When did China first participate in the Winter Olympics?

China first participated in the Winter Olympics in 1980.

1980 February 13 to 24, the 13th Winter Olympic Games was held in Lake Placid, USA. China sent a team for the first time, and 28 athletes, male and female, participated in five events.

Except for the modern biathlon 10 km increase 1 single event, all the events in this competition are the same as those in the last one, and there are 6 events and 38 events in the conference. The curtain of the competition was opened the day before the opening. The competition areas are relatively scattered: skating and ice hockey are in the skating rink of the Olympic Center, skiing is in whitehead Mountain, snow jumping is in Interville Snow Field, and modern biathlon and sledding are in Hovenberg Mountain.

The International Olympic Committee * * * has 37 member countries/regions participating in this Winter Olympics, with a total of 1072 athletes, including 233 female athletes and 839 male athletes.

Among them, China, Costa Rica and Cyprus participated for the first time. The conference * * * recruited 6703 volunteers.

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Since 1980, the China sports delegation participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, several generations of ice and snow athletes have left many touching stories in the world. During the break of a good class, Kang Hui, the head teacher of a good class, and his classmates opened the "China Photo Album" of ice and snow sports, and the most unforgettable memory was 1992 when Ye Qiaobo participated in the 16th Winter Olympics. That year, she let the five-star red flag fly in the Winter Olympics for the first time. Since then, China ice and snow athletes have started the battle for gold and silver in the history of the Winter Olympics.

In the era of Ye Qiaobo's ice rink competition, the conditions were very difficult. In cold places, lakes or rivers can be used as training grounds. "It is basically a wilderness, and almost all of them are trained under outdoor conditions of MINUS 356 degrees or even 40 degrees. In order to extend the training time, we started training on the ice as soon as the ice was covered with thin ice. When the ice falls, it falls together, just like the waves, which is terrible, so

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