Dong Bing finished 31st in the women's individual standard platform competition for ski jumping at the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 5. This result is good enough for the athlete who has just been transferring to the event for 10 months.
There are many well-known stories of brothers and sisters in the Chinese sports world, such as Liu Guodong and Liu Guoliang; Zhang Chen and Zhang Changning; but there are also some brothers and sisters that few people have heard of, such as Dong Xue and Dong Bing.
Dong Xue and Dong Bing are a pair of sisters who are not well-known in Chinese sports. Sister Dong Xue is a biathlon athlete, at the turn of the century, when the Chinese biathlon was at its most brilliant, she represented the future and hope, and once won three gold medals at the 2002 World Youth Championships. That year, her sister Dong Bing was just 6 years old.
"Ice" and "snow", the names given to the sisters by their parents seem to indicate their indissoluble relationship with winter sports. Compared with the younger fame of her sister, her younger sister Dong Bing is the representative of "late success of the big instrument".
Dong Bing's assault on beijing's qualification for the Winter Olympics is legendary. For a long time, she has been China's best women's Nordic biathlete. However, the women's Nordic biathlon is not a Winter Olympic event, and the degree of attention in China is relatively low, even if an athlete like Dong Bing reaches a high level, it is difficult to receive attention from the public and related parties.
In October 2020, 16 months before the Beijing Winter Olympics, Dong Bing participated in the Olympic points simulation event of jumping grass skiing as a Nordic biathlete athlete. The coaching team of the ski jumping national training team saw the athlete's ability at a glance, and after understanding some basic information, they invited her to transfer to the team for trial training.
At that time, Dong Bing refused this invitation. Although it seems to others that Nordic biathletes have both ski jumping and cross-country skiing skills, it seems easy to switch. But in fact, the nordic biathlon has completely different metabolic capacity requirements for athletes than ski jumping. If the Nordic biathlon is constantly looking for the perfect balance between explosiveness and endurance, then ski jumping is a sport that pursues absolute explosiveness under the premise of light weight.
In the following season, Dong Bing still conducted Nordic training. But as the Winter Olympics approach, women's Nordic biathlons have less and less resources and attention. At the end of March 2021, under the persuasion of all parties, Dong Bing, who is already 25 years old, decided to change the competition and join the ski jumping national training team in the name of trial training to impact the Beijing Winter Olympics. At this point, there are only 10 months left before the start of the Winter Olympics.
After the transfer, Dong Bing is facing a lot of pressure: the preparation time is tight, the special ability and physical fitness are almost at the bottom of the team, and his 25-year-old age is not young in today's women's ski jumping industry.
Ski jumpers will regularly train on the dynamometer, and the coaches will learn the explosive level of the athlete's lower limbs according to the data feedback of the dynamometer training, and help the athlete adjust the power mode. When Dong Bing first arrived at the team, the feedback of the force measuring platform training was very poor, the explosive force level was not ideal, and the action mode of pedaling on the ground also needed to be adjusted urgently.
At that time, her overall physical fitness reserves could not keep up, and it was difficult to complete a complete jumping training class, let alone a physical fitness class. Under this series of heavy pressures, Dong Bing took out a fighting posture. After each exhausting physical fitness class, Dong Bing still had to stay and practice, core strength, lower limb explosive power, pedaling power mode, and improve himself from all the aspects he could think of. With the improvement of her physical condition, her jumping feeling gradually returned, and her special results gradually stood out in the team.
In addition to training, as an experienced athlete, Dong Bing also knows how to improve his comprehensive competitive ability in aspects other than training. Ski jumping is precisely a sport that comprehensively tests the physical, technical, tactical, psychological and intellectual comprehensive abilities of athletes. After each day's training, in addition to routine physiotherapy rehabilitation, Dong Bing will take the initiative to find a coach to do training video analysis. And when she encounters difficulties in the process of moving forward, she always asks the team leader and the psychology teacher for help. Taking the initiative to open himself in life has enabled Dong Bing to achieve all-round growth.
Competitive sports never lie. Dong Bing, who gave everything to it, soon came to fruition in the summer season that began in July 2021, taking the podium in the first FIS points race. In the subsequent Intercontinental Cup race, Dong Bing won a total of three medals.
September 12, 2021, is a day worth remembering for Dong Bing, for the ski jumping national training team, and for the whole of China. Dong Bing and Peng Qingyue worked together to unlock two women's ski jumping qualifications for the Beijing Winter Olympics for the Chinese team. On the jumping platform of the Beijing Winter Olympics, two Chinese girls will appear.
In life, Dong Bing is a girl who loves beauty, if you often look at her social media, you will see all kinds of beautiful photos she posted, different hairstyles, different makeup, different outfits, different angles of various selfies. And those released together with these selfies are often words of encouragement: "Cut off the back road to fight a battle", "As long as you work hard, the dream will not be far away", "Live as a sunflower-like girl, full of sunshine, laughing incomparably brightly".
In a recent Weibo post, Dong Bing wrote, "Ten months of preparation, I am already very happy to participate in the Olympic Games!" Peng Qingyue's rest of the day to cheer up ps: thank the country, the snowboard is cool! He also po out a group photo of himself and teammate Peng Qingyue, and the Chinese character at the bottom of the board was particularly eye-catching. Perhaps, in her mind, when she puts on her platform jumping costume and steps on a snowboard to fight for the country, it is the most beautiful.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, Dong Bing's beauty and hard work finally bloomed together on the high platform of "Snow Ruyi".
Written by/Ruda
Editor/Li Xu Liang Lina
Visual/Wang Ye Wang Dandan