OlymPicks: Beijing’s Last Effort for Snowpremacy, Top 10 Chinese Athletes of 2021 and List of All Dem Sports

In OlymPicks, we highlight news, gossip and developments related to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.

Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau reveals public winter sports statistics

Ever since Beijing won its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics in 2015, the capital – like the rest of the country – has been a relentless effort to popularize ice and snow sports. In fact, as stated in the 2016 National Winter Sports Facilities Construction Plan, China planned to boast about 800 ski resorts nationwide by next year. Now, with 40 days to go before the Olympics, it’s time to see if they’ve kept their promises.

To this end, we draw our attention to it 2020 Ski Industry White Book, published earlier this year. Not surprisingly, the pace at which this country is connecting its infrastructure is amazing. They came pretty close to reaching that 800 threshold, when by the end of 2019, a total of 770 ski resorts had been reached. As for 2020, the number actually dropped to 715, as most resorts have been inoperable since the pandemic took place. , and the White Paper was modest enough to accommodate this.

But what about our fair capital? Where does it rank in the big saga of China’s winter sports infrastructure? Here, things are interesting, because according to the White Paper, which only contains data until 2020, Beijing will be ranked 12th in the number of ski resorts nationwide, 25 in 2019 and 20 in 2020. according to a recent article China DailyBetween 2015 and 2021, the number of ski resorts in Beijing jumped from 22 to 32, meaning the capital has built seven additional resorts in just the last two years. Of course, there are far more ice and snow spots than ski resorts, and to that end, Beijing’s ice rinks and ice rises rose from 42 and 44 in 2015 to 82 and 97 in 2021.

Although the quality and size of these ski resorts is debated, one thing is certain: compared to the top country in the EU, Germany, which has 498 ski resorts in 2020 and 470 resorts in the United States in the same year. It looks like China could comfortably claim its snow control title.

According to Xinhua, the top ten Chinese athletes in 2021

Meanwhile Beijing is busy with our own annual review articles, we have decided to give Xinhua make heavy lifts with them Top 10 Chinese Athletes in 2021. It is unclear whether their rankings are in any particular order, but without long talk here are the top 10 Chinese athletes of 2021, as told by Xinhua:

1. Yang Qian took first place – again completely unsure whether his ranking matters anything but anything – after winning his first gold medal at the Tokyo Summer Olympics for his performance in the women’s 10m air rifle competition. . Yang won gold in the mixed team competition, making him China’s first double gold winner born after 2000.

2. You may remember our next athlete, Su Bingtian, who made history when his 9.83-second result in the men’s 100m run at the Tokyo Olympics set a new record for Asian athletes. In addition, he was the first Chinese sprinter to reach the finals, winning fourth place in the men’s 4x100m post and was crowned the fastest man in the national championships in 9.95 seconds.

3. Between Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, 30-year-old diver Shi Tingmao grabbed four gold medals at several events and was later selected as the 2021 Female Diver at the FINA World Aquatics Gala.

4. China is no stranger to sweeping table tennis competitions, so it’s no surprise that fourth on the Xinhua list is respected ping pong champion Ma Long, the most award-winning table tennis star in history with 26 World and Olympic victories.

5. Gong Lijiao may have participated in four Olympics, but it wasn’t until Tokyo 2020 that he finally won a gold medal for his 20.58-meter shot put. Incidentally, this medal also became China’s first Olympic gold in field events.

6. Chinese-American Eileen Gu has turned her head all year, from her two gold medals and one bronze medal at the FIS Fresco World Championships to the Freeski Big Air World Cup, not to mention that she confirmed her place as the first woman in history to win a real double cap 1440 in any ski race.

7. At the age of 18, Gu is undoubtedly one of the younger athletes competing for China. On the contrary, however Xinhuan number seven athlete, 37-year-old Lyu Xiaojun, was in fact the oldest man to have won Olympic gold in weightlifting when he crushed the competition in Tokyo 2020. The Olympic medal was Lyu’s third, making him also the country’s first weightlifter. win more than two medals.

8. Swimmer Zhang Yufei is eighth after winning gold in the women’s 200m butterfly and the women’s 4x200m freestyle, followed by a silver medal in the 100m butterfly and the 4x100m mixed in the Tokyo Summer Championships.

9. Meanwhile, in the men’s section of the pool, Wang Shun will be recognized for his own incredible, historic year, which includes a new Asian record in the men’s 200m medley at the Summer Olympics and the strengthening of his gold. In the 14th China National Games a total of 15.

10. Ranked 10th on the list is Chen Yufei, who captured the world’s No. 1 stint in the women’s badminton doubles champion Tai Tzu-ying at the Tokyo Games while defending his own national games crown.

What exactly is winter sports?

And now we end with a short list of all the events and sports you can expect to achieve at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, as well as the number of gold medals to be awarded in each sport.

• Alpine skiing: 11 gold medals
• Biathlon: 11 gold medals
• Sled: 4 gold medals
• Cross-country skiing: 12 gold medals
• Curling: 3 gold medals
• Figure skating: 5 gold medals
• Freestyle skiing: 13 gold medals
• Hockey: 2 gold medals
• Sledding: 4 gold medals
• Nordic combination: 3 gold medals
• Skeleton: 2 gold medals
• Hill jumps: 5 gold medals
• Snowboarding: 11 gold medals
• Speed ​​Skating: 23 Gold Medals

Every athlete who doesn’t take home one of these medals knows that you are always the winner of the gold medal in our hearts.

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Photos: FINA, Visit Beijing, Shanghai Daily, Malay Mail, Aspen Times