2024-08-09
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At the just-concluded Tokyo Olympics, Guiyang weightlifter Hou Zhihui set new Olympic records in the women's weightlifting 49kg category with a snatch of 94kg and a clean and jerk of 116kg, and won the championship in this category with a total score of 210kg.This is also China's second gold medal in the Tokyo Olympics.
(Hou Zhihui realizes her dream in Tokyo)
Guiyang has a fine tradition of sports and is one of the first batch of counties to be rated as advanced sports counties and advanced units in the national sports venue survey. Guiyang is also known as the "hometown of champions" and has cultivated a number of sports stars, including world champions Li Ping, Yi Siling, Zhang Wangli, Hou Zhihui, and national champions Luo Shifang and Wang Jiali.
A county with a population of 960,000, it has won 54 national championships, 57 world championships, and 2 Olympic championships. There are more than 60 players trained in the national team, Hunan provincial team, high-level sports teams of various universities and municipal bases.
Competitive sports are flourishing, and weightlifting champions are surging. Why is this happening? On August 10, the author visited Guiyang County to explore the "secrets" behind it.
"Integration of Sports and Education" to Cultivate High-Quality Athletes
Walking into the weightlifting training room of the Sports and Arts Hall of Guiyang No. 3 Middle School, more than 10 members of the No. 3 Middle School weightlifting team were holding barbells, and coach Li Zhiping was instructing them.
(Weightlifters from the amateur sports school are training)
The weightlifting team of Guiyang No.3 Middle School was established more than 20 years ago. In 1999, according to the Olympic glory plan proposed by the State Sports Commission and the quality project proposed by Hunan, the Guiyang County Party Committee and the County Government required the County Sports Commission and Guiyang No.3 Middle School to jointly organize the county amateur sports school weightlifting team, hoping to use the effect of famous schools to attract and recruit weightlifting talents and start a new exploration of "integration of sports and education".
Literally speaking, "integration of sports and education" is a two-way effort of sports and education to resolve the contradiction between learning and training of young athletes and cultivate student athletes with both high athletic and cultural levels.
"A long time ago, Guiyang's competitive sports involved martial arts, shooting, swimming, weightlifting, track and field and many other projects." Liu Chengfei, deputy director of the county's national fitness center, introduced that with the concentration of advantages and the accumulation of experience, Guiyang's competitive sports focused on creating the "Qiao Xiaonv" boutique.
"Qiao" refers to a skill-based event, "Xiao" refers to a small person and a small level, and "Nü" refers to a women's event. After the path of "integration of sports and education" was established, Guiyang's youth competitive sports gradually developed to focus on weightlifting. The project was launched in primary and secondary school campuses, effectively integrating high-quality resources from the sports and education sectors.
"Every day we use the teenagers' spare time for training, and the training time is no less than 3 hours a day. Tryouts for new players are also arranged during the winter and summer vacations." Coach Xie Wenhua said that placing amateur training in primary and secondary schools can not only make full use of the school's high-quality resources and ensure children's cultural learning, but also cultivate children's interest in sports, train scientifically, and promote the development of campus sports.
Li Ping was one of the first ten students of the "integration of sports and education". At that time, Li Ping, who was still in the fifth grade of Aoquan Central Primary School, was spotted by Li Zhiping, the coach of the county weightlifting team who came to select talents, and was recruited to Guiyang No. 3 Middle School for training. Soon, her performance stood out among the students. She won the championship twice in the 2005 and 2007 World Championships, the 2006 and 2010 Asian Games, and in the 2009 11th National Games, Li Ping won the championship with 6 world record-breaking results, which shocked the National Weightlifting Federation.
After the strong rise of Guiyang girl Li Ping, students from the amateur sports school, Hou Zhihui and Zhang Wangli, have successively shined in world competitions. Since the establishment of the amateur sports school, a total of 330.5 medals of various types have been won, including 57 gold medals in international competitions, 54 gold medals in national competitions, and 55.5 gold medals in provincial competitions, including 2 Olympic gold medals, 3 National Games gold medals, and more than 10 world records.
As a result, Guiyang's sports industry flourished and won championships one after another!
"Guiyang's championship phenomenon is the result of teamwork." Li Zhiping said that Guiyang's "integration of sports and education" can help team members make the most suitable choices for them. If they are better at sports, they can choose a professional sports career; if they are better at studying, they can choose to study in colleges and universities, which is truly beneficial to the training and development of "double high" athletes.
"A wise eye recognizes a pearl"
People often say that there are many good horses, but there are few good horse trainers. Even if you have talent, you still need a good horse trainer to discover it.
"Guiyang's coaches have such 'eagle eyes'. They are as alert as detectives and will never let go of any good seedlings." said Zhu Shandong, head of the county's Culture, Tourism, Radio, Television and Sports Bureau.
There are three coaches in Guiyang Amateur Sports School. Xie Wenhua is an international second-level weightlifting referee. He has served as a referee in important competitions such as the National Championships and the Asian Games trials. He graduated from the Shanghai Institute of Physical Education, a double-first-class sports college. He is experienced and responsible for the control of key technical movements. Li Zhiping is the coach in charge of training. He has discovered three world champions including Li Ping, Hou Zhihui, and Zhang Wangli. Tang Shuguang has been engaged in physical education for more than 20 years. He is the oldest and most patient, and is responsible for the daily life of the children.
Where to choose good seedlings?
Every year, the county organizes sports meets for primary and secondary school students, and this is the "battlefield" for these coaches. At the sports meet, they will carefully observe each athlete and dig out the "thousand-mile horse" from the crowd of tens of thousands.
"Competitive sports have developed to this day, and a relatively complete set of selection criteria has actually been formed. The vision and experience of grassroots coaches are very important." Xie Wenhua said that taking weightlifting as an example, the first thing to look at is the body shape, and then the demeanor. Whether there is athletic talent can be seen at a glance. After the preliminary selection, standing long jump, push-ups, and coordination tests are also required to test the athlete's endurance and explosiveness.
Hou Zhihui was the "dark horse" selected from the county's primary and secondary school sports meet. In 2008, Hou Zhihui participated in the track and field competition as a member of the Zhangzhong Central Primary School team. When she was sprinting 60 meters, the moment she started caught Li Zhiping's eye. He then followed Hou Zhihui quietly, watching her throw the shot put and test the standing long jump. He felt that this "little girl" had extraordinary explosive power, physical fitness, and coordination of body functions. From then on, Hou Zhihui became interested in weightlifting.
(Hou Zhihui in the competition)
"In addition to county-wide sports competitions, we go to the central schools in each township to look for candidates from April to June every year." Li Zhiping said that they visited one or two schools every day, and for two months they went out early and came back late every day, just in the hope of recruiting more good talents.
While many people cheered for Li Ping, few people knew that it was the coach's meticulous attitude in selecting athletes that led to the birth of Li Ping, the world champion. In 1999, coaches such as Li Zhiping came to Aoquan Central School to select "seedlings". A physical education teacher introduced a girl named Li Ping who had been holding on to a cow since she was very young, and her strength was amazing. Li Zhiping found a little girl on the playground whose figure was very suitable for weightlifting, and this girl was Li Ping.
In 2012, coach Tang Shuguang went to Yutian Central School to select talents. He saw that Luo Shifang was a good material and immediately selected her to join the weightlifting team for training. Thus began Luo Shifang's weightlifting career. In May this year, in the women's weightlifting 59kg competition at the 2021 National Weightlifting Championships, Luo Shifang set the national record for snatch and three national youth records for snatch and clean.
"Through training, we will recommend outstanding weightlifters to the provincial weightlifting team for tryouts." Xie Wenhua introduced that every year Guiyang also invites coaches from the Municipal Sports School and Beihu Sports School to go to various townships to select talents for shooting, track and field, swimming and other sports, so that talented seedlings have more opportunities to be selected.
“Hardworking and enduring” plum blossom fragrance comes from bitter cold
For athletes, being able to endure hardship is a necessary quality.
As the saying goes, "One minute on stage is the result of ten years of hard work off stage." They have to practice the same action over and over again, thousands or tens of thousands of times. The intensity is high and the content is boring. Even if some students have talent, they will give up halfway if they can't stand the hardship of training.
"We now have more than 30 people in our weightlifting team, and almost all of them come from primary schools in rural areas."
Why? Because rural children can endure hardships.
The reporter saw at the weightlifting training hall of No. 3 Middle School that many athletes had thick calluses on their palms and several had blisters on their collarbones. They practiced attentively and were not affected at all.
If you want to achieve results you have to train hard.
Li Zhiping said that Li Ping's parents lived in a low mud-brick house and relied on growing tobacco and ginger to pay for Li Ping's food expenses of several hundred yuan a month. Li Ping trained very hard in the team. At the beginning, her performance was not outstanding, but she had amazing endurance and perseverance. She could run 40 laps and 16 kilometers on the track without stopping. A few years later, Li Ping's performance improved by leaps and bounds.
Long-distance runner Luo Wei has to run more than 14,000 meters every day, and summer is no exception. Sometimes he gets severe dizziness due to heatstroke, and sometimes he vomits before he finishes running. In the winter, he shivers in the cold when he goes to the locker room to change into sportswear before every training session, but he persists day after day and year after year.
These are not isolated cases. Athlete Zeng Liting insisted on training even when she was sick and never took a day off in six years. Athlete Song Meiyao came to the training room early every day, lifting the cold bar up and down and repeating boring training. In the women's 38kg competition of the just-concluded 2021 Hunan Weightlifting Championships, she won the championship.
"In the history of weightlifting, the Hunan Weightlifting Army has been prosperous for a long time. And the Hunan Weightlifting Army depends on the 'two transformations and three states', one of which is Chenzhou." Xie Wenhua said that just like the north is rich in apples and the south is rich in citrus fruits, the people of Guiyang have such talent in weightlifting and such tenacity to never admit defeat, and they can produce talents.
From 2010 to 2014, Ouyang Liping, Zhang Wangli, Hou Zhihui, Luo Shifang and Wang Jiali from Guiyang County Amateur Sports School reached the level of domestic athletes and successively joined the Hunan Province Weightlifting Team.
Xie Wenhua called it: a miracle!
"The cycle is four years. For a county, it is very good if two people can be selected into the provincial team after the trial training. It is extremely rare for five people to be selected. This is also inseparable from the hard-working quality of Guiyang athletes!" said Xie Wenhua.
"National Sports" creates a cradle of champions
Walking into the Guiyang County National Fitness Center, there is an endless stream of people coming and going. The masses are sweating profusely here and doing various sports.
The National Fitness Center has a total investment of 260 million yuan, covers an area of 84.2 acres, and has more than 10 venues including a basketball hall, badminton hall, and swimming pool.
"The National Fitness Center is open to the public in different time periods and has now become an important place for mass sports and fitness." Liu Chengfei, deputy director of the county National Fitness Center, introduced that many amateur sports teams from inside and outside the county often come here to organize joint competitions.
Guiyang people have always loved sports. The county has built Baoshan Sports Plaza, Cai Lun Sports and Leisure Plaza, No. 1 Middle School Sports Field, Ouyanghai Plaza and other mass sports and leisure venues. The county education department invests 3.5 million yuan each year in the purchase of sports facilities, and the sports facilities of primary and secondary schools in the county meet the national standards. The county party committee and government also listed the construction of a "sports talent base" as one of the "one district and five bases" to be built in Guiyang during the "14th Five-Year Plan".
"Not only that, now all 373 villages (communities) in 22 towns (streets) in the county are equipped with basketball courts, badminton courts, etc., and the mass sports facilities are becoming more and more complete." Liu Chengfei said that whether in towns or rural areas, you can see a scene of people loving and participating in sports everywhere.
With fitness venues, the masses must be organized and guided so that sports can form a climate. The county has set up 8 fitness coaching stations, recruited 123 social sports instructors, and guided the establishment of more than 20 mass sports teams such as waist drums, fans, aerobics, Tai Chi, and soft ball. Every year, large-scale sports activities such as long-distance running, skipping, tug-of-war, and basketball are organized. The participating players range from the old to the young, from cadres to the masses, creating a strong sports atmosphere.
Source: Guiyang World
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