Wu Dajing missed the short track speed skating men's 500m Group A final, and in the post-race interview, he repeatedly mentioned the word "regret". It is indeed a pity that I have the strength to reach the final, but I did not make it.
However, rather than regretting Wu Dajing, I am more pleased with the feedback from netizens about the outcome of this event.
Wu Dajing tried his best, Wu Dajing was good, wu Dajing was distressed, safety first...
There was no accusation against Wu Dajing, no singing of this result, but all encouragement of Wu Dajing. Seeing the comments of netizens, I couldn't help but wet my eyes. Finally, let the flowers and applause no longer have weight, finally, netizens no longer consequentialism, Wu Dajing worried about things finally did not happen.
Flowers and applause no longer have weight
In 2018, Wu Dajing was forced to be anxious at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and finally won the gold medal with a clear advantage, winning flowers and applause. However, these flowers and applause also became the shackles that "kidnapped" him and became the pressure for him to move forward.
After becoming famous in World War I, Wu Dajing participated in the slow variety show "Longing for Life", and at the same time as him, Liu Guoliang, who had experienced hundreds of battles, participated.
In the chat, Liu Guoliang looked at Wu Dajing, who was still enjoying the joy of the championship, and gave him a preventive injection.
He said that if he performed so well at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, the psychological pressure would be greater in the future, because everyone would make demands according to this standard, and if the future game won, it would become a matter of course, and if it lost, it would be considered a regression.
When the athlete has glory in him, after enjoying the joy of the championship, the next stage is to be afraid of war. Afraid of the game, afraid of the outside world's views and voices, once those flowers and applause will become psychological pressure.
Liu Guoliang has experienced it, and the team members he leads are also experiencing it, so he asked Wu Dajing to adjust his psychological state, especially the Winter Olympics held in front of his door in 2022.
It turned out that Liu Guoliang was right, and Wu Dajing also felt the feeling of flowers and applause turning into "bayonets".
In 2019, Wu Dajing won the silver medal at the Short Track Speed Skating World Championships held in Sofia, Bulgaria, and the result did not reach the level of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and the result was full of insults from netizens.
Accuse him of participating in variety shows and delaying training, accuse him of finding excuses for himself, and complain that his strength has declined...
This experience made Wu Dajing feel the online violence, and also made him feel huge psychological pressure. Therefore, in the variety show "My Family's That Boy", Wu Dajing couldn't help but complain to coach Li Yan, saying his worries and psychological changes.
In the past, short track speed skating teams would be happy to get a second or third place result in the competition. But since winning the championship, athletes have been driven to a position where they can't do without taking the first place, and if they take the second or third place, they will be scolded.
The outside audience does not care about the athlete's injury or the athlete's life span, but only looks at the final result.
Such a situation made Wu Dajing, who was preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, feel uneasy, so he also said many times that he was under too much pressure. When there are still more than a thousand days before the Beijing Winter Olympics, he bluntly said that the road of more than a thousand days is not easy.
Now, the day of the competition has arrived, although it is full of regrets, it is gratifying that what Wu Dajing feared did not happen.
In the face of this regret, netizens did not have any accusations, and the original record-breaking championship did not become the "kidnapping shackles" of Wu Dajing's current achievements, but cheered for him. This time, netizens matured and finally stopped the consequential theory, but saw the hardships of athletes through the competition.
Athletes fight the field, no matter what the result, netizens give applause and flowers, which has already won.
The flowers and applause of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics became the "bayonet" at the World Championships, but this "bayonet" was not brought to the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is progress.
The effort never stopped
The feedback from netizens is gratifying, Wu Dajing's hard work has made the audience see the spirit of sportsmanship, although he did not qualify for the final, but his efforts and the efforts of every athlete who stands on the field should not be ignored.
He Jiong once said that it is the athletes who can make him look up, and this admiration comes from the heart. Because athletes are enduring the loneliness that most people can't stand, and in the case that most people don't know, they are constantly working hard with dreams that they can't decide at all.
Even if no one pays attention, even if the road ahead is unknown, he still works hard with his dreams. This persistence reflects the spirit of sportsmanship.
Yes, athletes work silently behind the spotlight for their dreams, getting up at seven o'clock every day, practicing until 12 o'clock, and practicing until the evening after a short lunch break, day after day after year.
With only one month off each year, it's also the only time they've been reunited with their families in a year. Due to training, they could not be with their families during the Spring Festival, and Han Tianyu had not spent the Spring Festival with his family for eight or nine years.
The gap that athletes miss can only be filled with sweat, and the dream of getting a medal on the field can only be realized with hard work.
For the sake of his dreams, Wu Dajing, who was less than thirty years old, had the feet of a pair of fifty-year-olds, scarred and protruding from his bones, which were all sharpened by ice knife shoes.
After the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing did not slack off in training, and for four years he was training in addition to training. So after winning the first gold medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics with his teammates, he couldn't help but choke up.
Regarding the efforts of the past four years, we can get some information from Wu Dajing's parents.
In order not to disturb their son's training, Wu Dajing's parents never took the initiative to call their son, but waited for the other party to call them. But every time a video call came, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, which was also the time when Wu Dajing finished training.
The parents did not dare to ask too much about the training, for fear of disturbing his rest, but their hearts were quietly calculating their son's schedule. Every time you make a video call, the most parents say is "pay attention to safety."
For the training of their sons, parents are concerned, and their sons can win glory for the country, and parents are extremely proud. But sometimes looking at the sensible and mature Wu Dajing, the second elder can't help but feel sad, because they always feel that their son is still 14 years old and left home, always a small child, but in the blink of an eye, he has grown up.
Both athletes and athletes' parents are great, both able to withstand loneliness and suffering. As Fan Kexin said, when they trained to go down the ice every day, they had blood in their throats.
Therefore, athletes deserve flowers and applause whether they win or lose, as long as they work hard.
Enjoy the game and accept regrets
Short track speed skating is a relatively special sport, and it is not all about the efforts and qualities of athletes to win. Sometimes you don't make mistakes, but you will be affected by the mistakes of others, even if you complain that the other party has fouled, your own results will not be.
The whole game is full of uncertainty, so whether you win or lose, you need athletes to have a good attitude.
Although Wu Dajing was full of regrets for not being able to enter the final this time, he did it to enjoy the game and compare every game as the last game, which was enough.
Enjoy the game, accept regrets, the future will be better, this is also coach Li Yan's teaching to them.
After Wu Dajing missed the final, her mother said four times in a row "very good" in the face of the interview, because she understood her son's hardships, and she also knew the cruelty on the field and the psychological pressure of athletes. So she believes that being able to stand on the Olympic field has already achieved her dream.
This is not only the attitude of Wu Dajing's mother, but also the idea of netizens.
Wu Dajing was able to stand on the field and complete the whole game, and he was already radiant. As a general audience, it should not be blame, but thank him for his sweat to bring us a moment of glory and bring us the hope of continuous progress.
Regret is short-lived, the future is bright, learning to enjoy the game and accept regret is a kind of progress for athletes, learning to applaud and praise is the progress of netizens.
Wu Dajing tried his best, the feedback from netizens was no longer sharp, the flowers and applause no longer had the weight to overwhelm the athletes, in fact, they had already won.