Yang Hongqiong, athlete of the national Paralympic cross-country skiing and biathlon teams
Proud and proud to be able to win glory for the country at home
At the Beijing Winter Paralympics, Yunnan girl Yang Hongqiong won gold in the women's cross-country skiing group in the short distance, middle distance and long distance, becoming a veritable "Triple Crown Champion".
On the morning of April 8, the Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games Summary and Commendation Conference was held in the Great Hall of the People. Yang Hongqiong was awarded the title of "Outstanding Contribution Individual" and took the stage as the representative of the Winter Paralympic Games sports delegation.
Yang Hongqiong reviewed his training and competition experience.
She was most impressed by the women's cross-country skiing long distance race held on March 6, "The moment I crossed the finish line for the first time, I raised my arms and shouted 'Long live the motherland'! I am very proud and proud of the glory of the country.”
Individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the Beijing Winter Olympics and Paralympics
Yang Hongqiong National Paralympic cross-country skiing and biathlon team athlete
"Where I fall, I'm going to flatten it"
Born in 1989, Yang Hongqiong has not been an honest child since she was a child. She always likes to climb up and down when she is naughty.
While playing with a little friend, she fell off a mountain and fell on a rock on her back, causing her entire thoracic and lumbar spine to fracture.
"I can't feel the existence of the leg. I feel it with my hands, just like touching wood." Even though the leg has lost consciousness, Xiao Hongqiong didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at all. walk home.
Because she was afraid of being scolded by her mother, she also said to her friends, "Don't tell my mother that I fell."
In the first few years of the injury, Yang Hongqiong was locked at home every day, basically not in contact with outsiders.
Relatives came to the house, and she also hid in the room alone.
"It is sports that has brought earth-shaking changes to my life." Yang Hongqiong said.
When she first became an athlete, Yang Hongqiong practiced wheelchair basketball.
In 2018, she became a cross-country skier.
Because of weak upper limbs, Yang Hongqiong has fallen countless times.
When she first started to practice skiing, Yang Hongqiong was in a wheelchair, and she used the poles to drive her body and wheelchair forward.
One time when going uphill, Yang Hongqiong pushed her hands hard. Because she was not strong enough, she couldn't hold it any longer, and she even rolled back with her wheelchair, breaking both hands.
Things like this have happened many times, and Yang Hongqiong said with a smile: "I wrestle the most in the team."
The most serious one, when Yang Hongqiong and her teammates were training in a U-shaped area, because she did not control her center of gravity when going downhill, she fell heavily at the bottom of the U-shaped area, and the wheelchair was completely pressed against her. I was shocked, I thought I hit my heart, and then I didn't know anything."
After Yang Hongqiong fell, the teammates behind her changed direction one after another in order to avoid hitting her, and they fell out one after another.
One of her senior brothers fell directly into the ditch beside the road.
"I feel so guilty. Not only did I not skate well myself, but I also caused others to fall like that."
Falling again and again did not frighten Yang Hongqiong, but instead made her more courageous. This active girl has a strong will to not admit defeat, "I am not afraid of falling, even if I fall down the slope and fall into the ditch, the next Ring me down. Wherever I fall, I'm going to flatten it."
"All my gold medals fell out"
On March 9, at the National Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou Division, Yang Hongqiong won a gold medal in the women's sprint cross-country skiing competition, which was her second championship at the Beijing Winter Paralympics.
After the award ceremony that night, in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Beijing News, Yang Hongqiong sighed with emotion, "My gold medals all fell out."
Speaking of the game of the day, Yang Hongqiong's feeling is one word: tired.
She admitted that she actually collapsed when she finished the qualifying competition.
"It was so intense, my throat and heart were a little overloaded."
According to the competition system, in the semi-final competition, the top three in each group can enter the final.
Although he felt tired, Yang Hongqiong still fully mobilized all the functions of his body and tried his best to slip out of the advantage in the first half.
"Sliding to the back, I looked back and saw that they were far away from me, so I slowed down the tempo to save my energy for the final."
After the final, Yang Hongqiong's body has reached the limit.
She only drank a little porridge and a slice of bread for breakfast, but she didn't feel hungry at all.
After walking around the restaurant, she found that she had no appetite at all. After returning to the room to drink some water, she slid directly from the wheelchair to the ground, "I don't care whether the ground is dirty or not, I dragged the wheelchair cushion down and put it on my head, Lie down on the ground slowly."
Compared with the previous long-distance competitions, Yang Hongqiong believes that the short-distance events are more intense. "It is an instant explosion, and it is necessary to instantly pull all the functions of the body to the highest combat value in the shortest time."
After the award ceremony, Yang Hongqiong has two gold in hand.
Regarding her achievements, she thinks that it is not easy. "My two gold medals are both falling out."
I'm not afraid of wrestling, even if I fall down the slope and fall into the ditch, I'll go down the next lap.
Wherever I fall, I'm going to flatten it.
- Yang Hongqiong
Beijing News reporter Zhao Xue