"Li Yuxi, Xiongqi!" "Li Yuxi, Xiongqi!" "Li Yuxi, Xiongqi!" ...... Outside the Sichuan Mianyang Xingchen Athletics Club, Li Yuxi's teachers, disciples, and sisters waved the national flag to cheer for Li Yuxi in advance.
On the evening of the 12th, the steel frame bobsleigh project of the Beijing Winter Olympics continued at the National Bobsleigh Center in Yanqing, and the women's steel frame bobsleigh was fought in four rounds, and Li Yuxi, a Sichuan girl, won the 14th place in 4 minutes 10.59 seconds.
What is not known is that as early as 2012, when Li Yuxi participated in the Jiangyou City Middle School Students' Games, Yang Xiuzhen, then the coach of the Mianyang Olympic Sports School, took a fancy to her athletics talent, invited her to train and represent Mianyang in the Provincial Games after achieving results. However, because of the fear of their daughter's training hardships, Li Yuxi's parents declined.
However, in 2014, Li Yuxi's parents took the initiative to contact Yang Xiuzhen, saying that Li Yuxi especially likes sports and wants to train with her. Yang Xiuzhen, who has retired, brought Li Yuxi to the Mianyang Xingchen Athletics Club, where she mentored the training and transported her to the Chengdu Sports Institute. In 2018, Li Yuxi was selected for the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team. In late January 2022, Li Yuxi was selected to enter the Winter Olympics roster.
Li Yuxi's brothers and sisters cheered for him
Talented
When I was in junior high school, I was caught by an athletics coach, and the parents were worried that their daughter would suffer
Yang Xiuzhen was originally an athletics coach at the Mianyang Olympic Sports School, and in 2012, she went to Jiangyou City to select seedlings to participate in the Provincial Games. At the Jiangyou City Middle School Students Athletic Games, a figure attracted Yang Xiuzhen, she was Li Yuxi.
"At that time, Li Yuxi was running 100 meters, the first time I saw her, I found that her body was very coordinated, although her movements were not standardized, she was very hardworking, very stable, and a good seedling for practicing athletics." On the morning of the 10th, Yang Xiuzhen recalled that when she first met Li Yuxi, she said that she was attracted to her at the first sight.
Yang Xiuzhen recalled that when the competition was over, she went to ask Li Yuxi's age, just enough to participate in the Provincial Games, so she asked her if she was willing to go to the Mianyang Olympic Sports School to practice athletics, and after practicing, she had the opportunity to participate in the 2014 Provincial Games, "I think you can get good results!" ”
"Yes!" Li Yuxi's answer was concise, but also decisive.
Subsequently, Yang Xiuzhen called Li Yuxi's parents, which made her a little disappointed. Yang Xiuzhen told Red Star News that at that time, Li Yuxi's parents said that it was very hard for their daughter to go to sports, and she also had to delay her studies.
"I train for two hours a day, and I have to study the rest of the time, I think she is a good seedling and should be able to practice." Yang Xiuzhen actively fought for it on the phone, and she did not want to give up Li Yuxi.
On the phone, Li Yuxi's parents said to consider it. After a few days, Yang Xiuzhen still did not give up, and called Li Yuxi's parents again, but in the end, her parents still thought that it was too hard to engage in sports, so they declined. Although there were regrets, the parents did not agree, and Yang Xiuzhen did not contact Li Yuxi and his parents again.
Enlightenment coach Yang Xiuzhen
Love sports
In high school, he practiced athletics from scratch and was admitted to the Chengdu Sports Institute and was selected for the national team
As the saying goes, there is a destiny in the dark! Li Yuxi has a talent for sports and is destined to achieve something in sports.
One day in 2014, Yang Xiuzhen, who had retired, received a phone call from the other party who took the initiative to call herself Li Yuxi's mother. The moment she received the call, Yang Xiuzhen was a little surprised.
"She asked me where I was and said she wanted to talk to me. At that time, I was retired and working as a coach at the Mianyang Star Athletics Club, so I asked her to come to me. Yang Xiuzhen recalled, "Li Yuxi's mother told me that Li Yuxi really likes sports and has always said at home that she wants to practice with Coach Yang, because her daughter likes it, and they will support it as a parent." ”
However, at that time, the Provincial Games had ended, and Yang Xiuzhen had retired. However, in Yang Xiuzhen's eyes, Li Yuxi is indeed very talented and a talent, so he lets Li Yuxi's parents choose themselves and can practice in sports.
"I told Li Yuxi that this is a very long process, but also a very hard process, you think about it and practice with me, feel that you can't stand it." Yang Xiuzhen said.
"I can!" Li Yuxi's answer was still concise and decisive.
Since then, Li Yuxi has been driven by his parents from Jiangyou to Mianyang every day for training, and then drove back to Jiangyou. Due to the long distance, Li Yuxi later transferred to the high school in Mianyang, where he studied and trained at the club.
In Yang Xiuzhen's impression, when Li Yuxi first came to training, the foundation was very poor, and he couldn't do the exercises well, and he couldn't even understand what flexibility was. Engaging in athletics requires coordination, flexibility, speed, agility, endurance, strength, etc., and Li Yuxi needs to learn and train from scratch.
"I trained her for a year, her progress in all aspects is very fast, I thought for a moment, if you want to go to a higher place, the existing infrastructure will certainly not be able to meet, so I recommended her to Wu Feng of Chengdu Sports Institute for guidance." Yang Xiuzhen told the Red Star News reporter that during that time, because Wu was very busy, she took Li Yuxi to a hotel near the Chengdu Sports Hospital for training, and a month later, Wu Was very satisfied after the inspection and began to stay in the Chengdu Sports Hospital to train under the guidance of Wu.
In 2018, at the same time that Li Yuxi was admitted to chengdu sports college, he was selected by the Chinese steel frame snowmobile national team training and began to walk the road of steel frame snowmobile.
The club where Li Yuxi once trained hung a poster of the great news
Dare to fight
During the training, she fell a lot of bruises on her body, but she never cried bitterly
Yang Xiuzhen introduced that she is engaged in athletics, and the students with her also have cross-border crossings, but she does not understand the steel frame snowmobile at all, it is very strange, and she cannot understand it. Later, she also asked Wu Guidance, saying that this was a more dangerous project. In Yang Xiuzhen's initial view, in fact, Li Yuxi has good grades, you can choose to study and train in the university, and then take the graduate school, it is easy to find a job, but she resolutely chose a steel frame snowmobile.
"At first I asked her, 'Will you learn?' She said 'it's okay', and I told her that since you have chosen you to refuel, but in training, you should use your brain, pay attention to safety, and ask the coach more when you don't understand the technology. Yang Xiuzhen said.
In Yang Xiuzhen's impression, Li Yuxi never cried bitterly and tired, and the training plan arranged for her would be completed conscientiously, and she never complained about the pain and tiredness to the coach.
"Director Wu once went to the national team in the summer to see Li Yuxi, and found that she had a lot of bruises on her arms, all of which fell out during training, but she still said that it was not hard, let alone that it was difficult to study, which she was really excellent." Yang Xiuzhen said.
At 22:43 on January 22 this year, Li Yuxi and Yang Xiuzhen sent WeChat: "Yang Jiao, we have ended the selection competition in the team today, and I have entered the Olympic list. ”
"Congratulations! Li Yu Xi is good! This is the result of your persistence, I hope you will continue to work hard, carry forward the spirit of hard work for the glory of the motherland! Come on! Yang Xiuzhen replied.
"When I learned that she was on the List for the Winter Olympics, my tears came out of my eyes, and I was very happy and excited." Yang Xiuzhen said.
Li Yuxi and Yang Xiuzhen took a group photo
Li Yuxi's growth and progress, in Yang Xiuzhen's view, in addition to her own good physical fitness and great development potential, the key is her good ideological quality. Because even if the physical quality is good, after practicing to a certain extent, you may be proud, and even talk back to the coach, but Li Yuxi will never, she can get to the present, and her ideological quality and character are inseparable.
Outside the Mianyang Star Athletics Club, there is a poster that reads "Great News: Congratulations to Li Yuxi on winning 2 races in the Steel Frame Ski Car European Championship in Lillehammer, Norway." This is the first continental championship won by the continental women's steel frame snowmobile in an international competition, and on November 13, 2021, Li Yuxi set a new world record by breaking the women's best at the Lillehammer circuit in Norway.
On the morning of the 10th, the trainees of the Mianyang Xingchen Athletics Club lined up in a neat line after the training, waving the national flag in their hands, cheering for Li Yuxi in advance, and shouting out "Li Yuxi, Xiongqi!" "Li Yuxi, Xiongqi!" "Li Yuxi, Xiongqi!" ......
"Now I hope that Li Yuxi will put down her baggage and don't have pressure, she is already very good, the ambition to win glory for the country is established, play her best level, as long as she does her best, I believe her." Yang Xiuzhen said.
Red Star News reporter Tang Xiaojun photo report
Edited by Wang He
(Download Red Star News, there are prizes for the newspaper!) ）