The Chinese speed skating team won the first gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics photo by Lu Chuan
China News Network Harbin, February 12 Title: Heilongjiang of the "Mass Production" Gold Medal Brightens: More Than 60 Years of Quenching Ice and Snow Talents "Gold Content"
China News Network reporter Wang Lin Wang Nina
The Winter Olympics are on fire, and Heilongjiang is bright. As of 18:00 on February 12, among the four gold medals won by the Chinese delegation at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Heilongjiang "Lao Tie" contributed 3, of which the 4 short-track speed skating relay athletes who won the first gold were from the province. This is the earliest province in China to carry out ice and snow sports, and the "gold content" of refining ice and snow talents has been passed down for more than 60 years.
Historical inheritance enhances the "gold content" of talents and allows the world to see China
The magic northeast dialect gives the Winter Olympics its own northeast flavor. "From the south, from the north, from Harbin, from Hegang", this northeastern sentence vividly describes the Heilongjiang people of this Winter Olympic Games: Among the Chinese delegation, Heilongjiang Province sent 63 athletes to participate, accounting for the first place in China.
Heilongjiang ice and snow sports "one horse first" status, deep roots and long roots. In 1953, China's first ice sports conference was held in Harbin, and Sun Xianqi set China's first men's speed skating record of 1500 meters. In 1960, the Heilongjiang Provincial Speed Skating Team was established, which was the first provincial speed skating team in China.
New China's first generation of speed skating coach Sun Xianqi teaches on ice Provided by the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau
From the first generation of speed skaters to the head coach of New China, Sun Xianqi can be the founder of China's speed skating cause. In 1963, Sun Xianqi's disciple Luo Zhihuan won China's first winter event world championship in Japan. At that time, many foreign athletes asked "where is China", and Luo Zhihuan, who stood on the highest podium, replied with strength: "China, right here!" All the overseas Chinese present shed tears, clapped, and shouted together "China! China! ”
Generation after generation of ice and snow athletes have passed on the torch, and one after another China's "firsts" have emerged, and a number of outstanding athletes such as Yang Yang, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, Han Xiaopeng, Zhang Hong, and Wang Meng have emerged from Heilongjiang. As of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, nine of the 13 Winter Olympic gold medals China has won were won by athletes from Heilongjiang Province. As the province with the best ice and snow sports performance in China, Heilongjiang, which inherits the "ice and snow gene", allows the world to see China.
Technological innovation forges teaching "gold content", and the ice and snow sports education system is mature
For more than 60 years, heilongjiang ice and snow sports education system has realized the vicissitudes from "millet plus rifle" to "cannon atomic bomb". Sun Xianqi, 91, was one of the witnesses, recalling: "The first 'teaching material' I learned to skate was a photograph of the world champion skating published in the Soviet Sports Illustrated, when I practiced hip swinging against the shadow on the wall every day. After four years of specialization in speed skating technology in the former Soviet Union, Sun Xianqi brought advanced teaching experience back to China, and also filled the gap in China's speed skating training equipment with spontaneously developed equipment.
Wang Meng and his teammates won the moment of joy in winning the gold Provided by the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau
With the improvement of the technical content of training, Heilongjiang Province has continuously strengthened the cultivation of professional application-oriented talents related to ice and snow sports, and established the China Winter Olympic Academy. At present, the 13 colleges and universities in the province send more than 2,000 ice and snow talents every year, and at the same time take the lead in cross-border cross-item selection in China with the province as the unit.
Dong Cheng, deputy director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Department of Education, said: "Heilongjiang continues to deepen the reform of campus ice and snow sports teaching, a total of 2824 primary and secondary schools in the province have opened ice and snow sports courses, accounting for 87.1% of the total number of schools; increase the training reserve of campus ice and snow sports reserves, a total of 91 schools in the province have been selected as educational demonstration schools for the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games." ”
The ice and snow atmosphere accumulates a cultural "gold content", driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports
For half of the year, ice and snow cover the rivers and mountains of Heilongjiang, forming a natural ice rink and high-quality snow tracks, which gives birth to the "ice and snow dream" of the arena. Wang Shuyuan, a Harbin athlete who won the first silver medal in Chinese women's speed skating at the World Championships, recalled: In the past, speed skating was a "migration" training. In order to get on the ice a month in advance, the training team had to sit on the open top for 8 or 9 hours to liberate and go north to the colder Black River to find "wild ice".
Children smoke ice on the ice in Harbin Provided by the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau
Today, heilongjiang in order to help the Winter Olympics upgrade the Yabuli sports training base, build k60 jumping platform, U-shaped pool venue new construction and expansion, cross-country skiing intelligent venue construction project, etc., investment of 126 million yuan (RMB) to upgrade the venue of Heilongjiang Ice Training Center.
The competition for gold and silver in the arena ignited the ice and snow atmosphere of the whole people. When the Songhua River is frozen for thousands of miles, the left foot is "out of the slippery", the right hand is waving "smoking ice", "ice on the river" is the winter folk custom of Harbin citizens. Children who grow up here know what is "lunch box ice", that is, using iron lunch boxes to freeze out ice bricks, build a circle and then water and freeze them into ice rinks.
Since the completion of the first indoor skating hall in 1983, indoor skating halls in Heilongjiang Province have gradually become popular. The relevant person in charge of the Heilongjiang Winter Sports Project Management Center suggested: "As the earliest province in China to build ice venues, heilongjiang sports workers carry forward the spirit of iron man, unremitting hard work, and continue to strengthen the construction of ice and snow infrastructure in the future to meet the needs of the whole people to participate in ice and snow sports." ”
Qian Fuyong, director of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau, said that since the successful bid for the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2015, the number of Chinese residents participating in ice and snow sports has reached 346 million, and the participation rate of ice and snow sports in 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country has reached more than 30%. Among them, the participation rate of residents in ice and snow sports in Heilongjiang Province reached 57.8%, ranking first in China.
From the talent software passed down from generation to generation, to the innovative and iterative teaching hardware, to the strong national ice and snow atmosphere, Heilongjiang has driven the continuous improvement of the "gold content" of China's ice and snow talents, and the province's athletes have won more than 600 world championships. Behind the much-anticipated gold medals, there are also many unknown "unknown people", with the "ice and snow spirit" of dedication, holding up the splendor of the pyramid tip. (End)