The four “golden flowers” that performed well at the National Games are the women’s four scull champions at the Tokyo Olympics: Cui Xiaotong, Lu Yang, Zhang Ling, and Chen Yunxia.
Xinhua News Agency, Xi’an, September 15th. Title: Four “Golden Flowers” for Rowing: Take off the halo and start from scratch
Xinhua News Agency reporters Ma Sijia, Cai Xinyi, Li Linhai
On the 14th, the preliminaries of the 14th National Games rowing event kicked off at the Shaanxi Water Sports Management Center. A conspicuous four-person women’s team appeared on the sparkling track and won the women of the day as a joint team effortlessly. First place in the quadruple scull team.
The four “golden flowers” that performed well at the National Games are the women’s four scull champions at the Tokyo Olympics: Cui Xiaotong, Lu Yang, Zhang Ling, and Chen Yunxia.
“Those seemingly calm day after day will show you the meaning of persistence one day.” Chen Yunxia once encouraged herself in this way. After the Olympics, in preparation for the National Games, the four “golden flowers” still conducted daily training, but coach Zhang Xiuyun felt sorry for them and did not conduct “devil training” as before the Olympics.
In this National Games, Cui Xiaotong should have participated in the women’s single scull competition, but because of the injury to the back of the thigh, Zhang Xiuyun asked Cui Xiaotong to rest in order to keep the best condition and go further.
“I am very relieved of the players.” Zhang Xiuyun said that after the 2019 World Championships and the Tokyo Olympics, the players have grown up, both tactically and psychologically.
“The more important thing for them to take off the Olympic halo is to maintain a good attitude, paddle every oar, and don’t think about winning. Do your best and you will succeed.” Zhang Xiuyun said.
The girls did the same.
“From the perspective of this women’s quadruple scull event, the overall strength of the provincial teams has improved a lot.” said Zhang Ling, the “little motor” who is in the second position on the boat. In the afternoon of the same day, she and Chen Yunxia represented the Shanghai team in the women’s double scull preliminaries and also ranked first in the group.
In the arena, in order to distribute their physical strength reasonably, the four did not exert their full strength, but were briefly overtaken by the Jiangxi team in the middle, and then accelerated forward. In the end, the Jiangxi team was ahead of the Jiangxi team by 2.98 seconds to reach the finish line, and one second was enough to overturn the situation.
“Our appearance may create pressure for other provincial teams, but we also hope that better technology can be seen by more teams, which can be regarded as learning and communication.” Chen Yunxia said.
Teamwork is essential for multiplayer rowing events. Training and living together all the year round, the four “golden flowers” usually “talk and laugh, fight and make trouble like sisters”, but still feel that the most difficult part is constantly adjusting themselves and honing their skills, so as to cooperate more. tacit agreement.
There is absolute confidence in the four “golden flowers” that have never slackened to win gold in the National Games. In Zhang Ling’s view, “the confidence to dare to win” is the same as “unity and cooperation, courage to fight”, which is the spiritual core of the four-person scull project.
Talking about the suggestions for rowing training of the provincial teams, Zhang Xiuyun said: “We must pay attention to physical training. Physical fitness is as important as technology. Those athletes who scored beautifully at the Tokyo Olympics have good physical fitness.”
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