"In 1990, Beijing's Second Ring Road had not yet been completed and opened to traffic. And in 2022, it has been 'big' enough to host two Olympic Games, calmly and calmly 'smiling' to welcome visitors from around the world. Dang Yu, deputy medical officer of the National Bobsleigh Center and chief physician of Peking University People's Hospital, is a "double Olympic doctor" who has personally participated in the volunteer service work of three large-scale international sports events since the 1990 Beijing Asian Games. For 32 years, he truly felt the city's great changes.
Dang Yu grew up in Beijing, lived next to Tiananmen Square from a small family, and his intimate feelings for the city flowed through every moment of his growth. When he was in junior high school, he was a student at Beijing No. 2 Middle School and participated in the 1990 Beijing Asian Games as a volunteer. At that time, together with more than 10,000 middle school students in the capital, he held up a flap in his hand and formed the changing scenes and patterns on the background stage of the opening ceremony.
In 2008, the Beijing Olympic Games, a sporting event that the Chinese people are proud of, came. Already an orthopedic doctor in the People's Hospital, he signed up for the medical security task of the venue for the first time and became the medical supervisor of the security team of the Olympic Men's Volleyball Training Hall - the Stadium of Beijing Jiaotong University. "Everyone has worked hard, made all kinds of plans, repeatedly rehearsed, prepared for battle at any time, and bent on making the Beijing Olympic Games better than previous sessions."
After the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Dang Yu won the honor of "Advanced Individual volunteer of the Beijing Olympic and Paralympic Games". But more importantly, his participation in the Olympics gave him such a keen interest in sports injuries that he devoted himself to the field for many years, eventually becoming an orthopedic specialist who "can both treat traumatic fractures and perform sports injury surgery."
"Beijing has become the only 'city of the Double Olympics' in the world, and I also want to be a 'Double Olympic Volunteer'." In 2019, the organization and registration of the medical security team of the Beijing Winter Olympics was carried out, and Dang Yu took the initiative to register again. After 14 years, the blue team uniform of the volunteers of the Summer Olympic Games has become the red team uniform of the Winter Olympics, and Dang Yu has grown from the attending physician of that year to the chief physician and mature expert, serving as the deputy medical officer of the venue of the National Bobsleigh Center.
"We are the most experienced of the medical security team of the Winter Olympics." Dang Yu said proudly. This statement is no exaggeration, before the Winter Olympics, "Snow Dragon" has carried out 3 test matches and World Cup matches. The medical security team of the venue has been involved in medical protection for more than four and a half months.
"Most of the support staff had never been exposed to bobsleighs before." Winter sports are relatively new to people, and the venue settings are more diverse, coupled with the severe challenges of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. Although he has participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games before and has rich experience in ensuring large-scale events, the guarantee of the Winter Olympics will also be a huge test for party education.
The bobsleigh center covers an area of 18.69 hectares and the track is 1975 meters long. "Snow Dragon" is the first bobsleigh track in China and the longest track in the world. If you want to respond quickly and rescue at the first time of injury, you must formulate a detailed and effective rescue plan. To this end, when the site was not yet repaired, the medical team began to conduct on-site inspections and started to design and layout the medical station. "Which corner is most likely to have an accident, which side of the curve is more convenient for ambulances to enter, every detail must be thought of in advance." In the Winter Olympic Games, next to the most accident-prone areas of the track, medical security personnel are always on standby, and it does not take 1 minute to arrive at the scene.
With the end of the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games, the medical security team of Dang Yu and "Snow Dragon" also successfully completed their tasks, embarked on the way home, and began the "14 + 7" isolation observation life.
Dang Yu has participated in 3 major international sports events, spanning 32 years. From this, he witnessed the rapid growth of the city and the country, and he went from student volunteer to deputy medical officer of the Winter Olympics. "The concerted efforts of every laborer have made this country develop rapidly. And the torrent of social progress pushes everyone forward and becomes happy. Living in this era, we should be grateful and dedicate ourselves and struggle for it. ”