Four years ago, we created history and created brilliance; four years later, we went all out to continue to write a legend! As an athlete, Yue Qingshuang, who played second base, stood on the highest podium of the World Championships with her companions; after retiring as a coach, she led her team to the winter Paralympic championship podium for the first time. From curling team member to wheelchair curling coach, she has never left curling, and has realized the Olympic champion dream of Chinese curling step by step with love and perseverance.
Yue Qingshuang (left)
This Winter Paralympic Games is a home battle, once again won this heavy Winter Paralympic gold medal, which is Yue Qingshuang and the players at the "doorstep" once again handed over a "beautiful" answer sheet to the Chinese people.
Curling, known as "chess on ice", is a very elegant and ornamental ice sport. Mention the Chinese women's curling team Yue Qingshuang, I believe that friends who are more familiar with Chinese curling will not be strangers, "one of the four golden flowers" and "Jolin Tsai on ice" These are the nicknames of the outside world for her, good personality, high appearance, making her become the first generation goddess of Chinese curling in the hearts of many netizens. In 2003, at the age of 18, she and her teammates won the 10th National Winter Games and began to emerge. She was then selected for the national team and formed a wonderful relationship with curling.
In 2009, as the second base of the Chinese women's curling team, Yue Qingshuang and his teammates won the first curling world championship gold medal in history for the Chinese team, and the "Ice Jade Refreshing" combination composed of Yue Qingshuang, Wang Bingyu, Zhou Yan and Liu Yin was even more popular throughout China, and curling also "broke the circle", for a time, set off a curling whirlwind, so that curling, an unpopular sport, entered the public vision. In 2010, the "Four Golden Flowers" entered the Vancouver Winter Olympics and won a bronze medal, which was also the first collective project medal of the Chinese sports delegation in the history of the Winter Olympics. Although this is the best result in history, for Yue Qingshuang and his teammates, it is inevitable that there will be a trace of regret in their hearts.
After the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Yue Qingshuang gradually faded out of the pot world to become a teacher at the Harbin Institute of Physical Education, and in 2017, she was appointed head coach of the national wheelchair curling team. From curling to wheelchair curling, from athletes to coaches, she excelled along the way. In 2018, at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games in South Korea, Yue Qingshuang led the Chinese wheelchair curling team to a narrow victory over Norway in the final, winning the gold medal in wheelchair curling in one fell swoop, achieving a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the Winter Paralympic Winter Paralympic Games of the Chinese delegation. "Not only did I realize the dream of the team members, but also the dream of the Chinese wheelchair curling team, but also my dream." The winning of this gold medal marks the beginning of the chinese para curling sport for the disabled, and we must continue to continue and continue to achieve better results at the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games on our doorstep. Yue Qingshuang said.
With the honor of the gold medal of the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, Yue Qingshuang led the Chinese wheelchair curling team, the "master of kings", in the following years, worked together to fight for the country, and successively climbed the highest podium of the 2019 World Championships and the 2021 World Championships, achieving the "Grand Slam" of wheelchair curling.
Yue Qingshuang during the athlete period
After the end of the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games, the Chinese wheelchair curling team only took a short break and began the training of the new Olympic cycle. In the new round of winter Paralympic training, Yue Qingshuang and the coaching team selected the best of the best, and 12 people were selected from them to participate in the four-year preparation. Over the years, a special sense of trust developed between her and her team. In preparation for the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, she led everyone to train at least 6 to 8 hours a day. The players are very self-conscious, always an hour in advance to warm up, every day at noon to dinner, everyone is still reluctant to leave the ice rink, they all cherish the opportunity to train. Yue Qingshuang said that the tenacious spirit of disabled athletes touched him and hoped to help more disabled athletes realize their dreams. "I've never seen them get bored, they have the state and spirit of not accepting defeat and surpassing themselves, and I think as our coach, we should better help them."
The Beijing 2022 Winter Paralympic Games were held at the "doorstep" of the chinese wheelchair curling team, and Yue Qingshuang led the Chinese wheelchair curling team to stand in the "Ice Cube" arena of the National Aquatics Center. As the PyeongChang Winter Paralympic champion, the Chinese team was unfavorable, losing to Canada and Sweden successively. Faced with an unfavorable start, Yue Qingshuang quickly adjusted the state of the team members, lightly loaded after psychological decompression, and passed the level to break through, and entered the final with the first place in the round robin tournament.
"Fight", "fight again" and "fight to the death", from the round robin to the final, Yue Qingshuang has always maintained calm and composure, and in an appropriate way to convey the word "spelling" to the hearts of every team member. She told her team members: "The game is a fight, the biggest competitor is actually their own psychology, adjust their mentality, the process and details of each game are in place, naturally there will be good results." ”
At the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics four years ago, Yue Qingshuang sang the song "Flame" for the team members in order to inspire the team, and this hot "fire" also ignited the morale and hope of the team members, and finally the Chinese team won the championship in one fell swoop. At this Year's Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, before the semi-final against Canada, she sang a song "Set the Horse Pole" for everyone, and explained: The team members are brave and fearless in their hearts. Talking about the final with Sweden, Yue Qingshuang revealed that he would sing to the team members before the final, and the song was "Flame" before the final of the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games four years ago.
For the beloved curling in his heart, Yue Qingshuang gave up a small home for everyone. Talking about his family, Yue Qingshuang is full of debt and concern for his son "Walnut", who is far away in Harbin. When the child was eight months old, she left the house, and now her son, who is not yet three years old, needs her company. For many years, she just watched her children grow up through mobile phone monitoring, and in the child's impression, the mother's appearance would only appear on TV or mobile phone screens. After the award ceremony, when the media mentioned her son "Walnut", Yue Qingshuang was once again excited and shed tears, she said: "Although I can't accompany my child, I hope to set an example for my child and let him see his mother fighting hard for national honors." ”
Text/Beiqing Sports Zhou Xueshuai