Olympic champion from Shanghai, ＂rowing is also allowed＂!

Riding the dust, a touch of China red brave tide.

This morning, China’s Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lv Yang and Cui Xiaotong won the gold medal in the rowing women’s quadruple sculls event at the Tokyo Olympic Games, which was 6 seconds ahead of the second place and set the world’s best result. Among them, Chen Yunxia and Zhang Ling are both from Shanghai. This is also the third gold medal won by Shanghai athletes in this Olympic Games.

Together, they shouted the slogan of "Boating China, Casting Legends". After the game, the four girls proudly said, "I hope we can continue to be excellent."

Caption: (from left) Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lu Yang and Cui Xiaotong pick Jin Xinmin Evening News special correspondent Qian Junshe.

Riveting hard to break the record

The competition that was postponed for one day due to the typhoon was held at the Haizhisen Water Sports Center in Tokyo. In the competition, this touch of China Red is always at the forefront.

Walking off the field, Cui Xiaotong, the eldest sister, recalled that after the game, everyone didn’t know that they had surpassed the world record until they met the coach and saw the report card. Jumping and screaming excitedly, hugging each other, a stack of "great" is what they said to each other.

Since 2019, they have dominated this project, and the girls have been eager to break the world record, "but they have never succeeded." Today, in the most important Olympic venues, they have realized their wishes.

They took part in the Tokyo Olympics with the goal of winning the gold medal. They did it and did it very well: in the preliminaries, they dropped the paddle frequency first in the middle, and still rushed to the finish line two boats ahead of the second place; In the final, they led all the way, walked on, gave up who I was, and finally won the championship.

Caption: Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lu Yang and Cui Xiaotong are in the competition. Xinhua News Agency

There seems to be no suspense behind the game, but there are too many difficult processes. When interviewed by reporters after the game, Cui Xiaotong said with emotion: "Every year is very difficult." Before coming to Tokyo, the four had been training in Wuhan. Hot summer, hot and humid, experienced the "devil training" in Jiangcheng. After arriving in Tokyo, the girl actually felt that it was "quite cool" here. The only maladjustment comes from the water quality. The Tokyo Olympic Games is held in seawater, and the wind and waves are completely different from those in the river before training. After coming to Tokyo, the four of them worked hard in this respect.

The four girls of the women’s quadruple sculls have almost maintained a total victory record on the field since they started to match boats in 2019. "Everyone sees that we have always been strong, but it is because of this that it feels more difficult." Chen Yunxia said frankly that there is pressure to have motivation.

Emotionally, Shanghai athlete Chen Yunxia admits that rowing has given him a lot of gains. "These gains come from hard training on water and land day after day and year after year. The biggest magic weapon to overcome this boredom and hardship is persistence and concentration."

Caption: Girls celebrate winning the championship Xinhua News Agency

Re-create brilliance. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, China won a gold medal in rowing and canoeing, which was the best result of the Olympic Games. However, since then, China has not won the gold medal in this event for two consecutive Olympic Games. Today, the girls won the first Olympic rowing gold medal won by China rowing after 13 years.

"As long as a boat works hard together, all problems will be solved." Chen Yunxia said it very well. Really do anything, as long as you think in one place and work hard together, what can’t be done?

The story behind the champion

Few people know that Chen Yunxia is still a master of the field.

Born in 1995, Chen Yunxia practiced track and field since she was a child. In 2009, she was selected by Shanghai Qibao Middle School to practice long jump and triple jump with coach Jin Deqiang in the second track and field team.

Chen Yunxia, who is tall and arm-length, did not shine brightly in the short-span events, but she did not expect to enter the field of vision of the Shanghai rowing team. In 2011, she joined the Shanghai rowing team. Although she was older at that time, the coach was sure to choose her because of her flexibility and explosiveness.

Caption: Women’s quadruple sculls in the competition Xinhua News Agency

In addition to having excellent talent, Chen Yunxia’s tenacious will quality is also commendable. Yang Jian, coach of the Shanghai rowing team, said that before the Tianjin National Games in 2017, Chen Yunxia’s competitive level improved very quickly, but her old knee injury almost caused big trouble at a critical moment. "I remember it was before the Tianjin National Games qualifiers. Chen Yunxia’s knee injury suddenly became serious, and she could not even complete normal technical movements in training. My first reaction at that time was that she would definitely miss the National Games. We were all trying to persuade her to give up, because if it was not handled properly, it might even endanger her sports career. " What Yang Jian didn’t expect was that in the face of pain, Chen Yunxia was very determined and wanted to compete anyway, so she finished the race with only one leg and miraculously got the qualification for the National Games.

Yan Xuerong, the leader of the Shanghai rowing team, told the reporter that Chen Yunxia couldn’t run when she entered the Shanghai team because of an old knee injury, but rowers had high demands on physiological and biochemical functions. Under the careful adjustment of the team, by 2017, her running level reached the best in history. In addition to injuries, this Olympic cycle has a new problem for Chen Yunxia-gaining weight! In 2016, Chen Yunxia, who was 1.81 meters tall, weighed only 63 kilograms. After reasonable diet, she now weighs almost 73 kilograms. The taller and stronger Chen Yunxia’s performance on the court is also more stable.

Caption: (from right) Chen Yunxia, Zhang Ling, Lu Yang and Cui Xiaotong celebrate the Xinhua News Agency after the game.

Unlike Chen Yunxia, this is veteran Zhang Ling’s second Olympic trip. Zhang Ling’s five-year preparation road is full of hardships after the four-person sculls in Rio Olympic Games failed. Chen Jian, coach of the Shanghai rowing team, said that Zhang Ling had many injuries. During a plateau training, she also suffered from asthma due to allergic rhinitis. "When we returned to Shanghai, we immediately found an asthma expert for Zhang Ling to treat, but unfortunately the effect was not obvious. At present, we can only rely on drugs to control it. It’s just that for any injury, Zhang Ling’s attitude is very simple and clear. Her most common sentence is’ In order to achieve my goal, I can stick to it anyway’! " (Xinmin Evening News correspondent Li Heng Tokyo Today)