Today is the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and it is also the first time that the Winter Olympics have been held at the doorstep of the home. #COSMO燃点 Winter Olympics Special #Before telling today's story, I would like to talk to you about a Venezuelan skier, Adrian Solano.
As we all know, Venezuela is located in South America, although the locals are good at athletics, basketball and other sports, but they have never been associated with ice and snow sports. Adrian Solano, who made skiing his dream, came to Finland through crowdfunding, but because he had been torn between visa and fundraising before the race, the day of the race was the first time he saw real snow.
In this way, he stepped on the snowboard, took a "strange" step, leaned on a little rollerblading foundation, fell, climbed up, fell, climbed up... The cycle repeats, and the results of the game can be imagined.
This is the story of 2017, and decades ago, countless of our athletes also took to the Winter Olympics with their hearts full of enthusiasm and fought for their dreams. When speed skater Ye Qiaobo first stood on the podium of the Winter Olympics in 1992, the Chinese in front of the TV set boiled.
When it comes to Ye Qiaobo, the post-90s and post-00s may not be familiar with it, but she is a thunderous presence in the hearts of the older generation of sports fans. Her appearance ended China's 12-year running trail in the winter Olympic ice and snow event - not only let the five-star red flag fly for the first time in the Winter Olympic games, but also won two silver in a winter Olympics.
Before participating in the Winter Olympics, Ye Qiaobo had already won all the short track speed skating 500 meters and 1000 meters in the World Cup sub-stations held in Berlin, Germany, Albertville, France, and Columbeau in Italy.
Even the big hit of the Winter Olympics, Ye Qiaobo has never relaxed her training: others squat for three minutes, she set herself a requirement of at least five minutes; the coach stipulates that if she trains five hundred times, then she will train a thousand times...
This expedition is bound to rush forward with the gold medal. However, in the 500-meter short track speed skating race, the opponent did not give way to the track according to the regulations, and in the end, Ye Qiaobo had to miss the championship by a gap of 0.18 seconds.
Standing on the podium, Ye Qiaobo still smiled and faced the camera, but when she stepped off the podium, her tears could no longer be suppressed, "If I don't crash, I think I have a chance to get this gold medal." ”
At this point, you may be wondering, why didn't our coaches protest? In fact, we could have put forward the need to re-play, but because we were not familiar with the rules of the game at that time, there was no "appeal" at all.
But this silver medal, which symbolizes the "breakthrough of zero", has already excited the Chinese people. Ye Qiaobo was unwilling to choose to fight, and then participated in the 1000-meter speed skating event with his injuries and struggled to rush the gold.
This time, she was only 0.02 seconds away from the Winter Olympics.
0.18 seconds and 0.02 seconds is a completely unreal length of time for many people, but for short track speed skater Ye Qiaobo, it is the gap between gold and silver medals, and it is between the top athletes.
The "gold content" of the two medals is self-evident to the Chinese people, but Ye Qiaobo, who has always had high requirements for herself, knows that the heavier the weight of the medal, the more difficult it is for her to let go.
In the six months after the End of the Winter Olympics, she put herself into a high-intensity, high-density world-class competition. Ye Qiaobo has participated in the World Cup Series, the World Women's Championship and the World Sprint Championships, winning all the gold medals in the women's 500 meters event and creating a world ice Grand Slam.
Just two years later, Ye Qiaobo sat in a wheelchair, tearfully tearful and said to the camera: "I can say that I am worthy of my motherland in my life." "Behind these impressive achievements is a difficulty that ordinary people cannot imagine.
Fans familiar with Ye Qiaobo know that she has a nickname - "Big Toe". At first, because her feet grew to 39 yards when she was 12 years old, and later because of long periods of high-intensity training, her toes were often worn to the point of blurring and abnormally swollen, so she had to be wrapped in gauze to train.
Injuries have run through almost ye's entire athletic career. As early as five months before participating in the Winter Olympics, doctors removed five pieces of broken bone the size of a fingernail from her knee; at the same time, she was diagnosed with a ruptured meniscus in her left knee, suffering from chronic periostitis, fat pad strain, medial and lateral ligament injuries and other diseases... Coupled with overburden training since childhood, Ye Qiaobo's neck suffers from old subluxation.
The doctor's advice was: suspend training and recuperate quietly. But Ye Qiaobo was afraid of being eliminated by the national team, but instead concealed the injury and increased the amount of training.
After the Winter Olympics, Ye Qiaobo's knee was broken. To make matters worse, the patella that supports the weight of the human body and maintains balance is also misaligned, and Ye Qiaobo has to use a bandage to pull it back to its original position. Due to the pain, she had to use other parts to accelerate, which caused the anterior and posterior cruciate ligaments to tear completely. At that time, the configuration of Chinese athletes going abroad to compete was only herself and her coach, there was no medical condition to support, and her injuries accumulated day by day.
Even so, Ye Qiaobo is still achieving self-breakthroughs again and again, and behind each of her medals is a deep tempering that is difficult for others to empathize with: she accepts regret as part of competitive sports, but she never compromises her achievements and stops there.
If you see this, you already feel that Ye Qiaobo's medal is not easy to come by, then when you see the training conditions at that time, you will be even more impressed by her spirit.
Ye Qiaobo, who began to learn speed skating at the age of 9, has experienced five years of training in "skating wild ice", what is "skating wild ice"? Due to the limited conditions in the 70s, everyone who wanted to skate had to rush to a cold place, and in order to seize the training time, athletes would "skate wild ice" in early winter or early spring. At this time, the ice surface is either not completely frozen, or the river surface has been civilized, concentrated training is very dangerous, if you are not careful, you may fall down a piece and fall into the ice water.
Instructors can only prepare thick hemp rope and large sticks, and pull them up as soon as a trainee falls into an ice cave during training.
■ Skating wild ice
In 1985, the national team was established, and the 21-year-old Ye Qiaobo entered the national team with many performances that broke the national speed skating record, which began more rigorous training.
Until she was sure to be able to stand on the Winter Olympics, she was already an elderly athlete among the athletes - 28 years old. At that time, her heart only had the wish of a gold medal dream on the Chinese ice and snow project, and countless times of crushing high-intensity training had trained her into a warrior, and since then, the "Qiao Bo Spirit" has become synonymous with never accepting defeat and having a tenacious will.
Ostrovsky once said: "The price paid by man in the pursuit of a beautiful ideal is enormous, sometimes even youth and life, but it is all worth it." Ye Qiaobo won medals again and again in adversity, and every time she received the award, she dragged her "broken" leg to stand on the podium.
During her second knee surgery after the Winter Olympics, doctors removed eight broken bones from her kneecap. But on the road to the dream of gold medals, Ye Qiaobo still did not back down, and went out with illness and returned with honors - 23 world championships and 133 medals.
Ye Qiaobo's thin sportswear is printed with "CHINA", which is her confidence and fearlessness standing on the field, which is the hope that the world can see China's ice and snow power again and again.
A man can be destroyed, but not defeated. After retiring from the army, Ye Qiaobo completed his studies at Tsinghua University in six years and received a doctorate from the Central Party School, and then served on the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee. ”
Ye Qiaobo has dedicated his life to the ice surface of love, and now he is still moving forward in another way, and his heart is like a rock.
The meaning of competitive sports is not only to compete on the field, but to let people see the power of dreams, persistence and love. For a long time in the past, the spirit of Jobo has inspired generations of sports people to continue to create new miracles, and whenever I think of her persistence lap after lap on the circular track, we know that it is the passion of #Hot-Blooded Teenagers boiling.
#COSMO燃点 Winter Olympics Special Edition#: Ignite the blood, our ice and snow era has begun, and the future will be more brilliant.
Producer: Li Xiaojuan
Director system: Yu Menghan Gao Qun
Project Planner: Wang Yiwen
Execution and Text: Wang Yiwen Chen Le
Video production: Ning Yuhang
Video dubbing: Yu Yue
Design: Acetylene
Typography: Jiang Yuying
Image source
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