Elephant News reporter Xie Yanwei
Image source: Oriental IC
On August 6, Henan girl Yin Xiaoyan will debut in the Tokyo Olympic Karate Women's 61 kg Competition, she won 4-4 in the group stage, and successfully advanced to the semi-finals, which is also another hot spot for Henan athletes to win gold in this Olympic Games.
A capable short hair, a slightly emaciated figure, coupled with a shy expression when smiling at the camera, is the first impression that Yin Xiaoyan brought to reporters. It is difficult to see that such a girl will become a leading figure in China's karate.
Yin Xiaoyan's father, Yin Sishan, said that his daughter's practice of karate was a complete coincidence.
When Yin Xiaoyan was in elementary school, he had been practicing volleyball. It wasn't until she was 14 years old that she had her first contact with karate. "At that time, she was small, and then the provincial karate team was established, and the coach was picking seedlings, and he thought that her physical fitness was good in all aspects, so he chose her away." Yin Sishan told reporters that at that time, their whole family held the attitude of trying to let Yin Xiaoyan practice karate, but on this test, it achieved the current karate "first sister".
"This child can suffer." Yin Sishan said that strict physical training since childhood has created Yin Xiaoyan's tenacious character. Recalling the scene when Yin Xiaoyan first entered the national team training, Yin Sishan is still deeply impressed.
Because of the distance from home, coupled with the incompatibility after the cross-discipline training, the young Yin Xiaoyan did not less get into trouble with her parents on the phone, "At that time, her mother started half an hour every time she called her, and later in order to appease her daughter's emotions, her mother also wrote more than a dozen pages of letters to send to her." Yin Sishan said that during that time to calm her daughter's emotions, her mother played a key role.
At the 6th World Junior Karate Championships in 2009, 16-year-old Yin Xiaoyan won the silver medal in his debut world championships, and in the time since, Yin Xiaoyan has continued to train hard every day. In 2017, Yin Xiaoyan has won the annual championship of the World Karate Super League, the Asian Karate Championship, the 13th National Games, the National Championships and many other competitions, officially launching his title of "One Sister" in karate.
"No one knows better than she did the hardships she has endured in the past 14 years, and it is not easy to maintain the title of world number one in recent years." Through the video, Yin Sishan proudly showed reporters the medals that Yin Xiaoyan has won over the years, "I hope that she will train well, play well, and strive to stand on the highest podium and live up to the cultivation of the state." ”
It is understood that karate originated in Japan, was first known as "Tang Hand", and was formed by a combination of ancient martial arts and Chinese boxing techniques introduced to Japan five hundred years ago.
On August 3, 2016, the International Olympic Committee announced that five major sports, including baseball and softball, karate, roller skating, competitive rock climbing and surfing, will be the official sports of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, which is also the first time that karate sports will appear on the Olympic field.
For the host Team Japan, karate is their strong point, and even boasted that they would "win 8 gold medals in karate at the Olympic Games". In the face of the "menacing" host, Yin Xiaoyan said in a previous interview that he would seize the opportunity to win this historic gold medal.