A few days ago, China's short track speed skating Olympic champion Fan Kexin has a new identity, she was hired as a member of the Academic Committee of the Olympic Art Research Center of Tsinghua University, this position and honor made Fan Kexin a prominent figure in the Chinese short track speed skating team. After the Beijing Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin did not participate in the short track speed skating World Championships, the preparation work for the new Olympic cycle of the national team is about to start, and whether Fan Kexin can enter the training list is still in doubt. After obtaining the letter of appointment from Tsinghua University, many netizens have speculated that Fan Kexin may bid farewell to the short track speed skating field and make some achievements in a new field.
Considering the basic status quo of the main force and substitutes of the national team, the coaching team of the Chinese short track speed skating team will select more young players for the first batch of training lists. At present, several major competitors such as South Korea, Hungary and Canada have completed the replacement of old and new, and four years later in the Winter Olympics in Milan, they are still the roadblocks of the Chinese team. Fan Kexin has always been the core of the Chinese short track speed skating women's team during the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, and at the Beijing Winter Olympics, together with Qu Chunyu, Wu Dajing, Ren Ziwei and others, she won the championship of the mixed 2000-meter relay event, which is also the first Olympic gold medal in Fan Kexin's career.
But in the main women's 500m event, Fan Kexin was knocked off the track by Canadian athletes in the quarter-finals, missing the gold medal in three consecutive Olympic Games. After the Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin said in interviews many times that as long as his body allowed, he still wanted to continue to insist. However, in terms of current strength and state, Fan Kexin has lost competitiveness in the 500 meters and 1000 meters events, and it is even difficult to enter the final. Even if the feelings are still there, they have to face the reality.
After being hired as a member of the Academic Committee of the Olympic Art Research Center of Tsinghua University, the outside world speculated that Fan Kexin was expected to embark on the road of scientific research and education. As a well-known ice and snow athlete in the domestic sports world, Fan Kexin has reached an unprecedented height in his career, and his only regret is that he has not won the Olympic gold medal in the individual event. It is reported that the Olympic Art Research Center of Tsinghua University has been formally established, and Fan Kexin, who has become a member of the academic committee of the research institute, will spend more time and energy on promoting the study of Olympic art in the future.
Unlike Dayang Yang's entry into the International Olympic Committee, Wang Meng's entrepreneurship and coaching, and Zhou Yang's change of career, Fan Kexin seems to have clearly defined his way forward. That is, in the academic field, for the Chinese sports and the Olympic movement to continue to shine. Some netizens said that although Fan Kexin was hired by the university, it did not mean that she would leave the Chinese short track speed skating team. Soon, the new national team roster for China's short track speed skating will be released, and if Fan Kexin's name does not appear, will you feel sorry?
(Luo Treasurer)