Chasing dreams in a new era, striving to start a new chapter.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the national sports front has adhered to the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, earnestly studied the important expositions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on sports work, worked hard and persevered, and insisted on promoting competition with new development concepts. sports development.
In the past ten years, China's competitive sports has continuously improved the quality of development, reaped fruitful results, and successfully created a new situation in the development of competitive sports.
Innovative breakthroughs and new beginnings
Entering the new era, the development stage and the main challenges faced by competitive sports in my country have undergone new changes that are different from the past.
Building a strong sports country not only needs to further enhance the comprehensive strength of competitive sports and enhance the ability to win glory for the country, but also must face the new situation of the transformation of sports demand structure and demand upgrade in the new era, improve the development quality of competitive sports, and optimize the development structure, so as to further enhance competitive sports. The influence and appeal of the times, attracting and driving more people to join the great practice of building a sports power.
Adhere to the new development concept, consolidate the foundation of the sports crowd, the foundation of talents, and the foundation of physical fitness, improve the level of scientific training, improve the quality of event content, enrich the supply of event products, and improve the supply structure of viewing and participatory sports events. Competitive sports are bursting with vigor under the drive of developing new kinetic energy.
While traditional advantageous projects achieve higher-quality development, major breakthroughs have been made in competitive sports such as track and field, swimming and other competitive sports with high participation of the people and strong ability to radiate and drive the national fitness and sports industry.
At the World Track and Field Championships held in Beijing in August 2015, Su Bingtian became the first Asian athlete to reach the World Championships men's 100m final with a time of 9.99.
Su Bingtian's breakthrough is not an unrepeatable case.
In July 2019, Xie Zhenye broke the Asian record of the event with a time of 19.88 in the men's 200m final at the London Station of the IAAF Diamond League.
Later, at the Doha World Athletics Championships that year, Xie Zhenye became the first Chinese athlete to enter the men's 200-meter final of the World Championships.
Once upon a time, Chinese athletes could only act as spectators in the men's sprint event of the World Championships, but the new generation of Chinese track and field athletes has achieved an epoch-making change from no chance to be a supporting role to a supporting role of the competition, and then to the protagonist.
At the closing time of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese track and field team won 2 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze. Among them, the women's shot put gold medal, the women's javelin gold medal and the men's triple jump silver medal were all historic breakthroughs, setting the best place in history.
In addition to these five track and field medals, the historic breakthrough of sprinters represented by Su Bingtian on the Tokyo track and the late bronze medal in the men's 4×100-meter relay at the Tokyo Olympics are also of great significance to Chinese competitive sports.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Su Bingtian broke the 10-second mark twice in the men's 100-meter semifinals and finals. In particular, he broke the Asian record with a time of 9.83 seconds in the semifinals. Such a substantial breakthrough and improvement surpassed many people. imagination.
The huge breakthrough in the world-renowned track event, especially the men's sprint event, has effectively enhanced the status and influence of Chinese track and field in the world sports arena, and has strongly inspired other events to "break superstition" and backward concepts so as to overcome difficulties. The drive and confidence to break through.
At the same time, swimming, cycling and other competitive sports with a solid mass base have successively achieved historic breakthroughs in greater breadth and depth.
In the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Angel Zhong and Jinjie Gong won the first Olympic gold medal for the Chinese team in the women's track cycling event.
At the Tokyo Olympics last year, Zhong Angel and Bao Shanju first broke the world record in the competition, and then defeated their opponents in the final to win the championship again.
In the field cycling event, the main opponents of the Chinese team generally have strong scientific training and scientific and technological support capabilities, and the Chinese team's ability to break the world record and win the gold medal has fully proved the scientific and technological content of its competitive performance.
Based on physical fitness and supported by technology, swimming events are becoming "impossible" more and more frequently.
In the swimming pool of the Tokyo Olympics, Zhang Yufei first broke the Olympic record in the women's 200-meter butterfly competition, and then cooperated with three "post-00" teammates to break the world record to win the women's 4 × 200 meters Freestyle relay champion.
In the men's 200-meter medley final, Wang Shun beat British star Scott to become the first Chinese athlete to win the men's medley Olympic championship by breaking the Asian record.
The water sports, which is also a basic event, also continued to create history at the Tokyo Olympics.
Cui Xiaotong, Lu Yang, Zhang Ling and Chen Yunxia achieved the world's best results in the women's rowing four-sculls competition, helping the Chinese team win the Olympic rowing gold medal again after 13 years.
Zhang Liang/Liu Zhiyu's bronze medal in men's rowing double sculls is China's first men's Olympic medal in rowing.
It is worth mentioning that in the previous Olympic Games, basic sports such as track and field, swimming and water, as well as traditional sports such as cycling and fencing, which have deep technical and cultural accumulation in European and American countries, have always been the battlegrounds for military strategists.
Different from the previous situation in which the Chinese team occasionally made breakthroughs in the siege of European and American powers, the breakthroughs of the Chinese team in these traditional major events in the Tokyo Olympics showed a strong situation of multiple blooms.
In the above five traditional sports, only the Chinese team and the US team can have gold medals in the Tokyo Olympics.
If the water sports are further divided into three, then in the seven categories of track and field, swimming, rowing, kayaking, sailing, fencing and cycling, only the Chinese team can fully bloom and have gold medals distributed. This shows that the Chinese team has successfully achieved a more balanced layout and development in these traditional major events, laying a more solid foundation for the high-quality development of competitive sports in my country.
Strong and excellent area expansion bears fruit
Based on the new era and showing new achievements, the hard work of Chinese athletes is a vivid practice of striving to promote the construction of a sports power.
At the same time of innovation and breakthrough in basic major items, traditional advantageous projects are also constantly leaping to a new level in "iterative upgrading", and competitive sports projects with sustainable competitiveness are increasing day by day.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, the Chinese table tennis team won the Olympic gold medal in all table tennis events for the third time in a row.
The Chinese women's volleyball team rebounded strongly in the face of adversity and won the Olympic championship again after 12 years.
The confident, brave, youthful and lively image of Chinese players on and off the field has not only attracted countless fans among the domestic youth groups, but also made many overseas media admire Chinese athletes in the new era.
No matter good times or bad, they are not afraid of strong players and dare to win. This is the deep impression that Chinese athletes have left on people.
Young athletes in the new era, even on the Olympic stage, where the world is watching, dare to become the world's "Internet celebrity" as a struggler. Breaking through history, their demeanor on and off the field highlights the Chinese style of the new era.
In the 18th Asian Games held in Jakarta in 2018, the Chinese sports delegation achieved good results of 132 gold, 92 silver and 65 bronze, and continued to lead Asia.
Entering 2020, Chinese athletes are facing the sudden test of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, and actively prepare for the epidemic prevention battle to accumulate strength for the Tokyo Olympics.
At the same time, the Chinese plan for sports events is also increasingly attracting the attention of the world sports world. From online to offline, innovative competitive sports events with different characteristics have been promoted in an orderly manner under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control. The world's top table tennis events such as the Men's Table Tennis World Cup and the ITTF World Tour Finals have been held in China one after another, offering a series of Chinese solutions to the world sports world that can effectively resolve systemic risks and jointly promote sustainable development.
Although the competition situation of the Tokyo Olympic Games is extremely complicated and severe, the Chinese sports delegation has still tied the best results of overseas competitions, and the traditional advantageous events have successfully maintained their dominant position.
The Chinese weightlifting team won 7 golds and 1 silver in the competition. The number of gold medals won instead of falling against the background of the reduction in the Olympic level and the number of participants. It reflects the profound heritage of weightlifting, the fighting spirit of Chinese weightlifters to challenge the limit, and the team Outstanding results of scientific preparations.
China's diving "Dream Team" not only achieved the best results in history of 7 golds and 5 silvers, but also repeatedly jumped out of the good results recorded in history. The outstanding performance of the score amazed the world.
This is the best result in the history of the Olympic Games, World Championships and World Cup since FINA implemented the new diving scoring rules in 2006.
The table tennis event contributed 4 golds and 3 silvers. The men's singles and women's singles won the championship and runner-up. The men's team and the women's team defended their titles strongly. The new generation grew rapidly and successfully completed the transition between the old and the new.
The shooting event not only made a good start for the Chinese sports delegation at the Tokyo Olympics, but also the number of gold medals reached the highest level in overseas competition, the number of medals hit a record high, and the ability to fight tough battles was significantly enhanced.
The badminton event won 2 golds and 4 silvers, and the mixed doubles won the championship and runner-up.
Gymnastics won 3 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes, and fought a beautiful turnaround in Tokyo.
The trampoline event won 1 gold and 2 silver, and the women's event won the Olympic championship and runner-up for the first time.
In the Tokyo Olympics, the traditional advantageous events won a total of 28 gold medals, accounting for 74% of the total number of gold medals.
On the whole, the coverage of the gold-winning projects of the Chinese sports delegation has been further expanded.
He has won gold medals in 14 events including track and field, swimming, diving, weightlifting, gymnastics, trampoline, shooting, table tennis, badminton, rowing, kayaking, sailing, cycling, and fencing.
The thickness of competitive sports talents has been further enhanced. A total of 52 athletes have won gold medals, the largest number of gold medal winners overseas.
It won 158 of the top 8, which is the highest in the history of overseas competition.
On the stage of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team broke 4 world records and created 21 Olympic records.
Facing the fruitful results of the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese athletes did not slow down their progress at all, and the Shaanxi National Games that followed showed a very high level of competition.
In this National Games, a total of 9 people and 1 team set 12 world records in shooting, weightlifting and other events, and 1 track and field team set 1 Asian record once. Shooting, track cycling, weightlifting, track and field, rock climbing, swimming events 13 The 7-man team set 22 national records 22 times, and the 7-man team set 10 national youth records 10 times in the weightlifting event.
Entering the new cycle, Chinese athletes will not forget their original aspirations, keep their mission in mind, and continue to strive for the first place on the stage of world competitions to win glory for the country.
"Post-00" teenager Zhang Boheng won the men's all-around championship for the first time in the gymnastics world championships last October, while Fan Zhendong and Wang Manyu won the first World Table Tennis Championships men's singles and Women's singles champion... Forge ahead in a new journey and make contributions to a new era. On the new journey of building a sports power, Chinese athletes continue to work hard, forge ahead, and strive to gather the mighty youthful power for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.