Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 29 Question: The rising sun, a new generation of athletes show Chinese style – Chinese sports in ten years
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhang Yunlong Wang Chunyan Wang Hengzhi
When the youth is strong, the country is strong. In the arena, more and more young Chinese athletes are going to the center of the world stage. They have written the Chinese style of the new generation of young athletes with lofty aspirations, hard work, self-confidence and honest personality and the belief of winning glory for the country. In the change of young faces, the sports career of New China is passed down from generation to generation, and the future is promising.
Work hard and inherit the spirit of sports
From the “post-90s” on the competitive stage to the “post-00s” shining on the world arena, in the ten years since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the “Chinese youth storm” in the arena has never stopped. Although the faces of young people are changing, the ideals and beliefs of lofty aspirations and living up to their youth are in the same line, and the baton of hard training and hard work has been passed down from generation to generation and will last forever.
Not long ago, the first white paper dedicated to youth in the history of New China, “Chinese Youth in the New Era,” described the new generation of young athletes in this way, “On the training ground, young athletes train hard, work hard, and work hard with excellent style and style. The amazing perseverance launched a charge to the top of the world, and let the five-star red flag fly high in the international arena.”
It does.
At the recently concluded Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese Winter Olympics delegation with an average age of only 25.2 years ranked third in the gold medal list with 9 golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronzes, setting a record for the best record since participating in the Winter Olympics.
According to the white paper “Chinese Youth in the New Era”, “The Beijing Winter Olympics has stimulated the enthusiasm of Chinese youth for ice and snow sports. Youth between the ages of 18 and 30 have become the main force participating in ice and snow sports, with a participation rate of 37.3%, the highest among all age groups. .”
Young athletes represented by Gu Ailing and Su Yiming have countless fans. Behind the excellent results, they do not hesitate to share the secret of their success.
“Effort will never deceive people”, this is what Su Yiming, who was under 18 years old when he won the championship, often said. Gu Ailing, who won 2 golds and 1 silver, said when she was constantly called a “genius girl”: “Talent only accounts for a very small part in my career, and it can even be ignored.”
Go back to the summer of 2021. Quan Hongchan, a 14-year-old diver who won the Tokyo Olympics, became popular overnight, but behind her frequent performances of the “splashing technique” is her concentration, excellence, and strict self-discipline in training.
Times are changing, but the fine tradition of hard work, hard work, and persistence to the end is the only way for these new generation of young athletes to break through themselves and create brilliance.
Self-confidence and calmness show Chinese style
Once upon a time, modesty, restraint, and few words seemed to be the “unified labels” of Chinese athletes; now, sunshine, confidence, frankness, romance, humor, fashion… The various labels used to describe the new generation of athletes are obviously not enough. .
The times are progressing, and gold medals are no longer the only “powerful tool for fans”. Chinese young athletes also reshape the image of Chinese athletes with their youthful, confident and calm off-field youth.
Thinking back to the 2016 Rio Olympics, swimmer Fu Yuanhui’s witty words will reveal her outspoken and lovely true temperament. At the same Olympic Games, the romantic scene of Chinese athlete Qin Kai proposing to silver medalist He Zi at the women’s three-meter springboard award ceremony also showed the generous and romantic side of Chinese athletes to the world.
At the Tokyo Olympics to be held in 2021, the photos of Yang Qian, who wore a “little yellow duck” and had a manicure on her head, “comparing with hearts” on the podium, have already exploded on major platforms. “Salt and sweet” and “handsome and playable” Chinese three-person basketball player Yang Shuyu has quickly grown into the “basketball goddess” in the minds of many young people.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, when facing unfriendly questions from foreign media, Gu Ailing responded aggressively, “If someone doesn’t believe me or doesn’t like me, then this is their loss.”
At the Beijing Winter Paralympics, the five-time podium-ranked girl Zhang Mengqiu showed her beauty and charm outside the competition with five different hairstyles.
The new generation of athletes who have grown up against the background of China’s continuous prosperity are no longer satisfied with only showing the sportsmanship on the field. While showing their individuality and showing themselves off the field, they are also showing the world a more confident, open, and cute china.
Aim high and run out of youthful achievements
Living in a great era, growing up in a great motherland, how fortunate.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new stage of development. Our great motherland has approached the center of the world stage like never before, approached the goal of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation like never before, and has the ability and confidence to achieve this goal like never before.
For the new generation of Chinese athletes, being born in the best period for the development of the Chinese nation, with a superior development environment and broad growth space, is the best time to realize ideals and beliefs, create excellent results, and achieve glory for the country.
The Beijing Winter Olympics have come to an end, but the glory brought by the Winter Olympics is still very exciting and passionate. Taking honor of the country as his own responsibility, and taking national achievements as honor, he is integrating into the blood of young Chinese athletes.
Su Yiming, who just turned 18, said after the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games Summary Commendation Conference that he seemed to relive the moment of winning gold at the meeting, and then “will continue to participate in more competitions and win glory for the country”. .
“Chinese youth in the new era regard establishing correct ideals and firm beliefs as the foundation of their lives, and strive to grow into the aspiring youth expected by the party, the country and the people.” The white paper “Chinese Youth in the New Era” said.
This is exactly what the young Chinese athletes in the new era are like. Demonstrate superb skills and high fighting spirit on the field, inspire and inspire more people to join the sports cause outside the field, show a more open, confident and respectable image of China on the international stage, and take practical actions to build a sports power and realize the realization of the Chinese nation. Contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese dream.