Source: Qianjiang Evening News
In the just-concluded Gymnastics Women's Balance Beam Final at the Tokyo Olympic Games, 16-year-old Zhejiang Guan Chenchen won the championship, and Guan Chenchen entered the final as the first place in the preliminary round, and finally won the championship. Another Chinese player, Tang Xijing, won the silver medal.
Guan Chenchen, from Shishou City, Hubei Province, was enlightened in 2010 at The Li Xiao Double Gymnastics School in Xiantao City, and was selected to be trained at Wuhan Institute of Physical Education the following year, and was sent to the Department of Gymnastics of Zhejiang Provincial Sports Vocational and Technical College in 2012, becoming a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Gymnastics Team and a national athlete.
Located at the southern end of the central axis of Hubei Province, bordering Hunan, Shishou City is the home of China's elk, where Guan Chenchen, who had just appeared on the women's balance beam of the Tokyo Olympic Games, was born. Speaking of Shishou, I believe that most people are not familiar with this name, but Xiantao, which is more than 160 kilometers away from here, is the famous hometown of Chinese gymnastics, and Guan Chenchen's gymnastics road began from here.
Going to gymnastics school is an impulse
When I got to school, I cried and refused to leave
Guan Chenchen, who was born in September 2004, mentioned her daughter's gymnastics path, and her mother, Huang Xinhua, said it was the result of "a momentary impulse."
"We are a small county town in Shishou, sports are not taken seriously, there is no sports tradition at home, she began to practice a little Latin dance, taekwondo, when she was 6 years old, she saw a gymnastics game on TV one night, she stared at it for half a day and said she wanted to learn this." I thought she was just on a whim, and I agreed to take her to try it. Huang Xinhua recalled.
The next day Huang Xinhua took her daughter to the Xiantao City Li Xiao Double Gymnastics School in the next county, the school teacher looked at her physical condition, let her do a few split leg lower waist movements, said that the age is slightly older, but the body balance softness is still good, you can stay and try.
"As soon as I heard that I really wanted to stay, I began to hesitate, I wanted to go home and discuss with my family first, and I also wanted to listen to the opinions of her class teacher, who knew that Guan Chenchen was lying on her back at that time and refused to leave, there were a lot of equipment in the place where gymnastics was practiced, trampolines, horizontal bars, which particularly attracted her, crying and refusing to go, no way, I went outside to temporarily buy some daily necessities, left her in gymnastics school first, and the tuition fees were paid after a few days."
After returning home, Huang Xinhua took three years of leave from elementary school and told Guan Chenchen, "Give you three years to get out of Xiantao, and if you can't practice, you will go back to school to study well." ”
No one expected that this whim would open a door to a new world for this 6-year-old girl.
Seven months after entering the gymnastics school, Guan Chenchen was selected to be sent to the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, and Huang Xinhua still remembers her daughter's proud eyes at that time, she said: "Mom, you see, you give me three years, I will come out in 7 months." ”
Since then, Guan Chenchen has been selected to enter Ningbo Sports School, and in 2012, he was sent to the Gymnastics Department of Zhejiang Provincial Sports Vocational and Technical College and became a member of the Zhejiang Provincial Gymnastics Team. When he left Hubei, Huang Xinhua knew that his daughter really had to go down the road of gymnastics.
Dad hasn't seen his daughter in 5 years
Not around but a heart-warming cotton jacket
When he arrived at the Zhejiang team, Guan Chenchen had very little time to go home, and most of the time was spent by Huang Xinhua and his wife visiting their daughter. After Guan Chenchen was selected for the national team in 2017, he had less time to meet, and usually relied on telephone and video contact. "Before this year, the last time I saw her was in May 2019, and his father saw her in person during the Spring Festival of 2017."
"For so many years, I went to the scene to watch her game twice, and I was afraid that going to the scene and being seen by her would affect her game." To be honest, these years really miss the child, our family is such a person, so young to leave the family alone, how can the mother not be distressed? But we also know that the road itself is very hard, thinking that we should try not to interfere with her training. ”
This year, Huang Xinhua and his wife really couldn't help it, in May Guan Chenchen had a competition in Chengdu, and the two secretly went to Chengdu to see her once, "We were like spies, wearing hats and masks, and we were afraid that she would recognize her in the stands." After the game, with the help of the coach, we went into the athletes' dormitory to meet her. At that time, Huang Xinhua wrote in the circle of friends: "I haven't seen you for two whole years, waited for six days to see you, and didn't stay for half an hour, it's not easy!" ”
Although they did not go to the scene, the daughter's game husband and wife have always paid attention to it, and in Huang Xinhua's QQ space photo album, hundreds of photos of Guan Chenchen on the field have been preserved. The family's thoughts and love for the child flow through the photos and notes.
In her mother's eyes, Guan Chenchen is a warm-hearted girl, "She once wrote in her diary, 'I want to practice gymnastics well, and if I practice well, I can protect my mother'." When the coach told me about it, I burst into tears at the moment, and I was so touched. ”
After going to Tokyo, Guan Chenchen's parents have not dared to take the initiative to contact her, for fear that she has psychological pressure: I hope that the child will not have too much pressure on the field, face the game with a normal heart, and strive to win glory for the country.
The "pipe small fat" in the eyes of the coach
A little stubborn, not willing to lose
In the eyes of Chen Hong, the head coach of the Zhejiang Gymnastics Team, this little girl born in 2004 has a small and stubborn personality, does not accept defeat, and wants to win is the biggest feature of Guan Chenchen.
"When I introduced her from Hubei, I felt that she was very clever, talented, balanced, and stable in the air. After several years of practice, it has also shown very obvious characteristics. Chen Hong told reporters that Guan Chenchen's quadrithlon, the best is still the balance beam, the high and low bars are worse, in the national team selection tournament before the Tokyo Olympic Games, Guan Chenchen's performance in the balance beam project is particularly eye-catching, and he won this ticket.
In these years of the provincial team, Guan Chenchen's efforts and progress Chen Hong are all in the eyes, "Guan Chenchen is usually a very cheerful little girl, eccentric, we all call her Guan Xiao fat." She was young when she came, but she trained very hard, so she made great progress. It's just that after all, it is a child, when it is hard, it is inevitable that there will be a little emotion occasionally, but after the enlightenment of coaches and teammates, and her own adjustment, she will soon be able to regain her morale and practice vividly, which is also an indispensable advantage for her to become an excellent athlete. ”
This time to enter the list of the Tokyo Olympic Games, she herself seized the opportunity to win, Chen Hong only hopes that she can grasp it well and prove herself.
Source: Qianjiang Evening News Hourly News Reporter Zhang Feng Cao Linbo