Original title: Understand the Winter Olympics| hockey is not a ball! Is it reasonable to fight in this project?
Illustration from: "Let's See the Winter Olympics" China China Welfare Association Publishing House (authorized)
Maybe you haven't seen a hockey game yet
But you must have heard that fighting in hockey matches is "reasonable"
In fact, relative to the acquiescence of individual commercial leagues
Really in the olympic games of the competition
Fighting is absolutely forbidden
Why?
Originating in Canada, ice hockey is a traditional Sport of the Winter Olympics and was included in the Summer Olympic Games in 1920.
There are a maximum of 20 players per team, with 6 players on each side, 3 strikers, 2 defenders and 1 goalkeeper. The rest of the players will be substitutes. Each match has four on-court referees, 2 referees and 2 line judges. Each match is 60 minutes, divided into 3 innings, and the actual game is 20 minutes in each round, and if it is drawn, it will usher in extra time.
The ice rink is surrounded by a strong boundary wall; two blue lines divide the ice rink into three zones: the defensive zone, the mid zone and the offensive zone. The attacking player cannot enter the blue line of the offensive zone before the ball and receive or touch the ball first, otherwise it will be judged as offside.
There are 9 race points and 5 race rings with a radius of 4.5 meters on the pitch, the center point is blue, and all other points are red. At the beginning of each inning and after each game is over, there will be a scramble.
Violations of ice hockey matches can cause the game to be stopped and bring penalties to the player or team. There are two types of penalties in the game, which are small penalties and large penalties.
Small penalties include tripping an opponent with an ice club, grabbing the opponent with an ice club or both hands, and blocking a player without a hockey ball with the club or body for 2 minutes, and the team that is punished will play more less. The penalty lasts for 5 minutes, most of the time due to a fight, serious injury to the opposing player or continued minor violations.
In North America, however, ice hockey fights are an established tradition in the sport, and it has a long history, including many amateur and professional competitions, as well as some famous individual fights. Even every team has an enforcer role dedicated to fighting — the enforcer. The enforcer is both "offensive" and "defensive" – when he is needed to provoke the opponent, or when he is confronted with the provocation of the opponent, the "full-time thug" has to come out and put things to rest.
Before the executor starts fighting, he will pass on the information to the other party and ask for the consent of the other party. When an enforcer challenges an opposing player, if the player is unwilling to fight, the referee will immediately stop the conflict. The rules default to fighting to increase the viewing of the game, and the audience also likes it very much and booes players who dare not fight.
However, in the rules of ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, fighting is not actually allowed. Compared with a few leagues that acquiesce in fighting due to commercial factors, most of the perpetrators of fights in international ice hockey competitions will be severely punished, and the Olympic Games are even more extraordinary.
In the Olympic games, except for the five-ring logo, the LOGO of any other business is strictly prohibited. In this way, violent fights that can attract attention and attention will have little effect.
Since violence cannot be exchanged for high attention and cannot promote commercialization, it naturally cannot appear on the field. In addition, if you fight in the Olympic ice hockey arena, the punishment will not be light.
According to the rules of the International Hockey Federation, the first player will be directly expelled from the game and subject to suspension penalties, and the players on the team's court will also receive a 5-minute penalty, and the beaten player will also be sentenced to a two-minute penalty. Those who fight seriously will also be suspended for additional matches.
Ice hockey is fiercely contested, with clubs in hand, equipment armed to the teeth, and special rules for female athletes, goalkeepers and young athletes. Therefore, the ice hockey arena has become the "show" of athletes, "show" tactics, "show" brave and tenacious ice hockey spirit.
However, to the slight regret of the audience, the Winter Olympics will not have NHL players for two consecutive years (which is also equivalent to the olympic basketball game without NBA players). This is partly reminiscent of 2018, when the IOC was reluctant to pay for travel and insurance for NHL players, compared with the five Previous Winter Olympics from 1998 to 2014, which were paid for by the IOC.
However, for Chinese audiences, a major highlight of the Beijing Winter Olympics is that the Chinese men's ice hockey team that made an exception to get a "pass-through ticket" will make its debut in the main winter Olympic games.
The biggest difference of the Chinese men's ice team is that it naturalized more than a dozen foreign players. As early as 2017, the Chinese ice hockey team spread hero posts in order to enhance its strength, and openly selected players for the public. Among them, the more famous are Yuan Junjie, a Chinese Canadian, and Zheng Enlai, a mixed-Race Chinese-German.
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics ice hockey tournament will be played at the National Gymnasium and Wukesong Sports Center in Beijing, resulting in two gold medals, namely men's ice hockey and women's ice hockey.
But back to the title, is the ball of ice hockey a ball?
In fact, the shape of the ice hockey ball is a flat cylinder! Ice balls are generally made of hard rubber, 2 or 54 cm thick, 7 or 62 cm in diameter, and weigh 156-170 g.
Did you know?
(Liu Hui)
Source: Orient Net