24 Ice and Snow Athletes Selected for the Beijing Winter Olympics Commendation List

  On April 8, the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games Summary and Commendation Conference will be held in Beijing.

A total of 150 people have been identified as individuals with outstanding contributions to be commended, including 24 athletes.

  How do these elite athletes stand out through layers of selection?

Recently, the General Administration of Sport of China and the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the State Supervision and Administration Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China have conducted a comprehensive review of the work experience in preparation and supervision of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

  "We have always attached great importance to the selection of athletes participating in comprehensive international sports events, and conscientiously implemented the requirements of 'selection of fairness and integrity'. The actual selection mechanism for international sports events." Liu Guoyong, a member of the party group and deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, told reporters that in the selection of athletes for the Hangzhou Asian Games, these good experiences and systems will be used to determine the best and strongest candidates to represent the country. line-up.

  1 Strengthen leadership, "upgrade management", conduct healthy competition, and select national teams that can fight well and have a good style

  To build a national team that can compete well and have a good style is an inevitable requirement to ensure that the competition will be outstanding and show the national image in the world arena.

Liu Guoyong said that strengthening the problem orientation is the clear attitude of the State Sports General Administration in carrying out the selection work in recent years.

"In the past, we still had some shortcomings in the selection work, such as the selection of candidates was not broad enough, the methods were not scientific enough, and there was a phenomenon of 'selecting candidates from small circles'. Only by solving these problems can we ensure an open, fair and just selection. "

  How to push forward to solve the above problems?

Lv Kuilong, the second-level inspector of the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China, believes that consolidating the main responsibility of "selection of integrity" is the primary task: "In the selection of the Beijing Winter Olympics, according to the supervision and control of the situation, we timely sent the discipline inspection and supervision to the General Administration's party group. It is suggested to urge him to firmly grasp the formulation of the selection plan, strictly review each project, and promote the innovation of the leadership mechanism, change the past model, and further strengthen the organization and leadership of the selection work. Interrogation and personal coordination of key links.”

  According to reports, when organizing the selection work for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the General Administration of Sports of China drew on the experience of the Tokyo Olympic Games that "members of the General Administration's party group are responsible for the division of labor, and the center (association) establishes a leading group for selection work", and on this basis determined the principle of promotion management. , according to the competition area (sub-group) to set up a selection work leading group, each group leader is served by the deputy director in charge, and takes the lead in responsible for the organizational leadership and specific implementation of the project selection work.

  "According to the principle of 'who is in charge, who is responsible', the establishment of a selection leading group and the implementation of promotion management is actually a reform of the management system. The selection of vision is also conducive to giving full play to the subjective initiative of leading cadres, effectively avoiding problems such as information asymmetry and low decision-making efficiency." Liu Guoyong said.

  The reporter noticed that during the Beijing Winter Olympics cycle, each project was trained in the name of a "national training team" rather than a "national team". Liu Guoyong said that this is exactly what the General Administration's party group put forward for "selecting candidates from small circles". A team cannot be called a national team until the moment when it is finally selected. The early establishment of a so-called national team can easily make the athletes who have already entered the team feel slack, and on the other hand, it also narrows the scope of selection, which may lead to real strength. of athletes were turned away. Different from the national training team, several teams can be engaged in one project, so that a healthy competitive relationship can be formed between teams.”

  On the basis of fully soliciting opinions from all parties, the party group of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China also directly put forward guidance and suggestions on the selection work in combination with the characteristics of the project.

During the formulation of the selection plan for the Beijing Winter Olympics, the General Administration proposed that the athletes who win the World Cup this season can directly qualify for the Winter Olympics, allowing outstanding athletes to adjust the training rhythm for the Olympic Games, ensuring the principle and flexibility of selection. unity.

  "During this process, the discipline inspection and supervision team attended all the selection work conferences as non-voting delegates, and carried out investigations and inspections on the front lines of preparations for the competition many times, so as to understand that the party group of the General Administration fulfilled the main responsibility of 'selection of integrity', and relevant departments carried out athletes, coaches and referees. In the selection and selection work, the project leaders and the 'top leaders' at all levels perform their duties and positions, and give priority to dealing with relevant issues and clues, and strive to promote fairness and justice." Lv Kuilong said.

  2 "One project, one plan" prevents injustice from the source, and everyone has the opportunity to win glory for the country

  To prevent injustice and injustice from the source, such as fraud, black box operations, and behind-the-scenes transactions, the key lies in clarifying the selection principles and improving the selection system.

Liu Guoyong told reporters that according to the characteristics of the Beijing Winter Olympics and the actual work, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China put forward several hard principles that must be adhered to at the beginning of the selection work: First, adhere to fair, just and open competition. The selection method will be announced to the public, the selection competition will be broadcast live on TV or online, and it will actively accept social supervision; the second is to adhere to the combination of sports and specialization, focus on actual combat, and introduce social teams to compete with the national training team on the same stage, and select the best; "One-vote veto" on doping issues.

  "Adhering to the rules first, acting according to the rules, and using the rules to solve some contradictions and problems is an experience that must be adhered to." said Ni Huizhong, Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Winter Sports Management Center of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China. , Considering the differences between ice and snow projects, especially the actual situation that the selection of snow projects is affected by many factors, when formulating specific plans, we adhere to 'one project, one plan' and 'strategies based on teams' and do not engage in 'one size fits all' , and strive to improve the pertinence and scientific nature of the selection method."

  Liu Guoyong introduced that this type of classification implementation model has already taken shape during the selection of the Tokyo Olympics.

"When formulating the selection method for shooting events, we canceled the method of protecting the points of the athletes' previous international competition results, and implemented the zero-point reset. The athletes who participated in the Olympic Games were determined strictly according to the results of the domestic selection competitions, such as Yang Qian, Sheng Lihao, Xiao Jiaruixuan, etc. Many young athletes have become the main force of the national team through selection, and they have taken on the important task of competing for gold medals."

  The reporter learned that the formulation of the selection plan is a bottom-up process. First, the team committee composed of team leaders, coaches, managers, etc. draws up a preliminary plan according to the requirements of the competition goals and tasks, and submits it to the centers and associations. After the demonstration and approval, the opinions of various provinces and cities are widely solicited, and finally reported to the party group of the General Administration for research, and the Department of Competitive Sports will check the relevant procedures.

This means that before each plan is officially released, it must undergo several rounds of revision and improvement, and fully absorb opinions from all sides.

  In the selection plan for the short track speed skating event of the Beijing Winter Olympics, except for Ren Ziwei and Wu Dajing, who won the World Cup this season, all other participating athletes were determined through three trials.

One male athlete and one female athlete with the highest points will be selected for each competition, and the remaining athletes will be determined according to the total points ranking of the three competitions. All selection competitions will be broadcast live by CCTV.

  "From the perspective of the current technical pattern of international short track speed skating, the ability to lead skating is very important. Therefore, in the plan, we have set up competition points in the 500-meter, 1,000-meter and 1,500-meter events to select Produce athletes who can better adapt to the rhythm of the Olympic Games." Ni Huizhong said.

  The figure skating single skating project has set up 3 stations and 5 trials, and the ranking is based on the sum of the best results of the 4 games, and the best ones will participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics.

"We hire international referees to participate in the refereeing. The members of the referee team for each game are drawn by lottery, so as to avoid the influence of the referee's judgment on the athletes due to the continuous refereeing and create a fair competition environment for the athletes." Ni Huizhong introduced.

  The selection plan of the curling project, which is divided into two stages, is also eye-catching.

In the first stage, nationwide open registration was implemented. 36 athletes were selected from more than 100 people who signed up for the competition. Team competitions, 1-on-1 competitions and special technical tests were conducted, and 11 athletes were recruited to form a challenge team according to the total points ranking.

After entering the second stage, the plan changed from the previous practice of whole team selection, and counted the success rate of each base player of the challenge team and the national training team, and finally selected the athletes with the highest points on each base to form the Winter Olympics team, fully mobilizing the whole team. Athlete motivation.

  "One of the highlights of this selection work is that all talents have the opportunity to participate." Ni Huizhong told reporters that a major feature of this Winter Olympics is the selection, training and participation of the current season. Some come from national training teams, some from clubs, or from overseas solo training, and quite a few are cross-border and cross-disciplinary talents. Therefore, when designing the plan, we always insist that "everyone has the opportunity to win glory for the country". guide, making sure the bowl of water is level.

  According to the official website of the Winter Games Center, during the selection process for the Beijing Winter Olympics, a total of 21 selection plans were formulated and announced.

"Judging from the results, the Chinese sports delegation has made a historic breakthrough, ranking at the top of the gold medal list, and both the total number of medals and the number of gold medals have hit a record high, which fully shows that our selection plan is powerful and effective." Ni Huizhong Say.

  3 Strictly implement the selection process, and set up a special selection supervision and inspection working group to strengthen the supervision of the whole process

  After the selection method of each project is formulated and publicized, it is necessary to ensure that it is strictly implemented.

To this end, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China has specially established a working group for the supervision and inspection of competition selection, which is responsible for organizing and implementing the supervision and inspection of competition selection.

  In terms of personnel composition, the deputy director of the Sports and Sports Department and the secretary of the Disciplinary Committee of the directly affiliated agency jointly serve as the team leader of the supervision and inspection working group.

  "In addition to organizing meetings, visiting surveys, and reviewing materials, etc., for the key events of the key project selection competition, the supervision and inspection working group will also go to the site to watch the whole game to understand the implementation of the selection requirements of the points system, the implementation of selection methods, and the integrity of the staff. Self-discipline and other aspects, strengthen pressure transmission." said Lu Yunbo, a cadre of the Disciplinary Committee of the General Administration of Sport of the People's Republic of China.

  At the speed skating trial, Lu Yunbo noticed that the arrangement of high-definition cameras was very dense, and the large screen on the scene would also display information such as the players' scores in real time, "The application of these high-tech means has greatly improved the transparency of the selection and squeezed the The space for illegal operations, plus the shock and deterrent effect brought by the supervision and inspection team's direct insertion into the arena, ensured the standardization of the selection process."

  In order to further expand the channels of supervision and inspection, the supervision and inspection working group has also established a system of specially invited supervisors, and invited experts familiar with the rules and competition work of winter events such as Zhu Zhiqiang, the former dean of Harbin Institute of Physical Education, and Fang Xuefeng, a sports commentator, to serve as specially invited supervisors. , hold a meeting of specially invited supervisors in a timely manner to collect feedback on the selection work of participating athletes, and listen to relevant opinions and suggestions.

  Lu Yunbo told reporters that the Winter Olympics supervisory working month scheduling meeting mechanism of the General Administration System led by the Disciplinary Inspection and Supervision Team of the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China has become a link between internal supervision and external supervision. In this case, we worked together to research and promote the resolution of issues related to 'selection of fairness and integrity', and truly formed a 'one game of chess' supervision and synergy."

  Lv Kuilong introduced that in the process of the selection work, the discipline inspection and supervision team insisted on starting from three stages: before, during and after the event, and carried out full-coverage supervision and no dead ends. Before the selection work, the competition rules and development status of each ice and snow project were reviewed , the Olympic prospects and other situations, systematically study, sort out the key links of "selection of integrity", and carefully formulate supervision plans on this basis, so as to be targeted; , the Winter Games Center and other relevant units to exchange information, so as to grasp the progress of the work in a timely, comprehensive and accurate manner.

Throughout the selection process, we insisted on "zero tolerance" for using power to seek illegitimate benefits, accepting red envelopes, gifts, etc.

  "In January of this year, someone proposed at a meeting that, based on recent performance, an athlete who has lost the selection should be replaced by an athlete who has been selected to participate in the Winter Olympics. The discipline inspection and supervision team believes that once the selection system is determined, its rigidity must be obtained. Maintenance, it is not advisable to create extravagant branches and affect the morale of the team." Lv Kuilong told reporters that this judgment was unanimously approved by the party group, and it was finally decided not to replace personnel, which guaranteed the seriousness of "selecting fairness and integrity".

  In response to the fact that most teams have been training and competing overseas for a long time, the discipline inspection and supervision team has also established and improved the petition reporting mechanism, set up a special reporting hotline for Winter Olympics supervision, and unblocked the "five-in-one" reporting channels of emails, phone calls, internet, emails and visits, and asked all Relevant centers and associations will report the reporting method to each sports team, and open up the "last mile" through petitions for the Winter Olympics selection.

  "We made special calls to different sports teams to conduct random checks on the reporting calls to ensure that every athlete, coach, and staff member in each team clearly knew the reporting method and could report the situation in a timely manner." Lv Kuilong said .

  4 Continue to open up the vision of selection and employment, and recruit talents from all over the world

  The strict selection work has laid the foundation for the great success of the Beijing Winter Olympics.

In the face of the next series of important international sports events, how should we continue to improve the selection mechanism for participation, and better implement the requirements of "selection of fairness and integrity"?

Lv Kuilong put forward three suggestions from the specific operational level: "First, insist on speaking with numbers and incorporate more quantitative indicators into the system design; second, invite more authoritative experts to participate to improve the scientific and persuasive power of selection; third, prolong decision-making. The chain, from the team to the association, the center, to the sports department and the party group of the General Administration, needs to add more decision-making links in the middle, and the longer the entire chain, the more difficult it is to operate."

  "The approach should be more open, and the competition should be more intense." Liu Guoyong said that it is necessary to continue to open up the vision of selecting and employing people, without setting thresholds, and recruiting talents from the whole society, all Chinese and even the world.

At the same time, it is necessary to solve the selection problem of going abroad to participate in the competition within the 4-year cycle, insist that every candidate must be selected, move the threshold forward, and use more and more sufficient competition to select talents.

  Liu Guoyong said that the State Sports General Administration is currently actively promoting the construction of talent pools for various projects.

"Include qualified coaches and athletes in accordance with the procedures and announce to the public. All participating representatives must be generated from this library to avoid the situation where coaches arbitrarily designate candidates. Of course, this library is dynamically adjusted, and it is necessary to absorb outstanding talents in a timely manner. Talents, avoid omissions.”