China News Service, Hohhot, September 19th, title: Interview with defending 75kg boxing champion Li Qian: I dare not slacken off after the Tokyo Olympics
China News Service reporter Li Aiping
"It is an exciting thing to be able to successfully defend the 75kg boxing champion." On the afternoon of the 19th, Li Qian, who was in Shaanxi, said in a telephone interview with reporters the first time after winning the championship.
On September 19, the boxing event of the 14th National Games (referred to as the National Games) ignited "fire" in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province.
After fierce competition, Inner Mongolian athlete Li Qian defeated Heilongjiang team athlete Wang Lina, won the women's boxing 75kg champion, and won the fifth gold medal of the Inner Mongolia team participating in the National Games.
Regarding the gold medal she won in the National Games, Li Qian told reporters: "It was not easy to win as the outside world thought, and I won the game by playing 100% in the game."
Regarding the opponent, Li Qian said frankly: "Wang Lina is a very strong player and a champion of the World Championships (Reporter's Note: 2018 World Women's Boxing Championship 81kg champion). We have been training in the national team and we are relatively familiar."
As a silver medalist in the 75 kg class of women's boxing at the Tokyo Olympics, Li Qian said that during the period when she returned from Tokyo, she had always attached great importance to the National Games competition and never dared to slack off.
Earlier, Li Qian also said in an interview with the media that after the 21-day quarantine for the Tokyo Olympics, the training has not been systematic. After returning to the Inner Mongolia team, she found some feeling through intra-team games, but her physical fitness has not fully recovered. I have been trying my best to adjust my state.
She said: "I have just experienced the big games of the Olympic Games, this time I have a relaxed mentality at the National Games, but I still feel that I have been nervous and challenged before." "I am also very satisfied with my performance today."
Li Qian said with excitement that the reason why she was able to successfully defend her title at the National Games this time, more importantly, after the Olympics, although she was isolated for a long time, she still kept herself in a competitive state and did not let herself too much. To relax.
"There is always a string in my heart, play well."
"I am very happy to be able to successfully defend the title, and I have a good account of my four years of training." Li Qian said that after the game, the best thing for herself is "to go home and have a good rest. For a while, relax completely."
“Because I’ve been working, I didn’t watch Li Qian’s game in time.” Li Qian’s father Li Shouying said during an interview. “After the Tokyo Olympics, Li Qian and I only hurriedly met at the training ground in Hohhot. Just two hours."
"In order to better prepare for the National Games, Li Qian didn't even return home." Li Shouying said that for so many years her daughter has played in the competition, we have never asked too much, but hope that after the end of the game, she can stay at home for a while.
Regarding his father’s remarks, Li Qian told reporters, “Under normal circumstances, I will tell my family after the game is over for fear that my family will be worried.”
Li Qian, born in June 1990, is a famous Chinese boxer.
In 2007, after Li Qian entered the Inner Mongolia boxing team, after five years of hard training, in 2012, he almost swept all the championships in China's domestic women's boxing 75kg class.
In 2016, Li Qian got the ticket to the Rio Olympics and won the bronze medal in the women's boxing 75kg competition; in 2021, she won the silver medal in the women's boxing 75kg competition in the Tokyo Olympics.
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