--Yao Ming
The prelude to the Tokyo Olympics was unveiled today, but a couple of days before the opening ceremony, the Olympic Games had quietly drawn to a close. a few days before the opening ceremony, the Olympic Games have quietly drawn the curtain. Our women's soccer team as a pioneer, but with a score of 0-5 against Brazil, although the results are not satisfactory, but compared to the men's soccer team, the results have been improved - the men's soccer team even failed to enter the door of the Olympic Games. In the past, the netizens often to women's soccer results to mock men's football, now, if the results of the current Olympic Games as the standard, this mockery of the voice will be even louder, I am afraid.
Basketball, volleyball, baseball, rugby sevens, handball, field hockey, water polo and other seven collective ball games, China's women's team all advanced to Tokyo, while the men's team was a total loss. Of all the programs in which our team participated, women participated in as many as 15.
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China's Olympic delegation arrived in Tokyo
The situation of more women than men in the Olympic delegation is not unique to China. The United States, Russia, Britain and other traditional Olympic powerhouses are also the same. However, the situation in our country is indeed too serious.
This year's Olympic Games, China's delegation sent a total of 432 athletes, of which 298 female athletes, accounting for as much as 68.9%, is more than twice as much as male athletes.
and, the last three games, our Olympic delegation of men and women ratio imbalance phenomenon more and more serious.
At the 2012 London Olympics, there were 171 male athletes and 225 female athletes, with female athletes accounting for 56.8 percent of the total.
At the 2016 Rio Olympics, there were 160 male athletes and 298 female athletes, with 65.1 percent female athletes.
And at this year's Olympics, the percentage reached 68.9 percent.
Who says women are inferior to men? However, while cheering for the excellent results achieved by female athletes, we should also rationally think about why there is such an obvious imbalance.
01. Women are more than men, why?
China's Olympic corps, “women strong men weak” roots, can be traced back to the 1988 Seoul Olympics.
that year's Seoul Olympics, our delegation won only 5 gold medals, and the previous Los Angeles Olympics 15 gold medals in stark contrast to the country's disappointment.
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Our delegation won prizes at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics
Officials of the National Sports Commission in charge of sports wrote a report before the Seoul Olympics predicting that the delegation could win 6-8 gold medals - this was the first time that our delegation won a gold medal. gold medals - which was the true level of our sport at the time. The 15 gold medals won at the previous Olympics were due to the political boycott of the U.S. Olympics by many Eastern European sports powers, which gave us a chance to win gold in many sports.
However, the public's view of the slump in results is quite simple: the athletes who were sent out were incapable, didn't work hard, and embarrassed the country. Li Ning returned to the country to avoid the crowd gray away, but still by the airport staff taunted: “where the fall is not good, run there to fall?”
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young Li Ning is known for his hard training
In the face of intense public sentiment, the National Sports Commission realized that: although there are many people in our country do not like sports, and even unclear sports rules, but to the day of the game, everyone will ask who won! --Gold medal, make people feel face.
In 1995, the National Sports Commission officially issued an initiative outline aimed at promoting the results of competitive sports in China, that is, the “Olympic competition program”.
The outline clearly pointed out that our country needs to achieve results in the next Olympic Games, the Asian Games and other international competitions, the task is very arduous, the need to train a number of professional athletes to give a full range of protection. However, the state and society into the Olympic program is limited funding, so it must be “so that the key projects are guaranteed, the allocation of resources more rational”.
which projects are key projects?
The National Sports Commission in the outline clearly pointed out, and then someone summarized, the answer to the five words: “small, skillful, difficult, women, less”, that is, the small ball project, skillful project, difficult project, women's project and the competition of the number of small projects. This type of project is either the yellow people have the advantage of talent, or the international competition is not yet fierce, or to train one or two top players will be able to achieve results.
Most women's sports have been around for a shorter period of time on an international scale compared to men's programs. Not many countries have the ability and willingness to invest in women's programs, and competition is relatively less intense. When our country's national efforts to train a number of outstanding athletes out, there is a fairly high probability of winning gold and silver.
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In 2004, the women's ping achieved the Olympic collective gold medal
This strategy, in fact, is the wisdom of the old ancestors: Tian Ji Race. Use the gold medals of many niche programs to make up for the lack of gold medals in popular programs. Sports programs of ornamental, attention although there are high and low points, but the performance of the competitive spirit is the same, the gold medal is naturally equal.
02. Olympic competition, two sides of the same
from the Olympic results, “Olympic competition program” is in place. China's steady progress in the Olympic gold medal list, the women's program has become the main force of our delegation to win gold medals, the number of gold medals for seven consecutive sessions beyond the men's program.
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but from the national sports development situation, this program has considerable disadvantages: “small, clever, difficult, women, less” discord - popular projects, power projects, difficult projects, men's projects, The number of competitors in the program, over the past 20 years to carry out very unsatisfactory.
a little thought, you will find these five norms, men's soccer meets the four ......
the current Olympic Games, China's men's collective ball game almost a total loss, and the “Olympic Games to compete for the gas program,” the strategy can not be separated. Relationship. Foot, basketball and volleyball sports over the years, the results of the decline, but also with this strategy is irrelevant.
more than 20 years, other countries are vigorously developing these programs, although our country has also made progress, but the speed is not as fast as others. The result is that the gap between us and the international advanced level is widening.
For example, China's women's soccer team from 1986, seven consecutive Asian Cup Championship, but also achieved the World Cup runner-up and Olympic silver medal. In that era, we were the advanced level of international women's soccer.
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1999 World Cup, China's women's soccer team 5-0 Norwegian women's soccer team
but after the new century, women's soccer results began to slide:
2004 Olympic Games, China's women's soccer team 0-8 tragic loss to Germany ;
2011, China's women's soccer team did not qualify for the World Cup, and in 2012 did not qualify for the Olympic Games;
2021 Olympic Games, China's women's soccer team 5 goals to defeat the Brazilian team, exposing a huge gap with the advanced level of international women's soccer.
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2021 Olympics, our women's soccer team 0-5 Brazilian women's soccer team
A similar slippery trajectory may also be about to play in our men's basketball team: the same Asian hegemony that had been a consecutive multi-year successor is beginning to miss the Olympics this year.
2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, lost through the Olympic qualification, the Basketball Association President Yao Ming accepts the interview, directly said the situation: “This time is considered to be another time we open our eyes to see the international bar, the level of international and we (pulled) is really getting bigger and bigger.”
03. Love gold medals? Love sports!
The current Olympic Games in the shadow of the epidemic difficult to start, the Olympic Committee for this reason in the “higher, faster, stronger” slogan and then added a “more united”.
In fact, our people to the Olympic Games “unity” role of the feelings, far more than the international countries to come early, to the deep.
writer Zhang Shishan in 1988 after the defeat of Seoul, wrote an article “we have the right to participate in”, said the general public's voice: the yellow children who do not long for the revitalization of the nation? Even if it is only in the national blood transfusion points to ensure a great victory on the sports front?
At that time, China's national strength is not strong, the economic take-off has just begun, in order to enhance the national self-confidence and pride, we need gold medals, the need for success. The Olympic Competitiveness Program was born in this context, and it was successful and played a great role.
but we should also understand, this main focus on niche projects of the parochial strategy, is a stopgap measure, can not be taken as a miraculous plan. The strength of a country's sports, the gold medal is only decent, the key is the foundation.
the question comes, how to get the foundation?
Some people will say, once we have limited economic conditions to focus on those niche projects, and now we are now the second largest economy in the world, the experience of those niche projects to the public project on the line?
In fact, we have tried.
2014, set the national honorary player, honorary coach, honorary chairman of the three identities in the body of Cai Zhenhua, the new Chinese football association chairman. This personnel arrangement, the purpose is clear, is to “national ball” experience to teach the national football.
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Cai Zhenhua spoke on behalf of the CFA
It's just too bad that the market size of the two programs isn't in the same class, and the amount of money that needs to be invested in the program isn't in the same class either.
The strength of table tennis in China is due to the fact that there is a whole system of youth training and coaching teams, from amateur sports schools to professional sports schools to provincial teams to the national team, and there is a large enough pool of talent at each level. This system can rely on the national financial support, but like soccer, basketball, such as global competition in the project, can not count on the national financial.
What is the way out?
Yao Ming, president of the Basketball Association, gave the answer in that interview.
“It is necessary for us to go and climb as hard as we can, from the professional league to training, and then to the combination of physical education for young people. We have a strong determination to go on. I will not stop the reform, we can not fail, it is necessary to go on more firmly. We now know the international pattern, it is necessary to look toward the international advanced level.”
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2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, Yao Ming consoled Yi Jianlian
Promoting the commercialization of sports, the development of professional leagues, and the use of the market force to strengthen the physical education of young people and the training of industrial personnel is the pattern of the international advanced level, and it is also Our way out.
From the bad side, our sports industry is still very immature.
In many programs, if a person can't make it out of this path as an athlete, it's hard to find another job to support themselves. While it is only a one in a million loss for the country, it is a 100 percent failure for the individual. No parents are willing to let their children take such a difficult path, the size of the market, the size of the athlete selection can not be discussed.
Indeed, as Chairman Yao said, the need to “try to crawl”.
from a good point of view, today engaged in sports to face the public opinion environment, now more than the year Li Ning faced, to be too good.
than Fu Yuanhui, just because of the “exertion” of the best efforts and optimism, will be loved by the people; then compared to Liu Xiang, was subjected to a lot of abuse, and now many people say he owes an apology.
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In 2010, after the Olympic withdrawal storm Liu Xiang back to the peak
the reason for this is that our country is strong, and our self-confidence and pride are now not too much need to use the gold medal to show. Most people have understood: sports should be happy work, try their best, results ranked second.
When everyone understands this reasoning, and can be actively involved in sports, we can really become a sports power.
