The Swiss enthusiasm for snow sports is shocking, and the skiing culture here is enviable.
Xinhua News Agency, Lausanne, January 19, reporter’s notes: In the mountains, feel the snow sports culture in Switzerland
Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Xingji
on the snow field, the athletes of the Youth Winter Olympics are competing fiercely, by the snow field, audiences all over the mountains lit up the atmosphere of “Carnival”; In Lausanne city, people also set up simulated snow roads to run the grassroots version of “freestyle skiing aerials competition”.
Swiss people’s enthusiasm for snow sports is shocking, and the skiing culture here is enviable!
Carry cowbell to “chase the Stars”
“Dangdang Dangdang……” The cow bell ringing in the veral Winter Sports Park is an unforgettable memory in the skiing and mountaineering competition.
Switzerland cowbell, whose shape is flat and the largest is almost the size of ox head, originates from the tradition of animal husbandry and is also one of the necessary decorations for local families. At the Holly Olympic Games, the embodiment of cowbell with regional characteristics came to the “artifact”. People took out their own size cowbell, carried their backs, shoulders and hands, and went up the mountain in a mighty way, covering both sides of the steep track.
“The competition starts right away, please be quiet!” The noise of the whole valley seemed to be frozen suddenly. At the next moment, the starting gun broke through the sky, the athletes rushed out, and people shook the bell with the maximum frequency, shouted “Allez” in the loudest voice (French, meaning “come on”).
More crazy people, carrying cowbell, pedal ski climbing boards, gliding along the track line and shouting loudly, can be called the “strongest player” in the cheering field “.
At the end of the game, the fever has not stopped. After the ski mountaineering mixed relay race on the 14th, people joined the mascot parade with the live singing of the rock band. At this time, hundreds of spectators asked the champion winner, the athletes of the host Swiss team for signatures, so team member Robin Pizza said, “I am like a star. This is fantastic!”
Playing skiing, location is not a problem!
Several “snow roads” have been built in the most prosperous “Flon” block in Lausanne “!
With the help of the terrain of this mountain city, the organizers of the Winter Youth Olympic Games laid plastic “Flammulina velutipes”-like simulated snow, and cooperated with the ski school to set up free teaching sites here. No matter children or adults, they can try snow.
In addition to “shopping and skating”, the organizer also found local freestyle skiing enthusiasts to hold an exciting grassroots version of “freestyle skiing aerials competition” on the simulated snow trail “.
There is no jumping platform, just build one with wood; When landing the buffer zone, replace it with a large air cushion; If the starting speed is not enough, then use a winch to pull and accelerate. Of course, dynamic music should not be less, emotional narrator should not be less, and enthusiastic audience should not be less!
It’s hard to imagine that there will be such a wonderful scene. People wear skis and perform jumping and rolling over the narrow and prosperous commercial streets in the small town.
The “Snow class” beside the stadium
skiing is a sport close to nature. Rich snow mountains and proper climate are gifts from nature to the Swiss. Living in such an environment, people here have formed a cultural tradition of loving nature and skiing, and at the same time they have a better understanding of the mountain environment and the risks of snow sports. Among them, education is one of the reasons.
During the Winter Youth Olympic Games, many primary schools in Lausanne organized students to watch the games. From the Lake of Geneva, which is hundreds of meters above sea level, it took nearly two hours to reach the snow mountain which is about 1,500 meters above sea level. A leading teacher said that she was not worried about the safety of her children, because for her and these primary school students around the age of 10, going to the snow field is a very common thing in life.
On the lediya bullei Mountain ski resort, which held the alpine skiing competition, the reporter met the kindergarten teachers and students from the village below the mountain.
The Kindergarten Teacher invited a local previous career skier to explain the competition to the children, but the “bear children” began to roll on the snow slope playfully in a short time. In this regard, the teacher did not stop it, but lined up the students and asked the athletes to be judges to hold a “snow rolling” race for the children.
Under the iconic big drop off of Leisen snowfield, which held a freestyle skiing competition, the reporter witnessed a group of young skiers learning the skating skills of wild snow under the guidance of coaches. Wild snow sliding not only requires participants to master snow conditions and emergency equipment skillfully, but also needs to establish sufficient safety awareness.
Obviously, people here are no strangers to wild snow. During the competition, many spectators glided to the wild snow area, then found a huge stone on the spot, had a picnic, and looked down from the perspective of the track.