Beijing Winter Olympics Snowboarding Women's U-Shaped Pitch Skills Final. China's Liu Jiayu, after failing to challenge difficult moves in the first two rounds, fixed his performance in the eighth place with the third round of play.
Liu Jiayu, who was looking at the big screen, had a calm face. At the moment of the score, she shows her trademark smile to the world, just like when she won the silver medal in PyeongChang four years ago.
Good girlfriend Xu Mengtao commented that Liu Jiayu will always be the first person to create history - the silver medal of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games proves that in the western-dominated projects, Chinese snowboarding can also compete for a place.
(Beijing Olympics did not finish on the podium) "Not sad is fake, but I love skiing, and I will be with snowboarding until I grow old." Liu Jiayu wants to tell the world with a smile, "I want to repay all the people who like to watch my game, and I want to tell them that no matter what position you are in, as long as you insist and believe in yourself, you will definitely succeed and enjoy the process of sports." ”
By "changing" from martial arts to practicing veneerboarding, almost all movements are thrown out
With the relationship with veneer and finally embarking on a career path, Liu Jiayu first wants to thank his enlightened family.
Liu Jiayu was born in 1993 in Hegang, Heilongjiang Province, and no one in his family was engaged in sports. At first, her family encouraged young Liu Jiayu to participate in various extracurricular activities with the purpose of keeping her healthy. Through learning martial arts and Peking Opera, Liu Jiayu laid a deep foundation in sports.
In 2003, coinciding with the country's vigorous development of snowboarding, various local martial arts teams sent a lot of talents to the fledgling snowboard teams, including Liu Jiayu. Two years later, the snowboard national team was established, and Liu Jiayu became one of the first national team members and won his first national championship at the age of 13.
"I don't have any sports talent." Liu Jiayu recalled when he first came to the national team to participate in the physical fitness test, "Running 200 meters can shake off me 100 meters, I went to compare with them, looking short and fat." ”
The restriction of physical fitness is still secondary, and the training conditions of the newly established snowboard national team at that time are very difficult, and supporting facilities, professional and technical personnel are not in place. For the world's most difficult technical actions, Liu Jiayu and the coach often have to grope together, check the information on the Internet, watch videos, and practice again, and so on.
"Although I was a big person, I still remembered it very deeply at that time. No one could show me, I just kept falling, the back blade fell through the front blade, and fell from top to bottom in the U-shaped groove. "Years later, Liu Jiayu has become the world's veneer U-shaped venue star, but many people do not understand that behind those dashing and cool actions, there are many falls and injuries piled up.
"A few times my parents came to see the training, but I couldn't watch it and thought it was too hard." Liu Jiayu recalled, "Knees and shoulders, in the summer, the skin is broken and still risking oil. The little girl has a scar on her leg, a scar on her body, and a scar on her face. ”
His parents looked distressed, and they didn't want to practice, and Liu Jiayu had wanted to give up countless times. However, the coach took a fancy to Liu Jiayu's unique persistence and spirit of not giving up, and firmly believed that she would definitely have development in the future.
It was the coach's discernment and Liu Jiayu's own persistence that made leaps and bounds – Liu Jiayu became the first world champion and the first Winter Olympic medalist in China's snowboarding project. It can be said that Liu Jiayu's growth history is almost equivalent to the advanced history of Chinese snowboarding.
Sick and almost gave up, unloading his baggage and accidentally realizing the true meaning of snowboarding
At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Liu Jiayu was surprised by four skills and won the silver medal in women's U-shaped track skills in snowboarding. After the game, countless microphones and lenses reached out to Liu Jiayu, and she walked for more than half an hour in the tens of meters long mixed interview area - the world was amazed, and Chinese figure appeared in the top skaters of snowboarding.
In fact, as early as the Vancouver Winter Olympics eight years ago, Liu Jiayu already had the strength to impact medals, and was even once regarded as one of the popular candidates to win the championship. In the previous season, she had won the world championship three times and won the world cup of the season with a crushing overall score advantage.
However, a dislocation of the shoulder caused by a training injury directly affected Liu Jiayu's state at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and also led to the fluctuation of his competitive level in the following years.
"At that time, the shoulder dislocation was particularly serious, and as soon as it bowed its head and turned over, it could be dislocated on its own." Sometimes as soon as you walk, or even cough, it may fall. Plagued by injuries, Liu Jiayu defeated Sochi and only finished ninth in U-shaped field skills.
Subsequently, Liu Jiayu survived three shoulder surgeries and returned to the U-shaped field, but the technology became unfamiliar and the results could not be improved. She once felt desperate, almost gave up, in a foreign country decided to stop training Liu Jiayu wanted to return to China to retire, so she unloaded all the baggage and carried the snowboard uphill to play, and this play, just to realize the spirit of snowboarding - happiness.
"I know I want to keep going because I love it." Liu Jiayu even compares skiing to love, "Skiing is like falling in love, which brings a lot of fresh and exciting feelings, and you can also get close to nature and communicate with friends." ”
Liu Jiayu also has a new understanding of the hard-working actions from childhood to adulthood: "Snowboarding does not stipulate what is a standard action. Everyone's style is different, just have fun. ”
Years of illness have made Liu Jiayu slow down the pace of progress. And all of this, perhaps, is the best arrangement. For the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics failed to win gold, Liu Jiayu looked very open: "The U-shaped pool is a gold medal, a trip in 30 seconds, and the world's best female athletes are all on the field, all in order to compete for this gold medal." We should motivate and encourage each other, the result is not particularly important, what is important is whether the process is enjoyed. ”
The Elders of the Four Dynasties of the Winter Olympics: The Winter Olympics will pass on China's goodness
The World Cup tongshan station in the United States at the end of 2021 is Liu Jiayu's comeback battle after a long absence due to the epidemic, and it is also the last international competition before the Beijing Winter Olympics. However, she was in average form and failed to reach the final. In this regard, Liu Jiayu seemed very calm: "Everyone's rhythm is different, just go step by step according to your own rhythm." ”
The Beijing Winter Olympics is the 30-year-old "veteran" of the fourth Winter Olympics. "With the results of the previous edition, but this edition was held in China. The reason for the four years of persistence is that the veteran team members have the obligation to inherit, lead their teammates, explore their own limits, and strive for better results in their own Olympic venues. In Liu Jiayu's eyes, "to participate in the competition without regrets, all the original intention is love." ”
In addition to athletes, Liu Jiayu also has a status at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, a member of the Athletes Committee of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, and she is also a member of the Athletes Committee of the International Snow Federation. Learning English allows Liu Jiayu to communicate with more people about the culture of snowboarding and understand the project better in competitions around the world.
When training abroad, Liu Jiayu often encounters foreign players who are curious about the venue of the Beijing Winter Olympic Games. As the host, Liu Jiayu patiently explained to everyone the perfect facilities of the venue, how to solve the wind problem on the wind shield, and also showed everyone photos and videos, "China's good needs to be experienced by yourself", Liu Jiayu said proudly.
She is the pioneer of the blue wisp of the road, the predecessor who poured her heart into the teaching and the messenger of the chinese image on the international sports stage, and Liu Jiayu, who fought for 30 seconds to 30 years old, has obviously exceeded any medal for Chinese snowboarding.
Written by Li Peixin
Editor/Li Xu Liang Lina
Visual/Wang Ye