Regardless of the front and back of the stage, no matter where the position is, they are all contributing "Tianjin strength" to the Winter Olympics"

　　Cart driver Ding Song riveted his feet to "start" the Chinese snowmobile.
Ding Song, a snowmobile athlete from Tianjin who wears black-rimmed glasses on weekdays, looks very gentle, but he is definitely a tough guy in training for the Beijing Winter Olympics. As the right-hand cart driver of the four-person snowmobile project of China Snow Team, Ding Song, who is gifted in physical strength, is responsible for starting this level for the team, which can be called the "engine" of the whole team ".
In the 4-person snowmobile project, the brakeman uses the password to let his teammates start the cart together, while the pusher on both sides is responsible for providing greater initial speed to the snowmobile, and the helmsman is responsible for controlling the direction. Therefore, in the starting stage of the snowmobile, the strength and speed of the cart are very important to the performance of the whole team, which tests Ding Song's physical fitness. "I want to accumulate strength day by day." Ding Song, who doesn't talk much on weekdays, secretly made up his mind, "If everyone can do their own words, our team will definitely have a performance that will make those strong teams shine." Ding Song said.
At the training site, within 6 seconds of the departure signal, Ding Song and his teammates pushed the snowmobile to start running. After the helmsman first jumped into the car body, Ding Song kept jumping into the car, followed by the two behind. The cart driver jumped in. The snowmobile shared by the four team members can reach a maximum speed of 160 kilometers per hour, just like a roller coaster driving at full speed on the track. Ding Song said: "The top priority I have to do now is to cooperate. A strong person is really not strong, and a strong team is really strong."
Ding Song, once a track and field athlete, changed to snowmobile through cross-border cross-event selection. In the original javelin project, Ding Song has reached the level of athlete. With good physical talent, he was sent to the national snowmobile training team in 2019, and finally stood out and got the qualification for the Beijing Winter Olympic snowmobile project. He will appear in the "snow dragon" of Yanqing national snowmobile sled center on February 19 to fight side by side with his teammates to compose the song of the Winter Olympic Games. (Special correspondent Zhang Lulu)

　　Zhang Jing, steel frame snowmobile test skater: let good brothers help me realize the dream of winter Olympics
"We must help our teammates to explore the way and make good achievements at home!" This is the inner monologue of Zhang Jing, a steel frame snowmobile test skater from Tianjin for the Beijing Winter Olympics, when he swoops down from the "Snow Dragon" track of the National Snowmobile Sled Center with a total length of 1975 meters and a vertical drop of 121 meters. Although he did not have the chance to appear in the Beijing Winter Olympics, as a test skater to ensure the safety and performance of the athletes, Zhang Jing felt that every slide was so close to his dream of the Winter Olympics. "Let my good brother Yan Wengang help me realize my dream."
Zhang Jing is a steel frame snowmobile athlete from Tianjin and was selected for the national team in 2019. He and Yan Wengang, a Tianjin athlete who qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics, are both teammates and good brothers. In this Winter Olympics, Zhang Jing turned into a test skater to test the track in advance for the athletes in the official competition, so as to easily see the natural direction of the curve behind the ice trough and help them solve potential problems. It is also an important inspection link for the timing system, lighting and broadcasting system. "The trial skating work shoulders the mission of ensuring the safety and performance of athletes, and there can be no negligence." Zhang Jing said.
Looking at his good brother Yan Wengang speeding through the "Snow Dragon" training, Zhang Jing often couldn't contain his inner excitement, "I'm shouting in my heart, Yan Wengang, come on! My brother's winter Olympic dream is on you."
To be a true hero and keep a pure heart, this belief makes Zhang Jing feel like a word "cool" every time he tries to slide ". He said: "No matter what role I play in participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics, it is a matter of great pride. I will also do my best to show the best side of the steel-frame snow team to the people of the whole country and the world." (Special correspondent Zhang Lulu)

　　Speed Skating Test Skater Liu Xinyue: "Ice Ribbon" Is Really Incomparable
Compared with the speed skaters who have just entered the field for training recently, the test skaters arrived in Beijing as early as January 21, including three test skaters from the Tianjin speed skating team, two girls Li Meiji, Liu Xinyue and male player Xu Wenyang. Although the 21-year-old Liu Xinyue did not have the chance to participate in the Winter Olympics, she was also excited to feel the ice surface of the "ice ribbon" in advance as a test skater: "I am very happy to be a part of serving the Beijing Winter Olympics. The quality of all aspects of the ice can be continuously fed back, and ultimately provide the best venue conditions for athletes participating in the Winter Olympics speed skating competition."
The Tianjin speed skating team had been training in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province. After receiving the task of trial skating at the Winter Olympic Games, the three players, under the leadership of the coach, rushed directly from Daqing to Beijing on January 21, and then entered the "ice ribbon" to start the trial skating work. Before the "ice ribbon" starts the official training, the test skaters need to cooperate closely with the ice making team, feedback the ice surface situation in time, and then the ice making team will follow up the trimming. "When I came to Beijing, I was in a closed loop, and every day was a '2.1 line' between the venue and the hotel, but people didn't find it boring because they could train in advance at the new speed skating stadium, the 'Ice Ribbon. Basically, every morning we have nearly two hours to schedule for us to try out the skating, and then feed back the skating experience to the ice team." Liu Xinyue said, "At the beginning of the two days of ice, I still felt that the ice surface was not smooth enough and had some edges. However, after that, the ice making team did a very fast and very good job of trimming. Later, I felt that the flatness, smoothness and hardness of the whole ice surface were becoming more and more ideal, and there was no obvious temperature difference between the whole ice surface. As the number of skating trials increases, I like this beautiful venue more and more. The environment, facilities and conditions here are really unparalleled."
Recently, with the arrival of athletes from various countries and the start of official training and individual training competitions, the time for the ice test skaters to be on the ice in the venues has also been shortened and the frequency has been increased. Liu Xinyue said: "now the daily utilization rate of the ice surface is very high, so the arrangement of the combination of training and skating test is also very compact. Even in the formal competition stage, we need to try skating on the ice for a short time before the competition, and provide some feedback on the sliding feeling of the ice surface to the ice making team, so as to ensure that the subsequent competition can be carried out on the ice surface with the best quality."
A total of 14 gold medals were produced in the speed skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. Liu Xinyue also looked forward to: "I hope that Chinese athletes can achieve ideal results here. The experience of this trial skating will also inspire me to work harder and strive for myself to stand in the Winter Olympic Games in the future." (Special correspondent Xie Chen)
 

Source: Tianjin Daily