The 2018 World Gymnastics Championships kicked off today in Doha, Qatar, the first qualifying event for the Tokyo Olympics. The glory of the gymnastics team in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games has passed 10 years, and there have been too many changes in the past 10 years, and the coach of the gymnastics team has been replaced by Qiao Liang.
Who is Qiao Liang? Not many people may have heard of the name, but his disciples Sean Johnson and Gabrielle Douglas did impress Chinese gymnastics fans. In the two cycles of the Beijing Olympic Games and the London Olympic Games, they have successively served as the leaders of the Women's Gymnastics Team of the United States and won countless honors for the American Team. And Qiao Liang, who led them at that time, also became the coach of all the attention.
After the Rio Olympics, american gymnastics Larry. Nassar's sexual assault led to the collective ouster of the American Gymnastics Association. For a time, the American gymnastics fell into chaos, and Qiao Liang, who had cultivated two Olympic champions, did not want to muddy the waters and chose to resign as the coach of the American women's team.
After learning of this news, the Chinese gymnastics team began to contact Qiao Liang, and finally before the championships in May this year, Qiao Liang officially became the head coach of the Chinese women's team.
Unlike the American women's team, which is already at its peak, the Chinese gymnastics women's team has begun to decline since the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, and the 10 years have not been as good as a year. He Kexin, Deng Linlin and a number of veterans retired, the current Chinese women's team in addition to the balance beam can compete with the United States and Russia and other strong teams, other projects are in a weak position, team medal competition has become difficult. Qiao Liang will face a Chinese team that has lost its competitiveness in the face of strong teams.
But Jolian's appearance at the moment seems to be a "savior", at least for some gymnastics fans. Looking back at Qiao Liang's life: from the main players of Chinese gymnastics to the coaches of American gymnastics, two Olympic gold medalists have been trained. Teaching in the United States and leading the American team to a new peak, this similarity with the women's volleyball coach makes Qiao Liang known as the "male version of Lang Ping".
Whether Qiao Liang can become Lang Ping for the time being, and what is the definition of Lang Ping itself? Is Lang Ping the savior of the women's volleyball team? Lang Ping is of course an excellent coach, but can a good individual save the whole team? Lippi did not save the Chinese men's football team, Yao Ming's appointment did not make any qualitative changes in the CBA, of course, Chinese gymnastics did not regress to the level of national football, but the idea of relying only on Qiao Liang to make the women's team return to the peak should stop.
In fact, most sports will have ups and downs, once we thought that Lin Dan will always be the world's first, thinking that Zhang Jike will not be knocked down, but the final results show that the pursuit of sports is higher, faster and stronger.
Plenty of talent is the best way to overcome the lack of talent. For talent training and scientific training, China attaches great importance to but does not pay attention to it, and everyone prefers to spend their minds and enthusiasm on a good coach, and this habit of worshipping personal heroism has not been changed so far.
Gymnastics, once a traditional Chinese advantage project, has now lost its advantage, in addition to selecting excellent coaches, gymnastics teams should also focus on the scientific training and selection of talents. If we can ensure the cultivation and transportation of talents, even if we cannot make a breakthrough in this Olympic cycle, then the next Olympic cycle may usher in a new pattern.