Bi Kun is in the game.Photo by Special Correspondent An Lingjun
At the end of the 2016 Rio Olympics sailing competition, the reporter ran into the president of the Italian Sailing Association, “You China is too good. We have been in this project for 100 years and have not won the Olympic gold medal, but you have medals in almost every Olympic Games.”
Since Zhang Xiaodong, who won the runner-up in the Barcelona Olympics windsurfing in 1992, the Chinese sailing windsurfing event has won gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics, and both the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 2016 Rio Olympics. silver medal. At the Tokyo Olympics, Zhang Xiaodong, who has become the chairman of the Chinese Sailing and Windsurfing Association, led the team. Women’s windsurfing won the gold again; and men’s windsurfing also achieved a breakthrough with zero medals and won a bronze medal. This is not easy for a team that has only developed this sport for more than 30 years.
National team meticulous protection
The Chinese sailing team is the first team to participate in the Tokyo Olympics. The night before departure, the staff of the association packed up the heavy luggage and equipment of the players, and rushed to the airport to complete the check-in procedures in the early morning, just for everyone to be able to Get two more hours of sleep.
When I arrived in Tokyo, facing two large containers of equipment, three coaches “rolled up their arms and sleeves” and installed all the equipment under the scorching sun, just to allow the athletes more time to do small physical training and to adapt to the Tokyo climate more quickly. .
Two too small details, but they reflect the meticulous details of the Chinese Sailing Team’s Olympic Games. In fact, in the five years of preparing for the Olympic Games, such details have been used throughout all training. Regardless of the major or minor competitions, athletes who have achieved good results will say this sentence: “Thank you for the dedication of the entire team.”
Sailing is a comprehensive sport involving many disciplines such as hydrology, meteorology, equipment, mechanics, and psychology. In 2019, the Chinese sailing and windsurfing team conducted a period of training on Enoshima, Japan. The hydrology and meteorological team has been collecting data to provide training reference data for the team.
Consolidate physical energy without fear of small winds
“Physical fitness is an important basis for athletes’ competitive ability”, this sentence cannot be used too much on sailing boards. As a water sport with the sea as the stage, the windsurfing competition has a target time of 25 minutes per round, and the sailing competition has a target time of 50 minutes per round. There are 3 rounds a day. During the game, athletes cannot enter the lounge like other sports. It is to float on the sea and wait. Athletes usually go out to sea for 3 to 5 hours, which is longer than the duration of most events.
Take Bi Kun, a male windsurfing athlete who achieved a historical breakthrough, for example. He is 1.90 meters tall, weighs 80 kilograms, has a body fat rate of only 8%, and has clear muscle lines. This is also the result of the sailing windsurfing team’s long-term attention to basic physical training. During the preparation period for the Tokyo Olympics, the National Sailing Team adhered to the selection criteria of “Physical fitness is the ticket to the Tokyo Olympics” and continued to strengthen physical training. Including in October 2019, the team conducted a three-week physical strengthening at the Shanghai UFC; during the winter training, experts from the General Administration of Sports are regularly invited to provide more professional theoretical and practical guidance on physical training methods, methods and principles; physical coaches are required to strengthen in winter training Training norms and increasing the amount of exercise to lay a solid foundation.
“Only with good physical stamina can you play your technical level more barrier-free.” said Lu Yunxiu, who won the gold medal. The month’s exercise not only strengthened the physical fitness, but also through scientific training and targeted recovery treatment, the left arm that was originally suffering from the old disease also gradually recovered, which strengthened my confidence in winning.” Windsurfing on the last windy day of the Olympics Very physically exhausting, Lu Yunxiu won the gold medal with excellent physical fitness.
How to pay attention to injury prevention and physical protection in high-strength, high-intensity training is an important topic, and it requires active prevention and scientific training. Bi Kun said: “Every outstanding athlete has injuries more or less, and I have them, but I have been preventing them. It is not that you can’t practice if you have injuries. On the contrary, if you have injuries, you must train, strengthen muscles, and train every day. After the end, you must do treatment to relax, so that the body function will be better. In order to prepare for the Olympics, I have always made physical fitness an important goal, and I earnestly complete the training plan every day.”
Strong mind and open mind
The feeling of this year’s Chinese Sailing and Windsurfing Team is that it has a strong mentality and an open mind. Since the actualization of the Chinese Sailing and Windsurfing Association, in order to better promote the project, the national team has no longer “raised in a deep boudoir”, but has the courage to promote itself and show off itself.
If you don’t dare to show yourself openly, how can you have confidence on the court? If you keep shutting yourself down, how can you solve problems when you encounter them? Therefore, you must let your team members develop the ability to solve problems independently and an open mind. It is the consensus of the team. As a result, everyone saw a brand new sailing team. The athletes are full of personality, humorous Bi Kun, and Lu Yunxiu, who loves collecting shoes, are all so popular. The stunning dress show at the annual ceremony and the humorous jokes on the short video platform showed the open mind of Chinese athletes in the new era.
Of course, the team also pays special attention to psychology. In order to achieve excellent results in the Tokyo Olympics, the first thing to compare is the stable psychological state of the athletes. Only a stable psychological state will have stable emotions, high fighting spirits, and the belief in winning. The National Sailing Team attaches great importance to the importance of a stable mental state for young players during the Tokyo Olympic Games. It has successively invited Zhang Li, a well-known sports psychologist and professor of sports psychology at Beijing Sport University, to provide psychological counseling and psychological training for key players and achieved their ideals. Effect. Lu Yunxiu ran out of 25 on the first day of the game and made major mistakes, but then she ran better. In the final medal round, she dared to execute the tactics to the end, reflecting a calm and tenacious heart.
With good physical stamina, you have enough confidence to step on the field; with a strong psychology, you are not afraid of any accidents; with meticulous protection, you can go anywhere without any distractions. This is the new era of Chinese sailing and windsurfing team, and the three magic weapons of physical fitness, psychology and protection are also the cornerstones of continuing to ride the wind. (Reporter Chen Sitong)
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