Handsome posture, sunny smile, on November 14, when the Olympic champion appeared in the Julongguan Taekwondo Hall in Wuzhong District, 100 taekwondo players from all over Suzhou and their respective parents made the atmosphere in the museum instantly boil up, and everyone competed to interact with the champion and leave a beautiful moment.
Born in Chaoyang, Liaoning Province, Zhao Shuai joined the Jiangsu Taekwondo Team in Suzhou in 2009 and won the National Games in 2013 and 2017, quickly becoming the leader of Men's Taekwondo in China. In 2016, Zhao Shuai won the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Taekwondo Men's 58 kg Championship, achieving a breakthrough of zero gold medals in The Chinese Men's Taekwondo Olympic Games. In 2017, Zhao Shuai won the Men's 63 kg World Taekwondo Championships, his first World Championship gold medal and the first World Championship gold medal in Men's Taekwondo in China. As a result, Zhao Shuai became China's first male taekwondo athlete to double-win the Olympic champion and the World Championship champion. In 2019, Zhao Shuai successfully defended the World Taekwondo Championships 63 kg champion. After winning the only medal in the men's 68 kg category for the Chinese taekwondo team at the Tokyo Olympics this year, Zhao Shuai returned to China non-stop to prepare for the National Games. On the evening of September 24, the 26-year-old "veteran", fully carrying forward the fighting spirit of competitive sports, won his third National Games gold medal with perfect performance, and achieved the "triple crown" of the National Games in the 58 kg class and 68 kg class.
Successive excellent results have allowed Zhao Shuai to gain great attention among taekwondo young players. After entering the museum yesterday, everyone has long been unable to hold back the heart of expectation, and parents have hurriedly took out their mobile phones to take pictures. Zhao Shuai interacted warmly with everyone, hoping that everyone would not be in a hurry, everyone could take a photo with him, which made the parents and children present feel very kind in their hearts.
Ms. Qian, who lives in the Wharf community, told reporters that her son Yan Yixuan especially likes Zhao Shuai, "Every weekend will arrange four hours of exercise time, for children, although it is a little hard, but the power of the role model is really strong, the little guy has always regarded Zhao Shuai as his idol, and he does not shrink back when he encounters difficult exercises." According to Qiu Xincheng, the Julongguan Taekwondo Gym, Yan Yixuan won the 23 kg 2013 group in the taekwondo Grand Slam competition just held.
In addition to Yan Yixuan's children, many taekwondo players present yesterday have achieved good results, Qiu Xincheng told reporters that many children have begun to learn taekwondo from the age of three and a half, "mainly for physical strength and coordination training, from an early age to cultivate children's hard-working, not afraid of difficulties, grateful for the good qualities of society." ”
The great progress suzhou has made in taekwondo in recent years is obvious to all. In April 2002, the Jiangsu Taekwondo Team settled in Suzhou, and since then Suzhou has successively trained two Olympic champions, Wu Jingyu and Zhao Shuai. The brilliant achievements of competitive taekwondo have aroused public attention to this project, attracting a large number of children to practice taekwondo and strengthen their bodies.
On the evening of July 23, Suzhou athletes, Rio Olympic Taekwondo champion Zhao Shuai and women's volleyball girl Zhu Ting held aloft the five-star red flag and led the Chinese sports delegation to the main venue of the opening ceremony of the Tokyo Olympic Games. Successively becoming the flag bearer of the opening ceremony of the Asian Games and the Olympic Games, Zhao Shuai has added a historical significance to the Chinese taekwondo sports, and he is also a super idol in the hearts of tens of thousands of taekwondo teenagers in Suzhou. According to relevant survey statistics, there are currently about 300 taekwondo halls in Suzhou, and there are more than 30,000 members registered in the Suzhou Taekwondo Association, which also means that there are currently more than 30,000 Suzhou teenagers practicing taekwondo, both the number of taoist halls and the number of participants are among the best in the province.
A good training environment is the basis for national fitness and talent training selection, Zhao Shuai said that today's taekwondo atmosphere and when he was studying and training, has risen to many levels, especially at the opening ceremony of this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, he and the women's volleyball athlete Zhu Ting jointly served as the standard-bearer of the Chinese sports delegation, which makes him more confident and proud of the future development of taekwondo in china, "The state provides a strong guarantee for professional athletes, laying an excellent foundation for mass sports, whether it is taekwondo or other projects, China's sports industry will surely usher in greater room for development. Zhao Shuai said that he was also very relieved to see that these children loved taekwondo so much, and he suggested that no matter what age level you are in, you should make a suitable plan for your exercise, and you must not be easily injured, otherwise you are likely to lose touch with large events because of injuries, especially small athletes who have a good training foundation and play well on the field, which is particularly important.