“The strength of our motherland is the backing for us to realize our dreams. Each of us needs to be ourselves, stick to our position, and let our mission and dreams continue.”
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 8 (reporter Zhou Xin) the Tokyo Olympic Games was postponed, but it did not affect the determination of the Chinese diving team to prepare for the Olympics. Athletes and coaches said one after another: “We should take anti-epidemic heroes as examples, adopt higher standards than before, adhere to closed system training with a peaceful mind, and create the best record for the motherland and the people in the Olympic Games.”
On January 23, Wuhan “Fengcheng”, the Chinese diving team was conducting the Olympic trials. Since then, the team has been closed training in Beijing, always paying attention to the epidemic. After the Tokyo Olympic Games were postponed, the Party branch and team committee of the Chinese diving team organized all athletes and coaches to write their personal experiences, with the theme of “learning the anti-epidemic model, correctly recognizing the Olympic Games extension, formulate new targets for preparation”.
Olympic champion Shi Tingyu said: “When the outbreak of the new coronavirus outbreak, medical staff from all over the country consciously walked at the forefront and fought tenaciously in this war without smoke, they are examples for us to learn. In this extraordinary period, the strength of our motherland is the backing for us to realize our dreams. Each of us needs to be ourselves, stick to our position, and let our mission and dreams continue.”
Lu Wei, the female Taiwan double champion of the world championships, said: “Many heroes go forward to fight against the virus regardless of personal safety for our safety. I fear the Warriors and mourn the heroes who have paid their lives. As a Chinese diving team athlete, I want to learn their spirit of not being afraid of hardship, fatigue and danger, keep in mind the heroic deeds of heroes, train carefully and win honor for the country.”
Wang Han, the champion of the world championship, said: “No hero is born, only choose fearless. We should learn from the broad masses of medical workers to take care of the overall situation and the spirit of dedication, and turn the love for the country into practical actions. In daily training, to deal with any problem, we should start from the national interests and dedicate our sweat and youth to realize the dream of becoming a powerful nation in sports.”
World Championship champion Yang Hao said that at the moment when the world lost sports events, we were more aware of the importance of sports. “All countries in the world are replaying the championship scenes of their athletes to boost national morale. I understand that sports have already surpassed individual success or failure. It can be imagined that when sports competitions all over the world return, it will be an important signal for society to return to normal.”
Olympic champion Chen Eisen wrote: “The extension of the Olympic Games is both an opportunity and a challenge for us: compared with athletes from other countries, we are lucky and we have strong guarantees, able to train normally; The challenge comes from myself. I will take advantage of this year’s extension to constantly challenge myself and surpass myself.”
Cao Yuan, the Olympic champion, said: “Our ideological consciousness needs to be online all the time and ready to be on the court all the time. While adjusting our mentality, we also need to do a good job of physical fitness, combine the physical fitness gained well with special technologies, and strive to make use of this period of time, let yourself have more gains and breakthroughs.”
Chen Taro, who won the women’s jumping platform gold medal in the gwangzhou world championships last year, said: “For our young athletes, the preparation time is longer, and we have more time to prepare. In the following training, I will reserve my physical fitness and make up for my shortcomings. I will set a small goal every day, carefully carve every movement, and go all out to train every day.”
Coach Zhao Wenjin wrote: “The mere three minutes of silence in Qing Ming Dynasty is not enough to express my grief for the heroes. Their family and country feelings are exactly the character we need to inherit. We in the sports front, we should also have a sense of mission, responsibility and honor.”