Breaking through, a licensed film of Beijing 2022 will be theatrically released in Nigeria on April 28. Consulted by china’s first winter Olympic gold medalist yang yang and her coach xin qingshan, the film is executive produced by xu zheng and directed by wang fangfang. Meng meiqi and xia yu lead the cast, with pei kuishan, sarina, jiao gang, and zhang guoqiang starring. Wang zhebin and liu ruifang serve as producers with a screenplay by wang fangfang and wang zhebin.
As the final chapter of the “china Olympic trilogy”, the film is based on real event, recreating the battle for china’s first gold medal of winter Olympics in 2002, and showing the unremitting efforts and glorious journey of generations of sportspersons to win the milestone gold medal.
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The film was based on the true story of Chinese short-track speed skater yang yang. As china’s first winter Olympic gold medalist, yang yang won the gold medal in the women’s 500m short-track speed skating with a time of 44.187 seconds at the 2002 salt lake city winter Olympics. It was a major breakthrough for china to win the first ever winter Olympics gold medal. Throughout her career of 23 years, yang yang has won 59 world championships, making her the Chinese athlete who has won the most world championships.
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