On August 29, relatives and friends in Guiyang, Hunan, sat in front of the TV, cheering for Shi Yiting.Photo by Liao Shihui
China News Service, Guiyang, August 29th. Title: Shi Yiting, Guiyang, Hunan, won the Tokyo Paralympic Games. Father: She has the tenacity to resist defeat.
Li Zhuolin Zhou Guiping
“Daughter, come on! Go forward!” At 11 o’clock on August 29, in an ordinary family in Guiyang County, Hunan, the “Hometown of Champions”, Shi Wenzhong and his relatives and friends sat in front of the TV and watched through live streaming. , Cheer for her daughter Shi Yiting who is participating in the Tokyo Paralympic Games women’s 200m T36 final.
“28 seconds 21!” Seeing Shi Yiting cross the finish line with absolute advantage, Shi Wenzhong raised his arms and cheered, and the whole family instantly boiled. This also means that the Guiyang female athlete won the Paralympic Games women’s 200-meter T36 championship with a world record.
As soon as the game ended, Shi Wenzhong received a video call from his daughter Shi Yiting.
“Dad, I won the championship!”
“Awesome Tingzai! Our family is proud of you!” Shi Wenzhong with tears in his eyes, he understands how difficult it is for his daughter these years.
Shi Yiting was born in a remote small mountain village in Niexi Village, Leiping Town, Guiyang County. At birth, due to brain hypoxia injury, the left upper limb muscle was atrophy and became a fourth-degree disability. The parents depend on farming to make ends meet and live very poorly.
Shi Yiting has been lively and active since childhood. “She’s like a boy, she likes to jump. Even close the door is to bounce to close.” Shi Wenzhong said, Yiting was in poor health when she was a child, and he often encouraged her daughter to take part in sports.
In March 2010, Guiyang County held the county’s primary and secondary school games, Shi Yiting participated as a member of the Qinglan Central School’s track and field team. In the competition, she showed extraordinary talent. “She has strong legs, good jumping ability, and brisk footsteps.” This is the deep impression Shi Yiting left on Enlightenment coach Wang Fangshu.
“At that time, Yiting’s height was only 1.46 meters, but in the high jump she achieved a good score of 1.1 meters. This is a good seed for track and field!” Wang Fangshu immediately proposed to her parents to send Xiao Yiting to cities and counties for professional training. In 2013, Shi Yiting entered the third track team training as a specialty student.
She trains diligently in school. She is the first to come and the last to go. You can always see her sweating and running at full strength on the playground. Due to congenital reasons, she paid more hardships than others. One of her legs often hurts easily after a long run.
“I persuaded her to rest more, but she never listened. She always smiled and said, it doesn’t matter, I can still hold on!” Such an apprentice made Wang Fangshu gratified and distressed.
Because of the potential for development, Shi Yiting was assigned to the provincial Paralympic Federation track and field training team and the Chinese Paralympic Federation Olympic delegation track and field team for training. Shi Yiting’s potential was unearthed and gradually emerged, and his performance improved by leaps and bounds.
In September 2015, at the Ninth National Games for the Disabled, she won the T36 100-meter sprint champion and the T36 200-meter gold medal with outstanding performance; in April 2016, she participated in the International Track and Field Competition (Beijing Station) and won the T36 100-meter 100 meters. , 200m gold medal; September 2016, won the women’s 200m T36 gold medal at the Rio Paralympic Games with an excellent result of 28.74; November 2019, Shi Yiting at the T36 level 200 at the 9th World Paralympic Championships He played well in the rice competition, breaking the world record with a time of 28.21 seconds and won the gold medal.
In the eyes of his father, Shi Wenzhong, the most valuable thing about his daughter is her perseverance. “She will never give up what she believes.”
In 2015, Yiting Shi participated in a training camp in Guangzhou to prepare for the Rio Olympics. During the training camp, his leg was strained. Seeing his daughter’s thigh was blue and purple, the father felt distressed. Shi Yiting not only clenched her teeth to persevere, but comforted her father: “This is the path I chose. I like a career. It doesn’t matter if I’m a little bit tired!”
“Ting Cub, I have to go home to see us after the match, and my parents will prepare a table of good dishes for you!” Shi Yiting nodded repeatedly on the other end of the video call. Shi Wenzhong calculated it carefully, and his daughter hadn’t returned home for a year and a half. Although there is less time to get together, they fully support their daughter’s career. Seeing her running hard on the field, seeing her unyielding fate and striding forward in life, Shi Wenzhong was happy for her from the heart.
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