International online news (reporter Wang Yueyang): The women's 200m medley won fifth place in the Tokyo Olympics, breaking the world youth record; 2023 Fukuoka Swimming World Championships, won the first individual medal at the World Championships; Hangzhou won three gold medals at the Asian Games and set a new Asian Olympic record in the women's 200m medley. Just turned 18 years old, every appearance seems to bring us a different surprise, she is Yu Yiting, who is known as a "genius girl" by the outside world.
But in the view of Yu Yiting's full-time coach Wang Haibo, no athlete is a so-called "genius", they just have a certain talent in swimming, and the excellent results are more because the athletes have their own clear goals and are willing to make their own efforts for this goal.
Wang Haibo and Yu Yiting took a group photo at the national team swimming pool
Talking about master and apprentice: I am Yu Yiting's "strict father"
"I didn't spend as much time with my son as I did with Yu Yiting." After becoming Yu Yiting's full-time coach for 8 years, Wang Haibo couldn't help but have such an understanding.
In 2015, just 10-year-old Yu Yiting began training with Wang Haibo, who was still a coach of the Zhejiang Provincial Swimming Team at the time, for Yu Yiting when she was a child, Wang Haibo said that the child did have swimming talent, "At that time, a group of children we did the maximum oxygen uptake test, Yu Yiting was the best among girls." ”
In training, Wang Haibo is a strict coach, as long as it is the training requirements he put forward, Yu Yiting must complete it to the letter, Yu Yiting's parents also said that Coach Wang's words are sometimes more "effective" than her parents say. Outside the training ground, Wang Haibo sometimes plays the role of "father".
"In October 2020, I came to the national team with Yu Yiting, and at that time I felt like a father and daughter 'relying on each other', every day I trained with the two of her, and at night I trained until 6 o'clock, I had to help her massage for 40 minutes to recover, and the two of them took the shuttle bus back to the national team canteen at seven o'clock to eat, and it was repeated every day."
For day-to-day training, Yu Yiting will complete the coach's requirements well, Wang Haibo said that children who can enter the national team have their own talents, but in order to turn talent into achievements, it takes effort, "Some people asked me if I was tired of training with Yu Yiting, to say that fatigue is indeed very hard every day." But sometimes I don't feel tired, because Xiaoyu, including other children, they have goals and will actively cooperate with the coach's training, and from this point of view, they are not tired and their hearts are not tired. ”
Wang Haibo and Yu Yiting at the Tokyo Olympics
Talking about achievements: I want Yu Yiting to take every step more solidly
At the Tokyo Olympics, Yu Yiting's women's 200m medley time was 2:09.57, and at the Hangzhou Asian Games, Yu Yiting's victory time was 2:07.75, don't look at just a short 2-second improvement, which is a hard-won achievement for high-level swimmers.
When talking about Yu Yiting's training, Wang Haibo emphasizes more on "details" and wants to turn various details into his own ability in daily training. Many people will think that coaches can make performance improve rapidly when athletes are confused, in Wang Haibo's view, this kind of dialing only plays the role of "medicine introduction", in order to play a role also need athletes to develop habits in the usual training, just like natural breathing, "What I can do is to make the training plan more detailed, so that she can take every step more solidly." ”
In the national team, in addition to the guidance of old coaches, several young coaches of the post-80s generation, including Wang Haibo, will also communicate with each other, the whole team plays a game of chess, young coaches learn from older coaches, and young coaches learn from each other.
"After the training of the national team every day, several of our young coaches would sit together and drink tea, talk about the day's training, sometimes collide with some new ideas, and then go to the training the next day to improve, which is a group of wisdom and learning from each other's strengths."
Yu Yiting won the bronze medal in the women's 200m individual medley at the World Championships in Fukuoka
On Paris: Until the goal is achieved, it is empty talk
In 9 months, the Paris Olympics are about to kick off, and Yu Yiting, who has continued to achieve good results, is also expected to win medals and even gold medals at the Paris Olympics. Wang Haibo, as a coach, also has a clear understanding of this, saying that everyone has goals, but before they achieve it, it is empty talk.
"There is the World Championships in Doha next February, and I hope that Yu Yiting can swim another 2 minutes and 07 seconds, and can swim this time a few more times before the Paris Olympics, so that I can say that the level has been maintained, so I don't expect her to improve more, as long as it can be stabilized."
Yu Yiting won the women's 200m individual medley title at the Hangzhou Asian Games with a time of 2:07.75 and set a new Asian Games record. Xinhua News Agency photo
Having said that, in the face of the upcoming Paris Olympics, whether it is the requirements of the leaders or the expectations of public opinion, it is a pressure for athletes and coaches, Wang Haibo said that he will carry all the pressure and let Yu Yiting move forward easily, "The pressure can be done to me, I will not give the pressure to Yu Yiting, she just needs to train every day." In the end, training and competition are still a matter for me and Yu Yiting, we have our advantages, do our job well every day, stabilize our results, slowly improve, and don't brag before achieving our goals. ”
Source: China Central Radio and Television Station International Online