China News Service, Baoding, July 29 (Lu Zihao and Xu Qiaoming) On July 29, Beijing time, in the finals of the 4x200m freestyle relay of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team composed of Zhang Yufei, Yang Junxuan, Li Bingjie and Tang Muhan scored 7 minutes 40.33 minutes. Won the championship and break the world record.

This is also the 14th gold medal of the Chinese delegation in the Olympic Games.

In the afternoon of the same day, a reporter from Chinanews.com rushed to Li Bingjie's parents' home in Baoding to interview.

  Li Bingjie, born in Baoding City, Hebei Province in 2002, is a Chinese female swimmer who has won numerous achievements in the National Games, Asian Swimming Championships, and World Swimming Championships.

In 2021, Li Bingjie was selected as the swimming athletes list of the Chinese sports delegation for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

On July 26, 2021, Li Bingjie won the bronze medal in the women's 400m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics.

  It is understood that Li Bingjie’s parents are swimmers. His father Li Jian won the national championship in the men’s 800-meter freestyle event. His mother Wang Wei was a famous middle and long distance freestyle swimmer and is now a primary school physical education teacher.

The picture shows Liu Liyan, director of the Swimming and Diving Management Center of Hebei Sports Bureau, visiting Li Bingjie’s father’s parents’ home.

Photo by Xu Qiaoming

  Li Jian said that she was very excited to see her daughter and teammates win the championship hand in hand on TV. "She is participating in the Olympic Games for the first time. A child has personality and ideas. She will definitely work hard on the path she thinks. As an athlete, every day The training is very hard, but she is strong and able to persist."

  "It's just like dreaming, a bit dazed." Wang Wei said with a smile. Children rarely go home after they arrive in the national team. They don't come back very much during the Spring Festival holiday. They usually contact us through WeChat to communicate more about life matters.

  According to Hang Yajuan, the vice principal of Xinmarket Primary School in Jingxiu District, Baoding City, the school is a traditional swimming school in Hebei Province and a diving base in Baoding City. It opened swimming classes as early as 1983. It is a combination of popularization and improvement, learning and training. The swimming team has sent a large number of talents and has successively cultivated national-level outstanding athletes such as Li Bingjie, Wang Han, and Jia Dongjin.

Li Bingjie Elementary School Grade 1 to Grade 6 attends the school and has always been a student in the swimming class. She won the National Games Championship at the age of 15 and is currently employed as an image ambassador for the integration of sports and education in Jingxiu District.

  Liu Liyan, director of the Swimming and Diving Management Center of the Hebei Sports Bureau, who rushed to Li Bingjie’s parents’ home in the afternoon of the 29th in the rain, said that this is the second Olympic gold medal won by a Hebei swimmer after Qian Hong won the Barcelona Olympics. .

"This is very good for Li Bingjie's next training and growth. It is an inspiration and motivation."

The picture shows Li Bingjie in the swimming pool when he was young.

Photo courtesy of Li Bingjie's parents

  Baoding, Hebei, enjoys the reputation of "sports city and cradle of champions". It has successively cultivated 23 world champions represented by Xi Enting, Guo Jingjing, and Pang Wei, 32 Asian champions represented by Shi Dongpeng and Jia Dongjin, and more than 150 national champions. "National High-level Sports Reserve Talent Base" and "National Fitness Model City" awarded by the State Sports General Administration.

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