Original title: Competitive sports to a new level – Chinese sports in ten years
The Tokyo Olympics has returned to the second place in the gold medal list, and the Beijing Winter Olympics has created the best record in the history of the Winter Olympics… Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s competitive sports has achieved numerous historical breakthroughs and constantly climbed to new heights.
Xinhua News Agency, Nanjing, April 26 (Reporter Wang Hengzhi) The Tokyo Olympics returned to the second place in the gold medal list, and the Beijing Winter Olympics created the best record in the history of the Winter Olympics… Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China’s competitive sports has achieved countless history. Breakthrough, keep climbing the peak. Competitive sports have achieved a qualitative leap in the past ten years. On the one hand, athletes continue to compete for gold and silver in international competitions, showing a more open, confident and respectable image of China to the world. It has become a leader and promoter of the construction of a sports power.
On February 5, Chinese team player Wu Dajing (first from right) celebrated after the game. On the same day, the Chinese team won the championship in the mixed team relay final of the short track speed skating event of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics held at the Capital Gymnasium.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yang Lei
Competitive sports climb to new heights
At the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese sports delegation won 38 golds, 32 silvers and 19 bronzes, ranking second in the gold medal list; at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese delegation ranked third in the gold medal list with 9 golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronzes. The best record in the history of the Winter Olympics.
From Tokyo to Beijing, the frequency of “historic breakthroughs” is remarkable. But competitive sports have never achieved overnight results. Behind all breakthroughs are the accumulation of countless efforts and the result of continuous innovation and reform.
Su Bingtian became the pride of Asians in Tokyo and entered the men’s 100m final with an Asian record of 9.83 seconds. In the secret of the rise of “Su Shen”, “technology” is a word that is both unfamiliar and familiar. The Chinese track and field team has built a scientific and technological assistance system covering 12 fields such as sports nutrition and functional monitoring. There are 81 physical fitness trainers, scientific researchers and medical personnel serving on the team for a long time. From minor technical flaws to high-tech equipment monitoring in physical fitness, technology, recovery and other links, Su Bingtian, guided by the “champion model”, makes up for the gap, taps potential, and improves performance in a targeted manner. Blockbuster.
On August 1, 2021, Chinese athlete Su Bingtian competed in the men’s 100m track and field final at the Tokyo Olympics.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Lili
In Lishui, Nanjing, the National Skateboard Team and the National Street Dance Team are training. Different from the traditional national teams, the two national teams adopt the model of government-led, social participation and enterprise operation to explore a new path for the development of competitive sports in China. At the Beijing Winter Olympics, the success of Su Yiming and Gu Ailing also showed more people to see the eclectic national team training methods, which can also create top players.
Open teams, cross-border and cross-sport selection, technology assistance… In the past ten years, China’s competitive sports has become wider and wider, and it has also harvested countless fruits.
Competitive sports establish a new image
The Rio Olympics six years ago were as impressive as the Chinese women’s volleyball team’s shocking victory. It was Fu Yuanhui’s witty words and self-confidence. This is a new image of Chinese competitive sports and a new image of a new generation of Chinese youth.
Sports know no borders. In China’s foreign exchanges and openness, sports have always been the vanguard and an important window and platform. Chinese elite athletes have been working hard to break through the estrangement between the East and the West and touch the hearts of the world. Now, the handover has come.” In the hands of “post-90s”, “post-95s” and “post-00s”.
Zhang Yufei and Su Yiming, who grew up under the background of China’s continuous prosperity and strength, are so confident and calm, and so “three views” are correct. After Su Yiming won the runner-up, some netizens expressed dissatisfaction with the rating. He and the coach took the initiative to ask the public to stop the criticism through an open letter, and then they won their own Olympic gold medal by virtue of their own strength.
On February 7, Chinese athlete Su Yiming at the ceremony of awarding the men’s slope obstacle skills medal in snowboard at the Beijing Winter Olympics.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Hongxiang
Over the past decade, Chinese competitive sports have been breaking the stereotype of the old image. From the Tokyo Olympics to the Beijing Winter Olympics, on and off the arena, the youthful generation of China has blown up a storm of youth again, from dressing to conversation, from external image to spiritual outlook, sunshine, self-confidence, frankness, humor, personality, fashion… This type of true temperament has made netizens incarnate as “iron fans” on various platforms, and let the world see a real China.
Competitive sports usher in a new positioning
The past ten years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China has been a decade for China’s competitive sports to establish a direction and find a new position.
Standing in the arena, sports is about fighting for gold and silver, which is determined by the nature of sports, but at the same time, even if you don’t win gold and silver, as long as you have the courage to break through yourself and challenge your limits, you are still a hero in the arena. Therefore, we chase after Su Bingtian who did not stand on the podium like we chase after the champion, and we can also give the Chinese women’s volleyball team and Chinese women’s enough encouragement to the bottom of the valley.
From the “women’s volleyball spirit” to the “Beijing Winter Olympics spirit”, this is the pride of competitive sports, and it is also the great spiritual force that competitive sports injects into the construction of a sports power. In the field of sports, competitive sports should always be the leader. Today, this responsibility and positioning is being accepted and understood by more and more sports people.
On July 21, 2021, the Chinese women’s volleyball team trained at the Ariake Gymnasium in Tokyo in preparation for the Tokyo Olympic Games.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Ding Ting
For the changes, Wang Weizhong, deputy director of the Jiangsu Provincial Sports Bureau, who has been focusing on competitive sports for a long time, feels very deeply. He said that in the past, competitive sports “pulled the car” and rarely looked up at the road, “but now it is different, we must give full play to the leading role of competitive sports, such as how to promote the development of mass sports, how to give full play to sports stars and sports idols It will play a role in driving children to participate in sports activities, including how to deeply integrate and develop with the sports industry, and how to fully develop the power of society to explore together.”
Ten years of sharpening a sword. In the past ten years, China’s competitive sports has made great achievements, and it has become more clear about the role it needs to play in the construction of a sports power. In the future, competitive sports will be deeply integrated into the construction of a sports power with a more open attitude, and will bravely be the pioneer in the new journey of building a modern socialist country in an all-round way.
