Kitakyushu, Japan, October 26 (Xinhua) -- At the 50th World Gymnastics Championships, which ended here a few days ago, the Chinese team, which was mainly composed of young athletes, won 5 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals, ranking first in the medal table. Ye Zhennan, deputy director of the Gymnastics Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport, who led the team to participate in the competition, while affirming the results, reminded everyone that the hardware is not enough, the results have passed, looking forward to the Paris Olympic Games, Chinese gymnastics is still "thorns everywhere".
On October 24, Hu Xuwei was in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Xiaoyi
Ye Zhennan praised the fighting spirit and excellent skills of the team members in this competition. He said that Zhang Boheng, Hu Xuwei, Lan Xingyu and Wei Xiaoyuan and other team members defeated many international strong players, including the main Japanese force, making the gold content of several gold medals of the Chinese team very high. But the race is over, and he hopes everyone will see more of the hidden worries of less than three years before the Olympics in Paris.
Ye Zhennan said in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency that the first challenge facing the Chinese team is to adapt to the adjustment of the format of the Paris Olympic Games by the INTERNATIONAL Federation as soon as possible. The Paris Olympics will revert to the previous team qualification 543 and final 533 formats, and there will be no more individual places, which will have a great adverse impact on China. The "543 format" refers to the fact that each team is allowed to report five athletes in the team event, the coach determines four athletes to play before the game, and the final result is calculated by selecting the best three.
"The Tokyo Olympics adopt a 4 plus 2 model (that is, four team members participate in the team competition, and there are two individual places, one in the all-around and one in the individual event), which is the most effective for our individual athletes, and our four single athletes Liu Yang, You Hao, Fan Yilin and Guan Chenchen have won a total of 2 gold and 1 silver plus a fourth place. After the reform of the format, our entire strategy must be adjusted, which has a great impact on the Chinese team. ”
On October 23, the third runner-up Luo Rui was at the award ceremony. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Xiaoyi
Secondly, the shortcomings of the women's team must be filled as soon as possible, and the stability should also be improved. The traditional advantages of the Chinese women's team are high and low bars and balance beams, and this time the World Championships youngsters Wei Xiaoyuan and Luo Rui won gold and bronze medals on uneven bars respectively, but Luo Rui made a mistake in the balance beam final, because the balance beam is too difficult to play the project, and the accident is too big. There is still a big gap between Chinese athletes and some major opponents such as the United States and Russia in vaulting and free gymnastics.
He said: "Without changing the backward appearance of vaulting and free exercise, the overall strength of the Chinese women's team will not change, so we must make great efforts." ”
In addition to these two practical problems, Ye Zhennan also said that there is still a shortage of reserve strength in Chinese gymnastics, and he called for gymnastics to enter primary and secondary school classrooms many years ago, but the progress is still slow. He said that the base of China's gymnastics population is currently on a downward trend, and the Chinese team is facing the dilemma of "cooking without rice" in the future.
He said that compared with the American team, the reserve force of the Chinese team is very weak. Gymnasts are easily injured, which requires someone to replace them at critical moments. "American athletes may have injured one and made up for one later, and the level will not be very different, but it is difficult for the Chinese team to do this." Before the Tokyo Olympics, Li Shijia was accidentally injured and could not compete, and the Chinese women's team immediately changed from a first-class team to a second-rate team, because her injury directly led to a decline in the overall strength of vaulting and free gymnastics. ”
In addition, Ye Zhennan believes that the reform of the training system and development system of gymnastics projects cannot be separated from China's national conditions, and a development model suitable for China's road should be followed. Now some national team coaches have been separated for a long time, which has had a great impact on their families and lives, and has also made many outstanding athletes no longer willing to take on coaching work after retiring. How to mobilize the enthusiasm of local team coaches, how to make gymnastics learn to walk on two legs of the national team and the local team, and how to develop the club system, all need to have a transition period and a gradual process.
On October 23, Lan Xingyu was in the game. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Du Xiaoyi
Ye Zhennan also mentioned the need for further scientific selection of athletes. He said that because of the combination of group and individual configurations, the selection of gymnastics projects is very complicated, and the selection methods of different countries and regions are different, with their own advantages and disadvantages. The Japanese team's Olympic selection has also been problematic, and their young athletes have won gold in vaulting and free gymnastics, but unfortunately they have not been selected for the Olympic team.
"The difficulty of the action and the results of the game can be quantified, but the athlete's injury situation and psychological quality cannot be expressed in numbers, so this is a huge challenge for the coaching staff, but we still have to select based on the principles of science and democracy." He said.
Source: Xinhua News Agency