Inject ice and snow power into building a sports power

Original title: Injecting ice and snow power into building a sports power

In the past, about one-third of the 109 events set for the Beijing Winter Olympics have never been carried out in China. Today, the Beijing Winter Olympics are in full swing, and more and more events have ushered in the historical debut of Chinese athletes; once, “ice and snow sports do not enter Shanhaiguan”. Today, with the in-depth implementation of the strategy of “Expanding the North to the South, Expanding the West, Expanding the East”, the number of people participating in ice and snow sports is growing like a “snowball”, and the vision of more than 300 million people in China participating in ice and snow sports has become a reality.

Focusing on making up for the shortcomings of ice and snow sports is an important aspect of promoting the construction of a strong sports country and boosting national fitness activities. Taking the Beijing Winter Olympics as an opportunity to allow more people to participate in ice and snow sports is the charm of the Olympic movement; taking the Beijing Winter Olympics as a guide to promote the high-quality development of my country’s sports undertakings is also a new era for China. new development opportunities.

　　Sports tech comes to the fore

“Water Cube” becomes “Ice Cube”, “100-meter-level, minute-level” accurate weather forecast, 5G signal covering all venues, real-time transmission of 8K game images… From the bid to the preparation, technology has become the brightest of the Beijing Winter Olympics base color. A series of new technologies and new applications have successively landed in the Winter Olympics, empowering the Winter Olympic athletes.

On the track of the Science and Technology Winter Olympics, the contest of “chasing the wind and the sun” is being staged. Since 2018, Li Bo, a professor at the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Beijing Jiaotong University, has led the team to “walk against the wind” and developed a complete set of auxiliary devices for wind tunnel testing of ice, snow and sled projects in my country, which is expected to be found for athletes. Optimal exercise position for maximum drag reduction. This device has been applied to 2,500 Winter Olympics preparations for 392 athletes in 15 winter events.

Equipped with wind tunnel tests, athletes have made gratifying progress in the optimization of attitude wind resistance and queue wind resistance. The sliding posture of 8 key athletes of the national training team of the steel frame snowmobile project has an average drag reduction of 11.78%. “The wind resistance can be reduced by 10%, and the performance can be improved by 1%.” Li Bo said that at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, the gap between the first and sixth place in the men’s bobsleigh event was only 1.2%. In November last year, Chinese athlete Geng Wenqiang won the first championship at the Snowmobile World Cup in Innsbruck, Austria, which also means that Chinese athletes have more hope on the road to win gold and silver in the Winter Olympics.

“The Beijing Winter Olympics is both a rare opportunity and a challenge for scientific researchers. More new application scenarios are waiting for us to break through, promote the development of sports science and technology, and help competitive sports to achieve good results.” Li Bo told Reporter, the holding of the Beijing Winter Olympics has laid a good foundation for multi-disciplinary collaborative research. With the blessing of scientific and technological innovation, it has driven the interconnection of venues, clothing, equipment and services. The development of the ice and snow industry in the post-Winter Olympics era has The national fitness activities are looking forward to.

“We must ensure that the key special achievements can be used and used well in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and we must also strengthen the systematic sorting of technological achievements, promote the industrialization of scientific and technological achievements, and further serve to ‘drive 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports‘ and promote winter sports. Sustainable development of sports.” said Wu Yuanbin, director of the Department of Science and Technology for Social Development of the Ministry of Science and Technology.

　Open the Olympic Games to make up for the shortcomings

Technological innovation has changed the face of ice and snow sports in China and improved the level of athletes’ competitive performance. In the process of “full project development”, “full project team building” and “full project training”, the Chinese Ice and Snowman also made hard work. From a difficult start to continuous breakthroughs, in just a few years, many ice and snow projects in China have achieved leapfrog development from scratch, from weak to strong.

Compared with the PyeongChang Winter Olympics four years ago, the Chinese delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics has added two major events, three sub-events, and 47 sub-events, of which 35 sub-events achieved a “zero breakthrough” in participation. , the number of participants has more than doubled compared to the previous session.

At that time, newly launched projects such as snowmobiles, sleds, and ski jumping had a weak foundation, and the problem of talent shortage was prominent. In this regard, the Winter Sports Center of the General Administration of Sport of China has established a strategy of “focusing on key points, strengths and weaknesses, and making up for shortcomings”, and put forward the mobilization and symposium on cross-sector selection of materials for the 2022 Winter Olympics held in March 2017. “The whole country makes efforts to make up for shortcomings”, which opened the prelude to the large-scale cross-project and cross-border selection. After several selections, athletes in summer sports such as track and field, martial arts, and gymnastics broke barriers and supported 31 national training teams covering all 109 sports. A preparation team of more than 4,000 people was assembled.

This is also due to the concept of “opening the Olympic Games” throughout the whole process from preparation to the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, insisting on “bringing in” and “going out” of talents, strengthening Sino-foreign cooperation and exchanges, and learning from countries with advanced winter ice and snow events. . In the Chinese sports delegation of this Winter Olympics, there are 51 foreign teachers from 19 countries and regions, and 19 of the 23 participating teams have foreign head coaches.

“The Chinese sports delegation has a large scale, a wide range of events, and a wide range of athletes. These are three exciting and proud features.” Ni Huizhong, secretary general of the Chinese sports delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics, said in an interview. ” In order to make up for the shortcomings of the small number of athletes in the ice and snow events and the weak foundation for preparations, we set up an international team of experts to extensively carry out cross-sector and cross-border selection of materials. A total of more than 20,000 people participated in the selection, and finally thousands of people were selected for various types of ice and snow events at all levels. The national training team has laid a solid talent foundation for the realization of the Beijing Winter Olympics’ participation in all events.”

　Share the fun of ice and snow sports

The foundation of a sports power is mass sports. With the popularization of ice and snow sports knowledge, the promotion of ice and snow events, the continuous expansion of the ice and snow industry, and the “four-pronged approach” for people to participate and experience in person, Chinese winter sports are being presented to the world in a brand-new manner.

According to a statistical survey report released by the Winter Sports Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People’s Republic of China, since Beijing successfully bid for the Winter Olympics in 2015, the number of national residents participating in ice and snow sports has reached 346 million; as of October 2021, the participation rate is 24.56%. The goal of driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports”.

While the number of people participating in ice and snow sports has increased significantly, the traditional saying that “ice and snow sports do not enter Shanhaiguan” has also been broken. Liupanshui, Guizhou has built the “Southern Ice and Snow City”, Guangzhou, Guangdong has launched “Ice and Snow Sports on Campus”, Sanya, Hainan has launched “Family Experience Class on Ice”, and Shennongjia, Hubei has held the “Ski Master Competition”… Ice and snow sports sing the “Song of the Four Seasons” everywhere “. With the continuous enhancement of public fitness awareness and the gradual increase in sports consumption, winter sports are transforming from professional and niche sports to consumer leisure projects with the participation of the whole people.

“Vigorously developing winter sports and further popularizing and popularizing mass ice and snow sports are an important part of building a strong sports country. The purpose is to continuously meet the needs of the people for a better life. Through the interaction and mutual promotion of mass sports and competitive sports, provide ice and snow sports with A solid talent pool and a strong social atmosphere.” Li Lingtao, dean of the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Sport University, said that by allowing people to enjoy the fun of ice and snow sports, it will consolidate the mass foundation for the construction of a strong sports country, and also promote national fitness and national health. In-depth integration, so as to stimulate the subjectivity and enthusiasm of the whole people to participate in the construction of a sports power, and gather the majestic force to promote the construction of a sports power. (Reporter Guo Jingyuan)