The Chinese sports delegation will send 109 people to participate in the third Winter Youth Olympic Games, of which 53 athletes will participate in 57 small events.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 25 (Reporter Luo Xin, Su Bin) the third Winter Youth Olympic Games China sports delegation establishment mobilization conference was held in Beijing on the 25th. The Chinese sports delegation will send 109 people to participate in the third Winter Youth Olympic Games, of which 53 athletes will participate in 57 small events. Li Jianming, deputy director of the State Sports General Administration and vice chairman of the Chinese Olympic Committee, served as the head of the delegation.
Li Jianming said in his mobilization speech that the competition in the Winter Youth Olympic Games has become increasingly fierce. Compared with the previous two sessions, the number and small items of Chinese sports delegations participating in this winter Youth Olympic Games have increased significantly, it is a preliminary test to strive to achieve the goal of “all-project participation.
“This winter Youth Olympic Games is one of the most important comprehensive international Winter Games held before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games, which has special and important significance. We hope that through competitions and exchanges, we can sum up experience, find gaps, find problems and adjust the direction, lay a solid foundation for preparing for and participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics, and accelerate the reversal of the backward development and weak foundation of China’s ice and snow sports, the competitive level is not high.” Li Jianming said.
At the mobilization meeting, the Chinese sports delegation made a request to do a good job in the management and education of anti-doping and Gypsy style competition discipline, and put forward to resolutely resist doping and ensure that the delegation participated in the competition clean. It is better to win less gold medals than to get gold medals infected with stimulants. Li yewu, director of the science and education department of the State General Administration of Sports, believes that ensuring that there are no stimulants and the issue of Gypsy style competition discipline is the primary task of the Chinese sports delegation.
Short track speed skating coach Zhang Hui spoke on behalf of all coaches: “This Winter Youth Olympic Games is a stadium for testing the reserve talents of winter sports in our country, and it is the outpost of Beijing Winter Olympic Games in 2022. We will go all out with full enthusiasm, catch up and surpass, strive to hand in qualified answers with excellent results, and write a new chapter of winter sports in China.”
Zhao Dan, a 17-year-old steel snowmobile athlete, spoke as a representative of the athlete: “It is my dream to participate in the Olympic Games, and I have been working hard for it all the time. With the deepening of preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics, I will take this Winter Youth Olympic Games as a valuable opportunity to test the training results and strive to lay the foundation for moving towards a higher hall of honor. At the same time, he promised to strictly abide by the red line of stimulants, to participate in the competition cleanly and to win pure ice and snow medals.”
The Winter Youth Olympic Games was initiated and founded by the International Olympic Committee in 2007, aiming at enhancing the understanding and recognition of young athletes to the Olympic spirit and value, and promoting the popularization and development of the Olympic movement more widely, promote mutual understanding among young athletes of different countries and regions, different nationalities and races worldwide.
The Third Winter Youth Olympic Games will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on January 9, 2020, with 8 major items, 16 sub-items and 81 minor items, it is estimated that 1872 players aged 15 to 18 from 79 national and regional Olympic committees will participate.
In the first winter Youth Olympic Games competition, China won 7 gold, 4 silver and 4 bronze in four items, ranking second in the gold medal list; In the second competition, china won 5 gold, 6 silver and 4 bronze in five items, ranking seventh in the gold medal list.