Many years ago, there was a TV series that swept the country - after "Beijingers in New York", "Shanghainese in Tokyo" also set a ratings record on television.
Shanghainese in Tokyo show the joys and sorrows of working in a foreign country. At this Tokyo Olympic Games, there are also many Shanghai faces. In addition to a few Shanghainese sports stars familiar to the outside world, there are more coaches, scientific research support and even Shanghai volunteers hidden behind the athletes. They are also the witnesses and creators of this successful Olympic Games, and their stories are also worth remembering.
Shanghainese who can't stop
Li Jianxin, 64, retired four years ago. After spending less than a few months at her daughter's home in New Zealand, she was drafted into the rowing team. First as the leader of the national rowing team, and then as the leader of the national kayaking team in this Olympic Games, he said: "After a lifetime of rowing, I can't stop. "In this Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese kayak team has become a big medalist, which is inseparable from Li Jianxin's efforts. Less than 10 days after returning home in two years, Li Jianxin said with a bitter smile that when he was the coach of the national team, his family had great opinions. "Where can I do it?" Do the work. To be in the national team, to get the Olympics it has to be like this. ”
Illustration: Li Jianxin Network Diagram
Xu Jiamin, the head coach of the Chinese three-member women's basketball team, hung two Olympic bronze medals around his neck — the respect that the disciples sent after the award. In order to prepare for the Olympic Games, Xu Jiamin spent less than two months with her family in the past two years. During the closed training at the Chongming base, Xu Jiamin's husband took her daughter to the Chongming base to see her. The family could only wear a mask and look at each other from a distance through the fence gate, and the daughter cried and shouted "Mother hug, mother hug", which became a picture that Xu Jiamin still remembers to this day.
Behind Zhang Yufei, the number one star of the Olympic Games, there is also a familiar Shanghai face. Nicknamed "Father Cui" and "Father Cui" by Yu Fei, Cui Dengrong is a smart, kind, humorous and particularly serious person in the eyes of his beloved disciples. Lu Ying, a London Olympic silver medalist who has trained for Shanghai, has now cultivated China's new butterfly queen.
Pictured: Zhang Yufei and Cui Dengrong
Now in the national team, Shanghai coaches are taking on more and more responsibilities, and the athletes in charge are also from all over the world. At the Olympic Games, 15 coaches from Shanghai were selected for the Chinese delegation. In addition to the three mentioned above, windsurfing champion Lu Yunxiu's coach Zhou Yuanguo is also from Shanghai; in addition, cao Zhongrong, Nie Yudi, Yu Xiaoling, Zhang Xiaolei, Liang Xiaozhong, Du Zhishan, Dai Haizhen, Hammet Bushbach, Chi Qiang, Li Wenhua, Wang Bo and so on. Although some coaches have trained athletes from other provinces and cities, and some coaches who have been training in the national team for a long time have not been able to enter the list of the Chinese delegation due to quota restrictions, all coaches insist on preparing for the Olympic Games to play a game of chess in the country, adhere to the supremacy of the interests of the motherland, be diligent and dedicated, have the courage to innovate, and give up their small homes for everyone to become the backbone of promoting the development of China's competitive sports.
Shanghainese who have taken on heavy responsibilities
On the archery field, the reporter saw a slender and familiar figure. Guo Bei, once deputy director of the Shanghai Sports Bureau, is now the most powerful person in the archery arena at the Tokyo Olympics , Guo Bei, who has been an Olympic referee since Barcelona in 1992 , and this time she has a new identity: the technical representative of the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Tokyo Paralympic Games.
Pictured: Guo Bei (right) at work
Technical representatives and referees were the ones behind making an Olympic Games a success. "Of the technical representatives and referees at the Tokyo Olympics, six people, including me, are from Shanghai, and I have the impression that this is probably the largest number of people in any Olympic Games." Compared with the previous referee work, this time Guo Bei is facing a more comprehensive and trivial work. "From a target paper and a shuttle bus schedule to the recognition of the entire venue layout at the technical level, to the arrangement and adjustment of the schedule, it is all the responsibility of the technical representative." Throughout the Tokyo Olympic cycle, Guo Bei lost more than ten kilograms. Xu Bin, director of the Shanghai Municipal Sports Bureau, said bitterly, "The elder sister is not easy, and she is almost thin and shapeless." ”
Pictured: Guo Bei, technical representative of the International Arrow Federation at the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Tokyo Paralympic Games
In recent years, the Municipal Sports Bureau has paid attention to strengthening the training of referees and international technical officials, and 6 comrades have served as technical representatives and referees for this Olympic Games, namely: archery Guo Bei, equestrian Huai Peiju, water polo Zhang Liang, modern pentathlon Qian Zhenhua, swimming Ji Rongkang, karate Ma Junting. Speaking for Shanghai on the international stage and showing Shanghai style in different sports fields is also a manifestation of scientific and technological soft power.
The positions are different, but the image of Shanghai is the same. During his time in Tokyo, the reporter also met Many Shanghainese Olympic staff and volunteers. Wu Xiaosheng, a Shanghai girl who once helped a lot in the quarantine procedures for going abroad, is a staff member of the Japanese Olympic Organizing Committee and corresponds to receiving global media. Approval of quarantine materials to eye inflammation, busy to the entire Olympic period without watching a game... During the table tennis final, she sent a message asking reporters to send a few pictures to "feast their eyes". After careful questioning, I learned that she was the niece of Xu Yinsheng, a titan in the table tennis arena. "Growing up listening to my uncle's story of playing ball, table tennis is still a complex."
In addition, at the Tokyo Olympic Games, there are also a number of Shanghai business backbones struggling in the management positions of the national team, such as Zhang Chuanliang, chairman of the Chinese Boxing Association, Shen Kejian, secretary general of the China Modern Pentathlon Association, and Shen Jinkang, former chairman of the China Cycling Association. It has contributed to the preparation of the national Olympic Games, and behind the improvement of many projects, there are Shanghainese. (Xinmin Evening News special correspondent Li Ranran Tokyo Today)