Guo Dan (center) in the game.
After the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, this time Guo Dan will be on the stage of the Winter Olympics for the second time on her doorstep, and she was born in 1990 as one of the oldest female athletes in the Chinese delegation to the Beijing Winter Olympics.
"When I was in Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, I had some regrets for me, so I left behind a thing, and I felt that there was at least one object that had always inspired me to prepare for the competition for the next four years..."
Guo Dan at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Guo Dan was interviewed, took out a goggles that has been accompanying her, at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, she won the tenth place in the speed skating women's group start event, behind the seemingly ordinary results, who can imagine that Guo Dan participated in ice sports is a halfway monk, before 2015 she was just a roller skater.
On the 19th, in the final speed skating competition of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Guo Dan won the 9th place in the women's group starting event, and another Chinese player, Li Qishi, ranked 7th.
Guo Dan (second from right) in a roller skating competition.
The first "ice amphibian athlete"
As a native of Beijing, Guo Dan has been practicing roller skating with her father in Tiananmen Square since she was 3 years old, and has been associated with roller skating ever since. In 2003, Guo Dan was selected for the Jiangsu Provincial Speed Skating Team, came to Suzhou to participate in roller skating training, and became the first member of the Jiangsu Provincial Roller Skating Team managed by the "Provincial Team and City Management" in Suzhou, and since then he has started his brilliant roller skating career.
In the 2005 Asian Championships, Guo Dan won the first Asian Championship in mainland China, achieving a breakthrough of zero in the history of Chinese speed skating.
In 2008, Guo Dan finished runners-up in the 10,000 meters of road at the World Championships, the first world championship medal in mainland China. At the 2012 World Championships in Italy, Guo Dan won the adult women's track championship, which was the first World Championships venue champion in the 30 years since the development of roller skating in China.
Guo Dan.
At the 2013 World Games, Guo Dan won two more gold and one silver. In the 2014 European Series, Guo Dan broke the world record in the 500 meters, becoming the world's first female athlete to skate 42 seconds in the 500 meters of the track race.
Achieving the three major slams of the World Championships, the World Cup and the World Games in roller skating, with a total of more than 200 gold medals in various competitions, Guo Dan has become the first person in China's roller skating, and she is also the only torchbearer to wear roller skating in the torch relay of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
Guo Dan, who stood at the top, was not satisfied, she came up with the idea of cross-border challenges, "I remember that it was 2014 at home to watch the opening ceremony of the Sochi Winter Olympics, and seeing those athletes felt very handsome and cool, I think it is every athlete's dream and highest glory to stand on the Olympic field..."
Guo Dan did what she said, and at the age of 25 at the time, she resolutely changed from roller skating to speed skating, becoming China's first "ice amphibian athlete".
Guo Dan served as the standard-bearer of the closing ceremony of the Chinese delegation to the Asian Games in Jakarta.
Jakarta Asian Games flag bearer
How hard is it to go from roller skating to speed skating?
In the recent hit ice and snow sports series "Beyond", the protagonist Chen Mian's difficulty in changing from roller skating to short track speed skating was seen by every audience, and in reality, Guo Dan also faced various doubts - but after less than 2 years of training, in 2016, Guo Dan won the national championship of speed skating and was selected for the speed skating national team.
In the 2017-2018 World Cup in the United States, she won another silver medal and hitched a ride on the through train of the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.
Pyeongchang Winter Olympics trapped by physical strength and other factors, Guo Dan failed to achieve the goal of impacting the top three, after the game Guo Dan wrote on the social platform: "Participating in the Winter Olympics has been a dream come true, I fought to the end." It means more to me than the result. ”
"I try, take risks just to have no regrets. I enjoyed the stage so much, the moment I stood at the starting line on the ice, my heart was so calm. Here, I gained a better self! ”
The unrepentant Guo Dan was not ready to stop here, and she was ready to fight the Beijing Winter Olympics again. During this period, Guo Dan won the silver medal in roller skating at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and served as the flag bearer of the closing ceremony.
Guo Dan (left).
The Olympic points are third in the world
In the eyes of others, Guo Dan has achieved fame, why should he insist?
"I've always felt like I have a sense of mission in me," she says. In order to win glory for the country at the Winter Olympics at the doorstep of his home, Guo Danyi had no hesitation.
In order to stand on the stage of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Guo Dan has not had a day of relaxation training in the past four years. At the end of 2019, when she was transferred to training in Germany, Guo Dan was accidentally injured, her left ankle bone was fractured, her ligaments were broken, and both feet were implanted with thick steel plates, and the attending doctor told her, "You don't want to think about your game anymore." ”
But only 3 months after the operation, Guo Dan stood on the training ground again with his unimaginable willpower. In the eyes of the attending physician, this is nothing less than a miracle, "I have never seen an athlete who has been injured so badly and returned to training so quickly and can still reach such a high level." ”
"To be back on the field proves that you have a strong love for the field and the sport, and with that love, in my opinion, nothing is difficult." With this belief, Guo Dan once again won the qualification for the Beijing Winter Olympics.
Guo Dan (second from right).
According to the international skating federation's beijing winter olympics speed skating qualification system, the mainland won 23 seats, 6 men and 8 women a total of 14 people to participate in the quota. According to the selection method, the Chinese speed skating national training team conducted two rounds of selection competitions at the 27th National Ice and Snow Sports Training and Research Base from January 13 to 15 and 18th to 20 respectively.
Guo Dan participated in the women's 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters events, and selected 6 people in two rounds according to the total points of the three items. In the end, Guo Dan ranked second and third in the 1500 meters and 1000 meters in the second round, respectively, with a total of 120 points, ranking second and entering the 14-man roster.
Before the Winter Olympics, in Canada, the final leg of the 2021-2022 Speed Skating World Cup, Guo Dan won the fourth place in the women's collective departure, refreshing the world cup best of mainland female athletes in this event.
Based on the results of the whole season, Guo Dan ranked third in the world in the Olympic points of the women's collective departure event, which qualified for the women's collective departure event of the Beijing Winter Olympics for China and accumulated confidence for the medal competition at the Winter Olympics.
"(The goal) is to stay in the Winter Olympics and achieve it." Guo Dan held his breath, and Wu Jingyu, an Olympic taekwondo player in Jiangsu, participated in the torch relay of the Beijing Winter Olympics this time, and she also cheered for Guo Dan before the game:
"Guo Dan is China's first 'rotating ice' athlete, and I admire Guo Dan's courage and perseverance, and this Winter Olympics just has the opportunity to come to the scene and cheer for Guo Dan!"