Guo Yujie waved after the game. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
On March 5, the first competition day of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Guo Yujie, who served as the standard-bearer of the Chinese delegation at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, finished her first winter Paralympic match in the Zhangjiakou 2athlon women's sprint standing group.
The little girl who won the gold was very excited, and she put the "snow rongrong" on her chest and sandwiched it in the seam between the competition number cloth and the clothes. On March 16, she is about to celebrate her 18th birthday, and she bluntly said that this gold medal is the best birthday gift.
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The shot was once 20 shots off target 9 rounds
In 2015, Guo Yujie first came into contact with skiing, and with her extremely high athletic talent, she was selected by the coach to join the national paralympic ski team and become a cross-country skier and biathlon athlete.
The biathlon competition consists of skiing and shooting, which not only tests the endurance of the athletes, but also requires them to adjust their breathing and heart rate as quickly as possible to complete accurate shooting.
Guo Yujie believes that her endurance is not the best, and she focuses her training on shooting. She laughed and said that she had shot 20 shots of off-target and 9 shots in the competition, "Later I found out that in fact, I am not suitable for slow guns, if I aim, I must hit out, the more I don't fight, the more inaccurate it is." So I can practice fast, even if sometimes it's not very accurate, but the speed can be faster than others. ”
After finding a way, Guo Yujie made rapid progress. In the cross-country skiing and biathlon competitions of the 11th National Paralympic Games in 2021, she won 3 golds and 3 silvers. In the Women's Short Distance Stand group of the 2nd Winter Olympics in Finland, Guo Yujie won the third place.
Guo Yujie was in excellent shape during the competition. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Climb to the top
"I didn't expect me to be pretty good"
At this year's Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Guo Yujie signed up for the biathlon women's standing group short distance, middle distance, long distance, and cross-country skiing women's standing group short distance four sub-events, and the biathlon women's short distance standing group on March 5 was her winter Paralympic debut.
Guo Yujie revealed that because of the epidemic, the team has not gone abroad to participate in the competition for a long time, and does not understand the level of players from all over the world, so there is some bottomlessness in the heart before the game.
Recalling how she felt during the game, the little girl described every time she went uphill as "hanging her breath.". In fact, shortly after the start of the game, Guo Yujie determined the advantage, but she did not know at all, "When going uphill, the foreign teacher told me that I was the first place, I did not believe it, I said that he must have lied to me, wanted me to slide faster." ”
Because the race took the form of interval departure, Guo Yujie, who crossed the finish line, could not be sure of winning the championship, and she stared nervously at the constantly refreshing ranking on the big screen, "Until the last finish line was completed, the results were determined, and my hanging heart really let go." ”
After winning the championship, the little girl's mood was obviously much more relaxed, and she jokingly said: "I didn't expect that I was also very strong, and I always thought that I was a very 'dish'." ”
At the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Guo Yujie and Wang Zhidong served as the flag bearers of the Chinese delegation. Photo: Xinhua News Agency
Experience
Being a flag bearer is actually a lot of pressure
Born in 2004, Guo Yujie, a native of Zhangjiakou, now competes on her doorstep, adding some different meaning to her winter Paralympic trip. In addition, the little girl is about to celebrate her 18th birthday, and before the game, she made a wish to take at least the top three and take this gold medal as a birthday gift for herself.
Just the day before the competition, Guo Yujie also participated in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games as the standard-bearer of the Chinese sports delegation. This special honor also brought a lot of pressure to Guo Yujie, "Yesterday's opening ceremony, my parents, including many of my relatives and friends, watched me on the TV, they are very proud of me, I want to say that I did not live up to your expectations, I am very good." ”
After the game, Guo Yujie did not forget to express her gratitude to the coaching staff, who believed that the coach played a key role in improving her performance. Guo Yujie said: "Every coach has paid a lot, including our two shooting coaches, from the first sitting group game to the end of the last visually impaired group game, he has to stand here, it is very hard. There are also many off-road instructors, who have been training with us in the case of minus 30 degrees Celsius, and are very grateful for their efforts. ”
Beijing News reporter Zhao Xue
Edited by Han Shuangming Proofreader Wu Xingfa