Source: Xiaoxiang Morning News
Source | Xiaoxiang Morning News comprehensive report
On July 24, Beijing time, Hunan athlete Hou Zhihui won the championship in the women's 49 kg weightlifting competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games with a total score of 210 kg to break the Olympic record.
During the competition, Hou Zhihui drank water with the cap of a thermos cup, and this detail also attracted the attention of netizens. Because other athletes generally drink bottled water. After winning the championship, many netizens sighed: "She picked up the thermos cup and knew that she was stable", "The mysterious oriental power of the thermos cup"!
In fact, the thermos cup has always been an important equipment for Chinese athletes to compete. The red thermos cup used by London Olympic champion shooter Yi Siling during the competition has also been noticed by everyone. She said in the interview that it was a cup she bought, because she didn't want to boil water in the morning, and the thermos cup could be prepared for hot water a night in advance. In the competition, she drank the water of this red cup after completing the counter-overtaking, and then won the championship. She herself joked: "This is Chinese red, it is a lucky cup, which may imply that the Chinese delegation has made a good start." "
Ma Long is also a well-known thermos cup enthusiast, not only in the competition many times to use the thermos cup, even in the national table tennis team collective military training, has also been photographed in the use of the thermos cup to drink water. Including domestic basketball player Zhou Qi has also used the thermos cup in the league.
Of course, the thermos is not necessarily the exclusive of Chinese athletes, and the famous NBA star LeBron James is also a senior thermos user.
So what exactly is in this thermos cup? water? Tea? Or a sports drink?
According to nutrition experts, after athletes exercise strenuously, the burden of the heart will be heavier, the heartbeat is also relatively fast, and the tea leaves contain caffeine that can be exciting, at this time, a cup of strong tea under the belly, will further increase the burden of the heart, making people uncomfortable.
Secondly, after strenuous exercise, sweating heavily, with the passage of time, the body water is also lost in large quantities, and a lot of electrolytes are also lost. At this time, what is most needed is to replenish water in time, and the diuretic effect of tea is not conducive to athletes.
So can you drink a drink?
Different events have different organizers and sponsors, athletes' drinking water is designated by the organizers, like the 2017 women's volleyball championship water is a brand called "treasure". Although Zhu Ting is holding the bottle in her hand at the moment, it is not necessarily drinking water, it is likely to be a functional drink or a protein powder that she brewed herself.
In addition to hot water, in the game can also see Hou Zhihui has used wind oil to refresh the spirit, it seems that the mysterious power of the East is really, sincerely do not deceive me!