On the field of "14th Winter", the wonderful moments of the athletes of the Heilongjiang team galloping on the field and the unforgettable moments of winning gold and silver are the results of the team members' years of training and the results of the coaches' guidance day and night. In the 14th Winter Cross-Country Skiing (Open Group) Women's 4 5km Relay (2 Traditional Techniques + 2 Free Techniques) Competition that ended on February 21, Heilongjiang Meng Honglian, Chen Lingshuang, Li Xin and Chi Chunxue won the gold medal.
Over the age of sixties. Carrying the general's order to go out again.
This trip to the '14th Winter' has lived up to the trust of the organization and the recognition of the team members, and I can finally draw a successful end to my career. Li Xiaoming said meaningfully.
At the age of 12, by chance, Li Xiaoming came to Shangzhi Sports School to train skiing, and he may not have imagined that this sport, which was originally just a hobby, would accompany him for nearly 54 years, and let him continue to persist after retirement. During his career as an athlete, Li Xiaoming participated in two Olympic Games, won many national championships, and won three gold medals in the Fourth National Games. In his 38-year coaching career, Li Xiaoming's athletes have won nearly 200 gold medals in domestic and foreign competitions, and in the 2012 National Winter Games, he won 10 gold medals in cross-country skiing.
In 2018, Li Xiaoming, who reached the age of 60, retired with honor. In view of his rich coaching experience and competition experience, the Heilongjiang Provincial Sports Bureau invited him to continue to teach in the team. Out of his love and attachment to skiing, Li Xiaoming, who has been in the sixtieth year, is like a veteran with outstanding achievements, and has embarked on the "road of second recruitment" with steady steps, preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics and the National Winter Games with his former colleagues and team members.
With the postponement of the "14th Winter", Li Xiaoming also started the "overdue service", no matter how his family and friends dissuaded him with age issues, health conditions, etc., he did not hesitate to plunge into the team, like a kind and strict grandfather, with his decades of coaching experience and life experience to point the way forward for the players. He has expressed hope many times that before leaving the team, he will strive to train another group of outstanding athletes and coaches for Longjiang, hoping that they can shine on the world stage in the future.
In the viewing area, the veteran coach Li Xiaoming, who had already passed the age of sixties, looked at the Longjiang snow athletes standing on the highest podium again and again, and his eyes were full of tears. After the end of the "14th Winter", this veteran who has been active in the snow field for nearly 40 years will also return to the pastoral life again, but the love and nostalgia for snow sports will always remain in his heart, and his various experiences will also turn into a good story, with the continuation of Longjiang sportsmanship from generation to generation, influencing generations of Longjiang sportsmen. At the end of the interview, Li Xiaoming looked at the track at a high place and muttered: "Veterans do not remove their armor when they leave the team, and if there is a battle, they will be called back." A sentence of muttering exhausts the lifelong feelings of all Longjiang sports people.
Wounded and played. Support the backbone of the team.
On the top podium of the "14th Winter" cross-country skiing (open group) women's 4 5km relay (2 traditional techniques + 2 free techniques) competition, Wang Yan was carefully supported to the top podium by the team members, looking at the children around her, her eyes were full of pride and relief, and the pain caused by the thoracic vertebra fracture seemed to be reduced a little.
In 1991, the 7th National Winter Games skiing competition was held in Yabuli Ski Resort in Heilongjiang Province, and Wang Yan, who was only 17 years old at the time, shot down three gold medals in his first competition. In 1999, she took on the responsibility of coaching the youth team of the Heilongjiang Snow Training Center, continued to stick to the snow field, and embarked on the glorious road from champion to training champion. When he was an athlete, Wang Yan had a never-say-die spirit. After teaching, she brought this spirit to her post.
At the beginning of the "14th Winter", Wang Yan signed up for the mass competition. Although he accidentally fell in the race, he still won the third place. When he was examined, Wang Yan was still joking that he was getting old and not as flexible as he was when he was young. When she heard the diagnosis of thoracic vertebra fracture, she stood on the spot, feeling remorse, regret, unwillingness, etc., and the pride and ambition of accompanying the team members on the field and podium dissipated instantly. In the face of the doctor's suggestion of immediate surgery, Wang Yan resolutely chose to be conservative after a little thought, although the effect is not as ideal as the operation, but there is a certain probability that she can accompany the players to participate in the competition.
I've got to be there! My sternum is broken, and if I wasn't, wouldn't the children's heartbones be broken? Recalling the scene at that time, Wang Yan said excitedly. With this stubbornness and persistence, Wang Yan not only lies in bed every day to recuperate, but also wears armor and conducts difficult training.
As the date of the game approached, Wang Yan's mood became more urgent as soon as possible, and he kept asking the team doctor to increase the training load. After more than a month of perseverance, she was finally able to barely stand and walk. Walking out of the ward, she came to the team members as soon as possible, cheered them on, repeated the action essentials summarized during training over and over again, and actively made tactical deployment according to everyone's strengths and weaknesses. In this way, she could have been remotely guided online, but she relied on the tenacity and perseverance in the bones of Longjiang Sports people to support the "backbone" of the players with injuries.
Slowly stepping off the top podium, the excitement in Wang Yan's heart still couldn't be calmed down for a long time. "I am the backbone of the players, the players are my backbone, we support each other, they continue to challenge their own competitive level, I am also challenging my own limits, we work together and win together. With the support of the team members, although the backs of Wang Yan and his party are gradually drifting away, the glory is still there.
The Book of Rites contains that the teacher is also a teacher, and the teaching is a matter of virtue and virtue. On the field of "Fourteen Winters", the figure of Longjiang ice and snow athletes winning gold and silver appeared in front of the flash again and again, behind the figures, there are obscure coaches, the development and growth of Longjiang sports in the new era, can not be separated from the full support of these backs, they are the leaders and backbones of Longjiang athletes, the backbone of Longjiang sportsmen, the pillar of Longjiang sportsmen, the ballast stone, the insurance lock and booster of Longjiang sports, the extractor and seeder of Longjiang sportsmanship, and the construction of a strong sports province. An important driving force for achieving the goal of building a sports power.
*: Harbin News Network.
Diao Jiashuai Reporter: Zhang Kunlei.
Editor: Wang Yue.