Qianjiang Evening News - Hourly news reporter Yang Jing
A southerner over forty years old, without any foundation for skiing, suddenly made a determination to practice hard for three years and participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics. Do you think it's a fool's dream?
At the end of 2019, Chen Penbin, a native of Yuhuan, Zhejiang, stood on a temporarily reconstructed outdoor ski track outside the Huanglong Stadium. At this time, his identity has temporarily left the "extreme runner", replaced by the "Member of the Chinese National Cross-Country Skiing Training Team", and he is the first senior athlete in the entire preparation for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The 2019 FIS City Cross-Country Skiing China Tour Hangzhou Competition is the first time he has appeared in front of his hometown father and elder in the past year of closed-door cultivation.
Dreams seem to have been illuminated, but reality is as harsh as ice – he fell across corners in the preliminaries, did not even cross the threshold of the final, and was at the bottom of all the contestants. But when he stepped off the field, he was still stubborn.
Debut transformation at home
I didn't expect to be at the bottom
In the competition of the Huanglong Sports Center, Chen Pengbin has participated in many times. The earliest can be traced back to 2006 Qianjiang Evening News and hangzhou municipal sports bureau jointly held the "Who is Hangzhou Iron Footboard" West Lake Mountain Running Race, when the starting and ending points were in Huanglong, when Chen Pengbin was still unknown. Since then, with a rare persistence, the Yuhuan fisherman has become a world champion in cross-country running and a well-known sports person with an independent management team by relying on the "silly run" that others did not look up to, and ran out of another life.
However, Chen Pengbin's sports life will be rewritten on November 15, 2018, when he officially announced his preparation for cross-country skiing after careful consideration. After joining the Special Training Team of the Chinese National Cross-Country Skiing Training Team for 13 months, this is the first time reporters have seen him.
The iconic Mohican hairstyle hasn't changed, but there's an extra scar on his cheek, the latest mark left by a year of beatings. It was just a visible wound, and there were still a dozen invisible wounds all over the body. "You see this thumb of my left hand, which has been broken for more than a year. I had checked the bones, but it still hurt. There are also injuries on the knees and arms, and it may be affected in the future when you are old. I've had more injuries this year than I've been running for 18 years. ”
Practiced so hard, but God turned a blind eye, the results of the day of the competition were disappointing, perhaps only he himself was not surprised.
The highest temperature in Hangzhou on the 17th was 16 degrees. On the snow track made of artificial snow, Chen Pengbin, who wore a snowboard, used his snow pole to slide desperately, trying to be as fast as possible, but he fell down when he was about to turn, and unfortunately did not break into the main race. But after the race, he was also very relieved: "Such a result was expected before the game, after all, I have only been practicing for a year, and the time on the snow track is only three months, it is absolutely impossible to get results, but I still did not expect to be at the bottom." The track is too slippery to control, and there are indeed many aspects of technology that need to be improved in the future. Through these two races, I also have a deeper understanding of the snow quality of the track. ”
Forty or fifty wrestles a day
Fall into doubt about life
Before joining the national cross-country skiing training team, 41-year-old Chen Penbin had never skied snow. How could an uncle who is new to skiing go to an Olympic ski competition? In the eyes of outsiders, this is simply whimsical.
But Chen Penbin has his own ideas - our country's ice and snow sports foundation is weak, there are now 300 million people on the ice and snow plan, if a southerner who is more than forty years old and has never skied snow can do it, what is impossible for others? Perhaps, this is the real reason why the invitation from the State General Administration of Sports moved him in the first place.
"I am a complete grassroots, because I have caught up with the good times and have changed now, so I often wonder what people can do for others and society in their lifetime?" 」 ——Such a very positive word, since Chen Pengbin has become gradually famous in recent years, the reporter has heard it more than once. On his simple, dark face, there was an unquestionable sincerity.
Making a decision is a matter of moments, it is not easy to really steer the skis, and it is even more difficult to fly on the snow.
"After getting into cross-country skiing, I found that it was very different from running. Cross-border cross-item selection of materials only shows that my physical fitness is good, and the technical aspect is a blank piece of paper, and I have to learn from scratch. Just like a car, it is not enough to have an engine, but it can be driven with tires. "When I joined the team, it was not the snow season, and Chen Pengbin started practicing roller skating on the flat land and small slopes.
Chen Penbin has never been a person who is afraid of hardship, and he has survived the purgatory of running for two days and one night, but in the matter of skiing, he admits that he has ever had inner fear.
In the beginning, I had to fall forty or fifty times a day, and I fell into doubt about life. In order to avoid the severe injury affecting the training, the head and limbs are put on the protective gear, and the protection is proper, just like Iron Man. After that, he went to Finland with the team for training, two exercises in the morning and afternoon, at least four to six hours a day. Saturday afternoons and Sundays were scheduled for rest, but he didn't take breaks, sometimes practicing on his own. I learned new moves, took videos while practicing, and then went back to watch the video to pick thorns, and the next day I adjusted the movements and continued to refine them.
No business activities are allowed for one year
It's still worth three years
The project that Chen Pengbin is practicing is called cross-country skiing. Cross-country skiing with the help of skiing equipment, using basic techniques such as mountaineering, downhilling, turning, and sliding, originated in Northern Europe, so it is also known as Nordic skiing, which is one of the oldest sports in the history of world sports, and was included in the Winter Olympic Games in 1924.
Due to historical reasons and objective conditions, there is a big gap between Chinese athletes and international top athletes in this event.
"In countries like Finland and Norway, where the vast majority of people ski, even children don't know how to walk and are already on the snowboard. Some players in amateur clubs are more powerful than the players of our national team, just like table tennis in our country, and folk masters are everywhere. As a southerner, Chen Penbin said that he has no talent in skiing, and some are just hard work and hardship, asking more, learning more, practicing more, and thinking more.
This year, Chen Penbin said that he was moving forward in contradictions: he wanted to go to the snow field, but he was afraid of going to the snow field. I want to learn the technique, but I am afraid of wrestling. I am not afraid of suffering, I am not afraid of tiredness, but sometimes I fall a little discouraged, and I even want to go home without practicing the road. Once there is a little progress in the practice, you will feel inexplicably excited;
This year, in addition to returning to his hometown in Taizhou to hold a people's congress and taking two vacations, the rest of the time has been crawling on the snow field.
This year, the commercial market that was so easy to open up was almost stagnant, and there was no participation in any activities...
"The income will definitely be affected, but it's still worth it because I have my goals." Chen Pengbin said.
At the age of 41, he began to practice cross-country skiing, and even if he tried harder, it was estimated that he would not be able to stand on the podium, which Chen Penbin knew very well in his heart.
"Winter sports were basically carried out in Heilongjiang, Liaoning and Jilin provinces before, and now 27 provinces and cities have participated in them, and the domestic progress itself has been huge." I hope that I can also create a miracle, through these three years of hard work, I can stand on the field of the 2022 Winter Olympics, so that more people can pay attention to cross-country skiing because of my efforts, which is my meaning. ”
The victory or defeat before the competition was known, and there was no precedent in Chen Pengbin's sports life, but he was still determined to bet his precious three years. This time he was more like a pioneer on a mission, asking no expectations, regardless of success or failure.
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