After returning from injury, Liu Yang is still the king of the rings [Win the World Cup in Doha]
The 2023 Gymnastics World Cup Doha station ended in the early morning of the 4th Beijing time. The competition for rings and other events ended. Chinese player Liu Yang won the championship with 15.366 points.
His difficulty score was 6.4 points, and his completion score was 8.966 points, both of which were the highest in the game.
During the competition, Liu Yang reproduced his iconic head shake, proving once again that he is still the king of this event.
In an interview with Beijing Youth Daily reporter Yueyang, Liu Yang said that due to the long absence from the competition, his body was a little tight when he came up this time, but he gradually relaxed after the preliminaries.
He used this World Cup to "practice" with the goal of winning gold medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Paris Olympics.
Liu Yang has an absolute advantage in the ring event. At the Tokyo Olympics, Liu Yang used a set of clean, beautiful and difficult moves to conquer the referees and audience and climbed to the highest Olympic podium.
But in the past year, there was no ring king on the field.
According to a reporter from Beijing Youth Daily, Liu Yang underwent knee surgery in February last year.
More than a month after the operation, he began to resume upper body training, and three months later, he began to perform assisted net training, and then gradually got on the right track. Therefore, he missed all competitions for the whole year last year.
For Liu Yang, who is already 28 years old, the postoperative recovery process is full of challenges.
"When I just finished the operation, I didn't feel right when I walked, and there was obvious pain in my knee. In fact, the wound recovered fairly quickly after the operation. In this process, the most important thing is to pass the psychological barrier." Because Liu Yang had previously It was because of the injury to his knee when he finished the unloading. Therefore, during the recovery training process, Liu Yang struggled, hesitated, and even feared psychologically when doing the unloading training.
"It's okay when I do the dismounting training alone, because I can lie back and have some self-protection. But when I practice the set of movements, when I want to do the dismounting for the first time, I still have a little psychological shadow, and the result is that I don't finish it. Just jump off." Liu Yang recalled.
As the training became more systematic and his body gradually recovered, Liu Yang's self-confidence slowly returned.
Similar to the previous Olympic cycle, the rules of gymnastics in the Paris Olympic cycle have changed again, and the scores of individual difficult movements have been adjusted.
Liu Yang said: "The difficulty of some of my complete sets of movements was downgraded before, so I have to adjust the arrangement of the sets according to the changes in the rules." The complete set of movements maintains a high level of difficulty and high scoring.
This World Cup is Liu Yang's first official appearance after recovering from injury. He announced his return with a superb game.
This year's Hangzhou Asian Games is an important training opportunity for the Chinese gymnastics team before the Paris Olympics. Liu Yang's goal is of course to be the champion.
The rings event has always been the dominant event of the Chinese gymnastics team. From Chen Yibing back then to Liu Yang now, they have defended the honor of the Chinese gymnastics team and made their names more shining.
Text/Reporter Song Xiang Coordinator/Wang Yong
"Beijing Youth Daily" March 5, 2023, page A10