Xinhua News Agency reporter Xia Ke
in the snow field of the Winter Olympic Games area in Chongli district, Zhangjiakou city, Hebei province, snow roads with different difficulties like white dragon coiled around the mountain. On January 6, 2019, more than 220 Ski Team members of Beijing Winter Olympics dressed in a unified manner, sliding down from mountains in groups and batches, and showed the snow season training and training results here.
With the approaching of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the training of ice and snow sports talents is constantly “speeding up”. Since the establishment of the “ski team” by the North Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee in October 2018, this team composed of folk experts has developed into a “snow iron army” with more than 300 people “.
High hand in the Folk: A team from the masses
ice and snow sports entered our country late, aiming at the realistic problem of lack of high-level talents to run the competition, in October, 2018, Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee established a “skiing team”, 154 skiers from all walks of life were selected as the first members of the ski team from more than 2100 skiing events professional volunteers.
Among these people, 81 people come from 28 universities in Beijing, including 25 teachers and 56 students; 50 people come from all walks of life in the society; The remaining 23 people come from the owners of the venues of the Winter Olympics. Among these people, there were 17 alpine skiing national referee, two first-class referees, one freestyle skiing national rating referee, and 10 people had won the top three provincial and municipal skiing competitions.
Yan Cheng, Minister of Human Resources and chief commander of the ski team of Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee, said: “to form a ski team is to develop and integrate human resources for the society, tap folk experts, and participate in the preparation work of Beijing Winter Olympic Games, building a high-level and professional track operation team also leaves valuable talents for the host city.”
“Foreign volunteers used to serve us when participating in world competitions. In the Beijing Winter Olympics, we will serve athletes from all over the world as volunteers.” Wang Jiao, a representative of the ski team and world champion of freestyle skiing aerials, said, “as a member of the ski team, I am very proud to contribute my strength to the Winter Olympics.”
Hard work and dedication: accept experience in the actual field
He Zhongkai, a member of the ski team and an associate professor of the sports department of Peking University, said that the team needs to accept long-term experience of will and technology, A series of international skiing events held in China are the best platform for team training.
On December 4-7, 50 members of the ski team participated in the first leg of the International Snow Federation’s “Far East Cup” ski competition in the cold. Their work covers holding and cutting, flag door installation, track leveling, safety protection net maintenance, etc., almost including all tasks of track operation.
During the four-day competition, the temperature outside the stadium was close to minus 26 degrees Celsius. All the team members got up every day from the early morning to the end of the afternoon competition. They kept their posts and worked hard.
Speaking of the experience of fighting in the Far East Cup, Qiao Jie, the team member and head nurse of Anzhen Hospital, said, “nothing, we just did what we should do, can’t embarrass the Winter Olympic organizing committee.”
The dedication of the ski team members was praised by the staff of the International Snow Federation. An official of the International Snow union said to Wang Zhong, the chief coach of the ski team, “Where did your players come from? They are amazing!”
Develop and grow: fight for the dream of the Olympic Winter
the ski team has received extensive attention since its establishment. Many ski enthusiasts, retired athletes and coaches came to Beijing Winter Olympic organizing committee to submit applications for joining the team. Some colleges, sports associations and other units have also recommended outstanding talents to join the team.
On December 22, 2018, the ski team welcomed 165 new players, and the second column was formally established. There are 73 domestic technical officials in this team, 19 ski coaches and social sports instructors who have been certified by relevant professional institutions at home and abroad, and 15 people have won the ranking of ski competitions at the provincial, regional and municipal levels or above.
“After the first batch of ski teams built the team, I have been paying close attention to the weekly dynamics of the team and looking for opportunities to join.” Manhengbiao, the representative of the new team member, said, “knowing that the ski team was going to participate in the running of the ‘Far East Cup, ‘I immediately ran to Chongli and joined the track operation team. Now I have the opportunity to become a regular player. I am very excited and hope to realize the Winter Olympic dream in the team.”
Yan Cheng said: “They use ordinary work to interpret the connotation of holding a ‘wonderful, extraordinary and excellent’ Olympic event.”
Wang Zhong introduced that since the establishment of the ski team, it has carried out 13 centralized teaching. “The team members have accumulated experience in actual combat and hope that this team can become a ‘Iron Army’ on the ice and snow arena ‘.”
Yan Cheng said that in the future, BOCOG of Beijing Winter Olympic Games will strengthen contact and cooperation with Northeast and Northwest regions to build regional teams of ski teams. It is estimated that the overall size of the team will reach about 2,000 in the future.