(Tokyo Olympics) Surpassing victory and defeat-the veterans' Tokyo swan song
China News Service, Tokyo, August 8th. Title: Beyond the Winners and Losses-Tokyo's swan song of veterans
China News Agency reporter
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics will end on August 8, 2021. In this different competition, the arena, as before, staged another round of alternation between the old and the new. If the highest level of competition is to surpass the winners and losers, there are so many. The swan song of the Olympics that has always been completed in Tokyo is precisely the final victory or defeat that must be passed before.
Between victory and defeat, whether it is complete or regrettable, the perseverance and challenge behind this final battle are the eternal charm of competitive sports.
Shi Tingmao has also become the second athlete to win 4 gold medals in women's singles and doubles 3-meter springboard diving in the two Olympics after Guo Jingjing, the "Queen of Diving".
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
In the women's singles 3-meter springboard, 30-year-old Shi Tingmao finished his last Olympic jump with the highest score of the game on the spot. Tokyo and Rio stood on the top podium four times. If there is perfection, but so.
"The last session may be worthy of hard work, but this one will be worthy of hard work." Shi Tingmao said.
The growth of age, the troubles of injuries, and the psychological entanglement made her life difficult for these five years.
But in the end, she defeated her opponent and even more than herself.
Data map: Su Bingtian in the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Han Haidan
In the semifinals of the men’s 100-meter trapeze, the 32-year-old Su Bingtian ushered in the “best memory of my life” when he saw the results. As early as 6 years ago, Su Bingtian had become the first Asian player to open 10 seconds, and he also became the first yellow race to stand in the 100-meter final of the World Series.
Just when the outside world thought that he was about to retire after success, Su Bingtian chose to stick to it.
In his last Olympic Games, Su Bingtian became the 12th men's 100-meter racer who ran in 9.83 seconds. He realized his great dream of entering the Olympic finals and created the limit of the yellow race in the 100-meter race.
Although the final 9 seconds and 98th ranked sixth, but the "Su Shen" in the eyes of the Chinese people's "victory" is already gold.
Data map: On July 24, the men's 10-meter air pistol competition of the Tokyo Olympics was held. Chinese player Pang Wei won the bronze medal.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
In 2008, the 22-year-old Pang Wei won the Olympic Men's 10m Air Pistol for the first time and reached the pinnacle of his life.
However, in the two Olympics since then, he was placed in high hopes and failed to reach the highest podium in the Olympics.
According to his own words, "the ability cannot control desire."
In this Olympic cycle, Pang Wei, who has already started to serve as a coach, chose to come back. In Tokyo, the 35-year-old Pang Wei not only won the bronze medal in the men’s 10-meter air pistol event, but also won the 10-meter air pistol mixed team championship with Jiang Ranxin. A new history.
After 13 years, Pang Wei, who once again stood on the highest podium of the Olympic Games, said bluntly, "This time I challenged myself and made up for the regrets of the previous two sessions."
Data map: Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin in the game.
The tour of the Tokyo Olympics is officially over, and the Chinese table tennis delegation once again proved its dominance to the outside world. However, for 30-year-old Liu Shiwen, Tokyo swan song is a different melody.
In the mixed doubles match, Liu Shiwen and Xu Xin lost the match with the Japanese combination, which was the only gold medal lost by the Chinese table tennis team.
In the subsequent women's team competitions, the former champion also withdrew from the competition due to injuries.
In the last Olympic Games, a silver medal was a cruel destiny for Liu Shiwen, who had overcome physical and psychological difficulties and returned to the arena.
However, in many cases, time tends to change the color of the answer. Just as Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, said when summarizing the performance of the players in this tournament, Liu Shiwen's determination and courage has long been valued far more than a gold medal.
Data map: On July 24, local time, Chinese player Wu Jingyu left the field after the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Tomita
When Wu Jingyu stood on the Tokyo Olympic stadium, she had already set a new record-becoming the first female athlete in history to participate in four Olympic taekwondo competitions.
The 34-year-old Taekwondo star won the women's 49 kg gold medal at the Beijing and London Olympic Games.
After returning from the Rio Olympics, Wu Jingyu retired and gave birth to a daughter in 2017 and was promoted to a mother.
In 2019, Wu Jingyu chose to come back and won the Fujairah Open for the first time.
To everyone's surprise, in Tokyo, the highly anticipated star was completely defeated by his opponent, stopped in the quarter-finals, and experienced his shortest Olympic journey.
In the four Olympics, two climbed to the top and two failed.
Wu Jingyu just thinks that the experience of this Tokyo Olympics has made her life more complete.
"From the day I chose to return to the game, I have never regretted it. In this life experience, the harvest I cherish the most is the courage to challenge myself."
Data map: Lang Ping communicated with the players after the game.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
With the sad curtain call of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this Olympics, Yan Ni, Liu Xiaotong, Ding Xia and other veterans also completed their Olympic swan songs in Tokyo. Perhaps the persistence of injuries and illness failed to exchange for medals that can be seen, but " The spirit of the women's volleyball team and everything in the past are still continuing.
"Faster, higher, stronger", the charm of competitive sports lies in "surpassing oneself". The veterans who are about to turn away have a deeper understanding of this.
Data map: Huang Xuechen/Sun Wenyan played.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Du Yang
The 31-year-old Huayou "mother" Huang Xuechen came to Tokyo with a weight loss of 60 catties. After she won two more silvers in the fourth Olympic stage, she said, "Proving that I can return to my best state. There is nothing better than this. That's it."
The women’s 20-kilometer race won the bronze medal. Liu Hong, who also came to the Olympics for the fourth time, may not be able to match Rio’s gold medal, but looking back on his two-year road to comeback, this veteran believes that starting from the heart , The progress accumulated every day is a kind of transcendence of oneself, "I have done everything I can do without regrets."
On August 6, local time, in the women's 20-kilometer walking race at the Tokyo Olympics, Rio Olympic champion and Chinese star Liu Hong won the bronze medal in 1 hour, 29 minutes and 57 seconds.
Four times in the Olympic Games, winning 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, is a medal for Liu Hong's racing career, a tribute to the veteran.
Dong Dong, another Olympic "four-dynasty veteran", came to Tokyo with 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the trampoline event. He was determined to end the curtain with a gold medal. However, he finally stood in the runner-up seat again with a slight margin. Dong Dong said: " In the end, he won me because he won at a high level. This is somewhat related to his age. But I think I am really satisfied to be able to play at such a level."
Data map: Dong Dong displays the silver medal.
At the closing ceremony of this Olympics, Su Bingtian was selected as the flag-bearer of the Chinese Olympic delegation. In this honor, in addition to the history created by this Asian flying man, what is more convincing lies in his continuous challenge to himself that has never been extinguished for many years. Courage and perseverance.
There may be different tastes of victory and defeat, but this courage and perseverance is undoubtedly the common theme of the veterans' swan song in Tokyo, and it is also the ultimate surpassing for themselves after countless wins and losses.
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