Sanxiang Metropolis Daily, September 29 (reporter Yang Sihan, Huang Jing, correspondent Su Xiaoling) What is the experience of seeing an Olympic champion at the school games? This morning, at the opening ceremony of the 35th Campus Sports Festival and 2021 Athletics Games of the Affiliated Middle School of Hunan Normal University, not only the Olympic champions were ushered in, but also three! When Wang Mingjuan, deputy director of the Weightlifting Management Center of Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau and champion of the women's weightlifting 48 kg at the 2012 London Olympic Games, Hou Zhihui, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Women's Weightlifting 49 kg Champion and World Record Holder, Chen Lijun, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Weightlifting Men's 67 kg Champion, the Women's 4×400m Relay Champion of the 14th National Games, and the School's 2021 alumnus Huang Meixia, the whole venue boiled over, and the rare "big scene" ignited the entire campus.
Cheerful music resounds through the clouds, bodybuilding postures dance the earth, the flower team steps on the beat of youth, waving bright flower balls, conveying the passion of sports... At this Year's Games, the reporter found a characteristic phalanx - a tribute to the Olympic phalanx, which weaves a beautiful garland of respects to the Olympic athletes, aiming to learn the Olympic spirit.
"Sports should not be the cause of our athletes, but also the cause of all the people, and everyone must have a sense of exercise." At the opening ceremony, Hou Zhihui said that by advocating the public to participate in sports and fitness, cultivating a positive and healthy lifestyle is the basic essence of sportsmanship to benefit the people. In her view, although the Tokyo Olympic Games have come to an end, what is more valuable than the gold medal is the sportsmanship transmitted by the Olympic Games to the world.
As a 2021 graduate of the school, Huang Meixia is particularly happy to return to her alma mater this time, she told reporters that here, she learned to be meticulous in life and study, be strict with herself in training, and never give up in the game, and will achieve greater goals. "Believe in yourself, study hard, and believe that the person who will be excellent in the future must be you!"
Su Jianxiang, vice president of the school, said that sports are prosperous and the country is strong, and sports are strong. The foundation of a strong sports country lies in mass sports. On September 16, 2021, Xie Yonghong, the president of the school, was awarded the honorary title of "National Advanced Individual in Sports for All" in 2017-2020 by the General Administration of Sports, and Xie Yonghong, as an advocate and practitioner of mass sports, led teachers and students to create a new situation in the development of the school's sports industry. He hoped that the athletes of the attached middle school could learn from the spirit of the Olympic champions to challenge themselves and climb the peak, and at the same time "love sports more", "exercise more rationally" and "support sports more".
It is reported that as an advanced unit of national mass sports, Hunan Normal University Affiliated Middle School has actively carried out the reform and practice of physical education courses for many years, and given full play to the function of physical fitness and education. Xie Yonghong, the principal of the school, always spurred himself on the belief that "schools that do not attach importance to sports are not good schools, and principals who do not attach importance to sports are not good principals", firmly implemented the strategy of strengthening the country through sports, always took the improvement of the physical fitness of teachers and students and the promotion of all-round development of people as the starting point and foothold of the school's sports work, carefully planned and vigorously grasped the implementation, and led the teachers and students of the whole school to create a new situation in the development of the school's sports industry. In this national games, the performance of the attached middle school students is remarkable: Huang Meixia, an alumnus of the class of 2021, won the women's 4*400 relay championship and the fifth place in the women's 100 meters final; Liu Suyi, an alumnus of the class of 2017, competed with Su Bingtian and won the fifth place in the men's 4*100 meters relay; chen Long, an alumnus of the class of 2021, who was admitted to Tsinghua University, won 13 places in the men's high jump. In addition, the school's school football team won the fifth place in the Changsha Ten Games, the runner-up of the municipal league, and the fourth place in the provincial youth football competition; the school's badminton team and table tennis team also contributed high-level athletes with excellent sports level and academic performance, and many of them were admitted to double first-class universities.