A Ballet in the Sky-Sketches of the Men’s Gymnastics Team Finals
2021-09-22 10:07:12Source: Guangming Daily
On September 21, the gymnastics men’s team finals.Guangming pictures taken by our reporter Guo Hongsong
On September 21, the gymnastics men’s team finals.Guangming pictures taken by our reporter Guo Hongsong
On the afternoon of September 21, the men’s gymnastics final of the 14th National Games was held in the Shaanxi Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium. In the previous two days, the men’s gymnastics qualifiers were completed, and the Jiangsu team, the Hunan team and the Guangdong team temporarily ranked among the top three in the men’s gymnastics team.
In the final, Jiangsu team successfully won the championship with a score of 338.960 points. Hunan team lags behind Jiangsu team by 0.399 points and won the silver medal. Guangdong team won the bronze medal with 333.394 points.
The men’s gymnastics team competition includes 6 items of floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vaulting horse, parallel bars and horizontal bars. During the competition, the contestants flipped in the air, as if they were performing a ballet in the air.
Each team participating in the finals will send 6 players. The competition is divided into six rounds with 4 events in each round. After each round, the players will rotate among the events to continue the competition.
Deng Shudi of the Guizhou team got the highest score of 14.700 in the floor exercise with a difficulty score of 6.200 and a completion score of 8.500. At the 7th World Military Games in 2019, Shudi Deng won the men’s team gold medal in gymnastics and the champion of floor exercise. As early as December 2014, Shudi Deng was already on the world championship list.
In the pommel horse event, Xiao Ruoteng, who just won the medal from the Tokyo Olympics, scored 15.000 points on behalf of the Beijing team with 6.300 difficulty points and 8.700 completion points, trailing Weng Hao of Jiangsu team with a slight difference of 0.033 points. When Xiao Ruoteng participated in the competition for the first time in 2005, he won the pommel horse and parallel bars champion of the Li-Ning Cup National Gymnastics Junior Championships. In 2015, the National Gymnastics Championship won two gold medals on pommel horse and horizontal bar. In 2017, he won the men’s all-around champion of the World Gymnastics Championships. This is the first time a Chinese player has regained the gold medal in the men’s all-around world gymnastics championships after 10 years after Yang Wei. As for today’s performance, Xiao Ruoteng said that he was fairly satisfied, and he also frankly said: “After experiencing the high-intensity Olympics, his physical fitness is relatively exhausted, and his condition is still somewhat declining due to injuries.”
You Hao of the Jiangsu team got the highest score of 15.300 in the ring with 6.500 difficulty points and 8.800 completion points. In 2014, You Hao won the third runner-up of men’s rings in the 45th World Gymnastics Championships; in 2015, You Hao won the silver medal in rings in the 46th World Gymnastics Championships; in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, You Hao won the silver medal in men’s rings in gymnastics.
In the parallel bars event, You Hao also got the highest score of 15.366 points with 6.800 difficulty points and 8.566 completion points. Regarding the parallel bars, he said: “I am not particularly nervous about the parallel bars, because this is what I am good at, but my legs are shaking when I compete on the horizontal bars.” Compared to the parallel bars, You Hao scored 12.733 on the horizontal bars. His results can only be ranked fourth from the bottom in the audience.
Liu Yang, who previously won the gold medal in men’s gymnastics rings at the Tokyo Olympics, won the men’s rings in the National Gymnastics Championship in 2012, and won the men’s ring finals in the 45th World Gymnastics Championships in 2014, but today he represents the Hunan team. The achievements of the rings are not so outstanding. Talking about the reasons, he said that after returning from the Olympics, he needed to be isolated for a long time, training time and venues were affected, and he did not perform to the best level.
Zhang Boheng, an alternate athlete for the Tokyo Olympic gymnastics team, represented the Hunan team and performed well in the vaulting event. With 5.600 difficulty points and 9.433 completion points, he got the highest score of 15.033 points, becoming the only player in the vault to exceed 15 points.
Hunan team gymnastics coach Lu Bin said that he is very optimistic about Zhang Boheng. Regarding the reserve force of the Hunan team, he said with confidence: “Zhang Boheng alone is enough. In the future, he will grow into the main player of the Chinese team. In the next Olympics, he will be 22 and 3 years old. “In the men’s gymnastics team competition, Zhang Boheng participated in all events, except for floor exercise, which ranked second in the Hunan team, and he ranked first in the other five performances.
In the mixed mining area after the game, You Hao of Jiangsu team said: “The Hunan team is particularly strong this year, which puts us under a lot of pressure. Although we won the gold medal in the end, we still have to work harder.” At the same time, He revealed to reporters: “Before participating in the National Games, teammate Yin Dexing suffered a serious knee injury. In the preliminaries, he reduced the difficulty of various events. In the final today, he added the difficulty again. For his persistence Spirit, we both admire and distress.”
Yang Jiaxing of Hunan team participated in the National Games for the second time. “I really like the venues in Xi’an and I adapt quickly. Before we set off, we rushed to the goal of surpassing the Jiangsu team. Because the Jiangsu team is very strong, we also want to challenge it.” Yang Jiaxing said, “Although he failed to win the gold medal with a small margin, he did a good job in vaulting, horizontal bars and rings today, and he did not leave much regret.”
Regarding the training arrangements after the National Games, he said that after the game, he will summarize the situation of today’s game and find out the shortcomings, and train according to his own shortcomings, such as landing stability rate, overall ability, intermittent Resilience, etc.
In today’s game, from the full audience, we can see how high expectations are for this game. The sound of cheering, shouting and applause one after another made the atmosphere of the whole arena very warm. It is worth mentioning that in the gymnastics men’s team finals, many children watched the competition and kept cheering for the players with their immature voices.
After You Hao won the gold, he remotely gave his youngest daughter a Mid-Autumn Festival blessing and encouraged her: “No matter what difficulties you encounter in the future, don’t shrink back and find a way to overcome it.” At the same time, he said that this is what he wants to all. What the audience, especially the children, said, I hope everyone can rise to the challenge and climb the peak bravely.
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