If you want to talk about China's strengths in the Winter Olympics, short-track speed skating is the norm, and in the history of the Winter Olympics, China has won a total of 13 gold medals, of which short-track speed skating occupies 10.
If you want to talk about the current leader of the Chinese short track speed skating team, it must be Wu Dajing.
In the short track speed skating mixed team 2000m relay competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on the evening of February 5, Wu Dajing and the Chinese team won the gold medal! It was also his second Winter Olympic gold medal!
Wu Dajing, who competed in four rounds of competitions today, finally really fought for the gold medal!
Wu Dajing raised his arms to celebrate.
Waist injury, has not been systematic training
At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, 19-year-old Wu Dajing won the men's 500 meters runner-up and the 5000 meters relay third place; at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing won the 500 meters championship!
It was the first Olympic gold medal of his career, the only gold medal won by the Chinese sports delegation in Pyeongchang, and the first gold medal of a Chinese male athlete who had been waiting for 30 years in the short track speed skating arena of the Winter Olympics.
To be fair, the 26-year-old Wu Dajing's state is not at its peak compared to 4 years ago, and the World Cup before the Olympic Games has stood in his main event of 500 meters for three consecutive times.
Among them, the Chinese station was unexpectedly out of the game due to a snatching foul; in the Japan station, Wu Dajing won the third place in the group in the quarterfinals and failed to enter the semi-finals; in Hungary, Wu Dajing held his breath and wanted to win the gold, but in the men's 500 meters final, he was knocked down by South Korea's Huang Daxian and finally regrettably ranked fourth.
"Because I had a back injury, I hadn't been training systematically before, and in mid-September last year, we came back from Xinjiang and just started to train with the big troops normally."
In the previous interview, Wu Dajing put forward the reason for the poor state, and the Winter Olympics were getting closer and closer, and he himself felt frustrated, "Compared to the third stop, I don't believe in myself, and I may feel that I have made too many mistakes." ”
But Wu Dajing will not give up lightly, after the state adjustment of the previous few stops, in the World Cup in the Netherlands, he ushered in an outbreak. Each round was the first place in the group, and the final slid out of 39.878 seconds to win the championship, and the king of the sprint announced his return with the world best of the season.
"It's normal for competitive sports to have ups and downs, and I hope that my mentality can be adjusted better, in fact, the World Cup is just a test or a workout." We will adjust our state, strengthen our training, and adjust our best state to the Beijing Winter Olympics. ”
Looking back, Wu Dajing also thanked the tempering of this time - he not only got the opportunity to adjust the rhythm of the game before the Winter Olympics, but also gained confidence, "With this result, you can go straight to the Beijing Winter Olympics, you don't have to prepare for the selection competition, I think maybe the rhythm will be better." ”
The Chinese team wins the gold!
Save money to buy gloves for your mom
Such a Wu Dajing is expected. From his childhood, he has been stepping from his hometown to the world stage with this momentum.
Wu Dajing was born on July 24, 1994 in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province, and when he was 10 years old, he saw The cool and heroic posture of Dayang Yang and Li Jiajun on the ice rink on TV, and became interested in skating.
In 2004, 10-year-old Wu Dajing put on an ice knife for the first time and stepped on the ice rink, just two steps before falling on the ice rink. After joining the amateur team of Jiamusi's short track speed skating team, in his first training, he fell a full 107 wrestles, and the mother who accompanied him counted on the side until he wanted to cry.
But the young Wu Dajing was not afraid of pain at all, fell down and got up, fell down and got up again, enlightenment coach Li Jun commented on him: "Wu Dajing's talent is actually more general, but the training is hard, never absent, and the game will be silently hard. Sometimes the ice knife comes off, the socks and shoes are glued together, the injury is not good, and I still insist on training. Slowly, more than his children could not slip him. ”
Wu Dajing's family was not rich, when he was a child, he did not have any pocket money, every day he would save up two yuan for the bus, run back and forth to school and participate in training, save for a month or two, just to buy a pair of gloves for his mother.
After Li Jun learned of this, he was quite moved, "At that time, the outdoors in the northeast were minus 20 degrees Celsius, and it took great perseverance to persevere like this. ”
The details of his buying gloves for his mother also appeared in the sports movie "Icebreaker".
In 2007, Wu Dajing entered the Jiangsu Short Track Speed Skating Team with his outstanding results, began to conduct professional training, and truly became a professional athlete, but later because the Jiangsu Short Track Speed Skating Team was disbanded, he had to go to the Jilin Winter Sports Management Center.
Despite traveling from place to place, Wu Dajing's enthusiasm for training competitions has never diminished - in 2010, the 16-year-old Wu Dajing performed well in the national short track speed skating competition, won the second place, and was selected by the national team coach Li Yanxiang to join the national short track speed skating team.
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the work of the gods
When he first entered the national team, Wu Dajing's performance and teammates were completely incomparable, just passed the passing line, ranked first in the men's team, and could be brushed down at any time, and his first identity in the national team was even a sparring partner - training with the outstanding players of the women's team.
At that time, Wu Dajing could not slide Zhou Yang in the long distance, and could not slide Fan Kexin in the short distance, and he was quite struggling. In training, Zhou Yang would still look at this small player every time he surpassed him, which made Wu Dajing feel even more uncomfortable, and he could only use redoubling his efforts to shorten the gap between himself and his teammates.
When others were resting, he was still training and had not returned home for the New Year for 14 consecutive years. Looking back at the past, Wu Dajing once said: "Exhausting yourself to the point of exhaustion may be the most fulfilling time for athletes." ”
Kung Fu pays off, And Wu Dajing's physical and technical abilities have also improved dramatically, and he has begun to create good results in domestic and foreign competitions – in December 2012, at the Shanghai short track speed skating World Cup, Wu Dajing finished third in the 500 meters with a time of 41.687 seconds; in February 2013, at the short track speed skating World Cup sochi station, Wu Dajing won the second place with a time of 41.095 seconds.
In February 2014, at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing finished second in the 500 meters, when Wu Dajing decided to go further four years later.
From Sochi to Pyeongchang, Wu Dajing's ability is still improving rapidly - in 2017 he has become recognized by the international skating community as the "king of sprints"; the 500-meter race of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is Wu Dajing's god-honored work: in the preliminary round, Wu Dajing set a new Olympic record with a time of 40.264 seconds and successfully advanced to the first place in the group.
In the quarterfinals, he skated another 39.8 seconds, 0.137 seconds faster than the world record set by American John Selsky in Canada in 2012; in the final, Wu Dajing won multiple times with a time of 39.584 seconds and broke the world record again.
On November 12, 2018, at the World Cup held at the Salt Lake Station in Utah, USA, Wu Dajing skated 39.505 seconds, breaking his own world record of 500 meters speed skating.
The overall strength, China is the strongest
The Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago was Wu Dajing's dream journey, and he was also in an invincible state, but in the past four years, he has always remembered that he will achieve another good result at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
According to himself, there is nothing more fun than winning the championship on the doorstep.
Looking forward to the Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing also said loudly: "Through these four years of training and precipitation, there will be a better and newer me in the arena." I am the Olympic champion, the world record (500 meters) is mine, the best result of this year is also mine, I have confidence in myself! My real opponent is myself. ”
This time, Wu Dajing not only strives to defend his title in the 500 meters, but also participates in the 2000 meters mixed relay competition with his teammates.
In the semi-finals of the 2000m mixed relay of the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Beijing on October 21 last year, the Chinese team composed of Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu set a new world record in 2:37.747.
Recently, the Chinese team has won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the 2000-meter mixed relay of the four sub-stations of the World Cup, and Wu Dajing participated in 3 of the competitions and won the championship twice...
With the good results of the four World Cups, the Chinese team firmly occupied the first place in the world ranking of the project with an absolute advantage of 28,000 points. In the end, the gold medal of the Beijing Winter Olympics demonstrated the strong overall strength of the Chinese short track team.