At this year's Paris Olympics, Chinese badminton player Huang Yaqiong won the badminton mixed doubles championship, and Liu Yuchen won the Thomas Cup World Men's Badminton Team Championships this year.
On October 16, two champion athletes "parachuted" into the ideological and political class of the champion of Shanghai Sports University, Huang Yaqiong and Liu Yuchen, with their experience of growing up as champions, encouraged the young college students of Shanghai Sports University to learn to persevere, must persevere.
The training was too hard and I was going to give up
The family supported the eventual Olympic victory
Huang Yaqiong is a mixed doubles player of the Chinese badminton team, since 2016, she has been the champion of various badminton mixed doubles competitions, and at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, she partnered with Zheng Siwei to win the badminton mixed doubles championship and win glory for the country.
In the class of the champion youth of the ideological and political course of Shanghai Sport University, Huang Yaqiong shared her badminton growth experience. When she was a child, by chance, she saw someone else playing badminton on the side of the road, so she fell in love with badminton and begged her parents to let her play badminton. Of course, her parents fully supported her daughter's preferences, but after entering the professional team for training, Huang Yaqiong realized that it was so hard to play badminton well, and she once planned to give up. Fortunately, her parents have always given Huang Yaqiong 100% support and encouragement, which allowed Huang Yaqiong to persevere, and through her hard training, she eventually grew into an excellent badminton player and won the championship in the Olympic Games.
In the face of unknown challenges, many people may choose to give up, but Huang Yaqiong chose to persevere, and her persistence has given countless students of Shanghai Sports University the motivation to forge ahead.
Sun Fanbo, a student at Shanghai Sports University, told reporters that as a freshman who just stepped into college, there are too many unknowns, including study and training, which are quite stressful, and there was confusion at the beginning, but after listening to what Huang Yaqiong said today, it also made her feel that persistence is very important.
The injury is too serious, and it is recommended to give up
gritted his teeth and persevered for four years to become the champion
Born into a family of sportsmen, Liu Yuchen was selected for the national youth training team at the age of 15, and then began to compete for his country, winning the 2024 Thomas Cup World Men's Badminton Team Championships.
Liu Yuchen said in sharing that in 2020, due to years of badminton training, he suffered multiple injuries to his body joints, and the doctor advised him to give up badminton, but Liu Yuchen was reluctant to badminton, and under the torture of physical pain, he strongly chose to forbear and persevere, after four years of perseverance, Liu Yuchen finally stood on the podium of the championship and won the championship trophy.
Hearing Liu Yuchen's sharing, Xie Fei, a college student from Shanghai Sports University who practices football, was deeply encouraged, he said: "Practicing football is the same as practicing badminton, both face physical pain, but competitive sports are like this, we must persevere, we must grit our teeth and persevere, in order to overcome the pain and win the excitement of sports." Xie Fei joked that when the body can't hold on, the will will will take you out of the encirclement.
Awarded the letter of appointment of the Green Tile Youth Lecturer Group
Actively spread the spirit of sports
At the event site, Li Yin, Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Sports University, issued a letter of appointment to the two champion athletes of the "Green Tile Youth Lecturer Group", hoping that the two champion athletes can continue to interpret the struggle youth in the way of sports people in the future champion youth class, and strive to contribute to the construction of a strong country in education, a strong country in sports, and a healthy China.
The champion ideological and political course is a brand activity represented by "Champion · Youth Talk" created by Shanghai Sports University in the field of ideological and political education. The activity takes patriotism education as the core, focuses on the education of ideals and beliefs, and combines "stressing sports" with "stressing moral education" and "reasoning" with "storytelling" in a way that young people love and accept, so that students can comprehend in immersion, be moved in comprehension, and constantly stimulate patriotism, national aspirations and service to the country in the moving, and effectively enhance the attractiveness, appeal and effectiveness of ideological and political courses.
The reporter learned from Shanghai Sports University that since the school founded the "Champion Ideological and Political Course" in 2018, there have been many Olympic champions and world champions who have walked into the campus and into the ideological and political classroom of Shanghai Sports University to tell the story of the champion and spread the spirit of sportsmanship for teachers and students.
Text/Image: Chen Tao
Editor: Chen Lu
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