The goal of the initiative, from the Chinese perspective, is to help make China’s women’s national hockey team a medal contender in time for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. The money, an unspecified investment from a couple of wealthy Chinese businessmen, is essential to the pursuit of global excellence. “What we’re doing in China is revolutionary, because they’re not getting paid to play hockey,” Murphy said. “Those North Americans are living, breathing, eating with the Chinese players, teaching them how to act, how to dress, how to sleep, how to hydrate. She acknowledged that building women’s hockey in China is going to be “a long road,” but she said she’s enjoying the challenge.

Source: thestar October 20, 2017 16:18 UTC