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"We will train an Olympic downhill champion": China's top skiing official
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Report filed by DavidS 21 December:
China's top skiing official has declared his life's ambition - for the country to secure a downhill gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
Shan Zhaojian, General Secretary of the Chinese Ski Association is overseeing the development of ski resorts and racing for a nation which is destined to become the world's dominant economic power.
"We will teach as many of the masses to ski as possible," he says "From the masses we will pick the future stars"...
"We will have a strong national team. We will train. And then the champion of the Olympic downhill race will be Chinese. It is the dream of my entire life."
Shan Zhaojian was talking to Michael Finkel of the US magazine Skiing. Finkel writes:
"In a manner that struck me as typically Chinese, the country had decided to start out not with a series of modest local hills that would foster a native ski culture, but with a sprawling "firstly-selected skiing and vacationing resort" (this from the brochure), and thus to leapfrog the usual ski-nation progression. This not only depleted the national ski budget but, in combination with a Chinese predilection to ignore all foreign advice, also resulted in a place with an ill-thought-out lift system, with trails cut counter to the fall line, in a province that often receives very little snow. Now, in an attempt to amend Yabuli's most pressing problem, the government was spending its remaining ski-allocated funds to manufacture powerful, jet-engine-type snow guns."
For access to this great article,
click here.
Photo:
The Fifth China Heilongjiang International Skiing Festival
/ Visit China 2004
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marc gledhill writes:
DavidS
, very good link. If you've got a few minutes you must read that article
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Edit:
due to a coding error, the above report (which should have been filed under DavidS's original credit) is re-formatted.]
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isn't a real person
Obviously
A snowHead
isn't a real person
Excellant article. I wander if ther were any pics?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Really good article. It made me wish I could have been there.
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