China’s “zero-zero” athletes shine in the Tokyo Olympics, fearless but not “not ignorant of sorrow”
International Online News (Reporter Peng Yanyuan): As of July 27, the Chinese sports delegation has won 9 gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Among them, 4 championships were won by young people who were “post-zero”. Among them, Yang Qian, the first gold medalist in the competition, became the first Chinese player to win two shooting gold medals in a single Olympic Games. From the perspective of the sports cycle, this Olympic Games is the best time and stage for Chinese post-zero athletes to appear in front of the world. So far, they have given high scores.
After the game, 35-year-old Pang Wei and 21-year-old Jiang Ranxin congratulated each other: “(Pang Wei) my teammate is so amazing! (Jiang Ranxin) my teammate is amazing!”
Born in 1986, Pang Wei is a former Olympic champion who has participated in the Olympic Games four times. Jiang Ranxin was born in 2000 and appeared in the Olympic Games for the first time. The two joked everyday, calling each other “uncle” and “eldest niece”. On the 27th, the “uncle and nephew” partner won the Olympic 10-meter air pistol mixed team championship.
On the same day, Yang Qian and Yang Haoran’s “brother and sister partner” also won the gold medal of the 10-meter air rifle mixed team, and some netizens jokingly called them a “pleasing goat” combination. Both of them laughed at these unique titles: “(Yang Qian) Haha, does this mean that we both look very happy? I think it’s pretty good and cute. (Yang Haoran) She can accept it, so can I Accept. I usually have a good relationship with some Russian Olympic Committee athletes. They are all friends. When I came down just now, they asked me if you are both surnamed Yang, are you brothers and sisters?”
Regardless of uncles and nephews, brothers and sisters, the common feature of these two combinations is that Yang Qian and Jiang Ranxin are born in the same year! On the same day, there was also a pair of younger combinations that made it to the top podium of the Tokyo Olympics. They were Zhang Jiaqi and Chen Yuxi, who won the women’s double 10-meter diving championship. The former was 17 years old and the latter was 15.
Within a few days, China’s post-zero players shined in Tokyo. Young, the greatest wealth brought to them is fearlessness.
When it comes to age, both Chen Yuxi and Zhang Jiaqi believe that although they lack experience, they have no baggage in the game and can face challenges bravely. Chen Yuxi also said that before completing the final jump, they were full of confidence in winning, but they did not pay attention to this aspect: “Diving is a project that does not know the result until the last moment, so we try to Focus on the movements and essentials, and don’t think too much about achievements.”
Psychological relaxation can play the role of ballast stones at critical moments. Jiang Ranxin’s stable performance in the final moments of the air pistol mixed team finals made the experienced Pang Wei amazed: “In the critical moments of the last few shots, she played an excellent score of 10.7 consecutive rings. My performance was a bit wrong and I missed it Two match points. Thanks to her, we can win this championship.”
Pang Wei also revealed that in normal training, he is not Jiang Ranxin’s opponent, and he has to learn from her.
However, the self-confidence and courage of these post-zeros are not blind, but come from a certain degree of thinking about their own life and career, so they can face their own imperfections.
After winning the first gold, Yang Qian’s big heart story of “sleeping before the game” became a household name. But after the air rifle mixed team match, she confessed that she was nervous this time: “Extremely nervous! When I was still in the preparation room, I was nervous! With every shot on the field, I can almost hear her heartbeat—— I jump very fast. I keep taking deep breaths so that my emotions can become more stable.”
The younger divers have to pass the “development barrier” and “weight barrier.” Zhang Jiaqi bluntly said that this must be done consciously, “It is impossible to do without a high level of consciousness.” From this, we can see another characteristic of post-zero Chinese players: they have personal dreams and a sense of mission at the same time. Chen Yuxi said: “When I was in school, I especially liked being a flag-raiser to contribute to the class and the school. Today, when I stood on the highest podium raising the national flag and playing the national anthem, I was very excited. . Thank you very much for the country for training me so that I can get to where I am today.”
As a senior, Pang Wei’s words from Jiang Ranxin also apply to all zero-zero Chinese athletes who came to Tokyo. He said: “Even if we didn’t win this championship, the most memorable thing is the process of our hard work together. Jiang Ranxin is still a man. A young athlete whose career has just started. I am very happy and honored to be able to accompany her to complete the first Olympic Games. I hope her shooting career will be more successful in the future and win more Olympic champions for the Chinese team.”
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