Chengdu, August 22 (China News Network) Title: Zou Jingyuan, "King of Parallel Bars": Even talented athletes need 99% of their sweat
China News Service reporter He Shaoqing
The 2017 Gymnastics World Championships won the first world championship, the 2018 World Championships once again defended the title with absolute superiority, and the first Olympic Games in 2021 won the gold medal with a high score of "fault"... Although he has received many honors at the age of 23 and has been called "a once-in-a-century genius" by Japanese athlete Uchimura Hangping, in the view of Zou Jingyuan, the "king of parallel bars", "even a talented athlete needs 99% of the sweat".
Gymnasts will pay attention to Zou Jingyuan's competition.
As the youngest member of the Chinese gymnastics men's team to tokyo, Zou Jingyuan demonstrated the strength of the "king of parallel bars" in the gymnastics men's parallel bars final at the Tokyo Olympic Games, winning the championship with a high score of 16.233 points, surpassing the silver medalist by more than 0.5 points. In the gymnastics men's team final, Zou Jingyuan withstood the pressure in the parallel bars event to complete the difficult action, harvested the highest score in the whole game, and once helped the Chinese team surpass the Japanese team in total scores.
Talking about the trip to the Tokyo Olympics, Zou Jingyuan said bluntly in an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Network that he was "relieved and resisted." "After all, it is the Olympic Games, and if you want to say that you have come up with 100% of the usual training level, there is definitely no, but there are 70%." Zou Jingyuan said that when he was 19 years old, he won the first world championship in his life, and from this day on, winning gold in the Olympic Games was not only a dream for him, but also a goal, but also the expectations of many relatives and friends. And to go to the Olympic arena, all this pressure and motivation need to be put aside, because sports events, especially gymnastics competitions, are ultimately compared with themselves.
After the Olympic Gold Medal, many gymnastics fans at home and abroad praised Zou Jingyuan's textbook-level operation on the online social platform, calling him the "god of parallel bars" and "parallel bars robots". But Zou Jingyuan said that he did not care what others called him, and only wanted to continue to be himself and try to make himself better. "One day I won't get the championship, and when I don't win the championship, I won't be, so when they call me the 'god of parallel bars', I think I'm actually an ordinary athlete, just work hard." 」
In fact, efforts have been integrated into Zou Jingyuan's daily life every day. Although he is still in the isolation stage, he still maintains a lot of exercise, and the latest video is also to show netizens how to perform handstand training in a narrow isolation room. In the ten years before he competed in the Tokyo Olympics, Zou Jingyuan only lived at home for two nights.
"Gymnastics, unlike other sports, needs to be in the gymnastics room day in and day out, not only for athletes, but also for coaches." Zou Jingyuan introduced that when training for the national team, only Chinese New Year's Eve afternoons of the year and the first day of the first month of the new year can rest, and it is normal not to return home, and in order to achieve the desired results, equal sweat is essential. "If I can do better than others if I can stick with it, then I will definitely stick to it."
In Zou Jingyuan's view, gymnastics is not only a hobby and career for him, but also a change, making the body better, the thinking more mature, and the mind more powerful. He recalled that when he was a child studying at the Sichuan Sports Vocational College, he was once a bit rebellious because the coach did not teach him the movements of the students of the same age, focusing on basic skills. Later, after entering the national team, I slowly understood the coach's painstaking heart, and the seemingly boring basic skills laid the foundation for the difficult actions later. "After this incident, I understood that many things cannot be achieved quickly, and the words of the elders are the accumulation of experience, and they have their own reasons."
Zou Jingyuan plans to return to his hometown of Sichuan after the National Games to visit his parents and coaches, and then continue to devote himself to intense training, hoping that three years later in Paris, he will make up for the regrets of the gymnastics men's team final at the Tokyo Olympics. In the eyes of the new Olympic champion, young gymnasts, including himself, should have the courage to break through, dare to innovate, and pave the way forward with sweat, as Li Ning, the idol who inspired him to go all the way, said - "everything is possible". (End)
Source: China News Network