Hohhot, Xinhua News Agency, February 20 (Reporter Yao Youming, Ji Jiadong, Wang Xuebing) On the 20th, due to the weather, the 14th National Winter Games freestyle skiing, big air and slopestyle events that were originally scheduled to start at the Jinlongshan Ski Resort in Zhalantun were postponed. Looking at the schedule of the Zhalantun competition area, the reporter found that only the freestyle skiing aerials event that will start on the 21st still has an open training plan on the 20th, so he decided to go to the scene to have a look.
This is the Jinlongshan Ski Resort taken on January 28 in Zhalantun City, Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Beihe.
As soon as we walked out of the door of our residence, we were almost "dissuaded" by the biting cold wind blowing in our faces. The real-time temperature on your phone shows that the real-time temperature has dropped to minus 23 degrees Celsius, and even if you simply breathe, you can feel the cold air you inhale forming ice crystals in your nasal passages. A few days ago, during the snowboarding competition, the audience gave the world champion Cai Xuetong, the Winter Olympics runner-up Liu Jiayu and the "supernova" Zhou Yizhu warm applause still in the ears. From the 21st, the competitions of Winter Olympic champions Xu Mengtao, Qi Guangpu and world champion Jia Zongyang and others are bound to make it steamy again.
Walking up the stairs of the venue, the reporter walked to the height of the jumping platform on the field 10 minutes before the start of training. Before the jump, only one or two athletes were training. On the snow slope, several red lines are very conspicuous, and the athletes do not practice the movements of taking off and landing, but "reverse" and slide**, focusing on the relevant movements before "takeoff". Even in sweaters, thick cotton pants and long down jackets, the reporter, who thought he was good at hardy, only stayed outside for more than 20 minutes before he got into the small building next to the jumping platform and found that many of the athletes participating in the open training were "cats" in the house.
On February 19, Liaoning player Xu Mengtao was in pre-game training. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Kaiyan.
Although the temperature is low, we have basically gotten used to it for so many years, but it is a bit windy at this time, and we want to wait a little longer to let everyone go out for the sake of protecting the athletes. Pan Yujia, the leader of the Liaoning team, said, "Those red lines are equivalent to the track and field athletes' tracks, and its role is to help the athletes rush to the jumping platform smoothly." ”
While waiting for the right training time, the reporter saw the 19-year-old Li Lin, who was about to represent the Hunan team. At the age of 14, Li Lin transitioned from trampoline to freestyle skiing aerials. Because she is a player jointly trained by Liaoning and Hunan, she has the opportunity to train with the Liaoning team in Arshan and the Lotus Mountain Ski Resort in Changchun, Jilin Province all year round. The reporter asked her how she felt about competing with a big sister like Xu Mengtao this time? Li Lin replied, feeling that the eldest sister was very handy in doing aerial movements, and he wanted to learn from the eldest sister.
At around 10 o'clock, when the sun poured on the snowy slopes, more and more athletes walked out of the small building and began training. Li Lin also said goodbye to us, saying that she was going to take a speed test. A series of question marks pop up in front of our eyes: aerials is not a racing event, so why do we need to test speed? Pan Yujia explained that speed measurement is an important part of aerials adapting to field training, "To present a perfect aerial movement, the speed can neither be too fast nor too slow. The women's players jump the double platform at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, and the men's players cannot exceed 70 kilometers per hour before the three weeks. Therefore, how to get the right speed in the slope is very important for the athletes. ”
On December 16, 2023, Li Tianma competes in the men's aerials final of the 2023-2024 FIS Freestyle Skiing Aerials World Cup (Changchun, China). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Linyun.
As Li Tianma and Chen Shuo successively made the movements of the three-week platform in training and landed steadily, the athletes and coaches in the small building let out a burst of cheers and exclamations. Immediately after several athletes tried to make a complete move, several people rushed to the landing area under the jumping platform with shovels to loosen and level the snow near the landing site; Because the temperature is extremely low, they need to do this work frequently. The waving shovel and the fiery and vivid labor scene protect the safety of the athletes and ensure the smooth progress of training and competition.
Is it the veteran who is old and strong, or the newcomer who is up-and-coming? When the quiet snow resort is noisy again, everything will be clear.
I don't like to do pre-matches, because if a young man does come out in a game like this, then he could be the next superstar. Pan Yujia said.
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