Have the courage to challenge yourself, and you will eventually gain a better self

Special commentator of this newspaper

Today's editorial

The Olympic Movement is not only a physical activity that challenges the limits of physiology, but also an interpretation and refinement of the spirit of "faster, higher, stronger and more united". People were shocked by the fearless spirit of the ice and snow athletes who challenged themselves, and they were also deeply moved by the figures who were still strong and strong after failing the challenge. The vivid examples of ice and snow athletes challenging themselves and surpassing themselves inspire people from all walks of life to run hard and chase their dreams, harvest better themselves in unremitting struggle, and achieve a regret-free life in the dedication to society.

On the morning of February 10, the Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating men's singles free skating staged a thrilling "battle royale". Many of the players performed very well, and refreshed their personal season best results in free skating in the "fu ice" of the Capital Gymnasium. In Chinese history, the best figure skater and the highest difficulty holder, two-time World Championships bronze medalist, 24-year-old famous Jin Boyang, with his strong technical ability and artistic expression, scored 179.45 points, once again refreshing the best of the season, and finally ranked ninth with a total score of 270.43. (For related reports, see the 04 edition)

After the performance was completed, in the face of the cheers and applause in the audience, Jimbo Yang shed tears of excitement. The scene of Jin Boyang hiding his face and crying touched countless people. This "genius teenager" once pushed the world men's single skating to an era of advanced four-sided jumping, he not only set many Chinese men's single skating records, but also won the fourth place in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. However, there is no smooth life in the world, and it is inevitable that there will be bumps in the way of growing up as a teenager. The same is true of Jin Boyang. With the adjustment of the rules of figure skating, for some time, his personal state has fluctuated and his results have not been stable. For example, in the men's single skating of the 2021 Figure Skating World Championships, Jin Boyang only won 22nd place, the third from the bottom.

As JimBo Yang said after the game: "Training has always been very good, but the game always failed, I feel very devastating to my own psychology." I was very happy to be able to skate the desired result at my doorstep! At that time, there may be a little bit of negativity, and it was released at once. Here, Jin Boyang's "hiding his face and crying" is not only a commentary on the struggle in the past, but also full of the satisfaction of "Jin Boyang defeated Jin Boyang", and also indicates that Jin Boyang will be reborn in the fire and will open a new peak.

When General Secretary Xi Jinping visited the Chinese sports delegation at the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 7, 2014, he pointed out: "Achievements are not only in whether they can get or how many medals they can get, but also in embodying the Olympic spirit, self-improvement, self-improvement, overcoming themselves, and surpassing themselves." "The medals are precious and the breakout price is higher. Here, Jin Boyang created his highest personal score this season, and what touched people's hearts was not only his tears, but the self-improvement and self-transcendent spirit he possessed. Relying on this "spirit of spirit" and not quitting, Jin Boyang has great expectations for the future.

The Olympic movement is not only a physical activity that challenges the limits of physiology, but also an interpretation and refinement of the spirit of "faster, higher, stronger and more united". At the Beijing Winter Olympics, people were shocked by the fearless spirit of the ice and snow athletes to challenge themselves, and they were also deeply moved by the figures who were still strong and strong after failing the challenge.

In the morning of February 10, Japan's Yu Yusuke used Axel's Four-Way Jump (4A) in the opening scene, but unfortunately, he fell twice. He said, "No one has ever been successful in 4A, no one knows how to succeed, and sometimes I think that maybe no one can succeed." "In the face of the voice of stability, the injured and sick Yusheng Yushin still has never wavered in his determination to regard 4A as his mission." Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, I am partial to the tiger mountain line", decisively choose to challenge the limit, even if it fails, it is not spared, this is the heroism that belongs to Yusheng.

The so-called "one minute on stage, ten years off stage", behind each point is a day-to-day high-intensity and high-load training, which is the effort of athletes beyond ordinary people. Time does not fail to live up to every effort. I believe that the ice and snow athletes, including Yusheng Yuxian, will surely work hard after the tempering of time and usher in the day of success.

The Winter Olympics will come to an end, but the spirit of self-challenge and self-transcendence displayed by ice and snow athletes on the field will never end. Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic movement, said: "What is important in life is not triumph but struggle, and its essence is not to win but to make human beings braver, stronger, more cautious and more generous." "We rejoice and applaud the medal winners, and we also pay high tribute to the ice and snow athletes who have dared to challenge themselves and have not yet succeeded, and cheer for them!"

People come early in the spring, and the tiger roars to open a new situation. In the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the vivid examples of ice and snow athletes challenging themselves and surpassing themselves conveyed the positive energy of striving hard and unswervingly, inspiring people from all walks of life to strengthen their confidence in victory, work hard to run and chase their dreams, have the courage to step out of the "comfort zone" and "leisure zone", take out the majestic wind of the tiger, the vigor of the dragon and the tiger, the spirit of swallowing the tiger, exert the tenacity of seeking from top to bottom, perseverance, challenge themselves, surpass themselves, harvest better themselves in unremitting struggle, and achieve a regretless life in the dedication to society.