On August 13, the online launching ceremony of the 17th Guangzhou Sports Festival was held in Guangzhou. Badminton Olympic champion Zhang Jiewen attended the launching ceremony. At the event site, talking about his life in the past few years from an Olympic champion to an associate professor of the Sports Department of Sun Yat-sen University, zhang Jiewen's eyebrows danced. Zhang Jiewen is the first Olympic gold medalist in badminton in Guangzhou, and now she has a new mission to teach at CUHK. "I hope that with my own efforts, in addition to teaching, badminton will also become one of the advantages of Sun Yat-sen University." She said. Recently, the Olympic champion, who enjoyed a high reputation in Guangzhou, told reporters the story of her life in Guangzhou after retiring from the army.
Zhang Jiewen, who appeared in front of the reporter, was young and beautiful, and her temperament was elegant. However, in Zhang Jiewen's body, there is no shelf of Olympic champions at all. When she was the deputy director of the Guangzhou Badminton Sports Management Center a few years ago, Zhang Jiewen did more than sit in the office, and now she is a teacher at Sun Yat-sen University, taking 6-8 classes a week, and almost every day is full. Zhang Jiewen said she enjoyed the enrichment of being with her students.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > she is always full of classes at CUHK</h1>
"Don't look at the badminton class I'm taking, but I have to prepare carefully for every class. At the end of the week, there is not much free time for yourself. On July 14, Sun Yat-sen University was on summer vacation, but Zhang Jiewen was not idle, and she took the initiative to call the badminton team of Sun Yat-sen University for summer training. For 3 weeks, she led a group of badminton students who had no foundation in badminton and loved badminton for assault training. "In fact, I can take my family to rest, and I do all this work as a volunteer worker." But the students are interested, and I am interested, and it feels good to be needed. ”
Several students at the scene reflected that Professor Zhang's biggest feature is that there is no shelf, and people are particularly easy-going. Zhang Jiewen said that through the experience of engaging in physical education in colleges and universities in recent years, he fell in love with this job. "Actually, being an athlete is very different from being a teacher. You can pass on what you've learned to more people, and that's another cause I'm doing. ”
After the 2008 Olympic Games, Zhang Jiewen took up the post of deputy director of the new Guangzhou Badminton Sports Management Center for 8 years. During this period, Zhang Jiewen continued to use her spare time to further study at the Guangzhou Sports Institute and obtained a master's degree in education. This also laid the foundation for her transformation into an associate professor of the Physical Education Department of Sun Yat-sen University through the "100 Talents Plan" of Sun Yat-sen University in 2016. Zhang Jiewen is not the first badminton teacher at CUHK, but she is certainly the most famous among them. When she reported to the school, someone recognized her and took a picture of her.
But Zhang Jiewen admitted that from the Olympic champion to the university teacher, there is still a long distance between them, and she has also experienced a very difficult adaptation process. In terms of physical education, he is still a novice and a "rookie". For example, when she first taught badminton serves, she said to her students, "Look, like I did, I sent it." Then the students all looked at her with a look on their faces. She carefully watched the students practicing serves and found that many students' serve postures were strange, and they had to teach many lessons just to serve. "I was like, do you still have to teach the serve? Don't you just take the racket and hit it? When I really became a teacher, I found that just serving needed a lesson, and I slowly broke down the action of serving into several links. First maintain a good standing position, then maintain the correct grip position with the hand, then find the correct hitting point, and finally swing the shot. Zhang Jiewen said that he realized that he was facing students who had no badminton foundation at all. Even if your own level is high, it is not the same thing as teaching students.
Because of her status as an Olympic champion, Zhang Jiewen's classes at Sun Yat-sen University are always full. Will the Olympic champion teach college students with zero foundation, will it be a bit "overkill"? Zhang Jiewen kept saying "no." "I never felt like an Olympic champion teaching college students to put down their bodies, on the contrary, I enjoyed it." Often with college students, Zhang Jiewen's mentality is also much younger. A student once told her that the reason why she chose her course was because she was a badminton "big god", but Zhang Jiewen misheard the "big god" as "big aunt" and made a joke.
Over the years, under the leadership of Zhang Jiewen, the badminton team of Sun Yat-sen University has also achieved good results. She said that she hopes that through her own efforts, badminton can also become one of the advantages of Sun Yat-sen University.
Zhang Jiewen (right) and partner Yang Wei
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="43" > not forcing her daughter to learn badminton to let her choose the path she is interested in</h1>
Zhang Jiewen is also the first Guangzhou badminton Olympic champion, in Guangzhou, Zhang Jiewen is not only very well-known, but also has a large number of fans. Compared with the days when she was focused on by the magnesium lamp in the past, Zhang Jiewen is more accustomed to the calm days of teaching in colleges and universities and returning home at night to accompany her two children. "To be honest, I don't have any sense of loss, because I think Olympic champions are ordinary people, even if they have the scenery when they win the championship, they will eventually return to peace."
Although she is an Olympic champion, Zhang Jiewen has never asked her daughter to follow the path of a badminton player like her. Her daughter is 10 years old and her son is 6 years old. It wasn't until the 2020 epidemic that Zhang Jiewen taught them to practice badminton. Because she couldn't go out during the epidemic, Zhang Jiewen put a hook on the top of the stairs, and then hung a ball and taught them to serve. Zhang Jiewen's daughter Bingxue is smart and looks very handsome, unlike the kind of athlete body that is healthy, Zhang Jiewen said, her daughter seems to have little interest in badminton, preferring to dance and paint. She confessed that the reason why she did not let her daughter take the path of a badminton player was to let the child choose what he liked to do according to his own interests. "As a parent, it is not good to make decisions for the child." The choice is in the hands of the child. Zhang Jiewen said that she began to play badminton at the age of 6, and gradually withdrew from the national team after the 2008 Olympic Games, playing badminton for a total of 22 years, and she knows the hardships of taking this road." How much athlete's sweat is condensed behind an Olympic gold medal, only the athletes themselves know. You think, if your daughter also goes this way, how much pressure she will have to bear. How good she was to surpass her mother. Although she does not expect her daughter to become a badminton player in the future, Zhang Jiewen still hopes that her daughter can make badminton a hobby.
Zhang Jiewen said that she embarked on the road of badminton players, which was completely guided by her mother. Her mother was a big sports fan, and her love of badminton reached the level of obsession. Zhang Jiewen said that her mother will go to the stadium to train as long as she has time, and she is well-known in the amateur badminton industry. Since the age of 6, Zhang Jiewen has followed her mother to learn badminton, but the high-intensity training once made her eat and hate the sport of badminton. "So, I want my child to start with interest."
For her identity as a badminton world champion, Zhang Jiewen has never told her children. "I don't want my kids to live under my aura. I have always felt that Olympic champions are also ordinary people, and I am no different from ordinary people. For a long time, Zhang Jiewen's daughter did not know her mother when she was an Olympic champion. Until Zhang Jiewen often took her daughter out to participate in activities, and often people looked for Zhang Jiewen to sign and take photos, the daughter asked curiously: "Mom, why is someone looking for you to take pictures?" Zhang Jiewen smiled and told her: "Because my mother is very good, they like to take pictures with my mother." It wasn't until later, when classmates told her daughter that "your mother is an Olympic champion," that she went home and asked her, "Mom, are you really an Olympic champion?" Zhang Jiewen told her: "Yes." But the daughter of an Olympic champion should also study hard at school. "Since then, the daughter has been particularly proud of this champion mom.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > have almost given up their badminton careers due to low hemoglobin</h1>
Zhang Jiewen laughed and said that in her peak years, the badminton women's doubles received far less attention than the men's singles and men's doubles. Usually, the women's doubles successfully advances in the competition, and the newspaper usually has only one line "women's doubles successfully advanced", and once the women's doubles loses, the newspaper usually publishes a page. "I was actually quite unbalanced. Why? Our women's doubles promotion is actually a victory over a very strong opponent, very difficult to qualify, not to say that it is easy. Perhaps because the Chinese badminton team is relatively strong, and like the table tennis team, it has always been a 'dream team', so in the eyes of everyone, victory and winning the championship are taken for granted. Zhang Jiewen said that this kind of "winning the championship" has brought her a lot of pressure, but over time, she has also slowly become accustomed to this pressure. "Later I figured it out, the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility, you are eating this bowl of rice." The people of the whole country naturally have higher demands on you. ”
What is less well known is that on the road to growth, the Olympic champion almost gave up the badminton career. She said that in 1998, after she and Xie Xingfang won the World Youth Championship, he was anemic, hemormoglobin was only 5 points, completely unable to train, and she was sick at home all day. During that time, thanks to the careful care of my father. "At that time, my father was very nervous, and then he cooked soup for me three times a day, drinking it in the morning, drinking it at noon, and drinking it at night, and I said you don't want to make soup for me again, I'm going crazy." 」 Later, the body gradually recovered, and in 1999, I entered the national team. Zhang Jiewen admitted that playing badminton, talent is very important. "Like me, who has height, speed and strength, not much, it should be said that my talent is very good. Maybe God gave the food to eat. I may be the kind of unstable, but gifted," she laughed.
Now, engaged in badminton teaching for 5 years, Zhang Jiewen has also made Zhang Jiewen have a deeper thinking about badminton. She said that it is difficult for badminton to lay a solid foundation in itself, and then it is more difficult to improve slowly, not to say that it is good physical fitness and good technology. For example, some people have good skills, but why can't they always get results? It may be because he has a bad mentality, or his comprehensive application ability is not strong, or he is not enough to respond to the scene. For example, she said, sometimes she plays a ball in a game and thinks it's beautiful, but people come back beautifully. But sometimes I play a ball of average quality, but people make a mistake again, and they score points. "So, badminton is a very test of the comprehensive ability of athletes. Since I was a child, I played youth competitions, and later played national competitions, I feel as if winning the championship is my mission, I didn't think it was so difficult to win the championship before, I really retired and saw them compete, I found that it seems that it seems quite difficult to win the championship. ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="47" > and "occupational diseases" continue to this day</h1>
Speaking of her life in the badminton national team, Zhang Jiewen used a "bitter" word to describe. Zhang Jiewen said that when she was in the national team, the women's doubles were trained with the men's doubles, and many times, the training intensity of the women's doubles was even greater than that of the men's doubles. "We started with the first period of intensity, and then the upper three sections of intensity, each section of 45 to 50 minutes, after the third period of intensity, the breath was out of breath, and the clothes were already wet." Then there's a light workout. Sometimes, after training in the morning, I have to climb the Fragrant Mountain twice. When resting at night, I fell asleep with my head next to the pillow. ”
What is even more "bitter" is that in the national team, everyone is facing huge internal competitive pressure. "The championships are spelled out with sweat. I have a lot of demands on myself, if one training is not good, the next day you have to train better, because in the national team, you don't train well, you have to be eliminated. Zhang Jiewen said that in fact, the game is really not as tired as usual training, every time you face a big competition, go to the field, but it is the easiest. Participating in the game, only need to play one game a day, is much easier than the usual "devil training" of more than ten hours a day. "Coach Tian Bingyi often told me that our training should reach the point where we only need to play 30% or 40% of our training in the game and we can win the championship. You think about how intense our usual training is. Until now, Zhang Jiewen sometimes dreams of sweating during the national team training.
As a "dream team", the pressure of the Chinese badminton team can be imagined. Over the years, Zhang Jiewen has endured with tremendous pressure. Zhang Jiewen said that she often couldn't sleep nervously before each competition, her heart was beating fast, and her heart was pounding fast. Under great pressure, her only way to decompress is to sing and listen to songs. Sometimes, the pressure was so great that she sang and sang for two hours.
Not only in competition, but also in training. For example, if she wants to run the next day, she can't sleep the night before, and she has been in a state of high tension. Today, it has been retired for 13 years, but this "occupational disease" has remained until now. Until now, her sleep has not been good. Since having two children, no matter how late she goes to bed the night before, every morning at 6 o'clock, she has to get up to prepare breakfast for the children. "It's like there's an obsessive-compulsive disorder, like, no matter how late I went to bed the day before, at 8:30 a.m. the next morning, I had to force myself to get up for breakfast."
Before retiring, Zhang Jiewen once said to herself: "After I retire, I will never pick up a badminton racket again!" However, after retiring, she found that she was inseparable from badminton, which has become an important part of life. The huge amount of training during her time as an athlete also caused Zhang Jiewen to fall into many injuries, and to this day, the old injuries of lumbar disc herniation and knee soreness still torment her. Every time, as long as you run the field, your knees hurt. Therefore, during the 8 years that she was the deputy director of the Guangzhou Badminton Sports Management Center, she did not touch badminton.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="49" > is willing to contribute to Guangzhou's efforts to build a cultural city</h1>
Badminton world champion Xie Xingfang, also Zhang Jiewen's "hair small", the two have been practicing since childhood, until the national team, the two are still close friends. Until now, the two have often eaten together. In addition to visiting the coach, the two often discussed together how to contribute to the construction of Guangzhou's "Cultural City" as a world champion.
It is precisely because of the Olympic champion zhang Jiewen that the badminton sport in Guangzhou is in full swing. Every time she passes by the badminton court and sees many people sweating on the field, Zhang Jiewen has an indescribable excitement. "It's hard for me to say that so many people in Guangzhou like badminton and Whether it has anything to do with me and Xie Xingfang, maybe it has a little relationship, there is a little bit of a driving role." Zhang Jiewen said with a smile.
Today, in addition to teaching, Zhang Jiewen has also led the team to participate in many events in a year: the Badminton Mayor's Cup, the National College Badminton Challenge and the Guangdong Provincial University Badminton Championship. In her view, the country now attaches great importance to sports, and colleges and universities also attach great importance to the physical fitness of students, such as unqualified physical education can not receive a degree certificate, every year students have to undergo physical examination, and they cannot graduate if they do not meet the standards. The school will also give each student a quota of physical exercise funds and encourage everyone to rent a space for physical exercise, which makes her very encouraged and motivated.
Zhang Jiewen said that now Guangzhou is striving to build a cultural city brand, Guangzhou's traditional cultural heritage is gradually released, and sports activities are a very important part of Guangzhou to build a cultural city. She is also often invited to promote various public welfare sports activities. "To make more and more people like the sport of badminton, I am willing to do a part." As an Olympic champion, I am also happy to contribute to the construction of Guangzhou as a city of culture and sports, so that Guangzhou can become a more dynamic and cultural city. ”
Article, figure Guangzhou Daily all-media reporter Xiao Huanhuan intern Li Yuanmeng