In the Spring of the Year of the Dragon, Chinese swimmers created one miracle after another at the World Swimming Championships in Doha. Pan Zhanle, the 19-year-old Leo Zhejiang boy, along with his teammates, showed the world the speed, strength, technique and confidence from the East with three gold medals. The Chinese swimming team is also announcing to the world that a new world swimming power has stood up with the advantages of the group.
Before Sun Yang, Ning Zetao, and Wang Shun were born, the world men's swimming world was monopolized by European and American countries for a long time. For more than ten years, Chinese have not only continued to write legends in the women's world swimming world, but also in the men's world swimming world.
If Sun Yang once held up the façade of Chinese swimming, then Ning Zetao in freestyle, Xu Jiayu in backstroke, Qin Haiyang in breaststroke, and Wang Shun in medley gave Chinese swimmers hope to reach the top of the world championship in various events.
9 years ago, Pan Zhanle, who was in front of the TV, was only 10 years old, Wang Haoyu was only 9 years old, and Zhang Zhanshuo was only 7 years old.
The 19-year-old Poon Chin-lok broke the world record in the men's 100m freestyle, which represents the world's most valuable swimming value, and won the gold medal. 18-year-old Wang Haoyu and 16-year-old boy Zhang Zhanshuo have become world champions with two world championship gold medals.
Also today, in the men's 200m breaststroke final, the 218-year-old Chinese teenager Dong Zhihao rushed from sixth to first in the last 50 meters and won the championship.
These post-00s pool boys have achieved the dream that Chinese swimmers, Chinese track and field people, and Chinese sports people have been looking forward to realizing - surpassing European and American countries with group advantages.
At this moment, Pan Zhanle, Wang Haoyu, and Zhang Zhanshuo are also expected to become the pride of China that surpasses Liu Xiang, Yao Ming, Sun Yang, and Su Bingtian.
My learning is to watch the interviews of Brother Shun (Wang Shun) and continue to grow. Pan Zhanle, who likes to read, modestly said in the face of reporters' interviews that at this moment, he not only surpassed Wang Shun and Ning Zetao in competition, but also surpassed Sun Yang at the level of life.
Self-confidence in awe and humility is an extremely important inner cultivation for a person, the Chinese swimming team, the Chinese sports people, or our Chinese dragon who has experienced 5,000 years of frost and precipitation, which can help oneself and those who look up to themselves to continue to grow and progress.
When the gold medal feast of the Beijing Olympics has already made China a sports power, but the dream of a sports power is still on the way. China can only become a true sports power if it becomes a strong player in athletics, swimming, ice and snow, football, basketball, and tennis, which are highly popular and highly professional sports in the world that combine speed, strength, and skill.
With the improvement of maternal and child health care, the popularity of swimming among Chinese has seen the inevitable connection between thick accumulation and dragon soaring from infant swimming pools all over China.
Swimming is no longer the domain of Europeans and Americans, this has become a fact. Whether diving, synchronized swimming or swimming, the Chinese have smashed the ethnography that has prevailed in world sports and Chinese sports for many years.
Over the past 100 years, countless facts around the world have proven that the backwardness of sports in various sports at the competitive level is usually the backwardness of sports culture, sports industry and scientific training methods, not race. It is foreseeable that in the future, the world athletics, ice and snow, football, basketball, and tennis will be the same as swimming, and there will also be a competition between different races.
Modern sports are not only competitions, but also the crystallization of human civilization based on health, education as the purpose, economy as the driving force, and spiritual cultivation as the sublimation. Football, basketball and other sports even contain a huge role in artistic expression and national cohesion, which is not simply measured by the number of gold medals.
In 2008, the world-renowned book "Exercise Transforms the Brain" explained how exercise changes the way the brain works, and its prominent role in improving concentration and memory, improving cognitive ability, relieving stress and anxiety, and even fighting depression through long-term rigorous scientific research. The book has also been highly valued by the Ministry of Education of China and the General Administration of Sports of China, and in 2019, it was vigorously popularized by 40,000 grassroots youth coaches across the country.
China's dream of becoming a sports power is related to everyone's physical and mental health, as well as the improvement of children's IQ, EQ and comprehensive cultural quality, and more importantly, to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Let's make a difference, starting with a new sports journey for you and me, and the children.
Text丨Huang Xing. Editor丨Tongtong.