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(Beijing Winter Olympics) Interview with Chinese sleigh "one brother" Fan Duoyao: "It is not easy to accidentally create history"
China News Network Hohhot, February 25 Title: Interview with Fan Duoyao, "One Brother" of Chinese Sleigh: "It is not easy to accidentally create history"
China News Network reporter Li Aiping
Throughout the Beijing Winter Olympics, Fan Duoyao's name was brushed by major media, not only because he was the first Chinese bobsleigh man in history to board the Winter Olympics, but also because he was also a "brother" in the true sense of Chinese bobsleigh.
The bobsled athlete from Hulunbuir, China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, humorously said in a telephone interview with a China News Agency reporter during the quarantine in Beijing's Yanqing on the 25th, "I didn't expect that I accidentally created history." ”
"In fact, it is not easy to create history, it took me 6 years to wait for a World Cup match before I got the ticket to the Beijing Winter Olympics and stepped on the Winter Olympic stage." Fan Duoyao emphasized the hard side of bobsleigh in this way.
The 25-year-old Fan Duoyao was first a cross-country skier, and his family's expectations for him at that time were simple: "As a sports student, you can just get into a good high school." ”
But fate took a turn for the worse, and in 2015 Fan Duoyao was selected as a cross-sport athlete to train in sledding in Beijing. What Fan Duoyao and his family did not expect was that this selection not only filled the gap in the bobsleigh project of the Beijing Winter Olympics, but also became an athlete who made history in Chinese bobsleigh.
Years later, Van DuoYao recalled: "Sleigh was a completely foreign thing to me at that time, and everything had to start from scratch and work harder than others to have a chance to win." ”
Public information shows that the growth cycle of bobsleigh players is relatively long, usually 6 to 8 years, and when Fan Duoyao first started training, he often saw the state of foreign players, and it was inevitable that he was a little frustrated. He felt the obvious gap between the Chinese team and the European team.
But Fan Duoyao is a person who does not give up and submit to defeat easily.
In the men's single event of the 2021-2022 Bobsleigh National Cup in Yanqing, Beijing, last November, he finished 17th and qualified for the Yanqing World Cup, which is also the first time that a Chinese athlete has qualified for the event and created the history of Chinese bobsleigh.
In a sense, Fan Duoyao has been creating the history of bobsleigh in China.
On the evening of February 5, the men's single bobsleigh competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics was held at the Yanqing National Bobsleigh Center, and Fan Duoyao naturally became the first Chinese bobsleigh player in history to board the Winter Olympics.
In the first two rounds of the night, although the German and Austrian bobsleigh players took the lead in finishing, Fan Duoyao still maintained a good competitive state, and the first two rounds of skating reached 58.848.88.0s and 58.88.83 seconds, respectively, temporarily ranking 25th.
On the evening of February 6, the third and fourth rounds of the men's single bobsleigh at the Beijing Winter Olympics continued, and in the third round of skating, Fan Duoyao successfully passed the S corner after starting, and finally completed the race with a time of 58.895 seconds, ranking 24th. According to the rules, the top 20 players are eligible to enter the fourth round of skating, and Fan Duoyao did not qualify for the fourth round.
On the 25th, Fan Duoyao said in an interview with the China News Agency reporter, "After learning that he did not make it to the fourth round of skating, he was a little frustrated at the time, but he quickly adjusted his mentality, after all, Chinese bobsleigh has taken a key step in the Olympic arena." ”
"I hope that more people can know and understand the bobsleigh project through this competition, and hope that the development of chinese bobsleigh projects will get better and better." As the captain of the Chinese bobsleigh team, Fan Duoyao hopes that everyone can pay more attention to the growth of the Chinese bobsleigh team and cheer on various events.
During the isolation period in Yanqing, Fan Duoyao still did not dare to slack off his training, "These days, I ride a bicycle every day, practice my waist and abdomen, and train with my bare hands, in order to increase the function of my muscles." ”
For the Milan Winter Olympics four years later, Fan Duoyao's greatest hope is to narrow the distance with the European strong team in bobsleigh sports, show the fighting spirit of Chinese athletes, and not give up the style of not accepting defeat. (End)