Olympic champion Tang Muhan: I will swim faster! Teachers and disciples should also cheer up

Tang Muhan returned to the city sports center yesterday.

On the afternoon of November 2, Olympic champion Tang Muhan returned to the swimming and diving hall of the Municipal Sports Center, where she visited the old leaders and coaching team in this "place where the dream began", and also visited her own brothers and sisters. Han Xingyuan, second-level inspector of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports, attended the event, and he encouraged Tang Muhan to continue his efforts and strive to win greater honors for the country and Shenzhen city at the Paris Olympic Games three years later.

Tang Muhan, who just turned 18 this year, won the 4×200m freestyle relay at the Tokyo Olympics and broke the world record with teammates Yang Junxuan, Zhang Yufei and Li Bingjie. Tang Muhan is the first Olympic champion in Guangdong Province since the establishment of the swimming team, filling the gap in the history of Guangdong swimming for 70 years without an Olympic champion.

As early as 2014, 11-year-old Tang Muhan was brought to Shenzhen by Yang Liping, the head coach of the swimming team of the Shenzhen Sports Brigade, and began his own growth process in the training hall of the swimming and diving hall of the Municipal Sports Center. According to coach Yang Liping, after winning the Second Youth Championship in 2019, Tang Muhan was out of control in the next 2020 and 2021, and has reached the Olympic A standard twice in the National Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials, thus becoming a member of the Chinese Olympic delegation at the age of less than 18 years old and realizing his Olympic dream.

"At the Olympic Games, I am a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, no matter how many medals the Americans and Australians around me have, I only know that I have the support of the motherland behind me, so I must swim well!" I will continue to refuel in the future, I will swim faster! Tang Muhan said.

Back at the venue where she once trained and lived, Tang Muhan was full of gratitude for the swimming training hall of the Municipal Sports Center, and she was full of emotions when she recalled the time when she used to train here. Seeing the teachers and sisters training in the swimming pool, she also sent a message: "I hope that the teachers and sisters can train hard, win glory for the country, strive for the back wave to surpass the front wave, and strive to be the first!"

Han Xingyuan said that the birth of the Olympic champion is inseparable from the strong backing behind, the municipal sports brigade and the municipal sports center provided strong support for Tang Muhan's growth, at the same time, he encouraged Tang Muhan to continue to work hard, train well to improve himself, and strive to achieve better results in the Paris Olympic Games three years later.

Shenzhen Sports Center is the cradle of the growth of Olympic champions, where race walking Olympic champions Liu Hong and Chen Ding, diving Olympic champion He Zi, swimming Olympic champion Tang Muhan has been trained. Wang Wei, deputy general manager of the Municipal Sports Center, said: "'Do not forget the original intention, keep in mind the mission', the Municipal Sports Center will continue to make due contributions to the development of Shenzhen sports. At the same time, the Municipal Sports Center will lead the cultivation and innovative development of youth sports talents with the spirit of Olympic champions, and send more sports talents to Shenzhen competitive sports. ”

Crystal News reporter Gao Zhiming/ Wen Special reporter Peng Zhigang / Photo