At the National Gymnastics Championships and Tokyo Olympic Trials in May this year, Sichuan's Zou Jingyuan won the parallel bars event at Chengdu's Dong'an Lake Sports Park. In that game, Zou Jingyuan enjoyed super treatment before playing: Lin Chaopan, a national team teammate who is also a world champion, personally sorted out the equipment for him! Despite minor mistakes in the competition, Zou Jingyuan still won the championship with a completion score of 8.766 and a total score of 15.666, preparing for the trip to Tokyo. The Tokyo Olympics is Zou Jingyuan's first stand on the Olympic field. As the strongest player in the world in the parallel bars event at present, Zou Jingyuan, who has a set of complete sets of actions with a difficulty score of 6.900, was regarded as the biggest favorite to win the championship before the competition. In the parallel bars preliminaries, he ranked first with a high score of 16.166 points, and in the gymnastics men's team final, he scored the highest score of the day with 15.466 points in the parallel bars event. In the gymnastics men's parallel bars final of the Tokyo Olympic Games on the afternoon of August 3, Zou Jingyuan made his second appearance, and the whole set of actions flowed smoothly, with a completion score of 9.333 points and a total score of 16.233 points! Zou Jingyuan won the gold medal with an absolute advantage, which is also the 31st gold medal won by the Chinese delegation in this Olympic Games! Germany's Dawser finished runners-up with a score of 15.700.
Zou Jingyuan is full of confidence after completing the gymnastics men's parallel bars final at the Tokyo Olympics. Image according to ic photo
At the 2017 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Zou Jingyuan won the championship with a set of difficulty points of 6.800 and became the world champion. A year later, his difficulty on parallel bars has increased to 7.000 points, the highest difficulty in the world! Zou Jingyuan said in an interview, "In fact, this set of actions has been practiced since 2017, and now (referring to 2018) has become more familiar. ”
Zou Jingyuan, known as the "Little Iron Man" in the national team, is known for his hard training, and strives for difficulty and quality of completion. As the leader of Sichuan gymnastics after Zou Kai and Feng Zhe, from 2017 to the present, Zou Jingyuan has a very strong strength in parallel bars: he is the fifth player in the history of the Gymnastics World Championships to win the parallel bars event.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Zou Jingyuan helped the Chinese men's team win the bronze medal in the gymnastics team. In the first match of his first Olympic trip, although he failed to help the Chinese delegation win the gold, it has adapted him to the high intensity and high standard of the Olympic Games, and also made him full of confidence in winning the gold medal on parallel bars.
Zou Jingyuan Picture according to ic photo
In the mouth of the predecessor Zou Kai, Zou Jingyuan's movements are very light, "textbook-like." Through years of World Series testing, Zou Jingyuan, born in 1998, has established his dominance in the project.
Before the Tokyo Olympics, Red Star News reporters went to Zou Jingyuan's parents' home in Yibin to conduct interviews. In the mouth of his parents, Zou Jingyuan, who left home at the age of 7 to train in Chengdu, had to "hold his head and cry" every time he was separated from his parents. It has been 10 years since Zou Jingyuan's parents moved to their home on the south bank of Yibin, but these 10 years coincide with the time when Zou Jingyuan entered the Chinese gymnastics team, especially in the past 5 years, when the whole team is in a cycle of waiting for the Tokyo Olympics. Zou Jingyuan's mother, Liu Liqun, revealed that Zou Jingyuan has only lived in this "new home" for two nights in the past 10 years, and he hastily left after each return to continue to participate in training and competitions, which shows the dedication and determination of Chinese gymnasts.
Today, Zou Jingyuan officially wrote his name into the history of the Olympic Games, and the gymnastics men's parallel bars event officially entered the "Zou Jingyuan Era"!
Red Star News reporter Li Bo Pei Han
Edited by Ou Peng
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