Developing talent in reserve for Chinese curling: A case study of Beijing and Hebei

Abstract

Curling originated in Scotland, has always been a "gentleman's sport" and "chess on ice" reputation, is a set of thinking and skills, individual and team sports, China introduced curling programme time is late, but the development speed is faster. At present, the performance of the Chinese women's team has clearly made curling a potentially dominant gold-winning sport in China, but there are still many problems, especially the lack of reserve talents has greatly restricted the development of curling in China. This paper analyses the current situation of curling reserve talents training in Beijing and Hebei through expert interviews and PEST analysis, and provides some suggestions.