Chapter 195: Chinese Sports from the Rio Olympics

From the Rio Olympics to see Chinese sports Zhang Baotong 2016.8.16

The total number of sports delegations to the Rio Olympics in this year's China is 711, which is the largest number of teams participating abroad in the past years. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Among them, there are 416 athletes, 259 coaches, team leaders, and medical personnel. The coaches include 29 foreign coaches from 11 countries including the United States and Germany, covering 17 sports such as track and field, swimming, and women's football. There are 35 Olympic champions from 12 sports, 27 of whom are London Olympic champions.

For such a participating team, the people of the whole country must have ardent expectations. However, as of August 15, more than half of the Rio Olympics schedule, the number of gold medals of the Chinese Legion is fixed at 15, ranking third in the gold medal list, and the second place has been replaced by the United Kingdom, and the gap with the number of gold medals in the top United States has widened to 11, and the momentum of winning gold in the second half has been strong. It is said that before the expedition, the state gave the Olympic delegation no less than 36 gold medals. Obviously, this task is not complete.

In the Olympic arena, gold medals, or medals, are not the only goal. But for competitive competitions, gold medals, or medals, are an important measure in the pursuit of "faster, higher, stronger". While victory and defeat are commonplace, the Olympic Games are no exception. But after all, it embodies a country's comprehensive sports ability and can bring joy and glory to a country. Taking stock of the victories and defeats of this Olympic competition will give us a clearer understanding of the current situation of Chinese sports, and it will be beneficial to enlighten the future.

The reason why the Chinese team could not complete the task was not that the task assigned by the state to the delegation was too heavy, but that many athletes performed abnormally and lost the qualification for the finals and the opportunity to win gold. Events such as our shooting, gymnastics, fencing, women's volleyball and trampoline all had accidents. It should be very unusual to have so many anomalies in one game. Even former Olympic champions Lei Jun and Ye Shiwen didn't even qualify. If it is an accidental failure of a project, it can be forgiven, but such a large-scale failure and loss is unforgivable.

We are the whole country hosting the Olympic system, and the Chinese national team can be said to be the sports team with the best guarantee, the most comprehensive service, and the best conditions in all aspects in the world. For example, foreign shooting athletes usually need to buy bullets out of their own pockets for training, and bullets are very expensive. In addition, most foreign athletes need to spend their own money to rent the training venues, and the equipment needs to be purchased by themselves. German table tennis star Boll often trains in the basement of his home. But Chinese athletes don't have to worry about anything, they just need to train well, and there are so many people who are providing them with protection and services. How can they be justified if they can't get good grades?

Some people may say that the physique of Chinese is inherently inferior to that of foreigners, so they are congenitally deficient in many items. However, our women's volleyball team used to be five consecutive championships, our women's football team used to be a sonorous rose, and our women's blue and women's songs were also world runners-up. Our men's basketball team has also played in the top eight in the world. Our Zhu Jianhua, Liu Xiang and Wang Junxia have also set world records in track and field. Didn't it be said in the past that Chinese could not swim? So didn't Sun Yang also win the world championship? And our gymnastics team and shooting team, didn't they also create a glorious history in the past?

In fact, in recent years, our country's economic situation has improved a lot, and the training conditions and personal treatment of athletes have also improved significantly, but many of our sports are going downhill, including the Chinese men's basketball and women's football teams, which have always been the boss of Asia in the past, and Chinese gymnastics and shooting have always led the world. I wonder if the Chinese national team can often look in the mirror and find out the reason. If you look in the mirror, you can't see the problem. Then these teams are really old, without vigor and vitality.

Recall Rong Guotuan, Zhuang Zedong, Luan Jujie, Zheng Fengrong, Ni Zhiqin, Zou Zhenxian, recall the Chinese women's volleyball team led by Yuan Weimin, the Chinese men's ball team led by Qian Chenghai and the Chinese women's long-distance running team led by Ma Junren. Could it be that their physical condition and training conditions were better than they are now? No, it was that they had the spirit of enduring hardships and fighting hard that surpassed ordinary people. We know that in a very difficult game, the only way to do this is to "throw yourself into the dead place and then survive, and then live if you fall into the dead place". You can't tighten your teeth, you can't work hard, you can't give up your life and forget about death. How can you become a world powerhouse in this sport? However, many of our athletes are always looking for all kinds of reasons for themselves, all kinds of ways to retreat. Some athletes even get into the eyes of money, suffer from gains and losses, and are inattentive. How can you give up your life and die at the risk of your life?

As a matter of fact, we can clearly see from the large-scale decline in China's Olympic performance at the Rio Olympics that the material conditions of many of our sports teams are constantly improving, while the fighting spirit of our athletes is obviously declining. Ning Zetao is one of the most typical examples. He is the best male athlete of the year in my country's sports world in 2015. However, he was hardly seen on the entire field in Rio. Because he didn't qualify in either event. It is very difficult to explain this to the people of the whole country. From January 2016 to August 2016, there was only more than half a year in between, so what has he been doing in the past six months? What are he busy with? It is not whether the people of the whole country will forgive him or not, but whether he can forgive himself. What is your goal as an athlete? Is money more important than your athletic life? If so, you should go into business instead of swimming. As an athlete who has been cultivated by a country with great painstaking efforts, and as an iconic figure in the country's sports world, we must always put the honor of the country and the expectations of the people first. Because everything you have is given by the state and the people. If you complete your tasks well, just like Lin Dan, you will earn more money, and no one will object. However, if you let money ruin your future and forget the trust placed in you by the country and the people, it will be a crime against the country and the people. Facts have proved that many athletes and sports teams have fallen in the face of money and have never been able to get back up again, causing heavy losses to the interests of the country and the people. Because athletes and actors are not the same. Actors rely on fame, while athletes rely on athletic skills.

For a long time, there has been a phenomenon that has always puzzled and puzzled people, that is, after the retirement of Zhu Jianhua, Liu Xiang and Wang Junxia, the project has never been replaced. After the resignation of Yuan Weimin, Qian Chenghai and Ma Junren, the advantages of this project have disappeared. Why don't we have an echelon for training athletes and a mechanism for connecting coaches? Why can't we form a benign system like the Chinese table tennis and Chinese diving teams? Since China is a system for the whole country to run the Olympic Games, it should not be difficult to do anything.

Let's take a look at the dream journey and longevity of Chinese table tennis and Chinese diving. It is because they can innovate the mechanism, innovate the technology, and innovate the difficulty, keep an eye on the world's highest peak of this project, continue to impact, and constantly break through, leaving foreigners far behind, so that they can chase farther and farther, out of reach. Even if there are harassment by foreign athletes and difficulties from foreign referees in the competition, in the face of the exquisiteness and perfection of Chinese table tennis and Chinese diving, even if they have such evil intentions, they will not have such an opportunity. Some athletes have been misjudged in the competition and lost the opportunity to participate in the final or win the championship, which means that your technique is not perfect enough, there are flaws, loopholes, and reasons and opportunities for foreign judges to misjudge you.

Climbing a world-class peak is the dream of many people, and how many people can struggle all their lives but cannot reach the peak. Every one of our Olympians is a tough climber. And for a person who has climbed the world's highest mountain, what could be more exciting and exciting than climbing to the top? Having money may make us live a better life in the future, but it is really not our dream. If you really try your best and get excellent grades, money will definitely beckon to you. But don't let it blind you and discourage you. Otherwise, you'll lose everything. At the same time, as the country's sports officials and coaches, they should also formulate corresponding rules and regulations to protect the reasonable income and vital interests of athletes, so that they can devote themselves to training and competitions, and do their best to win glory for the country. Don't let any more athletes lose their athletic performance or even ruin themselves because of money.

On the whole, the Rio Olympics was the most unsatisfactory performance of Chinese sports in the Olympic arena, not only did it fail to complete the task of winning gold assigned by the country, but also disappointed the people of the whole country. In this competition, the sports level of our athletes in many sports has obviously declined, which has fully exposed the ideological style and mental state of the athletes, coaches and officials in some sports who lack progress, do not want to innovate, are complacent, and are satisfied with the status quo. If this phenomenon is not corrected and improved soon, we will lose even more badly at the Tokyo Olympics.