Mentioning Zhang Hong's name is relatively unfamiliar to everyone, but the people who presented the award to speed skating champion Gao Tingyu at the Beijing Winter Olympics must be impressed. Although Zhang Hong wears a mask, the gentle and generous temperament of the whole person can be felt across the screen, the eyebrows are clear, the 1 mi 74 long legs are proud and the temperament is extraordinary. It's just that the protagonist at that time was Gao Tingyu, and he didn't have time to learn more about the awardees. Recently, WADA officially announced that Zhang Hong will serve as a member of the 2023 Athletes Council, so that netizens have begun to wonder who Zhang Hong is while being happy.
Born in 1988 in Harbin, Zhang Hong began practicing short track speed skating at the age of 7, because she was always sick when she was a child, and her parents went to learn to skate in order to make her fit. Entered the professional team at the age of 12, and at the beginning the results in the team were still good, but in the next few years, he never surpassed himself, and the results were mediocre. Maybe at this time, ordinary people gave up, and the people around Zhang Hong also advised her in this way, but she did not give up, but made a bold decision: to practice speed skating, that year, Zhang Hong was 20 years old.
People who know this sport know that short track speed skating and speed skating are completely different things, which is like the Feather Knot String will not press the bend, Wang Meng will not rotate on the ice, interlaced like a mountain, it seems to be similar, but it is actually a lot worse.
In this way, Zhang Hong relied on his superior will and firm faith to lie dormant for three years. At the age of 23, he began to emerge in international competitions. Finally, at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, she won the gold medal in the women's 1000 meters of speed skating, which was also the first gold medal for speed skating in the mainland at the Winter Olympics. After the PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Zhang Hong joined the International Olympic Committee. In order to better adapt to this job, Zhang Hong began to practice English hard and studied for a doctorate at Northeast Normal University. Constantly challenging herself and doing every job well is no stranger to her. Unfortunately, Zhang Hong has been busy with her career for the past two years, and she is still single at the age of 34.
In recent years, the World Anti-Doping Organization has paid more and more attention to testing whether athletes are doping. But whether it is operationally compliant is always questioned. Sun Yang's ban was a big deal, and the reason for his final ban was "violent resistance", not doping. Maybe Sun Yang did not do something improper in this matter, but at that time, the inspectors did not act in accordance with the regulations, and I would like to ask, an unqualified sampling personnel suddenly went to sample an athlete, did the athlete dare to believe him? If the urine test is dropped, where does Sun Yang go to reason? The Attitude of the World Anti-Doping Organization on this matter is also ambiguous, which is really frustrating.
Zhang Hong's joining the World Anti-Doping Agency has strengthened China's voice in the organization to some extent. But it is not to make an "umbrella" for Chinese athletes, but to help the International Anti-Doping Organization polish its "eyes", not to tolerate violations, and not to look at any athlete unjustly, targeted, and tinted with glasses, so as to avoid Sun Yang-style tragedy.