Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 13th: the goal of unity is available
— Summary of the cold water jug World Cup finals
Xinhua news agency reporters Lu Xianting, Wu Shuguang and Yang Fan
although they were not optimistic before the game, however, the Chinese men’s team won the runner-up in the finals of the cold water jug World Cup, creating the best result of the Chinese men’s cold water jug in the world competition; The Chinese women’s team, which had been reorganized for three months, also won the fifth place; cao Chang/Yuan Mingjie, a young Chinese mixed pair, ranked seventh.
Throughout this competition, there are still more or less gaps between the three Chinese teams and the old world top teams, but on the whole, the competition team found the right direction and regained confidence, olympic dreams and Olympic goals are available.
For Chinese men Cold water jug, who have been almost depressed in the past season and only ended in the 11th place in the world championships, playing at home in this World Cup finals is more challenging than the test.
In addition to the host Chinese team, the participating teams in this finals also have 3-stop sub-race champion, new science champion of the world championships, champion of the last Winter Olympics and the team that has not yet advanced to the top of the World Cup points. The Chinese team is in the same group as the US team of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics champion, the Sweden team of the world championship and the Canadian team of the old world team. Before the game, almost no one would be optimistic that the Chinese team can qualify from this death group.
However, the new and old alternate Chinese men’s team composed of Zou Qiang, badexin, Wang Zhiyu and Xu Jingtao won the world champion Sweden team at 7:6 in the first battle, although it was attacked by Sweden at 5:0 after that, the Chinese team advanced to the final as the team leader with the record of defeating the United States and Canada in North America DOUBLE HEROES on the last day of the group match. In the end, the Chinese men’s team defeated the Canadian second team and won the second place.
Before this campaign, the best results of the Chinese men’s team in the world competition were the fourth in the cold water jug World Championships in 2008 and the fourth in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. After winning the runner-up in this competition, veteran badxin was very satisfied. “We didn’t expect to reach the final ourselves. Even if the score was so close to that of the opponent in the final, we were ready to fight hard, because the teams coming to the competition are all world strong teams, we feel very happy to reach this level”.
Men’s team captain Zou Qiang said that the World Cup team had a more tacit cooperation. By playing against the world’s top teams, they learned how to control their emotions at critical moments, and then the team would continue to break in.
After losing the Canadian men’s cold water jug World Championship last month, the Chinese men’s team members were very annoyed and felt that they did not play their true level. The Chinese men’s team made up its mind to rebuild the team’s style. After just three weeks of training and base adjustment, the team improved significantly and won the silver medal in this competition at one stroke.
“This silver medal is a great encouragement to our cold water jug project. It cannot be said that we have already stood in the Forest of the world’s top teams, but it can be said that after hard work and hard training, we have the right direction and the right road. This silver medal is more to give everyone confidence and recognition. Everyone works together, unites and reorganizes. In fact, our Olympic dream and Olympic goal can be achieved.” Lei Wei, the leader of China’s cold water jug team, said.
2019 is the year of “fixing point” in preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics, that is, selecting the best among the best, initially fixing the members of the national team, and basically defining the key athletes, and demonstrate certain competitive strength in international high-level competitions. At the beginning of the year, after a series of selections, three men’s teams and three women’s teams were selected into the National Cold water jug training team, and 10 mixed pairs were shortlisted in the national team training camp. They represent the country in international competitions through competition. Benign competition has promoted team development and echelon construction.
The team representing the Chinese women’s team in the World Cup finals is composed of Jiang Xiaolun, Zhang Lijun, Dong Ziqi and Jiang Xindi, which is different from the team of Mei Jie who won the sixth World Championship in March. This team lacks experience in the competition and has some concerns in the competition. Although the captain Jiang Xiaolun expressed his satisfaction with the World Cup, achieved the expected goal of training troops and brought all the levels into full play, the next step of the Chinese women’s team still needs psychological construction, team unity, make efforts in technical refinement and other aspects.
The cold water jug World Cup is a new international top cold water jug series event launched by World pot Federation in the 2018-2019 season. With the end of this finals, the cold water jug competition this season has all ended. This season, China’s cold water jug team experienced ups and downs and summarized some experiences and lessons. Next season, the “fixed point” team will be further reduced to the “elite” stage.
“Every player of the cold water jug team is looking forward to the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In the next less than 1,000 days, we will strive to do our best in every detail and adjust to our best state to welcome the competition.” Lei Di said.