The Chinese short track speed skating team trains from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day, and he always sticks to the last person. Even after suffering from a knee injury, he continued to stay on the training ground and the arena and never missed. This person is Ren Ziwei, who has just won the short track speed skating men's 1000 meters championship.
Ren Ziwei was born on June 3, 1997 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, and when he was 7 years old, he was selected by the coach of the Nangang District Sports School to start short track speed skating training.
Injury is every athlete's biggest enemy to success, and Ren Ziwei is no different. In 2010, Ren Ziwei fractured his left foot. Children are the heart of parents, seeing her son lying on the hospital bed in pain, Ren Ziwei's mother cried and directly said to the coach, "Our children are not practicing." ”
Although Ren Ziwei was only 13 years old at this time, he had big ideas. He already has his own independent thoughts, his own opinions. Ren Ziwei persuaded his parents to continue practicing.
During the period of recovery after the injury, he could not practice his lower limbs, so he practiced upper limb strength, exercised abs, back muscles... There was hardly much delay in training. Seeing that their son was so insistent, the parents finally agreed to Ren Ziwei to continue practicing short track speed skating.
However, God continued to test Ren Ziwei. A year later, Ren Ziwei fractured his right foot in a match. This time injured, Ren Ziwei's mother was iron-hearted, "My son is not this piece of material, his bones are too fragile." ”
With the encouragement of the coach, Ren Ziwei walked out of the injury, and the goal was clearer - to enter the national team. The injured Ren Ziwei practiced twice a day, sweating profusely for his goals and ideals, and Ren Ziwei's mother once again "compromised".
One day, the coach's students came to the team with the gold medal of the World Cup champion, and Ren Ziwei happened to be there. Seeing the golden gold medal, Ren Ziwei was eager to hang it on his neck immediately, so he asked the coach if he could borrow the gold medal to wear. The gold medal hung on Ren Ziwei's chest, and he carefully stroked it, reluctant to take it off. At this time, Ren Ziwei secretly decided to become a world champion and get his own gold medal.
With this goal, Ren Ziwei "slid" from the city team to the national team, from the national champion to the world champion and the Olympic champion. In 2014, the 17-year-old Ren Ziwei was promoted to the national team less than two years after entering the city team.
After entering the national team, Li Yan, then the head coach of the national short track speed skating team, gave Ren Ziwei a nickname "elephant". Li Yan said that Ren Ziwei rushing up will give people a feeling of courage and unstoppable, like an elephant. In the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, Ren Ziwei's performance was very eye-catching. The World Cup in Dresden in early 2020 broke South Korea's long monopoly on the men's 1500m title. In the 4 World Cup series, Ren Ziwei won 3 individual gold medals. His strong performance has injected a booster into the Chinese short track speed skating team.
In the short track speed skating mixed relay competition the day before yesterday, Ren Ziwei cooperated with his teammates to win the opening for the Chinese delegation. Today, he won the men's 1000m. Judging from the current state, Ren Ziwei is likely to stand on the highest podium in the back games and become the gold king of this Winter Olympics. When the gold medal of the Olympic champion was hung on his chest, Ren Ziwei said excitedly: "I have fantasized countless times that I should say and do what to say when I stand here, but I really have to stand here, and suddenly I don't know what to say, I am happy..."