Hohhot, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) -- The 14th National Winter Games has not yet opened, but the competition venues have been regularly open to the public free of charge since they were built, and have long become a favorite ice park for the local people.
Due to the epidemic, the "14th Winter" originally scheduled for early 2020 was postponed for four years, but the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center, which was built in 2019, has not been idle.
The Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center is a group of venues, including speed skating halls, short track speed skating halls, ice hockey curling halls, etc., which undertake the opening ceremony of the "14th Winter" and the competition tasks of all ice events. But for ordinary people, this stadium complex is the first stage for many people to "plant" ice sports.
On the mirror-like smooth ice rink, some people bow their backs and raise their heads and quickly swing their arms, which is quite professional at first glance; Some people open their arms to maintain balance, but their bodies are still staggering, and they look like "rookies" ......This is a common scene when the venue is open to the public for free.
According to reports, the free experience activities have never lacked popularity, attracting more than 100,000 people every year, and many people have slowly become familiar faces in the venue.
Figure skating, speed skating, and ice hockey are all very popular. Tian Wenze, a 13-year-old girl in junior high school, fell in love with ice skating because of the venue: "My classmates went to learn to skate, so I followed, and then I fell in love with the sport. ”
In addition, the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center and the Hulunbuir Municipal Education Bureau have jointly carried out ice and snow open classes and research and exchange activities in more than a dozen primary schools in Hailar District and Chenbalhuqi District for three consecutive years since 2020.
We put the students' physical education classes in two sessions together, and the Inner Mongolia Ice Sports Training Center provides transportation, ice rinks, and coaches. Xian Xuerui, deputy director of the Hulunbuir Ice Sports Center, said.
Song Hongliang, 49, a member of the Hasar Ice Hockey Sports Development Club in Hulunbuir, has been playing ice hockey for 34 years and is full of praise for the ice hockey arena.
The conditions are so good! With this venue, not only can you play in the winter, but you can continue to train in the summer. Last year's test match was played by our association! Song Hongliang said proudly.
by Hailar District Muslim Primary School.
The Hailar Youth Ice Hockey Team, composed of second- and third-grade students, was established in the early winter of 2015, and then the Hailar District Railway No. 1 Middle School Ice Hockey Team was established. Tactical choreography, physical confrontation ......They are more than happy to help children with anything that can help them improve their hockey skills.
Now, Song Hongliang has changed into the fifth pair of skates, the third set of full-body protective gear, and bought a professional skate sharpening machine at his own expense the year before last, "Now the conditions for playing ice hockey are getting better and better, and there are more and more young people playing ice hockey, and I feel that I am getting younger and younger." (ENDS).