At the recently concluded 14th National Games, the Guangdong delegation blossomed in the competition and group events, winning 75 gold, 42 silver and 66 bronze, and a total of 183 medals ranked among the best. Behind such excellent results, the sweat of athletes, coaches and managers is condensed, and the full support of "behind-the-scenes heroes" is also indispensable. The scientific research team of Guangdong Ersha Sports Training Center (hereinafter referred to as "Ersha") has inserted the wings of science and technology for Guangdong sports and helped athletes shine in the Olympic and National Games.
Southern + launched the "Visit the "Cradle of Champions"" series of reports, taking you into the "mysterious" Ersha Sports Training Center. In the fifth article, we talk about the career planning of athletes.
The Cradle of Champions is full of talent
In preparation for the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, the Ersha Sports Training Center was completed and put into use in 1954, which was the first sports training base in New China. "Ersha" covers an area of 300,000 square meters, and has always been the main task of cultivating high-quality sports talents and building a high-level training base.
After more than 60 years of hard work and hard work of several generations, "Ersha" currently has 13 sports management centers such as athletics, swimming, weightlifting, gymnastics, basketball and volleyball, table tennis, diving, fencing, chess and card.
Many of the "firsts" in new Chinese sports are from "Ersha", the first world record creator Chen Jingkai, the first world champion Rong Guotuan... Rong Zhixing, Sun Shuwei, Hu Jia, Lei Sheng, Fu Haifeng, and Quan Hongchan also went from "Ersha" to the whole country and to the world. So far, Ersha's athletes have won a total of 34 Olympic gold medals.
Career planning runs through the athletic career
Walking into the Ersha Sports Training Center, the seven large red characters on the wall are very eye-catching, and Rong Guotuan's bold words of "life can have several beats" are people's first impression of the "cradle of champions".
Many athletes start professional training from an early age, the environment is relatively closed, there is less contact with society, and the learning time of cultural classes is not as good as that of their peers.
"We have done statistics, in addition to normal training and learning, athletes have a few hours of spare time, how to use this time to help athletes improve overall, especially in terms of cultural literacy and social adaptability." Lin Kehua, director of the People's Insurance Department of Ersha Sports Training Center, said.
Since September 2016, "Ersha" has established a career development consultation and counseling center for athletes, employing 3 domestic and foreign psychology experts and doctors, and 2 full-time (part-time) staff to form a working team. Through guidance, counseling and effective intervention, let athletes do a good job in their own career planning and management, guide athletes to further enhance their identity, while improving their intelligence and prolonging their sports life, focus on improving the initiative of training; enhance the athletes' awareness and ability of career planning, guide athletes to make full use of their own advantages and existing resources, and strive to improve the fit of career conversion.
"The vast majority of athletes are resilient, can endure hardships, are not afraid of setbacks, and can become excellent talents in other industries after retiring." Our purpose is to strengthen the shortcomings of athletes and do a good job of career planning for all athletes in the whole career cycle. Dr. Liu Hao, a member of the career planning expert team and the Sports Department of Shenzhen University, said.
67 years of heritage
"Our goal is not to train athletes to win gold medals, but to train gold medal athletes." Sun Xiaohua, director of the Ersha Sports Training Center, said that in the past 67 years, Ersha people have worked together, accumulated, passed on the torch, and the achievements of competitive sports have continued to evolve, and inheritance is the biggest magic weapon for "Ersha" to continuously cultivate sports talents.
At the same time, "Ersha" pays attention to "innovation". Management concept innovation, full trust in professional talents, professional matters to professional people, not downward ultra vires management; relevant system innovation, as well as science and medicine, administrative logistics and other types of personnel initiative, the enthusiasm of scientific research personnel, to meet the needs of productivity development everyone continues to improve the needs; training concept innovation, excellent coaching team with the help of science and technology, scientific research forces to continuously improve the level of coaching and coaching effect; scientific research mode is also innovative, with the help of external experts, external team strength, Bring together the strength of different disciplines to help athletes achieve better results and make long-term career planning...
"In the future for a long time, learning is the main means of continuous innovation, inheritance is the basis for the continuous development of 'Ersha', and hard training is the first priority, but also the basis of scientific training, I hope that with the joint efforts of everyone, for the country, for Guangdong to cultivate more gold medal athletes." Sun Xiaohua said.
【Planning】Qiu Jiangjian
[Reporter] Bloomberg
【Photo】Xinhua News Agency, Guangdong Provincial Sports Bureau
【Author】 Bloomberg
【Source】 Southern Press Media Group South + client
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