A few days ago, the table tennis grand slam winner Ma Long's hometown of Anshan City was awarded the title of "City of Olympic Champions", which aroused widespread concern from the outside world. As the "darling" of the sports industry in Anshan City, Ma Long also specially recorded a video to send his blessings. It is worth mentioning that Anshan City has not only stepped out of the table tennis legend Ma Long, but also cultivated dozens of domestic sports star athletes, including Xu Mengtao, the champion of freestyle skiing aerial skills at the Winter Olympics, Guo Yue and Li Xiaoxia, the Olympic champion of table tennis, Song Nina, the Olympic champion of volleyball, and Li Wenwen, the olympic champion of weightlifting. Many netizens have said that Anshan City can be described as the cradle of Olympic champions!
It is reported that from the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Anshan Has trained 11 Olympic champions for the Chinese sports delegation, among which the most well-known are Ma Long, Li Xiaoxia, Xu Mengtao and others. Why has Anshan City been able to achieve such brilliant results in the cultivation of sports talents? The main reason is that there is no strong foundation for youth sports, the construction of sports infrastructure, and the provision of a strong coaching team and perfect logistics support for athletes. Among the 11 Olympic champions, the contribution of table tennis accounts for almost half of the country.
Among them, the olympic champion who anshan city is most proud of is Ma Long, as a legend in the Chinese table tennis world, Ma Long has won a total of 5 Olympic gold medals from the London Olympic Games to the Tokyo Olympic Games. Some netizens quipped, "Ma Long almost single-handedly pulled the social flow of Anshan City." In addition to Ma Long, Guo Yue won the women's team championship at the Beijing Winter Olympics and the London Olympic Games, and Li Xiaoxia was the fourth Grand Slam winner of the national table tennis women's team. At the Tokyo Olympics, weightlifter Li Wenwen's performance is still fresh in people's minds, and the female Hercules who competed for the 87 kg or more class achieved a crushing victory in the competition.
In the grab and lift links, only two trials were held to win the championship early, and the dominance of terror was beyond reach. After the Olympic Games, Li Wenwen became a household treasure girl. Anshan athlete who won the Tokyo Olympics and the ring master Liu Yang, who rode the dust in the final, helped the Chinese gymnastics team win the third gold medal and defended the traditional supremacy of the Chinese team in the project. Song Nina is the second setter of the golden generation of the Chinese women's volleyball team and is the substitute for the main core player Feng Kun.
Although Song Nina did not play much time at the Athens Olympic Games, her left-handed serve and pass characteristics became the secret weapon of the Chinese team. In the end, Sonny Song won the Olympic Games in Athens with the team. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao, a veteran of freestyle skiing aerial skills, completed the last piece of the puzzle of his career with a heavy gold medal. After her victory, Anshan Ice and Snow athletes were greatly encouraged, and four years later, in Milan, there may be more Anshan athletes raising the national flag and playing the national anthem at the Olympic Stadium!
(Luo Treasurer)