The performance of the Chinese men's speed skating team at this Winter Olympics is exciting, and in addition to rejoicing, we also need to drink water and not forget the well diggers, and we can't forget the meritorious coach behind it - Li Yan! As a strong pillar of the Chinese short track speed skating team, she has helped the Chinese team to cultivate gold medal players for four consecutive years, from Wang Meng, Wu Dajing, to Gao Tingyu, who shined in all directions on February 12, it can be said that she is the designated Bole of the Chinese team Maxima!
Li Yan has a very legendary athlete career, once suffered a very serious injury in the early days of her career, in 1984, she was thrown off the track, the left knee muscle was torn, just when many people felt that her career was unsustainable, she miraculously revived after a year, and helped the Chinese team win a gold and two silver in the Olympic arena, it can be said that her athlete career is inspiring enough!
After becoming the head coach of the Chinese short track speed skating national team in 2006, she has trained Wang Meng, Zhou Yang and other powerful players, and led the team to compete in the Olympic Games, which has also won many victories, and what makes us familiar is that Wang Meng has also been specially grateful for her excavation and training, and even once knelt down at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics to thank her, which was impressive. In addition to teaching the players on the speed skating field, Li Yan's repeated confrontations with the referee team are also very classic, in her eyes, the interests of the national team are above all else.
After briefly stepping down as head coach in May 2019, Li Yan has actually been very concerned about the national team until the end of 2021, when she returned again, which also gave the Chinese short track speed skating team a reassuring pill! It can be said that Li Yan is Lang Ping of the Chinese short track speed skating team, and also the biggest contributor behind the Chinese delegation's outstanding achievements in the field of short track speed skating.
And Gao Tingyu's transformation from the bronze medal of the last Winter Olympics to the gold medal is also inseparable from Li Yan's careful teaching and guidance. Now that she has become an Olympic 9 gold coach, we believe that as long as the Chinese speed skating team can continue to play like this, she will soon surpass 10 gold and become a more difficult ceiling for the coaching world!
After Gao Tingyu won the gold, Li Yan sent a text: