[Beijing Winter Olympics] Retired athletes become "skatemakers" and let Chinese players wear "fit shoes" to win gold

  [Explanation] Wang Yang used to be a short track speed skater. He missed the Turin Winter Olympics due to injury. After retiring, he "cross-border" became a "shoemaker", specializing in making skates and skates for skaters.

Wang Yang's biggest wish is to make his own skates and skates to board the Beijing Winter Olympics for him.

  Recently, the reporter came to Wang Yang's shoe factory in Changchun, Jilin to see that he was busy sewing skates by hand.

  Born in 1983, Wang Yang practiced skating at the age of 7. In 2001, he officially entered the Changchun Winter Sports Management Center as a professional athlete. In 2005, he was selected for the national team to prepare for the Turin Winter Olympics. The Olympic Games became a piece of his "heart disease".

After retiring, Wang Yang came up with the idea of ​​making skates.

  [Concurrent] Wang Yang

  Since I didn't have a proper skate when I was an athlete, I've tried a lot of skates and always felt that something was missing.

So I feel that the industry of making skates is a blank in China, especially for independent brands.

Because European athletes have long calves and Asian athletes have short calves, the production concept is completely different.

  [Explanation] Since the idea of ​​​​beginning, Wang Yang, who is "zero-based", only sleeps four or five hours a day, spends a lot of time "making up lessons" to make shoes, and finally achieves "overtaking on a curve".

In the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Zhang Hong, the speed skating women's 1000-meter champion, achieved a "zero breakthrough" in the Chinese speed skating gold medal. The skates she wore were made by Wang Yang herself.

  When customizing skates for professional athletes, Wang Yang's team had to keep the error to a minimum.

Taking ice skates as an example, the error is stricter than international standards.

  [Concurrent] Wang Yang

  Our skates are measured by a multimeter, the error is controlled at plus or minus 1 point, and the normal range is generally plus or minus 5 points, which is an internationally recognized standard, but we have plus or minus 1 point, which can improve more precise accuracy .

Provided to athletes in the motherland, let them go to the ice rink.

  [Explanation] At present, the team established by Wang Yang has expanded from 3 people to 30 people, and the studio has also expanded from 50 square meters to more than 3,000 square meters, with an annual output of about 10,000 pairs.

  It is worth mentioning that the skates and skates made by Wang Yang are not only sold well in the domestic market, but also exported to the Netherlands, France, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Austria, Russia, Japan, South Korea and other countries.

  As the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics are approaching, Wang Yang's team has put all their energy into the Winter Olympics cycle ahead of schedule.

  [Concurrent] Wang Yang

  We gave up the overall development and production of the domestic amateur market, and devoted all our energy to the Olympic cycle to develop skates and skates for national athletes. Because their requirements are relatively precise, the winner can be determined by a millimeter, so we make the error precise. to the minimum.

  Reported by reporter Lv Shengnan from Changchun

Responsible editor: [Li Yuxin]