Just over 20 days away from the Beijing Winter Olympics, short-track speed skating, which has only been in the Winter Olympics for 30 years, has become the most eye-catching event in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Since participating in the Winter Olympics, China has won a total of 13 Winter Olympic gold medals, of which 10 are from short track speed skating; of the total 62 medals won, 33 are from short track speed skating. The history of short-track speed skating in China is less than 40 years.
Of course, China's competitors are also very strong, especially South Korea, Canada, and Russia.
Before we paid special attention to the short track speed skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics, CCTV's new year drama "Beyond" had already attracted attention.
The dual-time narrative interprets the meaning of "transcendence"
"Beyond" began broadcasting on the 9th and has aired 7 episodes so far. The drama focuses on the key project of the Winter Olympics" "short track speed skating", and tells the audience the chronicle of the development of short track speed skating in China through the competitive struggle stories of two generations.
Stills from Beyond.
The story begins in January 1989.
The Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Team was warmly welcoming home the world champion of the speed skating team commonly known as "Avenue", but Wu Qinghong, the head coach of the Heilongjiang Short Track Speed Skating Team, who was not valued at the time, walked out of the courtyard alone. She went alone to the wild ice rink near the sports team, propped up the maza, and set up a card next to it - prize skating, 2 laps and 30 seconds. Whoever skates 2 laps in 30 seconds can take away her favorite Walkman. Her aim was to pick a good seedling for the fledgling short track speed skating team. In the unintentional competition between her beloved apprentice Chen Jingye and the wild road son Zheng Kaixin, she took a fancy to Zheng Kaixin's talent and personally visited the apprentice. Zheng Kaixin's ambition is to make quick money as a "fallen master", and he was forced to join the Heilongjiang short track speed skating team due to his mother's harsh lessons.
As soon as the camera pans, the time switches to 2014.
Chen Mian, who had just won the roller skating competition, received a reward of 2,000 yuan, and she quickly took the prize money to buy the long-desired skates, and her ambition was not roller skating but short track speed skating. At that time when the state implemented the "North Ice South Exhibition", Qingdao established a short track speed skating team, Chen Mian immediately gave up the roller skating competition that could give extra points to the middle school entrance examination, and secretly went to Qingdao with his mother on his back to participate in the qingdao short track speed skating team entrance examination. Joining the team is not smooth, Zheng Kaixin, who has been the coach of the Qingdao team, rejected Chen Mian's application to join the team, the more he was hit, the more determined Chen Mian was, she fought for a month's trial opportunity from Zheng Kaixin, if it was not possible after a month, she gave up. Zheng Kaixin was impressed by this persistent girl and finally agreed.
The whole drama adopts a dual-time and space narrative technique, and the story line of the protagonist Chen Mian in the current time and space and the story line of Chen Jingye, the father of Chen Mian in the 80s, stand on both feet, deepening the sense of fate and thickness of the story. Details such as the tiger tooth pendant given to her by Chen Mian's father and the method of teaching her to tie her shoelaces appear many times in the play show the spiritual inheritance between generations. In the time and space switch, it explains how athletes "surpass" themselves and how three generations of Chinese short track speed skaters "transcend" the past and create glory.
"No one reaches the pinnacle of success with talent alone"
In the play, "street skater" Zheng Kaixin has great talent for skating, just entered the provincial team, but because of his origin is questioned; also questioned is the current time and space Of Chen Mian, when she was 6 years old, she was judged by her father Chen Jingye to have no talent, but she always had a dream of skating, and she "changed the ice" at the age of 16.
Zheng Kaixin in his youth did not give up because of doubts, he quickly with a dashing personality and strong athletic talent, mingled with his teammates, and represented the Heilongjiang team with Chen Jingye to participate in the national short track speed skating team selection; Chen Mian was not knocked down by his father and coach Zheng Kaixin's denial, after a month of training, she washed away the muscle memory of the roller skating action that was difficult to correct, the skating posture became low and stable, as soon as he entered the corner, Chen Mian reached the bending angle and completed the ice touch in the corner for the first time. Standing on the ice rink, she shouted to her father, who had never looked favorably: I enjoy the process of transcending myself. As a father, how do you know your daughter is doomed to lose?
Athletes who entered the provincial team in the two generations of "mistakenly hitting and bumping" did not look perfect. But whether they have "talent" or not, they do not fall behind and do not give up in training, showing the sportsmanship of athletes who constantly surpass themselves.
In a real interview with people involved in short track speed skating at the last minute of each episode, Zhang Ying, coach of the Heilongjiang Short Track Speed Skating Team, said: "No one has reached the peak of success with talent alone. Jin Meiyu, former coach of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Team and coach of The Great Yang Yang Enlightenment, said: "Yang Yang has a better sense of ice, his physical fitness is average, and his starting is still slow. I saw that when she won the championship, she still started quite fast, and she also practiced later. ”
Although the story of the episode is fictional, in these real interviews, the theme of each episode can be responded to. Although only one or two sentences are used, the real power behind it and the little-known story revealed are to pay tribute to the "transcendents" who dedicate their youth and blood to the development of Short Track Speed Skating in China.
"Beyond" has become synonymous with short track speed skaters
In the play, there are several comparisons of the details of the two eras:
When Chen Mian first joined the Qingdao team, she was very excited, although it was a collective dormitory, but standing on the balcony that made her feel relaxed, it was enough to satisfy her. Zheng Kaixin first entered the Heilongjiang team, and his heart was extremely reluctant, although the coach paid for his daily necessities one by one, but he was still "depressed" in his heart;
In 2014, the breakfast of the Qingdao team had various kinds of buns and pancakes, and even if the funds were difficult, there was a special "Wang Ma Rib Shop" as a logistical support. In the 1980s, coach Wu Qinghong got up early and personally made milk powder for the team members, and was shouted by the team members that "nutrition is not enough" and did not receive nutritional products that were treated the same as the "Avenue" team;
The slogan of the 2014 Qingdao team is: can be literate and martial, dare to do daring, Qingdao short track, give up who I am. Coach Zheng Kaixin's lover, as an English teacher, and her colleagues give the team members a weekly cultural lesson. Time back to 30 years ago, when the slogan of the Heilongjiang team was: Black Dragon Short Track, Gold Medal Shine, Longjiang Speed Skating, Medal All Won. The short track team in the initial period was to cross the river by feeling the stones, and the goal was to become an Olympic event one day, to give the country a gold medal...
The contrast between time and space shows that When China first built a short track speed skating team, it was not optimistic and not valued, but with hard training, firm will, new and old heritage, it has developed into the most advantageous winter sports in China today. At the same time, it reflects the vigorous development of China's economy, society, culture and sports.
In the 1980s, China's Heilongjiang Province and Jilin Province set up the first batch of national system training short track speed skating teams. In 1985, the first short-track speed skating national training team was formed with the Jilin Short Track Speed Skating Team led by Xin Qingshan as the team. After several years of hard work, the Chinese short track speed skating team began to emerge in the international arena. In 1987, Li Jinyan set the first world record for Short Track Speed Skating in China in the women's 3,000 meters event, and in 1989, Guo Hongru won The first World Championships title in Short Track Speed Skating in China.
At the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, short-track speed skating became an official sport. Li Yan won the silver medal in women's 500m short track speed skating, which was the first Olympic medal in Short Track Speed Skating in China. Since then, the Chinese short track speed skating team has accelerated the pace of chasing dreams. At the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics, Yang Yang won the first gold medal at the Chinese Short Track Speed Skating Team Winter Olympics in the women's 500m final. In 2006, at the Turin Winter Olympics, Wang Meng won the women's short track speed skating 500 meters championship. In 2010, the Chinese women's team won all the gold medals in the women's short track speed skating event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. In 2014, in the short track speed skating event of the Sochi Winter Olympics, Zhou Yang successfully defended her title in the women's 1500 meters final, and Li Jianrou won the gold medal in the women's 500 meters. In 2018, Wu Dajing broke the world record and won the first gold medal at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the men's 500m short track speed skating final at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics with a time of 39.584 seconds, which was also the first time that the Chinese team won the gold medal in the men's event of the Winter Olympics.
The development of short track speed skating in the past 30 years is the blood collection of three generations of short track speed skaters, and it is a full display of self-transcendence. "Beyond" has become synonymous with China's short track speed skating team.
Judging from the trailer released a few days ago, Chen Mian and other mainstays of the national team will meet at the Beijing Winter Olympics and write a new chapter in the era of China's ice and snow sports.
With the broadcast of the series and the approaching of the Winter Olympics, the audience is more looking forward to China's ice and snow athletes surpassing themselves at the Beijing Winter Olympics and continuing to write brilliantly.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Fan Jianghong Text Editor: Fan Jianghong Caption Source: Official Screenshot Photo Editor: Yong Kai
Source: Author: Yu Chenyang