Qi Guangpu, the "elder of the four dynasties", won the first silver at the Winter Olympics, and almost became a "deserter" that year.

The Beijing Winter Olympics is the fourth winter Olympic tour of Chinese player Qi Guangpu. The 31-year-old veteran, who has already combined world championships, World Cup champions and other titles, once made a birthday wish: to win gold in the Winter Olympics at the age of 31!

At the Beijing Winter Olympics Freestyle Skiing Aerial Skills Mixed Team Competition held on February 10, Qi Guangpu scored 122.17 points in the last jump, and finally won a silver medal with teammates Xu Mengtao and Jia Zongyang. Although he has not yet filled the last gap in his "Grand Slam Puzzle", personally, this is his first time to win a Winter Olympic medal, which is also a breakthrough.

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Teenager Qi Guangpu almost became a "deserter"

Qi Guangpu, born in 1990, began to learn skills at the age of 4 under the guidance of his enlightenment teacher Liu Dezhen, and was sent to school by his mother every day before dawn, rain or shine. At the age of 5, he was selected to train in the Xuzhou Skill Team, and at the age of 10, he was selected to be sent to the Changchun Ski Team and began to specialize in freestyle skiing aerial skills training. From his hometown of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, to the cold northeast, Qi Guangpu, who was young and vigorous, was full of ambition, but underestimated the reality. He once thought, "I'm no stranger to flipping heels, as long as I learn to ski, I can quickly get started with aerial skills." As a result, when I first trained in the air, due to insufficient control, I only completed half a lap of action and plunged into the snowdrift.

In addition to the difficulties of technical training, the repeated physical training also consumes his enthusiasm. Two years after joining the team, Qi Guangpu suddenly felt that he had lost the motivation to move forward, and the nervous training and the loneliness of leaving his hometown made him have the idea of leaving, "I don't want to train, go home!" At that time, Qi Guangpu did not greet the team and ran to the train station alone to buy tickets. After being refused ticket sales by the conductor, Qi Guangpu said that he thought of another way, "buy a platform ticket and follow the mixed train." Dan was hovering at the ticket window when the silver guide came. ”

The "silver guide" in Qi Guangpu's mouth was The coach of the Changchun Freestyle SkiIng Aerial Skills Team at that time. But instead of criticizing him, Yinggang took him to eat a dumpling and sent him back to his dormitory. Qi Guangpu recalled: "The next day, the coach and teammates came to enlighten me, and I also realized my mistake. Since then, I have made up my mind to continue on this project and live up to the expectations of my coach and family. ”

Since then, Qi Guangpu has only spent the Spring Festival at home once, mostly in competitions or training, and his mother recalls: "He only has a few days off in April every year, and usually trains or competes. The general training time is from November to March every year, when the weather is the coldest, it is only minus ten degrees Celsius or even tens of degrees, and he has to train for 4 hours. ”

In the Beijing Winter Olympics freestyle skiing aerial skills mixed team final, Qi Guangpu competed. Image according to IC photo

It's not easy for veterans to stick to it

He is one of the five "Elders of the Four Dynasties" of the Chinese delegation

"Free, exciting, unrestrained" – Qi Guangpu uses these three keywords to describe the turning and flying action of aerial skills. With this feeling, he grew from a hot-blooded teenager all the way to the ace of the Chinese team.

In 2008, Qi Guangpu began to emerge, and at the 11th National Winter Games, he won the men's team championship in freestyle skiing aerial skills. At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu's first Olympic trip, seventh place was "a breakthrough in the world, but also a spur". In the following three years, the increasingly mature Qi Guangpu won the World Cup sub-station championship, the World Cup overall champion and the World Championship champion successively. Among them, at the 2013 World Championships, he showed the "Sky action" with a difficulty coefficient of 5.0, and became the first player in the world to complete the difficulty with a high score of 138 points.

"It's a three-week backwards flip plus a 1,800-degree turn." Qi Guangpu introduced that the difficulty lies in the connection after the weekly rotation and the control of a smooth landing, and the aerial part is equivalent to completing 8 laps of action in a few seconds, which requires strong body control, spatial judgment, and the ability to accelerate rotation. Unfortunately, the next Sochi Winter Olympics and the Pingchang Winter Olympics, Qi Guangpu made mistakes: the difficult action of 5.0 at the Sochi Winter Olympics, because the technology was not mature enough, led to the final fourth place; the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics made a mistake when the second round landed, and did not qualify for the top six. Qi Guangpu believes that this project integrates many game factors such as action difficulty, on-site strain, psychological adjustment and game luck, and is one of the most accidental projects in the Winter Olympic Games, and having championship strength does not mean winning the championship.

Of the 176 athletes of the Chinese sports delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics, only 5 were "elders of the Four Dynasties," and Qi Guangpu was one of them. The persistence of the veteran is not easy, and the effort behind each jump is unimaginable to ordinary people.

This time, Qi Guangpu's two jumps were 4.525, the first jump was 118.10 points, and the second jump was 122.17 points, helping the Chinese team win a silver medal, which was also a good end to his career.

Red Star News reporter Ren Hongwei intern Wang Zuxi

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