Tonight, the beijing winter olympics short track speed skating women's 3000m relay final kicked off. In the end, with excellent performance, the Chinese team composed of Fan Kexin, Zhang Yuting, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Chutong won the bronze medal.
After the game, the camera captured the four people, hugging each other tightly with tears in their eyes. At that moment, they waited for 12 years. Only they themselves know how far they have come to their dreams.
Golden flowers are all "northeast production"
An interesting phenomenon is that the "four golden flowers" playing tonight are all "northeast-produced". Among them, Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu and Zhang Yuting are from Heilongjiang, and Zhang Chutong and Han Yutong (who did not play in the final) are jilin people.
Fan Kexin was born in 1993 in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, where six world champions were born, including Yang Yang, Wang Meng and Liu Qiuhong. When he was a child, Fan Kexin's family was not rich. But she seems to have been born to study sports, and her mother took her to the city stadium and ran three laps before being selected. Since then, she has begun a long and arduous training. In 2010, Fan Kexin, who had just turned 17, was officially called up to the Chinese national team. In October 2010, she competed in the Short Track Speed Skating World Cup in Montreal, Canada, and won the gold medal in the women's 3000m relay with her teammates Zhou Yang, Liu Qiuhong and Zhang Hui, becoming the world champion.
Qu Chunyu was born in Bei'an, Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province. When she was very young, she came to Bei'an with her parents from Qiqihar to join relatives, her parents were busy working every day, and Xiao Chunyu practiced skating with her physical education teacher. In 2004, Coach Jia of Heihe Sports School discovered Qu Chunyu's ability in Bei'an, so he recruited her to Heihe Sports School for training and began more formal ice training. Qu Chunyu joined the provincial youth training team in 2008 and the Heilongjiang provincial team in 2009... During the training period of the provincial team, he was selected to join the national team and the national youth team for two years, and has been a member of the national team since 2016.
Zhang Yuting was born in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province. From an early age, he showed extraordinary athletic talent. Under the leadership of Coach Wang Beiming of Nangang District Sports School, Zhang Yuting embarked on the short track speed skating road at the age of 6. In the third year of junior high school, Zhang Yuting entered the Ice and Snow Branch of the Provincial Sports School and entered the provincial team with excellent results. After becoming a member of the national youth team at the age of 16, he successfully entered the national team.
Zhang Chutong is a native of Jilin City, Jilin Province. Since the second grade of primary school, she has participated in short track speed skating training and entered the Changyi District Youth Amateur Sports School for professional speed skating training. Under the meticulous creation of jing hongjun coach of Changyi District Youth Amateur Sports School, the results have been very good, and he has won the first place in provincial and municipal competitions for many times, and was later sent to jilin provincial sports school.
In tonight's final, there is still a "golden flower" that did not play, she is Han Yutong. Han Yutong was born in Jilin Province in 1994 and won the women's 500m at the Short Track Speed Skating World Junior Championships on February 24, 2013, with a time of 45.369 seconds.
New and old "2+2", inspiring good results
In tonight's intense and exciting final, the reason why the Chinese team can bravely take the lead is closely related to the hard work of each team member and the fear of "strong enemies". Corresponding to this, I am afraid that it is also related to the "configuration" of the team - the new and old "2+2" configuration on the field tonight played the best performance in the game.
From the experience of the competition, among the four people, Fan Kexin can be said to be the most senior, and she has a good performance in the World Cup series and the 500 meters of the World Championship. In the Olympic Games alone, Fan Kexin participated in the Sochi Winter Olympics and the Pingchang Winter Olympics. The Beijing Winter Olympics is her third Olympic participation. Qu Chunyu and Han Yutong, who did not play, also participated in the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago. From the experience of the Olympic competition, Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu and Han Yutong, who did not play, can be regarded as the "old man" in this team.
The other two team members, Zhang Chutong and Zhang Yuting, who appeared tonight, are participating in the Winter Olympics for the first time. They came out of the selection tournament in January this year and qualified for the Winter Olympics. Compared with Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu, Zhang Chutong and Zhang Yuting are considered to be "newcomers" in the team, but they have also won championships many times before.
If you look at it purely from the perspective of age, the combination of "four golden flowers" on the field is also an interesting phenomenon. Fan Kexin was born in 1993 and is already the oldest member of the team; Qu Chunyu was born in 1996; Zhang Yuting was born in 1999; and Zhang Chutong is an uncompromising "post-00s" - she was born in 2003.
Whether from the experience of the competition or the age, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu are the "predecessors" of Zhang Yuting and Zhang Chutong. Chinese has always had the tradition of "old with new" and "passing on the help", so the hard-working team with the new and old "2+2" must also be the reason why the best performance can be stimulated.
After winning the bronze medal, the four hugged each other tightly at the scene, with tears in their eyes, and they encouraged each other. As the DJ on the spot put it, this is a young Chinese short track speed skating team, but "you can always trust the Chinese short track speed skating team!" ”