China News Service Client Beijing, April 29th (Reporter Yue Chuan) From "Head Coach of the Cross-border and Cross-Country Speed ​​Skating National Training Team" to "Head Team of the Coach Team of Speed ​​Skating and Short Track Speed ​​Skating It seems that Wang Meng's first coaching career ended in less than two years.

　　Short-track speed skating and speed skating fitness training camps will be held on April 29 in Hebei Dam. About 100 athletes will be here for two months of training and assessment. It is understood that the new short team will be completed after the training camp.

　　However, this is an important occasion for the future construction of the national team, but it is difficult to find the figure of the coaching team leader Wang Meng, and she is not the person in charge of this training camp. According to media reports here, Wang Meng has been dismissed.

Data Map: Wang Meng Picture Source: Osports Quanshen Pictures

　　As an athlete, Wang Meng has a brilliant career. In 2006, Wang Meng, who was on the Olympic stage for the first time, won the women's 500-meter gold medal in short track speed skating in 44 seconds 345.

　　At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Wang Meng has repeatedly set Olympic records in the women's 500-meter preliminaries and semi-finals, and achieved the gold medal for the event. After that, she and her teammates won the women's 1000-meter and 3000-meter relay championships, becoming the first single "triple champion" in Chinese short track history.

　　If it were not for the accidental injury before the Sochi Winter Olympics, Wang Meng's honor might have more. So far, the Chinese delegation has won 13 gold medals since participating in the Winter Olympics, 4 of which belong to her.

Wang Meng, the leader of the coaching team of the Chinese Short Track Team, summarizes the short team for the players.

　　In May 2018, Wang Meng, who faded out of the track for several years, took up the teaching pointer to start his coaching career and took charge of the cross-border and cross-country speed skating national training team. This team is mainly responsible for the training and selection of cross-border and cross-sport athletes. The purpose of establishing this team is to discover, train and reserve speed skating talents for the 2022 Beijing Olympic Games.

　　Another year later, the national team of speed skating and short track speed skating was established in May 2019, and Wang Meng became the head of the coaching team, becoming the first "master" to lead these two projects.

Data map Wang Mengzhong News Agency sent Liu Changshan photo

　　This is a post placed in the spotlight. Needless to say, short-track speed skating is the main force of the Chinese team striving to achieve good results in the Beijing Winter Olympics. Naturally, from training to competition, it also attracts the most attention from the outside world. So far, the Chinese delegation has won 13 gold medals since participating in the Winter Olympics, including 10 short-track speed skating.

　　Two years ago, although the only gold medal of the current Chinese delegation was contributed by Wu Dajing at the Pingchang Winter Olympics, the short track speed skating team's transcript was slightly lower as the trump card team As expected. In the face of the goal of achieving the best results in the history of the China Winter Olympics at the Beijing Winter Olympics, it is reasonable to make changes.

On February 22, 2018, Chinese player Wu Dajing embraced coach Li Yan after the men's 5,000-meter relay final of the short track speed skating in the Pingchang Winter Olympics. China News Service reporter Song Jihe

　　Last season, Wang Meng led the Chinese short-track team, which was basically the main lineup, to participate in 6 World Cup substations, and won a total of 10 gold medals. The results are acceptable. But without the test of the World Championships, there will be some lack of persuasion.

　　After entering the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, the management of the Chinese short track speed skating team has made adjustments more than once. Compared with previous cycles, personnel changes are relatively frequent, which is actually rare. But the reason why the national team made such adjustments must be based on a comprehensive consideration of multiple factors.

　　According to a Xinhua News Agency report, the relevant person in charge of the Winter Games Center recently revealed that the phenomenon of "preserving, maintaining, and coaxing" the short brigade is more prominent, resulting in a gap between physical fitness and technology. In addition, the team's training intensity is low, the amount of training is small, the training time is short, and the personalized training is not enough or no; the team management method is relatively simple, and there is a certain degree of fear, and the team's "arrogance" is increasingly worrying.

Data picture: "Devil Coach" Jin Changbo once created the glory of Chinese female songs. Image source: Osports All Sports Pictures

　　This explains why Korean coach Kim Chang-bo, known as the "iron fist" and who once led the Chinese women's hockey team to historically win the Olympic silver medal, will appear in this training camp as the "training director".

　　If starting from the results, Wu Dajing suffered from injury last season, the results are not outstanding, but the men's 500 meters is still an important point for the Chinese team at the Beijing Winter Olympics. "Veteran" Han Tianyu has returned and has won the gold medal at 1,000 meters this season.

　　In addition, Ren Ziwei and other players have made some progress. In this year's World Cup Germany, Ren Ziwei won the gold medal of 1500 meters in a ride. He passed the positive energy of sports in the special period of fighting the new crown pneumonia epidemic and was praised by the State Sports General Administration.

Data Map: Han Tianyu returns to win the championship photo by Zhang Hengwei

　　However, from a macro perspective, the performance of the Chinese team lacks bright spots and breakthroughs, and the overall strength is not as good as that of South Korea and the Netherlands. It has gradually been surpassed by Hungary and Russia in certain potential items. In other words, facing the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese short track team still has significant room for improvement.

　　However, at a time less than two years before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics, major adjustments were made to the team management. In the eyes of outsiders, such changes are more or less mixed with a little helplessness. After all, there are strong enemies such as South Korea, the Netherlands, and Hungary on the side, and time is the most delaying resource. Changing coaching ideas will inevitably lead to a waste of time. Frequent adjustments and long-term development are often difficult to coexist.

Data map: Ren Ziwei in the game

　　But in the final analysis, achieving good results at the Beijing Winter Olympics is the common wish of the national team and even all the snowmen. This has not changed, and it is also the starting point of everything. The adjusted short brigade is bound to receive more attention, which also puts higher demands on this collective.

　　In the middle of this month, the International Skating Federation announced the cancellation of the 2020 World Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships, and the short track speed skating season is over. For coaches, coordinating and preparing a full-scale preparation plan at such a time point is definitely stronger than during the season; for players, the pressure to suspend from the game will help them work hard and adapt in a relatively relaxed environment. New changes.

　　For short-track speed skating in China, this gathering on the dam is a new beginning. (Finish)