Song Qiwu's family watched the game with Ziyang athletes. Photo by AnYuan
(Beijing Winter Olympics) Flying General Song Qiwu Competes in the Winter Olympic Jumping Platform Family: 3 years ago he didn't even see real snow
Zhongxin Network Ziyang, February 7 Title: Flying General Song Qiwu Conquers the Winter Olympics Jumping Platform Family: 3 years ago he didn't even see real snow
Reporter He Shaoqing
"When my brother joined the national team 3 years ago, he went as far as Dujiangyan in Chengdu and never saw real snow. Standing on the field of the Winter Olympics, he has realized his dream. On the evening of the 7th, after watching Song Qiwu's ski jumping mixed team competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics in Ziyang, Sichuan, Song Qiwu's brother Song Hanxuan released his clenched hands.
Song Qiwu's family cheered him on before the game. Photo by AnYuan
On the same day, the Beijing Winter Olympics Ski Jumping Mixed Team Competition was competed at the "Snow Ruyi" China National Ski Jumping Center. In this Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese male ski jumper Song Qiwu, female athletes Dong Bing and Peng Qingyue and Nordic biathlon Zhao Jiawen stopped the first round.
It is understood that Song Qiwu, an athlete from Ziyang, Sichuan Province, was once an athletics athlete and only came into contact with ski jumping through cross-border cross-sports in 2018. It was this southern "post-00s" athlete who had never even seen snow 3 years ago, who broke the record of the Chinese men's big jump with a score of 141.5 meters in the first jump of the 120-meter big jump in Laiyuan, Hebei Province, and jumped the best result of the Chinese men's ski jumping international A-level competition at the Intercontinental Cup at the Rasnov Station in Romania in August 2021.
"Song Qiwu's height and weight belong to the golden figure of ski jumping, and the lower limbs are very explosive in an instant, and at the same time, there are dreams and goals." Sichuan ski jumping team coach Xie Yong introduced that ski jumping is also known as the sport of the brave, Song Qiwu entered the special training, showed extraordinary courage, "dare to jump" has become his biggest advantage. "He spent every day in wrestling in the early days of training, but never shook his confidence and quickly became the first man to ski jump in China."
Song Qiwu's father showed off the medals his son had won. Photo by AnYuan
On either side of Song Qiwu's TV set in the living room of Ziyang's hometown, he hung all kinds of ski jumping medals that he had won in the past three years. "Every time he gets a medal, he sends it home, and before he gets home, I can't help but open the package and see what my son's medal looks like." Mr. Song's mother, Dong Shiying, said her son often shared with himself his achievements on the jumping stage, but was silent about the pain. "Once I knew about the injury from his brother, I was very worried, asked him what to do, he said' it's okay, when you can't jump for the time being, you can still stand and train.'"
Before participating in the ski jumping mixed team competition on the 7th, Song Qiwu also competed in the men's standard ski jumping qualification competition. Most of the players who compete with Song Qiwu have more than 8 years of ski jumping training, while Song Qiwu has only been in contact with ski jumping for 3 years. Although it failed to qualify for the final, this is the second time that a Chinese male ski jumper has returned to the Winter Olympics after 16 years.
Song Qiwu's mother shows photos of her son when he was a child. Photo by AnYuan
"The world-class gods of ski jumping at the Beijing Winter Olympics abound, and he (Song Qiwu) needs to learn and exercise to play with these masters." In Xie Yong's view, losing in the competition is also an important experience in the personal growth of athletes, young disciples who have just stood on the platform of the Winter Olympics still have a long way to go, and Song Qiwu's dream of the Winter Olympics has just begun. (End)