International online news: the collision of speed and passion, the wisdom of following and surpassing, the contest of skill and courage, this is the unique charm of short track speed skating. Of the 13 Winter Olympic gold medals won by China, 10 of them came from short-track speed skating, and short-track speed skating has deservedly become the "master of kings" in the Chinese Winter Olympic Army. This issue of "Legend of China's Ice and Snow" will gather the ice and snow celebrities who have been in the field to tell the ice legend of the Chinese short track speed skating team from scratch and from the strong to the strong.
Short track speed skaters gather on the stage of "China's Ice and Snow Legends" Courtesy of the picture
This issue invites Yang Yang, the first champion in the history of the Chinese Winter Olympics, who has won 59 world championships in her sports career and is praised by the public as the "Queen of Ice"; Li Jiajun, the silver medal in the men's 1000 meters at the Nagano Winter Olympics, and Li Jiajun, the leader of Chinese men's short track speed skating; Zhou Yang, a legendary figure in the short track speed skating 1500 meters of the Winter Olympics, who has won three Winter Olympic gold medals and is still the holder of the Winter Olympic record; achieved the team relay Grand Slam, the Winter Olympics, the World Cup, Zhang Hui, the world champion of short track speed skating women's relay; Li Jianrou, who became famous at the age of 28 and won the short track speed skating women's 500 meters championship and won the first gold for the Chinese delegation at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics; Zhao Nannan, who won three World Cup short track speed skating championships and short track speed skating World Cup relay champions; and their coaches, Xin Qingshan, the "father of Chinese short track speed skating" who has cultivated more than 20 world champions in more than 30 years of coaching career. What kind of story will this reunion bring us? Let's reveal it together this Sunday!
The kings gathered, "Burning Moment" relived the wonderful moments of the arena, and opened the "breakthrough moment" of the ice and snow legend.
In 2002, in salt lake city, USA, on the short track speed skating competition, Chinese athlete Yang Yang led all the way, and finally won the championship with a time of 44.187 seconds, achieving a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Chinese Winter Olympics. Yang Yang's mood after winning the championship is very excited, which is not only the excitement of winning the championship, but also the joy of her breaking through herself. According to Yang Yang's recollection, before the competition, she just experienced a fiasco of 1500 meters, the inner pressure was very large, and the next 500 meters of the competition was a kind of competition with herself, she put aside the emotions of wanting to win and afraid of losing, and successfully completed her own breakthrough. The celebratory action of holding her chest with both hands also shows her inner excitement, which is a kind of repression after release.
Yang Yang's victory at the 2002 Yancheng Lake Winter Olympics Courtesy photo
Yang Yang's sharing is with encouragement and joy, and the sharing from Li Jiajun, although people feel regretful, is still the pride of the people of the whole country. Back in the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, he won the second place in the Chinese men's short track speed skating, achieving a breakthrough of zero medals for Chinese male athletes in the event. In the short track speed skating 1000 meters, Lee Jiajun was only 0.053 seconds away from the final champion, and finally missed the gold medal due to the dangerous sprint behavior of Korean athletes. From Li Jiajun's story, we understand that he has been suffering from exercise hematuria for many years, and when he is severe, he is already gross hematuria, but in order to be able to participate in the competition, he always insists on training, and he signed a letter of guarantee with the team doctor.
Photo of Li Jiajun and his teammates' memories Courtesy of photos
Recalling his life before the game, Li Jiajun also shared a particularly unforgettable past at the scene. Before winning the world championship for the first time in 1996, he was a "sparring partner" for the women's team for a long time. Since there were 14 women in the team at the time, and he was the only one with a male team, he would skate at the front of the team every time he trained. At that time, one of the major problems of the national speed skating team was "more women than men", there was no way to complete one-on-one practice, Li Jiajun volunteered to practice with each team member, and thus became the "sparring" of all female team members. The process of sports training is very hard, and Li Jiajun suffered from exercise hematuria due to long-term high-intensity training, and every day needs to go through a long period of testing to determine whether he can train normally. In this way, a "sparring partner" successfully stood on the podium of the Winter Olympics with the spirit of tenacious refusal to accept defeat, and became an ice hero in the hearts of the people of the whole country.
Insisting in the ice and snow, China regained its honor in the Winter Olympics
"Burning moment" is a wonderful moment for ordinary people, but it is the most precious memory in life for every athlete. Every moment in the history of glory in the world is won by Chinese athletes relying on tenacious struggle and perseverance day and night.
At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, the short-track speed skating 3,000m relay final was the most ups and downs to date, with China breaking South Korea's 16-year rule in the event and setting a new Olympic record. In the whole relay race, the Chinese women's will have maintained a calm analysis, always observing the opponent's movements, even in the case of the South Korean team taking the initiative to physically collide and then lead, the Chinese women's will achieve a Jedi reversal in the last 5 laps and win the final gold medal. So far, the Chinese women's short track speed skating team has fully proved the strength from China, winning all the gold medals in the short track speed skating women's event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Zhou Yang and Zhang Hui watched their wonderful performances in that year's competition on the spot
Meritorious coach Xin Qingshan: Cultivate generations of outstanding athletes and let China's short track speed skating go further!
"A good coach is not to find a genius and bring out good results, but to cultivate a batch of excellent athletes and let China's short track speed skating go further." This is a passage that Xin Qingshan, the former coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team, said. In his coaching career of more than 30 years, Coach Xin Qingshan has trained more than 20 world champions, and teaching according to his aptitude is the secret of sending generations of athletes to the championship podium, and most of the guests who come to the show are also his students.
Coach Xin Qingshan's program was connected with the students on the spot For photo
At the scene of the program, Wang Bingbing, who served as an ice and snow experience officer, also shared a training diary from Yang Yang. The diary records Yang Yang's mood when he was preparing for the game, and there is a sentence that left a deep impression on everyone, that is, a quote from a saying: "Life can have several beats." Yang Yang said: "When I see this diary again many years later, I will also be moved. For the hard work of myself at that time, for the responsibility of facing challenges as an athlete, for Chinese strong spirit of not accepting defeat. ”
Yang Yang's training diary of that year is provided in the photo
Enjoy the Winter Olympics, Wang Bingbing, Sun Yapeng and children dance ice and snow exercises together, passing on the charm of the Winter Olympics!
2022, as the year of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, the enthusiasm of the whole country is high, and the sports spirit brought by this ice and snow is still sprouting in the hearts of the younger generation of children. More and more children participate in ice and snow sports in various ways, from knowing the Winter Olympics to understanding the Winter Olympics and liking the Winter Olympics, ice and snow experience officials Wang Bingbing and Sun Yapeng and several children danced together in the popular ice and snow exercises on campus, and everyone cheered for Chinese Winter Olympic athletes in this way!
The program site ice and snow experience officer and children jump ice and snow exercise courtesy of the picture
The fiery and fierce ice sports continue to write dazzling Chinese legends, january 26 (Wednesday) 17:30, CCTV4 "China Ice and Snow Legends" let us continue to go to the ice and snow event!