Hefei, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Changing the "track" to shine -- the New Year's wish of three retired athletes.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Chang.
The game will always end, but the love will not fade. During the Spring Festival, the reporter listened to the New Year's wishes of three retired athletes, who either devoted themselves to education, or chose to start a business, or studied hard, although the choices were different, they were all injecting strength into the development of sports, and the spirit of hard work never quit.
May the New Year be fruitful.
During the Spring Festival holiday, Zhou Wanbing, who transformed from a retired athlete to a primary school physical education teacher, not only visited relatives and friends, but also thought about how the school shooting team should train next semester.
Zhou Wanbing, born in 1996, was an athlete of the Anhui Provincial Shooting Team and won the championship of the Anhui Provincial Games. On the eve of retiring in 2021, Zhou Wanbing, who likes the teaching industry, decided to try to prepare for the teacher qualification certificate first, listen to ** classes online, sign up for training classes offline, and start learning with the energy of usual training.
Soon after she got her teaching certificate, at the beginning of 2022, multiple departments in Anhui Province jointly issued relevant documents to promote retired athletes to "change lanes" to enter the campus. Zhou Wanbing, who caught up with the good policy, successfully joined Hefei Olympic Sports Primary School.
Being a primary school teacher is not easy. "You can't just copy professional knowledge, but choose different communication methods according to your child's personality and teach them according to their aptitude. Zhou Wanbing said.
In addition to studying at work, Zhou Wanbing also has to learn to break away from the collective life of the sports team and face the tests of life independently. "Now I have to go through all kinds of troubles that I haven't encountered before, and I have to learn to worry about myself. Zhou Wanbing said with a smile.
Facing the future, Zhou Wanbing hopes that both herself and her students can gain something, and also looks forward to more students joining the shooting club after the school's new shooting venue is built.
She also hopes that retired athletes like her can obtain policy information in a timely manner, seize the opportunity to successfully transform, and have more employment policies and positions for retired athletes in society.
May the spark set the prairie on fire.
When I was an athlete, I wanted to win glory for my country; After retiring from the military and entering society, I want more people to know about taekwondo. Wang Ying, the gold medalist at the 2005 World Taekwondo Championships, is now an entrepreneur.
He began training taekwondo at the age of 15 and retired at the age of 25. Wang Ying first worked as a coach for the Anhui provincial team, and then went to Beijing Sport University for further study. After graduating, she decided to return to her hometown of Xuancheng, Anhui Province to start a business, "After all, the world is so big, I want to try."
After herself, she founded the Wang Ying Taekwondo Club, hoping to popularize and promote the sport of taekwondo.
But starting a business is not an easy task. Lack of management experience, do not understand finance, do not understand the ...... operationIn the face of a series of problems, Wang Ying can only overcome and learn with the hard work of "not admitting defeat" when she was an athlete.
Fortunately, Wang Ying met a group of like-minded partners, launched the "Spark Project", established Anhui Xinghuo Sports Culture, and began to do taekwondo teacher training, professional training, etc., hoping to make more people fall in love with the project of taekwondo through "Spark of the Star".
From an athlete to an entrepreneur, I have always maintained my love for sports and my original intention for taekwondo. Wang Ying said that she especially hopes that the positive attitude, strong heart and fighting spirit brought by competitive sports can be passed on to more young people.
Without a good body, there can be no good grades. Wang Ying hopes that more teenagers can stick to their sports hobbies for a long time, and parents can pay more attention to the role of physical fitness on the growth of teenagers. ”
Wang Ying also hopes that there will be more policies and assistance funds to support retired athletes to start their own businesses, so that retired athletes can have the strength to take the first step on this "track" and better play their light and heat.
May sports be more prosperous.
It's been 11 years since I retired, and the first eight years were very confusing. Gymnastics Olympic champion Deng Linlin admitted that when she didn't know where to go, she went to learn and improve her ability first.
Deng Linlin, born in 1992, won the women's gymnastics team championship at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the balance beam championship at the 2012 London Olympics, and officially retired in 2013.
After retiring, Deng Linlin spent most of her time on campus. She first went to Peking University for undergraduate studies, and after graduation, she continued to study for a postgraduate degree at Beijing Sport University, and was sent to study abroad. In 2023, Deng Linlin will join Anhui Normal University and become a teacher at the school's School of Physical Education.
The biggest confusion when I went to college was that I didn't know how to study or how to plan my day. Deng Linlin said that when she was an athlete, she would strictly implement the coach's arrangement, and after retiring as a student, she had to learn to plan her own time.
Deng Linlin hopes that colleges and universities can provide centralized guidance to retired athletes who enter the school, especially the guidance of learning methods. It is also hoped that before retirement, athletes can have some policy guidance, guidance on college and university major selection, career planning, etc., to help retired athletes better transition into society.
As a sports person, Deng Linlin is pleased to see that "in China, whether it is mass sports, competitive sports or sports industry, they are all booming". Deng Linlin believes that in the past, people may have paid more attention to competitive sports, but now they pay more attention to physical and mental health, and they are widely involved in various sports, and people's sports concepts are changing.
Deng Linlin's New Year's wish is: "I hope that China's sports will develop better and better, and become a sports power as soon as possible." If the sports environment becomes better, then every sports practitioner will also become better. (ENDS).