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Missing just over five years to the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing in 2022, and China has decided to move to develop their own Nordic disciplines in view of the event, asking for help none other than the Norwegian federation.
Thursday 19 January 2017 3 minutes reading time
By quest''ultima, the Chinese Olympic Committee has launched a call. Whatever coach norge cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping and combined can send within the '8 February 2017 their CV.
In case of intake we must move bag and baggage in China, but for the future of the Asian giant will is to play as much as possible training camp between Scandinavia and Finland.
China is currently struggling to be competitive in these disciplines. However there is a strong tradition in biathlon, especially in the women's field. On the 'other hand, in the last decade, the Chinese often climbed on the podium in the World Cup races, collecting occasionally even world championship medals.
Now the competition is much lower, but the movement never died and there is some interesting young (as witnessed dall''oro won in the single mixed by Fanqi Meng Zhu Zhenyu and Youth Olympic Games in Lillehammer 2016).
There is also a movement in women's jump, which in 2013 has even picked up a pair of top-15 sporadic in the World Cup with Liu Qi. It was episodes, but the athletes are there and you can then think about a development.
Definitely more complex the situation elsewhere. In the bottom of the Chinese test themselves almost exclusively in home games, but Sun Qinghai apart from the competition at the highest levels has to be demonstrated.
Male athlete jumping in there somewhere, but struggling in third-level competitions. Nordic Combined, however, you must start literally from scratch.
I wonder if someone will be struck on his way to Beijing and will answer the call, both fascinating and full of unknowns.
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