(Tokyo Olympics) Miao Zhongyi: Chinese gymnastics team won the Tokyo Olympics turnaround
China News Agency, Tokyo, August 3 (Reporter Yue Chuan) The gymnastics competition for the Tokyo Olympics ended on the 3rd. The Chinese gymnastics team finally won 3 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes, far exceeding the previous session.
Miao Zhongyi, director of the Gymnastics Management Center of the State General Administration of Sports and gymnastics team leader, said in an interview with reporters at the Olympic Gymnastics Stadium that the Chinese team had won the Tokyo Olympics.
In the Rio Olympics, the Chinese gymnastics team, as the pioneer of Chinese sports gold, ended with "zero" gold, and its performance fell to the bottom of history.
Miao Zhongyi said that for the team in the past five years, "winning the battle to win the Tokyo Olympics" is not only a slogan, but also the goal of all Chinese gymnasts. Athletes and coaches have made great efforts to this end.
On August 2, Beijing time, in the men's gymnastics ring competition at the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese athlete Liu Yang won the championship with 15.500 points.
The picture shows Liu Yang in the game.
Image source: Visual China
In this Olympics, the Chinese gymnastics team won 3 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes with a total of 8 medals, which far exceeded the Rio Olympics.
Among them, Liu Yang and You Hao took the crown and runner-up. Guan Chenchen and Tang Qianjing won the balance beam gold and silver medals, and Zou Jingyuan won the parallel bars championship.
Xiao Ruoteng won three medals. In addition to winning the men's team bronze medal with teammates Zou Jingyuan, Sun Wei and Lin Chao, he also won the individual all-around silver medal and the bronze medal in free exercise.
Miao Zhongyi said that the Chinese gymnastics team encountered many difficulties during this trip to Tokyo.
The players not only challenge themselves to complete the game with high quality, but also include many unpredictable factors.
"But no matter how rough there are, there is no complaint between the athletes, only encouragement. We believe that everything we have given in the past five years will definitely be rewarded."
As Miao Zhongyi said, in the first half of this Olympic Games, the performance of the Chinese gymnastics team did not meet the expectations of the outside world.
Especially in the team competition that symbolizes comprehensive strength, the Chinese men's team once again succumbed to their old rivals Japan and the Russian Olympic Committee. After Rio, they regained their hatred and failed to regain this heaviest gold medal; the preliminaries ranked top three. The Chinese women's team also failed to stand on the podium due to many errors in the final.
On July 27, the Tokyo Olympics gymnastics competition ended the women’s team final competition. The Chinese team consisting of Tang Qianjing, Lu Yufei, Zhang Jin and Ou Yushan ranked seventh with a total score of 161.196 points.
The picture shows Zhang Jin in the vaulting competition.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
In the team and individual all-around competitions, the performance of the Chinese women's gymnastics team seems to have failed to meet expectations.
Miao Zhongyi revealed that in the past five years, the women’s team has been training very hard and very effective. However, due to the small age of the team as a whole, there are not many opportunities for competition experience. As a result, under the weight of the Olympic Games, they have not been able to put the best of them. Show it on one side.
Zhang Jin, Tang Qianjing, Lu Yufei, Ou Yushan, four Chinese players participating in the women's team and individual all-around, are all participating in the Olympic Games for the first time.
In the competition, they failed to truly release themselves and exert their full strength.
Compared with the hard work in daily training, this has to be said to be a pity.
Although the start was unfavorable, the atmosphere in the Chinese gymnastics team is very good and they trust each other.
Miao Zhongyi revealed, "The coaching staff has been decompressing the athletes so that everyone can lay down their burdens, calm their minds, and focus on the game itself. I believe that our strength can achieve good results."
As he said, as the game deepened, the performance of the Chinese team improved significantly.
Especially in the three key items that have the ability to win gold in the rings, parallel bars, and balance beams, the Chinese players performed well, and the gold medals were not overlooked, and they took the top two twice.
This fully demonstrated the strength of the Chinese gymnastics team and the results of preparations for the Tokyo Olympic cycle.
On August 3, Beijing time, in the women's balance beam final of the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese contestant Guan Chenchen won the championship with 14.633 points.
This is the 32nd gold medal of the Chinese delegation in this Olympic Games.
Another Chinese player Tang Qianjing finished second.
The picture shows Guan Chenchen in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
At the same time, Miao Zhongyi believes that in addition to winning eight medals including three gold medals, the Chinese athletes' style and appearance have been recognized by everyone during the competition, which is also a very good performance.
"Now we can finally say that we have won the Tokyo Olympics' turnaround." But Miao Zhongyi emphasized that it is not the achievements that can be made to be complacent. The shortcomings exposed in this Olympics still need to be seriously summarized, improved and improved. Otherwise, The same problem will be encountered in the future.
"Through this competition, we found that it is very difficult to achieve excellent results without absolute strength. How to make our strength daunting opponents is the next direction for improvement."
In Miao Zhongyi's view, difficulty is the basis and prerequisite for victory, but without a high-quality completion level, it is difficult to achieve good results.
"No matter the rings, parallel bars or balance beams, they all reflect the unity of high difficulty, high quality, and high stability. This is the development direction of modern gymnastics and the goal we pursue."
Step off the podium and start from scratch. "Starting today, the Chinese gymnastics team has embarked on a new journey, and now we must focus on the Paris Olympics in three years. We will continue to work hard to make greater contributions to Chinese sports." Miao Zhongyi said. (Finish)