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Many people think that our country only participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1984, but it is not. Our country first sent a national team to the Olympic Games in 1980, and it was the Winter Olympics that took place in Lake Placid, a small village in Essex County, New York. How small is it? In the 2000 census, there were 2638 people in Lake Placid Village, and this volume was felt by everyone.
United States Plesid Winter Olympics
As of the press release date (February 17), China has won 7 gold, 4 silver and 2 bronze, temporarily ranking fourth in the medal table. It is already the best result achieved in the mainland's previous Winter Olympics. Although the impact of the Winter Olympics cannot be compared with the Summer Olympics, it is also a sports event that is held every four years, and it still has great phenomenon significance in the world.
Regarding education and sports, the normal process is like this: sports is part of education, and students choose their favorite sports while studying. From primary school to middle school to university, while studying, constantly improve their competitive level in the field of sports, and after graduating from college, there will be professional sports teams to choose from the school to see which students are more talented. Students with better talent will go to play professional leagues, and it doesn't matter if the remaining ordinary students can't play careers, because everyone has successfully completed their education.
One advantage of this is that these educated children not only get a diploma, but also their level of knowledge and recognition of the world are complete and conducive to long-term development, which is the unity of sports and education.
Before the founding of New China, China's competitive sports and youth training were basically in a state of "integration of sports and education", and most of the athletes who participated in the Olympic Games and the Far East Games in the early days came from schools. But at that time, everyone knew what the situation of our country was, and the level of competition in the whole country was low, so naturally there would be no good results.
After the founding of New China, after more than a hundred years of war, the country was poor and weak, its economy was backward, and it was in ruins to be rebuilt. At this time, competitive sports assumed the historical responsibility of promoting the diplomacy of new China, and the achievements were directly linked to national honors. Since we want to make achievements, we need to concentrate on doing great things.
How to concentrate it? In 1952, the state concentrated all the resources and talents at that time to establish a new system: the State General Administration of Sports, which was specifically responsible for sports. The General Administration of Sport selected young, talented athletes from the country's population of hundreds of millions, and then gathered everyone together to train and produce sports results wholeheartedly, and at this point, sports were stripped out of education and became a separate field. This is what we often call "separation of body and education."
After the separation of sports and education, because of the direction of specialization, the rapid development of competitive sports in our country has made great contributions to the opening up of the diplomatic situation in New China.
In the 1970s, the Soviet Union and the United States were in the Cold War period, and it happened that our relationship with the Soviet Union was also a little tense, so we contacted the United States, and this opportunity was the famous "ping-pong diplomacy, small balls pushing big balls." In 1979, China and the United States finally established diplomatic relations, and the next year we were invited by the capitalist big brother to participate in the 1980 Winter Olympics held by the big brother.
Why there are very few reports in China, first of all, there are very few people sent by our country, only 28 male and female athletes, and the first time to participate, the emphasis is on participation, intended to communicate, the results are miserable a little bit, not a medal has been won. Therefore, the big guys at that time let it be handled low-key, and they could not report without reporting.
But in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, when the United States and the Soviet Union were still in an awkward situation, so the Soviet Union did not participate at all, so some medals that originally belonged to the Soviet Union's strengths were taken by our country's athletes. China has achieved 15 gold, 8 silver, 9 bronze, ranked 4th in the medal table, although there is more or less a little moisture, but the results are still solid, naturally it is to be a good publicity wave, the media rushed to report, so the 1984 Olympic Games in China's influence is very large, has become a brand in the hearts of Chinese.
Then in Seoul in 1988, something went wrong.
First of all, the venue is in South Korea, this country, everyone usually pays attention to foreign news on the Internet, you know what a virtue it is. I will just say one thing, a few days ago, the short track speed skating athletes Li Junrui and Huang Daxian of the Winter Olympics were sentenced to be unable to qualify for the final because of their obvious foul moves. The South Korean media was dissatisfied with the status quo of the game, but blamed the mistake on the Winter Olympic referees, believing that the referees made a wrong decision that caused the athletes to miss the gold medal. The South Korean delegation also appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport, and a well-known commentator in the sports world said this sentence: "Think about what South Korea has done before, even if you cry out injustice, it will not be their turn." ”
If you are interested, you can check the history, and the influence of the Seoul Olympic Games is the number one in the world.
Secondly, countries such as the Soviet Union, the GDR and Eastern Europe all participated in the Olympic Games, and the competition was much fiercer than in the previous one. The Soviet Union won 55 gold medals, 31 silver medals and 46 bronze medals with a crushing performance, ranking first in the medal table. There are so many medals, others take us naturally can not get, so our country only won 5 gold, 11 silver medals, 12 bronze, ranking 11th in the medal table, compared with the Los Angeles session there is a huge gap.
Maybe in everyone's opinion today, this is nothing, competitive sports, success and defeat, who can always win?
But at that time, it was not possible, the Olympic Games was a major national event, the achievements were linked to national honors, and on this kind of big stage of winning glory for the country, such poor results were achieved, which immediately stimulated the nerves of the people of the whole country. The most famous is Li Ning, who won 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze in Los Angeles in 1984, and nothing in Seoul in 1988 (this reason is more), which was regarded as a shame at the time, and even sent blades after returning to China.
And this influence soon spread to the national level, to be precise, to the General Administration of Sports. Therefore, in order to re-inspire people's hearts, the General Administration set up the "Olympic Glory Plan" to compete for gold and silver in the most economical, simple and direct way in international competitions.
Which projects have more medals, we will cultivate talents in what aspects, such as table tennis, which are more familiar to everyone, there are 4 gold medals in men's singles, women's singles, men's team, women's team, and women's team; there are 3-meter platforms, 10-meter platforms, men's, women's, men's doubles, women's doubles 8 gold medals. As for gymnastics (18 pieces) and weightlifting (15 pieces) with more individual gold medals, it is the focus of training directions. And these projects also have the advantage that there are not so many people, the resources occupied are not so large, and they are very suitable for centralized selection.
Soon the "Olympic Light Plan" was effective, and China achieved quite good results in the subsequent Olympic Games. Our diving, table tennis and weightlifting teams are also known as "Dream Team" in international competitions.
China's previous Olympic games
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China topped the medal table with 51 gold medals (3 deducted later due to doping), and the sense of honor brought to everyone through the Olympic gold medal has also reached its peak.
However, there are always two sides to everything, and behind the gold medal honor, there is a little price. The country's resources are only so much, since they have invested a lot of money in those projects with more gold medals, then those gold medals are few, there are more people, and the resources are also more, and we can't get the medals of the project, naturally we must invest less appropriately, and even choose to give up in a planned way.
That's right, football, basketball.
Before the 1980s, most of the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in our country, and even military districts, had their own football and basketball teams, and even various localities had various competitions. These local teams can send a large number of professional athletes to the national team every year, and these athletes have a fairly high level of competition because of their long-term participation. Therefore, in those years, China's football and basketball national teams came to the international arena, although it was difficult to get a relatively high ranking, but in general, there was still a certain degree of competitiveness, and it also had a top level in Asia.
However, with the implementation of the "Olympic Glory Plan", the tilt of national resources, 80% of the local teams have been disbanded. It is easy to understand how many people a football and basketball team needs, how many places to occupy, how many people must be supported by logistics, and how many medals can be won in the end? How many medals can be won when these resources are used in diving and table tennis.
With the dissolution of the local team, the national football team, the men's basketball national team wants to recruit people, you can only go to the professional league to find, the problem is that there are not so many games, leagues, naturally there is no need for so many professional athletes, China's grassroots sports population began to decrease significantly, because there is less competition, all the athletes themselves the level of competition has also declined, the result has led to the decline in the level of football basketball competition in the whole country.
08 Chinese men's basketball team
Before the Internet, there were always people who complained about the national football team and the men's basketball team, saying that more than a billion Chinese could not find a few who played and played football, that is because our sports population was originally much less than others, and the sports population and the total population were two concepts.
At present, there are about 20,000 players registered with the Chinese Football Association, including professional players and amateur players, including professional players and amateur players, which is far from the number of people who actually participate in football activities, and the real professional players are only about 900 (1.4 billion people). For comparison, Iceland has a total population of about 320,000 and a registered player of 21,000, which means that there is one footballer in every 15 people. This volume ratio is not a level at all.
But at that time, there was no way to do it, the national movement was based on a large number of facilities and construction, and in the case of limited national resources, we could only make that choice, which was also the secret behind the "Olympic Glory Plan".
Later, our country's national strength gradually went up, the economic level began to buy the world's top, the country wanted to re-grasp football and basketball, but it was already a little difficult.
The long-term "separation of sports and education" has affected many people by the awareness that "engaging in sports" is not a serious job, and when I was a child, very few parents were willing to raise their children in sports from an early age. Because of the lack of investment at the grassroots level, in the "football basketball" projects, there is even a gradual emergence of the "green and yellow" fault phenomenon, with high-level athletes have become rare, the competitiveness of the national team in the international arena is also declining, Chinese basketball, football painfully into the decline of decades, until today.
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Our country is now on the road to rejuvenation, and sports is also a general direction. Previously, the state used the "separation of sports and education" to achieve the competition for gold and silver in the Olympic Games, because this is the best way to improve our country's sense of collective honor and belonging. However, with the rapid development of our country's economy and the rise of international influence in recent years, everyone's sense of honor for the country has begun to become diversified, and the awareness of Olympic gold medals has gradually faded.
China Diving "Dream Team"
The most obvious is the Tokyo Olympic Games, before the Departure of Chinese athletes netizens sent their blessings online: safe return is the most important! Later, even if the United States surpassed the total number of gold medals on the last day, the domestic reaction was not too big, just a slight regret to accept the reality. After the Return of Chinese Athletes, they are still loved and sought after by everyone.
So at the end of the day, it depends on national strength and culture. If the "separation of sports and education" is a temporary need, then when we no longer only focus on the "gold medal", but can better enjoy the competitive charm of the sports competition itself, we have the self-confidence of the whole nation, and at that time, education and sports will always return to its original appearance.
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