"There are almost only two things in my life: one is surgery, and the other is skiing." At the National Alpine Ski Center at the top of haituo, there is a group of "ski masters" wearing eye-catching orange vests, who gallop on the Winter Olympic track, but do not participate in any competition, just to save lives.
Li Rui, a neurosurgeon at Beijing China-Japan Friendship Hospital, is a member of the alpine skiing medical team at the Beijing Winter Olympics, and together with more than 40 other "ski doctors", he carried out "life racing" treatment on the Winter Olympic Field.
In 2018, Beijing recruited ski doctors to create an alpine skiing medical rescue team for the Winter Olympics. Li Rui, who had nearly 11 years of snow age at the time, signed up for the first time after learning the news, and with excellent medical technology and rich skiing experience, he successfully passed the selection and became a "ski doctor" in the alpine skiing medical team.
"In order to quickly reach the accident site on the ice-like snow track with huge drops and complex terrain, excellent skiing skills are the foundation. We put a lot of effort into this. Li Rui said that from rescue knowledge to skiing skills, from foreign language skills to emergency drills... For the next three years, Li Rui and his teammates participated in a full range of pre-game training.
Outdoor training was conducted in the extremely cold winter, the temperature at the top of the mountain was as low as minus 30 to 40 degrees Celsius, the gusts of wind could reach level 8, and Li Rui's face was severely frostbitten and his shoulder was also broken. "About one in five teammates was a 'injured'." Li Rui said lightly, but everyone did not give up, and immediately returned to training after recovery.
After day after day of hard training, Li Rui embarked on the real Winter Olympics. In the alpine skiing project of the Winter Olympic Games, there is a 2.5-kilometer-long track with complex terrain, a drop of more than 800 meters, and the difficulty of track design is ranked fifth in the world. Among them, one of the most sloped col is called the "Haituo Bowl". "The curves are very big, like an elbow, and athletes have to turn a 90-degree bend here." Li Rui said that this is undoubtedly a key medical point, and he is stationed here.
In a men's downhill race, an athlete fell by mistake at high speed, rushed off the track, and slid tens of meters on the slopes. The alpine skiing medical team immediately launched rescue: carrying more than 20 pounds of first aid kits arrived at the scene in a short period of time, checked the injury, bandaged and fixed, transported the injured... In less than half an hour, the injured athletes were transferred to designated hospitals for treatment.
For Li Rui, this kind of "race for life" in a race against the clock, he has experienced countless times. It turned out that at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Li Rui was stationed at the side of the track as a medical personnel and participated in the on-site rescue.
Fourteen years later, 50-year-old Li Rui changed his surgical gown into a ski suit and appeared on the front line of the winter Olympics rescue again. "Standing on the main olympic battlefield twice to do medical support is the highlight of my life. It is very meaningful to be able to contribute to the country with professional skills and hobbies. Li Rui said.