Hungarian Winter Olympics champion Lius brothers may join Chinese nationality

Hungarian Skating Association has agreedLiu Shaolin and Liu Shaang's application for their nationality, and the outside world generally speculates that the two will change to Chinese nationality.

Chinanews.com quoted the announcement of the Hungarian Skating Association's official website on Wednesday (November 10) that the Hungarian Skating Association has agreed to the application of short track speed skating players Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaolang's change of nationality.The Liu brothers no longer signed a contract with the association to prepare for the Milan Winter Olympics cycle.

The announcement also said that according to the contract agreement, the premise of agreed to change the application of the nationality is that the Liu brothers need to compensate a certain amount.

Earlier, the Hungarian Skating Association also issued an announcement saying that short -track speed skating players Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang asked the Hungarian ice skating association to start their process of changing their nationality.

The announcement did not show that Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaang intended to change to which national nationality, but because the father of the two was Chinese, and the coach Zhang Jing, the two of them, also became a new period of Chinese short track speed skating.The head coach of the National Training Team, generally speculated that the Liu brothers will change to Chinese nationality.

According to the relevant provisions of the International Skating Alliance, the players cannot participate in the International Sliding Federation in 12 months after the contestants have changed their nationality.

Public information shows that Liu Shaolin and Liu Shaoang are well -known short -track speed skating fighters. At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the Hungarian team was picked in the short track speed skating men's 5000 -meter relay finalWon the first gold medal in the history of the Hungarian Winter Olympics.

At the Beijing Winter Olympics earlier this year, the Liu brothers also led the Hungarian team to win the short -track speed skating mixed group relay bronze medal.In addition, Liu Shaoang also won a 500 -meter championship in the short track speed skating men in 40 seconds and 33, and won a 1000 -meter bronze medal of a short -track speed skating man.