The secret of China to win gold medals
After its brilliance during the 2008 Summer Games at home, Beijing does not intend to play the extras during the high mass of winter sports. But the country must come to terms with its lack of tradition in these disciplines. Forty-eight gold medals and a first place in the ranking of nations ahead of the United States: on August 24, 2008, China concluded with pomp the first Olympic Games (OG) in history organized on its territory. Fourteen years later, while Beijing once again becomes the world epicenter of sport on the occasion of the Winter Games, from February 4 to 20, the authorities would like to see their athletes shine again. However, if the country has always been among the three best nations of the summer Olympic editions since Sydney 2000, it has reached the top 10 of their winter counterpart only once: seventh in 2010, in Vancouver (Canada). It must be said that until the XXIVth Olympic Winter Games were awarded to China in 2015, the culture of snow and ice sports was not t