Interview with the builder of "Snow Ruyi" in Zhangjiakou Division
Interview at Yanqing National Alpine Ski Center
Interview with ice ribbons under construction
Sun Jingyan, a female writer who knows the year of destiny, is like a young man in her twenties and thirties, full of enthusiasm and passion, since the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, she has cheered for the Chinese Winter Olympic team in the WeChat circle of friends every day. Speaking of which, Teacher Sun is not an ordinary Winter Olympic audience, she is a "witness" and "witness" of the Beijing Winter Olympics. Sun Jingyan's long-form reportage "China Winter Olympics" was recently published. In this book, Mr. Sun spent five years interviewing more than 200 people related to the Winter Olympics at home and abroad, telling the moving story of China's preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, the Winter Paralympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games.
In 2006, at the invitation of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee and commissioned by the China Writers Association, Sun Jingyan followed up and interviewed the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games throughout the process, and created and published the long-form reportage "China under the Five Rings". Today, Sun Jingyan, with the support of the China Writers Association and the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee, wrote "China Winter Olympics" and became a "double Olympic writer", she said: "The national fortune is my luck, as a Chinese, as a Chinese writer, I feel lucky and proud from the bottom of my heart." ”
The charm of the Winter Olympics lies in the combination of technology
Gao Tingyu's victory is an example of this
Since the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Sun Jingyan said that she watched the game every day and was very excited, because some athletes were the protagonists of the reportage "Chinese Winter Olympics", "for example, seeing Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin, qu Chunyu winning the championship in the short track speed skating mixed relay, of which Fan Kexin was from the Qitaihe short track speed skating team I wrote about, she said ' every day I am desperate, and there is blood in my throat after slipping' is particularly true." ”
Sun Jingyan, who interviewed the Qitaihe Short Track Speed Skating Team, said with deep feeling: "When the Chinese people cheer for Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin and Qu Chunyu to win the championship, please do not forget Qitaihe and meritorious coach Meng Qingyu. The coal city has produced four Winter Olympic champions Yang Yang, Wang Meng, Sun Linlin and Fan Kexin; four Special Olympics champions Tang Chunlei, Nie Shuangyue, Gao Meng, and Yu Yingxin; and many world champions such as Liu Qiuhong, Li Hongshuang, Zhang Jie, Meng Xiaoxue, Wang Wei, and Yu Wei. They all came from the Qitai River, let us pay tribute to the ice and snow athletes who won glory for the country and the meritorious coach Meng Qingyu! ”
In Teacher Sun's view, the charm of the Winter Olympics lies in the close integration with science and technology, "the Winter Olympics fashion, equipment technology content is very high, and the development of industry, the progress of science and technology is closely related, such as the speed skating men's 500 meters champion Gao Tingyu in the current Winter Olympics, the original cornering strength is poor, scientific research equipment to determine how big his ice speed and strength is, Heilongjiang province researchers Yan Li discussed and summarized the choice of Gao Tingyu into the cornering point, pace control, and the decisiveness and strength of the right leg in and out of the bending point need to be strengthened. The rationality of the curve sliding technology and the economy of the taxi route need to be improved, and the high-tech data analysis of his movements is used to find out the crux of the problem and train the coach in a targeted manner. Therefore, Gao Tingyu won the championship in the men's 500m final of speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is the technology to help the Winter Olympics. I once saw Gao Tingyu wrestle in a national competition, and found that he played well this time, which was really six years of sharpening a sword. ”
Another important reason for the charm of the Winter Olympics is its integration into nature, and spectators can enjoy the infinite scenery of nature while watching the game. Teacher Sun said that every time she went to the snow field to interview, she got up at four or five o'clock in the morning, "No matter how tired I am, I feel refreshed and happy, watching the sun at four o'clock in the morning at Yabuli Ski Resort, flying with open arms on the departure platform of Yanqing Alpine Ski Center, and singing 'I love you, the snow in Saibei' at Zhangjiakou Chongli Ski Resort, the unity of heaven and man, my emotions and soul are completely integrated with nature." ”
Stay with the team members in a hotel, a gym to work out
Get up at three o'clock in the morning with the ski crew
Although she once wrote the long reportage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games "China under the Five Rings", and this time she wrote "China Winter Olympics", Teacher Sun did not feel relaxed, because the Summer Olympic Games and the Winter Olympic Games were different in addition to the same Olympic concept and organization, and, for her personally, in addition to figure skating and short track speed skating, other projects in the Winter Olympics had hardly paid attention to them before.
However, what makes Teacher Sun happy is that the regret of writing "China under the Five Rings" can be compensated in the "China Winter Olympics", "My regret in writing "China under the Five Rings" is all-encompassing, this time "China Winter Olympics" gave up the torch relay, meteorological forecast, security and other contents, and concentrated on writing about the current situation of ice and snow sports in the world's ice and snow sports powers, the construction of China's winter Olympic venues and the preparation of athletes, the development of ice and snow economy in Heilongjiang and Zhangjiakou for teenagers. ”
Teacher Sun said that she began a large number of interviews and investigations after determining the writing direction of "China Winter Olympics", "for example, at the beginning, it was determined that sports could not be written on the facts, and it was necessary to write about the promotion of the Beijing Winter Olympics to the integration of Beijing and Tianjin, the promotion of poverty alleviation in Zhangjiakou Chongli area, and the revitalization of the ice and snow economy in Heilongjiang and Jilin." To have an international perspective, we must introduce in detail the ice and snow sports projects of the ice and snow sports power, China's Winter Olympics is using sports to embrace the world, using culture to dialogue with the world, building a community with a shared future for mankind, and it is of great significance for 300 million people to go to ice and snow. ”
In order to write about the Beijing Winter Olympics, Mr. Sun went to the Sports Department of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee for an interview, "They have 12 competition directors, and I selected the competition directors of seven sports: alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, short track speed skating, speed skating, figure skating, ice hockey, and curling. Knowledge like alpine skiing, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, curling, I have to make up for it. ”
In order to understand ice hockey, Mr. Sun went to Canada to watch the high-level ice hockey matches of the U.S. and Canadian national ice hockey teams; to the UBC University Ice Hockey Hall in Vancouver to watch canadian ice hockey players training; to Qiqihar and Harbin to interview ice hockey players and coaches, to live in a hotel with randy women's ice hockey team members in Qiqihar, eat in a restaurant, and exercise in a gym. Liu Wanfu and other ice hockey players did it all in one go. ”
In order to understand alpine skiing, Teacher Sun went to several snow parks in Canada to observe skiing enthusiasts, to the scene of the National Alpine Skiing Championship in Yabuli Snow Field, Heilongjiang, "with the snow field staff to get up at more than three o'clock in the morning, casually eat breakfast, go up the mountain at four o'clock, observe them clear the ski tracks, install flag doors, install protective nets, check the timing system, watch the alpine skiing super big slalom up close, capture photos; I interviewed Zheng Zhenguo, director of the Alpine Skiing Competition of the Sports Department of the Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, face-to-face interview three times. In order to understand cross-country skiing, I went to Heilongjiang Yabuli Snow Park and Jilin Beishan Ski Resort, interviewed many cross-country ski instructors and athletes, put on snowshoes and stepped on skis to learn cross-country skiing with coaches, and wrote about cross-country skiers coming to catch; in order to understand curling, I went to the United Kingdom to visit Scotland, the birthplace of curling, to the Vancouver Winter Olympic curling stadium to practice curling with Canadian citizens, and interviewed Wang Bingyu, the former captain of the Chinese women's curling team, face to face with Wang Bingyu, the former captain of the Chinese women's curling team He has visited the Ice Cube many times to observe the curling field, to the Shougang Curling Hall to observe the World Curling Invitational, and to interview the Canadian ice skater Jimmy, so it is easy to write curling. ”
Ye Qiaobo did not ask for a watch of 5800 yuan after winning the first gold of the National Games
Just six sticky bean buns
Teacher Sun Jingyan spent five years interviewing more than 200 people related to the Winter Olympics at home and abroad, and wrote "China Winter Olympics", of which a large number of details were disclosed for the first time.
Teacher Sun said that in the "Chinese Winter Olympics", she carefully sorted out the inheritance of China's ice and snow sports. For example, Luo Zhihuan, the men's 1500m champion of the Chinese Speed Skating World Championships, is the first gold medalist in China's ice and snow sports, Ye Qiaobo is the first person to medal at the Chinese Winter Olympics, Yang Yang is the first person to win gold medals at the Chinese Winter Olympics, wang Meng is the first person to win four gold medals in two Winter Olympics and the first person to defend China's gold medal... Wang Jinyu, Luo Zhihuan, Wang Xiuli, Ye Qiaobo, Li Yan, Wang Manli, Yang Yang, Han Xiaopeng, Wang Meng, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo, Zhou Yang, Sun Linlin, Zhang Hui, Li Jianrou, Zhang Hong, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei, Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Gao Tingyu, Ning Zhongyan, Gu Ailing, Su Yiming, Yan Wengang, Cai Xuetong, Liu Jiayu, Xu Mengtao, Ying Rudi... It is the tenacious struggle of generations of ice and snow athletes that has created the glory of China's ice and snow sports.
Why has Qitaihe City become the home of short track speed skating winter Olympic champions and world champions? What spirit did meritorious coach Meng Qingyu create? In "China Winter Olympics", Teacher Sun has carried out in-depth excavation, and the story of Ye Qiaobo's "breakthrough of zero" is also a chapter in "China Winter Olympics".
Teacher Sun said that in February 1980, the 13th Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid in the United States, and the Chinese sports delegation participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, sending a total of 28 male and female athletes to participate in the five major events of biathlon, alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating and speed skating. At that time, the US media reported throughout: "China - two firsts: the first time to participate in the Winter Olympics, the first to last result." This report deeply stimulated Ye Qiaobo, "Since then, Qiao Bo's heart has lit a flame: I want to participate in the Winter Olympics, I want to march towards the Winter Olympics!" ”
"Zero breakthrough", from hope to pursuit, from pursuit to struggle, from release to enjoyment, this is the process of enjoying sports, but also the challenge of breaking through self.
On the eve of the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, Ye Qiaobo's knee joint had a lot of broken bones, and President Relem gave Qiao Bo two surgical plans: the first plan was to remove broken bones, repair the knee joint in a large area, and connect two ligaments, but the rehabilitation period was at least one year; the second plan only removed the broken bones, without any repair, Ye Qiaobo resolutely chose the latter. She endured the pain and walked to the field, and when the speed skating women's 1000 meters race was 30 meters away from the finish line, her knee joint was once again strangulated, and she gritted her teeth and dragged an injured leg to win the bronze medal. Teacher Sun said: "In that year, Chinese athletes won a world championship prize of 7,000 yuan, and the prize money of two world championships was immediately halved. At that time, the athletes went to the Winter Olympics and the World Championships, and there were no spare skates, and the equipment was very backward. In 1986, Ye Qiaobo won the women's speed skating championship at the National Games, and after winning the first gold for the Bayi team, the troops wanted to reward her with a watch worth 5800 yuan, but she resolutely refused, and finally only six sticky bean bags were needed. These details in the China Winter Olympics are disclosed for the first time. ”
There are so many unforgettable stories
Three days and three nights can't finish
Speaking of the touching stories of interviews with the "Chinese Winter Olympics" over the years, Teacher Sun said: "There are too many touching deeds, and I can't finish them in three days and three nights. ”
The stories of these people are deeply imprinted in Teacher Sun's mind: "Han Xiaoyan, the safety director of Beijing Enterprises Jingao Company, whose father had a lung infection and lived in the ICU ward of Chengdu West China Hospital, rushed to Chengdu, his father was wearing a ventilator and could not talk to his son, he held his father's hand tightly, and tears flowed down. The ICU ward was only allowed to visit for half an hour, and he held his father's hand and refused to let go. The nurse urged him to leave, and he walked out of the ward with a sour nose, which was really a life and death farewell! He was worried about the Winter Olympics project, and rushed back to Beijing without stopping, but he did not expect that just two days after his return, his father died, and he did not even see his father before he died. ”
Teacher Sun was also touched by a mind on the construction of the Yanqing Alpine Ski Track, no time to take care of the family, the child pointed to the video on the TV and called out to his father Liu Wenhao, the head of the National Alpine Ski Center Project; Cai Zhizhou, an environmental protection expert of the Ministry of Transport who suffered from cancer and had been running for a long time in the Yanqing Race Area, and worked hard for ecological and environmental protection; Zheng Fang, the general manager of the design of the National Speed Skating Hall (ice ribbon) and the National Aquatics Center Curling Arena (Ice Cube) who left outstanding design works in both Olympic Games Meng Qingyu, a coach who has trained many winter Olympic champions, world champions, and led his team members to the training ground and died in the line of duty; Ye Qiaobo, the first medalist of the Winter Olympics who "carried an ice knife and rode in a wheelchair to triumph"; Yang Yang, a short-track speed skater who fought hard for the country and won the first gold medal in the Winter Olympics; Wang Meng, a "whirlwind" who tenaciously trained and defended the gold medal of the Winter Olympics; Wang Manli, the "golden ice knife" who dared to fight and dare to win the runner-up of the women's speed skating Winter Olympics; and love sprouted on the ice rink Liu Qiuhong and Han Tianyu, who flew together and won both world championships, were violently hit by their opponents during the game, cracked their cheekbones in five places, nailed four steel nails and never gave up, and studied ice hockey in the United States for nine years and resolutely returned to China to serve the motherland; Wu Dajing, a short-track speed skating star who fought tenaciously to win glory for the country; Gao Tingyu and Ning Zhongyan, who were famous for speed skating who tried to taste courage; Gu Ailing, a talented girl who performed aerial ballet in the sunshine; and Zhou Yudi, a hockey coach in Qiqihar who worked hard to cultivate ice hockey players Wang Xiaoying, vice principal of Harbin Ice and Snow Sports School, who has worked hard to train ice and snow athletes to learn cultural knowledge...
In addition to them, Teacher Sun was also touched by ordinary workers, "I stood in front of Chongli 'Snow Ruyi' to interview the builders of the Chinese railway construction, the goose feathers like wild snow fluttered in front of them, the builders' hands were frozen like carrots, and the eyebrows and eyelashes were frosted." Workers get up at 5 o'clock in the morning, arrive at work at 7 o'clock, and work for a day. In the Yanqing area, workers work overtime to build the track, and some sleep in shacks on the mountain, which is very difficult. ”
Sun Jingyan wrote "China Winter Olympics" with a thick 530,000 words, "I decided to choose according to the outline I designed, because I worked hard to interview, the material was very rich, and it was like a flowing cloud and flowing water. But it is conceivable that there will be a large number of interview materials that have been discarded, asked which ones have been discarded, Teacher Sun said, "A big slash of love, for example, I specially used a chapter to write about Yugoslavia's insistence on hosting the Winter Olympics in the case of insufficient financial resources, visited several countries in the Balkan Peninsula, accumulated a lot of materials, I think there is a new idea about the first socialist country to hold the Winter Olympics, about war and peace; I visited several snow fields in the ice and snow sports powerhouses, and also went to the community fitness venues in the United Kingdom and Canada. The exchange with foreign ice and snow sports enthusiasts is very outstanding. The book was written in one go for more than 600,000 words, and in order to reduce the length, it could only delete the Contents of the Canadian Grouse Mountain Snow Field, the Winter Olympic Village in Vancouver, and the Gymnasium of cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Some teenagers on the ice and snow, as well as builders, volunteers content, laborious interviews and careful writing, can only be deleted. ”
The Winter Olympics are not just sporting events
It is also a cultural event
"China Winter Olympics" is Sun Jingyan's 17th full-length reportage, Teacher Sun said: "I have never written an advertising literature in order to make money, specifically looking for major themes related to the fate of the country to create, "China Winter Olympics" is not the largest number of words in my book, writing "China's Arteries" 720,000 words of the West-to-East Gas Transmission Project, 630,000 words of "Mountain Ridge - China's Poverty Alleviation Action" written in a panoramic way, 590,000 words of "West Lookout Poplar" written by Beijing to aid Xinjiang, I have written about the West-to-East Gas Transmission, China's Poverty Alleviation, Financial Black Hole, Prison investigation, detention center investigation, border customs, Beijing Olympics, Wenchuan earthquake resistance, Shanghai World Expo, aid to Xinjiang, Beiping War of Resistance, Chinese academicians, costume culture, China's new rural construction, etc., writing "China Winter Olympics" is not difficult, the interview time is far greater than the writing time, the real writing time is only a few months, writing Ying Rudi a day 10,000 words to complete the draft. ”
Teacher Sun believes that "the sports event is a good opportunity for foreigners to understand China, behind the Winter Olympics, there is national strength, there is the economy, there is the development of the ice and snow industry, there is integration with the world, there is competition, there is more cooperation." When I wrote "China Winter Olympics", I wanted to have a world perspective, rather than writing about sports. The Winter Olympics is not only a grand event of sports, but also a grand event of culture, and we must use Chinese culture to influence the world. ”
What satisfied her about "China Winter Olympics" was that she wrote cultural thinking, "as Shi Zhanjun, secretary of the Secretariat of the China Writers Association, said: 'This book is about the Chinese spirit, but what we have gained is the world vision; this book tells the Story of China, but Teacher Sun Jingyan expresses it in a way of the world.'" This is the spirit of the Olympic Games, and it is also the Chinese spirit, from which we see that China's excellent culture is merging with the spirit of the contemporary world. ’”
Teacher Sun said, "The reason why I have made so much effort to write the Winter Olympics is to use literature to dialogue with the world, let the world understand China, and let China go to the world." The more isolated we are, the more we learn to talk to the world. Sports is neutral, most people love sports, when the eyes of the world are focused on China, we use sports and literature to dialogue with the world, tell chinese stories well, will receive good results, this is sports diplomacy. The Olympic Games are not only a sports competition, but also a big stage for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. As of now, the global viewership share of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games has reached a new high in the previous Winter Olympic Games, during the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, billions of pairs of eyes around the world are focusing on Beijing, the eyes of guests and athletes from all over the world are shining, we have won friends is the biggest victory of the Beijing Winter Olympics, and it is also the happiest thing for me as a double Olympic writer. Two 950,000-word Olympic long-form reportages are my gifts to the world. ”
Article/Reporter Zhang Jia
Photo courtesy of Sun Jingyan