Close-up: A seed of ice and snow, the story of three teenagers

Beijing, February 4, 2019 Title: Close-up: A Seed of Ice and Snow, the Story of Three Teenagers

China News Network reporter Kan Feng

"At the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics, the 'ice and snow' should not melt here, but should become the ice and snow seed sown in China."

On February 4, the opening day of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, in the global live broadcast of "24 Hours of the Winter Olympics" launched by China News Network and 100 Chinese-language media around the world, Qiu Zhaoyi, a professor at Beijing Sport University, used the word "seed" to hope for the impact of the Winter Olympics on China's ice and snow sports.

In this global live broadcast that tells the story of the Winter Olympics day and night, the reporter wants to intercept the silhouettes of three "teenagers" and share the unique magic of "ice and snow seeds".

One

The first story takes place in Changchun, Jilin Province, where "24 Hours of the Winter Olympics" focuses on 15-year-old speed skating boy Ren Xingchen.

At the age of 9, he was exposed to short track speed skating and trained on ice for 6 years, ren Xingchen has won two championships in the Chinese Youth U Series skating competition.

Most of China's winter sports talents have strong intergenerational inheritance colors. Ren Xingchen's coach is Li Ye, a bronze medalist in the men's 5,000m relay at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Ren Xingchen is looking forward to flying in the Olympic arena like a coach, and Li Ye can see what he looked like when he was young in Ren Xingchen.

"Our training conditions and environment were very difficult, there were very few indoor ice rinks, and now both indoor and outdoor, the ice rinks are professional standards, and the children are very happy." Li Ye said.

Ren Xingchen's training ground displays many photos of the moment when the famous player won the championship, among which he most admired Wu Dajing: "I believe he can successfully defend his title in Beijing." ”

The 6 years that Ren Xingchen has been galloping on the ice rink are exactly the 6 years of preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics. In the past 6 years, the grand narrative of China's "300 million people on the ice and snow" has contained thousands of dream stories of "Ren Xingchen".

Two

The second teenager was named Su Yiming.

In the list of Chinese Winter Olympic delegations released last month, 17-year-old Su Yiming was put in the headline by many media.

He started skiing at the age of 4 and began professional training at the age of 7, he is the "little bolt" in the movie "Wise Tiger Mountain", and he is also the champion of the Snowboard Jumping World Cup that has set a new record for Chinese skiing. Netizens said that this is a wind-chasing teenager who could have been a fan of the acting circle, but he relied on his strength to become popular.

Before the Winter Olympics, Su Yiming updated a message on Weibo: "I began to learn snowboarding in the year of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and was selected for the national training team in the year of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and now, I will stand on the starting platform of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics..."

Nowadays, the minimum age of the Chinese Winter Olympic Team has been updated to "post-05", and the "post-00 era" belonging to the Chinese sports world has really come.

You and I are both dark horses, and the future life is particularly fearsome, which is the charm of competitive sports.

Infographic: Masashi Abe.

Three

The third story comes from a "former teenager", The Japanese skier Masashi Abe.

Facing the footage of the "24 Hours of the Winter Olympics", the 56-year-old Yaji Abe recalled that his ice and snow fate was still difficult to hide his excitement.

At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, when the Japanese team won the top three ski jumpers, 6-year-old Masashi Abe was right in front of the TV, "That picture had a very big impact on me, and I wanted to be them."

Because of the Winter Olympics, Masashi Abe's small village also has a ski resort, and skiing has become a compulsory course in elementary school, which makes him start participating in ski jumping competitions in the third grade, and he was selected for the national team at the age of 19. He later competed at the Winter Olympics three times, winning two Nordic titles at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.

This year, Masashi Abe will participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics as a commentator, and his biggest wish is to "promote the participation of young people in ice and snow sports".

"The future has me"

Three stories of teenagers carrying "ice and snow seeds" tell the relay inheritance of sportsmanship, the breaking of new forces and the dreams on the road of life into reality.

50 years ago, Masashi Abe, who watched the Winter Olympics in Sapporo in front of the TV, would not have imagined that his life would be profoundly changed by the Olympics.

14 years ago, Su Yiming, who began to learn snowboarding at the Beijing Olympics, would not have imagined that when the motherland hosted the Olympics again, he would wear a battle robe to fight for the country.

Seven years ago, Ren Xingchen, who embarked on the ice rink the year Beijing won the right to host the Winter Olympics, would not have imagined that he was involved in the country's "300 million people" project to change the world's winter sports landscape.

Don't underestimate the significance of the times of any Olympic Games, the value of the Olympic inheritance for hundreds of years lies in this; don't underestimate any teenager around you who dreams as a horse, and every youth that does not live up to Shaohua is unlimited.

On February 4, Lichun, the "seed" of the Beijing Winter Olympics will be planted in the hearts of more teenagers. (End)

Column Editor-in-Chief: Gu Wanquan Zhang Wu Text Editor: Fang Ying

Source: Author: China News Network