As one of the Chinese synchronized swimming teams last played on the evening of the 2nd, the Beijing team completed the collective free optional event with the theme of “Blade of Light and Shadow”. The Xi’an Olympic Sports Center Swimming and Diving Hall, known as the tripod, came to an end.
The joint team composed of the Tokyo Olympics duo and group event teams has lived up to expectations. They won the championship in these two events, demonstrating the world-class Chinese synchronized swimming ability; and the Beijing team, which won gold in the free combination competition, relied on The difficult water jumps and tacit cooperation make people shine. Tokyo is getting farther away, and the future can be expected. In the Paris Olympics three years later, Chinese synchronized swimming gave people more room for imagination.
Riding the wind and waves, the veteran blooms
Huang Xuechen is a famous Chinese synchronized swimming player. At the Tokyo Olympics, she and her teammates won silver medals in double and collective events. After the isolation, she came to Xi’an non-stop to participate in the National Games competition.
“The love for synchronized swimming made me choose to stick to it.” Huang Xuechen, a 31-year-old mother and a mother, always smiled, “During the isolation period, I will insist on strength training every day to maintain my physical stability; thinking, I also treat the National Games in the same way as the Olympics. During the game, I will observe the leg swings of my teammates underwater. Seeing that everyone has been preparing for the National Games for so long, as a veteran player, I have no reason to relax. .”
Continuing the excellent status of the Olympic Games, Sun Wenyan, the captain of the Chinese synchronized swimming team, performed almost perfect in the two competitions of the combined team, such as paddling, throwing and jumping. He led the combined team to win the championship with 193.2269 and 193.2860, “Chang’an Ding.” The audience inside was overwhelmed by the jumping height, lifting strength, and artistic performance of the two veterans. Applause and cheers came and went one after another.
Under the demonstration and guidance of the two predecessors, the participating teams of this competition maintained a high level of competition, playing a world-class level in the theme design, selection of music, height of throwing and jumping, and expression on the water. No wonder Wang Ruihua, the head coach of the Macau Synchronized Swimming Team, said with a smile: “As a non-professional member of the Macau team, I am very nervous to see competitors perform like this. Decompression for them has become one of my jobs.”
The newcomer has a bright future
The inheritance of new and old is the basic law of competitive sports. Looking at the list of participants in this competition, the “post-00s” have become the main players of the participating teams, and they are becoming the “future stars” of China’s synchronized swimming.
Take the Sichuan team, which has been on the podium in all three events, as an example. The average age of this team is 22 years old. Among them are old players who have participated in the five National Games, and many of them have participated in the National Games for the first time. “After 00”. “The team has always been adhering to the attitude of challenging the difficulty and challenging the limit, and has always maintained the spirit of catching up with and surpassing the opponent. On the road of struggle, even if there are occasional difficulties, we have never given up the dream of winning. I believe that after the tempering of time, we will Stand tall and grow into a sonorous rose in the swimming pool!” said He Xiaochu, coach of the Sichuan team.
Wang Jie, the head coach of the Chinese synchronized swimming team, said that with the outstanding performance of Chinese synchronized swimmers in international competitions such as the Olympics and World Championships, more and more parents and children are paying attention to and choosing this event in China. Jailed. “At present, eight traditional professional teams in China are taking on the task of transporting outstanding athletes to the national team. Fortunately, synchronized swimming clubs have sprung up everywhere, and our selection of talents has become wider and wider. After years of teaching foreigners in action With many “learning from experience” such as scheduling and daily training, the level of coaches of domestic professional teams has now reached world-class standards. Competitive performance and the mass base are echoed, and we are confident that we will achieve better results in the future.”
Looking at Paris in the distance, the prospects are promising
One of the deepest impressions of the synchronized swimming competition at the National Games is that the various domestic synchronized swimming teams, including the Macau team, have incorporated more “Chinese elements” in both costume design and soundtrack selection. , Synchronized swimming, an “imported sport”, has more Chinese styles.
In the collective event finals that ended on the evening of the 2nd, the Jiangsu team, which won the fourth place, took the theme of “Phoenix Dance” as the theme, integrated many Peking opera repertoires and physical action elements, and performed the god of Peking opera in the form of synchronized swimming. The Chinese style of water rhyme is blowing, realizing the perfect fusion of the quintessence of Peking opera and synchronized swimming. The audience repeatedly stood up and applauded for the performance of the players. “Only China’s is the world‘s. This sentence is correct.” An audience member said.
In the free combination project, the Sichuan team incorporated elements of Yi culture and ethnic style into synchronized swimming. In the design of leg movements, the ethnic style was highlighted in rhythm processing, group connection, and formation changes, and skill and art were ingeniously combined. Technology shows more possibilities of art, and through the processing of art, technology is more ingenious and fuller. The exploration of styles between the national team and the local team laid the foundation for the future Chinese synchronized swimming to achieve better results.
Wang Jie said that the abundant talent pool and the more confident “Chinese original” will add luster to the increasingly fierce international competition in synchronized swimming.
Editor: Tan Wenting
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