This article was written at the end of March 2002 and published as a serial in the Harbin Radio and Television Weekly. When Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo had just won the first gold medal in pair skating at the World Figure Skating Championships for China, the "holding hand" of their love was still in a hazy moment.
Since then, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have won many awards in the world of figure skating, and finally reached the peak of their professional sports careers in 2010 and won the Vancouver Winter Olympics championship. This is the only Chinese figure skating gold medal in the Winter Olympics so far, they have fought for more than three decades, and it is also the first pair of non-Russian pair skating champions in the 46-year history of the Winter Olympics.
Ice love in the Ice City
—Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo and their coach Yao Bin
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One
In June 1992, Qiqihar, an important town in northern China.
Soon it was Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's turn to appear, and Yao Bin once again glanced at Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who were ready to stop. They stood at the entrance of the ice rink, dressed in brightly colored competition uniforms, exuding a vigorous vitality. Zhao Hongbo's expression was relatively calm, and Shen Xue next to him was slightly worried, and his two eyes stared at the silver glowing ice. Yao Bin's heart suddenly tightened, and he approached Shen Xue and whispered softly, "Xiao Xue, don't panic!" Remember, you're as slippery as you train, and you're following the feeling of Macro! With that, he tapped Shen Xue's shoulder. Shen Xue smiled a little, and the tiger teeth were exposed, looking a little naughty. With this smile, she seemed to relax a little, swirling and revealing an innocent and brilliant expression.
This year, Shen Xue was just 14 years old. Due to her petite stature, she is usually a yellow-haired girl. At this moment, Shen Xue, who was wearing makeup, suddenly seemed to be several years older, and even Yao Bin felt very funny when he looked at it. The music suddenly sounded, this is a melodic modern dance song full of passion selected by Yao Bin, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo suddenly opened their arms, the ice knife under their feet began to slide with the melody, the body also fluttered like the wind, leaving a long arc on the ice...
Fortunately, Shen Xue behaved normally and his psychological state was stable. Yao Bin's eyes were firmly fixed on Shen Xue, and a few imperceptible smiles appeared at the corners of his mouth.
In this competition, Yao Bin came to Qiqihar under great pressure. Many people questioned Shen Xue's ability, fearing that this unobtrusive little yellow haired man would smash the sign of figure skating in Harbin. Ice and snow sports is a symbol of Harbin sports known as the ice city, and the national figure skating championships held every year are like a competitive stage like a touchstone, testing the level and strength of this sport in Harbin in the country, and this national championship with great potential significance is not a small thing for Harbin people.
You know, Harbin is famous for its "ice city" at home and abroad!
Four months ago, Yao Bin's beloved general Xie Maomao went downhill due to his saturation of physical fitness and state, coupled with his scars. She and Zhao Hongbo are a best pair and won the figure skating pair skating championship at the 7th National Winter Games in 1991. Immediately after, they took advantage of a moment of courage and won the Asian Cup figure skating pair skating championship with an unstoppable momentum. Just when Yao Bin began to plan the pair's march to the world's figure skating level, Xie Maomao appeared abnormal, made repeated mistakes in training, relapsed with injuries, and was in a state of extreme exhaustion. After this, although Xie Maomao made several efforts under the guidance of Yao Bin, it seemed that there was no end to it if he wanted to restore his original state.
With twelve points of regret and helplessness, Yao Bin began to prepare for the search for Zhao Hongbo's new partner. Yao Bin, who was born as an athlete, knows deeply that an athlete going to the peak and then going to its opposite is the final outcome of each athlete, and when and where is it sooner or later according to each athlete's own situation. Xie Maojing had already passed through her glorious years, and only another person could replace her. Yao Bin stared at the younger girls of the sports team and quietly looked for candidates.
The search for new candidates also touched the hearts of the leaders of the Municipal Sports Committee. Over the years, Yao Bindai's students have almost all won the domestic and Asian championship athletes, and Zhao Hongbo's new partner is related to the honor of Harbin Sports and the achievements of the Sports Committee. The leaders of the Sports Committee have made it clear that no matter which coach brings the students, Yao Bin will be Yao Bin.
The news of choosing Xie Maomao's successor caused a small shock among the female athletes who practiced tricks in the sports team. Many girls have moved their minds, and some parents of athletes have visited or entrusted others to intercede, hoping that their children can come to Yao Bin's command.
However, for several days, I did not see Yao Bin express my position, only to see that he often went in and out of the training hall, and the expression on his face was calm and serene. But careful people will still find that Yao Bin will occasionally show a slightly impatient, thoughtful look under the appearance of indifference.
This was the true portrayal of Yao Bin's heart at that time. It has been four years since Zhao Hongbo and Xie Maomao were recruited to his command in 1989. The first time they made their faces in the competition was at the second National Youth Championship that year. At that time, he had just been practicing with Yao Bin for a few months, and no one expected that they would achieve the second place, and it was actually the second place! In the first few months of training Zhao Hongbo and Xie Maomao, Yao Bin discovered that they had many undiscovered potentials. Take Zhao Hongbo, for example, height, body shape, arm length and other external conditions are good, and he also has a first-class sense of music, as long as the music sounds, the young man has a reaction, the body can stretch out, and the lines that slide out are also very smooth. In particular, his personality is very stable, a pair of large eyes that are always brooding will listen intently to the coach's explanation, and then meticulously practice according to the coach's requirements. The young men were also very kind, and when they saw acquaintances, they mostly responded with a friendly smile, and then they were silent. Zhao Hongbo's concentrated upward momentum made Yao Bin very satisfied, and after taking over, he developed a set of highly targeted training programs for him and Xie Maomao, and the "Second Youth Competition" small test of the cattle knife was impressed by the people in the circle, and then the sesame blossomed like the results were getting better and better, until he won the Asian Cup double skating championship.
Yao Bin believes that the excellent potential of Zhao Hongbo has not yet reached the extreme, he has a lot of staying power to dig, if there is no deviation, this young man's future prospects are unlimited! It is precisely based on his expectations and confidence in Zhao Hongbo that Yao Bin's selection of a partner for Zhao Hongbo has become something he is cautious and hesitant about.
There are still many girls in the sports team who practice figure skating.
These little girls are slightly larger, slightly smaller chirping, wind and fire on the ice, wearing bright costumes dancing on the vast ice, really like flowing flowers blooming angrily.
Yao Bin observed for several days in a row, and Shen Xue, who did not look amazing, caught his attention. Mixed in with many beautiful little girls, Shen Xue can really be counted as an "ugly duckling". She was petite, of average lines, and of ordinary length, with two small eyes that were gentle to look at, but they would not attract anyone's attention. The only difference she had was that she showed her tiger teeth as soon as she was happy, which was quite funny.
Yao Bin found that as soon as the child got on the ice, he was a little shy as usual, and his gentle eyes widened and flashed an aggressive light. Her footwork is light, her posture is beautiful, she is quite imposing, and she has a tiger strength that is very disproportionate to a girl. What moved Yao Bin even more was that once she fell, even if it was a very heavy heel, she did not show a pampered expression like other girls grinning and frowning, but Yile continued to practice. From the strength of the skin, you can see that this is a bold girl. Yao Bin also found that her heart was also quite thin, the coach pointed out a pass, she tilted her head and thought about it, and soon she could correct the action according to the coach's intention. From this, it can also be seen that she is a very perceptive girl.
Yao Bin had a spectrum in mind, but he was not in a hurry to make a decision, but first learned about Shen Xue's family situation from the side. Focusing on the family of the athletes is a special feature of Yao Bin's coaching. Maybe he came from an ordinary family, and he had a special preference for athletes from families like workers. In his eyes, the simple family style mostly cultivates simple children, not pretentious, not pretentious, and children are especially able to keep the shop and endure hardships. Shen Xue's family lives in a large courtyard in Daowai District, a large family that has lived in one courtyard for generations. Her father is a worker, her mother is a store salesman, and the whole family is honest and kind, which is very much in Yao Bin's mind. After discussing with Shen Xue's parents, Yao Bin immediately made a decision and selected Shen Xue as Zhao Hongbo's new partner.
Who ever thought, Yao Bin's bottom card was bright, almost all people were surprised, and even some people suspected that yao Bin's nerve was wrong. It is no wonder that Shen Xue, who began to learn to skate at the age of 6, has been skating in obscurity for seven or eight years, and has not achieved eye-catching results. In the eyes of others, she is a role that follows the "big stream", how can Yao Bin fall in love with her?
For a time, well-intentioned exhortations, kind reminders, and ironic rumors poured into Yao Bin's ears, and even Yao Bin did not expect that his selection of Shen Xue would cause such an uproar, and even some leaders of the Sports Committee expressed concern.
Yao Bin is a person who has no remorse after taking a picture. As soon as he got on the ice, the contrast between Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo was strongly expressed. Although Shen Xue tried his best, the changes in footwork, speed and body could not keep up with Zhao Hongbo. Yao Bin watched from the sidelines, stopping them from time to time and explaining how to cooperate. After more than a month, the technical level distance between Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo is still very large, and there is no tacit understanding at all.
Yao Bin was also a little anxious in his heart. On the one hand, he opened a "small stove" for Shen Xue, asking her to do more auxiliary training and strengthen the practice of speed and toughness, while carefully observing, thinking about how to make them achieve a seamless breakthrough.
During this period, due to more than a month of training with Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo was also a little anxious. He was 5 years older than Shen Xue and was already a young man in his twenties. He knows that his athlete career depends on the achievements he can make in these years, but Shen Xue's progress is so slow, is this not throwing the championship in vain? This thick young man was very worried, and his eyebrows were always locked. Suddenly, one day of training, Yao Bin yelled at Zhao Hongbo: "What are you unhappy about?" Xiaoxue can't keep up, the responsibility is all on you! Why don't you let Xiaoxue always hold you, and you can't take her with you? Get it? Take her! ”
Yao Bin's words were said with anger, but there was an unspeakable happiness in his heart. He suddenly grasped the crux of the problem and found the breakthrough he was looking for. Zhao Hongbo's level is much higher than Shen Xue's, and when he trains, he plays according to his own level, telling Shen Xue how to cooperate with him? He must first accommodate Shen Xue, let Shen Xue synchronize and match with him, and then take her to gradually enter his state. In future retraining, Yao Bin never said Shen Xue, even if Shen Xue made a mistake, he also had to "find a stubble" to pick Zhao Hongbo's faults, so that Zhao Hongbo developed the habitual thinking that every step of the slide and every action must first consider whether Shen Xue can keep up.
This move is definitely the right medicine, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's double skating immediately appears harmonious, although the action and speed are far from entering the best state, but the two have a tacit understanding of the integration. Further back, watching the level rise, Yao Bin's hanging heart finally let go. Before going to Qiqihar, Yao Bin already had a number in mind, and as long as they could play normally in the game, they were afraid that they would lose their hands because of their psychological instability.
The unrestrained and enthusiastic melody continued to play on the playing field. Yao Bin glanced at Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who were sliding on the ice, and the difficult actions such as lifting and jumping were completed beautifully, at this moment, only to see Zhao Hongbo slide sideways and grab Shen Xue's hands, like a pair of flying swallows flashing in front of the audience... The applause of the whole audience was thunderous, and Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the championship!
A stream of heat swept through Yao Bin's heart. He felt very excited, his body seemed to tremble uncontrollably, and he took a pair of brown sunglasses from his pocket and put them on. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo stared at the coach they admired with their joyful eyes, and tears spilled from Yao Bin's eye sockets and quietly flowed down behind the dark brown lenses...
Two
Since then, Yao Bin has never been so excited, even if Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the NHK World Pair Skating Championships and the runner-up of the World Championships, he never shed tears. You know, this is shen xue and Zhao Hongbo only 4 months of cooperation, Yao Bin with great psychological pressure to win the championship! More importantly, Yao Bin saw greater hope for them in the future!
The biggest feature of Harbin is that it has a long winter. It is precisely with the cold that dripping water into ice that there is an ice fairy tale that gives people ideals and enjoyment.
Harbin is one of the earliest cities in New China to carry out ice and snow sports, ice skating, skiing has become a major hobby of Harbin people, and many ice and snow sports enthusiasts are indissoluble with ice and snow when they are children. The same is true of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who just started practicing skating, both at the age of four or five.
Daowai District has a well-known eighth district stadium in Harbin, and Shen Xue's home is not far from there. When Shen Xue was 5 years old, his father and mother saw that their only daughter was thin and small, so they said to Shen Xue: "Go skating." ”
Like most parents, the purpose of having a child skate is nothing more than a physical exercise. Who knows, as soon as their beloved daughter stepped on the shiny ice, it was as if she had changed someone, and the excitement was almost unknown to describe. Seeing that Shen Xue has such a great interest in skating, his father Shen Jie and his mother Lu Manli discussed it, then it is up to Shen Xue's temperament to skate, and the family must ensure that she insists on training no matter what.
This can be bitter Shen Jie and Lu Manli, the couple, accompanying five- and six-year-old children to practice skating and leading children to visit the park is not the same thing, especially in the open-air ice rink on the ninth cold day, Shen Snow skated straight up in the heat, but Mom and Dad froze straight to stomp their feet. When Shen Xue was 6 years old, after returning from an ice skating, her mother found that her feet were worn out, and she said that she wanted to rest for two days. Xiao Shenxue's head shook like a rattle, and her parents couldn't help her, so they had to take her to practice. For half a month in a row, Shen Xue limped on the ice, slid up two laps, and flew on the ice as if nothing had happened. But back home, it was miserable, the flesh and blood blurred wound and the socks were glued together, and it was necessary to soak in warm water for half a day to take off the socks. In this way, Shen Xue did not delay on the ice once in half a month, and he was stunned to grind the wound out of a cocoon.
From this point, it can be seen that Shen Xue has an innate obsession and fate for skating. The 6-year-old little hairy girl could not be associated with the future glory for the country, the only explanation was her liking for ice, and it was precisely because of this that Shen Xue didn't care about anything. Once, Shen Xue had a high fever, or the old way, not to let skating that is rudderless. When dad rode her home on a bicycle after practice, she passed out on the bike shelf. Dad found out a cold sweat, went to the hospital for a check, obedient, Xiao Shenxue's body temperature was thirty-nine degrees eight!
Shen Xue still insists on normal ice training after going to elementary school, which means that she has to pay more hardship than her classmates. Strangely, despite this, her academic performance was not affected in the slightest, and she was always the first and second in the class, and she also became the class leader and the team committee. At this time, Shen Xue had already shown her superiority, that is, she knew how to arrange her own affairs in an orderly manner. For example, as soon as she hit the ice during training, she would immediately pick up the textbook and read it, and huddled among a group of twittering little girls to be able to concentrate on reading the textbook, which shows that Shen Xue has a high degree of self-consciousness and self-control, and perhaps this is also the quality condition that Shen Xue can lead the ice in the future. It was not until the 5th grade of primary school, when coach Yao Bin solemnly talked to Shen Jie and Lu Manli, asking parents to make choices for Shen Xue in academics and sports, that Shen Xue had to leave the inseparable campus to join the sports team. "Fish and bear paws can not be both", if Shen Xue is not involved in figure skating, it is safe to say that she will also have excellent results in her studies.
Compared with Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo's becoming an ice skater has greater accidents and dramas.
Zhao Hongbo was born in a cadre family, his father was originally a violinist in the army's cultural and labor troupe, and later transferred to work in the Harbin industrial and commercial department, and his mother was a worker in the Harbin linen factory, so he grew up in the flax factory kindergarten since he was a child. In kindergarten, Zhao Hongbo's musical genes and athletes' talents are fully revealed, whether it is a theatrical performance or a sports competition, he is a top-notch figure, two round and slippery eyes like a talking fluttering, staring naughty and cute. Zhao Hongbo's personality when he was a child was very different from now, when he was a child, he was jumping and singing sweetly, whether it was kindergarten
The aunt is also a neighbor of the family compound of the linen factory, and she likes this lively and cute little boy very much.
Zhao Hongbo began practicing skating at the age of 8. It was when he represented the kindergarten to the eighth district gymnasium for a basketball game, which attracted the attention of an off-court audience. He grabbed Zhao Hongbo with interest, and a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. This person's name is Sun Zhiping, and he is the coach of figure skating at the Harbin Amateur Sports School. He fell in love with Zhao Hongbo and connected with Zhao Hongbo's father, Zhao Yumin, and when he heard that the coach of the municipal sports school was optimistic about his younger son, Zhao Yumin, who was very fond of sports, was also full of joy. He originally wanted to train Zhao Hongbo to learn to play the violin, but when he saw that Zhao Hongbo and sports had such a fate, he agreed to it.
Coincidentally, Zhao Hongbo's enlightenment coach Sun Zhiping and Shen Xue's enlightenment coach Chen Xiaofei were actually two sons. It's just that Zhao Hongbo debuted early, and when Shen Xue just practiced ice, 10-year-old Zhao Hongbo was already the first place in the national juvenile figure skating. The following year, he sat on the championship of the National Figure Skating Championships, like a little star on the ice who had just emerged.
Pair skating has a very vivid title among people who engage in ice sports - "holding hands". When Yao Binhui saw Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo "holding hands", Zhao Hongbo was not only the leader of the national figure skating, but also the style was flourishing, and he was in the best age of life. That year, Zhao Hongbo was 20 years old, with a heroic and upright figure, full of youthful vitality,
A pair of beautiful big eyes flashed a bit of maturity and contemplation, which set off his might and popularity more than Shen Xue. Don't look at Shen Xue, the little yellow haired girl, who is much smaller than Zhao Hongbo, but inside her heart there is a sensible child who is very inappropriate for her appearance. She seemed to have peeked into the reason why Yao Bin had selected her, and in the training, she didn't care about what wrestling was hard and tired, and she was sullen and picked up the "high-level" Zhao Hongbo. Therefore, Yao Bin's highly targeted tuning methods have made the gap between her and Zhao Hongbo smaller and smaller. Qiqihar folded back, she and Zhao Hongbo became more and more complementary when practicing ice, and the most crucial thing in pair skating- tacit understanding was no longer an obstacle to them.
Yao Bin has already calculated that the next goal is to let them break through the high difficulty of domestic competitions and begin to move closer to the level of international competitions.
Yao Bin's coaching method is quite special. Shen Xue had felt that Yao's guidance was quite unusual since she came to his hands, but she couldn't say anything specific. You say that he is harsh, and Yao Zhi always speaks with a pleasant face; you say that he and Mist, he seems to be full of majesty again. As for the "storm" brought about by Yao's guidance in choosing her partner with Zhao Hongbo, it was only after she became a national champion that she gradually learned about it. It is precisely for this reason that Shen Xue quietly added yards to himself after Qiqihar returned.
For Shen Xue's request to increase the weight, Zhao Hongbo understood Shen Xue's intentions very well, he had followed Yao Bin for a long time, and he knew Yao's good wish to guide them to win glory for the country as soon as possible. For the plan set by Yao's guidance and the training of various difficult actions, Zhao Hongbo only has one attitude, that is, to do according to the coach's will! As for Yao Guidance always leading his nose, this clever young man has fully understood the basis of his doing so, and when Yao Guidance criticizes him again, he mostly smiles slightly and happily does what the coach wants.
Yao Bin took Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, although nervous and tired, but comfortable and cheerful, along with the gradual improvement of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's skills, the three masters and apprentices were even more inseparable, and the harmonious coexistence situation, wherever they went, left a close and warm impression. Indeed, Yao Bin led the athletes to have their own set of styles. He did not pay much attention to the relationship between the so-called coaches and athletes, and for the small things that no one could avoid by the athletes, he strictly pretended to be deaf and dumb, and did not ask questions. For technical training, Yao Bin often stares at the athlete's actions after the explanation, and he does not stop some mistakes immediately, but lets the athletes themselves "enlighten" and reminisce. He said to Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo the most about how to be a person, he said: "Remember, I teach you to skate is only a form, being the best athlete is just a performance. All I want you to be able to do is if one day you change careers and you're a well-known person everywhere you go! ”
Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's skills were advancing by leaps and bounds, just like a pair of young swallows that had just matured together, spreading their wings and flying in the sky together. In 1993, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the gold medal in double skating at the National Figure Skating Championships and won two consecutive national championships. However, in the 1994 National Figure Skating Championships, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo were abnormal, and their jumps and turns were repeatedly wrong, and Shen Xue actually fell.
Yao Bin often said that the big competitions and small competitions are all races, and they must be treated with the same mental state!
With Yao Bin's words "at the bottom", Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo came to Yao Bin with anxiety and prepared to "be scolded". Unexpectedly, Yao Bin said, "It's okay, the next time you pay attention!" ”
At the Eighth Winter Games in 1995, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo were holding their breath to win the championship, but somehow, they made mistakes again. This time was even worse than the championship match, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo fell down, got up and slipped and then made mistakes. The insiders looked at each other and focused their puzzled eyes on Yao Bin.
Yao Bin didn't say a word, and his expression calmly looked at his beloved disciple's confused look after the chaos.
Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who had lost their souls, returned to their residences after the game, and Shen Xue cried out a sound, and Zhao Hongbo wiped his tears from the side. Yao Bin walked in, he lit a cigarette and did not speak for a long time. When they were almost crying, Yao Bin said softly: "The matter has passed in the past, your road is still long, mistakes must be learned lessons, and you must withstand the wind and waves!" He said a few words lightly, turned and left.
Regarding the mistakes of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo in this competition and last year's championship, Yao Bin did not criticize them because Yao Bin clearly knew that it was caused by super-intensity training. In the past two years, Yao Bin's training has been operated according to international standards, and Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo must pay several times more than before to meet such requirements. Looking at their tear-washed faces and exhaustion, Yao Bin could no longer bear to put more pressure on them. But what made Yao Bin heartbroken by this competition was that he lost the opportunity to go to the World Championships in Manchester, England. Originally, the passports were all done, but they did not win the championship and had to be lost. Being able to participate in the World Series is a very cherished training opportunity for Yao Bin, who has always believed that a promising athlete participating in the World Series is an indispensable part.
After two mistakes, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo quickly came out of the depressed mood. After resuming training, Yao Bin analyzed the reasons for their mistakes in detail, and then made preparations for the third Asian Winter Games in Harbin in 1996.
The third Asian Winter Games is coming soon. The competition was grand in scale, with a total of 16 countries and regions participating. Especially due to the collapse of the former Soviet Union, Kazakhstan and other countries with more developed ice sports have joined the Asian Winter Games, which has greatly improved the level of the Asian Winter Games and also made the competition more fierce.
The pair skaters sent by Kazakhstan are called Maria and Andrei, who have participated in major international competitions such as the World Championships many times and have achieved good results. Due to the joining of them, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have taken a pair of imposing "roadblocks" on the way forward. Authorities and media at home and abroad are unanimously optimistic about Maria and Andre, and predict that the double skating champion is the only one. Yao Bin had long been mentally prepared for this kind of boiling comment, and in the days before the game, he led Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo to train as usual silently. One night, Yao Bin asked Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo to go back to rest, but after he turned around and returned to the ice rink, he found that Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo had not yet fallen on the ice.
"Are you two crazy?" Yao Bin roared with anger on his face, "Are you willing to be a foil for this?" "He was really angry. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo silently withdrew from the ice rink. Before leaving, they seemed to wake up and cast an apologetic glance at Yao Bin.
Yao Bin was very touched, and he understood Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's feelings very well. But the competition is imminent, and overload training is not allowed. The next day, he clearly stipulated that Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo must observe the rest time before the game, and told them to relax.
This time, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo no longer dared to be "proactive" and strictly followed Yao Bin's instructions.
The curtain fell on the Asian Winter Games, and Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo unexpectedly overtook Maria and Andrei to win this fierce gold medal. This also verified the correctness and scientific nature of Yao Bin's strict pre-match arrangements. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's gold medal is very critical, and it is precisely because they won this championship that is generally optimistic about Kazakhstan, that the Chinese team won the first place in the total number of gold medals at the Asian Winter Games for the first time! In addition, because this competition was held in his hometown of Harbin, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo really made their fathers and fellow villagers in their hometown proud for a while.
Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the championship at the Third Asian Winter Games for them to go abroad to participate in the precious opportunity, and soon after the end of the competition, the National Sports Commission assigned Yao Bin to take Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo to participate in the World Championships held in Edmonton, Canada that year. When he received this notice, it was close to the end of the year, and three days before the Spring Festival, Yao Bin hurriedly set off for Beijing to handle the formalities. When people were busy preparing for the Spring Festival, it was difficult to find the staff of the unit that handled the procedures, and Yao Bin took a lot of effort to complete the procedures.
This time Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo appeared abroad, it has a very heavy weight in Yao Bin's heart, Yao Bin is nothing else, but with a thirsty mood, he wants to try what level the Chinese pair skating that has won the Asian championship is in the world. At this World Championship, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the 15th place, and the results were at a medium level among the participating athletes from all over the world. Despite this, the audience in the stadium responded very warmly to the performances of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo.
Looking at such a warm scene, Yao Bin smiled...
This competition is the beginning of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's entry into the world's top pair skater team. In February 1997, they won the World University Winter Games held in South Korea, the 11th place at the World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland in the same year, and the 5th place in the World Winter Olympics held by Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo in Nagano, Japan in 1998, which shows that they have entered the small circle of the world's top pair skaters, and the possibility of China's pair skating winning the world championship has greatly increased!
Nagano is a place where Yao Bin, Shen Xue, and Zhao Hongbo feel very warm. In 1997, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the championship of the Nagano Station of the World NHK Championship Series with excellent results. The Japanese audience on the field cheered and cheered, and the boiling and exciting scene really moved Yao Bin and a pair of lovers for many days. In the Winter Olympic Games, as soon as Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo appeared, the Japanese audience who were already familiar with them showed extraordinary enthusiasm and waved their arms to cheer Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo. In the gap between the games, when a reporter from China Sports News interviewed Yao Bin, Yao Bin casually took out the training notes he wrote for the reporter to read in a very good mood. Later, his training notes were compiled and published by reporters and published in China Sports News three times. In this training note that condenses Yao Bin's painstaking efforts, Yao Bin depicts the mental journey of how a coach coaches with vivid examples, and the delicate brushstrokes and meticulous analysis reflect Yao Bin's unique insights and arouse strong resonance in the hearts of many coaches who have read the article.
Four
The years do not live, the seasons are like a stream. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have grown up since "holding hands" in 1992, and have become eye-catching geminis on the ice.
Zhao Hongbo was bigger than in the past, and his tall and tall muscles burst with passion and strength. Shen Xue's thinness and thinness in the year of cardamom have long disappeared, and he looks like a pavilion. Once the makeup is on the ice, a young woman who exudes oriental charm seems to float from the sky, and the gentle as water and the bird-like demeanor have won the love of many foreign audiences, and the ice love between her and Zhao Hongbo is natural and the combination of pearls does not know how many viewers have been dumped. For a long time, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo performed abroad in official competitions or on ice, even if they did not get the first place, the audience also applauded thunderously, and the endless applause was enough to show how fascinating and intoxicating the love story of young men and women in this ancient country in the East was.
So, what is the relationship between Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo in life? Is it the first bloom of love, or the love affair that closes the heart, or the "big brother and little sister"?
Harbin's ice and snow sports have attracted generations of athletes to join this world of ice sculpture and jade. With the fluttering goose feather snowflakes as love letters, and the white ice surface as the red silk thread of love, many "ice homes" in the Harbin sports team have been completed. Far from it, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's respective enlightenment coaches Chen Xiaofei and Sun Yeping are two sons, and Yao Bin and his lover Cao Guifeng are also married because of ice. Cao Guifeng is dignified and quiet, known as the "ice trapeze", when he was an athlete, he was no less than Yao Bin, won several consecutive national championships before the famous speed skater Wang Xiuli, and is currently the deputy director of the ice base of the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau.
It seems that ice and snow sports not only exercise people's physique, but also a love arena. Nowadays, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who have reached the age of marriage and marriage, are inevitably facing speculation. In particular, they are engaged in "holding hands", and the fate of success or failure and the special experience of the past 10 years that are almost inseparable have naturally become the topic of interest of the audience in the past two years. What's even funnier is that journalists at home and abroad will ask them about their "relationship" in a cookie-cutter way when interviewing them.
Probably "battle-hardened", in the face of reporters' questions, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo either laughed and did not say anything or avoided it with "not considering it now". Under the attention of the reporters, I saw that Zhao Hongbo's upright body was getting stronger and stronger, and Shen Xue was snuggling up next to him and smiling sweetly. This intriguing scene had to be imagined and deliberated by the reporters themselves.
In fact, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo really put all their energy into the cause of winning the world championship. As for the intimacy they showed, it was a habit that they had unconsciously formed when they were young together. The special requirements for pair skaters determine the special relationship between athletes, and the emotional factors between individual athletes have a non-negligible role in the competition, and the similar personalities and interests between the two will burst out in the competition. This, consequentially
Yao Bin, the coach of more than a dozen pairs of pair skaters, feels that Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo are a seamless pair.
Injuries can be said to be common for athletes, but after passing out and waking up, you don't say a word and then practice, so you have to look at this athlete with surprise. A training failure, Shen Xue fell unconscious. Yao Bin saw that she did not hurt her bones and let the players carry her to a chair on the sideline. After a while, Shen Xue woke up, and when she saw Zhao Hongbo, who was practicing on the ice, she rubbed her eyes and jumped onto the ice again. The other athletes stared at Yao Bin, waiting for him to shout shen xue back, but Yao Bin casually put his arm on his chest as if nothing had happened.
Shen Xue's tenacity and diligence not only made Yao Bin feel pleased, but also made Zhao Hongbo admire, and the tacit understanding in training was mentioned. Personal relationships have also become more intimate – not only talking about everything, but sometimes laughing together. Shen Xue has the problem of airsickness, every time he takes a plane, Zhao Hongbo will vacate his seat to let Shen Xue lie down and rest, this little brother is still quite careful, a moment of drink and fruit sent to Shen Xue's hands. Yao Bin looked in his eyes and admired Zhao Hongbo's love and consideration for Shen Xue.
After the Nagano Winter Olympics, Yao Bin took them to the United States to participate in the 1998 World Championships, and finally won the 4th place. They then competed in a series of World Series. Among the most dramatic are several encounters with world champions, Russia's Berezhnaya and Scarulidze.
It is no exaggeration to say that two or three years ago, Berezhnaya and Scarulize in the eyes of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo were nothing more than a double slide sculpture radiating an aura of charm, a beautiful blonde man and woman who held hands and held hands, and I don't know how many of their admirers had been charmed, and when they slid like meteors on the silver ice, they would push people into frenzied waves. Berezhnaya and Scarulize were runners-up at the 1998 Winter Olympics and champions of the 1997 and 1998 World Championships, and in the past matches between Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo and Berezhnaya and Scarulidze, Berezhnaya and Scarulidze were as elusive as beautiful clouds in the sky. But since 1998, this distance has gradually narrowed, and it has gotten closer and closer, until it is close to the end. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have been magically approaching the world's top circle of pair skating since the beginning of the 1998 Winter Olympics, and the speed of the wind has impressed the world's pair skating authorities. In the 1998 NHK series in Moscow, although Berezhnaya and Scarulize won the championship, the very close score had made them feel threatened at any time.
On March 6, 1999, st. Petersburg, the final final of the pair skating of the ISU World Figure Skating Grand Prix finals kicked off. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo once again met with Berezhnaya and Scarulize.
Shen Xue, 21, and Zhao Hongbo, 26, appeared among the athletes and coaches from all over the world who were preparing for the game, looking at the maturity and confidence, they greeted familiar competitors with friendly smiles and methodically made preparations before the game. Suddenly, they met the eyes of Berezhnaya and Scarulize, and although the other party also responded with a friendly smile, they showed a look of uneasiness that could not be concealed. Probably because of the psychological pressure of playing at the home of the home, Berezhnaya and Scarulize, who came out, judged the two of them compared with the past, their movements were sluggish and stiff, and there were as many mistakes as three times. The Russian audience in the stadium was really stunned, wondering what magic God had done to bring their proud princess and prince into such an embarrassing situation. After the game, Berezhnaya and Scarulidze looked depressed, and the championship crown passed them.
God always serves with a smile on those who have faith. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo behaved calmly and calmly in this competition, as if they were accumulating thick and thin hair, interpreting their skills in a colorful and colorful way, full of brilliance... The oriental charm of the oriental sacred deer is transformed into a beautiful melody here, the melody of the east is transformed into the line of the rainbow, and the line of the east is transformed into the starlight of the flying...
Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won the is the islamic Federation World Figure Skating Competition Finals Pair Skating Championship, which is a milestone breakthrough in China's pair skating project!
Five
People familiar with China's ice and snow sports know that China's ice and snow sports, like the disaster-prone motherland, have an unforgettable past. From the day new China's ice and snow sports were born, it was destined that China's ice and snow athletes must catch up with the european and American countries that are far ahead with great confidence and endurance.
Modern ice and snow sports originated in Europe and the United States, is the product of the economic development of developed countries, whether it is a beautiful shoe cover or a clear and crisp metal ice knife, all show the science and technology of industrialized countries. As soon as skating appeared, people were fascinated by the graceful posture of running and dancing on the ice wearing skates, and ice sports immediately swept the world. However, the popular "world" is all about the world of European and American countries, and while Europeans and Americans watch intoxicating ice performances on the playing field, our country is in the midst of heavy war. It was not until the 1920s that ordinary people in Beijing saw a few Chinese students practicing skating on the ice surface of the North Sea wearing skates they had never seen before, and these Chinese students who wore "foreign play" skating were probably the forerunners of modern ice sports in China.
It is precisely because of such a history and gap that the ice and snow sports in New China are difficult and have a long way to go. In the 1960s, Luo Zhihuan and Wang Jinyu had just brought a dawn to China's ice and snow movement, and then fell silent with the advent of the Cultural Revolution, just like a meteor just scratched a light in the sky and then disappeared.
At that time, Yao Bin and his partner Luan Bo frequently went abroad to participate in some international competitions as the best figure skaters in China, winning bronze medals at the World University Games in Sofia, Bulgaria, in 1983, and 15th at the 1984 Winter Olympics. In addition, they have participated in three world championships in Dortmund in Germany, Hartford in the United States and Copenhagen in Denmark, and won the 14th, 13th and 11th places respectively.
These achievements did not make Yao Bin's mood suddenly cheerful, but made his heart heavier and heavier. In the international competition where the masters of various countries gathered, he witnessed the standard and style of the world's first-class athletes, and the almost flawless gliding heroic posture, whether it was technical difficulty or performance action, strongly shook Yao Bin's heart. The distance between China's figure skating and the world is too great, and thinking about his heavy responsibilities and achievements, he feels even more that something is pounding on his heart. He knew very well that the bronze medal at Sophia was won because it was not the top competition in which the world's top athletes participated, and the world championships and Olympic games he and Luan Bo won were all the last place without exception... In a foreign country far away from the motherland, where ice sports are popular and favored, Yao Bin almost shed tears of humiliation.
This pale period of time was engraved in Yao Bin's heart like a scar that could never be erased, and from the day he became a coach, he secretly vowed to exchange the full price of his life for the world's highest figure skating laurel. But this is too difficult, difficult in the technical movement, difficult in artistic expression, and even more difficult in the prejudice and partiality of the Western referee. Fate seems to be against Yao Bin at every turn, allowing him to take Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo on a difficult trek on the road full of hope, although the scenery is infinite, but full of thorns and traps.
Perhaps it is the psychology of considering figure skating, especially pair skating, as a hereditary territory, and some Western referees have given Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo scores that have reached the point of being extremely harsh and even picking bones in eggs. In St. Petersburg, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo defeated Bergerenaya and Scarulize, and then they met again on March 24, 1999 in Helsinki, Finland, to compete for the gold medal at the World Figure Skating Championships. It should be said that this time the event Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo is in the limelight, its skills and cooperation have reached the peak state, after playing to the fullest, a series of lifting, turning, throwing and other difficult actions accurate and beautiful, when the accompaniment music ended, the referee has not yet scored, the audience can not stop standing up, applause like the waves of the sea a wave higher than a wave. When the referees brightened the technical time, they scored 4 5.8s and 4 5.9s, surpassing all the players. However, when the referee performed the score, a scandal in the history of international figure skating appeared, Russia's Sviatoslav Papinko and Ukraine's Alfred Koxue Czech Republic in the process of scoring Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo and Polish players Zagoska and Hudek, and made gestures to each other, resulting in Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo being depressed and ranking second. Berezhnaya and Scarulidze, who made major mistakes in the competition, took the gold medal, and the Polish player won the third place.
As soon as the results came out, there were boos in the arena at that time. The next day, Finland's largest newspaper, Helsinki News, reported that "on the issue of the gold medal in the pair skating, the judges and the audience have very different views" and that "the Chinese players are the champions in the minds of the audience". After re-watching the video, the INTERNATIONAL ICE FEDERATION made a decision on March 28 that the two referees could not serve as IAF referees, but the result of the match could not be changed - Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo could only be champions in the eyes of the audience.
If Helsinki was the first time that some foreign referees had put their tilted chips on the side of Chinese athletes, the next few events showed the blatant favoritism of foreign referees. Therefore, we can foresee the ups and downs and difficulties of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo moving to the last step within a short distance.
2000 was supposedly a year when Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo could enjoy the joy of "snow hate", and it was entirely possible that they would be crowned the long-awaited world championship. Unexpectedly, due to the excessive psychological pressure on the spot, the referee "just in time" showed the score and lost the championship that seemed to be within reach.
In January, Yao Bin's three apprentices went to Lyon, France to participate in the World Figure Skating Finals. Because Shen Xue broke his nose bone during training in October 1999, in the next World Series, Shen Xue was affected by poor nose discomfort and his results were not ideal. Before playing, Yao Bin repeatedly told Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo to go into battle lightly and not to think about gains and losses. Psychologically without baggage, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo boldly bought a game as soon as they came on the field, defeating the French players Sakha bibo and Sbilandi and winning the championship.
In March, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo entered France to participate in the World Figure Skating Championships held in Minsi. During the match, they got good news that had fallen from the sky: the defending champions Berezhnaya and Scarulidze had to withdraw from the competition because Berezhnaya had been found to have taken doping. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's strongest opponents retreated without a fight, and domestic and foreign experts and public opinion generally favored the double skating championship.
However, it was this "accident" that actually caused Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo to be a little confused, and the enthusiastic praise that appeared in the newspaper and the comments that others could only pass the top of the champion invisibly put a "tight curse" on them and tied their hands and feet. They felt nothing but the immense pressure, and as soon as they came on the scene, the deafening and frantic shouts of the enthusiastic French audience made them more cautious for fear of mistakes. In the restlessness and uneasiness, their usual calm and steady style in the game disappeared, and Yao Bin, who was staring at them, had a premonition that things were not good, and his heart also mentioned the throat eyes. Sure enough, when the audience still applauded Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, Yao Bin found that Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo obviously showed the psychology of stage fright - the movements were stagnant, the expression was stiff, and there were successive mistakes... In the end, the match was stopped, and the referee gave the highest score to another pair of Russian players, Ma Betrova and A. Tikhonov, and Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo only won the silver medal.
The main reason for this match was that they "fell" very heavily, mainly because they lost to their own hands, and they could not enjoy the "courtesy" of showing a high score even if they fell to the referee in Helsinki. If you want to become a champion, the only thing you can do is to play boldly without making mistakes. The blow caused by this setback was self-evident, Shen Xue washed his face with tears, Zhao Hongbo was remorseful and locked his brows, and Yao Bin was even more full of hardships, lying in the Nissovatel Hotel and launching a high fever, his mouth full of burning bubbles.
Six
Returning to Beijing from Minsi, Yao Bin asked Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo to abandon the National Figure Skating Championships held in April and make special adjustments. The three masters and apprentices agreed that if they wanted to win gold in the World Figure Skating Championships or the Olympic Games in the future, there was no way but to have more courage than players from other countries. This means that both the technique and the performance must be impeccable.
In recent years, there has been a great controversy in China about the performance scores of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, because they have always scored high in technology and low in art in international competitions over the years. Some articles argue that they are not like Russian or Canadian players who grew up in an artistic atmosphere like ballet from a young age, and are good at interpreting the understanding of music and the whole set of movements in competition. For this reason, in July 1999, the National Winter Sports Management Center specially asked Yao Bin to take Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo and another pair of disciples, Pang Qing and Tong Jian, to an international skating club in the eastern United States for choreography training, and invited Ms. Sandra Baizik, a Canadian figure skating coach who had choreographed the movements of China's women's single skater Chen Lu, for Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo.
For this, Yao Bin, who is well versed in music and dance, has his own ideas. He believes that the key is to appreciate taste – Europeans are enthusiastic, Orientals are implicitly introverted. For example, to show love, European athletes will have some kissing and other actions, but Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo can't do it, and Yao Bin, who has a more traditional thinking, has never asked for it. Ms. Bai Zike's choreography for some reason could not be implemented as planned, yao Bin also appropriately drew on Bai Zike's strengths in the choreography, improved some movements according to the appreciation taste of Westerners, and designed a cheek-hugging action when facing the Figure Skating World Championships in Vancouver, and the two people pulled apart at the end of the song and then slowly withdrew the lyrical action that gave the oriental mood and long meaning to each other.
But I don't know whether it was the International Skating Federation's deliberate trickery or solipsism, Yao Bin's elaborate ending action was suddenly told that it must be changed at a critical moment shortly before the competition, and with twelve points of incomprehension and helplessness, Yao Bin had to redesign according to the requirements of western referees and rehearse in a hurry.
At the pairs skating short program competition at the World Figure Skating Championships in Vancouver on March 20, 2001, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo appeared confident and calm, both in terms of action difficulty and artistic expression, and won the warmest applause except for the host Canadian players. Yao Bin was relieved, feeling that they had laid a good foundation for the free skating competition on the 22nd, and the champion was closing the distance. Just then, a scene that has appeared in history reappeared, and the referee had an incredible two low scores of 5.4 when the referee lit up the score! The whole audience was in an uproar, and Yao Bin, Shen Xue, and Zhao Hongbo all disbelieved their eyes in shock...
In the free skating competition on the 22nd, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, who appeared last among the 20 pairs of contestants, broke free from the shadow left by the 20-day short program competition, only to see this pair of oriental young men and women dressed in green traditional costumes or like eagles in the storm, skimming the black oppressive clouds and drawing a parabola with silver light; or like a slowly gliding double swallow, murmuring in the low hanging, pouring out endless voices... Especially the melody that stretches slowly when the cheek is pressed, like the flow of the stream, like the gentle blowing of the wind. Throwing jumps, lifting, and three-week jumps are interspersed with each other, and the connection is smooth and vivid.
Yao Bin, who was watching from the sidelines, stared at them tightly, although he knew that the champion was powerless to return to heaven, but still flowed from the bottom of his heart with irrepressible passion. He felt ashamed; he did everything he could...
As Yao Bin expected, although Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's outstanding performance won the referee's five high technical scores of 5.9, the two 5.4 points of the short program have already determined their fate.
Canada's Sel and Pelletier won the championship because they were home games, although they did not play very well. The runners-up were Russia's Berezhnaya and Skarulidze.
Yao Bin, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo pinned their new hopes on next year's Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.
At that time, when he saw China's women's speed skating star Ye Qiaobo win the silver medal at the Winter Olympics, Yao Bin said to Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo: "Do you know? Ye Qiaobo was injured, so the danger of participating in the competition was quite large, and if he did not get it right, he would be paralyzed for life. But if she doesn't play, she will lose the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games forever..." Speaking of this, Yao Bin's shining eyes were a little moist, "As an athlete, this is a real test, but Ye Qiaobo is open-minded, let alone paralyzed, even if he dies!" That's what a real athlete is..."
The room was surprisingly quiet, and only the "ticking" of the wall clock on the wall could be heard. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's thoughts fluctuated with Yao Bin's passionate words, Zhao Hongbo's eyes were also moist, and Shen Xue's tears had already flowed down. Suddenly, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo seemed to suddenly understand that athletes do not belong to themselves, they should belong to the motherland and the people!
The honor of the motherland closely linked Yao Bin's heart to the hearts of the two beloved disciples. Because they have the motherland in their hearts, the three masters and apprentices are related to each other and are constantly pursuing a goal.
In 1994, Zhao Hongbo's father, Zhao Yumin, suddenly fell ill and walked from Zhao Hongbo to the skating rink, and Zhao Yumin poured a lot of effort into his son's development and formed a "year-old friendship" with Yao Bin. The day before he died, he said to Yao Bin, who came to visit: "It is not easy for Hongbo to get to this day, and Hongbo's future for the next step is entrusted to you!" Yao Bin said to the grief-stricken Zhao Hongbo: "Your father's hope is to see if you can cheer up!" Let's go, throw everything away, our goal is in the Winter Olympics! ”
Shortly after the 1996 Asian Winter Games, Shen Xue's home was stolen and Shen Xue's six medals were swept away. Looking at Shen Xue, who was crying like a little tearful person, Yao Bin said, "Forget about crying, don't think about it all day." There will definitely be better gold medals waiting for you in the future! ”
Yes, it is with this persistence and self-confidence that Yao Bin took Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo with him, and with the obsessive love of ice city people for ice, he stepped to the peak step by step on the difficult and rugged road to the championship.
Finally won the first world championship in Chinese pair skating!
In 2002, at the M-WAVE Stadium in Nagano, Japan, the World Figure Skating Championships were held in pair skating.
At 20:15 on March 20, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo stood on the white ice, accompanied by the opening of the love story "Turandot", their interpretation of the love classic of the Chinese princess and the Prince of Tatars shook the entire stadium, although Shen Xue accidentally fell down when she completed the two-and-a-half week outer point ice jump, but she instantly got up and jumped on Zhao Hongbo to continue to complete the next action. Shen Xue's calm and agility left an unforgettable impression on the audience, and in the next two difficult lifts, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo cooperated cleanly and sharply, and the audience suddenly burst into cheering applause. At this moment, the famous Italian opera composer Puccini's "Nobody Sleeps Tonight" spun up, and the princess finally threw herself into the arms of the prince... "The role" interprets love, "holding hands", through which "high difficulty" is pushed to the climax, and the whole game is perfect.
At the 2002 Figure Skating World Championships, Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo shocked the whole field, and nine referees unanimously played the first place for them, winning the championship with a high score that no one could match!
Nagano, Japan, is truly their blessed land. Previously, in February, at the 19th Winter Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo jumped around with the guidance of Yao and their hard and tenacious training of Shakhov, although they made mistakes, they still won the first medal in the Winter Olympics in Chinese pair skating at the Winter Olympics with a preliminary grasp of the movements that no one in the world could complete, and won the first medal - third place!
The history of the World Figure Skating Championships and the history of the Winter Olympics, for the first time, the names of Chinese were written on the double skating championships and bronze medal table...
In the late spring of 2002, it was in the void
Attached: [ Afterword ]
Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's records are that they have participated in four Winter Olympic Games, winning 1 gold and 2 bronze; the World Championships 3 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze; the World Figure Skating Grand Prix finals 6 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze, and the Asian Winter Games 4 gold. After the 2007 World Championships free skating championships, Zhao Hongbo romantically proposed to Shen Xue on one knee, and the love between the two of them that "held hands" all the way was finally ripe, achieving a beautiful marriage between the two figure skating couples.
When they won the Olympic championship, Zhao Hongbo was 37 years old and Shen Xue was 32 years old, making them the oldest champions in the history of pair skating. After fulfilling their Olympic dream of gold medals, they announced their retirement. On September 4, 2010, the ice wedding "Grace Ceremony" of ice lovers Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo was held at the Beijing Capital Gymnasium, and Shen Xue, Zhao Hongbo and a number of invited figure skating world champions presented a pleasing, romantic and aesthetic artistic feast for Chinese audiences.
On September 3, 2013, Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo and his wife gave birth to their love crystal daughter Zhao Xue'er. It is worth mentioning that Cher also likes to skate, and began to go to ice at the age of 2 and a half and showed her talent for figure skating. In 2018, Xue'er won the small championship of the women's singles enlightenment senior group in the North China Station of China's first figure skating club league.
Today, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo have retired for 11 years, and their careers have developed steadily. Shen Xue served as the first chairman of the Chinese Figure Skating Association and deputy secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League, while Zhao Hongbo worked as a coach for the national team, starting with pair skating, and then retired from his mentor Yao Bin, who succeeded Yao Bin as the head coach of the figure skating team.
It should also be noted that when this article was written, the manuscript was submitted to the newspaper for typography and typesetting, and the author did not have an electronic version. It was the author who accidentally found this article on Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo's Sohu blog and downloaded it. This is also the reason why this article was re-posted on the author's public account after 19 years, but it is a knot in the heart and a wish. What makes the author happy is that before shen xue and Zhao Hongbo's blog was published, Zhao Hongbo solemnly posted a preview on the blog;
Good news for everyone! We have collected a series of growth stories from before the 2002 Olympics. I hope that tomorrow will be published here at the same time as my official website, and I hope you will enjoy this story!!! Hongbo
Now, this story is finished, I believe that readers after reliving shen xue, Zhao Hongbo's hard-working road to the championship and the experience of the love obtained by "holding hands", after feeling the legend and glory of their lives, they will also feel the "persuasion" of the Warring States Xunzi said, "No accumulation of steps, no thousands of miles; Without accumulating small streams, there is no way to become a river and a sea" the true meaning of life.
Early spring 2021 in the void