China poured millions into ice hockey only to get a national team so bad it might be banned from the Olympics

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China poured millions into ice hockey only to get a national team so bad it might be banned from the Olympics
BY
YVONNE LAU
December 4, 2021 2:35 AM GMT

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In the summer of 2015, the future of ice hockey in China looked promising.

The country had just won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing—a major coup for a nation not traditionally known for its winter sports prowess. And that June, Beijing-born Song Andong, a bright-eyed 18-year-old ambassador for the Chinese Olympic Committee, had become the first-ever Chinese player to be drafted into the U.S.'s National Hockey League (NHL).

In the months that followed, China embarked on a monumental push to expand the sport and develop an Olympics-worthy men's ice hockey team by building ice rinks, promoting youth leagues, and hiring top foreign coaches. China even enlisted the help of the NHL to nurture a new generation of ice hockey fans in the country.

China's Olympic organizers refitted two stadiums in downtown Beijing—the national indoor stadium and the Wukesong Sports Center, both of which were built for the 2008 Summer Games—to become the main venues for the Winter Games' ice hockey events. The organizers flew in foreign ice rink experts to ensure the ice was just right—smoother, harder and colder than regular rinks and suitable for professional-level play.


But now, with the Beijing Winter Games only two months away, there's a major hitch: the China men's ice hockey team may not ever step a skate onto the Olympic ice. On Monday, hockey's international governing body, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), will decide whether or not to ban China's national team from Olympic play due to "insufficient sporting standard."

"Watching a team being beaten 15-0 is not good for anyone, not for China or for ice hockey," then-IIHF president Luc Tardif told AFP in September.

In short, the team is potentially too bad to compete.

China's ice hockey team is so bad it might be banned from the Olympics

A ban would be an embarrassing outcome for a country that's spent millions trying to become a hockey powerhouse.

fortune.com

 

[Maarkhoor]

@WebMaster @Horus @waz

O.P is on payroll of Indians or USA since full day he is searching for anti China news to post on a Pakistani defense forum.

Don't you people think he is trying to spoil relations of Chinese and Pakistani posters?

 

[Beast]

@WebMaster @Horus @waz

O.P is on payroll of Indians or USA since full day he is searching for anti China news to post on a Pakistani defense forum.

Don't you people think he is trying to spoil relations of Chinese and Pakistani posters?

Indeed! He is even forced by moderator to change flag after bragging so much about having the welfare of Pakistan which is fact, he serves the mother queen of England only.

China poured millions into ice hockey only to get a national team so bad it might be banned from the Olympics
BY
YVONNE LAU
December 4, 2021 2:35 AM GMT

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In the summer of 2015, the future of ice hockey in China looked promising.

The country had just won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing—a major coup for a nation not traditionally known for its winter sports prowess. And that June, Beijing-born Song Andong, a bright-eyed 18-year-old ambassador for the Chinese Olympic Committee, had become the first-ever Chinese player to be drafted into the U.S.'s National Hockey League (NHL).

In the months that followed, China embarked on a monumental push to expand the sport and develop an Olympics-worthy men's ice hockey team by building ice rinks, promoting youth leagues, and hiring top foreign coaches. China even enlisted the help of the NHL to nurture a new generation of ice hockey fans in the country.

China's Olympic organizers refitted two stadiums in downtown Beijing—the national indoor stadium and the Wukesong Sports Center, both of which were built for the 2008 Summer Games—to become the main venues for the Winter Games' ice hockey events. The organizers flew in foreign ice rink experts to ensure the ice was just right—smoother, harder and colder than regular rinks and suitable for professional-level play.


But now, with the Beijing Winter Games only two months away, there's a major hitch: the China men's ice hockey team may not ever step a skate onto the Olympic ice. On Monday, hockey's international governing body, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), will decide whether or not to ban China's national team from Olympic play due to "insufficient sporting standard."

"Watching a team being beaten 15-0 is not good for anyone, not for China or for ice hockey," then-IIHF president Luc Tardif told AFP in September.

In short, the team is potentially too bad to compete.

China's ice hockey team is so bad it might be banned from the Olympics

A ban would be an embarrassing outcome for a country that's spent millions trying to become a hockey powerhouse.

fortune.com

Ice hockey is alien to China sports and I am not surprised the team is not doing well.

 

[F-22Raptor]

With the NHL back in the Olympics, I expect a good showing for Team USA

 

[Globenim]

millions

Anglo countries spend billions on ice hockey and their propaganda mouthpieces ramble about the cost of a Chinese hockey team?

@WebMaster @Horus @waz

O.P is on payroll of Indians or USA since full day he is searching for anti China news to post on a Pakistani defense forum.

Don't you people think he is trying to spoil relations of Chinese and Pakistani posters?

I mean its one thing to have a polemic trolls that never posts anything of value, cant lead any intelligent discussion, just parott U.S. regime propaganda talking points and spam U.S. regime propaganda and disinformation all day, who try to challenge the absolute boundaries and rules set by a forum or other media to push their propaganda crusade. Thats just the troubles of having an open forum.

Its another thing to give them them privileges like this Think Tank title and allow them to abuse the Negative Ratings to downvote posts stating just the most simple indisputable objective fact just because the truth triggers them, when the last 1000 post you can remember all sound like some angry and obsessed manchild and that never contribute anything of value or even relevance and are often just deliberately derailing topics with stupid trolling, that put into question with what justification the person or organization behind that account even has the title and who granted it to them with what justifcation, when hes doing absolutely nothing and the opposite of a "think tank", unless you use the U.S. State Department definition of "think tank" which just means "parotts U.S. propaganda"

 

[zhxy]

@WebMaster @Horus @waz

O.P is on payroll of Indians or USA since full day he is searching for anti China news to post on a Pakistani defense forum.

Don't you people think he is trying to spoil relations of Chinese and Pakistani posters?

He is PDF Think Tank: Analyst

 

[Piotr]

He is PDF Think Tank: Analyst

Negative rating comes in 3, 2, 1, ...

 

[tower9]

Negative rating comes in 3, 2, 1, ...

What a nasty little guy. Can’t even imagine how insufferable he is in real life.

 

[Piotr]

What a nasty little guy. Can’t even imagine how insufferable he is in real life.

He often simply runs away when confronted with tought questions. When I confronted him in this thread where he was spreading lies he didn't answer.

But going back to topic I think that Anglosaxon Empire is attacking China to shift attention from state sponsored doping in Anglosaxon countries (thru therapeutic use exemptions).

 

[Beast]

He is PDF Think Tank: Analyst

PDF is making a fool of themselves giving think tank title to such unprofessional personnel who make comment based on his liking rather than real analyst.

 

[Paul2]

Actually, China got a 3-3 draw against Canada a few years ago

 

[KampfAlwin]

Least China-obsessed Bri*ish

 

[beijingwalker]

Negative rating comes in 3, 2, 1, ...

I got two negative ratings from this guy yesterday, and he refused to answer my questions.

 

[Piotr]

I got two negative ratings from this guy yesterday, and he refused to answer my questions.

Start a thread in General Headquarters about this and ask Mods to consider removing negative ratings he gave you. I once also recieved unjustified negative rating and Mods removed it after I started a thread in General Headquarters.

What he is doing is outrageous. PDF already lost many Chinese members. I'm afraid that if he is allowed to abuse his title holder status then PDF will loose even more members.

 

[Zsari]

China poured millions into ice hockey only to get a national team so bad it might be banned from the Olympics
BY
YVONNE LAU
December 4, 2021 2:35 AM GMT

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In the summer of 2015, the future of ice hockey in China looked promising.

The country had just won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing—a major coup for a nation not traditionally known for its winter sports prowess. And that June, Beijing-born Song Andong, a bright-eyed 18-year-old ambassador for the Chinese Olympic Committee, had become the first-ever Chinese player to be drafted into the U.S.'s National Hockey League (NHL).

In the months that followed, China embarked on a monumental push to expand the sport and develop an Olympics-worthy men's ice hockey team by building ice rinks, promoting youth leagues, and hiring top foreign coaches. China even enlisted the help of the NHL to nurture a new generation of ice hockey fans in the country.

China's Olympic organizers refitted two stadiums in downtown Beijing—the national indoor stadium and the Wukesong Sports Center, both of which were built for the 2008 Summer Games—to become the main venues for the Winter Games' ice hockey events. The organizers flew in foreign ice rink experts to ensure the ice was just right—smoother, harder and colder than regular rinks and suitable for professional-level play.


But now, with the Beijing Winter Games only two months away, there's a major hitch: the China men's ice hockey team may not ever step a skate onto the Olympic ice. On Monday, hockey's international governing body, the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), will decide whether or not to ban China's national team from Olympic play due to "insufficient sporting standard."

"Watching a team being beaten 15-0 is not good for anyone, not for China or for ice hockey," then-IIHF president Luc Tardif told AFP in September.

In short, the team is potentially too bad to compete.

China's ice hockey team is so bad it might be banned from the Olympics

A ban would be an embarrassing outcome for a country that's spent millions trying to become a hockey powerhouse.

fortune.com

Reminds me of the Canadian math Olympiad team.