On December 29, the Chinese gymnastics team held a ceremony to honor the New Science and Technology Olympic Champion and World Championship Champion at the Gymnastics Hall of the General Administration of Sports. 2020 Tokyo Olympics men's ring champion Liu Yang, men's parallel bars champion Zou Jingyuan, women's balance beam champion Guan Chenchen; 2021 Gymnastics World Championships men's individual all-around champion Zhang Boheng, men's parallel bars, horizontal bar double champion Hu Xuwei, men's ring champion Lan Xingyu, women's high and low bar champion Wei Xiaoyuan and other 7 people were honored on the list. After experiencing the trough of the Rio Olympic Games, the Chinese gymnastics team finally won the turnaround battle in the Tokyo Olympics cycle, and 7 team members won 8 world championships for the Chinese gymnastics team.
Five years ago, at the Rio Olympics, the Chinese gymnastics team experienced the most painful experience since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, winning only 2 bronze medals, which was called the Bottom of the Chinese Dream Team. The postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by one year means that the Time for the Chinese Gymnastics Team to lie down and taste the guts has been extended, and the pressure on their backs has also increased. Fortunately, the young Chinese team withstood the pressure and finally won 3 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze results in Tokyo, ranking first among all the participating teams, which can be described as a gorgeous turnaround battle. Immediately after the World Championships in the post-Olympic era, the new lineup of the Chinese gymnastics team competed, once again bringing surprises, 5 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, once again ranking first among all the participating teams.
At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese gymnastics team won the championship and runner-up in the men's ring and women's balance beam events. Liu Yang, Zou Jingyuan and Guan Chenchen were crowned Olympic champions, and Xiao Ruoteng, Sun Wei, You Hao, and Tang Xijing also had brilliant performances and climbed the Olympic podium. Also in the World Championships held in Japan, Zhang Boheng, who participated in the World Series for the first time, won the championship in the men's individual all-around final against the Japanese ST Olympic champion Daiki Hashimoto; in the women's high and low bar final, Wei Xiaoyuan, who made his international debut, overcame the shadow of losing in the women's individual all-around final and played his full level in the first appearance and collected the gold medal; Lan Xingyu achieved the transformation from a substitute member of the World Championships to a world championship champion in the men's ring final, and was crowned the new ring king Hu Xuwei won both the men's parallel bars and men's horizontal bars finals, becoming the only double champion at the World Championships.
Since the 1980s, a group of outstanding gymnasts have made breakthroughs in the world championships, successively becoming world champions and Olympic champions, and on the world championship wall of gymnastics gymnastics, the glory of the predecessors inspires the young juniors. After experiencing a trough period, the young players of the Chinese gymnastics team finally ushered in an outbreak, winning the turnaround battle with 3 Olympic gold medals and 5 world championship gold medals, and writing the perfect 2021 of the Chinese gymnastics team.