Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, Yanqing, 13 February The great dream is not waiting to come out and shouted, but is spelled out and done! On the 11th and 12th for two consecutive days, Yan Wengang, Yin Zheng, Zhao Dan and Li Yuxi, Chinese steel frame snowmobile athletes, used their enterprising competitive performances to spell out highlight moments for China's ice and snow sports and win international respect for Chinese ice and snow athletes.
China's Yan Wengang after the men's steel frame bobsleigh race at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Feb. 11. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Sun Fei
Track "Fight Bayonet"! Chinese players stage world speed
"First round: 1 minute 00 seconds 43; second round: 1 minute 00 seconds 65; third round: 1 minute 00 seconds 54; fourth round: 1 minute 00 seconds 15!" This is the first time to participate in the Olympic competition, yan Wengang can skate faster, in the "Snow Dragon" handed over a stunning report card!
"4.60 seconds, 4.62 seconds, 4.61 seconds; 4.58 seconds!" Yin Zheng, who has been standing on the Olympic field for more than three years of training, bursts out: he set a track departure record on the first day and continues to break the record on the second day!
In the replay of the event, in the three-round sliding, Although Yan Wengang and Yin Zheng played steadily overall, the individual skating sections were not perfect, and it was difficult to impact the medals.
When not to beat at this time?
After three rounds, Yan Wengang was only 0.05 seconds away from the foreign player who was temporarily ranked third, and Yin Zheng's improvement space was visible to the naked eye. Only by completely laying down the baggage can we release the greatest courage of "fighting bayonets"! Go all out, make the corners precisely, and sprint with your dreams! They did it!
Yan Wengang stood on the podium and won the first Olympic medal of China's steel frame snowmobile. Yin Zheng jumped up in the ranking and won the fifth place.
The women's players are also touching. With the stunning performance of the two-wheeled slicing on the morning of the 11th, The Chinese women's steel frame runners Zhao Dan and Li Yuxi, who also participated in the Olympic Competition for the first time, were also placed high hopes. Despite the mistakes in the follow-up taxi on the evening of the 12th, they also created a new history for China's steel frame snowmobile.
On February 12, China's Zhao Dan set off in the women's steel frame snowmobile competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Wenyao
The steel frame snowmobile is the project of the brave, it is itself synonymous with "limit" and "challenge", and it is strong will.
Yan Wengang, Yin Zheng, Zhao Dan, and Li Yuxi are indomitable and continue to break through their own sportsmanship, infecting everyone who pays attention to the game.
In the face of this niche project that originated in Europe and has been carried out in European and American countries for decades, the Chinese steel frame snowmobile that started from scratch took just over 6 years to fight with the world's top athletes, leaving a Chinese footprint on the world's highest podium, creating a new pattern of the world's winter sports competition map, and also opening an important page in the new era of Chinese ice and snow athletes.
Six years to sharpen a sword! They have a powerful motherland behind them
Yan Wengang first stepped on the steel frame snowmobile track in Calgary, Canada. It's hard to imagine that the Olympic bronze medalist's first slide was pushed down by the coach.
"Although the speed is only forty or fifty kilometers per hour, I am very nervous." He gritted his teeth and survived, "The movement is not familiar, the slippery body is completely bruised, but the next day I have to continue." ”
This is the epitome of the difficult start of China's steel frame snowmobile. In 2015, China started from scratch. At that time, the european and American strong teams had long been "dominant".
If you want to succeed in the short term, the key step is to do a good job in talent selection and lay the foundation for the long-term development of the project. Combining the characteristics of the project, the China Steel Frame Snow Team selected outstanding track and field athletes with outstanding explosive power to join the team through cross-border cross-sports selection. Striving to hire high-level coaches, colleges and universities within the United Nations have set up a composite scientific research support team composed of physical training, physiological monitoring, sports psychology, scientific diet and other disciplines.
With each step there are new difficulties, but there is always a force to escort them.
"When China's steel frame snowmobile started, there was no track of its own in China. The development of related industries is blank, and can only run for a long time to train abroad. Yan Wengang said that the motherland and the team have always been the strongest backing for athletes.
With the help of science and technology, the high-tech training system in the ice and snow sports training and research base of Erqi Factory creates a realistic training environment for athletes in terms of physical sensation and vision. By effectively overcoming the influence of the season on the training time of the winter project, and accurately capturing sports data, the training level of the national team has been greatly improved.
In this Winter Olympic Games, Chinese steel frame snowmobile athletes put on domestic Winter Olympic steel frame snowmobile shoes. These high-tech boots have a diversion line designed with biomimetic fluid mechanics and a shaped curved carbon plate on the sole made of scientific and technological materials, which injects strong support for athletes to start and slide.
In 2020, the National Bobsleigh Center, built using autonomous track jetting technology, was announced to be completed in 2020. Seeing the completion of the first track in front of their homes, Chinese steel frame bobsleigh athletes were greatly encouraged.
The picture shows the National Bobsleigh Center in Yanqing, Beijing. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Jiang Wenyao
In the past two years, many international bobsleigh players have either been affected by the epidemic and have not trained systematically enough; or their "money bags" have been tight and they have run every day to raise training funds. The mainland's overall planning of epidemic prevention and control and economic and social development, so that athletes have the conditions to be undistracted and concentrate on training, has also become an important guarantee for China's steel frame snowmobile to create history.
Together to the future! China's steel frame snowmobile can be even better
"I always believe that China's steel frame snowmobiles will get better and better, and I have never doubted it." After the game, Yan Wengang, Yin Zheng, Zhao Dan, and Li Yuxi all said firmly to reporters.
From Geng Wenqiang representing China's steel frame snowmobile to participate in the Olympic Competition for the first time and won the 13th place in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics men's steel frame snowmobile, to further winning the first World Cup sub-station championship; from Yan Wengang, Yin Zheng, etc. from the international low-level events to start hard, to constantly obtain higher level qualifications and rank among the forefront, the Beijing Winter Olympics track to show themselves; to the Chinese women's steel frame snowmobile is energetic and promising, one by one "cute girls" are not afraid of challenges and injuries, hard training strength, jumping on the steel frame, rushing to the track, eager to skate out of the best of themselves...
"Breakthrough of zero" is a dazzling composition in the Olympic spirit and sportsmanship, and it is also a new starting point for China's steel frame snowmobile to seek greater development.
"This bronze medal is a breakthrough, an improvement, and an unlimited development prospect." Ni Huizhong, secretary general of the Chinese sports delegation, said.
It is foreseeable that the international top tracks, training and scientific research bases, institutions of higher learning, etc. at the doorstep will continue to empower the long-term development of this project. The highlight performance of Chinese steel frame snowmobile athletes in this Winter Olympic Games will surely let more people know and understand this niche sport, and better understand the efforts and efforts of athletes.
In the future, when a group of tourists come to punch in, witness this track, pluck up the courage to try to slide; when a group of young people become ice and snow sports fans under the encouragement of Chinese ice and snow athletes, they regard ice and snow as a part of life; when more and more people put their indomitable, dare to fight, and forge ahead with the motivation to work and live, China's steel frame snowmobiles will be better, China's ice and snow sports will be better, and our tomorrow will be better.
Reporters: Zhang Xiao, Ma Bangjie, Yao Youming, Wu Kunpeng
Source: Xinhua News Agency