On February 4, Beijing's "Bird's Nest", a small torch warmed countless hearts in the center of the Olympic stage; on February 20, it was still Beijing's "Bird's Nest", and this small torch continued to warm countless hearts after being baptized by the wind and snow. heart.
The Beijing Winter Olympics have come to a close.
This is the first global comprehensive sports event to be held as scheduled after the spread of the new crown pneumonia epidemic around the world, and it is also a human engagement beyond the scope of sports.
This feast of all mankind, under the guidance of the Olympic "faster, higher, stronger and more united", radiates to every corner of the world that can receive signals through nearly 3,000 athletes from 91 countries and regions. .
At the beginning of spring and after the rain, it is "jing zhe".
The Olympic fire shines in the hearts of every "child". When they grow up with ideals, they will still remember Beijing in 2022, adding a magical power to their destiny.
Young people have role models to look up to
A large part of the power is given by example.
On the afternoon of February 15, from accepting the first media interview to answering the questions of the last group of reporters at the other end of the mixed area, Su Yiming spent more than an hour. The 17-year-old gradually calmed down.
As early as a week ago, Su Yiming's growth experience flashed on various terminal devices in all conceivable ways: the silver medal in the slope obstacle skill competition caused the "generousness" of the scoring controversy, and the gold medal in the big platform detonated the audience. "Beyond Self" has made Su Yiming no doubt one of the representatives of the new generation of idol athletes in China.
There have been many idol stars in Chinese sports history, especially after Chinese sports returned to the world stage, Li Ning, Chinese women's volleyball team, Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, Li Na, Lin Dan... all the bright names represent a piece of history that Chinese sports will remember. Su Yiming seems to be the One of the special ones.
"I've been snowboarding since I was 4 years old and never gave up, even now I'm an avid snowboarder. I still vividly remember the first time I climbed to the top of the mountain with my dad and then slid down, At that time, I was convinced that snowboarding was my favorite sport. Then, every weekend, every holiday, I put my energy into snowboarding. I was 14 years old at the Pyeongchang Olympics, and my parents and I watched it on TV. Competition, the feeling of top players competing in the Olympics was so appealing to me, at that time, I could only do 540, 720, they could do 1620, 1800, but when I told my parents about my dream, they fully supported me.”
If you filter out his acting career in movies, Su Yiming's growth experience is completely different from all idols before Chinese sports.
In the eyes of the general public, although it is not a simple copy and paste to achieve success like Su Yiming, the "answer" given by Su Yiming is the closest to his own life and the easiest to imitate - in his Beijing winter Within 24 hours of Ao's debut, countless teenagers knew the name and knew that they could also "love snowboarding and skiing".
"Snowboarding itself is very fascinating. It is a dialogue between humans and nature, to experience a feeling of flying. In fact, the process is very bloody. I also like skiing, and now my classmates who like skiing are also around me. There are many, it may be a way to decompress.” Xiao Li, a volunteer for the Winter Olympics at Beijing Foreign Studies University, told the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter, “I have a classmate who goes to the suburbs of Beijing every week as long as he finishes his homework. Skiing, a whole weekend on the slopes.”
If there is another Winter Olympics idol who can surpass Su Yiming's popularity, then there is no one other than Gu Ailing who won 2 golds and 1 silver for the Chinese delegation.
A slight difference from Su Yiming is that the unique temperament of Gu Ailing is precisely the "style" that is most likely to be imitated by young people.
"Everyone is talking about Gu Ailing. She puts the greatest enthusiasm in the things she is interested in. She seems to be able to do everything she likes." Xiao Li said.
In the current Beijing Winter Olympics, Gu Ailing's remarks at the press conference after the big platform jump were reprinted by countless media. This passage made everyone see a girl who is "closest to reality": "I'm just an 18-year-old girl. , I just want to enjoy my life. I can win the gold medal because I really love the sport of freestyle skiing, I don't just practice hard, I don't feel hard when I really like this sport, I just want to break through myself I want to show the world my best performance on the biggest stage of the Olympics. I don’t want to win others, I want to win myself.”
Whether Su Yiming or Gu Ailing, the foundation of their success stems from their love for sports, from their dedication to the hard work that ordinary people can't bear - they regard this kind of hard work as fun - their unremitting pursuit of sports performance in the process of , and shaped his own shining life.
This is an idol and role model that young people can easily accept and like.
From national fitness to national participation
The impact has been made, and change is taking place.
The "unparalleled" Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 promoted the national sports wave, and the national fitness fever ignited all over China; in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, some people have truly participated in the core work of the event operation of the Winter Olympics with the basis of "national fitness". among.
"Standing on the mountain, the snow goggles freeze for 20 minutes, the feet freeze for 30 minutes, and the face mask freezes for 40 minutes." Four years ago, at the mid-term summary meeting of the ski team's actual combat training of the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee, the team members became Chao showed two recent photos of him and his teammates on the PPT. The face was wrapped in only the eyes, and white frost had formed on the eyebrows and eyelashes.
Four years later, they stood on the side of the track at the Beijing Winter Olympics Alpine Ski Center.
On weekdays, Cheng Chao is an employee of the third branch of Beijing Subway Operations, engaged in vehicle maintenance work on Beijing Subway Line 2.
During the Beijing Winter Olympics, the maintenance tool in his hand became a timing and scoring instrument. He had to concentrate fully at the starting point, waiting for the moment when the athlete touched the starting bar, and pressed the "world-famous" button.
It is not too much to say "world-famous", because from the start, the athletes reach all the timing points and slide over the finish line. Once the timing is wrong at any point, the wrong information will be seen by the global audience through the broadcast camera.
"This is definitely a big problem that affects the image of the event. There must be zero mistakes." Cheng Chao said that everyone in the team "every string is very tight." They can only wear thin fleece gloves to reduce physical errors. "Cotton gloves are warm, but when you press the button, it will affect the reaction speed. Especially in events such as mountain downhill, the average speed of the players is more than 100 km/h. , for an Olympian, a fraction of a second can lead to a difference in ranking."
Timing and scoring is the core position of the staff during the competition. It not only requires a high degree of concentration and responsibility, but also requires skilled skiing skills.
Cheng Chao and his colleagues must arrive at the arena three hours in advance every day. "One stop in the snow is often five or six hours." When going down the mountain, he has to slide 10 kilometers to the equipment area with a weight of about 30 kilograms. This is great for his skiing skills. 's test.
"I never thought that I started skiing in 2009. It was just a hobby. One day I can make a contribution to the Winter Olympics." Cheng Chao said.
In the time-scoring and score-processing team in the Yanqing Division, there are 16 people who have the same experience as Cheng Chao, and they all come from the ski team.
In 2018, in order to fully mobilize social forces to participate in the Olympics and tap “civil masters” to devote themselves to the field service, the Beijing Winter Olympics Organizing Committee has previously developed and integrated human resources for the society, and selected a group of talents with excellent comprehensive quality and skilled skiing skills. At the end of October, a Winter Olympics ski team will be formed.
On weekdays, they are doctors, firefighters, bank clerks, entrepreneurs, auditors, "escapers" - senior engineers of the Lunar Exploration and Aerospace Engineering Center, and employees of Beijing Subway Operation Co., Ltd. Come, let them have the same identity with common hobbies.
"We all hope to use our individual strengths to contribute to the country's Winter Olympics dream. One person's name is 'Winter Dream', and everyone's strength together is called 'Dream Building'." Cheng Chao remembered that the team was originally 154 people. Later, it grew to more than 500 people, and his lover was also a member of the team, but when the Winter Olympics came, in order to take care of the family, his wife gave up the opportunity to serve the Winter Olympics, "I came with her dream."
According to Cheng Chao, before the preparations for the Winter Olympics, my country had not carried out international competitions for alpine skiing. Therefore, their group of workers also created a precedent for the timing and scoring of Winter Olympics events.
He hopes that in the future, he will have the opportunity to play his strengths and stand on more international competitions to provide protection for the event.
"Speaking of doctors, everyone is familiar with them, but have you ever seen a doctor wearing a snowboard? I am." Fu Yan, an emergency physician at Xiyuan Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, is a member of the China Winter Olympics Ski Medical Insurance Dream Team. " It is also the first generation of ski doctors in China."
The "track" of Fu Yan and her colleagues is at the Haituo Mountain National Alpine Ski Center in Yanqing, Beijing. The main track is about 3,000 meters long and has a drop of about 900 meters. The alpine skiing held here is a high-risk event at the Winter Olympics. One, top athletes can ski at a speed of more than 140 kilometers per hour. Since the injury rate in this competition is close to 15%, medical personnel with skiing skills are required to undertake the medical security work for the snow sports in the Beijing Winter Olympics.
In 2018, China's first team of ski doctors was established. The team of doctors serving alpine skiing consists of professional medical staff from many tertiary hospitals in Beijing.
"On the track, once an accident occurs to an athlete, we must reach the athlete within 4 minutes, make a quick and accurate judgment, carry out preliminary treatment within 15 minutes and transfer the injured athlete off the track, and transfer the injured athlete to the field medical station within 20 minutes. "Fu Yan said.
"Fast" is the word that Fu Yan always emphasizes, "If there is still some time to think about how to deal with this patient in the usual work, then on the track, once we ski doctors appear, it often means that the athletes have suffered a life-threatening situation. The situation.” Especially in the environment of minus 20 to 30 degrees Celsius, time and space are against the doctor.
From the hospital doctor to the ski doctor, Fu Yan and the team members, under the leadership of the coach, carried a 15kg medical first aid bag again and again to climb mountains, ski, and simulate snow first aid.
Until the start of the Winter Olympics, they confidently threw themselves into the intensive and orderly security work.
"Standing on the sidelines of the Olympic Games, watching the athletes' games, recalling the tears, sweat and blood I shed during training, I am very proud that I fulfilled my little wish and showed the first generation of Chinese The style of a ski doctor."
China's ice and snow establishes a solid industrial pillar
"National participation" penetrates every capillary in the operation of the Beijing Winter Olympics, which makes the Olympic behemoth full of energy and radiant. Even at this moment when the world still has to face the severe test of the epidemic, the Beijing Winter Olympics brings The light of human hope is strong enough, and the new industrial economy is the strongest support against development risks.
"In August last year, the State Council issued the "National Fitness Plan (2021-2025)". The first part mentioned that the 'National Fitness' will drive the total scale of the national sports industry to 5 trillion yuan in 2025. I saw a set of figures In 2020, the epidemic caused the scale of the ice and snow industry to drop by 26.84% year-on-year. However, as the Beijing Winter Olympics will gradually increase the enthusiasm of the people for ice and snow, the scale of the industry brought by '300 million people participating in ice and snow' will exceed 300 billion yuan. The capital invested successively. The goal of the National Sports General Administration's "Ice and Snow Sports Development Plan (2016-2025)" is to initially form an ice and snow venue based on the construction and operation of facilities, with ice and snow mass leisure fitness and competition performances as the core, and ice and snow sports tourism as the core. In order to drive the ice and snow industry system supported by ice and snow equipment manufacturing. By 2020, the total scale of China's ice and snow industry will reach 600 billion yuan, and by 2025, the total scale of China's ice and snow industry will reach 1 trillion yuan." said Wang Fang, a professor at the Olympic Teaching and Research Office of Beijing Sport University. , "As for the example that is closest to the common people, everyone can see how to buy 'BingdunDun'."
The sale of "Bingdundun" is undoubtedly the most interesting "industrial phenomenon" at the social level of this Winter Olympics.
"I have schoolbags and clothes with the Beijing Winter Olympics logo, so I bought mascots and badges." On the morning of the closing ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics, Zhang Feng, a technician serving OBS (Olympic Broadcaster), came to the host early in the morning. There was a two-hour queue in the media center to buy a "BingdunDun": "There are no less than 300 people in our news center, and most of the people I know spend more than 1,000 yuan (for licensed products), other than 300 people. Not to mention, the 'licensed products' of this Olympic Games should be profitable."
This is a good thing.
Only the "profitable" Olympic Games will bring industrial prospects that are even difficult to measure with numbers to the host country behind it.
The figures provided in the "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympics Heritage Case Report" show that with the rapid popularization of ice and snow sports and the accelerated construction of ice and snow venues and facilities, the ice and snow industry has developed rapidly, and ice and snow equipment manufacturing, ice and snow fitness and leisure, and ice and snow tourism have developed rapidly. , ice and snow exhibition, ice and snow culture and other industrial layers are growing, and a relatively complete Chinese ice and snow industry system has been "preliminarily formed".
As of the end of 2019, the scale of my country's ice and snow industry was about 423.5 billion yuan, an increase of 56.85% from 270 billion yuan in 2015; as of November 2021, 80 key projects related to the "Science and Technology Winter Olympics" have been launched, from 37 of them. 112 kinds of new technology achievements have been applied and demonstrated in various scenarios of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
There is no doubt that after the end of the Beijing Winter Olympics, China's sports industry will show a positive outlook driven by the ice and snow boom. Many "scientific and technological achievements" applied to the Beijing Winter Olympics are expected to penetrate into the public, and "scientific planning and deployment of ice and snow" "Sports venues", "building public ice and snow sports venues and facilities" and "enriching the types of ice and snow sports venues" make the new growth points of China's sports industry more comprehensive.
At the same time, holding the International Winter Sports (Beijing) Expo is a commitment that Beijing made to the international community when it bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The goal is to "realize the connection with international winter sports resources and promote the development of China's ice and snow industry" as the general idea, and has the characteristics of "internationalization, industrialization and popularization".
Since the first Winter Expo was held in Beijing in 2016, it has been held every year. In the past six years, the total number of visitors to the Winter Expo has reached 1 million; there are more than 600 exhibitors; more than 100 forums and promotion meetings have been held, with nearly 1,300 speakers and professional audiences. 130,000 people.
In 2020, the Winter Expo merged with the China International Fair for Trade in Services for the first time, realizing the effective integration of the exhibition resources of the two world-class brands. It not only further promoted the exchanges and cooperation between the two host countries of the Winter Olympics, but also laid a solid foundation for the international promotion of China's sports industry.
What's more, the excellent performance of Chinese ice and snow athletes in this Winter Olympics exceeded expectations, which further stimulated the enthusiasm of "investment" from all walks of life.
"Cold Bingxue" turned into "hot sports" to be continued
With the conclusion of the women's cross-country skiing 30km collective start competition at noon today, Chinese athletes have also completed all the tasks of the Beijing Winter Olympics.
So far, the Chinese team has ranked third in the medal list with 9 golds, 4 silvers and 2 bronzes, creating the best record in the history of the Chinese delegation since it participated in the Winter Olympics-it is worth mentioning that the ice and snow events won. The number of gold medals is similar (4 and 5 respectively), which has changed the uneven development of the previous "Ice Strong Snow Weak" project.
The Beijing Winter Olympics has left a far-reaching influence on China, which has turned "cold ice and snow" into "hot sports".
However, we also need to calmly see that compared with developed countries in Europe and the United States in ice and snow sports, China needs to continue to improve and develop on the way to becoming a real ice and snow power.
On the evening of February 19, Chinese athletes Sui Wenjing/Han Cong lived up to expectations and successfully won the last gold point of the Chinese delegation of the Beijing Winter Olympics with their perfect performance.
After Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the championship, Zhao Hongbo, the coach of the Chinese figure skating team, sighed that Sui Wenjing/Han Cong had a last stand, because they were facing the challenge of three world-class players from the Russian Olympic Committee team.
It is extremely difficult to win this gold medal with Sui Wenjing/Han Cong in one-on-three. At the same time, it can be seen that pair skating, as a sport with traditional advantages for the Chinese figure skating team, also faces severe challenges.
In addition to the lack of talent compared to Russia, from the perspective of the age structure of athletes, two pairs of players in the Russian Olympic team are just in their early 20s, and the replacement of old and new talents has been completed.
The Chinese team currently has no world-class young players in the pair skating event, which must be said to be a hidden concern.
Zhao Hongbo said that Russian players have dominated the world pair skating event for 46 years, and the profound background is the foundation for Russia's figure skating level to be in the leading position in the world.
In the past few years of Beijing's preparation for the Winter Olympics, like many winter sports, more and more Chinese teenagers have experienced, participated in and fell in love with figure skating.
In the selection and training of reserve talents, Shen Xue, chairman of the Chinese Figure Skating Association, once introduced that the number of young figure skating athletes in China has increased by about 10 times in a few years.
This is a gratifying change, and it also puts forward a new proposition for the managers of Chinese ice and snow sports, how to establish a better youth ice and snow talent training system.
At this Winter Olympics, China's ice hockey performance was surprising.
Although the Chinese women's ice hockey team failed to qualify from the group, and the Chinese men's ice hockey team, who participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time, failed to win, the Chinese women's ice hockey team defeated Denmark and Japan one after another, and the Chinese men's ice hockey team won a total of 4 matches against Germany and Canada. He broke through the opponent's city gate twice, and his tenacious performance won wide acclaim.
However, ice hockey is the only collective ball sport in the Winter Olympics and the most professional ice and snow sport in the world. This step taken by China's ice hockey in the Winter Olympics is actually only a small step in the development of the project.
Men's ice hockey has developed a complete system from top professional leagues to secondary leagues, amateur leagues, and student leagues in European and American countries. Even in Japan and South Korea, the development of professional leagues and student leagues is far ahead of China.
There is currently no professional league in Chinese men's ice hockey. The connection between young players and professional players is not smooth. The channel between primary and secondary school ice hockey and college ice hockey has not been opened.
The future development of Chinese ice hockey is still a long way off. With some fundamental, institutional and systemic crux of the matter unresolved, the industry also has reason to worry about whether the relatively good performance of Chinese ice hockey in the Beijing Winter Olympics will be weak in the future.
In the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team achieved the goal of participating in all 7 major events and 15 sub-events. As for the 109 sub-events, the participation rate of the Chinese team was also as high as 95%.
As far as the world is concerned, only very few countries can achieve such a wide participation rate in the Winter Olympics.
In the past, China has gone from a serious "partial student" in ice and snow events (strong ice and weak snow, more than 60% of the Winter Olympics events are not carried out or ineligible to participate) to a "full student" in ice and snow events, and has completed self-transcendence. It's really not easy.
In addition, China's ice and snow competition talent training has changed from "not entering Shanhaiguan" in the past (the athletes participating in the Winter Olympics are basically from the three eastern provinces, and mainly from Heilongjiang and Jilin) to this time, which has spread to 20 provinces and cities across the country, forming a new pattern of competition. The new situation that the whole country participates in the training of ice and snow talents is also an epoch-making breakthrough.
It should be noted that although the Chinese team in this Winter Olympics has achieved the goal of participating in all events (sub-events), most events still focus on participation, and there is still a significant gap with the world's advanced level.
After the Beijing Winter Olympics, whether these projects can maintain the momentum of development, whether the provinces and municipalities are willing to continue to invest in these ice and snow projects that currently lack the ability to win medals and cultivate talents, where is the balance between participation in the whole project and sustainable development? , these questions are left to the sports management department to study and answer.
In any case, the Beijing Winter Olympics is for the development of China's ice and snow sports, for the general public to have a deep understanding of sports spirit and healthy life, for the promotion of the development of China's ice and snow industry and the entire sports industry, and for the creation of a more confident and stronger. China has made great contributions.
For China, where ice and snow sports have turned from cold to hot with the success of the Winter Olympics, everything has just begun.
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporter Guo Jiancixin Liang Xuan Yang Fen Source: China Youth Daily