With only half a year to go until the Rio Olympics, China's sports teams are preparing in an orderly manner, while the Chinese gymnastics team, which has just finished six weeks of winter training in Nanjing, only has a one-day holiday during the Spring Festival, and still has to maintain systematic training at other times. For Yao Jinnan, the leader of the Chinese women's gymnastics team, the future of the Rio Olympics is still uncertain, because she is still recovering from injury, and whether she can adjust to the best state before august arrives, the coach also holds a wait-and-see attitude.
February 8 is Yao Jinnan's 21st birthday, but she is already a "veteran" in the gymnastics team, counting from January 2010 when she entered the national team, this year is her sixth year in the national team, in these six years, she has experienced pain and suffering, but also enjoyed the joy and glory of success. Especially in the early years, because her name was in harmony with the "difficult to get gold", she blamed it on the reason that there had been no gold medal, and her parents and family superstition asked the fortune teller to change his name, which became the focus of hot discussion in the media.
Born in Yongtai, Fujian Province, Yao Jinnan began to study gymnastics at fuzhou Major Sports School at the age of 5 and joined the Fujian provincial team in 2004. In 2010, he entered the national team and studied under coaches Wang Qunce and Xu Jinglei. A year later, Yao Jinnan had a brilliant performance in the international arena, winning the women's free gymnastics championship in Qatar at the 2011 FIS Challenge, and in the same year's World Championships, Yao Jinnan and his teammates won the third place in the women's team, the individual third place in the all-around and the balance beam runner-up. A series of achievements have made Yao Jinnan regarded by the outside world as the undisputed candidate for the Chinese women's team to participate in the London Olympic Games, even if she was accidentally injured in the national championships and Olympic trials in May before the Olympic Games, but still became an absolute main force.
The first trip to the Olympics was bitter for the young Yao Jinnan, and although she had basically recovered from her injuries, she was accidentally injured in the final preparations for Northern Ireland before the Olympics, straining her left thigh. With injuries in the Olympic Games, the results can be imagined, Yao Jinnan, who played in four events, only did not make mistakes in the high and low bars, and finally won the fourth place, and the other three had major mistakes, and the ranking was unbearable.
In the women's team final, the coach took into account Yao Jinnan's injury and only arranged for her to play in vaulting and high and low bars, but the Overall Poor Chinese team only won the fourth place, rubbing shoulders with the medal. After the game, Yao Jinnan, who did not win the medal, cried silently in an interview. "No matter how much it hurts, I have to persevere, because I can only participate in this Olympic Games, and the next one may not be... Not necessarily. ”
In the domestic arena, Yao Jinnan achieved good results, and she won the championship in the all-around of the 2013 National Gymnastics Championships and the all-around of the National Games. But at the World Championships in the same year, Yao Jinnan became a frustrated person again, and the individual all-around only finished fifth, and the strength bar also won sixth due to mistakes. There were no excellent results on the field, but they were criticized off the field, when the leader of the American gymnastics team shelled the Chinese team for falsifying the age of the players. According to the regulations, the World Championships require players over the age of 16 to compete, too old, the figure will be tall, and some movements will not be so smooth, coordinated and aesthetically pleasing. After that, the Hong Kong media also wrote articles to bombard the age gate of sports.
For such unfair treatment, Yao Jinnan's father, Yao Jianping, said at the time that Yao Jinnan's age was real, and she also had a twin sister Yao Jianan, if they really did not believe it, they could go to Fuzhou to see Yao Jinnan's twin sister. Although Yao Jinnan, who was her sister, was nearly half a head shorter than her sister, the coach of the gymnastics team at the time explained that Yao Jinnan had been on the sports team, and the perennial high-load exercise and weight control made her stunted, so she would be shorter than her twin sister.
After entering the national team, from the World Championships to the Olympic Games, Yao Jinnan has been unable to win the championship in the World Championships, and her family looks at such a situation in her eyes and is anxious in her heart. So in April 2014, there was a news that the gymnastics star Yao Jinnan had changed his name to "Yao Zi Yawnth". Why did you change your name? Only because her name is pronounced "it is difficult to get gold", the family hopes that she can reduce the psychological pressure, so they find a fortune teller to re-give a new name. For Yao Jinnan's transformation into Yao Ziyan, Ye Zhennan, the leader of the Chinese gymnastics team at the time, said, "Regarding Yao Jinnan's name change, it is just a team member, coach, and parent. This is also the most simple idea of ordinary people, I wish Yao Ziyoth good luck! ”
Although the name was changed, it was necessary to go through a series of cumbersome procedures to use the new name in the official competition, so in the several competitions after that, Yao Jinnan continued to use the original name. But coincidentally, Yao Jinnan's participation in several competitions has achieved good results, from the national championship to defend the title, to the Incheon Asian Games to win 4 gold medals, to the world championships to win the high and low bars gold medal and team runner-up, Yao Jinnan's heart disease seems to be gone. It is precisely because of the good results achieved that Yao Jinnan's name change has come to an end and he continues to use his original name.
After making breakthroughs at the Asian Games and the World Championships, Yao Jinnan was plagued by injuries, and the old injuries accumulated over the years were so serious that she had to undergo surgery. In February 2015, on the eve of the Spring Festival, Yao Jinnan flew alone to Dallas, usa, to undergo shoulder surgery. Yao Jinnan, who successfully operated on the whole of 2015, was basically in a period of recovery, and in early December, Yao Jinnan returned to the team to go south for winter training and began a full range of recovery. According to the head coach Wang Qunce, whether Yao Jinnan can qualify for the Rio Olympic Games depends on her personal state and physical condition, and whether she can step onto the Olympic arena for the second time to realize her dream, everything is unknown. Gymnastics sister is in a race against time.
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