Take a deep breath, and the muscles of the whole body tense up and burst out with great force. Pushing the snowmobile on the ice to help run a few steps, swooping up, he used his body as the body, like a bullet firing towards the finish line, whistling through the track...
Photo: Yan Wengang departure Xinhua News Agency photo
This is the footage of the steel frame snowmobile race at last night's Winter Olympics in Beijing. In the final round of the glide, China's Yan Wengang won a valuable bronze medal with a time of 4:01.77. This is also the first medal china has won in the steel frame snowmobile project. In the fourth round, Yan Wengang's top speed was as high as 129 kilometers per hour, and many netizens commented: "This is the fastest speed to win a medal!" ”
Pushed down the third place
Carts set off, accelerate, swoop down on the head of the snowmobile, gallop along curved slides... The steel frame snowmobile project is also known as "Snow F1".
There is a saying that the most exciting event of the Winter Olympics is the steel frame snowmobile - athletes glide on the track at speeds of up to 120-135 kilometers per hour, almost "flying close to the ground". The vertical drop is more than 110 meters, the feeling of weightlessness, the feeling of suffocation, the sense of fear... Athletes need to overcome a variety of physical and psychological discomforts. Because the sport was so thrilling, it was cancelled twice by the Winter Olympics, and it was not until the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics that it returned to the Olympic family and continues to this day.
Pictured: Yan Wengang "flying on the ground" Xinhua News Agency picture
Yan Wengang, 24, now enjoys the feeling of sliding at high speed. But few people know that he was also afraid when he first came into contact with the sport.
Before joining the snow convoy, Yan Wengang had not even taken the roller coaster of the amusement park. The first glide was at the Calgary Circuit in Canada, "which was 'pushed down' by the coach from the halfway point of the track." "For the first time in my life, the speed was only forty or fifty kilometers per hour. Throughout the process, his heart was always tugging, but the moment he crossed the line, the powerful sense of release made him feel particularly happy, "I found myself liking this project." ”
From entering the training team to standing on the stage of the Winter Olympics and winning the bronze medal for the Chinese steel-framed snow team, behind Yan Wengang's hundreds of thousands of taxiing trainings and overcoming fears is the result. Yan Wengang said that as he became more familiar with the project, he had no longer had the original fear, but enjoyed the feeling of high-speed sliding.
Picture: Yan Wengang celebrates with coaches after the game Network map
Mothers who don't dare to watch the game
The steel frame snowmobile race is carried out in a grooved slide with a certain slope erected with concrete or steel pipes, wood and other synthetic materials, and the entire route consists of four sections: the starting area, the starting area, the taxiing area and the deceleration area. Athletes push the sleigh in the starting area, the feet press the ground to create acceleration, and then quickly lie on the sled, adjust the direction through various parts of the body, and glide smoothly on the track - the core key to the whole sport is actually the explosive power of the running.
In 2016, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team was established. With reference to international experience and domestic reality, the first batch of domestic steel frame snowmobile team members are "cross-border cross-sports", most of whom are track and field athletes. Yan Wengang is one of them. Born in 1997, Yan Wengang is from Tianjin. In 2016, Yan Wengang, who was still practicing long jump in the Tianjin Athletics Team, entered the newly established National Steel Frame Snowmobile Training Team through selection. The 7-year long jump career has given Yan Wengang an excellent explosive power, which is a necessary physical fitness in the starting stage of the steel frame snowmobile.
Photo: Yan Wengang in the competition Xinhua News Agency photo
When he first started practicing the steel frame snowmobile, Yan Wengang admitted that he had survived with gritted teeth. Because of the unskilled movements, the whole body was hit with bruises, and he had to continue training the next day. Day after day, "all winter, the swelling and bruises on my body could not go away." But Yan Wengang still enjoys every high-speed taxi process. He no longer fears the dangers of collisions and rollovers, but instead has a high degree of concentration, "Thinking too much, it will hit a very bad impact, so you must concentrate and continuously improve your level by sliding again and again." ”
Although he entered an unfamiliar field, Yan Wengang, who had a stable personality and worked hard, still overcame difficulties from many aspects such as technology, psychology and experience, and soon gained a firm foothold in the steel frame snowmobile project, and his achievements also improved by leaps and bounds. In December 2018, Yan Wengang won the first gold medal in the history of China's steel frame snowmobile in Germany. In the top ten of this season's World Cup, he has also maintained the best result of a Chinese player at the World Championships.
Yanqing Circuit, for Yan Wengang, has long been familiar with the heart, every track detail, every corner angle has been deeply engraved in his mind. Playing at home, he knows, "Only when the body becomes stronger, can it really become strong psychologically." ”
Photo: Yan Wengang spoke after the game
More than two hundred kilometers away from Yanqing, during the race yesterday, Yan Wengang's mother, who watched the competition at the Tianjin Winter and Water Sports Management Center, hid in the lounge during the last round of the competition and did not dare to watch the competition. Every competition is a heart for her son, for her son's participation, Yan's mother's mood is very complicated, "I hope that the child can be safe and secure, but I also hope that he can play the usual level and win glory for the country." ”
Seeing that her son finally made history for The China Steel Frame Snowmobile Project, Yan's mother said that if she could see her son, she wanted to "give him a hug first." For so long, I missed him..."
Pictured: Yan Wengang's mother network map
"Participating in the Beijing Winter Olympics is my dream, and I hope to fully show myself here, because I have worked so hard in recent years, I must show a better me and live up to everyone's expectations and support." Yan Wengang said so before the game. From his first participation to the stage of the Winter Olympics, Yan Wengang has demonstrated his ability in the steel frame snowmobile project for more than 5 years, and this heavy medal is also a reward for all his efforts and efforts. For Yan Wengang, all the efforts are worth it; and for the Chinese steel frame snow team, the medal "zero breakthrough" is also worth remembering. (Xinmin Evening News special reporter Li Ranran, Beijing Today)
Reporter's note丨 The secret of F1 cornering overtaking
Like F1, the snowmobile project, especially the steel frame snowmobile, behind each increase in speed, is the power of science and technology shining.
Few people know that behind the new history of China's steel frame snow team, there is also a Shanghai technology team. It is reported that the Shanghai Institute of Sport, as the permanent base of the summer training of the China Steel Frame Snow Team, provides multi-faceted scientific and technological research services for the Steel Frame Snow Team under the leadership of Professor Gao Binghong of the Physical Education and Training College.
Since 2019, more than 20 people in the team have participated in the preparation of scientific and technological research services, and established a training quality monitoring system for the steel frame snow team, including functional status, training load, special ability, training methods, movement technology and psychological state monitoring and regulation, and also provided comprehensive technical support in personalized physical training, injury prevention and rehabilitation, medical supervision and treatment, fatigue elimination and recovery, nutrition regulation and protection.
Pictured: China's Yan Wengang (right) shakes hands with teammate Yin Zheng after the match Xinhua photo
Gong Min has been working in the China Steel Frame Snow Team for more than 870 days and is the core member of the scientific research and medical team, mainly responsible for the research and application of key technologies for key athletes in the analysis of onshore and ice push and pry movement techniques and special physical training. Studies have found that the calf triceps and gluteus major muscles of different athletes play an important role in cushioning their landing and rapid pedaling and extension. The study provides a strong foundation for coaches and athletes to improve their sledding skills and improve their performance in sledding, thus effectively improving the special speed of key athletes.
After the training, the athletes developed a fatigue elimination plan for micro-hyperbaric oxygen, ultra-low temperature cold therapy, lower limb negative pressure, tuina massage and nutrition combination, to help key athletes achieve rapid fatigue elimination, and the upper body team also provided guarantee for the rapid recovery of athletes' physical fitness.
In addition to the scientific and technological embodiment on the venue track, the scientific and technological strength of the Chinese sports team is also remarkable. Hardware and software complement each other, and with the blessing of technology, China's snow F1 curve overtaking and racing out of pole speed. (Li Ranran)