Gymnastics is only 2 bronze and the worst in 32 years, And China has no "refereeing edge"
On the last competition day of the gymnastics event, China participated in the men's parallel bars and women's free gymnastics. In the parallel bars, Deng Shudi played a flat fifth place, and You Hao sat down on the ground and directly bottomed the bottom when he got off the bar. Wang Yan's action completion is high, but the difficulty is too low to win the medal. In the end, the Chinese gymnastics team won 0 gold, 0 silver and 2 bronze, which was the worst record since 1984.
With You Hao's mistake on the ground, the Chinese team lost the last hope of winning gold
Gymnastics is a scoring event, and the referee's subjective scoring directly determines the outcome of the game. Since the beginning of this Olympic qualification tournament, the refereeing problem has always been a hurdle that the Chinese gymnastics team cannot get around. In the women's qualifiers, Fan Yilin, the strongest in China's high and low bars, ranked ninth in a full set of no mistakes, and Liu Xuan commented that "this (referee pressure points) has caught up with the Pressure Water Of the Chinese Diving Team." Chen Yibing participated in all the game broadcasts as a commentator, and almost every time he mentioned the issue of refereeing. Women's team captain Shang Chunsong personal all-around 0.116 points lost to Russia's Mustafinna, and she was puzzled by the lack of medals: "My difficulty scores are very high, and there are no mistakes, but the completion points are always not high. In that game, Mustafinna made a big mistake in 2 events, and Shang Chunsong only scored 15 points on the high and low bars in 4 individual events.
So, did the referee really hack the Chinese team collectively? Men's parallel bars, You Hao's most difficult action method fell directly to the ground. Men hanging ring, Liu Yang inverted cross is not in place under the sloppy law. Fan Yilin made a lot of mistakes in the balance beam final, and almost dropped the instrument...
The Chinese team has made a lot of mistakes, which has little to do with the referee
It is true that the referee is suspected of pressing the score, but the mistake is not caused by the referee's score. So many individual events can't get into the final, and there is no excuse to find. There is only one reason: Chinese gymnastics has lost its glory in Beijing in 2008, and we are in the most difficult stage.
The first question is that this year's gymnastics team 10 people are rookies, and only Zhang Chenglong has participated in the London Olympics. In the previous gymnastics team, there were always leaders such as Li Ning, Li Xiaopeng, Li Xiaoshuang, Yang Wei, and Zou Kai. The lack of such a needle in the sea god makes young players unable to withstand the frequent mistakes of psychological pressure. At last year's national championships, Mao Yi, who won the silver medal, said, "The mood is very tense, and it takes a process to adapt to the competition." "In just one year, from the domestic competition directly to the Olympic arena, almost all the young players have played abnormally. In the last project, Chen Yibing also stopped talking about the refereeing issue, he sighed: "Young players have strength and lack of domineering, and they are always a breath of relief. "Chinese gymnastics, after all, is no longer the master of the king of 8 years ago.
The coach celebrated the completion of the game by the players, but the international recognition of the chinese team's good action was not high
The second problem is that the gymnastics team is not in the right direction in the selection of materials and the choreography of movements. The selection of materials for the Chinese gymnastics women's team has always been biased towards shortness and dexterity. With a low center of gravity, you can make more difficult moves in the air. But in the past Olympic cycle, the referee's preference has changed, the absolute power type such as Byers, the tall stretch type such as Mustafinna and Vivos, the Chinese players do not blindly pursue the difficulty at both ends, and they are not favored by the referee.
The third and most important problem is that Chinese athletes do not have a "refereeing edge". It is no secret that referees have preferences for scoring, their personal preferences, players' ethnicity, preferred style, players' appearance order, and even whether the players are well-known enough internationally will affect the scoring. The "fate" thing could have been cultivated, but the Chinese gymnastics team has recently ignored this point.
The new king of gymnastics, Byers, once came up with several difficult moves in a year, convincing the referee in one fell swoop
If you want to make a player popular, you must let him appear in the right game in a good state. The impression of a player in the first few international competitions of his career is a baseline, such as Shang Chunsong, who was "pressed" by the individual all-around, who debuted at the 2011 Dros Invitational tournament and won the gold medal of the balance beam and the uneven bars and two silver medals in free exercise. According to this trend, she could have become the darling of the referee. As a result, in the 12-year national championship, Shang Chunsong became a victim of the power struggle in the provinces and suffered the worst referee of his career. Shang Chunsong, who was dragged back in China, has not been smooth since then.
Are there any cases of successful construction of women's gymnastics in China? There is one in this cycle - Yao Jinnan. Some people in the industry have lamented that since Yao Jinnan's debut, the E score (completion point) has not been suppressed. Yao Jinnan also embarked on the international arena in 11 years, that World Cup Stuttgart alone won three golds, and played well in the subsequent World Championships. For a time, the name of the talented girl was unique, and she also took the London Olympic bus to accumulate experience, and since then, the national championships and the Asian Games have won gold medals consecutively, and she is the most refereed player in the international arena of the gymnastics women's team. Unfortunately, because of the serious setback of Yao Jinnan's career due to injury, he did not get the opportunity to go to Rio.
In the Olympic year, it was built behind closed doors and did not go abroad, and Chinese gymnastics "can't go out"
After the end of the women's qualification match, the domestic media and many former Olympic champions were complaining for the little flowers, and the "high and low bar princess" He Kexin directly fired at the referee: "I really can't understand this score, the rules should be changed." In the face of reporters after the game, Huang Yubin, head coach of the gymnastics team, said such a sentence, "There is no right to speak." One sentence suppressed the momentum of the public opinion counter-offensive.
Too much pressure made the youngsters make too many mistakes, and at the beginning of the year they did not get the opportunity to go out and meet the world
When I said this, I don't know if Head Coach Huang Yubin remembered a decision a few months ago. In March this year, the leader of the gymnastics team, Ye Zhennan, publicly announced that in order to ensure the systematic preparation of the main team members, the Chinese team will send second-tier players to participate in all international events before the Rio Olympic Games, and the main team members will only participate in the national championships and Olympic selection competitions until they go to Rio.
Now it seems that this decision is really too stupid. First of all, international events before the Olympic Games can allow athletes to adapt to the atmosphere of the venue and accumulate valuable experience; in addition, such international competitions are the best opportunity for judges to know Chinese players. Perhaps the gymnastics coaching staff is still immersed in the illusion of "beating the opponent with a secretly trained action". To know that the gymnastics program of 8 years ago may be OK, and now through months of internal training, selection and development of difficult moves, it is expected to sweep thousands of troops, such a dream should have been awakened long ago.
The battle of the power of the referee team is an important battlefield for gymnastics outside the competition
Head coach Huang Yubin may have realized that we have no say in refereeing. Taking Fan Yilin's lost high and low bar project as an example, the Russian and American referees in the INTERNATIONAL SPORTS federation pattern are the strongest, so there was a suspicion at that time, it was Fan Yilin's difficulty score of 7.1 was too high, too threatening to the United States and Russia, and Biles was weak in this project, simply using the low score in the morning to force Fan Yilin out of the final. Regardless of whether this "conspiracy theory" is true, the top three high and low bars in the end are Mustafinna of Russia, Kosien of the United States, and Schader of Germany, representing the three most powerful systems of the refereeing class, Russia, the United States, and the European referee.
At this year's Rio Olympics, there is only one Chinese referee, Zhu Jieya, who is the group D (difficulty score) referee of the women's vault, and there is no E point (completion score). In other sports, there will be no referee to speak out for Chinese players. In contrast, the Chinese gymnastics team won 9 gold medals to create history in the Beijing Olympic Games, and even Huang Liping, who took the oath on behalf of the referee at the opening ceremony, was simply a heaven and an underground.
The Chinese team was weak in the referee group and had no influence on the overall situation
The refereeing problem has plagued the Chinese gymnastics session for not a day or two, and there are many doorways in it. Under China's current sports system, training referees is a thing that cannot be seen immediately, and English will brush off many people. Even if you are admitted to the international referee qualification, you still have to go through many international competitions to enforce the law in the Olympic arena, and the referee needs to be re-certified every 4 years. What about officials at all levels? Instead of spending energy cultivating referees, it is better to find a few good seedlings and practice to the death to produce immediate benefits.
Shao Bin's change of score at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou was a turning point in the refereeing issue. In the men's free gymnastics final, Shao Bin, as a referee in Group D, violated the rules and notified the recorder to directly modify the score before the score of Group F was made public. This behavior put Jang Sung-yong in a tie for first place with South Korea's Kim So-mimyeong, as Jang came in the first place and played the Chinese national anthem when presenting the award.
The attitude of the Chinese Gymnastics Association on this incident is that it is an individual act and has nothing to do with us. The "age gate" that contacted Dong Fangxiao before was also done by individuals. It is only natural for the FIA to have doubts about the professional ethics of Chinese referees and even Chinese gymnastics practitioners. This year's Olympic Games, as well as foreign reporters deliberately asked Shang Chunsong about his age, such distrust not only from the media, but also from the referee.
The U.S. team has absolute influence on and off the court
In recent years, Liu Xuan and Chen Yibing have both obtained international referee qualifications, but the problem of refereeing discourse cannot be changed by one or two former Olympic champions. Without the attention and support from the leadership, the situation of Chinese gymnastics without a voice in front of the referee will not improve.
Losing at the starting line The United States has only 3,000 people engaged in gymnastics in China
There is another detail of this Olympic gymnastics competition that many people may not have noticed. Foreign players such as Byers in the United States and Mustafinna in Russia are passionate when they do the action, and their smiles are full of energy. The Chinese players are like a big enemy, very serious, and their smiles are relatively tense. It has to be said that the referee's scoring also has this factor, that is, the examination of the mental state of the players.
Mustafina is in the game, her posture is beautiful and generous
Before participating in this Olympic Games, not many people knew About Shang Chunsong, and during the competition, the media reported some stories about where she came from, how hard the training was, and how many people's expectations she shouldered. Shang Chunsong comes from the depths of the mountains in Zhangjiajie, and she embarked on the road of gymnastics because her family felt that if she made a difference in gymnastics, the family could get out of the mountains.
So since the age of 6, Shang Chunsong has carried the heavy responsibility of taking the "family" out of the mountain, and for more than ten years she has not dared to relax for a moment, in the words of the enlightenment coach Huang Wei: "When she first came, she was already a little older, and the ligament pulling, physical fitness, and strength training were very hard, and even so, Shang Chunsong never said 'I don't practice'." ”
In addition to the lack of numbers, the struggle of the provincial team is also a difficult problem hindering Chinese gymnastics
Shang Chunsong is indeed admirable, and this is also the biggest impression that gymnasts give Chinese - thin and poor. Most gymnasts are like Shang Chunsong, hoping that gymnastics will change their lives and their families' lives, and only winning the championship is success, which leads to parents tending not to let their children practice gymnastics as long as their children have other ways out. And this road, now look at it, is getting narrower and narrower. Ye Zhennan, the leader of the gymnastics team, said that there are only more than 3,000 registered gymnasts in China, and gymnastics schools everywhere are facing the dilemma of difficult enrollment.
What does the United States, the hegemon of women's gymnastics, do? There are more than 4,000 light gymnastics clubs in China, 100,000 registered athletes, and a gymnastics population of more than 5 million people. Gymnastics is like a piano and a painting, it is used to cultivate children's hobbies, and parents send their children there with the purpose of exercising and making friends. Many children finally choose gymnastics, and the biggest reason is to love, rather than carrying the fate of the whole family, the achievements of provincial officials, and the expectations of the people of the whole country like the Chinese players.
Americans regard gymnastics as an interest class and a means of communication
While kids in the U.S. are training gymnastics as a hobby, our kids are already preparing gymnastics for a career all the way to the dark. When they only practiced for two hours a day, our children trained several times as long. When their parents would punish not practicing gymnastics today, our coach said that not practicing gymnastics would be considered a reward. Their gymnastics training time is small, but there are many competitions, and there are competitions in various cities and states, until the national competition, the world competition, and the elite players who have been selected through layers can be described as thousands of hammers. In China, only day-to-day training fills the lives of these children, and the only few times a year when they have the opportunity to compete cannot get the rank, and the hard work of several years may be in vain, which will make many people "disappointed". Because there is no other way out, you still have to bury your head in practice, when will you be able to stand out like them? This is every Olympic Games, and many gymnastics children in China stare at the TV set and have ideas in their heads.
Therefore, in the United States, the sport of gymnastics from hobbies, to amateurs, and then to careers, has formed a virtuous circle, and in the case of a large enough base, it is natural to select better players. In China, gymnastics (including weightlifting and other sports) means suffering, injury, and family members, at this point we are not only inferior to the United States, even neighboring Japan is not as good, they combine the strengths of China and the United States, through amateur gymnastics clubs to improve public participation in gymnastics, and then select seedlings from them to receive professional training and participate in competitions. The number of gymnasts in Japan is relatively abundant, with more than 100 light gymnastics clubs in Japan, and about 6,000 male gymnasts alone, which is twice the total gymnastics population in China.
The Japanese team won the gold medal of the most important men's team this year, and the players were celebrating the victory
Many coaches and officials have sighed: "It is more and more difficult to find team members, and it is not practiced for a year to find." "But how to change the social impression of gymnastics, how to change people's perception of gymnastics, no one can come up with a feasible idea." Maybe wait until one day, the children have more physical education classes at school.
Conclusion: The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first. Before the Olympics began, Chinese gymnastics had actually lost. This is not a problem for the athletes themselves, but for the gymnastics community as a whole. Before, there was a national system to fight chicken blood, and now the chicken blood is finished, and there is only one chicken feather left. We need to take it one step at a time.
Source: NetEase Sports