"My eyes are rulers!" On February 6, 2022, when explaining the final of the 2000-meter mixed team relay group A of the Winter Olympics, former Chinese women's speed skater Wang Mengjin frequently appeared and continued to dominate the hot search. After the game, netizens also left messages one after another, praising Wang Meng's explanation.
From athletes to coaches to commentators, Wang Meng's life has achieved three huge leaps, but he can always reap success. At three different stages of life, Wang Meng used different ways to write his own "Mao Era".
Speed skater
As an athlete, Wang Meng's career is undoubtedly brilliant. In the more than ten years of the ice rink, Wang Meng has won 77 championship titles on behalf of China and set new world records 10 times, of which four Olympic gold medals, especially the "Triple Crown" of the 2010 Winter Olympics, are full of gold. It is no exaggeration to say that in the history of China's Winter Olympics, Wang Meng is called the first person, which is no exaggeration.
The brilliance of Wang Meng's career is inseparable from his extraordinary talent. Behind this, perseverance, the pursuit of details, and arrogance and domineering are all her success codes.
Many sports fans may remember that at that time, Wang Meng's backhand sliding posture was the signature. As a matter of fact. In the short track speed skating project, the players are often filled with a lot of physical confrontation and interference, and the backhand sliding posture requires extremely strict basic skills. When he was a child, although Wang Meng was very naughty in private, when he arrived at the training ground, he was often meticulous. Every time the practice is long, the skates and feet stick together, which is a great physical pain for every child, but Wang Meng has always insisted on a lot of rigorous training, and over time, every technical link of short track speed skating has been polished by her, which has the future "Mao Master".
In addition, Wang Meng's strength in short track speed skating also stems from his strict pursuit of details. Wang Meng once revealed that in her athlete career, she personally adjusted the ice blades to ensure the performance of the game state. In the short track speed skating 500 meters, athletes fell is a common thing, but throughout her career, there are few fall mistakes, which is also inseparable from her adjustment of the ice blade.
Every time she prepares for the game, Wang Meng can do a good job of the referee's decision scale, which also ensures that she can play at her best level in the game. And Wang Meng's domineering spirit and self-confidence beyond ordinary people have allowed her to withstand the pressure and play her true level in key competitions.
"Any coach who comes into contact with Wang Meng will be selected after she is contacted, and Wang Meng's athletic talent is very comprehensive. This comprehensiveness is not only her explosiveness and fast skating, but also her comprehensive quality and understanding of the coach's intentions. Speaking of Wang Meng, her enlightenment coach Ma Qingzhong said so. Looking back at the era when Wang Meng was an athlete, the rest of the athletes often only had to compete for the second place, and the "Mao era" lived up to its name.
Champion Coach
In preparation for the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, Wang Meng suffered a serious injury during training and gradually faded out of the game. Over the years, she tried to do business and also switched to the entertainment industry, until 2018, Wang Meng became the head coach of the "Olympic Express Program" speed skating national training team, and in 2019, she served as the head of the coaching team of the speed skating and short track speed skating national team. Since then, the former short track speed skating overlord has returned to his familiar track.
A good athlete may not be a good coach. As an athlete, you often only need to do a good job of training and playing well, but as a coach, you need to consider all aspects of the athlete's game. From athlete to coach, this is an important opportunity in Wang Meng's life, but more than that, it is also a test and challenge.
Of course, some of the excellent qualities shown during the athlete period still give Wang Meng the foundation of being a high-level coach. For example, as mentioned above, Wang Meng is very skilled in the polishing of basic skills in training, and he also has a very good control over the details of competition preparation, and his understanding of the game is very accomplished, and these habits have a very important growth help for any athlete. More importantly, during the athlete period, Wang Meng was a veritable leader and a responsible person, and as a coach, it was crucial for him to establish his authority within the team.
As a coach, with the good contacts accumulated during the athlete period, Wang Meng quickly formed a strong coaching team for the Chinese team, and through excellent personal charm, he also adopted a new selection mechanism to quickly mobilize the enthusiasm of the team members. More importantly, as a coach, Wang Meng is also constantly breaking through herself, she constantly summarizes the tuition fees she paid during her athlete period, and uses the strictest team rules to strictly restrain and manage team members.
With hard work, Wang Meng came up with his own achievements. In October 2018, at the Calgary Short Track Speed Skating Western Classic, the Chinese Speed Skating National Training Team won the championships in eight events, including men's and women's 1000 meters, men's and women's 1500 meters, men's and women's individual all-around, and men's and women's relays, and on March 4, 2019, in the men's 1500 meters final of the Russian Winter Universiade short track speed skating, Ankai won the first gold for the Chinese team.
In 2020, Wang Meng stepped down as the head coach, and her coaching career came to an end temporarily. But Wang Meng, born in 1984, is still young, has an excellent report card for the first time to coach, and also has a superb understanding of skating, and excellent leadership ability, and in the future, Wang Mengdi's coaching career will surely reopen and make a difference.
Gold Medal Commentary
During the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wang Meng's figure once again appeared in the public eye. This time, she is no longer an athlete or a coach, but as a commentator, partnering with Huang Jianxiang to explain the winter Olympic speed skating competition. As a narrator, Wang Meng said that the "nagging"-style explanation can be described as unique.
On February 5, in the 2000-meter relay final of the short track speed skating mixed team at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team won the first gold medal of the Winter Olympics, which aroused the popularity of the whole people, and Wang Meng, who sat in the comments, was equally eye-catching, and her bold and handsome personality and profound understanding of speed skating were vividly displayed in her words. In the process of commentary, Wang Meng's golden sentences were frequent, witty, and with highly infectious emotions and professional analysis, the audience watching the game in front of the screen was amazed. For a while, even Huang Jianxiang, a senior commentator partner, could not even find the opportunity to interject, and could only smile and say to Wang Meng, "You are right about what you say!" ”
On February 7, Wang Meng and Huang Jianxiang once again partnered to explain the speed skating competition. This time, Wang Meng still continued his wonderful and unique "Mao-style explanation". In the men's 1000m speed skating semifinals, Wu Dajing crossed the line for the third time, and when Huang Jianxiang was still thinking about whether Wu Dajing could guarantee the final quota, Wang Meng immediately patted his chest and said, "Dajing has entered the final!" In the end, Wu Dajing did enter the final directly as the second place, and Wang Meng's professional understanding of speed skating was evident.
No wonder, Wang Meng was able to confidently say, "My eyes are rulers!" ”
Perhaps, some people will think that Wang Meng's commentary, although it is infectious and professional, does not meet the standards of a professional sports commentator. But as the famous American sports commentator John Strong said, the most important thing in sports commentary is the ability to tell stories, especially in situations where the storyline is complex, the audience knows little about the background, or when the TV and radio are upset, or the time is very tight, this ability is increasingly valuable. From this point of view, as a commentator, Wang Meng can let the audience intuitively understand the professional knowledge of speed skating projects and make accurate explanations for the audience at the first time, so Wang Meng is competent as a commentator.
In 2006, Turin became famous in World War I, Wang Meng opened his own "Mao era", and in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, in the commentary seat, Wang Meng was still using another identity to continue to write his own "Mao era".