Original title: Tokyo Olympics double flower tour, China’s “Snow Goose Combination” wins silver
[Global Times Special Correspondent to Japan Zhou Yang, Xu Yunfeng, and Liu Yupeng]The two “30+ sisters” can still swim the most beautiful water ballet in the Olympic venues. In this Olympics, 31-year-old Sun Wenyan and 30-year-old Huang Xuechen were temporarily second behind the Russian team by 3.2247 points after the technical selection on the evening of the 3rd. On the evening of the 4th, in the synchronized swimming double free choice finals of the Tokyo Olympics, the eighth Chinese team Sun Wenyan/Huang Xuechen scored 96.9 points with the song “Green Snake”, and finally won the silver medal with a total score of 192.4499 points. This is the two of them. After the Rio Olympics, he won silver again. The Russian Olympic team player Kolesnichenko/Romashinna scored 195.9079 points. While successfully reaching the top, they helped Russia complete the six consecutive Olympic championships in this event. Russian President Putin congratulated them.
After a number of Greek flower swimmers were confirmed to be infected with the new crown virus, the synchronized swimming double free optional finals held on the evening of the 4th proceeded as normal. 40 minutes before the start of the game, a “Global Times” reporter arrived at the Tokyo Aquatic Center, the venue of the game. The precautionary measures for admission are not different from the past. There are also staff taking body temperature and hand disinfection. After entering the stadium, the press center and competition pool are also ready.
The official website of the Tokyo Olympics said after the game that the “Snow Goose Group” came out in seventh place and successfully completed a set of works with the theme of “snakes”. The passionate melody expressed the spirit of never giving up. Both Chinese players are veterans: Huang Xuechen is the “four dynasty veteran” of the Olympics, and Sun Wenyan is also the third time participating in the Olympics. Both are over 30 years old, but they are still in good shape. The Russian “Championship Network” stated that the Chinese players completed a set of clean, synchronized and technical moves, but still lacked emotion.
In an interview after the game, Huang Xuechen said that he was satisfied with his performance this time, because he was affirmed by the coach as soon as he came down and corrected some errors in the preliminaries, so he had a heart-to-heart with his teammates. She also said that she would feel a little more relaxed if she devoted herself to collective projects later. Sun Wenyan said: “If you give yourself a score, you will get a full score! Because for our last Olympics (journey), the duo (event) had such a successful ending, without any regrets.”
When asked if he had studied the theme of “green snake”, Huang Xuechen said that he often watches related movies, (but) the entire arrangement is not only for domestic audiences, but also for international audiences. Domestic audiences think of green snakes and white snakes, while foreigners may think snakes are more ferocious animals, “so we blend softness and ferocity.”
After the game, Huang Xuechen’s Olympic medals reached 4 silver and 2 bronze, while Sun Wenyan held 4 silver medals. In Sun Wenyan’s view, although it may be difficult to match the Russian team in a short time, the pace of progress will never stop. “I want to interpret my dream with love! Surpassing the Russian team is the goal that Chinese tourists never give up.” The official website of the International Olympic Committee stated that the 31-year-old Romansina became the most successful athlete in synchronized swimming. After the game, she announced that this was her last Olympic Games, “I am not young anymore.”
Since 2000, Russian athletes have been monopolizing the Olympic champion in this event. It is understood that China’s synchronized swimming started in the early 1980s, and its performance has been steadily improving. Among them, in the 2006 Doha Asian Games, the Chinese Flower Tour Team made it to the highest podium of free choice for two for the first time. Before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Japanese coach Masa Imura entered the Chinese synchronized swimming team on his behalf, helping the development of the project in China enter the fast lane.
In the Beijing Olympics Synchronized Swimming Group Free Choice Finals, the Chinese team defeated the Japanese team to win the bronze medal, which is also the first Olympic medal in the history of Chinese flower travel. At the 2012 London Olympics, the Chinese team won the double bronze medal and the collective silver medal. The 2016 Rio Olympics went one step further and recorded two silver medals for double and collective. In the 2017 World Championships, the Chinese team won the free combination gold medal and achieved a zero breakthrough in the World Championships gold medal.
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