Guest: Tong Wen Former member of the Chinese women's judo team
On the afternoon of July 30, the Tokyo Olympics will determine the women's 78 kg or above judo champion. When it comes to this project, many people will think of Tong Wen, a Tianjin judo athlete who won the championship in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. In the final moments of the competition, Tong Wen defeated Masaki Tsukada with "one book", and after the game, she cheered excitedly and celebrated with the coach, which also became a classic moment for China's Olympic games to win gold.
Now, Tong Wen, who has become the director of tianjin weightlifting and wrestling judo boxing taekwondo sports management center, has bid farewell to the field for many years, but he still remembers the moment he won the Olympic championship. At the recent launching ceremony of Tianjin's construction of the "City of Sports", when the on-site large screen once again played the video data of his victory moment, Tong Wen's face still showed an expression of excitement and pride. "It's been 13 years since the Beijing Olympics, but I'm still very excited when I look back on my victory."
Tong Wen believes that for an athlete, if he can participate in the Olympic Games in his lifetime and compete with the world's top masters, it is definitely a very memorable thing: "Winning the championship in the Olympic Games is the dream of every athlete in his life and the supreme glory. For me, surely the most memorable moment of the Olympics was the moment in 2008 when I won the gold medal and ran down to hug my coach. Sometimes time can erase a lot of memories, but that moment will really always be in my mind, and whenever I see this picture, I will feel that my blood is boiling. ”
"I must defend the honor of judo and not embarrass the people of japan." After winning the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Tong Wen confided in the media her pride and ambition, and she did prove herself with her achievements. Women's judo over 78 kg has always been the glory of Chinese judo, but since Tong Wen, the competition of the women's big level of judo, Chinese players rarely have the opportunity to attack the championship, in this regard, Tong Wen has his own views: "In fact, now in the women's judo big level competition, all the players are in a state of having the opportunity to win the championship, and when I was an athlete, there were still some changes in the situation. Nowadays, no one can say that they have absolute strength to win the championship, and the contingency of the judo project itself is very large, and the overall level of the big level may fluctuate slightly compared to our generation of athletes, but I believe that China's big level athletes can win glory for our motherland at the Tokyo Olympic Games through more hard work and hard training. ”
Due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the Tokyo Olympic Games, which were supposed to be held in 2020, were postponed for one year, and the global epidemic has not subsided. In this special context, Chinese athletes traveling to Japan to fight on the field need to face greater challenges. Tong Wen said that while fighting for the glory of the country, he also hopes that athletes will pay attention to ensuring their health and safety: "I hope that all of our Chinese Olympic athletes can participate safely in the Tokyo Olympic Games and achieve the most ideal results, and I also hope that judo athletes can show the best competitive state and win more gold medals!" ”