Chinese wheelchair curling team head coach Yue Qingshuang. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
On March 4, at the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Yue Qingshuang, head coach of the Chinese wheelchair curling team, took the stage to take the oath on behalf of the coaches. At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Yue Qingshuang led the Chinese wheelchair curling team to win the first gold medal in the history of the Chinese Winter Paralympic team, and won the World Championships twice in 2019 and 2021. In the Chinese wheelchair curling team, the team members call Yue Qingshuang "Mother Yue", and she also takes care of the team members as children. During the preparation for the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Yue Qingshuang met her son who was less than 3 years old so many times that when he returned home, his son did not know her, "It is really a little sad to say, maybe this is 'giving up the small family for everyone'." ”
The team members trained too hard, and she had to drive them to dinner
For Chinese curling, the "four golden flowers" Yue Qingshuang, Wang Bingyu, Zhou Yan and Liu Yin are the memories of an era, and they have led the development of curling projects in China. Today, they continue to be active in the curling field in different capacities.
Among these 4 people, Yue Qingshuang is called "Jolin on Ice" by jug fans because of her beautiful and sweet appearance, and is also the first generation goddess of Chinese curling. After retiring from the army, Yue Qingshuang returned to Harbin Institute of Physical Education to become a university teacher. In 2017, Yue Qingshuang was seconded by the China Disabled Persons' Federation as the head coach of the Chinese wheelchair curling team.
During the athlete period, Yue Qingshuang belongs to a relatively large category of hearts, resting when resting, playing when playing, and training when training. As a coach, the sense of responsibility is heavier, and she must always pay attention to the life and training of each team member, "At this point, the coach is still more hard. ”
When he first arrived at the wheelchair curling team, Yue Qingshuang didn't know how to contact the team members at first, "Sometimes I want to help them, such as taking something." But in fact, they often help us get things. ”
The run-in time was not long, Yue Qingshuang mingled with the team members, and Chinese wheelchair curling also quickly ranked among the world's strongest teams. At the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, Yue Qingshuang led the Chinese wheelchair curling team to win the gold medal, which was the first gold medal in the history of the Chinese Winter Paralympic team. In 2019 and 2021, the Chinese wheelchair curling team won the World Championship twice.
Now when it comes to curling, Yue Qingshuang is more willing to use "healthy people curling" to express. "These players of mine are worthy of my admiration and learning in hard training." Yue Qingshuang introduced that compared with the healthy person curling, the wheelchair curling competition does not have an ice sweeping link, and it is completely dependent on the arm strength and rod of the team members to push out, "the healthy person competition will have ice sweeping, which can help the pot change the line, and the wheelchair curling team members are completely dependent on the feel and length to feel, which is more difficult and more ornamental." ”
From curling to wheelchair curling, it is also a learning process for Yue Qingshuang, and she can feel the tenacious spirit of the wheelchair curling team. "I used to be a team member, and when I was too tired, I wanted to be lazy and leave work early. But the spirit of our wheelchair curling team members is really worth learning from me, and usually a little injury can't bear not to tell me. "After 3 to 4 hours of ice training every morning, the team members are reluctant to go to the ice, and Yue Qing is so refreshing that he drives them to lunch," they cherish every time they go to the ice. ”
Yue Qingshuang set the pot for the team members. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
From losing streak to winning streak, her decompression track remains
On March 3, the Chinese wheelchair curling team conducted its first pre-game adaptation training at Ice Cube. Each team had only 15 minutes to adapt on each track. Before training, Yue Qingshuang squatted down from time to time to help the team members clean and set the pots, just to help the team members grab a few seconds of time and let them adapt to the ice faster.
Compared with healthy people curling, wheelchair curlers have a much greater difficulty in posing and polishing the pot at the waist, and the burden on the body is very large. Team member Yan Zhuo said that not only before the game, Yue Qingshuang will often help everyone set up and wipe the pot during daily training. When training, the intensity of the work will be greater because there are more players and fewer coaches.
As the only female athlete in the team, Yan Zhuo bluntly said that it was particularly comfortable to communicate with Yue Qingshuang, "Coach Yue is particularly careful, and she will tell us a lot before each time she plays, and she knows how to let everyone overcome the tension on the field." ”
At the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Chinese wheelchair curling came up and lost to Canada and Sweden. As the defending champions, it was another game on the doorstep, and the players were under too much pressure. In those two days, Yue Qingshuang's main job was to help the team members reduce stress. After losing to Sweden, Yue Qingshuang asked the players to lie in bed and meditate for 30 minutes, do not consider any off-field factors, just think about the feeling of usual training, how each pot is shot. "I want them to get back to their former shining points and where they were successful." Everything was difficult at the beginning, Yue Qingshuang believed that everyone was no problem, "We have been preparing for 4 years, and it is impossible to affect the subsequent games because of two losses." ”
At the pre-match preparation meeting of the Chinese team for the third match, substitute Sun Yulong led everyone to sing a song "Borrowing five hundred years from heaven". Captain Wang Haitao said that as soon as this imposing song was sung, everyone's suppressed emotions were swept away. After that, the Chinese team defeated Estonia 9-3 and ushered in a wave of 7 consecutive wins.
At the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games 4 years ago, Yue Qingshuang also used this way to help the team members reduce stress. At that time, Yue Qingshuang used a mineral water bottle as a microphone in the cold square of Pyeongchang and sang a song "Flame" for the team members, inspiring morale and leading everyone to achieve a historic breakthrough. After losing two consecutive games at the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, Yue Qingshuang has prepared a new repertoire ready to help the players improve their morale, "but I don't want to sing, because I want the team to play at our level." ”
In the past 4 years, Yue Qingshuang has spent much longer with the team members than with his family. Beijing News reporter Tao Ran photographed
The number of times she came home was rare, and her son almost forgot about her
Born in 1985, Yue Qingshuang is a few years older than the team members, but the team members like to call her "Mother-in-law". Once in an interview in the mixed mining area, Chen Jianxin, the third base, mouthed a "mother-in-law", and Yue Qingshuang listened to Zhile on the side.
"I have a two-year-old baby in my family, and these children are just like my big baby." Yue Qingshuang said that whether they regard these team members as "big treasures" or younger siblings, they are really like a family. "Since it's a family, naturally someone will do the role of mother, father, brother and child, and I think I am more like a mother." 」 Yue Qingshuang introduced that everyone often watches movies together, relaxes together, and makes dumplings together during the New Year.
When evaluating these team members, in addition to the 4 players on the field, Yue Qingshuang will also specifically mention the substitute Sun Yulong. After that, Yue Qingshuang will also tell the media the names of the other 7 team members who are not selected for the delegation list, and she is telling everyone in such a way that the Chinese wheelchair curling team is a big family. "In these four years of preparation, we have 12 players and the other 7 players are also very good. They have so many flashes of light that sometimes I can't stand to think about it. ”
With such a cute team member, Yue Qingshuang naturally likes to care for them and help them like a mother. "I was there when they needed care, and they said I was just like my mother." Yue Qingshuang said with a smile that after the 4-year preparation cycle, the time with the team members is much longer than with the family, "I have the responsibility and obligation to bring these team members out." ”
In the "four golden flowers" of Chinese curling, Yue Qingshuang is the last mother, and her son is not yet 3 years old this year. In the past two years, Yue Qingshuang and the child have not seen each other a few times. More often, the son's impression of his mother is the voice in the monitoring at home, "Once I went back, the child forgot about me, it is really a little sad to say, maybe this is 'giving up the small family for everyone'." 」 ”
Sun Haiguang, chief reporter of the Beijing News
Edited by Xiao Wanli Proofreader Li Lijun