Among the four sports in the Olympic Qualification Series in Shanghai, rock climbing is one of the most familiar extreme sports for the audience, and in the climbing competition of the Paris Olympics, speed climbing is set as a separate event, and the Chinese national climbing team also hopes to achieve better results.
Although the wind had a slight impact on the competition, China's Niu Di still performed well in the women's climbing speed preliminaries, and entered the final with three other Chinese women. On the men's side, the Chinese team led by Wu Peng also had 4 players in the finals.
At the Tokyo Olympics, there was only an all-around event, but at the Paris Olympics, speed climbing became a separate event, increasing the number of Olympic gold medals in climbing by two. For the Chinese team, which has more advantages in speed climbing, it is undoubtedly an opportunity to strive for better results.
Niu Di, who participated in the rock climbing event at the last Tokyo Olympics, felt this change very deeply, which allowed her to devote herself more fully to the competition, "I also participated in the last Olympic qualifying tournament, and it was really hard. At that time, I had been competing in Japan for 11 days in a row, so I was really tired. This time, I am devoting myself to this project, and there is a good trend in concentration, strength and physical strength. Niu Di said.
At present, Long Jinbao and Deng Lijuan have won the Olympic quota respectively, and the Chinese team speed group is still one seat each from the full quota of men and women. When it comes to the competition between teammates, Niu Di feels that he has to do his best, "There must still be pressure in competition, but maybe the mentality is different, because I have experienced a lot of big and small things, and then they have grown up very quickly, some things are just to do a good job of themselves, don't always compare yourself with others, because everyone experiences different things, so we girls in the Chinese team do their best." ”
The benign and high-level competition has made China's speed climbing show good strength in this qualifying competition, and the excellent results have also allowed more young people to participate in this sport.
Niu Di is already a veteran in the Chinese team, and with the popularity of rock climbing, more and more young athletes have joined it, although Niu Di has pressure, but more or expectation, "From the list, you can see that there are only a handful of post-90s athletes, basically all of them are post-00s athletes, and they are growing up very fast." I've been a little overwhelmed in the past 4 years, but I believe that this project is still in its infancy, so I feel that it is an emerging project and look forward to how it will develop in the future. ”
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