Xu Haifeng congratulates Yang Qian on winning the first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics: handwritten "YYDS"

The Paper's reporter Jiang Ziwen

On the morning of July 24, in the final of the women's 10m air rifle at the Tokyo Olympics, China's Yang Qian won the gold medal with 251.8 rings. This is the first gold medal of the Chinese Olympic team in Tokyo and the first gold medal produced by the Tokyo Olympic Games.

After Yang Qian won the gold medal, Xu Haifeng, a male shooter who won the first ever Olympic gold medal for China at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, also posted a short video on the online platform to congratulate Yang Qian.

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In this short video, Xu Haifeng faces the camera and says: "Hello Yang Qian, I am Xu Haifeng, congratulations on winning the first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games." For such an achievement, I can only use four words to describe..."

Subsequently, Xu Haifeng raised his pen and waved a bold, and a brush calligraphy work was quickly released - "YYDS" (network language, "eternal god" pinyin initials) Four "characters" were displayed in Xu Haifeng's hands, and he said at the same time: "Chinese team, eternal god!" ”

In this regard, netizens praised "Grandpa Xu's serious funny" in the comments, and also did not forget to send congratulations to Yang Qian and the Chinese team.

Born on August 1, 1957, Xu Haifeng was the first athlete in the history of Chinese sports shooting to combine the honors of Olympic champion, world champion, Asian Games champion and Asian Championship champion.

In 1995, he took charge of the gun and became the coach of the women's pistol team of the national shooting team. In 1998, Xu Haifeng was appointed head coach and deputy head coach of the women's pistol group of the national shooting team. Subsequently, in early 2001, he served as the head coach of the national shooting team and the head coach of the women's pistol group, becoming the only coach of the Chinese shooting team to hold two positions.

In November 2004, Xu Haifeng left the shooting that had been struggling for 22 years and was transferred from deputy director of the shooting center to deputy director of the bicycle fencing center. A year later, Xu Haifeng's Modern Pentathlon team won back the World Championships for the first time, breaking the previous European monopoly on Olympic and World Championship gold medals. In November 2017, Xu Haifeng, who had reached the age of 60, stepped down as deputy director of the Bicycle Fencing Center and officially retired.

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