Text, photo/ Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Jiang Jun intern Tian Xinyan
"Dreams are important, and there must be small goals at every stage so that there is motivation." A few days ago, Jiao Liuyang, current physical education teacher of Sun Yat-sen University and the women's 200-meter butterfly champion of the London Olympic Games, went to the Affiliated Middle School of Sun Yat-sen University to share the journey of winning the championship with the junior high school students, and gave professional guidance to students learning to swim on the spot.
The father changed Jiao Liuyang's idea of giving up
At the 2012 London Olympics, Jiao Liuyang won the gold medal in the women's 200m butterfly competition with a record-breaking time of 2:04.06, her first Olympic gold medal. As everyone knows, how much she paid for this moment, and how many times she wanted to give up but finally persevered.
Jiao Liuyang was born in Harbin to a former 110-meter hurdles player in the school team and a kindergarten teacher to his mother. At the age of 5, he was sent to the swimming class of Heilongjiang Traffic School by his father as a "sports fan" to learn to swim, and since then he has started his swimming life.
In 2005, Jiao Liuyang won the silver medal in the 200m butterfly at the 10th Games, which made her one of the rising stars in Chinese swimming and qualified for the national team and preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
"This is just the beginning, and a lot of good athletes will keep coming in and screening them one by one." The brutal competition made Jiao Liuyang dare not be complacent and slack, she redoubled her training efforts to qualify for the Beijing Olympic Games, and on August 14, 2008, Jiao Liuyang won the silver medal in the women's 200m butterfly competition at the Beijing Olympic Games in 2 minutes 04.72 seconds.
At the age of 18, she not only realized her dream of "swimming in a circle in the water cube", but also broke the world record with champion Liu Zige.
"Do I still have a chance to win?" With doubts, she attended the 2009 National Games and once again finished second. Jiao Liuyang is very disappointed, thinking that the Olympic champion is too far away from him and plans to retire. But her father's phrase "I wish you were a star, not a shooting star" changed her mind, and she decided to train hard.
"I am extremely eager to defeat my opponents and do not want to be called 'the second oldest of the millennium'." At the 2011 Shanghai Swimming World Championships, she won her first world-class gold medal in the women's 200m butterfly, which gave Jiao Liuyang the confidence to win the Olympic championship.
Since then, she has followed the coach to change her skills, write plans every day, participate in various high-intensity training at home and abroad... On August 1, 2012, Jiao Liuyang won the women's 200m butterfly competition at the London Olympics, and she became the first.
"Dreams are important, and there must be small goals at every stage so that there is motivation"
Jiao Liuyang told the students, "Dreams are very important, each stage must have small goals, so that there is motivation", she also said that she hopes that students know what they are studying for and what they will do in the future.
The students in the audience listened intently, and the applause and cheers continued to sound. Some small "swimmers" raised their hands one after another and rushed to ask Jiao Liuyang for professional questions.
Lin, a student who learned breaststroke in the 6th class of junior high school, asked whether to use tiptoe points to jump the edge of the platform or with his heels when jumping? In order to let the students see clearly, Jiao Liuyang took off his shoes, gave demonstrations and guidance on the steps of the podium, and suggested, "For your age, it is difficult to do the gun jump, so be sure to hear the gunshots and then jump." ”
"Students can only see the Olympic champions and the broadcast of the competition on TV, it is difficult to see themselves, please ask the Olympic champions to give lectures, let the students have insights, and at the same time get the guidance of celebrities, which is conducive to the growth of students." Yan Qinxi, principal of CUHK Affiliated High School, said that because the school can rely on the sports resources of CUHK, the school has opened swimming lessons for students very early, and will set up a school swimming team in the future to provide more support for students with swimming skills. (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
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