The scence of Shanglianggang Ski Resort. Photo by Hu Longzhao
With the Winter Olympics coming to an end, technical officials and volunteers from Ningbo like Fan Ning, Chen Tianhong, Wang Songtao have done an impressive job serving the Games. Winter sports have now become popular throughout the nation and over the past ten years, Ningbo’s winter sports participation has blossomed and shown real promise.
Most technical officials from Ningbo not in their specialized events
宁波技术官员大多是“转项”
Wang Songtao – a former cross-country skier who competed in Cross-Country Skiing at the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics – is the only Ningbo technical official who served in their own event, while Fan Ning – the Biathlon national technical officer – used to be a boxer.
Chen Tianhong, a bobsleigh tester, was responsible for the men’s skeleton during the Winter Olympics. While the national bobsleigh team narrowly failed to qualify for the Olympics, Chen played a vital role in their preparations.
Lin Huiyang was among the first batch of national athletes in the skeleton in 2015. He did not qualify for the Olympics as he was unsuccessful in the national team competition.
In fact, it is common for athletes to switch their competition events. According to the official website of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, at least 204 of 2894 athletes switched their events at least once.
Two provincial and municipal jointly organized winter sports teams.
我市有两支省市联办的队伍
In February 2012, Ningbo Women's Curling Team participated in the 12th National Winter Games. The team was jointly organized by the Ningbo Sports Bureau and Heilongjiang Ice Sports Center after formally signing an agreement on December 25th, 2010.
In June 2016, Sport Bureau of Zhejiang Province and Ningbo Sports Bureau signed an agreement to jointly organize and manage men's curling and other snow sports. Among them, men's curling and snowboarding were to be organized and managed by the Ningbo Sports Training Team. By the end of 2017, Zhejiang’s snowboard team – jointly organized at the provincial and municipal level – was managed by the Ningbo Sports Training Team.
The sports department of Ningbo municipal government currently cooperates with the Sport Bureau of Zhejiang Province to further adjust the plans for sports teams, promoting the development of winter sports.
如今,我市体育部门正与省体育局积极沟通,进一步调整规划冰雪项目队伍布局,推动冰雪运动新发展。
Easy access to winter sports
市民体验冰雪运动“不再遥远”
More winter sports arenas in Ningbo are open to people of all ages during the Winter Olympics.
宁波市民的家门口出现了真雪、真冰场地。在这个“奥运之冬”,我市各个冰雪运动场地全都人气满满。
Shanglianggang Ski Resort in Fenghua District, Ningbo is one of the first winter sports destinations. Since its inception in 2007, the number of people who come to experience winter sports has increased year by year. During the spring festival this year, about 40,000 people enjoyed skiing there.
Ningbo Century Star Ice Skating Stadium at Liansheng Plaza, opened in 2010, was the first ice skating stadium in Ningbo. Although it shut down three years later, the people’s passion for winter sports was triggered.
Champion Rink (Universal Intime City), the only standard ice hockey rink in Ningbo, was established in 2016.
2016年,又一家真冰运动场——冠军冰场出现在环球银泰城,这也是目前我市唯一的标准冰球场。
It is noted that last year, the sports department of Ningbo municipal government decided to set up ice hockey and figure skating teams to compete in 17th Games of Zhejiang Province, with the training base at Champion Rink (Universal Intime City).