As the only ball sport in the Winter Olympics, ice hockey is a very ornamental collective sport in ice sports and has a high degree of attention. Especially at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese men's and women's ice hockey teams all participated, which is the first time that Chinese ice hockey can play in the Winter Olympics "full". Last night, the Chinese men's ice team made its debut at the Winter Olympics and engaged in a fierce confrontation with the U.S. men's ice hockey team.
Born in 1998, Yingrudi has a lot of experience in ice hockey, and entered the Chinese men's national ice hockey team in early 2021, and this year he and his teammates competed in the Beijing Winter Olympics. Yingrudi's father is director Yingda, who has been nurturing and accompanying his son to play hockey. For him, his father, a professional hockey player, is a very proud identity.
Ying rudi
Although the ice hockey program is still in the development stage in China, standing on the stage of the Winter Olympics is a memorable moment for all Chinese ice hockey players. Especially for Yingda, it is even more mixed to finally wait for the moment when his son is fighting for the country in the Olympic Arena. This year, Yingda's youngest daughter also returned to China from the United States, which is also the first time she spent the Spring Festival with her father Yingda in China.
Yingru Di is looking forward to her son's participation in the Winter Olympics
The Chinese ice hockey team began to actively prepare for the Beijing Winter Olympics as early as May 2018. In August 2021, the Chinese national ice hockey training team traveled to Russia in the name of the club to participate in the 2021-2022 Russian men's and women's ice hockey league. During the league, Yingda, who cares about her son, often contacts Yingrudi. For his son's training status and the current situation of the Chinese ice hockey team, he is both relieved and proud, and has enough rational cognition and psychological preparation.
Ice hockey is a sport that Ying rudi has loved since he was a child, and he has insisted on it for many years, even temporarily giving up college in order to play games and prepare for the Olympics. Maybe after the Winter Olympics, he will go to school again. "We have seen his talent in ice hockey since he was a child, and we have always looked forward to the day when he can represent China and win glory for the country." When I let him go out to study, it was for the sake of mastering yi and mastering skills to control Yi and win glory for the country. But because ice hockey is a team sport, our ice hockey and the whole ice and snow sports started relatively late, and the overall level and the world gap is large, so we participated in the Winter Olympics this year, no matter whether the results are good or bad, we are mentally prepared. ”
Although as early as the 2010 Winter Olympics, Yingda was invited to interpret the ice hockey game with Han Qiaosheng with his familiarity and enthusiasm for ice hockey. But this year, many media invited Yingda to serve as the commentator of the winter Olympics ice hockey, but he has been hesitating: "It is reasonable to say that ten years of grinding a sword should wait for this year." But because my own son is on the field, if the results are not very satisfactory, it is difficult for me to stay out of the matter. I'm going to be a little nervous when I explain it. However, he also served as the commentator for some of the ice hockey matches during the game.
Indah and Yingrudi
Yingda also said that for the Chinese men's ice hockey team participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time, the results are not the most important, what is important is to show their style and level on the one hand through the competition with strong players on the Olympic stage; on the other hand, they also accumulate experience, explore and reserve talents, and lay the foundation for the next development of Chinese ice hockey.
Promote the sport of ice hockey
In fact, when ying rudi, who was only 3 years old, was fascinated by ice hockey, Yingda did not support it, but hoped that her son would make achievements in piano. Yingrudi has indeed made great achievements in piano performance, and has won the "Beijing Hope Cup Champion" and the first place in the Geneva Swiss Music Competition, but what Yingrudi really loves is ice hockey. Yingda, who was once called "Tiger Dad" by his son, often used ice hockey to "blackmail" his son - only by playing the piano well could he participate in ice hockey training. Having said that, Yingda also joined forces with a group of parents who love ice hockey to spontaneously establish the Beijing Tiger Boy Ice Hockey Club in Beijing.
In August 2006, Yingrudi participated in the World's top junior ice hockey tournament Bell Capital Cup with the Beijing Tigers, and in the competition he played a "hat trick" continuously, helping the team win all six games and won the "scoring king". In 2007, the NHL's traditional powerhouse, the Boston Brown Bears, invited 9-year-old Yingrudi to join the Junior Echelon, which made Indah finally make up his mind to support his son to play ice hockey: "I always thought that ice hockey was playing, until he won the Bell Capital Cup when he was eight years old, and our lives changed. I didn't expect him to win the Amateur Junior World Championship and be voted the best right striker, so we decided to switch and let him play abroad, which also meant giving up the piano. But there is one point that will not give up, once he chooses, he must stick to it, and he should be responsible for his choice! ”
For the sake of his son's hockey dream, Yingda let Yingrudi go to the Phillips Exeter College of ice hockey in the United States to study and train, opening a professional ice hockey road. Indah is a frequent traveler between China and the United States. Missing her son, Yingda founded Beijing's first junior hockey league in 2009, and today, there are more than 20 such hockey club leagues in the country, and the number of children participating has expanded from hundreds to thousands.
In 2016, when Yingrudi was two months old and 18 years old, beijing Kunlun Hongxing Ice Hockey Club was established, and China had its own professional ice hockey club for the first time. Yingrudi signed with Kunlun Hongxing, and also became the first Chinese player to officially sign a contract for the world's top hockey league. In 2020, Yingrudi was selected for the men's ice hockey training list at the Winter Games Center of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China; in 2021, he entered the Chinese men's national ice hockey team.
"Now so many children in Beijing learn ice hockey, many people choose the 98 of Yingru Dysprosium. Originally, there was no number 98 in ice hockey, because he was born in 1998, so he used number 98. Indah said happily: "I believe that even if he retires in the future, he may continue to help and promote the sport of ice hockey as a coach or in other ways." ”
My daughter now plays hockey too
"Ying Rudi feels that China is good from the bottom of her heart. Maybe this sentence is very simple, but for people who really come back from abroad and have seen the world, this sentence carries a lot of weight. Indah mentioned one thing that touched him: in 2017, as the captain of the national youth ice hockey team, Ying rudi led the team to New Zealand to compete, beating the group's strongest opponent Iceland 4-1. But when playing the Chinese national anthem, the scene somehow delayed the release of music, the organizers said that there were some "technical failures", so the 20 young men of the Chinese youth ice hockey team shoulder to shoulder, sang the national anthem, the loud voice echoed in the arena, and some of the audience could not help but sing along with it, the scene was moving. The video was widely disseminated on the Internet by netizens, and Yingrudi's comments received nearly 10,000 likes, he said: "It is our honor to serve the motherland." ”
Today, not only Ying Rudi is the main player of the national ice hockey team, But also Yingda's daughter Yingwendi has also entered the national youth ice hockey team because of her excellent ice hockey results.
Indah and children
"My daughter can be said to have grown up on the ice rink. She didn't know what ice hockey was, so she followed us and his brother to various places to play. When my daughter was four or five years old, she said to me, 'Why haven't I started skating?' It's time to get started. Liang Huan and I first pondered whether we should repeat the painful struggle we endured in the process of Yingrudi's growth? But my daughter is also quite talented in hockey, and probably plays better than her brother at the same time as her. Today, Indah's daughter has entered the no. 1 high school in the United States with her hockey expertise, and she wants to enter a good university in the future. Recently, Yingwendi returned to China to participate in training in order to participate in the World Championships and entered the national youth ice hockey team.
Yingda believes that for most children, it is not necessary to engage in professional ice hockey, "but if a person can participate in such an intense, high-speed, collective cooperation project when he is a teenager, it is particularly beneficial to his growth, not only to strengthen his body, but also to improve his intelligence." Because the speed of ice hockey is very fast, children who have been engaged in this sport for a long time and grow and develop from it will also become particularly agile in their thinking. ”
Winter OlympicS Q&A
Q: Are you interested in other sports besides ice hockey?
Indah: I've always been a sports activist, and when I was young in school, I was exposed to all kinds of sports. When I was in Peking University, I was a sports committee member of our department. There is a reason why Dysprosium has a motor gene.
Q: Your daughter has also returned to China this year, right?
Yingda: Yes, but the Spring Festival happens to be the Winter Olympics, and YingruDi has to prepare for the competition. This year is the first time my daughter has spent the Spring Festival in China. We all feel that the Spring Festival is the most important festival of the year.
Biography
Yingda, director and actor, retired from Beijing Renyi in 2020 and is currently the honorary president of the Beijing Ice Association. (Editor-in-charge: Chen Mengxi)