In the operation team of the National Aquatics Center (Ice Cube), the venue of the Beijing Winter Olympic Curling Competition, there is a curling "big winner", she is Wang Bingyu, the director of the curling project of the Beijing Winter Olympic Organizing Committee. On the first anniversary of the countdown to the Beijing Winter Olympics, the former captain of the Chinese curling team hopes that a year from now, all the athletes who participated in the Winter Olympics will be able to leave a good memory in Beijing.
Wang Bingyu, who stepped off the field and devoted herself to the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, was full of "professional style".
The 37-year-old Wang Bingyu has an 18-year curling career, having long served as the captain of the Chinese curling team, winning the 2009 World Curling Championship with the team and participating in the Vancouver Winter Olympics, the Sochi Winter Olympics and the Pingchang Winter Olympics. Such a rich player experience makes Wang Bingyu handy in participating in the preparations for the Beijing Winter Olympics. For example, for the ice cube of the stadium streamline design and facility placement and other work, Wang Bingyu can think of the details that ordinary people tend to ignore as a "person who comes over", she gave an example to the reporter: "At the beginning, we wanted to equip the athletes' lounge with a water dispenser, but when I was an athlete, due to anti-doping and other issues, everyone would generally drink unopened bottled water and rarely drink bottled water. So in the end we decided to equip the athletes with bottled water according to their needs and habits. ”
Wang Bingyu also admitted that when I was an athlete before, as long as I thought about how to play a good game, now I need to think more carefully, "For example, when I used to compete, the commuting problem only needed to remember the shuttle bus schedule on the field, and now when to participate in the preparation work, you need to consider how many seats are suitable for the car, when is the peak of the car, etc. The angle of looking at the problem is indeed different." Wang Bingyu said.
Wang Bingyu attends the meeting of the World Curling Federation.
At present, the most important task of the entire Ice Cube operation team is the upcoming test activities in April, for this "big test", Wang Bingyu and colleagues have to "brainstorm" almost every day, constantly deduce various details, and strive to do the best. In addition, the contacts and experience accumulated in the player era also allowed Wang Bingyu to shoulder the work of liaison and communication with the World Curling Federation, "Now every two weeks we will have an online video conference with the technical representatives of the World Curling Federation, on the one hand, to prepare for the later test matches, on the other hand, there are many work plans for the Beijing Winter Olympic Games, and the content of the discussion is getting more and more detailed, because the Beijing Winter Olympics are really close." ”
For most of the people who will participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, the countdown to the first anniversary will have both a sense of ceremony and a sense of urgency, but Wang Bingyu is very calm, she calmly and firmly told reporters: "My biggest feeling is that time passes quite quickly, but in fact, there is no particularly big fluctuation in my heart." It's been more than two years since I made the transition from an athlete to the role I am in today, and from the very beginning, I knew the point of the job. ”
Wang Bingyu at work.
Perhaps due to the experience of athletes in the past, Wang Bingyu on the one hand hopes that the Beijing Winter Olympics can present the most professional venue facilities and the most meticulous time service for participants from all over the world, and also hopes that everyone can leave a good memory here, she said: "There are so many players participating in each Winter Olympics, but after all, there are a few who can win gold medals. I hope that every contestant, no matter where they come from and what their final results are, will be able to leave a good memory of participating in Beijing, and this requires the hard work of each of us. ”