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Find your own direction in directional skiing

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2011-02-13 00:00

The snowflakes are flying, and the figure of athletes is looming in the snow field.
The orienteering competition, which entered the Asian Winter Games for the first time, ended the last two events - the men's and women's relay race today. The host Kazakhstan athletes won all eight gold medals. On the stand, Chinese contestants Liu Xiaoting, Dong Wenqiang and coach Liang Fangyong discussed the match from time to time. At this Asian Winter Games, Liu Xiaoting won the women's short distance silver medal and the middle distance bronze medal, and Dong Wenqiang won the fourth place in the men's middle distance. Their contact with orienteering only lasted two months. This is a strange event for Chinese winter sports, which has unique charm and development prospects.
Liang Fangyong is the coach of the national orienteering cross-country team. Two months ago, in order to prepare for the Asian Winter Games, he was ordered to select several cross-country skiers to practice directional skiing. Orienteering skiing is a combination of cross-country skiing and orienteering. It has been carried out in Northern Europe and Eastern Europe for more than 100 years. Liu Xiaoting, who has practiced cross-country skiing for seven years, has practiced orienteering for two months. Her biggest feeling is that this project "can make her smarter". The athletes set out with the map and the north compass. They should choose the best route in the vast snow field, find the points in order, and the fastest one will win. The ability to read the map and judge the route in high-speed taxiing is "very interesting and difficult."
Liang Fangyong said that China's orienteering is in the forefront of Asia. In orienteering events, if you persist in training and accumulate experience, you will surely gain more. At present, the International Orienteering Cross Country Federation has applied to the International Olympic Committee to include orienteering in the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. At the same time, this project is quite intelligent and interesting, and its physical requirements are relatively low, which makes it more attractive to the public than cross-country skiing.
Liang Fangyong said, "This time back, we plan to hold a mass competition in Harbin to let more people know about orienteering."
In recent years, the development of mass snow sports in China has been "snowballing". In contrast, the teams of some snow sports are shrinking. How to integrate the development of the project into the popular craze, the future of directional skiing needs to find its own direction.

Orienteering cross-country skiing host won the first gold medal and China's 18-year-old won silver

Liu Xiaoting won another medal in the orienteering mid-distance competition of the Asian Winter Games

Orienteering cross-country skiing host won the first gold medal and China's 18-year-old won silver

Liu Xiaoting won another medal in the orienteering mid-distance competition of the Asian Winter Games