Snowmobile sledge can be called the fastest project in the Winter Olympics. The average speed of this “brave game” is more than 130 kilometers per hour, which is known as “F1 on snow”. At the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, 10 gold medals will be won in snowmobiles, steel snowmobiles and sledges. It is worth looking forward to who will win the gold medal.
Compared with the traditional powerful countries in Europe and America, China’s snowmobiles and sledges started late and have a large gap. However, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, China successively established the national team of snowmobiles, steel frame snowmobiles and sledges in 2015, and emerged at the 2018 Pingchang Winter Olympic Games, showing the “Chinese speed” to the world.
Data figure: on October 6, 2021, the national snowmobile and sled center near the Yanqing Winter Olympic village of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games, xidazhuangke village, Zhangshanying Town, Yanqing District, Beijing. Photo taken by Prince Rui of China News Service Source: cnsphoto
In this “home gate” home battle, China’s “Shuangshu” Ying Qing and Huai Mingming will lead 12 Chinese players to compete in four minor events of the snowmobile project. In the 2021-2022 season, Ying Qing ranked 11th and Huai Mingming ranked 14th in the world ranking of women snowmobilers of the international snowmobile and steel frame snowmobile Federation.
In terms of men’s snowmobiles, sun Kaizhi and Li Chunjian will lead their teammates to compete for the men’s double snowmobiles and four person snowmobiles. Francesco Friedrich of Germany, the “king of snowmobiles”, won two gold medals in men’s doubles and men’s quadruples at the Pingchang Winter Olympics. His trip to Beijing is aimed at defending the title.
Compared with the snowmobile project powers such as Germany, the United States and Canada, the strength of China’s snowmobile national team is weak, and it is more difficult to win the gold medal or stand on the podium. However, Huai Mingming, Ying Qing, sun Kaizhi and Li Chunjian may hope to make use of the benefits of the home court to play at a higher level.
In the steel snowmobile project, the Chinese team sent two male athletes Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng and two female athletes Li Yuxi and Zhao Dan to participate in the war; Geng Wenqiang, the champion of the first World Cup sub race of China’s steel frame snowmobile project, was unfortunately defeated due to his poor performance in the trial.
Yin Zheng, the “post-95” athlete, won the championship in the multi station intercontinental competition this season, and his cart starting speed reached the world-class level; Yan Wengang ranked fourth in the first round of taxiing at Winterberg station of the steel snowmobile World Cup. The men’s steel snowmobile champions of the recent three Winter Olympic Games are all from the host country. The excellent performance of Chinese steel snowmobile athletes in multi station events also makes people look forward to the project.
Since she was officially declared the female flag bearer of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the “Post-00” young general Zhao Dan has attracted much attention from the outside world. She said she would “strive to show her best on the field”. Zhao Dan, 19, is the youngest player of China’s steel frame snow team, but she has a “great general demeanor” on the field. In 2020, Zhao Dan participated in the Winter Youth Olympic Games on behalf of the Chinese team and won the 7th place; In 2021 / 2022, she won the Intercontinental Cup Innsbruck race.
However, the two gold medals of the steel snowmobile are also coveted by foreign players. Latvian Martins dukurs, silver medalist of the 2nd Winter Olympics and six gold medalists of the world championships, has won 11 annual World Cup championships since he participated in the competition in 1998. His career is only short of Olympic gold medals. He will launch another impact on gold medals in this competition. In terms of women’s steel frame snowmobile, the gold medals of the last three winter Olympics have fallen to the British athletes, but they will face strong challenges from the athletes of Germany, the Netherlands, Russia and other countries in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, 106 sled athletes from 26 countries and regions will compete for four gold medals. The development of sledge project in China is relatively late. It is a historic breakthrough to set foot on the Winter Olympic field this time.
Fan duoyao will take the lead in the men’s single event on February 5 to stage the first Winter Olympic show of Chinese sled athletes. From cross-country skiing to sledding, fan duoyao grew from “a piece of white paper” to the captain of the men’s team of the sledding national team in six years; Previously, after being qualified for the bobsled World Cup, he and his teammates won the 9th place in the World Cup Team Relay project, creating the best record of the Chinese team in the history of the world cup. Wang Peixuan broke into the main race at Sochi station of the world cup and won the 25th place, making a new breakthrough in China’s women’s single sled event. Fan and Wang will play on behalf of the Chinese team together with the double combination Huang yebo / Peng Junyue.
Germany, a traditional sled power, has also sent a luxury lineup this time: Felix Loch, the gold medalist of the six world championships and the three winter Olympics, and Natalie geisenberg, a female athlete who won four gold and one silver at the three winter Olympics.
From the initial appearance of the Pingchang Winter Olympic Games to the participation of the whole project of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, in the past four years, the Chinese snowmobile, steel frame snowmobile and sled national team have made great progress in cross-border and cross event selection, and many small events have won the “admission ticket” of the Winter Olympic Games for the first time. In this home battle, due to the advantages of the host country, Chinese players have more time for adaptive training or breakthrough performance on the race track. At the Pingchang Winter Olympic Games, the host South Korea team harvested 1 gold and 1 silver in the steel frame snowmobile and four person snowmobile projects.
On February 5, the national snowmobile and sleigh center will launch its first battle. Chinese ice and snow athletes will pack light and show “strength and beauty”. The “Snow Dragon” track is expected to witness the success of “China speed”. (end)
