Hohhot, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- I have an agreement with the grassland -- a summary of the "14th Winter" event.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Yao Youming, Wei Jingyu, and Huang Yaoman.
On the evening of the 27th, the 14th National Winter Games closed in Hulunbuir, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. More than 3,000 athletes have completed a comprehensive physical and psychological tempering in the northern part of the motherland with their sweat and hard work. The veterans are old and strong, the newcomers are beginning to show their edge, and the Chinese ice and snow athletes are full of ambition and take a solid step in the Milan Winter Olympics cycle.
The coverage of the medals has been greatly improved.
A total of 35 sports delegations participated in the "14th Winter", of which 26 delegations won gold medals and 30 delegations won medals, and the coverage of gold medals and medals of participating delegations has been greatly improved, and sports delegations from Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou and other countries not only participated in the National Winter Games for the first time, but also had players on the podium, which fully demonstrated the development achievements of the strategy of "south, west, east and east" of ice and snow sports.
In terms of project settings, the "14th Winter" competitive sports competition has 8 major events, 16 sub-events, and 176 sub-events for ice skating, skiing, biathlon, curling, ice hockey, bobsleigh, and ski mountaineering, which is the first time that the Winter Olympics have been comprehensively benchmarked. Bobsleigh, bobsledding, ski mountaineering and other events were set up for the first time in the Winter Games, providing more opportunities for athletes to train in actual combat.
During the "14th Winter" period, the joint training policy has attracted much attention. Zhang Xin, Director of the Department of Competitive Sports of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China and Executive Deputy Secretary-General of the "14th Winter" Organizing Committee, said that there are two considerations for the implementation of the joint training policy: first, the joint training is conducive to promoting the development of winter projects nationwide and effectively promoting the improvement of the overall level of winter projects; Second, due to the regulations on the number of athletes participating in each unit of the Winter Games, although Heilongjiang, Jilin and other provinces have many outstanding athletes in some events, the number of participants is limited, resulting in a waste of talents.
Zhang Xin said that after the end of the "14th Winter", the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China will further optimize and improve the relevant policies of joint training, and lead all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities to continue to attach importance to the development of winter projects through the guiding role of policies, further increase the intensity of independent training of talents, promote the orderly flow of talents, and continuously improve the level of winter sports competition.
In addition to the joint training, many foreign referees and coaches appeared in the "14th Winter" arena, witnessing China's determination to embrace the world in the field of ice and snow sports. While the competition rules are fully benchmarked against the Milan Winter Olympics, the high-quality facilities and event organization of the "14th Winter" have also impressed the "foreign faces".
There is a "top stream" on the ice, and there is also a breakthrough.
The competition in short track speed skating, speed skating, figure skating and other ice events in the "14th Winter" is fierce, and some events are even "easy to win the Winter Olympic championship, but difficult to compete for the Winter Olympic championship", which shows that China is still at the international leading level in some events.
In the short track speed skating competition, Sun Long of the Jilin team became the biggest winner, winning four gold medals in the individual and relay events, while Winter Olympic champions Lin Xiaojun, Ren Ziwei, Liu Shaoang, Liu Shaolin and Wu Dajing all missed the gold medal in the individual event.
Fourteen winters set a new national record and set four national youth records, all of which were set in speed skating. Beijing Winter Olympics champion Gao Tingyu won the men's 500m championship, showing the demeanor of the Winter Olympic champion. Members of the national team such as Ning Zhongyan, Yin Qi, Tian Ruining and Li Qishi have all won gold medals, and Han Mei even won three golds, which shows that the speed skating team is on the rise and may bring more surprises to the audience at the Milan Winter Olympics.
In the figure skating arena, the Beijing team, with the national team as the team, performed eye-catchingly, winning four gold medals. "Veteran" Jin Boyang successfully defended the men's singles championship, and 13-year-old Jin Shuxian stood out and reversed national champion An Xiangyi to win the gold medal in the women's singles event, also showing the unlimited potential of young players.
In the curling competition, the Chinese women's curling "** generation" Wang Bingyu, Zhou Yan, Yue Qingshuang and Liu Yin "Four Golden Flowers" reappeared in the "Fourteenth Winter" arena. Beijing, Heilongjiang, Hebei and other teams are fiercely competitive, as Heilongjiang team captain Ma Xiuyue said, the "14th Winter" competition is fierce, indicating that the overall level of Chinese curling has improved.
Bobsleigh, skeleton and bobsleigh events made use of the facilities of the Beijing Winter Olympics and completed the competition before the opening ceremony of the 14th Winter Games. Yin Zheng won a silver medal in the men's single skeleton competition in the open group, and in the subsequent 2024 International Bobsleigh Federation World Championships, Yin Zheng won the third place in the men's skeleton event, which is also the best result in the history of Chinese skeleton athletes at the World Championships.
There is more hope for stars on the snow.
If you want to sum up the snow competition of this Winter Games in one sentence, then the phrase "there is more hope for stars" is more appropriate. In the snowboard men's open slopestyle and big air competitions, Beijing Winter Olympics champion Su Yiming "lost first and then won" and stood on the top podium. More important than his victory is that his appearance in the "14th Winter" can make more people willing to understand and accept the sport, and inspire more teenagers to try snowboarding and try to do what they love.
In the freestyle skiing aerials event, Winter Olympic gold medalists and medalists such as Xu Mengtao and Jia Zongyang returned to the stage of the National Winter Games. On the other hand, the veteran Kong Fanyu's strength is still there, Li Xinpeng, Yu Shengzhe and other newcomers are rising strongly, I believe that as long as they continue to improve the difficulty and stability of the action, and after several international competitions, they will be able to take over the flag in the hands of the veterans and continue to maintain China's competitive advantage in the project.
In the cross-country skiing event, Wang Qiang, the leader of the Chinese team, was crowned the "Hardware King" and became the player who won the most gold medals in this Winter Games. In some events such as snowboard halfpipe and freestyle skiing moguls, some players from Henan, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi and other places are quietly breaking the absolute dominance of Northeast players. The 12-year-old Zhou Yizhu and Dai Yuyang have left a deep impression on the referee Ivanov from Bulgaria, and the new model of "family + club" joint training of athletes represented by them is also injecting "fresh blood" into some snow events.
As Ning Qin, coach of the Jilin moguls team, said, compared with the past, young athletes now have a more solid starting point and will take fewer detours. The comprehensive strength and competitiveness of some snow sports in China may be greatly improved in a short period of time.