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International online news (reporter Wang Yueyang): Began practicing gymnastics at the age of 5, entered the national team at the age of 12, won the gymnastics men's team and kurama at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, won the men's team at the 1999 Gymnastics World Championships, and won the gymnastics team at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. From the Asian Games to the World Championships to the Olympic Games, Xing Aowei completed the gold medal "triple jump" for three consecutive years, and Xing Aowei, who stood on the highest podium of the Sydney Olympic Games, had just turned 18 years old.
In the eyes of outsiders, Xing Aowei's sports career is always smooth, and all the honors he has received seem to be "natural". But only he himself knows that while reaping these honors, he has made efforts that ordinary people cannot imagine. The big goal of completing the Olympic championship is also accumulated through one small goal after another.
If you want to succeed in everything, it can't be smooth sailing, you must 'work your heart and bones', you have to go through a lot of things, the most important thing is to see if your mentality can overcome these difficulties. 」
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"Love at first sight" with gymnastics
In the words of Xing Aowei, when he was a child, he "basically did not stay on land": going up the wall, going to the house, jumping into the sewer, quite a bit of a "parkour master" feeling. So when the sports school teacher went to his kindergarten to pick seedlings, the head of the kindergarten specially recommended Xing Aowei, and it happened that the teacher who came to pick the seedlings knew Xing Aowei's mother, which had the relationship between Xing Aowei and gymnastics.
Recalling the first time he walked into the gymnastics gym, Xing Aowei said that he was really "love at first sight", as if there was a magic that attracted him. "From the beginning of gymnastics to the end of retirement, no matter how hard and tired I practiced, how many injuries I suffered, I never gave up the idea of gymnastics."
Every athlete sets a goal for himself and works for it, and for Xing Aowei, his goal is to stand on the highest podium of the Olympic Games. In order to maintain his "excitement point" on the way to chasing this ultimate goal, Xing Aowei also explored a set of "goal theory": set up a number of small goals in front of the ultimate goal, and slowly approach his ultimate goal on the way to completing these small goals.
"If you only have one goal, you may be often frustrated and slowly lose confidence, so I will set small goals for myself." For example, what action I completed today, this year to get the provincial games championship, next year to get the national championship, so a goal to achieve, and finally converged into a big goal to complete, just like a hundred rivers into the sea. Every time you accomplish a small goal, you'll feel happy and keep your excitement about it at a high level. ”
The sporting career has not been smooth
In Xing Aowei's sports career, it seems that everything is very smooth, and winning the Olympic championship is also "young fame", but in Xing Aowei's view, no success is smooth.
"Behind the smooth sailing there must be dark waves, gymnastics is very dangerous and very hard, men's 6 small events, each project has 10 effective scoring actions, this is 60 movements, you have to learn, to master." I have also suffered many major injuries, and every time I recover from injuries, it is very difficult, which requires a strong heart to support you to overcome these difficulties. ”
On the road to success, Xing Aowei believes that talent, diligence and opportunity are indispensable. "For example, if you learn a movement at the same time, some people may learn it in a day, and some people can't even learn it for a month, so talent is still very important for athletes." But if you want to succeed, only talent is far from enough, "no matter what kind of goal you want to achieve, you must first pay something, you may have a return, even if you are talented, you will not achieve anything without paying." 」 ”
The memory of the Olympic victory is cherished for a lifetime
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Xing Aowei and his teammates Li Xiaopeng, Huang Xu, Yang Wei, Xiao Junfeng and Zheng Lihui won the first Olympic team gold medal for the Chinese gymnastics team, although more than 20 years have passed, Xing Aowei still remembers those days of preparation for the Olympic Games.
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"Before the Olympics, the slogan put forward by our team was 'at the cost of superman, in exchange for superhuman results', when there were more than 30 athletes in the team preparing for the game, after round after round of elimination, and finally decided that six of us were selected for the Olympic list, which was really an opportunity to use superhuman training to win."
After stepping off the Olympic podium, these 20-year-old boys unloaded their baggage and showed a cute side, "Before the game, because of the need to maintain the state, everyone did not dare to eat high-oil and high-calorie food, after winning the championship, our unanimous idea is to quickly return to the Olympic Village to taste the world's food." ”
Although they said that they were going to have a big meal, everyone back in the locker room took out their mobile phones and called their families at the first time. Xing Aowei answered his mother's phone, and his mother told Xing Aowei that he was nervous and did not dare to look at the last item. Xing Aowei said that he has been practicing gymnastics for so many years, and he has always thanked his coaches, family and friends for their care, in his words, "Maxima is often there, but It is really not common for Bole or people who have been unconditionally supporting you."
It is difficult to separate from sports for a lifetime
On November 11, 2005, retired Xing Aowei officially became a coach of the Chinese gymnastics team, setting a record for the youngest coach of the Chinese gymnastics team, and the first person in the chinese gymnastics team to stay as a coach for the Olympic champion in the many years since the establishment of the Chinese gymnastics team.
For Xing Aowei, from athletes to coaches, what has changed is only what everyone calls him, but he is still facing the familiar environment of the national team, familiar people, and he is more at ease.
How to make the team members obedient, Xing Aowei pondered for a long time, and finally summed up a set of management methods of "Enwei and Shi", "In training, there is no sloppiness; In life, take care of them and care for them. Because the team members have left home since childhood, they are relatively independent, and their ideas are different, so they must understand the personality of each of them, but they must be strictly managed in training. ”
Today, Xing Aowei has started a new journey, but he still has not left sports, "I came out of the system to break in, in fact, I am not separated from sports, such as doing fitness, running, or related to sports brands, it is not difficult for me." Xing Aowei said that he just wanted to do what he liked, and sports and gymnastics were things he would never give up in his life.
Xing Aowei said that the biggest help brought to him by sports is to face anything without fear of hardship, not afraid of difficulties, not afraid of shrinking, he believes that sports can bring people a good mentality and a good state, "all say that gymnastics is the source of sports, I now think that sports is also one of the foundations of all work, but also hope that everyone can have a sport that they love and can stick to, so that their body and mind are healthier." ”