Recently, the curling national training team Olympic selection competition is in full swing, a total of 4 men and women four-person teams, 5 mixed doubles teams to participate, this Winter Olympics selection for 6 stops, 6 consecutive weeks, this week they came to the Erqi factory national ice and snow sports training and research base for the fourth stop of the competition.
In the first three stops, Han Yu performed well as a fourth baseman, making wonderful commands in the base camp many times, helping the team to overcome dangers, and the strength should not be underestimated. Throughout her entire career, it is also different, let's take stock of the "extraordinary" of this post-00 captain.
This issue tells you about the life experience of curling player Han Yu,
Interpret a different life~
The "extraordinary" of embarking on a career path
Unlike many professional athletes, Han Yu is not from a sports school, she was still an ordinary primary school student before the age of 12, when Han Yu attended the primary school to implement the "physical education, art 2 + 1 project", that is, students should master two sports skills and an artistic specialty, initially Han Yu chose basketball, but in a training Han Yu's finger injury, parents found out that after the heartache, they suggested that Han Yu change a project.
At the time when Beijing Huairou District vigorously promoted the "ice and snow into the campus", the school organized a curling experience activity, and Han Yu went to participate in the curling experience project with the mentality of trying it out.
After putting on curling shoes, Han Yu instantly had a different experience, just like returning to the playground of the kindergarten, although Han Yu was always falling like many people when he first went to the ice, even to the point of falling "ignorant", but she was like the immortal Xiao Qiang, holding her nerve to understand, and thus became very interested in the sport of curling.
Since then, she has been participating in weekly curling experiences. Later, Han Yu and several partners signed up for the competition together, and in the spirit of "going to play casually", represented Huairou District to win the championship of the women's curling group A of the Beijing Winter Games.
In 2014, she teamed up with teammates from other schools to participate in the National Youth Championship, because she was halfway out of the house, and there was still a gap between her and the professional team, so the results at that time were not ideal, Han Yu was particularly unwilling after that, went back to practice harder, and faced with the seemingly impossible difficult tasks assigned by the coach, she also tried her best to complete.
"Extraordinary" selected for the national team
In 2016, Han Yu stood out in the selection of the Youth Winter Olympics, as the only amateur player, qualified to represent China in the mixed four and mixed doubles competitions, and finally won a silver medal for the Chinese team, which also made her selected for the Beijing team, officially transformed into a professional athlete, and has since embarked on a professional road.
After transforming from amateur training to professional training, both intensity and difficulty have increased a lot, it is difficult to fully adapt for a while, Han Yu spent half a year to catch up with the progress of the same age team members, through continuous efforts, she successfully passed the selection of the national youth team, won the women's championship in the national youth championship, represented the Chinese team in the World Youth Championship, and achieved a good result of fourth place.
In the women's final of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Curling Championships, Han Yu, who was only 19 years old, took over the mantle of the female team captain of the curling national training team and assumed the fourth base of the team, you know, the fourth base in the team plays the command position.
The game is mainly directed at the base camp, helping teammates judge the line, and the two shots of the fourth base determine the final score, which is the most responsible position among the four bases.
Overcoming the pressure to win the championship of the "extraordinary"
When Han Yu first learned that she was going to play fourth base, there were some accidents, because there were many more experienced veterans in the team, she was just starting out, somewhat unconfident, worried that she would not do well, she would also pay attention to some outside voices, so she also brought a lot of pressure to herself, and the pressure would be tense.
Fortunately, the coach did not give too much pressure, the coach said that the competition training is mainly to train the team, to learn experience in the process of playing with the strong team, increase technology, she also regained confidence after several run-ins, helped the Chinese team defeat the Japanese team to win the championship, after five years to reach the top again.
12 years old contact curling, 19 years old as the national women's team curling captain, the top of Asia, 21 years old has the opportunity to stand on the stage of the Winter Olympics, it is curling that made the original ordinary little girl have a "hanging" like life.
Han Yu also sighed in a previous interview: "If I hadn't met curling, my life would have been very ordinary." But now I can at least work hard for my sports dreams, go to various places abroad to train and compete. Looking back on this life later, I feel that I have lived a very full life. ”
We also hope that Han Yu can have a good play in the next Curling Winter Olympics and realize his Winter Olympic dream as soon as possible!
Source of content material: China Sports News
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