On the evening of August 6, when Ge Manqi and four others brushed up the "Nezha Head" and stepped onto the track of the Tokyo Olympic National Stadium under the attention of hundreds of millions of Chinese TELEVISION viewers, everyone was waiting for the result of their "my life is up to me".
Subsequently, when the men's 100-meter heavenly group led by Su Bingtian played the "Wave Fist", everyone was also looking forward to the big moves they released. Sure enough, both relay teams lived up to expectations and ran the sixth and fourth two chinese relays in the best positions in Olympic history.
Sprinting shines brightly, athletics achieve a breakthrough of zero gold medals, and the Tokyo Olympic Games can be called the breakthrough journey of the Chinese Athletics Corps. On August 7, Chen Hong, a reporter from Youth Daily and Youth Shanghai, interviewed Ge Manqi's coach at East China Normal University, Mr. Chen Taki, and other grassroots coaches, trying to decipher the secret of the great breakthrough in Chinese athletics from point to point.
A breakthrough for the Gemans
The younger generation of athletes is self-planning strong
Ge Manqi and Chen Taki, coach of the East China Normal Athletics Team
Chen Taki, who personally ran to Fujian to recruit Ge Manqi as a "high-level athlete" to East China Normal University, did not expect that this "versatile" girl in athletics could bring so many breakthroughs to Chinese athletics a few years later - she not only became the first Olympic women's 100m semifinals in 37 years since New China first participated in the Olympic Games in 1984, but also won the Best Olympic place in the 4×100-meter relay with her teammates.
"It's not that she got the results, I just said she's good, as a new generation of young athletes, Ge Manqi not only showed the self-discipline that a high-level athlete should have, but also has a lot of ideas and a clear plan for his future." Chen Taki said.
Ge Manqi studied sports training at the College of Physical Education and Health of East China Normal University, and in terms of athletic level, Chen Taki used "competitive strength is beyond doubt" to summarize.
"She has distinct technical characteristics, although she may not have an advantage in height, but she has the dexterity of a Southern athlete, a strong sense of rhythm, and good strength quality, and has a talent in sprinting."
What makes Chen Taki even more emotional is that Ge Manqi is different from the impression of traditional athletes in the public's mind, that is, her distinctive personality in the Olympic Games this time is "Nezha Tou".
"She has a clear career plan for herself. She hopes that after she retires, she can become a track and field coach, so she not only practices sprinting, she can also jump, she can throw, very comprehensive. "After a high-level athlete retires, he may not be able to become a coach, because how to teach people is completely different from how to practice." ”
Ge Man's Weibo after the game talked about the participation testimonials
With such a clear goal, Ge Manqi always talks about some training issues when training with coaches such as Chen Taki.
Athlete training is very hard, so in cultural classes, some athletes will doze off, and even secretly play games all night to relax during breaks, but Ge Manqi never. "She has a strong desire to learn."
A few days ago, the news of Su Bingtian's "shutting down and sleeping before 10 o'clock" caused countless netizens to sigh, Chen Taki revealed that Ge Manqi was the same, "She is generally rested before 11 o'clock, very self-disciplined." With the energy guarantee, she listened carefully to the lectures in the culture class.
"Before the Olympics, because of the epidemic and the national team training, she took a lot of online classes, she didn't understand it, she asked, interacted frequently with the teachers, and the questions she didn't understand were definitely emailed or messaged to ask questions." When I came to Chen Taki's office to talk about things, I came across some theoretical books on sports, "I will definitely borrow a few copies from me every time." Chen Taki said with a smile.
In the interview, Chen Taki has always sighed that a new generation of athletes like Ge Manqi is really "different". Have ideas, and don't be arrogant.
"When she went out to compete, she was afraid that their high-level athletes would be affected, and she wanted to book a separate hotel for her to have a good rest, but she absolutely refused to make a special one, and she must live in a student dormitory with other athletes."
Therefore, it is inevitable that this generation of athletes can impress the audience.
In the East China Normal University Athletics Team, Ge Manqi's brothers and sisters all downloaded photos of Su Bingtian, Ge Manqi and others, printed, plasticized, and hung on their bags. "It's both an idol and a 'koi.'" Chen Taki joked.
The training mode of East China Normal University
Grassroots athletics teams are united in vertical and horizontal
Ge Manqi trains at the school
Being able to cultivate Ge Manqi has a great relationship with the concept of high-level athlete training in East China Normal University.
At that time, Liu Xiang, a flyer, chose to study at East China Normal University from undergraduate to graduate, which was surprising, but if you know that the comprehensive strength ranking of the physical education discipline of this 985 school has ranked first in the comprehensive university for many years, it is not difficult to understand their choice.
"Athletes in the new era must be comprehensive talents." East China Normal University is very strict in the requirements of high-level athletes and will not be treated differently. Chen Taki said, "Ge Manqi will continue to participate in the Western Security Games when she returns from the Olympic Games, but even if she has achieved such exciting results, her final exam cannot be missed, and the school has arranged for her to make up the exam after returning to school in September." ”
With the development of the times, high-level athletes have more and more requirements for themselves, and many people do not want to just get a diploma in colleges and universities, but they have not learned anything, so they will choose a university like East China Normal University that can really learn their skills.
It is reported that the advantages of East China Normal University are reflected in two points: internally, it has a high standard of "both culture and martial arts", and externally, it has "combined vertical and horizontal", and has established long-term cooperative relations with many provincial teams to cultivate together.
"High-level athletes, especially those who can enter the national team, the task of training competitions is very heavy, how to let them really learn the content, our vice president Li Qun, who manages training, and Chen Haitao, vice president who manages teaching, are also actively exploring new models of teaching, and online classes, door-to-door teaching and other methods have been put on the agenda." Chen Taki said.
In addition, with the support of the leaders of the school and the Academic Affairs Office and teachers of various disciplines, the scientific research achievements of East China Normal University in terms of intelligence, dataization and visualization have also been applied to training and teaching, forming a training model with distinctive characteristics. "Compared with the targeted training mode of top athletes such as Liu Xiang and Su Bingtian in the national team, we need to explore scientific training methods that meet the technical characteristics of each athlete."
After all, East China Normal University is only a university, such a high-level player can not just play the level of the University Games, how to contribute to the country's top competitive sports talents, in a higher level of competition, East China Normal University chose to cooperate with provincial teams.
Chen Taki introduced that at present, East China Normal University mainly carries out "in-depth cooperation" with the Fujian team and the Anhui team. "They can provide us with good seedlings, excellent talents we train, and they can also register locally to help them play high-level competitions like the National Games."
The normal training mode of track and field athletes of East China Normal University is: during the semester, classes are held from Monday to Friday, training starts after class in the afternoon, training is held all day on Saturday, and "single break" is taken on Sunday; during the winter and summer vacations, the entire track and field team will go to the provincial team to train with front-line professional team members.
"Relying on the high-level coaching team and professional knowledge and technology of professional sports teams in various provinces, combined with the support conditions of East China Normal University in absorbing high-level sports talents, as well as a good cultural and educational environment and teachers, we have cooperated to build a high-level athlete training platform and jointly create a composite high-level sports talent." Chen Taki said that athletics, as the basic sport of competitive sports, is one of the key development projects of East China Normal University, in addition to sprinting projects, East China Normal University also focuses on the training and absorption of high-level sports talents in hurdles and high jump, long jump and other sports, including Zeng Jianhang, Lin Yuwei and other domestic high-level hurdles athletes, "focusing on building colleges and universities with distinctive athletic characteristics and competitive advantages." ”
The "small mouth" of the Chinese Legion
Aim beyond the gold medal for high-profile projects
The story of Ge Manqi and East China Normal University is also a microcosm of the new ideas developed by China's grassroots athletics in recent years.
The strength of the grassroots force has made Chinese athletics more and more confident. The number of medals won by the athletics event at the Tokyo Olympics is similar to that of the Rio Olympics, but it feels like an "unprecedented success", which is no less significant than Liu Xiang's 2004 Athens Olympic Games, because China's athletics has more and more projects at hand - no longer limited to race walking and women's middle and long-distance running, athletics breakthroughs, and sprints with the highest attention in athletics.
"From the perspective of a grassroots coach, the success of our Chinese athletics is an update on the training concept and level. International advanced training concepts can also be mastered by grass-roots coaches. Chen Taki said that the Field Management Center now requires that coaches participating in the National Games must participate in unified training, and will invite famous teachers such as Sun Haiping to teach, and if they do not participate, they cannot register for the National Games.
"Coaches not only have to go to class, but also write their own articles after class. If you don't listen, or listen without thinking for yourself, you won't be able to write this article. ”
He also believes that many local coaches have completed the replacement, and the new generation of coaches with university expertise and sports combat level are very aware of learning and know how to use the latest research results to guide their training, which also improves the overall training level.
"Just like our sprint program, which used to only focus on running training, now there is a lot of emphasis on physical training, and strength training is very important." Chen Taki said that this is also evident from Su Bingtian's developed muscle groups.
The reporter also learned that in addition to the improvement of the training level of grass-roots athletics, since the 0 gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the national athletics authorities that have been thinking hard about the pain have taken the "training concept update" and "key project breakthrough" as the "small mouth" of China's comprehensive breakthrough in athletics.
Hu Kai, one of the first runners to achieve a breakthrough on the 100-meter track in China, said: "Any breakthrough cannot be attributed to good luck, and the mental, human and material resources condensed behind it are immeasurable." Every breakthrough an athlete makes on the field must be the result of a long-term effort by a team and a country. ”
What the competent authorities expect is that on the basis of maintaining the traditional advantages of race walking, women's middle and long-distance running, there will also be breakthroughs in the "highlight projects" on the track and field fields such as sprinting, and tearing open the window paper will stimulate the development of the entire Chinese athletics. Limited by the previous level of development, it is not easy for individuals to break through, so the focus is on relay projects. After the strategy of "please come in and send out" began to be implemented, after increasing international exchanges, the individual abilities of some top athletes have improved by leaps and bounds, and this time Su Bingtian has created a new record in Asia and the Chinese male and female relay has exploded, which is the "good fruit" of this long-term policy.
If a sport wants to prosper in an all-round way, it is inseparable from the birth of talented athletes, but it is even more inseparable from the strength of the pyramid base, when the two form a virtuous circle, the Chinese legion in athletics, the basic sport of the Olympic Games, will usher in a larger outbreak in the near future, and achieve another Chinese "dream team".
Originally published in | Youth Daily, Youth Shanghai
Reporter | Chen Hong
Source: East China Normal University