Power of Youth | Wu Dajing: life without “facing difficulties” is incomplete
China Youth Net Beijing, April 16 (Reporter MOU haoxiao) “Life without” facing difficulties, it is not perfect.” On the afternoon of April 13, at the “Chinese youth winter Olympics spirit sharing meeting” hosted by China Youth newspaper, the gold medalists of Beijing Winter Olympics, Wu Dajing, Gao Tingyu and Han Cong, yang Hongqiong, Yan Zhuo and Chen Jianxin, gold medalists of Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, told the story behind winning the championship together. In their experience, there are pain, sweat, struggle and dreams. They used their own personal experience to reinterpret the Beijing Winter Olympics spirit of “having the overall situation in mind, being confident and open, facing difficulties, pursuing excellence and creating the future together.
At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games and the Winter Paralympic Games, Chinese athletes constantly surpassed themselves and vividly interpreted the new Olympic motto of “Faster, Higher, Stronger-more united. No matter the outstanding performance in the Beijing Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Games, or the hard work on the training ground, Chinese athletes have perfectly demonstrated the Chinese sports spirit and the Olympic spirit.
The following is a story from Wu Dajing, a Chinese short track speed skating team athlete.
Hello everyone, I am Chinese short track speed skating team athlete Wu Dajing. I am very glad to attend the China Youth Winter Olympic spirit conference hosted by China Youth newspaper today. On April 8th, General Secretary Xi Jinping made a 20-word summary of Beijing Winter Olympics spirit at the commendation conference of Beijing Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games, namely: with the overall situation, self-confidence and openness, facing difficulties, pursuing excellence, create the future together.
When I saw these 20 words, I was particularly touched. Especially when it comes to “facing difficulties”, I think that as an athlete, it is reflected in our daily training and competition all the time. It can be said that these four words have already become a part of my life.
Maybe young friends will ask me why I want to “face difficulties”? Because “facing difficulties” is a kind of training in life. Although it requires a lot of efforts, it can give people the ultimate sense of happiness, satisfaction and value. Chairman Mao once said that people should have a little spirit. I also want to tell my young friends that it is incomplete that I have not experienced the life of “facing difficulties.
Looking back on my skating road, I fell in love with skating when I was 8 years old. At first, my mother didn’t support me and worried that skating would affect my study. But once, my mother accompanied me to skate in the ice rink. When she saw that I fell 107 in order to practice an action, and my body was black and blue, my mother was moved by me, she thinks that I should never be stopped from learning skating for any reason. It is my dream to learn skating, but after I started to practice skating officially, I didn’t know that I wanted to do a better job. It was not enough to have interest and love, hard work and hard work cannot be less.
I remember that during the Beijing Winter Olympics, many media once reported my feet, saying that I am “20 years old, 50 years old feet”. Indeed, I have a pair of ugly feet. Because my skates is very hard, I often wear my feet and bleed, and even my ankle bones have holes. It is because my feet are under too much pressure and torture that I have “20-year-old people, 50-year-old feet”. But I think it is worthwhile for my feet to be like this, because my ugly feet are like a miniature, which witness my training day after day and year after year for more than 20 years.
When I was connected to the live broadcast of China Youth Daily, a reporter of China Youth Daily said that my feet were my medal. I think this metaphor is very appropriate, my feet, like the scars of soldiers, can represent the vicissitudes and years of my master. It is ugly and painful, but because of its existence, it reflects the difficulty of an athlete to “dare to compete for the first, dare to climb the peak”, which is also a kind of “face difficulties”.
This year, as the only active Olympic champion in the Chinese delegation of Beijing Winter Olympics, everyone has high expectations for me and I have high expectations for myself. Behind expectations, few people know the injuries and pains I have faced in the past 4 years. On last May, my right knee was injured; In August, the waist injury recurred and the lumbar spine was injured. At that time, I could only lie on the bed, but I was worried but could not train. I once doubted that I could not participate in the Olympic Games, but two months later, I returned to the stadium.
On last October, the second stop of the short track speed skating World Cup, the first stop in Beijing, was lucky for me to participate. There were three consecutive races, but I didn’t have a single champion. Until the last stop, in Holland, I finally won the first championship of 500 meters this season. At that time, I was particularly excited and excited, because I knew that I was still the fastest skater.
At the Beijing Winter Olympics, my teammates and I successfully won the first gold medal of the Chinese delegation on the first match day, which made a big start for the Chinese team. I remember when the game was over that day, I was very excited and choked up and said, “I am relieved and dreaming”. Why are you talking about relieving Qi? Because in the past four years, I have faced too many difficulties. Every time I have enough reasons to give up, even my family and friends advised me to give up, but I knew they loved me, so I chose to stick to it and finally won the championship. The Chinese short track speed skating team and I have lived up to the expectations of our motherland and people, and I have proved that I can do better.
As a Chinese athlete, the most powerful force to face difficulties and fight bravely comes from the motherland. Our most powerful spiritual motivation is “The motherland is in the heart and winning honor for the country”. Each of us, every contemporary Chinese youth, is a member of the construction of the motherland. Each of us has different positions, different responsibilities, and different contributions to the country and society, but boxing is the same.
As a sports person, we often say that there is only one champion, but jumping out of the stadium, I believe that countless world champions will be born in all walks of life, and everyone can become a hero in his mind. Young friends, finally, I would like to quote a sentence that General Secretary Xi Jinping said when watching our athletes preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics in January this year to encourage everyone and myself, “There are several times in life, and it is worth fighting. Without a cold, how can plum blossom be fragrant.”