22 herders rode horses, waving the national flag in their hands, galloping through the vast snowy fields, shouting and cheering, and sent off the cross-country skiing national training team for the Beijing Winter Olympics along the way. The scene is blood-boiling and heart-pounding.
Not long ago, on January 20, the cross-country skiing national training team completed the final stage of training and preparation in Wenquan County, Xinjiang, and went to the Beijing Winter Olympics. The farewell ceremony spontaneously organized by more than 1,500 local people of all ethnic groups spread on the Internet, and the shocking picture of herders riding horses to send each other was even more impressive, and tears filled their eyes.
Bayani, a Kazakh cross-country skier from Xinjiang, recalled the scene: "I didn't expect so many people to send us. I was even more moved to see 22 herders riding horses and waving the national flag, as tears swirled in my eyes. "Xinjiang Altay is a traceable origin of human skiing, in the process of preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, Xinjiang and other ethnic minority areas have contributed their own strength, all ethnic groups like pomegranate seeds hugged together, the heart to one place, the strength to make a place."
Bayani was originally a normal high school sophomore in Altay to a member of the cross-country skiing national training team that is about to play in the Beijing Winter Olympics. She just turned 22 on December 17 last year, and it took bayani four years to transform her identity. In 2017, Bayani was selected to enter the cross-country skiing national training team, and in early 2018, she accompanied the training team Xinjiang group to the cross-country skiing powerhouse Norway to start a three-year external training. Having never experienced any professional training in sports before, and never heard of cross-country skiing, Bayani admits that until now he is still in the process of continuous learning and improvement. Through continuous competition testing, the gap between Bayani and foreign outstanding players is getting smaller and smaller. On October 30 last year, the cross-country skiing women's relay national training team was established at the National Snow Sports Training Base in Chengde, Hebei Province, of which Bayani was one of them. She said: "First of all, we must thank the great motherland and give special support to have our current relay team." Speaking of the Goals of the Winter Olympics, Bayani firmly said that he would storm the podium. In the eyes of the outside world, it is almost impossible for cross-country skiing projects with weak foundations to achieve leapfrog breakthroughs. "Anything is possible, and we will definitely do our best to fight towards this goal!" Bayani said.
Bayani
Like Bayani, another Xinjiang Uighur girl, Diniger, is about to take the Beijing Winter Olympics. Diniger's father, a former cross-country skier, began ski training under his father's guidance and joined the cross-country skiing national training team in 2017. In 2018, she and her teammate Bayani went to Norway to start 3 years of foreign training, training with the world's high-level athletes, receiving high-level guidance from foreign coaches, which broadened Diniger's horizons and continuously improved her level. When she was training in Northern Europe, her father at home gave her great support and encouragement. "My father often gave me encouragement, reminded me of what technical problems I still had, and told me to make up for my shortcomings." Diniger also told himself that since he had chosen the path, he must stick to it. The results of high-level training were soon reflected in the competition, the 2019 FIS China Beijing Cross-Country Skiing Points Grand Prix was held at the "Bird's Nest", and Diniger won the women's individual short distance silver medal after one year of training. This is the first time that a Chinese athlete has won a medal in the Cross-Country Skiing International Competition, and Diniger has achieved a breakthrough in Cross-Country Skiing for China while creating a personal best. Now Diniger and teammate Bayani have the opportunity to impact better results, and she is more confident to say: "My goal is to impact the podium of the Beijing Winter Olympics and win glory for the country!" ”
Puri
Thanks to the ice and snow sports "south exhibition westward expansion eastward" strategy, yunnan in the western region has also joined the Chinese ice and snow sports family. Pu Rui, who is still under 21 years old this year, is from Ning'er Hani Yi Autonomous County in Pu'er City, Yunnan Province, and in August 2018, she performed well in the cross-border cross-discipline selection test and entered the freestyle ski obstacle chase national training team. Long-term athletics training has enabled Pry to excel in speed, bounce and adaptability, which has also allowed Prie, who has never seen snow, to successfully transform into an ice and snow athlete. In November 2019, just over a year after being exposed to the freestyle slalom chase, Puri reached the final and finished 14th in the FIS Youth Championships in Switzerland. When she inspected the track before the race, she found that the height of the jumping platform was something she had never skied before, but with the encouragement of the coach, she made up her mind, "Even if you fall, you must jump, even if you are injured, you can't back down, you can only rush forward!" "What excites Pry even more with the 14th place is that she has achieved a self-breakthrough." As an athlete who came out of the countryside, I cherish such a rare opportunity to win glory for the motherland and my hometown, and I will work hard in the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. ”
The growth of Purui is of great significance to Yunnan, where the ice and snow project has just started. The "post-00s" young general has left his mark on the history of freestyle skiing in Yunnan and even China by relying on his own efforts. The curtain is about to open on the Beijing Winter Olympics, and the ice and snow sports on the mainland have gone from not going out of Shanhaiguan to now being carried out all over the country, and ethnic minorities are also actively participating in it. Just like the song sung by ice and snow athletes and the local people of all ethnic groups when Wenquan County in Xinjiang sent off the cross-country skiing national training team, "I and my motherland cannot be separated for a moment." ”