Affected by the cold wave, the autumn rains in Zhejiang in mid-to-late October are continuous, and the chill strikes people. However, in the training bases of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau in Hangzhou, Ningbo, Changxing, Qiandao Lake and other places, Zhejiang athletes, including Olympic champions Shi Zhiyong, Wang Shun, Guan Chenchen and other famous athletes, have opened a new round of intense training to prepare for the upcoming winter training and subsequent domestic and foreign competitions.
Recently, in the media theme interview activity jointly organized by the Publicity Department of the General Administration of Sports and the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau, the reporter of Workers Daily learned that a total of 33 athletes in Zhejiang competed in Tokyo, winning 7 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze, creating the best result in the history of Zhejiang's participation in the Olympic Games. At the recently concluded Shaanxi National Games, the Zhejiang team won 44 gold, 35 silver and 37 bronze, with a total of 116 medals.
Why did the Olympic champion start from "Zhejiang"? Behind the continuous rise in the overall strength of Zhejiang competitive sports in recent years, what kind of forging "code" is hidden?
Traditional strengths are passed on
"I want to share with you what I wrote to myself a year ago – 'In the last year, others are working hard, you have to work harder to discipline yourself and persevere for the future.'" ”
Back to his alma mater, Ningbo Water (Swimming) Sports School, Wang Shun, who won the men's 200-meter medley at the Tokyo Olympics and then won 6 gold medals at the Shaanxi National Games, shared his journey with the team members. "I don't put too much pressure on myself because of the change of identity, the championship can only represent the past. I have now resumed training to lay the groundwork for the Abu Dhabi Short Course World Championships in December. ”
Wang Shun's swimming project can be called the traditional strength of Zhejiang sports, and a number of Olympic champions and world champions have emerged. Shooting, gymnastics, badminton and other sports are also the "territory" of Zhejiang Sports for many years.
The Ningbo Sports School, which produced Olympic champion Yang Qian, established a shooting team as early as 1956. Wang Chengyi, who currently coaches the rifle program of the school shooting team, won the bronze medal at the 2004 Athens Olympics. "Shooting has become a 'fist' project in Ningbo and even Zhejiang sports. Including the championship won by Yang Qian, in the past 10 years, the Ningbo shooting team has won 128 national championships, 14 Asian championships and 12 world championships. ”
In the badminton hall of Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College in Hangzhou, Wang Lin, who helped China win the Sudirman Cup in 2009, is coaching the Zhejiang youth badminton team in training. The coach who trained Olympic champion Chen Yufei admitted that inheritance is the secret of Zhejiang's traditional sports projects to maintain their advantages, "most of the world champions and Olympic champions who went out from Zhejiang are still in Zhejiang to coach and continue to train outstanding athletes for the Zhejiang team with their own experience."
It is reported that as the base camp of Zhejiang competitive sports, Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College has 20 athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympic Games, and finally won 5 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze excellent results. Shi Zhiyong, Wang Shun, Xie Zhenye, Chen Yufei, Wang Yilu, Zheng Siwei, Huang Yaqiong, Guan Chenchen, Wan Jiyuan and other famous players all embarked on the Olympic arena from here.
Eclectic and talented
"Walking off the podium, everything starts from scratch, and you have to take every step in the future. My first goal now is to prepare for next year's Asian Games in Hangzhou. In the gymnastics hall of Zhejiang Sports Vocational and Technical College, Guan Chenchen, the tokyo Olympic women's balance beam champion who has just finished a group of training, told reporters.
Although the Olympic title has made the 16-year-old almost a household name, few people will think that Guan Chenchen's gymnastics career did not start in Zhejiang.
Guan Chenchen, who was born in Shishou, Hubei Province, was sent by his parents to the Li Xiaoshuang Gymnastics School in Xiantao, Hubei Province, at the age of 6, and then selected to be trained at the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. In 2012, Guan Chenchen settled in Cixi, Ningbo, and transferred to Ningbo Sports School, and has since embarked on the road of champion step by step.
Similar to Guan Chenchen, Shi Zhiyong (originally from Guilin, Guangxi), who has won consecutive Olympic gold medals in Rio and Tokyo, also started his weightlifting career in Ningbo.
"The cultivation of sports talents is the key to achieving excellent results in competitive sports, and Ningbo actively solves the talent problem from the aspect of institutional mechanisms." The relevant person in charge of the Ningbo Municipal Sports Bureau told reporters that for example, actively coordinate relevant departments to include sports talents in the Ningbo Expert Directory, so that sports talents can enjoy the corresponding public service guarantee treatment, and at the same time give certain financial support to encourage the majority of athletes and coaches to strive for excellence.
"Focusing on competitiveness, 'bringing in and going out' to plant a strong foundation of Talents in Zhejiang is the precondition for strengthening and expanding Zhejiang's sports advantage projects," said Zheng Yao, director of the Zhejiang Provincial Sports Bureau, saying that at present, Zhejiang Competitive Sports has formed a talent training system with sports schools as the leader, sports and education integration, and social forces running sports as a supplement.
Integrate resources into synergy
"The schooling of the athletes in the center, including the work arrangement of the localization of employees, the Changxing County Party Committee and the county government have given us strong support to the center, eliminating our worries." At the Zhejiang Provincial Shooting archery bicycle sports management center in Changxing, Zhejiang Province, Zhu Qinan, director of the center and shooting Olympic champion, told reporters that the support of the territory allowed them to take root in Changxing with peace of mind and cultivate champion players such as Yang Qian, Wang Zhilin, and Li Jianxin.
It is worth mentioning that the Changxing County Children's Amateur Sports School has been jointly organized with the center. "The joint operation between the major sports school and the center is conducive to the cultivation of talents and the improvement of the level of sports competition." Athletes can also set up separate cultural learning classes to teach according to their aptitudes and time. Xi Shuangbing, principal of Changxing County Major Sports School, said.
"To make competitive sports stronger and bigger, it is far from enough to rely on the sports department, and it is necessary to give full play to the strength of all parties in society to work together." Zheng Yao said that in recent years, Zhejiang has actively mobilized social forces to participate in competitive sports, and promoted the provincial team joint office and the provincial team social force office. At present, 8 sports such as football, wrestling and rock climbing have been implemented by the provincial team joint office and the social force office, which has effectively improved the quality and competitiveness of zhejiang competitive sports. (Workers Daily reporter Li Yuanhao)
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