After several twists and turns, after Gao Tingyu made a history and won the first championship of the Chinese men's winter skating Olympics, he saw his colleague Guo Xiaomingfa's Beijing Winter Olympics interview notes on the WeChat public account of "Lake News Sports" "Reporter's Mixed Harvesting of Jianghu". It reminds me of my first independent interview with the Intercontinental Games, the 2005 Macau East Asian Games.
Maybe it was lucky, or maybe it was the cheeky skin trained in the interview of the 2001 Nine Games, on the afternoon of November 2, 2005, I actually mixed into the Chinese gymnastics women's team and interviewed in the infield until the evening when Cheng Fei, a famous player in our province, won the championship.
This interview was because I was a reporter in the infield, and I got a lot of dry goods, including Cheng Fei talking about his changes from vaulting defeat to free gymnastics to win the championship, and Lu Shanzhen, head coach of the Chinese women's team, analyzing the reasons for Cheng Fei's loss to winning the championship, as well as many details that were not known before and after the game.
At about 3 p.m. on November 2, 2005, I was walking behind the Macau Egg Gymnasium, where the gymnastics individual event final was about to be held, when I suddenly saw a group of Chinese gymnastics women's teams walking in the direction of the training hall not far away.
"It's time to go inside and prepare for the game!" I took the opportunity to move, put the press card on the back, ran forward and hung at the end of the line, and enthusiastically helped a small team member to get equipment, she thought I was a venue staff, when I got to the door, the security guard mistakenly thought that I was a member of the Chinese team, so I mixed into the training hall infield.
However, after coming in for a while, I dressed up to help, learned my true identity, and just wanted to stare at cheng fei, a famous general from Huangshi in our province, and because of this, I had asked questions at the Chinese women's group's defense conference before, and Lu Shanzhen, who had an impression, did not hesitate, quietly said four words to me, "just look at it and don't say", and went to his own business.
Lu And I only had a few faces in Macao, and later he went to Hubei several times to participate in related activities in a hurry, and I didn't have the good sense to come forward to greet and disturb, and then later, in June 2020, I learned the bad news of his illness and death. I can only write this handwriting that should have been written 17 years ago to commemorate the amiable and respectable guidance of Lu Shanzhen in my heart.
"Just look and don't say", I understand the rules that Lu Zhi said, so Cheng Fei's pre-game warm-up is just silently observing.
Cheng Fei will participate in the vault (nearly 5 p.m.) and free gymnastics (8:50 p.m.) two finals. Faced with the double insurance of North Korean celebrities Kang Yun-mi and Hong Jingjing and the starting score of 10 points for the two, Cheng Fei decided to risk the highest difficulty action of vaulting horse - the backhand flip body of the twig 180 degrees and then the front straight flip body of 540 degrees, which was later known as the "Cheng Fei Jump".
From the warm-up, I can see that for this set of actions, Huang Shi Yatou is not absolutely sure, but if you seek stability and give up this unique skill, the gold medal will definitely belong to the North Korean team. Thinking about it, she still wanted to rush. Unable to convince Cheng Fei, Lu Zhi could only set the tactics of seeking stability in the first jump and enlarging the move in the second jump.
There is pressure in the heart, and if you can't overcome the action, you will be affected. In the first jump of 9.8 points, Cheng Fei almost never lost his hand, but when she landed this time, she stepped out of the white line, and she and Jiang Runmei got the same 9.387 points.
I stood next to the preparation area of the Chinese team, and when I saw that Cheng Fei's eyebrows before and after the first jump had not been stretched, nor did I speak, I was always thinking about something.
Next, there is no turning back. As a result, when she landed on the ground in the second jump, almost her entire body fell outside the white line, and "Cheng Fei Jump" smashed!
I felt that the hearts of everyone in the Chinese team were tight, and when she walked down the field in frustration, Lu Zhi just gently patted her face and didn't say anything. In this battle, Cheng Fei lost to Jiang Runmei and only got the runner-up.
Taking advantage of the fact that there was still some time before the evening game, with the consent of Lu Zhi, I called Cheng Fei to the side of the baffle, which was the first face-to-face conversation between me and her.
I comforted her a few words, she bowed her head and didn't want to talk, I whispered, "You need to release this emotion now, talk and talk casually, maybe you will feel much better." ”
Cheng Fei may have been touched, bowed his head and whispered, "When I was in such a good state at the Tenth Games, I didn't use this action, Lu Dao didn't want me to go on this time in order to protect me, but I didn't have a choice." ”
The first jump failed, cheng Fei said that it was because he always thought about the action of the second jump, and he was distracted. This is almost consistent with Lu's previous view that too much pressure in my analysis led to deformation of the action.
After the failure of "Cheng Fei Jump", Lu Shanzhen did not give Cheng Fei guidance, he told me, "This setback encountered in the East Asian Games must be solved and overcome by herself, otherwise, how can she cope with 2008?" ”
After hearing me relay Lu Zhi's words, Cheng Fei's expression suddenly relaxed, as if he wanted to understand something in an instant. She looked at the arena again, raised her voice and said to me: "The free gymnastics final starts at 8 o'clock, I have to hurry up and prepare, we will see you when the time comes!" ”
At 8:50, the final began, and the Hong Crystal connection of the starting cannon was not very smooth, and only scored 8.8 points. Cheng Fei's second, the 10-point starting score is the highest in the whole game, and her set of actions scored a high of 9.8 points in the women's team final on October 31, and helped the women's team successfully defend the title.
The music sounded, whether it was the stretching and floating of the aerial movements or the overall expressiveness, Cheng Fei was like a phoenix flying in the sky, and the huge carpet that performed the free exercise seemed to be unable to carry all this, and could only let the phoenix soar away. 9.712 points, Cheng Fei won the championship with the highest score!
After the award ceremony, Cheng Fei, who leaned on the side of the gymnastics platform, was relieved a lot, "When preparing for the free exercise, I didn't think about the defeat of the vaulting horse, nor did I think about how the opponent was, I let go of all this." I'm happy now, and tonight, I'm playing at my best. ”
A month later, on November 23, Cheng Fei successfully completed the 180-degree backhand flip body at the Melbourne World Cup according to Lu's original plan, and the "Cheng Fei Jump" that was smashed in Macau turned out.
Text/Hubei Daily reporter Wang Erlong
Photo/ Weibo, Xinhua News Agency