Xinhua News Agency, Russia, February 27: ice hockey made me so free and easy
-remember the veteran Guan Yingying
Xinhua News Agency reporter Li Linhai Zhang Yifei
The confident and free girl in northeast China named Guan Yingying in front of me. When the reporter saw her on the 27th, it was in an ice hockey training hall in Russia.
On March 1, the ice hockey competition of the 29th World University Winter Games will be unveiled. After coming to Russia, Guan Yingying and his teammates conducted pre-match warm-up training for the first time. Passing and defending, she was so dazzling. After every crazy “fight”, she made a sound of celebration like a lion.
24-year-old Guan Yingying comes from Changchun Normal University, and this year is her third time to attend the Winter Festival. At the last winter conference, she and her teammates won the fourth place.
“I have had an indissoluble bond with ice hockey since I was a child. This sport not only gives me a strong body, but also makes me free and easy.” Guan Yingying said.
Ice hockey is a sport with high physical and technical requirements. In the sixth grade of primary school, Guan Yingying was also selected into the school ice hockey team because the PE teacher was born in the hockey practice project.
“Since I was a child, I have a dream to engage in winter sports. In the 1980 s and 1990 s, ice hockey had a very good mass base in cities such as Harbin in the Northeast. When I was a child, many schools formed ice hockey teams. In those schools without teams, children make their own simple clubs and use tin boxes as ice hockey.” Guan Yingying said.
Since she was 15 years old, Guan Yingying began to get in touch with formal ice hockey training. Currently, she is a student majoring in ice hockey in Changchun Normal University.
Speaking of the influence of ice hockey on himself, Guan Yingying opened the chatterbox.
“The growth experience in northeast China and the Enlightenment education of physical education teachers made me plant a seed of ice hockey in my heart. The longer you get in touch with this sport, the more you will feel that you can’t do without it, and you will feel uncomfortable if you don’t play ball all day.”
If there is a competition, there will be competition. Guan Yingying said that they had many difficulties in this winter games. Their rivals Canada, the United States, Russia and Switzerland were very strong. The national teams of these teams had participated in the Winter Olympics.
Guan Xiaobo, the coach of Guan Yingying, said: “Now the training level of the whole Chinese women’s ice hockey team has been greatly improved, but objectively speaking, there is still a certain gap between the Chinese team and the world’s top teams. In such a competition environment, senior generals such as Guan Yingying give full play to the advantages of good technology and rich experience, and inject ‘cardioty’ into the whole team ‘.”
Because of the long-term training and competition, Guan Yingying delayed the graduation time of college. In her words, I am already a “sixth year” student, “but no matter what, I am willing to pay for ice hockey. Even after graduation, ice hockey will also accompany my future life journey”.
“Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is just around the corner. As an athlete, who doesn’t want to play a game in front of his house?” Guan Yingying said.