The Paper's reporter Song Chengliang
Late at night on February 13, Beijing time, the Beijing Winter Olympics speed skating women's 500 meters competition was held - the United States' Jackson skated 37.04 seconds to win the championship, and the Chinese women's jin Jingzhu and Tian Ruining won the 12th and 14th places respectively.
This is the second time that 25-year-old Tian Ruining has participated in the Winter Olympics, and the ice and snow story of this Xinjiang girl is worth seeing for all of us.
Tian Ruining in the game.
I haven't missed a single training session
Tian Ruining grew up in Karamay, Xinjiang, to parents who were oil workers. Like many parents who engage in sports in order to let their children exercise, Tian Ruining's parents have taken her for a run since she was a child.
In 2005, when Tian Ruining was 8 years old, Karamay City was popular for roller skating, and her aunt knew that she loved sports, so she gave her a pair of beautiful roller skates. Unexpectedly, this little gift changed her life.
"She can put it on and go, and in a few days she will be able to slide and play at home." Tian Ruining's father, Tian Feng, recalled. Mother Li Liping also remembers the past events of more than ten years ago, "That was the most meaningful gift she received, she didn't want to take it off when she returned home, and she had to hold roller skates when she slept at night." ”
For the results, Tian Ruining still has some regrets.
Li Liping signed up for a roller skating class for her daughter, and roller skating and speed skating techniques are the same. In January 2006, Tian Ruining first touched skating, put on an ice knife and flew up - "At that moment, I felt like a bird, able to fly freely, it felt great." ”
Tian Ruining said that every child has a dream of flying, and Tian Ruining, who has only practiced for more than ten days, won the championship in the under-10 group in the speed skating competition held in the city and was selected for the Karamay City Speed Skating Team.
Before the Winter Olympics, a reporter from Xinjiang Daily came to Tian Ruining's home to "visit home", and Li Liping showed dozens of medals that Tian Ruining had won from childhood to adulthood, "Practicing speed skating was too hard, many teammates who had better results than her at that time did not survive, and she persisted until now." ”
For suffering, Tian Ruining is not humble, "I have never missed a training. ”
If you don't learn well, you will interrupt your training
Before entering the Xinjiang speed skating team, Tian Ruining was an excellent student in all aspects. In the class, her academic performance remained in the top 5; in school, she was a role model for all-round development of morality, intellect and body.
When the Xinjiang speed skating team issued an invitation to Tian Ruining, the parents were resolutely opposed - "Our family has not practiced sports, and we have not heard of anyone around who can enter the national team, and we are worried that practicing sports will delay our children's entrance to college." ”
According to the Xinjiang Daily, although her mother was very supportive of Tian Ruining's practice of skating, she also agreed with her about three chapters: memorizing texts and doing homework every day before she could go to training. Tian Ruining, who is still in elementary school, completes her homework early every day, and then rides her bicycle from the school to the sports school a few kilometers away for training.
In 2010, at the 12th Games of the Autonomous Region, Tian Ruining won the championship in all the events of the women's group C. Tong Lixin, who is now the director of the Sports Department of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee and the deputy director of the Sports Bureau of the Autonomous Region at the time, is very optimistic about Tian Ruining: "She is an excellent athlete, and she has the kind of tenacity and tenacity that never accepts defeat. ”
Tian Ruining. Infographic
Tong Lixin called Tian Ruining's parents twice to do ideological work, but he could not change their minds, so he asked Meng Meng, a professor at the Harbin Institute of Physical Education, who went to Karamay to participate in the activity, and the relevant responsible persons of the Winter Management Center of the State General Administration and the Sports Bureau of the Autonomous Region, to talk with Tian Ruining's parents.
In 2010, Tian Ruining, who entered the Xinjiang speed skating team, also became a member of the Xinjiang Sports Vocational and Technical College. Although training in Urumqi is her main business, she still has not given up on books - English is a must learn, and she will listen carefully to the basic cultural classes.
In the sports profession, Tian Ruining also has her favorite books - "Sports Anatomy" and "Sports Psychology", which are compulsory courses in Xinjiang Sports Vocational and Technical College, and the knowledge in the book also helps Tian Ruining's training and competition.
Let more people fall in love with ice and snow sports
Every step of Tian Ruining's growth has caught up with a good time, and she has also seized the opportunity with hard work and hard work.
In 2005, when she liked roller skating, Karamay was fully popularizing speed skating and roller skating; in 2010, when she was selected for the Xinjiang team, South Korean national team coach Lee Jae-ede hired as the head coach of the team; in 2011, when her performance improved, Xinjiang successfully bid for the National Winter Games; after she entered the national team in 2016, the preparations and preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics were in full swing.
This is Tian Ruining's second time at the Winter Olympics – four years ago in Pyeongchang, she finished 20th in the 500m and 21st in the 1000m. In the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle, Tian Ruining's performance has been greatly improved, and in Calgary, Canada, the last world cup match before the Winter Olympics, Tian Ruining slid out of 37.163 seconds to finish sixth.
Further ahead, Poland finished fifth in 38.097 seconds and Salt Lake City in the United States finished seventh in 37.035 seconds, with a stable result.
In addition to competitions, in Tian Ruining's view, the Beijing Winter Olympics is a once-in-a-lifetime historical opportunity for ice and snow athletes, which not only condenses everyone's dream of a sports power.
"As an athlete, I feel that I must not only work tenaciously in competitive competitions to win glory for the country, but also show China's cultural soft power on various occasions, carry forward the fine traditions of the Chinese nation, and let the world understand China more comprehensively and deeply."
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