【Winter Olympics Focus】Jin Boyang: Get out of the haze and surpass yourself

At the end of the song, Jin Boyang raised his right fist and burst into tears of excitement.

Although he only won the ninth place in the figure skating men's singles at the Beijing Winter Olympics, far from the podium, and even less than the fourth place four years ago, he has completely come out of the two-year-long haze, defeated himself, and was reborn in the fire.

"At the last Winter Olympics, I wanted to fight for medals. But this time, I wanted to break through myself and get a spiritual gold medal. ”

On February 10, China's Jin Boyang was in the competition. On the same day, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics figure skating men's single skating free skating competition was held at the Capital Gymnasium. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang

The once-rising Jin Boyang is back

Jin Boyang almost never shed tears on the field, even when he created the best result of the Chinese Figure Skating Men's Singles Winter Olympics four years ago. But on Feb. 10, he couldn't hold back. Behind this is a rollercoaster inspirational story.

JimBo Yang became famous at a young age, he won the World Figure Skating Grand Prix Finals Youth Championship at the age of 16, and at the age of 18, he was already able to complete 4 four-week jumps in the competition.

In 2016, he became the first men's singles player in China to reach the podium at the World Figure Skating Championships. In 2017, he once again stood on the podium at the Figure Skating World Championships and entered the figure skating men's singles "300 point club".

In 2018, he won the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in January and the fourth place at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February, setting a new record for the Chinese figure skating men's singles. At the time, he was 20 years old.

However, after the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, especially in the past two years, Jin Boyang's performance has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and the 2021 Figure Skating World Championships only finished 22nd - you know, figure skating is divided into two competition units, and only the current 24th place in the short section can qualify for the free skating competition.

Also in 2021, his world ranking slipped to 22nd.

This is difficult for many people to accept, and he himself is under great pressure.

At the Beijing Winter Olympics, people were pleased to see that the once rising Jin Boyang had returned.

In the short program competition on February 8, he perfectly completed the "hooker for four weeks and then the outer point ice for three weeks". And this signature action, he rarely can perfectly perform after the PyeongChang Winter Olympics.

In the free skate on February 10, he skated a personal season best of 179.45 points, and a total of 270.43 points was also a personal best of the season.

True self-breakthrough

How is the breakthrough achieved?

"I've always been a very autistic person. I think a lot every day. I think sometimes it's because there are so many ideas that they beat me in those four years. Jin Boyang said, "In fact, I have always been very good when I train, but I always fail in the game, and I think it is very devastating to my psychology." ”

Probably many people will go through such a process. When you fail, stand up a little, stand up again, and survive to the end, there will be a beam of light that will open for you.

"My luck is that I haven't been abandoned by others and myself. Many people encouraged me, and the motherland helped me. ”

Relying on such perseverance, Jin Boyang finally waited for the opportunity of "resurrection".

In the team match of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which took the lead, Jin Boyang showed a long-lost good state that he could not believe. This gave him great confidence and greatly reduced the pressure on his heart. "The negative emotions were released all at once, and I felt very good."

The good state continues to be maintained. When it came to the men's single skating field, Jin Boyang began to let go of himself and performed better and better. "It's like someone is holding you around in the air, and it's less force than I needed when I was at my best, it's really incredible."

More critical than the release of pressure is that the coach's enlightenment has allowed him to completely complete his self-breakthrough.

Before the Beijing Winter Olympics, the coach told him, don't always think about winning, don't think about the first few, you will complete every step, every step, every jump, one by one, even if you fail, you say to yourself, the next one must be done well.

"I think this adjustment is very important for me. Because I completely changed my mind, it was really different. "At the last Winter Olympics, I thought about fighting for medals. But this time, all I want to do is break through myself and take the spiritual gold medal. ”

Source: Hebei News Network

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Organizer: Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau

Producer: Guo Lijun

Editor's proofreading: He Wanxuan