On February 8, the women's ice hockey group stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, and the Chinese team missed the quarterfinals, ending the journey of the Winter Olympic Games.
This is also the second time that the Chinese women's ice hockey team has appeared in the Winter Olympics after 12 years after the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In the face of a strong team, the sonorous roses dared to fight, defeated the Danish team, defeated the world's 6th ranked Japanese team, and played against the Czech Republic and Sweden. Although there are regrets, in this Winter Olympic Games, people can see their tenacious and hard-working spirit. Among them, there are 3 athletes from qiqihar, the "city of ice hockey", Zhang Mengying, Guan Yingying and He Xin, who go all out to face each game, showing more people the spirit of ice hockey that is not afraid of difficulties and has the courage to face.
On February 9 and 10, the reporter let more people know their ice hockey stories through interviews and links, showing the style of Qiqihar ice hockey people.
Zhang Mengying: I believe that Chinese women's ice will create more miracles
Zhang Mengying, vice captain of the Chinese women's ice hockey team and the main striker of the national team, is one of the few veterans of Chinese women's ice hockey who participated in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.
In the match against the Japanese team on February 6, Zhang Mengying accidentally injured her shoulder and dislocated herself and was carried out of the stadium on a stretcher, but her kind of hard work made everyone remember this brave Qiqihar girl who bravely chased dreams.
Her father, Zhang Hao, told reporters that 5-year-old Xiao Mengying went to hecheng Stadium with her grandfather to skate and put on an ice knife and did not want to take it off. At first, her grandfather signed her up to learn figure skating, but she became obsessed with the ice hockey that her grandfather liked. "The kid took the hockey club that no one else wanted, wore a figure skating knife, and played hockey. After a few years, figure skating has not learned a few, but ice hockey has been played in a similar way. ”
Zhang Mengying got her wish at the age of 9 and entered the newly established Qiqihar Randi Women's Ice Hockey Club, and she has a hockey foundation and is very prominent in the team. In 2007, she was transferred to the national women's ice hockey team for training.
Only 13 years old, she was the youngest member of the team at that time, but she was not afraid of pressure, defeated herself again and again, faced with the long-distance running that she was not good at, she persevered, and did not fall out of the top three in the summer training 10,000 meters run.
Years of training and beatings have caused different degrees of injuries to Zhang Mengying's body, "She has a serious waist injury, and at the moment she fell on the field, my head was really buzzing, I don't know how she was injured." Father Zhang Hao said, "Since the child entered the national team, she has never said bitterly or tiredly to the family, and it is really painful to be a parent, but we will always support the child's dream." ”
Zhang Mengying, who has been in the national team for 15 years, has played several games with the team and participated in the Vancouver Winter Olympics in 2010. Over the years of conquest, while the technical level has been improved, it has also created her tenacious and indomitable character, and her teammates have created one after another goals that are impossible to achieve in the eyes of others. This Winter Olympics, it defeated the world's 11th-ranked Denmark team and the world's 6th-ranked Japanese team.
"The moment I fell on the ice, it hurt, but my mind was full of the arena." Zhang Mengying said frankly that the biggest regret is that after the victory over the Japanese team, hug and celebrate with teammates, "Although we did not qualify for the top 8, we tried our best, everyone paid without reservation, I am proud of my motherland, teammates and myself, I believe that Chinese women's ice will create more miracles!" ”
Guan Yingying: Every time I play, I fight with my best efforts
The Beijing Winter Olympics is the second time that Chinese women's ice skaters have appeared in the Olympic Games after a gap of 12 years, and it is also guan Yingying's first time to participate in the Winter Olympics.
As a "veteran" who has participated in world-class events such as the World Championships, the Asian Winter Games, and the World University Winter Games since 2013, Guan Yingying is still satisfied with her performance. "Every time I play, I use my best efforts to fight, to grab, to win this game."
For this competition, Guan Yingying trained very hard every day in the preparations for Beijing, Moscow and other places. Although it was a pity to stop in the quarterfinals, she did her best and gained a lot.
"I've had dreams of winter sports since I was a kid, and ice hockey has become a part of my life."
In Guan Yingying's view, love is no longer enough to describe her feelings about ice hockey. At the age of 15, she left her parents and started training at the Qiqihar Randi Women's Hockey Club. Ten years of training has made ice hockey deeply engraved in Guan Yingying's bones.
Although sometimes the training is boring and tedious, Guan Yingying will also feel irritable. But a few days without ice, she would think. In her words, hockey was the only thing she had always loved and worked on. "I've never been so obsessed with anything since I was a kid."
"The next Provincial Games is also a very important event in China, and I will play all the skills I learned during this time and before in the competition." Guan Yingying, who is about to return to the local team, said that she should share the harvest of this time with her teammates at home, improve the weaknesses that she needs to strengthen, and invest all her energy to fully prepare for the next game.
He Xin: Fighting for the country is the glory of my life
25-year-old He Xin is a cheerful and easy-going girl, not to argue, but as soon as she arrived at the ice hockey rink, she changed her appearance, dared to fight, and her bones were full of strength that did not accept defeat.
As an ice hockey player on the Qiqihar Randi women's ice hockey team, she wore the No. 10 jersey and accompanied the Chinese women's ice hockey team to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
After many fierce battles, although it did not qualify for the quarterfinals, it was full of gains.
After the game, He Xin wrote in his Douyin account: "Thanks for this experience, thanks to those who supported us, as a member of the Chinese women's ice hockey team, I am very proud." It is the glory of my life to win glory for the country and fight for the country, and the future of Chinese ice hockey can be expected! ”
Ice hockey is one of the most exciting collective sports in the world. At the age of 6, He Xin took the initiative to sign up and participated in the first ice hockey class in his life, and since then he has formed an indissoluble relationship with this sport of chasing "fast and furious" on ice.
When he first touched ice hockey, He Xin's two feet were not well coordinated, and he often had one foot dragging behind him when sliding, and his ankle was often worn.
He Xin recalled: "At that time, the socks stuck to the bleeding feet, and when I took off, the pain made me grin, and my parents saw that the pain was too bad to do, and persuaded me to give up, but at my insistence, I still gave the greatest support." ”
It is from the love of ice hockey, He Xin has worked hard all the way, joining the national youth team in 2009, being selected for the national team in 2013, and joining the Women's Ice Hockey Team of Qiqihar Randi in 2020, and winning the ticket to enter the Winter Olympics. He Xin said: "At the moment of standing on the Olympic field, I repeatedly warned myself in my heart to do my best, and my teammates and I did the same in the game, leaving no regrets. ”
He Xin is full of expectations for the future of Chinese ice hockey, she said: "I came into contact with many children who learned ice hockey when I was training in Qiqihar, they are tenacious and persistent, they have great potential, and I hope that they will train hard and win glory for the country in the future in the international arena." ”
For He Xin, she will recover her physical strength as soon as possible to meet new challenges. She also hopes that more people will pay attention to Chinese women's ice and pay attention to qiqihar, the beautiful "ice hockey city".
Source of the manuscript| Crane City Evening News
The author of the manuscript| Zheng Yue, Song Jiaxing, Wang Qingguo
Look at the editor| Chen Li