Source: Sports Weekly
In the men's alpine skiing competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's Xu Mingfu completed the "debut" of the Winter Olympics with a result of 36th place, taking the first step in the men's downhill event for the Chinese alpine ski team. Subsequently, 25-year-old Chinese alpine skier Kong Fanying also finished in the giant slalom event, and the 40th place was 15 places higher than her at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics... At the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's snow sports are climbing step by step, and the Chinese alpine ski team that achieved the goal of 11 sub-events in the Beijing Winter Olympics is also positive
In the process of constantly rewriting history and making breakthroughs.
Alpine skiing, the "flagship project" of the Winter Olympic Games, enjoys the reputation of "the jewel in the crown of the Winter Olympics", and its strong ornamentality and high thrilling degree are the biggest features of this project. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, four Chinese athletes will appear at the alpine skiing arena, and they will compete in all 11 minor events, creating an epoch-making page.
Alpine skiing is a branch of snow sports. Skiing is a mountain sport, from the early days of cross-country skiing, slalom and downhill have become its key technical activities, alpine skiing is a gradual development on the basis of cross-country skiing. The sport originated in the Alpine region and is therefore also known as "Alpine Skiing".
On 3 February 1924, the National Ski Federation was founded in Chamonix, France, and alpine skiing was incorporated into the Federation as an integral part of the snow sports, and from 1931 onwards it held regular world championships and in 1936 it was included in the Winter Olympics. At first, the Alpine Skiing Competition of the Winter Olympics had two events, men's and women's all-around events, in 1948 the men's and women's downhill and slalom were added, in 1952 the men's and women's giant slalom was added, and by 1988, the scale of 5 sub-events for men and women was formed. The last Winter Olympics held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, four years ago, added a mixed team of men and women, so that the current Winter Olympic Alpine Skiing Competition has 11 sub-events, which has become a highlight of the Winter Olympics.
The 13th Winter Olympics, held in Lake Placid in the United States 42 years ago, was the first embrace between Chinese ice and snow athletes and the Winter Olympics. However, at that time, the overall level of ice and snow sports in China was low, and most of the participating events ranked at the bottom, or even at the bottom. The best performer was Wang Guizhen, who ranked 18th in the women's slalom competition on alpine skiing with 47 participants.
Since the mainland returned to the Olympic family, China's ice and snow sports as a whole have continued to improve, since the 2002 Winter Olympics, freestyle skiing, figure skating, speed skating and other national players have won gold medals, And China's ice and snow sports have begun to occupy a place on the stage of the Winter Olympics.
The upcoming 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the combination of time and place, and the combination of people and people, have brought the overall strength of China's ice and snow sports to a new level in just a few years, and the Chinese alpine ski team is a representative. Taking advantage of the new Winter Olympics in Beijing, the team achieved its goal of participating in all the small events for the first time, while filling the historical gap of the five small events.
From the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics to the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation has participated in alpine skiing events many times, but the projects involved are limited to men's slalom, big slalom and women's super slalom, the more difficult men's and women's downhill, men's super slalom 3 events, we have been blank, the participation in the project is incomplete, resulting in the Chinese alpine ski team in the all-around event can only be a spectator.
Four years ago, at the beginning of the Beijing Olympic cycle, the chinese alpine ski team members set themselves a goal: to do their best to get tickets to all the small events.
However, the goal is beautiful and the reality is grim!
For many years, only technical alpine skiing projects such as giant slalom and slalom have been carried out in China, which are quite different from the speed-oriented downhill and super slalom. Taking downhill as an example, this project is also known as alpine downhill, which belongs to the same racing event as the super giant slalom, and is the most difficult event in alpine skiing. Historical reasons have made the Chinese alpine ski team not officially set up this project until 2017, and it is difficult to understand the difficulty of hitting the participation standards of the Winter Olympic Games.
In the journey of impacting the Winter Olympics, Xu Mingfu, a member of the men's team, shouted a very uplifting sentence, "In the case of the fastest speed of 140 kilometers per hour to compete with European and American athletes, we have no advantage, only courage." ”
After China's successful bid to host the Winter Olympics, the team members felt real changes in training, equipment and other aspects. A team member said that the country now attaches great importance to them, to ensure that everyone's training, to Austria and other countries to train can practice for two months. Everything such as equipment was guaranteed, and high-level foreign teachers were also hired.
High-quality hardware and software, high morale, so that the Chinese team in recent years, the level of the slide, super big slalom level continues to improve, although the gap with Europe is still relatively large, but the gap with Japan and South Korea and other Asian teams is narrowing. After all, people have a half century or even nearly a hundred years of development, our team members in just a few years can not have the opportunity to "overtake in the corner", so that the gap becomes smaller and smaller, is the most realistic goal at present, to do this, we must rely on solid practice and serious study.
After several years of scientific training, the team members slowly built up their self-confidence based on their abilities. Winter Olympic national Ni Yueming said that she went abroad to participate in 4 super giant slalom competitions and 2 international downhill competitions. "The first two games have not yet entered the game form. Later, I found the feeling through the competition, and then I had the feeling of the game, and the gap with other players was also narrowing. ”
The journey of impacting the admission tickets to the Beijing Winter Olympics can be described as a series of twists and turns, the team members not only have to surpass themselves, but also overcome the challenges brought by the epidemic, the World Cup that was originally held in China the year before and last year belonged to the test matches before the Olympic Games, because the epidemic was not held, which made it more difficult for Chinese players to compete for tickets. In the face of the challenge, the Chinese team did not lose self-confidence, after several efforts and hard work, Chinese players finally broke through this layer of window paper at the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics points competition: for the first time in a single Olympic Games, they won all the small events and won their own Winter Olympic "Grand Slam".
Liu Zhen, the leader of the national training team, said that a row of data has witnessed the progress of China's alpine skiers. "In the previous points races, it was relatively common for our players to lag 1.6 seconds to 2 seconds behind the champion. In this year's WOMEN's Super Giant Slalom Event INTERNATIONAL SNOW FEDERATION Points Race held in Reitlam, Austria, Ni Yueming was only 0.8 seconds slower than the champion, and the progress was obvious. Liu Zhen was pleased with the data.
Male athletes Zhang Yangming and Xu Mingfu both won the men's 5 events, both filling the gap in china's alpine skiing in the winter Olympics of men's downhill and super big slalom. While Kong Fanying and teammate Ni Yueming won the women's super slalom, big slalom and slalom events, she also became the first Chinese athlete to participate in the winter Olympics alpine skiing women's downhill and all-around events. At the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, Kong Fanying, Zhang Yangming and Xu Mingfu and Ni Yueming, who joined the Chinese Legion for the first time, will join forces to showcase the style of China's new generation of alpine skiers.
Zhang Yangming, 28, and Xu Mingfu, 25, both from Tonghua, Jilin, finished 69th in the men's giant slalom at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Tonghua is a famous hometown of ice and snow sports in China, especially alpine skiing projects have been in a leading position in the country, has trained Park Dongxi, Wang Guizhen, Liu Changcheng, Li Lei and many other famous national players, participated in many ice and snow events including the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, and has stepped out of two Winter Olympic national players in recent years.
Like Zhang Yangming, 26-year-old Harbin girl Kong Fanying is also participating in the Winter Olympics for the second time, and she won the 55th place in the women's grand slalom at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago. Ni Yueming, a 27-year-old from Hegang, Heilongjiang, said as she looked ahead to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, "Do your best and strive for the best results." Ni Yueming said that the level of alpine skiing in the mainland belongs to the middle and lower reaches, the domestic start is relatively late, the people know less, and there is no better talent reserve. In recent years, the domestic ice and snow sports have developed well, more and more people are involved in skiing, after the opening of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, I believe more people know about the alpine skiing project.
For the Beijing Winter Olympics, Liu Zhen said that he would strive to help athletes achieve the goal of the Winter Olympics, "The risks taken by athletes are very large. Alpine skiing is a sport for the brave, and we show the brave's demeanor through active preparation. ”
The Winter Olympic War is on the string, the National Alpine Ski Center located in Xiaohaituo, Yanqing, Beijing, will witness the heroic posture of a new generation of Winter Olympic national players, and as Zhang Yangming is looking forward to, now China has the first alpine skiing field that meets the standards of the Winter Olympics, when Chinese athletes have more opportunities to train and compete, China's alpine skiing will undergo positive changes, and the breakthrough in performance is just around the corner, and I wish the Chinese alpine ski team another breakthrough!