Hong Kong short track speed skater Zhu Dingwen: Looking forward to the first Winter Olympic Show

(Beijing Winter Olympics) Hong Kong short track speed skater Zhu Dingwen: Looking forward to the first Winter Olympic show

China News Service, Hong Kong, January 19 Title: Hong Kong short track speed skater Zhu Dingwen: Looking forward to the first Winter Olympic Show

China News Service reporter Han Xingtong

When he learned of his qualification for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Hong Kong short-track speed skater Zhu Dingwen had just finished his race in the Netherlands and was quarantined at the hotel. Recently, when interviewed by a reporter from The China News Agency, the first word that Zhu Dingwen recalled was "excitement" when he opened his mouth and smiled, "After so many years of blood and sweat, I finally got a very perfect recognition." "Call as soon as possible to inform relatives and friends of the good news.

But when a round of celebrations passed, he slowly calmed down in the room alone, and an invisible pressure enveloped him with hindsight. "The Hong Kong team has won very good results and won many medals at the Tokyo Olympics before, so now the sports atmosphere in Hong Kong seems to be completely different, and hong Kong citizens have higher expectations for athletes."

He became associated with the sport at the age of 5, when many Canadian classmates at international schools enjoyed ice sports, and his mother sent him to learn ice hockey. Growing to 11 or 12 years old, he was smaller and had clearly lost his advantage in this multi-collision sport. One day, he happened to see a short-track speed skating video of the Winter Olympics on the Internet, and driven by curiosity, he immediately searched for relevant information and signed up for an interest class.

Zhu Dingwen still remembers that he put on his rented fancy shoes and stood at the ice rink in a shopping mall in Hong Kong, and couldn't wait to use the fastest speed to sneak around the field, and he was very happy. Later, when he thought back on the taste, he realized that it was the feeling of a person who had gone around for many years and finally found something he really loved, natural and cheerful, and everything was just right.

In the past four or five years, or even longer, Zhu Dingwen has been tirelessly running on the road of preparing for the Olympic Games. Since there is no international standard short track speed skating training ground in Hong Kong, Zhu Dingwen and the team went north and traveled to Changchun, Beijing, Dongguan and other places for intensive training all year round, "Our team is really not easy, four or five years have not gone home for the New Year." All we do is to one day be able to reach the Winter Olympics and compete with the world's top athletes. ”

Initially, Zhu Dingwen's goal was the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. One day in Xinjiang, Zhu Dingwen fell down, resulting in three fractures of his right ankle, and after the operation, the doctor told him that it would take at least 4 months to recover, but there were only two and a half months left before the Olympic qualification.

The failure to get the ticket to the PyeongChang Winter Olympics left him confused, and Sun Dandan, the head skating coach of the Hong Kong Institute of Sport, took the initiative to tell him about his illness. "In a match two and a half months before the Nagano Winter Olympics, she fractured the same part as me, and also won a silver medal at the Winter Olympics when she didn't have enough time to recover." The strength of this "she can be me" encouragement was so great that zhu Dingwen was supported, and he immediately threw himself into preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics.

Looking back now, Zhu Dingwen will see this injury as a turning point, optimistically calling it a learning process. "After the injury, the Olympic dream meant more to me." As a new player who is about to embark on the Olympic arena for the first time, Zhu Dingwen is very humble: "I am not the most capable and fastest athlete, and it is already the greatest honor of my life to represent the Hong Kong team in China to participate in the Winter Olympics held in my own country." I hope to achieve a good result with the best training state I usually have. ”

"Although Hong Kong athletes have made great progress in the past two years, we still can't compete with the Chinese national team and the South Korean team." Only the "stupid bird" flew first. In order to take care of his studies over the years, Zhu Dingwen often "went to ice" at 4:30 a.m., trained until 8:30 a.m. to go to school, and at 9 p.m. after school at 5 p.m., it was training again. Such a monotonous cycle, he had become accustomed to.

Despite the pain, fatigue, and anxiety behind him, he never wanted to give up, Zhu Dingwen said: "I like the feeling of flying on ice, a bit like riding a roller coaster, but you can control the track at any time, in the process of high-speed gliding, constantly surpass your opponents, but also surpass yourself." (End)

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Source: China News Network