(Beijing Winter Olympics) Go all out to fight the "Snow Dragon"
China News Service Beijing, February 12 Title: Go all out to fight the "Snow Dragon"
China News Service reporter Guo Chaokai
Wearing a steel helmet, grabbing the handrail and starting explosively, jumping from the ice to the steel frame snowmobile, resisting the pressure of several times his own weight, Yan Wengang rushed into the night "Snow Dragon" track.
The audience held their breath. After the three-wheeled slab of the men's steel frame bobsleigh race on the evening of the 11th, Yan Wengang ranked 4th, 0.05 seconds behind the 3rd place Russian Olympic Committee star Tretyakov. He had to skate faster in Round 4 to have a chance of winning a medal. "It's out." Before the game, he moved himself playfully, slapping his muscles, jumping, adjusting his state and fighting with all his might.
On February 11, the men's steel frame bobsleigh competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended the competition, and China's Yan Wengang won the bronze medal with a time of 4 minutes 01.77 seconds in four rounds, creating the best time in the history of chinese athletes in this event. The picture shows Chinese player Yan Wengang in the competition. China News Service reporter He Penglei photographed
It was a lonely feast of speed, with a white ice in front of you and a pitch-black night outside. The fastest speed of the fourth sliding Yanwen Port is close to 130 km / h. He has skied this track more than 500 times, and every corner angle and even every track detail has long been familiar, but in the 1 minute of gliding, no one can communicate with him, no one can help him, and the fate is in his own hands.
In the corner, in the corner, out of the corner... 1:00.15, which was the fastest performance of all athletes in the fourth round of skating. When you cross the finish line, the whole place boils over.
bronze! On this night, Yan Wengang created history, casting a new legend of China's steel frame snowmobile, and filling another gap in China's ice and snow sports.
On February 11, the men's steel frame bobsleigh competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended the competition, and China's Yan Wengang won the bronze medal with a time of 4 minutes 01.77 seconds in four rounds, creating the best time in the history of chinese athletes in this event. The picture shows Chinese player Yan Wengang winning the bronze medal.
Before the game, Yan Wengang was not a favorite to win the medal. It is widely believed that the "Snow Dragon" circuit is a "gladiatorial arena" for famous players such as Grote Hull, Juncker and Tretyakov.
Such a prejudgment is not unreasonable. In the star-studded men's steel frame snowmobile race, Yan Wengang's name is not well known to many sports fans. Searching for his name on the Chinese Internet before the game, there is very little information about him. Even on his personal Weibo, there was only one dynamic related to the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics. In addition, the steel frame snowmobile project is an unpopular project in China, and the public is not familiar with him.
The "Ice F1" sport, which can exceed 130 kilometers per hour, is an uncompromising "brave sport", which has been "invited" out of the Olympic Games twice due to excessive thrills, and it was not until the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics that it returned to the Olympic family after 54 years.
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 cross-border cross-sports selection, and changed the trajectory of his life. His 7-year long jump career has given him outstanding explosiveness, which is exactly the physical fitness necessary for the starting stage of the steel-framed bobsleigh project.
On February 11, the men's steel frame bobsleigh competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended the competition, and China's Yan Wengang won the bronze medal with a time of 4 minutes 01.77 seconds in four rounds, creating the best time in the history of chinese athletes in this event. The picture shows Chinese player Yan Wengang in the competition. Photo by China News Service reporter Li Jun
But across the discipline, the difficulty can be imagined. Weightlessness, suffocation, fear... Yan Wengang needs to overcome various physical and psychological discomforts. In the steel frame snowmobile project without any steering and braking devices, hitting walls and overturning cars is a common thing, and tears and pain are often accompanied by athletes.
Before the first time on the track, Yan Wengang did not even sit on the playground roller coaster. Stiffening his scalp and resisting the pressure, the coach pushed him down from bend 10 halfway up the mountain. For more than 5 years, Yan Wengang has long ceased to be afraid of the dangers brought by collisions and rollovers, but has enjoyed every high-speed taxi, "Thinking too much, it will hit very badly, so you must invest, focus, and continuously improve your level through sliding again and again." ”
Choosing to engage in steel frame snowmobiles is already a brave person of life. At the speed of breaking a hundred per hour, it was difficult for people to glimpse Yan Wengang's expression under the steel helmet. But from the moment he entered the track, he had melted his dreams and courage into the steel frame.
The day before the match, Yan Wengang's mind kept popping up with all kinds of ideas, including a scene where he stood on the podium on behalf of the Chinese team. This night, dreams shine into reality. When presenting the award, he took the five-star red flag handed by the staff and repeatedly confirmed whether the flag was positive.
This is the first steel-framed snowmobile medal won by a Chinese athlete in the history of the Winter Olympics, and since then, the Winter Olympic medal table has added a Chinese name. (End)