Reviving a Frozen Dream

The main members of the Beijing 1979 ice hockey team were students from the Shichahai Amateur Sports School ice hockey class in Beijing during the 1970s. The Shichahai ice hockey class had previously supplied reserve talents to the Beijing team and the national team, but it was disbanded in 1979. The young students had to interrupt their ice hockey careers and went their separate ways. After more than 30 years, these now-retired "old boys" decided to regroup. They named their team "1979" to continue the ice hockey dream of their youth. On the eve of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, I was commissioned by Tencent News to photograph a pictorial story about the 1979 ice hockey team.