Original title: Beijing Winter Olympics list released, Zhaotong athletes set out for the first Winter Olympics
On January 27, the list of the Chinese sports delegation for the Beijing Winter Olympics was officially announced. A total of 4 athletes from Yunnan were selected, and Chen Degen, a Zhaotong nationality athlete, was one of them, and will represent China in the cross-country skiing competition. meeting.
Chen Degen, male, born in May 2001, is from Xinle Village, Longshu Township, Ludian County. In January 2015, he was selected to the track and field team of the Sports Department of Zhaotong Vocational Education Center (formerly Zhaotong Sports School), and engaged in middle-distance running training with coach Lu Mingcong. Due to his good physical condition and hard training, after a year of systematic training, he won three championships in the 3000m, 5000m and 10000m in the Yunnan Youth Athletics Championships held in February 2016. In July 2018, Chen Degen once again exerted his strength in higher-level competitions and won two championships in the 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter track and field games for college students in Yunnan Province in one fell swoop. In September of the same year, the sports department of Zhaotong Vocational Education Center sent it to the Chenggong Sports Training Base in Yunnan Province for middle-distance running training.
After Beijing successfully bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics, in order to achieve “all-event participation”, cross-country skiing has also launched a nationwide cross-border and cross-event selection. The participating teams have also broken the previous situation of only Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia and other places. , and gradually expanded to Tianjin, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shandong, Tibet and other places. In December 2018, Chen Degen participated in the cross-border, cross-season and cross-season selection in Yunnan Province. After passing tests again and again, Chen Degen was finally selected into the national ski team.
“On January 13, 2019, I passed the cross-border and cross-sport selection and came to Beijing for training.” Chen Degen remembers very clearly the day when he changed to a cross-country skier. Before that, he didn’t know much about cross-country skiing, and he only learned about this project when he passed the cross-border and cross-item selection. Chen Degen said: “The biggest challenge is the mastery of special techniques.” He has never practiced this sport before, and everything started from scratch, but the physical reserves such as athletic ability and oxygen uptake accumulated in middle-distance running training have also given him. certain transfer basis. Since the first snow training in 2019, through two snow seasons of training, Chen Degen’s skiing skills and snow sense have improved, and his special physical fitness has also improved. In the 2020-2021 national cross-country skiing championships and championships, Chen Degen emerged and won 3 championships and 7 runners-up in one fell swoop. Then, in the 2021-2022 season of the FIS cross-country skiing FIS points series, Chen Degen won 1 championship, 2 runners-up, and 1 third runner-up, becoming the main player of the national team.
Regarding the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics, Chen Degen said excitedly: “I will devote myself to daily training with strong enterprising spirit, live up to the training of the country, and strive to achieve the set goals.” Teaching Center Sports Department)