Xinhua News Agency, Shijiazhuang, February 15th. Title: The Asian Winter arena has achieved another success. Chinese athletes are aiming at Milan

Xinhua News Agency reporters Yang Fan, Yue Ranran, and Wang Meng

Training the Asian Winter at Milan

Step by the Asian Winter at Milan

In this Asian Winter Games, the Chinese sports delegation sent 170 athletes to participate in all 6 major events, 11 sub-events and 64 minor events, and concluded with 32 gold medals, 27 silver medals and 26 bronze medals, a total of 85 medals, ranking first in the gold medal list and medal list. Considering the "gold content" of the Asian Winter Games, benchmarking the participation task of "achieving the best results in overseas competitions" at the Milan Winter Olympics, my country's competitive ice and snow sports still need to work hard to "strive qualifications" and "create good results".

On February 14, Xu Mengtao (Chinese) of the Chinese Sports Delegation Flagkeeper (Chinese) was at the closing ceremony of the Asian Winter Conference. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Tao

Freestyle skiing aerial skills are China's traditional advantageous projects on snow. This time, Qi Guangpu and Xu Mengtao led the Chinese team, two Beijing Winter Olympic champions, and won the championships of four events: men's individual, women's individual, mixed group and women's doubles. This shows that in Asia, the Chinese team still has dominance in this event.

It should be noted that under the absolute strength of the Chinese team, teams such as Kazakhstan have also gained the strength to get a share of the aerial skills event. Ayana Zhuoledas stood on the women's personal podium, and then Kazakhstan beat the Japanese team to win the mixed group silver medal. The men's two were synchronized, and Roman Ivanov/Serzod Kashirbayev staged a "famous scene" of an extreme turnaround, surpassing the Chinese team with the last jump to win the championship.

On February 12, Cidan Yuzhen finally won the championship with Brewer in the Asian Winter Skiing and Mountaineering Mixed Relay Final. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie Jianfei

Skiing mountaineering, as a new event for the Milan Winter Olympics, has completed its debut at the Harbin Asian Winter Games. The Chinese team, mainly composed of a group of young players, won all 9 medals in three events. In the absence of Su Yiming and Gu Ailing, players such as Yang Wenlong and Liu Mengting performed well, helping the Chinese team win multiple gold medals in snowboarding and freestyle skiing. On cross-country skiing, which has been continuously improved and developed after the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team won 5 of all 6 gold medals, and won medals for women's individual events.

After in-depth observation, the Chinese team achieved "multi-point bloom" in snow events and the basic balance of advantageous events has stabilized, the coverage of gold medals has been further expanded.

On February 9, Chinese team player Lin Xiaoyan (second from left) and Sun Long prepared to relay in the Asian Winter Games short track speed skating men's 5000m relay Group A final. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Lei

Short track speed skating is an advantageous event in my country in the ice arena. At the last Sapporo Asian Winter Games, the South Korean short track team beat the Chinese team with 5 gold medals. At this Asian Winter Games, the Chinese team won 2 gold, 2 silver and 4 bronze in all 9 events, while the "old enemy" South Korean team won 6 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze.

As Chinese short track team head coach Zhang Jing said in his summary of this Asian Winter Games, the pre-match expectation is that every battle is relatively difficult, so every gold medal must be fought for. For this imperfect report card, Zhang Jing hopes that athletes can test themselves in every failure and prepare for Milan.

On February 14, the closing ceremony of the 9th Asian Winter Games was held in Harbin, which is the entry session of various sports delegations. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Yanan

On the 13th, Wang Lei, Secretary-General of the Chinese Sports Delegation and Director of the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of China, admitted in an interview with the media that we must be clear-headed that in line with the participation task of "achieve the best results in overseas competitions" at the Milan Winter Olympics, my country's competitive ice and snow sports still needs to work hard.

He said that on the one hand, international competition is becoming increasingly fierce. The traditional ice and snow powers Norway, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, as well as the host Italy, Asia's close neighbors Japan and South Korea all have strong competitiveness and even dominance in different projects, which puts great pressure on our preparations. On the other hand, the competition for the qualification for the Milan Winter Olympics is becoming increasingly fierce. Both men and women's ice hockey have been determined to miss Milan. The qualifications for figure skating, curling and some snow events still need to be fought one by one. The situation of obtaining the qualification for the Milan Winter Olympics and the final size of the delegation are not optimistic.

On February 10, Chinese athlete Yang Wenlong won the championship in the men's snowboarding platform final of the Asian Winter Games. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Mou Yu

Faced with the fruitful achievements of the Chinese delegation at this Asian Winter Games, Zhou Jinqiang, head of the Chinese Sports delegation and vice chairman of the China Olympic Committee, also said on the 14th that if you focus on the Milan Winter Games, you must keep a clear head.

"The Harbin Asian Winter Games is a phased assessment for the preparations for the Milan Winter Olympics. Although the Chinese sports delegation has achieved excellent results in this Asian Winter Games, we must be clear that looking at the world and benchmarking against Milan is just a local competition in Asia. Compared with the world's highest level, some projects have insufficient gold content. my country's winter events are generally backward around the world, and the role of being a "chaser" has not changed." Zhou Jinqiang said.

Zhou Jinqiang said that saying goodbye to Harbin and approaching Milan, what we welcomed is a more severe preparation for the competition, and we need to be more cautious and continue to work hard.