The King of the Chinese Winter Olympics short track speed skating team finally won this gold medal after hard work in the 2000-meter mixed relay competition last night, which is perfect.
Looking at the results, you may think that the Chinese team with wu dajing and Ren Ziwei two world champions is well deserved, but in fact, four games are not easy at all.
In the rapidly changing situation on the field of short track speed skating, anything can happen, and the Chinese team has come all the way to the danger, fortunately, there is no danger.
There will never be any ironclad champion in sports competitions, the Chinese team is fully prepared in terms of tactics, technology, physical fitness, etc., and has reached a high level of play, and finally won the gold medal, congratulations to the Chinese short track speed skating team!
As the leader of the Chinese short track speed skating team, the famous Wu Dajing slid the last baton in the final, facing the crazy chase of the opponent in the final stage, Wu Dajing withstood the pressure and took the lead in crossing the finish line.
In the post-match interview, Wu Dajing choked up the first sentence he said: "I have waited for four years." ”
Wu Dajing said that in the past four years, he has experienced a lot, there are ups and downs, there are highs and lows, thank the team for not giving up, thank your family for encouraging and supporting, and thank you for never giving up on yourself, from the excitement and tears after the Wu Dajing game, you can see the hardships and complexities of the veteran, and the story behind the championship is something that we ordinary people can't see.
Of course, we also need to thank the heroes behind the short track speed skating team, South Korean technical coach Ahn Hyun-so, head coach Kim Sun-tae, because the coaches wear masks all the time, we can't see the faces of the coaches, but from the whole game, as the "elder" of the fifth Olympic Games, Ahn Hyun-so seems very calm.
Today, we will take a look at Ahn Hyun-so's dramatic life.
Chinese Short Track Speed Skating Team Technical Coach An Hyun-so (second from right)
A russian-Korean Ahn Hyun-so became famous at a young age
An Hyun-so's official English name is Victor An, you must be curious, how can the Koreans have such a name, in fact, Ahn Hyun-so's exact nationality is Russian, after being excluded by the South Korean short track speed skating team, Ahn Hyun-so joined the Russian team to participate in the Sochi Winter Olympics, and won three Sochi Winter Olympic gold medals in one fell swoop, for the Korean team, it is simply a slap in the face.
Born in 1985, at the age of 37, Ahn Hyun-so has been training in speed skating since the first grade of elementary school, and when he saw Choi Ji-hoon and Kim Dong-sung on live television to glory for South Korea at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, and Nagano, Japan, Ahn Hyun-so also aspired to be a great short-track speed skater like them.
In January 2002, at the age of 17, Ahn Hyun-so won the World Junior Short Track Championships.
In February, he finished fourth in the men's 1000m short track speed skating at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in the United States, making his Olympic debut.
In February 2006, in the short track speed skating competition at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, after four years of preparation, the fully mature Ahn Hyun-so won the men's individual 1000 meters competition;
Winning the 1500m, leading the Korean team to win the men's 5000m relay event and the third place in the men's individual 500m event, the record of three golds and one bronze made him the athlete who won the most medals at the Turin Winter Olympics.
At the 2003-2007 World Championships for five consecutive years, Ahn Hyun-so continued to write his undefeated legend.
Change of nationality
Just for your own short track speed skating dreams
In January 2008, Ahn Hyun-so hit a wall during a training session, resulting in a fractured left kneecap and a contusion of the posterior cruciate ligament, and had to withdraw from the South Korean national team.
Since the injury was not during the national team match, Ahn Hyun-so did not receive state funding for treatment, which also caused a rift with the South Korean Ice Federation.
In April 2009, he went to Russia at his own expense for three surgeries, and when Ahn Hyun-so returned to the field, he lost the opportunity to participate in the Vancouver Winter Olympics due to the lack of comprehensive points in the Korean domestic selection due to the long period of non-participation.
Very bizarre. In 2009, South Korea's Olympic Trials ended in April (both the U.S. and Chinese trials began in December), when Ahn Hyun-so was injured. This is believed to be a big reason why Ahn Hyun-so lost his qualification for the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
In fact, after this, his short track career also faced difficulties: he could not enjoy quality training conditions, and he was repeatedly fouled in domestic competitions...
In 2010, the South Korean short track team changed the selection system to individual skating and absolute speed selection rankings, resulting in Ahn Hyun-so's defeat in the South Korean national team selection in September.
In January 2011, the Russian Ice Federation sent an invitation, hoping that Ahn Hyun-so could naturalize his Russian citizenship, and made it clear that if he was willing to change his nationality, he could directly book a place for the Sochi Winter Olympics and provide all convenient training conditions.
In April, Ahn Hyun-so was shortlisted in another selection for the South Korean national team, losing her qualification to represent South Korea at the Sochi Winter Olympics, and thus made up her mind to naturalize Russian citizenship.
In December, then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev personally signed a presidential decree granting Ahn Hyun-so Russian citizenship and officially changing his name to Victor An, where his English name came from.
In February 2014, Victor Ann represented host Russia in the short track speed skating competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
He first won the bronze medal in the men's 1500m, the first medal in the history of the Russian team in short track speed skating.
In his thank-you speech after the game, he said, "I thank the Russian people for their trust in me, and the Russian Skating Association for their support of me.
I hope to repay them with a gold medal next. In the face of the South Korean journalists who shouted "Ahn Hyun-so" to chase and block him, he waved his hands, turned and left.
He then won the gold medal in the men's 1000m with a time of 1:2.325, and also achieved a breakthrough of zero short track speed skating gold medals for Russia.
In the men's 500m final, he relied on his personal skills and abilities to chase from the last place at the start to the first place, defeated mainland athlete Wu Dajing to win the gold medal, and led the Russian team to win the gold medal in the men's 5000m relay final held on the same day, and also set a new Olympic record.
At this point, Victor Ann has accumulated 6 gold medals in the history of the Winter Olympics, becoming a legend of short track speed skating. He also won the Recovery of the Year award from Reuters in the United Kingdom.
At the Sochi Winter Olympics, Ahn Hyun-so defeated mainlander Wu Dajing to win the gold medal in the 500 meters
As a world-class athlete, Ahn Hyun-so will not change his nationality in order to participate in the Olympic Games unless he has a last resort, but the South Korean speed skating team has a lot of shady scenes, so that the personality of Ahn Hyun-so suffered a lot, and finally made up his mind to leave Russia.
According to South Korea's MBC Television, Ahn Hyun-so received instructions from his coach to help his veterans win gold medals before the short-track speed skating competition. At that time, Ahn Hyun-so did not express any meaning and went straight to the game.
In the game, the old players told him to give way in the back, but Ahn Hyun-so, who hated being a victim, did not give way and slid until the end. As a result, after the game, the veteran player hit him on the head with a match helmet.
At the time of the success of the Sochi Winter Olympics, South Korean President Park Geun-hye denounced the South Korean Ministry of Culture and Education for his "defection" to Russia and the latter's first short track speed skating medal in history, saying that Victor Ahn, as a former Olympic champion in South Korea, could not gain a foothold in the Korean sports world, and demanded that the Korean sports community must reflect, should rationally manage excellent athletes, and modify the unfair selection system to reduce shady scenes.
But behind this series of infighting and factions, the culprit is the Korea Ice Federation.
In 2010, Ahn Hyun-so was not selected for the Winter Olympic national team, and the corruption of the South Korean Ice Federation has long since surfaced. At that time, Ahn Hyun-so exposed the infighting and chose to naturalize in Russia, and the Ice Federation did not come forward to clarify or even retain Ahn Hyun-so.
Some South Korean netizens angrily said: "Ahn Hyun-so's status is equivalent to Phelps in the swimming world, Bolt in sprinting, and Issinbayeva in pole vaulting, if even such athletes cannot enter the national team, how corrupt the Korean Ice Federation should be!"
Ahn Hyun-so became the victim of the Gang Fight of the Korean team, while the Korea Ice Federation stood by and stood by, and the Ice Federation should kneel down to apologize to Ahn Hyun-so." From the above description, it can also be seen that the corruption of the top level of the Korean ice sports.
The confusing doping problem
Due to the doping problem that erupted at the Sochi Winter Olympics, the IOC listed an "alternative pool" that was identified as an innocent athlete, and only Russian athletes in the "alternate pool" were eligible to participate in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the Russian Olympic Committee found that Victor An was not among them.
Also off the list are cross-country skiing world champion Uschogoff and biathlon world champion Shiplin.
The senior vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee said the three athletes "have never been involved in any doping incidents and have never had a bad record in the numerous samples submitted in their athlete careers."
But despite this, their names still failed to appear on the list of athletes eligible for the Winter Olympics. ”
That means victor Ann, the world's most successful Olympic short track speed skater and six-time Olympic gold medalist, won't be racing in South Korea, where he was born.
In response to the Ahn Hyun-so incident, an IOC spokesperson said that in order to protect the rights of those involved, the IOC will not respond to individual situations, only to the whole incident.
At the same time, they stressed that even if an athlete is removed from the IOC list, it does not mean that he has used doping.
The IOC said: "We want to ensure that all athletes who go to Pyeongchang are completely free of drug prohibition." Even if athletes have the 'slightest possibility' of getting involved in drugs, we will exclude them from the list. ”
Whether Ahn Hyun-so's failure to attend the Winter Olympics in his hometown was implicated by Russian doping or whether South Koreans themselves caused the damage has become a mystery.
In April 2020, Ahn Hyun-so announced his retirement.
Invited to join the Chinese team
After the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, head coach Li Yan left, followed by olympic champion Wang Meng, but the athlete-turned-athlete Wang Meng's coaching performance was not ideal and his coaching experience was relatively insufficient;
With Wang Meng's departure in April 2020, there is an urgent need for a high-level coach who has a certain understanding of the Chinese short track speed skating team and has first-class experience in world short track speed skating competitions, and Ahn Hyun-so has become the best candidate.
Ahn Hyun-so leads the Chinese team in training
Compared with other coaches who can only "move their mouths", Ahn Hyun-so at this time also has the ability of an athlete, he can even skate with the players on the field, and this hand-to-hand coaching method is obviously more able to make the players grow.
Ahn Hyun-so himself also has world-class short-track speed skating skills, which is also a face-to-face role model for young Chinese players.
According to media sources, including OSEN and Yonhap News Agency, the Chinese short track speed skating team and Ahn Hyun-so of the Beijing Winter Olympics have reported on it, many of which have connotations and spit on Ahn Hyun-so, saying, "Is this deliberately taking over the Chinese team to retaliate against South Korea?" ”
It is also said that the two South Korean coaches of the Chinese short track speed skating team (Ahn Hyun-so and Kim Sun-tae) are the Olympic team of mystery of this year's Chinese team.
brief summary
The 37-year-old Ahn Hyun-so has been tempered over the years, perhaps smoothing out his sharpness, he has experienced countless highlight moments, and he has also endured the darkest moments of exclusion and suppression;
As a former world-class athlete, there is no doubt about one thing, that is, the love for the ice and snow cause, the dedication and seriousness of the cause.
The Chinese short track speed skating team won the first gold, and Ahn Hyun-soo was indispensable!
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