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Xu Haifeng: Out of the chamber for a moment

In the second week of coming to the national training team, he was still practicing hard, but Xu Haifeng did not even see a single piece of target paper.

Old coach Li Peilin stood behind the target position, inseparable, but always silent. A set of live ammunition was shot down, and the target paper was also taken away.

"Xu Haifeng, the scattered surface is large, the scattered surface is unstable, one moment upper right, one moment lower left. Conclusion: The movements are uncoordinated, the coherence is poor..." Li Peilin wrote on his notes, "Introverted, steady, not much speech, energy is not easy to transfer, suitable for shooting training." ”

"Absolute stability does not exist in things in the world, and the correct firing should be carried out in the case of steady movement and steady movement." The coach finally spoke, "Good firing timing, not in absolute stability, but in a slight shaking look." ”

The concept of timing, inter-meeting, movement and stillness, Xu Haifeng understood in his heart.

15-year-old, a teenager known for his "Slingshot Blowing Sparrow" school; 21-year-old, a salesman of the county supply and marketing cooperative who loves to play with air rifles; 22 years old, he won the provincial team with a popular air pistol produced in Inner Mongolia to win the provincial team with a highly precise German pistol; at the age of 25, he became the first pistol slow-fire athlete in Anhui Province to break through the 555 rings; at the age of 26, he broke the national record in the shooting competition in East China, won the national runner-up of the pistol slow-fire and air pistols at the National Games, and entered the national training team in the same year.

Finger force, arm strength, wrist strength, anatomy, biomechanics... Overcome the disadvantage of unbalanced vision, appropriately use "vision recovery", and deal with the relationship between the target and the target. In the national training team, Xu Haifeng pole head day.

The following year, in April 1984, in the shooting qualifiers of the Olympic Games, Xu Haifeng received a ticket to the 23rd Olympic Games with a good result of 568 rings. Zhang Bow was ready to go, like a dream, he thought.

For months, there were far more magnesium lights on the Olympic field than expected.

In the men's 60-round pistol slow-fire competition, reporters huddled around the target of world champion Sweden's LaRogner Skanaker, and the cameras were caught in the air. As for the No. 40 target position where Xu Haifeng was standing, everything was secluded and everything was calm.

Turning round after two sets of bullets were fired. The boarding pass behind target 40 features two impressive sets of numbers, "97.". A reporter hurriedly looked through the introduction on the order book - Xu Haifeng, born in 1957, 1.76 meters tall, weighing 67 kilograms, detailed information is not available.

Xu Haifeng did not pay attention to Xi Ran behind him, "a good start", he only secretly gladly.

After the three groups were played, the world championship champion Sweden's Skanaker and Xu Haifeng were 3 rings apart. In the fourth group, Skanakir tied. It was the time of the match, Xu Haifeng was still calm, conducting air target test shots from time to time, and did not pull the trigger without being sure.

In the sixth group, before the last bullet was fired, Xu Haifeng hit an 8 ring. "Oops", he was a little nervous.

The temples jumped slightly, and the gun was raised and released. Reporters have already poured into target 40, and everyone is watching. Inexplicably, the eight words that the old professor had said floated in his mind, Xu Haifeng calmed his mind, and the last bullet came out of the chamber.

10 rings! Xu Haifeng ranked first among 56 athletes in 37 countries with a score of 566 rings, winning the first gold medal of the 23rd Olympic Games, thus washing away China's "duck egg" history in the history of the Olympic Games and creating a breakthrough of zero in the history of Chinese sports.

On July 30, 1984, major newspapers across the country prominently reported the news that Xu Haifeng had won his first gold medal on the first day of the 23rd Olympic Games. People's Daily and Guangming Daily commented on the front page: "This is a historic breakthrough. Hong Kong's Wen Wei Po and Ta Kung Pao published editorials with red headlines to pay tribute to the Chinese athletes who won the gold medal. The "China Times" published in the United States in Taiwan published a headline titled "Mainland Player Xu Haifeng Wins Chinese Historical Honor."

After only two years of professional training, he became China's first Olympic gold medalist. On the podium, the 27-year-old was a little shy. In fact, it wasn't until he received the prize that he realized that he had not prepared a medal costume, so he had to temporarily borrow a pair of trousers, a short sleeve, and a pair of white sneakers.

Decades later, from champion to coach, from shooting to modern pentathlon, Xu Haifeng is still on the field. Many challenges, many glories, many hardships, he always remembered the old coach's motto, "regulation, calmness, coordination, ease", the last bullet out of the chamber of the moment of eight words.

(Article/Reporter Han Dongyi)

Reviewer: Chen Min, Liu Xiao

Edit: June 1st