Shanxi Evening News (reporter Li Jiyi) On February 11, the men's steel frame bobsleigh project of the Beijing Winter Olympics ended at the National Bobsleigh Center, and China's Yin Zheng finished fifth with a time of 4 minutes, 2 seconds and 13 seconds. The young general, born in 1996, is Yin Zheng of Jincheng, Shanxi.
The Beijing Winter Olympics is Yin Zheng's winter Olympic debut. As a child, Yin Zheng attended Fengtai Primary School in Jincheng City and liked to play sports such as football since he was a child. During the college entrance examination, he was admitted to Beijing Sport University with his sprint sports expertise.
The steel frame bobsleigh project started late in China, and the sport requires a lot of explosiveness, attention and control on athletes. In 2015, the newly established Coach of the Chinese Steel Frame Snowmobile National Team went deep into major universities to select national team members, and Yin Zheng, who studied at Beijing Sport University, successfully passed a number of tests by the coaching team and was successfully selected into the national training team. As a result, like other Chinese steel frame snowmobile athletes, Yin Zheng, a sprinter, officially crossed the discipline to winter sports. The good explosiveness and strong starting ability of the pushing sled are Yin Zheng's biggest advantages, especially his departure has reached a world-class level.
Yin has been playing steadily in international competitions, winning 5 first prizes and 1 third place in 6 matches of the two European Championships and one Intercontinental Cup. On 3 December 2021, he won the men's race at the Steel Frame Ski Intercontinental Cup in Innsbruck, Austria.
From January 21st to 22nd, the China Steel Frame Bobsleigh Training Team held an intra-team Olympic trial at the National Bobsleigh Center, and the top two athletes qualified for the Beijing Winter Olympics. Among them, Yin Zheng won the first place in the Olympic team selection competition, and also created the fastest record of the national bobsleigh center track.
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"Faces of Jincheng" shine at the Beijing Winter Olympics
Jincheng spectators who follow the event every day found that in addition to Yin Zheng, there were other "Jincheng faces" at the Beijing Winter Olympics, some were torchbearers, and some were entrance guides.
Among the beautiful guides was a Qinshui girl
On the evening of February 4, the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics was held. At the athletes' entrance ceremony, the guides held up the team cards of delegations from various countries and regions to lead the athletes to enter, which became a beautiful and dignified landscape.
The facilitators are female university students from 10 universities in the capital. Unbeknownst to people, Zhao Luxue, the guide of the Liechtenstein delegation, was a girl from Qinshui County, Jincheng City.
Zhao Luxue's name seems destined to be related to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Zhao Luxue attended Jinshi Elementary School and later studied dance at The Shanxi Drama Vocational College. In 2021, Zhao Luxue was admitted to the Conservatory of Music of Capital Normal University with the first place in the Shanxi Provincial Joint Examination for Female Students. Currently, she is a student in the 2021 Dance Science Teacher Training Class of the University's Conservatory of Music.
"At first, there was no concept of the title 'guide', but I learned from the teacher that the guide was responsible for leading each member of the delegation into the Winter Olympics." During the National Day last year, Zhao Luxue was selected to join the candidate team of guides, although the identity of the guides was still very vague at the time, but she made 100% efforts to complete each training. She knew that being able to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics was a very solemn and happy thing, and from that moment on, she represented not only the individual, but also the spiritual outlook of Chinese young people.
The walking route of the guide includes a number of line segments such as assembly line, departure line, broadcast line, turn line, etc., and it is necessary to hold a snowflake-shaped representative team name plate to guide the flag bearers, athletes and team leaders of the delegations to go straight to the direction of the rostrum and enter the venue to show their style. In this process, the guide's travel posture, card-raising posture, turning action, etc. all need to achieve a high degree of uniformity.
To this end, Zhao Luxue and other guides have experienced more than 40 training and rehearsals, from the first day of physical training to the subsequent pulling physical fitness and the practice of standing and smiling repeated every day, each day is particularly long and hard.
"The most impressive and tired one was that we wore high heels in the training hall, kept the posture of holding the sign, and held it for more than 40 minutes, the arm was particularly sore, many girls were tired and crying, but we all gritted our teeth and persevered." Recalling the original training process, Zhao Luxue still has fresh memories, and her body is very tired at the end of each training, but at the moment when she lies on the bed and closes her eyes, she will feel extremely relieved when she thinks back on the day's efforts. Through the efforts of night and day, Zhao Luxue relied on strong willpower to support herself to complete the training.
Through layers of selection, Zhao Luxue finally stood out from more than 400 people and became one of the 91 Winter Olympic guides.
"Every moment on the scene was shocking and touching." Talking about the feeling of participating in the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, Zhao Luxue said: "I feel honored to participate in such a grand event and become a member of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games. I deeply felt that I was born in a prosperous world, and it was just in time to use my youth to carry on the heavy responsibility of the country. ”
Torch Relay She is responsible for the 111th baton
At 9:00 a.m. on February 2, the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay opened in the Beijing Olympic Forest Park, which symbolizes the "central axis charm".
The theme of this torch relay is: "Greeting the Covenant of Ice and Snow and Running towards a Better Future". About 1,200 torchbearers from all walks of life worked together to complete the relay in Beijing, Yanqing and Zhangjiakou.
In the torch bearer is a native of Jincheng, whose name is Yuan Hongbo.
After graduating from university in 2000, Former Hongbo worked in the Jincheng Branch of the Bank of Communications, and has been engaged in basic financial services such as savings, public service, marketing, and financial management in the front line for a long time. For her outstanding performance, she has won the honorary titles of "National May Day Labor Medal", "China's Excellent Financial Planner", "The Most Beautiful Communicator", "Jincheng City Federation of Trade Unions May Day Labor Medal", "Jincheng City Financial Service Star" and so on.
On January 30, after layers of selection, Yuan Hongbo received a notice and officially became a torchbearer for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"I participated in the torch relay with the expectations of the people of Jincheng and the expectations of our whole bank, and I feel great honor and pride to be the torchbearer of the Winter Olympics!" Recalling the scene at that time, Yuan Hongbo was still very excited: "I participated in the torch relay in Beijing Olympic Forest Park on February 2, running the 111th stick. My heart was ignited the moment I took the torch from the last torchbearer and lit it with a 'bang'. The 1 minute of the relay is a very precious 1 minute for me and is worth remembering for a lifetime. ”
Shanxi Evening News reporter Li Jiyi correspondent Yuan Quan Cheng Cai Pei Yuanyuan
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