Baoding, July 29 (Xinhua) -- On July 29, Beijing time, the Chinese team composed of Zhang Yufei, Yang Junxuan, Li Bingjie and Tang Muhan won the championship with a time of 7 minutes 40.33 seconds and broke the world record in the final of the women's 4x200m freestyle relay at the Tokyo Olympic Games. This is also the 14th gold medal of the Chinese delegation at the Olympic Games. On the afternoon of the same day, a reporter from China News Network rushed to Li Bingjie's parents' home in Baoding City to interview.
The picture shows Li Bingjie's parents being interviewed at their home in Baoding, Hebei Province. Photo by Lu Zihao
Li Bingjie, born in 2002 in Baoding, Hebei Province, is a Chinese female swimmer who has won many awards at the National Games, the Asian Swimming Championships, and the World Swimming Championships. In 2021, Li Bingjie was selected as a swimming athlete of the Chinese sports delegation at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. On July 26, 2021, Li Bingjie won the bronze medal in the women's 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics.
It is understood that Li Bingjie's parents are swimmers, his father Li Jian has won the national championship in the men's 800-meter freestyle event, and his mother Wang Wei was a middle- and long-distance freestyle player and is now a primary school physical education teacher.
The picture shows Liu Liyan, director of the Swimming and Diving Sports Management Center of the Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau, visiting li Bingjie's father's parents' home to offer condolences. Photo by Xu Qiaoming
Li Jian said that it was very exciting to see her daughter and teammates winning the championship together on TV, "She is participating in the Olympic Games for the first time." The child has a personality and ideas, her own identification of the path, she will definitely go to work hard. As an athlete, the daily training is very hard, but she is strong and persistent."
"Like a dream, a little confused." Wang Wei said with a smile that children rarely go home after arriving at the national team, and they do not come back much during the Spring Festival holiday, usually through WeChat contact, communicating more things in life.
According to Hang Yajuan, vice principal of Xincheng Primary School in Jingxiu District, Baoding City, the school is a traditional swimming project school in Hebei Province, a diving base in Baoding City, which opened swimming classes as early as 1983, combining popularization and improvement, learning and training, and sent a large number of talents to swimming teams at all levels, and has trained Li Bingjie, Wang Han, Jia Dongjin and other national-level outstanding athletes. Li Bingjie attended the school from the first to the sixth grade of primary school and has been a student of the swimming class, she won the National Games at the age of 15 and is currently employed as the ambassador of sports and education integration in Jingxiu District.
Liu Liyan, director of the Swimming and Diving Sports Management Center of the Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau, who braved the rain on the afternoon of the 29th to rush to Li Bingjie's parents' home to comfort him, said that this is the second Olympic gold medal won by Hebei swimmers after "Butterfly Queen" Qian Hong won the Barcelona Olympic Games. "This is very good for Li Bingjie's next training and growth, and it is an incentive and motivation."
The picture shows Li Bingjie in the pool when she was a child. Photo courtesy of Li Bingjie's parents
Hebei Baoding enjoys the reputation of "sports city and cradle of champions", and has trained 23 world champions represented by Xi Ending, Guo Jingjing and Pang Wei, 32 Asian champions and more than 150 national champions represented by Shi Dongpeng and Jia Dongjin. (End)
Source: China News Network