Close-up: Rainy Look back Laughter chases the waves high

Xinhua News Agency, Xi'an, September 23 Title: Close-up: Rain And Look Back, Laughing and Chasing The Waves High

Xinhua News Agency reporters Chen Chen, Zhao Xuetong and Liu Tong

Zhang Yufei on the field, no matter where she goes, will always carry her trademark smile.

On the evening of the 23rd, the Xi'an Olympic Sports Center Swimming and Diving Hall. Zhang Yufei copied her "Tokyo moment": first in the 200-meter butterfly she was good at, she won the 4×200m freestyle relay championship with olympic gold medalists Yang Junxuan, Tang Muhan and Li Bingjie.

At the award ceremony, she smiled and made a "heart-to-heart" gesture; at the post-match press conference, despite wearing a mask, a smile still floated from between her eyebrows; even in the most tense relay match of the night, before boarding the starting stage, she still had a smile on her face.

People who smile at life often receive feedback from a different life.

This smiling girl, the latest Weibo is the evening of September 15. That night, as the second torchbearer to pass the torch in the opening ceremony of the National Games, Zhang Yufei completed the relay with Su Bingtian, Qin Kai, Guo Wenjun, Ma Long and Yang Qian, and accepted the cheers of the audience.

Weibo update frequency is not high, she recorded this unforgettable moment that night: "A wonderful experience, a supreme glory." The torch relay was a complete success. ”

It may not be just the feeling of participating in the torch relay. A "full" word is also the most true portrayal of Zhang Yufei at this National Games.

The stingock Olympic champion had a full schedule: on September 19, she represented Jiangsu in the 4×100m freestyle relay; on the 20th and 21st, she made consecutive appearances in the 100m butterfly and 200m freestyle events, and won the 100 butterfly gold medal. After winning two consecutive gold medals on September 23, she will compete in three events in the final days of the competition, including the 50-meter freestyle.

The schedule is so dense that there is little respite. Of course, there are projects that the coach "quietly" added, but more is the new leader in the Chinese swimming world, a new test set by himself.

"I applied for 8 projects, the first of which was to test whether I could play them all. The second is to ensure that all the shots are played, hoping that the results can be close to their best results or even breakthroughs. She said that after reporting so many projects, she was also preparing for the Asian Games.

The secret of the "labor model" to ensure the state is to get enough sleep. "Only when I finish 'recharging' can I step into the pool the next day in good spirits." However, when a reporter asked her, "Is this rhythm too busy?", she would still laugh and reply: "No, get used to it!" Usual training is also so intensive. ”

Behind the concern about Zhang Yufei's "whether he will be too busy", there are full expectations from the outside world for the new "butterfly queen".

For many consecutive days, in the swimming arena of the National Games, as long as Zhang Yufei appeared, it always caused the warmest cheers from the audience. After the game, after passing through the mixed mining area, she will always be surrounded by reporters to meet the attention of "long guns and short guns".

In fact, Zhang Yufei also admitted that he is not in the best state at present. After the Tokyo Olympics, she has not resumed systematic training, and can only "practice with competitions" at the National Games. Before the relay race on the 23rd, she even worried that she would "drag the hind legs of her teammates".

Still, she set her sights on breaking records.

"Participating in national competitions, ranking is no longer important to me. My goal all along is to swim towards the world record. On the 20th, after winning the gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly, Zhang Yufei said.

More than a month ago, Xiao Nezha's "noisy sea" was successful and his dream of Tokyo came true. More than a month later, she continued to write a legend on the national games. From Tokyo to Xi'an, the athletes of the Chinese women's swimming team have always supported and encouraged each other. Zhang Yufei sighed that everyone in this team is very important.

After winning two gold medals in a row on the evening of the 23rd, she said: "If they hadn't helped me swim in the morning preliminaries, I might not have been able to swim so well in the butterfly tonight, and my mood might not have been relaxed." ”

That night, Zhang Yufei on the podium smiled brightly. At the National Games, she has reached the highest podium with coaches Cui Dengrong and Wang Aimin.

She gave them her gratitude: "There is no joint award link between athletes and coaches in the Olympic arena, everyone sees only the glory moments of athletes, but they don't know that coaches have paid a lot behind us." They gave up many families (opportunities to reunite) and spent time and night with us. Reaching the podium with the coach is also a kind of comfort for them to see that their results are seen by everyone. ”

This gratitude has always been there. Not long ago, on Teachers' Day, Zhang Yufei posted a group photo with Cui Dengrong and many other coaches on Weibo to wish them a happy Teacher's Day. This Weibo post received 22,000 likes.

Never accept defeat, be grateful, always smile, and move towards the highest goal, this is the personality of "Xiao Nezha" and her happiness. (End)