Tonight's Beijing Winter Olympics women's 1000m quarterfinals third group, seeing Zhang Chutong behind, Wang Meng, as Migu's commentator, shouted anxiously, "Go up, don't wait, don't wait!" Go up, disobey... What are you waiting for? In the end, the three Chinese players who reached the quarter-finals, Han Yutong, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Chutong, all failed to reach the semifinals. Wang Meng said incomprehensibly, "Dare to compete first, are these 4 words so difficult to understand?" ”
Two days ago, in the men's 1500m quarterfinals, Wang Meng also directly criticized the young general Sun Long, "When this boy was competing in Germany, he was directly taken home by me with a ticket, not back to China, directly back to the local team." I don't like athletes to pose like this, you are a young player, you don't dare to fight, don't dare to surpass yourself and break through yourself, give you the opportunity to do something, directly a big mouth. ”
From Wang Meng's explanation, it can be heard that she was very strict when she was the head of the coaching team of the speed skating and short track speed skating national teams. In fact, Wang Meng, who is now the top of the Winter Olympics, also had a Yan master that year, and this person was Li Yan, the former head coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team.
At the beginning of coaching the Chinese team, Li Yan adopted a new training method, which led to a sharp increase in training intensity, which caused Wang Meng to question, and Li Yan expelled Wang Meng from the national team in one breath. Later, the two resolved the misunderstanding, and Wang Meng also ushered in the most brilliant stage of his career - winning the Winter Olympic Championship consecutively and creating the "Mao Era". In the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics short track speed skating 500m final, Wang Meng won the championship in a crushing style to defend his title, and after the game, Wang Meng domineeringly celebrated the victory and twice prostrated his head to thank Li Yan.
The history of Short Track Speed Skating in China is closely linked to Li Yan. She won the first Olympic medal for China's short track speed skating; as a coach, he trained Olympic champions such as Wang Meng, Zhou Yang and Wu Dajing, and became the godmother of short track speed skating. Wang Meng once said, "She is the woman who changed the history of short track speed skating in China." ”
The dragon took off in his athlete career
During the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, a propaganda poster featuring Li Yan hung up the streets and alleys overnight, with four big characters on it - the dragon soared.
In the short track speed skating 1000m final of that Winter Olympics, 22-year-old Li Yan turned out to be the first to suppress all opponents and cross the finish line first. At 1:39.00, Li Yan's performance broke the world record. In addition, in the women's 500 meters and women's 1500 meters, Li Yan won two bronze medals in a row. However, at that Winter Olympics, short track speed skating was unveiled as a performance project and was not counted in the medals of the Chinese delegation.
Four years later, at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France, Li Yan competed again, missing the women's 500m short track speed skating gold medal with a slight disadvantage of 0.04 seconds, but her silver medal was the first Olympic medal in Chinese short track speed skating.
In fact, Li Yan was able to stand on the field of the Winter Olympics was a miracle. The 1991 edition of the Children's Encyclopedia has this information: In 1984, an accident almost ruined Li Yan's sports career. In one of the races, she had just finished the corner when a huge centrifugal force threw her out and crashed into the baffle on the side of the field, the knee muscles of her left leg were all broken, and the bones of the white flowers were exposed. Doctors rescued her with 47 stitches from her wound.
At that time, many people thought that Li Yan would disappear from the ice rink, but a year later, Li Yan, who was only 16 years old at the time, miraculously returned to the ice rink. Later, she was selected for the national training team with outstanding results and participated in the Winter Olympics.
A coaching career is a legend
After retiring from the military, Li Yan went to Dongbei University of Finance and Economics for further study, and after graduation, he settled in dalian local tax bureau and became a deputy division-level clerk. However, Li Yan was not willing to be bland, and began a career of coaching abroad, successively serving as a short track speed skating coach in Slovakia, Austria, the United States and other places, leading the Austrian national team out of the trough, leading the American team to win 3 medals at the Turin Winter Olympics.
In 2006, Li Yan returned to China as the head coach of the short track speed skating national team. After going abroad for 7 years, on a flight from the United States to Beijing, Li Yan was a little nervous, "At that time, the contract signed with the winter sports center did not have any guarantees, and he could leave at any time." ”
After returning to China as a head coach, Li Yan actually had no time for himself. Li Yan's office is her home. Before her husband and children returned to China, Li Yan lived in the office every day. At night, coaches or players often knock on her door, and whenever she has a problem, she can always be found, and work is discussed during dinner.
When Li Yan first returned to take charge of the national team, because the training method was inconsistent with Wang Meng's concept, there was a small contradiction between the double hair, and Wang Meng was banned for half a year, and Li Yan was also a little frustrated. However, Li Yan did not suppress or let it go, but seriously reflected on whether his method needed to make appropriate adjustments for different team members. Half a year later, Wang Meng was re-selected for the national team, and Li Yan gave her the position of captain and told Wang Meng in front of the whole team that he could master the amount of exercise, giving her a very loose space.
At the Vancouver Winter Olympics, defending champion Wang Meng crossed the finish line, in addition to hugging and looking back in greeting, he also knelt on his knees and prostrated his head in front of Li Yan on the ice. Wang Meng said: "It was the coach who taught me how to skate in the 500 meters, just like today! Wang Also became China's first champion to successfully defend his title at the Winter Olympics.
At that Winter Olympics, Wang Meng won gold medals in the women's 500 meters and 1000 meters, becoming the first time in the history of the Winter Olympics to win the championship three times. Zhou Yang broke South Korea's monopoly and won the 1500m championship. The gold medal in the women's 3000m relay was also won by the Chinese team. In this way, Li Yan led the Chinese women's short track speed skating team to win gold medals in 4 all events, setting a record for the Winter Olympics.
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics 4 years ago, when there were fouls against China, Canada and South Korea, the referee chose to punish China and Canada, while turning a blind eye to South Korea, where the fouls were most serious... Li Yan shuttled through the crowd and complained with the Coach of the Canadian team in front of the chief referee, but the referee just shook his head indifferently and signaled for the next game to start.
In the face of all kinds of injustice, Li Yan tried to calm his mood and let go of pressure. On the day of Wu Dajing's competition, she waited outside the arena in her medal-receiving uniform and told the outside world in this special way that even if the environment was harsh, China's short track speed skating had the strength and confidence to win gold. Wu Dajing also lived up to expectations, winning the men's 500m short track speed skating championship and the first Olympic gold medal in China's men's short track speed skating.
From 2006 to 2019, when coaching the Chinese short track speed skating team, Li Yan led the team to compete in the 3 Winter Olympic Games, rewriting the history of China's short track speed skating again and again. She is like an ice knife, carrying the Chinese short track speed skating sharply to break the ice again and again.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Li Yan, who has served as a member of the Chinese Olympic Committee and attended by the Chinese Skating Association, regained the coaching whip across the project and took charge of the head coach of the speed skating national training team. Li Yan said: "In the case of time, location, people and people, we must create excellent results. "The legend of Li Yan continues...