China's national shooting team boosts endurance, will power through hiking program

The Chinese national shoooting team completed a three-day hiking program that help boost the endurance and will power of the athletes.

BEIJING - After two months of closed-door training in Beijing, China's national shooting team completed a three-day hiking program in Chongli, Hebei province to strengthen the endurance and will power of the athletes and returned to Beijing on Saturday.

During the program, 45 athletes and 12 coaches hiked 25km over different courses every day in the snow-covered mountains, which took about eight hours. Apart from the heavy snow, which reached as high as the hikers' thighs at its deepest point, strong wind and low temperature also added challenges to the hike, but all participating members successfully completed the training.

"I believe this program will greatly help our team in future trainings, especially in terms of will power," coach of the rifle team Chang Jingchun commented.

"The program consolidated our team cooperation and solidarity. Faced with unknown difficulties and body and mental limits, we were not afraid and carried forward. This was a demonstration of the sporting spirit of scaling new heights," said Zhao Zhonghao.