Original title: The national speed skating team prepares for the new season in Milan and sets very high goals
On November 7, 10 male and 10 female members of the Chinese speed skating team will be sent to Japan to participate in the first leg of the 2023-2024 International Skating Union Speed Skating World Cup in Obihiro this weekend. On the 6th, the team started training at the Capital Skating Hall. Li Yan, the head coach of the national training team, said that China’s speed skating preparation cycle for the Milan Winter Olympics must aim at gold medals: “We must have a goal. I dare not say now. When will we be ready in the future?”
Last season, Chinese speed skating organized a huge training camp of more than 130 people at the beginning of the Milan Winter Olympics cycle. In addition to honing skills and physical fitness, in Li Yan’s words, “it also raised the aspirations of young athletes.” The training camp every week Speech activities are held to encourage everyone to talk about their ideals and establish beliefs. “The seeds of championship must be planted in everyone’s heart.” Li Yan said, “Everyone must think and practice like a champion, and the results will come naturally.”
Against this background, last season, China’s speed skating’s overall performance in the international arena improved significantly, and the direct “result” was that more skaters qualified for this season’s World Cup. “The goal of more people participating in more events has been achieved, and more young players will have the opportunity to improve themselves on the world stage.”
At the same time, for Chinese speed skating, which has uneven project development, it is also a top priority to achieve overall improvement of the 14 Olympic projects. In addition, the team also hopes that more athletes will have the ability to participate in multiple events and develop in multiple aspects. “This is also one of the main goals of China’s speed skating in this Winter Olympics cycle.”
In fact, even in the men’s long-distance events that did not qualify for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Chinese athletes have obtained more “tickets” for the World Cup. But Li Yan bluntly said that “participation” is not the goal of the Chinese team, and the results must also make breakthroughs. “The goal is indeed set very high, but without a goal, there will be no thinking and approaches, let alone determination.” Li Yan admitted that it will definitely be very difficult to change the development status of a project, “but the team has such desire and determination , only if you dare to think can you have goals.”
In the first competition of the new China Cup Speed Skating Elite League that just ended at the beginning of this month, the girls and boys of the national team have already impressed everyone, with 25 men and 23 women breaking Pingyuan’s personal best results. The 17-year-old short-distance rookie Liu Bin is about to make his “debut” in the adult Century Cup. He said that he hopes to make a breakthrough in the new season. “Every athlete has an Olympic champion dream in his heart. You must dare to think, and then Only by making a little progress every day towards the goal of becoming a champion can we accumulate more and more achievements day by day.”
According to Li Yan, after this week’s campaign, the team will return to Beijing to prepare for the second leg of the World Cup at the National Speed Skating Stadium next weekend. “I am very happy to be able to compete at home, and I am very much looking forward to having more athletes in the competition.” Ice Ribbon’ skated well and relived the excitement of the Beijing Winter Olympics.” According to her, the Chinese team, as the host, will also send more young athletes to compete.
The Beijing Winter Olympics men’s 500m champion Gao Tingyu, who chose to take a break last season, is also expected to return to the international arena. Li Yan said that Gao Tingyu was able to withstand the huge test of mental and physical fitness and return to arduous training and preparations because “a strong desire helped him endure physical and mental discomfort.” This weekend, Gao Tingyu will appear in the second leg of the Elite League in Harbin. “I hope he can reach the World Cup qualifying results by then and be able to appear in the ‘Ice Ribbon’ next week.”
2023-11-07 07:52:00
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