On February 13, the men's 500m final of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics ended, hungary's Liu Shaoang won the gold, Pyeongchang winter olympic champion Wu Dajing failed to enter the Group A final, and two other Chinese players Ren Ziwei and Sun Long folded the quarterfinals.
This is Wu Dajing's third Winter Olympics, from Sochi to Pyeongchang to Beijing, Wu Dajing will become the captain from the small team, in the context of intensive combat, the first time he missed the Winter Olympics short track speed skating 500 meters final experience is just another "fall" in his speed skating life.
Skating: Starts with 107 falls
Perhaps because it hurt too much, Wu Dajing always remembers the first time he fell on the ice: 107 times. Perhaps there is no talent, when the yearning for the ice surface becomes a reality, Wu Dajing, who even has difficulty standing, can only pass his boredom in the most primitive way of counting.
"When he was a child, Wu Dajing was ordinary and had no talent." Years later, Wu Dajing has become an Olympic champion, but in the eyes of enlightenment coach Li Jun, he is still a naughty "stupid child". "It's too naughty, running is always unable to run other people."
In the context of the lack of talent, his big flashing eyes are always looking for opportunities to "go beyond the curve", as long as he practices a lot, he can always make progress. Moreover, his parents were still so supportive of his choice - Wu Dajing's first pair of roller skates cost his father two months' salary.
"East Pole" Jiamusi is Wu Dajing's hometown. In those yellowed years, indoor ice rinks were still rare, and in the cold winter, he saw Jiamusi at four o'clock in the morning, rushing to the ice rink to practice in the wind of minus thirty degrees Celsius. Such a schedule is not uncommon for "ice dolls", Wu Dajing is not a "stupid bird to fly first", but it is precisely by relying on little progress to knock on the door of fate.
If you want to gain a foothold in the ice rink in tohoku, it is no less difficult than becoming a table tennis player. At the age of 13, Wu Dajing chose to run away, and after entering the Jiangsu Short Track Team, he finally enjoyed the "privilege" of running on the ice rink during the day. Here, Wu Dajing and teammate Ma Qiang and others formed a "four brothers", although the speed is still not the most prominent in the team, but his characteristics began to be noticed by coach Zhu Xuesong: "You can't use language to teach a person how to skate, compared with the feelings of the body, language is very superficial." I can explain to you in all kinds of language how to skate the fastest, but only a child with a strong thinking ability like Dajing can realize the ultimate Path. ”
Zhu Xuesong's words had a bit of a metaphysical flavor, but as it happened, the progress of Wu Dajing, who had opened up his skills, became more and more obvious. In 2009, the Jiangsu short track team was disbanded, and Wu Dajing became an athlete at the Jilin Winter Sports Management Center, and a year later, he entered the national team, when he was 16 years old.
National team years and "50 years old" feet
Sitting on the train to Beijing, Wu Dajing had infinite reverie, Li Yan, the person who gave him the ticket of destiny.
Years later, whenever he talked about this grandmaster-level figure of the Chinese short track speed skating team, Wu Dajing would always respectfully call him "teacher". However, when he first entered the national team, Li Yan in his heart was more like a "stepmother".
As the youngest member of the team, because he could not keep up with the rhythm of the men's team, Wu Dajing was sent to the women's team as a sparring partner when he first entered the team, and even so, he could only "eat ice" behind his teammates. "Long-distance Zhou Yang surpassed me, short-distance Fan Kexin surpassed me", what made Wu Dajing even more uncomfortable was their smile when they looked back, and the kind of triumphant contempt that made Wu Dajing wonder: Can the national team beat people?
Fortunately, anger did not defeat Wu Dajing's sanity, and the deeper reason was that he cherished this hard-won opportunity. The position of the national team has never been a "long-term rental house", and if you are not careful, you will be asked to return home. At the age of 17, Wu Dajing sent his teammates abroad to compete, watching them get on the car and set off one by one, and a strong sense of ambition began to surge: "I want to practice, I want the next coach to take me." ”
The season in which teammates compete for glory becomes Wu Dajing's "special training period". "At that time, there was an assistant coach in the team watching us at home, I asked him to help me record the training video, my mobile phone, his mobile phone together, and then on the computer to compare their own video with the master game video to see, cut the details, really understand where their gap is? Practice while changing until you form your own muscle memory. Wu Dajing recalled.
Wu Dajing's efforts were rewarded, and half a month later, Li Yan, who returned, saw his progress and began to let him participate in the competition one after another. In October 2013, Wu Dajing won the first world championship of his career in the short track speed skating World Cup in South Korea, and his final of the national team has gradually transitioned from sparring to "one brother".
The mature Wu Dajing overcame anger and wandering, and finally relied on persistence to gain a foothold in the national team.
Speaking of standing firm, the Network can search everywhere for photos of Wu Dajing's feet, prominent ankle joints, scarred feet, severely deformed bones, in a variety show, he once laughed at himself "my feet are ugly", this pair of "50-year-old" feet, written full of his life.
It is precisely because of past experiences that when the center of the stage belongs to himself, Wu Dajing is extremely eager to succeed. Champion is his only goal after that.
On Wu Dajing's trip to the Winter Olympics, the role of Ahn Hyun-so, the technical coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team, is quite special. In 2014, Wu Dajing ushered in his first Winter Olympics, appearing in the men's 500m final, and he was the first to appear, and his biggest competitor was Ahn Hyun-so, who changed to Russian. It was a 19-year-old and 29-year-old duel, and the fledgling Wu Dajing showed his speed, but the old and spicy Ahn Hyun-so seized the only chance to complete the transcendence in the last lap, and the accumulation of 10 years accumulated into a moment of wisdom. The runner-up Wu Dajing ushered in the 20th year old with disobedience and regret.
In 2018, Wu Dajing has become the "first brother" of China's short track speed skating men's team. As his personal style gradually became stereotyped, he was evaluated by Li Yan as "judging from his tall body and mighty sliding method, Wu Dajing is not like a traditional Asian player, but more like a European and American player."
"To go to Pyeongchang is to get the championship." Looking forward to his trip to the second Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing was full of ambition. However, the process and the result are not consistent. Li Yan changed the group chat name of the team to "Tiger's Mouth Pulling Teeth", which turned out to be true. From its opening on February 9, 2008 to February 22, 2008, the short-track speed skating team, which was the master division of the Chinese Winter Olympics, did not receive any results, but only "harvested" 9 fouls. Among them, Wu Dajing fell off the track in the semi-finals of the 1500m and was convicted of blocking fouls.
The 500m final was Wu Dajing's last chance to redeem himself with the team. Teammate Ren Ziwei had indicated that he would win the championship in the final, but in the end he could not advance to the final. Therefore, in the face of the bag clips of two South Korean players who played at home, Wu Dajing chose to ride a ride, 39.584 seconds, Wu Dajing broke the world record again, and achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals for the Chinese short track speed skating men's team at the Winter Olympics.
"Group B 1" is not the end
In 2022, it is another 4-year wait. Wu Dajing's stubbornness has not changed, and his sense of mission has become stronger and stronger. "We have only one goal, that is, the Beijing Winter Olympics, thank you for the companionship of each other on the road to chasing dreams, I hope that everyone can grow from excellent athletes to great athletes." Wu Dajing, who became the captain of the Chinese short track speed skating team, has the whole team in mind. In the 1000m final, in the case of a rematch, he chose to help Ren Ziwei. The impact of the 500-meter competition, the intensive schedule and the change of mentality began to appear, and in the context of the first promotion of the 1/4 final group, Wu Dajing failed to adjust his state in time in the semi-finals, and finally missed the group A final. In the subsequent Group B final, he still showed his positive attitude and eventually finished 1st in Group B.
Yesterday, when he first came out, Wu Dajing was still a catch-up, and now that he has gone through thousands of sails, he has been the coveted target of many strong enemies. However, the defeat in defending the title is not the end of Wu Dajing's winter Olympics, at 20:00 on February 16, he will also compete with his teammates for the gold medal in the 5,000-meter relay, hoping that after the first fall at the age of 27, he can draw a golden end to his third Winter Olympics.
(Jinan Times)