Table tennis Olympic champion Xu Xin has been a bit busy lately, following his election as vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Federation in early October, and recently he took over the appointment of visiting professor at the School of Physical Education of Shanghai University. With the increase of social positions, Xu Xin has the tendency to transform from a "people's artist" on the court to a "social activist", so the outside world has spread the news that he is going to retire. On October 31, Xu Xin participated in the Baoshan District Olympic Games Athletes Commendation Symposium, and returned to his alma mater Cao Yanhua Table Tennis Training School (hereinafter referred to as Cao Ping Pong School), and the reporter specially interviewed the parties.
In the training hall of cao ping pong school, dozens of young players practice in front of the table. Seeing them, Xu Xin seemed to see the shadow of his arrival at Cao Ping Pong School at the beginning of his 12-year-old year. He told reporters, "When we were young, the training conditions were much more difficult, and now we are very professional from the table, floor glue to lighting, and I hope that the students will train hard and surpass me as soon as possible." ”
On November 1, Xu Xin will rush to the Wenzhou training base of the Chinese table tennis team to participate in the training. He told reporters that retirement is not in his plan, as a Communist Party member, as long as the national team needs, he will go all out to achieve good results and strive for glory for the country. "I want to have a longer career as much as possible, to extend the life of sports from our generation, not to say that I have to retire in my 30s, and that there are many positions to be held in the table tennis program (related organizations). I have been engaged in table tennis for more than 20 years, and I also want to share my accumulated experience with young athletes so that they can avoid detours. ”
For the new identity of the vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Alliance, Xu Xin said that he first hopes to be able to fight for more interests for the Chinese team, especially the international discourse power of Chinese table tennis, "There was no voice opportunity before, and in the future, through the meetings of the Asian Table Tennis Alliance, there is a right to know, and at the same time express our voice." In the future, I hope to bring intercontinental competitions to China and continue to promote table tennis. ”
In 1999, Cao Yanhua Ping Pong Training School settled in Yanghang and opened the road of cooperation with Yangtai Experimental School combining sports and education. In 2001, Xu Xin went to Cao Ping Pong School for trial training and exchange; in February 2002, he officially entered the Cao Ping Pong School for training. With the dream of a champion, Xu Xin took one step at a time, solidly today, carrying the banner of Shanghai table tennis leader.
Behind Xu Xin's success, Cao Yanhua's contribution is indispensable. When he founded this table tennis school, Cao Yanhua would not have thought that the combination of sports and education could bear fruit. Xu Xin is the first Olympic champion in the history of Cao Ping Pong School and the first Olympic champion in the history of table tennis in the history of Baoshan Sports. Many people told Cao Yanhua that it was she who made Xu Xin. And she always thought that she had just made a paving stone. "Without a seedling like Xu Xin, I probably wouldn't be able to make such a determination."
Drink water and think about the source. Cao Yanhua is also a teacher and mother for Xu Xin, and Xu Xin often uses the holidays to return to Cao Ping Pong School to reunite with coaches, teachers and teammates. "Every time I come back to see everyone is very kind, I will discuss new technologies with the coach, talk about the new dynamics of table tennis, and guide the training of the students." This time, I came to see a few good seedlings and hoped that they would become talents as soon as possible. ”
Geng Xuwei, a 15-year-old student at Cao Ping Pong School, told reporters, "During the Tokyo Olympics, I watched Xu Xin's brother's game with my teammates at the Weihai Training Base," And at the award ceremony, we were like the Olympic champions, shoulder to shoulder, facing the five-star red flag, singing the national anthem together, and that moment made me unforgettable. "Xu Xin dares to fight and never give up, and the spirit of never giving up inspires the small team members."
In September 2011, Geng Xuwei, who was still in the first grade of primary school, traveled from Fuyuan County in Qujing, Yunnan Province, to Cao Ping Pong School. After ten years of hard training, he has won the national youth competition and the Shanghai Municipal Games. Last year, Geng Xuwei was selected for the first national table tennis youth training team and won the first place in the overall results of the training. He said: "One day standing on the world's highest podium, this is the common dream of Cao Ping-Pong players. Now I am one step closer to my dream, and my biggest wish at present is to officially enter the national team from the youth training team. ”
At this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, Xu Xin won 1 gold and 1 silver in table tennis, Wu Jiaxin won the sixth place in archery, and at the Shaanxi National Games, 23 Baoshan athletes won 4 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze and 12 top eight, all of which achieved the best results in history. This is also the result of Baoshan District's solid promotion of the cultivation of young reserve talents over the years.
There are three amateur sports schools for children in Baoshan, involving 26 sports, and the advantages of table tennis, fencing, handball and other advantageous projects are in the leading position in the city. At present, the district actively encourages social forces to participate in the training of sports reserve talents, completes the signing of 27 social force cooperation training projects, and 7 social training forces are named "social force training bases", ranking first in the number of districts in the city.
Chen Jie, secretary of the Baoshan District Party Committee, said that sports is the soft power of the city, and Baoshan is in a critical period of comprehensively building the "main position of Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Center" and writing a new chapter of "northern transformation", and the development of sports will also help Baoshan achieve a new leap in transformation.
In the future, Baoshan Sports will also give full play to the leading role of Cao Ping Pong School, Junior Sports School and "Social Force Training Base", promote the list of sports social organizations into the campus, and work with the Education Bureau to promote sports skills guidance into the campus and community, create "one school, one product" sports characteristics, and improve the quality of youth competitive sports enlightenment training and base training.
Column Editor-in-Chief: Chen Hua Text Editor: Qin Dongying
Source: Author: Qin Dongying