As a famous pair skater in the mainland, Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo and his wife are the gods and immortals of the skating world. They seem to have been born skating, creating one glorious legend after another on the ice rink. At the 2002 World Championships, they won the first world championship of the Chinese team in the pair skating event, and at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, they once again achieved a miracle, winning the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Chinese figure skating. The couple is also known as the "ice couple" by fans.
Just after the Vancouver Winter Olympics, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo both announced their retirement. After retiring from the army, they did not fade out of the sports world, but continued to stay in important positions in the skating field where they were good at. In 2013, Zhao Hongbo was appointed head coach of the figure skating national team's pair skating program, while Shen Xue was appointed deputy director of the figure skating department of the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport. In 2017, she was elected Executive Vice President of the Chinese Skating Association.
Because of the great achievements of the two in the skating world, countless fans are very much looking forward to the transformation into coaches who can cultivate more and better talents for Chinese figure skating, and many people also say that with the professional guidance of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, Chinese figure skating will definitely go to a higher level. However, no one expected that after that, their series of operations were questioned and crusaded by many fans. So what did Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo do?
Since Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo took office, it is obvious that there has been a big change in the number of participants in the Olympic Games. For some reason, the number of figure skating singles has been seriously reduced, and once at the Sochi Winter Olympics, there were still two places in the Chinese women's figure skating singles event, but there was only one left at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Many netizens have called them "heavy double, light single", but the two have not responded positively to this matter.
In addition, at present, China's figure skating industry is also facing the dilemma of no one to follow. Although Han Cong and Sui Wenjing won the championship of the pair skating event at this year's Winter Olympics, the two have now passed the peak of their careers and are even likely to retire soon after, while in the pair skating event, in addition to them, there are still Peng Chengjin Yang's achievements in this group, and the rest are not good, and no one picks the beam.
As for the single players, the situation is even more bleak. In the men's singles, there is also Jin Boyang who can withstand the competition scene, while the women's singles players have reached thirty places in the world rankings, and among them, the women's singles players have been forced to transfer to the pair skating event, and later even face the dilemma of retirement. Although there are still nearly four years to go before the next Winter Olympics, it is not clear what kind of results Chinese athletes will be able to achieve according to this situation.
In addition to the problems in the reserve of talents, Shen Xuezhao Hongbo's management of the national team coach has also been criticized. The technology of the Coach of the Chinese Figure Skating Team has long been outdated compared with other countries, but they still do not know how to learn from the successful experience of others, nor do they learn advanced foreign technology, and even do not let the team members go out to train by themselves, and some team members can only follow the videos of others to learn by themselves because they do not have the guidance of the coach. Such an approach has attracted countless fans to crusade, who believe that Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo not only did not act in the face of the current situation of the national team, but also obstinately delayed talents, which is really incompatible with the high position they are in.
However, these points are only part of the criticism. Other problems such as Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo regardless of Han Cong and Sui Wenjing's injuries, they can only find their own way to solve, and Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo also counted the two's points, so that they missed the opportunity to enter the last group; There are also substitutions of players who are fully prepared, while other players who are injured and have closed needles are temporarily played; As well as letting the players withdraw collectively for no reason, etc., the fans are also angry when they bring it up.
As an athlete, Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo's achievements are something we cannot deny, and they have indeed won a lot of honors for the country. But that doesn't mean they're necessarily fit to be a good coach. If these problems are not solved as soon as possible, the future of China's figure skating industry is very worrying.