Wang Han's dream realization moment: from "advanced age" to dream to late success

(Tokyo Olympics) Wang Han's dream moment: from "advanced age" to dream to late success

Shijiazhuang, China News Service, 25 July Title: Wang Han's Dream Realization Moment: From "Advanced Age" to Late Realization

Written by Li Xiaowei

On July 25, Beijing time, in the final of the women's doubles 3-meter board for diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games, Wang Han from Hebei and diving star Shi Tingmao successfully won the gold, helping the Chinese diving team to achieve the opening of the Tokyo Olympics and achieve the feat of winning the project for five consecutive years.

On July 25, local time, Shi Tingmao (left) and Wang Han at the award ceremony. On the same day, the final of the women's double three-meter board for diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games was held at the Tokyo Aquatic Center, and the Chinese combination of Shi Tingmao and Wang Han won the gold medal with 326.40 points. Photo by China News Service reporter Tomita

At the scene of the competition, Former Chinese diving star and Olympic champion Guo Jingjing witnessed this honorary moment. In front of the big screen of the Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau, Li Fang, the head coach of the provincial team that Wang Han and "sister" Guo Jingjing shared, was excited and jumped up from his chair to applaud and celebrate.

"Wang Han won the championship is also as she wished, she dived for more than 20 years and paid a lot... She is a late bloomer. Li Fang said.

Wang Han and his partner Shi Tingmao were born in 1991. However, compared with Rio Olympic double champion Shi Tingmao, the 30-year-old "advanced" Wang Han is participating in the Olympic Games for the first time, which has been more than a decade since she entered the national team. From Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia, He Zi to today's Shi Tingmao, Wang Han has experienced several eras of Chinese women's springboard changes, and finally ushered in his own moment. The efforts behind this are deeply remembered by Li Fang, who has coached Wang Han for nearly 20 years.

Wang Han did not switch to professional diving until he was 10 years old, much later than other athletes who started training at the age of five or six. In Li Fang's view, it is precisely because of this that her basic skills are not solid, which affects the perfection and stability of technical movements, and also affects her sports career.

"Wang Han was selected for the national team in 2003, she is 'three out of four', especially in the first two Olympic Games as a substitute team member to rub shoulders with the Olympic Games, for her sports career is very frustrating." Li Fang said that it is easy for ordinary athletes to lose confidence when they are returned from the national team, but fortunately, her grinning personality has made her persevere.

Wang Han also confirmed such a statement. She once said in an interview with the media, "Every time I lose the list of the competition, or when I can't find my feelings for a long time, I will think 'or just forget it', but after sleeping, I will forget all my previous troubles and return to the training ground in a new state." ”

After the Rio Olympics, in order to regain confidence, Li Fang and Wang Han carried out more than a year of ideological work and technical improvement, so that Wang Han could re-understand himself. "Technically, it was not easy to start from the basics, but the effect was good. After the technical improvement, she proposed it herself to fight again and return to the national team. ”

But the difficulties don't stop there. According to Li Fang, since entering the Tokyo Olympic cycle, after Wang Han determined that she and Shi Tingmao were paired with a double springboard, she also needed to change her skills and adapt to the characteristics of her partner. The techniques she has practiced over the years are not easy to change, so she can only continue to work hard after class, watching Shi Tingmao's videos to study technical movements and change herself. The process is painful. ”

On the Olympic field on the 25th, Wang Han and Shi Tingmao cooperated with tacit understanding to play a stable role, won gold with an undisputed advantage, and also gave the Chinese diving team a reassuring pill. Wang Han's efforts bore fruit.

Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Olympic Games were postponed for one year, and for the 30-year-old Wang Han, it should be said that he paid hard work and sweat that ordinary people could not understand, and finally realized his dream. We are very touched and proud. Liu Liyan, director of the Swimming and Diving Sports Management Center of the Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau, said.

"The child is really hard, she has persisted for so many years, and finally realized her dream." In the video link, Wang Han's mother, Zhang Lifang, said. She knows best the pain her daughter experienced in training, and although it hurts, she still motivates her daughter to "keep working hard".

On August 1, the final of the women's single 3-meter board for diving at the Tokyo Olympic Games will be held, and Wang Han's Olympic journey of "late success" is still continuing. (End)

Source: China News Network