stadium was in full swing. "Breakthrough" became a hot word repeatedly mentioned. Among these breakthroughs, the number of snow projects is mostly. This winter Olympics, China Legion participated in 35 events for the first time, achieving a breakthrough from 0 to 1, of which 32 were snow events. As the highlight of the previous Winter Olympics, snow events accounted for the vast majority of the sub-events of the Winter Olympics.
Qiu Zhaoyi, a professor at China Olympic Institute of Advanced Studies of Beijing Sport University, said: "If the number of gold medals is counted, there are 98 gold medals in Sochi Winter Olympics, 69 of which are snow and 29 are ice; Of the 109 gold medals in Beijing Winter Olympics, 76 are snow gold medals and only 33 are ice gold medals. In the past, we had strong ice and weak snow, but internationally speaking, snow is heavy and light, so it is said that snow is the best in the world. "
Because of the high requirements for venues, equipment and clothing, snow events are much more complicated and difficult to carry out than ice events. For a long time, the development of snow projects in China was slow.
Qiu Zhaoyi said: "Sports is not simply fun, but accompanied by social progress. When the People’s Republic of China was founded, we followed the sun. When ice hockey started training, we went to Mohe, because that place could freeze ice. When it was cold, we could go to anniversary and Harbin. When it was colder, we could go to Jilin and follow the latitude. It’s impossible now. There is ice in shopping malls, and there can be ice in Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Snow is also like this, it is supported by the industrial base. "
If the development of ice and snow sports is closely related to the country’s comprehensive national strength, Beijing’s successful bid for the Olympic Games coincides with the right time, and China has the strength to speed up the pace of catching up with snow projects. When the bid for the Beijing Winter Olympics was successful, one-third of the Winter Olympics events were not carried out in China. By 2018, China had formed a national team in all 109 events of the Beijing Winter Olympics, many of which started from scratch.
On the evening of February 10th, the final of the bobsled team relay started at the National Bobsled Center, and China’s athletes appeared in the Winter Olympics for the first time, which was a breakthrough. The first one is Wang Peixuan, a women’s singles player, the second one is Fan Duoyao, a men’s singles player, and the third one is Huang Yebo and Peng Junyue, a doubles player. Huang Yebo, nicknamed spinach, was a track and field athlete before. Peng Junyue used to be a basketball player. In 2016, he was recruited into the national team to participate in the training of this project. Before that, he himself said that he had never seen snow.
The national sleigh team where these four players are located was established in August 2015. Only four months after its establishment, they made their debut in the international arena. This team has grown rapidly, and just a few years after its establishment, the China Sled Team has been qualified for the whole event of the Winter Olympics.
Zhang Wen, a sports commentator of the Central Radio and Television General Station, said: "At that time, the snowmobile sled team was looking for talents through cross-border events. It takes about seven years to train an excellent sled athlete. It takes seven years from 2015 to 2022, and the trick has always been to go out and please come in. The so-called going out is to send athletes to participate in some high-level international competitions; The introduction is to hire high-level foreign coaches, and through the training of competitions and coaches, let everyone understand what the competitive law of this sport is. Scientific and technological assistance is also on the one hand, which improves efficiency at once. No matter from the perspective of talent training or hardware and software equipment, such a great achievement improvement cannot be separated from the support of the state. "
It is not uncommon for this Winter Olympics, like the national sled team, to rush into the Winter Olympics from scratch in a few years. With the development of the schedule, more and more events are welcoming the first show of China athletes.
Zhao Yang, once a veteran of alpine skiing, later turned to snow skills. After 14 years’ experience and waiting, Zhao Yang finally stood on the Winter Olympics on behalf of China men’s freestyle skiers, and started the first skiing of snow skills in China Winter Olympics.
Zhao Yang, a freestyle skier in China, said: "This year is not easy, and I think I have played my normal level. We do have some gaps with those foreign powers, and we have been trying to catch up and never stopped. "
Always trying to catch up and never stopping, this state is not only a snow skill event, but also the best interpretation of the "zero breakthrough" of the 35 events in China in this Winter Olympics.
The scene of two China athletes lighting the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony was impressive. Torchbearer Zhao Jiawen took part in two events when he first played in the Winter Olympics. In the mixed team competition of platform skiing, although he missed the final, Zhao Jiawen was still excited to compete with world experts.
Of the two competitions that Zhao Jiawen participated in this Winter Olympics, nordic combined is his main event. Zhao Jiawen began to practice cross-country skiing at the age of 12, and then joined the nordic combined training team. Nordic combined is considered as one of the most difficult snow projects, which started late in China and has a weak foundation. But for Zhao Jiawen, the sword front has been honed. Last year, he got a ticket to the Beijing Winter Olympics at the nordic combined Intercontinental Cup of the International Snow Federation in, and became the first athlete in the history of the China team to qualify for nordic combined in the Winter Olympics.
On February 9th, Zhao Jiawen successfully finished the race in nordic combined. Although China athletes in some events of this Winter Olympics are not strong enough to compete for medals, with the opening of the doors of these events, every China athlete takes a small step to participate, which will converge into a big step in the development of ice and snow sports in China.
In the Winter Olympic Games, China not only achieved "zero breakthrough" in many events, but also some athletes broke through the limit with their resounding strength, wrote Olympic legends, and boarded the honorary podium for the first time.
It was sunny and sunny in Zhangjiakou on February 7th, and the temperature was suitable. The final of men’s slope obstacle skills in snowboarding was going on, and Su Yiming was the last to appear. This new face in the Olympic Games has surprised the world with its own strength in the qualifying match the day before. Nine years ago, 8-year-old Su Yiming refused to be a professional skater. Two years later, at the moment when Beijing succeeded in bidding for the Winter Olympics, he changed his mind. Since then, Su Yiming has not only become a professional athlete, but also been selected for the provincial team and the national team in 2018. In the past few years, he has grown rapidly in down-to-earth training, and at the same time, he is constantly seeking breakthroughs.
Snowboarding slope obstacle skill is one of the most popular winter sports for young people in the world today, and the competition in this project is extremely fierce. Previously, no player from China had ever stood on the Olympic Games with slope obstacle skills. After numerous trainings and competitions, Su Yiming finally realized his dream of Winter Olympics and successfully stood on the podium.
The first gold medal of women’s freestyle skiing platform in the history of Winter Olympics belongs to China freestyle skier Gu Ailing. The big platform is not Gu Ailing’s strong point. She turned 1620 degrees off-axis to the left. No one has ever challenged the difficulty of success. Gu Ailing decided to challenge in the last jump.
In the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the China delegation made a breakthrough, and many China athletes jumped out of their first step in the Winter Olympics: the short track speed skating mixed team relay, and the China team won the first gold medal in the Winter Olympics; Men’s parallel slalom, China athletes completed the first round of the Winter Olympics; China sleigh team athletes completed the first full-event participation in the Winter Olympics; Alpine skiing men’s downhill, China athletes participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time; China men’s ice hockey team entered the Winter Olympics for the first time in history.
Behind these breakthroughs is not only the accumulation of accumulated wealth, but also the leap and breakthrough of the ice and snow movement in China.
The China Sports Delegation of the Beijing Winter Olympics not only participated in 7 major events and 15 sub-events, but also won medals in some traditional weak events, which changed the previous situation of strong ice and weak snow, and embodied a new pattern of ice and snow balance. This is a breakthrough for the sports delegation of China and the development of ice and snow sports in China. There is no doubt that from the Beijing Winter Olympics, China will become a more powerful competitor in the global ice and snow field, and the highlight moments full of courage, strength and beauty in the Winter Olympics will also drive more young people in China to participate in ice and snow sports. And the second half of the game, China delegation, come on!