Six players in the Chinese surfing team will participate in the World Surfing Games

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, September 14 (Reporter Li Jia) The 2022 World Surfing Games will be held from September 16th to 22nd in Hunington Beach, California, USA. The Chinese surfing team that is training in the United States has completed the selection and will send men to be sent. 3 women each participated in the competition.

The Chinese team leader Zhou Great Wall introduced that the game officially started on the 17th. At present, the team is conducting adaptive training at the competition venue to prepare for the preliminary work of the competition.

Zhou Great City said: "The three female players selected this time are only 13 or 14 years old, and one male player has only 13 years old. The experience of international competitions is insufficient. Although the players have improved obvious during the external training, there is still a certain degree of progress from the international level. gap."

The 2022 World Surfing Games is also the first qualification competition of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Zhou Great City said that the current level of the Chinese team is still different from the Olympic qualification.

"We have no foreign training in 2020 and 2021. They are restricted by domestic waves. There is very little time to train us. There is only waves in China from October to February. There are also gaps. We hope to seize the winter training, the whole year of next year, and the winter training time for next year according to high -level training to improve quickly. By the last World Championships in 2024, we hope to get the Olympic qualification. "He said.

Zhou Great City introduced that the team has currently invited the head coach and American Wade Sharp of the Japanese team in the Tokyo Olympic Games as a foreign teacher, hoping to cooperate for a long time. The Japanese surfing team won the men's silver and bronze medals at the Tokyo Olympics.

The surfing team has been restricted by the situation during the domestic training. In order to "chase the waves", the surfing team went to the United States to train in May this year and participated in the surfing World Youth Championships held in Salvador.

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