2021年7月23日 星期五 责任编辑/金 鹭 8 Ningbo Times NINGBO DAILY

Ningbo Athletes Ready for Tokyo Olympic Games

By Gou Wen

The Tokyo Olympics, which kicks off on July 23, is the larg- Ningbo Girl est of its kind in which the Chi- Yang Qian is nese team has participated over- seas. In that team, seven athletes Going All Out from Ningbo, Shi Zhiyong, Ling, Wang Shun, Yu Yiting, to Prepare for Yang Qian, Zhang Xingjia, and Guan Chenchen, are ready to the Olympics achieve even better results. Among them, three have had By Dong Na Olympics experiences, while the ② rest are first time participants. Recently, Yang Qian, a This is also a new record number Ningbo-born sport shooter, is of Ningbo Olympians. doing her best to get ready for the Olympics. Seizing the Golden "Yang Qian has been in Opportunity her zone lately, scoring a high number of rings in sev- eral mock finals, and setting In 2018, Shi Zhiyong, the a personal best in the mixed weightlifter from Ningbo won the team event," said Yu Lihua, gold medal in the men's 69kg Yang Qian's first coach. weightlifting final at the Rio Yang Qian is the second Olympics. This is also the first shooter from Ningbo to gold medal for Ningbo. qualify for the Olympic Five years later, Shi attends Games. She has shown super ③ the Games again, trying to set his high skills, hitting the world new record. As departure ap- record once, since joining the proaches, his team members are ①The weightlifter Shi Zhiyong. junior team selection for the taking measures to lift his mind ②The Ningbo-born sport shooter Yang Qian. Tokyo Olympics last year. ③This is 's fourth Olympic Games. Shooting requires strong and body to the best condition. ① "He has a very tight schedule, [Photo provided to Ningbo Times] psychological quality, said for example, he finishes treat- Du Li, head coach of the rifle ment and relaxation at 10PM team and an Olympic cham- pion. "Everything remains everyday," said his coach, Tang unknown before the compe- Deshang. taken place for her competitive , . At the Every time before stringing, tition, even you are fully Adding to the team's efforts, state. However, she is optimistic Olympic trials in May this year, Li Wenlian will carefully check The Courage to prepared in trainings." In re- Shi also has his own way to re- because of her competition ex- she also got good results. and adjust the racquet. "It usually Exceed Limitations cent days, Yang Qian has duce pressure: making himself perience. takes me 15 to 20 minutes to been keeping up to her regu- stronger. He said that the post- "In the past year, there were finish stringing. However, if the Supporting Athletes with lar schedule, showing up in ponement of the Games makes In the history of Chinese fewer games. It is harder to keep racquet is deformed, it may take Professional Standards the apartment, dining hall, everyone stressed, yet the pres- sports, there are only a few ath- yourself in the zone and you re- longer. This requires constant and training center as usual. sure also motivates him. He be- letes who have participated in ally need to show the highest practice to get more experience," Her priority is to maintain a lieves that the only way to avoid four Olympic Games. Li Ling, a level in key games. But we also In Ningbo, not only are the said Li Wenlian. steady state of mind, focus on pressure is to be strong enough. pole vaulter from Ningbo, is one get more time to adjust," said Li. athletes actively preparing for the Not long ago, Lang Ping, training, and avoid external "I will try my best to win of them. She also holds the Together with experienced Games, but also many sports the coach of the Chinese wom- disturbance that will cause another gold medal so that the event's Asian record. athletes such as Li Ling, Yu Yit- staff working hard to support en's volleyball team expressed too much pressure. national flag will be raised and "This is very special for me. ing, one of the first timers, will them. her gratitude to the staff at the Yang Qian was born in national anthem played on the The most important thing is to also participate in the Games. Li Wenlian, the owner of a Beilun Training Base. Lang ap- 2000 in Jiangshan, Yinzhou. field, earning honour for control injury, maintain physical She was born in September 2005, badminton shop in Cixi is going preciated the "first- class" logis- In 2011, she passed the se- and Ningbo," said Shi. condition, and then try to rewrite trained in Zhenhai Swimming to start her first Olympic string- tics at the Base as she recalled lection and joined the shoot- In history, there are two the personal best in the competi- Centre since childhood, and later ing service and she is the only her training days at Ningbo. ing team of Ningbo Sports athletes of the Chinese weight- tion," said Li. transferred to Ningbo Swimming Chinese stringer at the Tokyo "Ningbo Beilun has been a School from Maoshan Pri- lifting team, Zhan Xugang, male, The postponement of the Centre, Zhejiang Swimming Olympics. In fact, she is also a great convenience for us to pre- mary School. In the 2014 and Chen Yanqing, female, won Tokyo Olympics for one year is a Team, and eventually, the na- world- class racquet stringer. In pare for the Olympics. Staff here Games of Zhejiang Province, gold medals in two consecutive test for all the athletes preparing tional team. her work, making the strings fit made a lot of contri- Yang Qian won three gold Olympic Games. Now Shi Zhi- for the Games. Li is no excep- As an emerging swimming the racquet to allow the players butions, and we are medals in a row, scoring 399 yong is also fighting to be the tion. Her age has increased by star, she participated in the world to find the best feelings, is the really thankful," said points in the 40-shot women's third. one year, and many changes have swimming championships in most challenging part. Lang Ping. air rifle, a world- class per- formance. Yang Qian did not stop there. In 2015, she won the SPOTLIGHT third place in the First Na- tional Youth Games. By the end of the year, she was se- lected to the National Youth Olympic Team and won the title of National Sports Mas- Wang Shun: Three-time Olympic Swimmer ter. At the beginning of 2016, she was specially recruited to the shooting team of Tsing- By Jin Lu more time, is already a veteran in training, Wang Shun said that as COVID- 19. "But we have We- ther to the reporter, "He also said hua University. the Chinese swimming team. he was pushing with the body's Chat, I can talk to my son online that he would follow the team's Yang Qian knocked on Well prepared and fully pro- Although as he grows older, endurance limit every day, he be- when he is free. It's going to be arrangements and try his best in the door of the national team tected, Wang Shun, the 27-year- his body conditions cannot be the came stronger. "Every day I am fine, he just told us," said the fa- the game." with her performance at the old Ningbo swimmer, will soon same compared to a few years getting stronger, and I continue to Second National Youth take part in the Olympic Games ago, Wang Shun has earned more get more experience and I feel Games in 2019: she scored for the third time. experience this time. "In the past, that my inner heart is also getting 633 points. Only three play- "This may be my last Olym- if you were in a bad state, you tougher." ers on the national team had pics, I will try my best to fight for would be at a loss. But now I After all those years, Wang ever managed to do so at that it," said Wang Shun, "I am very know clearly what I should do, Shun's parents have also become time! After that, Yang Qian proud and honored to play on be- and I understand myself better." accustomed to being "flying tra- was enrolled in the national half of the country. " For more than a year, Wang peze" iwherever their son goes team and started to earn her On May 6, in the men's Shun has been training under Zhu for training and competition, they grounds step by step. 200m individual medley final of Zhigen, a famous swimming will go to the scene to cheer for the Tokyo Olympic trials, Wang coach in China. During this year's him as much as possible. Shun was the first to reach the winter training, Wang Shun fo- "I have been to all the games Chief Adviser: Zhou Fangzhou finish line at only 1:56.78. This is cused on strengthening the that can be watched on the spot in Proofreader: Gou Wen the tenth time he won the cham- breaststroke and backstroke, and China, and many times abroad pionship since 2011, nine years in constantly explored how to deploy too, including the Rio Olympics," a row. his physical fitness. said Wang Yanshou, the swim- Having experienced the To prepare for the Tokyo mer's father. 2012 and the Rio 2016 Olympics, Wang Shun did not However, Wang Yanshou Olympics, Wang Shun, who will slack off for a moment. When and his wife cannot go to Tokyo The 27-year-old Ningbo swimmer Wang Shun. compete in the Olympics for one asked to comment on his recent for the Olympics this time, due to [Photo provided to Ningbo Times]