(Tokyo Olympics) Double trampoline, shining in the Olympic arena
China News Service, Tokyo, July 30th, title: Double trampoline, shining in the Olympic stadium
China News Agency reporter Yue Chuan
At the moment when she finished the finals, Zhu Xueying had a foreboding in her heart that this gold medal could not escape the palm of the Chinese team.
In the women's trampoline finals of the Tokyo Olympics on the 30th, Zhu Xueying came second to last.
Before her, Canadian star Rosie McLennan and British player Brioni Page had completed the game; after her, only teammate Liu Lingling, who ranked first in the preliminaries, remained.
On July 30, local time, in the women’s trampoline final of the Tokyo Olympics, Zhu Xueying, who performed perfectly in the whole set of movements, won the gold medal with 56.635 points, helping the Chinese trampoline team regain the championship in 13 years.
Teammate Liu Lingling received a silver medal.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
As Zhu Xueying thought, after the big screen scored 56.635 points and ranked first in the game, the Chinese player finally regained the gold medal of women's trampoline.
The last time was at the Beijing Olympics 13 years ago.
This is a hard-won victory.
Although both Zhu Xueying and Liu Lingling have won international competitions, McLennan and Peggy are obviously more famous than the two Chinese girls.
Especially McLennan, who won gold medals in women's trampoline in London and Rio, was the first athlete to defend the Olympic title in this event.
In the preliminaries, the four champions did not make any mistakes and took the top four.
In the finals, McLennan and Peggy, who showed their housekeeping skills, performed impressively, which invisibly put more pressure on the two Chinese players who appeared last.
But Zhu Xueying and Liu Lingling didn't seem to pay attention to these at all.
They just walked to the arena one after another, finished the game without distraction, and then waited for the podium.
"Although we haven't played against each other for more than a year, we have been paying attention to the competition of other opponents, collecting various aspects of information, and then training and improving in a targeted manner." Zhu Xueying said after the game.
Their efforts have received the best return.
Regarding this heavy gold medal, Zhu Xueying admitted frankly that she had thought about it before, but she had never thought about it.
"I thought about it because I have such a possibility. But the trampoline event is very accidental. Although I have won the championship, there is no guarantee that I will stand on the highest podium next time."
So Zhu Xueying asked herself not to think about it, not to look at other people's scores, not to care about other people's performance, but to focus only on her own game and do her own process.
She did it.
"There is an unreal feeling now, like a dream." Zhu Xueying said that compared with other foreign stars, the 23-year-old has a mentality to win. "Although it is the Olympic Games, I will treat it as an ordinary game. Deal with it normally."
Compared with the young Zhu Xueying, from injury, age to physical condition, the one-year postponement of the Olympic Games poses more challenges to Liu Lingling.
But for the sake of dreams, she persuaded herself to persevere in the three-point line of life of training, eating, and sleeping.
At the Rio Olympics five years ago, Liu Lingling entered the bench list of the Chinese trampoline team, but ultimately failed to get the chance to appear on the field.
Five years later, the 27-year-old Liu Lingling finally ushered in the anticipated Olympic debut.
She knew that this was the first time, and it might be the last time, so she didn't want to leave any regrets.
Although not on the top podium, Liu Lingling, who has been plagued by injuries, said that runner-up is also a good result.
Looking at the silver medal on her chest, Liu Lingling cried.
Every moment in the past 20 years has been engraved on this medal, "This is the medal I gave to myself, and it is what I have always wanted to do."
All persistence came to fruition at this moment.
"The two girls are great. Today they showed their best side and I am especially proud of them." As said Miao Zhongyi, director of the Gymnastics Management Center and trampoline leader, they have gone through many trials and hardships along the way, with gold medals and silver medals. Deserved.
The Ariake Gymnastics Arena, which ushered in the seventh match day, finally sounded the familiar national anthem.
They said that they can show the best performance to the world and can raise two national flags at the same time. There is unspeakable pride and pride.
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