AskEli! Many Paralympic contestants will remember this exclamation. “Qilai!” means “stand up!” is the beginning of the Chinese national anthem “March of Volunteers”. It is currently broadcast about ten times a day in Tokyo.this Paralympics It may happen in Japan, but they seem to belong to the land of dragons.
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So far, Chinese athletes have won 18.2% of the gold medals, 85 of which are followed by “Come!” The United Kingdom, which ranks second in the Paralympic medal list, is far behind with 37 gold medals. “At the Paralympic Games, we are always surprised how many Chinese athletes have joined the Paralympic Games,” German swimmer Verena Schott joked. “Then we’ll keep watching where they are.” Schott is in a good mood and just won the bronze medal at the water sports center. Your third medal in the game. At this time, she won the most medals for Germany.
In the process of swimming back more than 100 meters, Short was the third person to be hit. He was the mother of three children and was completely paraplegic. Holds European records. The Berliners are ranked behind Elizabeth Marks in the United States-second place is Jiang Yuyan from China. This is the fourth medal for a 16-year-old player, two of which won gold medals. China has won 56 swimming medals, including 19 gold medals. What makes the Chinese so good?
The answer is still cliché
“This is really a black hole for us. Actually…we don’t know anything,” Short said. “The important point is that we pursue a faster and better attitude,” Jiang said. “Of course there are some training methods, I don’t want to talk about it now.” Jiang himself is from Shaoxing near Shanghai. As a child, she lost her right leg and arm in an accident. Her parents always inspire her, and the coach she found when she was 13 always encouraged her. “Also, I have never experienced any discrimination. Everything is the same as someone without restrictions.”
In the People’s Republic of China, all this sounds harmonious, but the answer is still a cliché. Despite the flood of medals, you can’t find colleagues from the Chinese media in the water sports center. Despite the victory, the athletes passed straight ahead of the media. China exists, but it is also a mystery. This has not reduced the success rate of this country. on the contrary. It is no longer just a Chinese military parade like table tennis or a personal perfection discipline like swimming. China has won.
Wheelchair basketball, women, semifinals. China vs. the United States of America. The hometown of basketball. Both teams are strong defensively and hardly have any points. Until the last minute-China 35:33-everything is possible, then the huge difference becomes obvious: the Americans start fouling the Chinese free throws, but even if it is a three-pointer, they must seek risk. From the Far East ‘S team is still expressionless because of the pressure: all free throws have been converted. The game came to an end and the victory went to China.
Until now, Chinese women have shown that they are not without feelings. They cheered loudly, and then carefully choreographed. In the center circle, they are perfectly round together. After the coach spoke, cheers came to the main stand, followed by a “fist holding ceremony”: the right fist was placed in front of the body and the left palm. Greetings from traditional Chinese martial arts. The team, which has never won a Paralympic medal, played against the Netherlands in the final. “Everyone has internalized and understood in detail the content of our long-term practice,” said coach Chen Qi, who was also a wheelchair basketball player for the 2008 Paralympic Games.
When asked who he hit, Qi smiled briefly and proudly. “The Americans are actually stronger. We still have to train more to stay at their level.” According to the Chinese website qq.com, the wheelchair team spent 278 days in Guangzhou, and no amount of training is almost impossible. Qi is a supporter of intensive physical and mental training. But he also said: “Many girls have had accidents before they became disabled. For them, the whole world collapsed. They broke off their original friends and lost confidence in life. We accepted them and gave them. Warmth feels the same as everyone.”
During the Paralympic Games, the government supported perfect performance. But there is still no national wheelchair basketball league, and all games are played at the provincial level. “No player is a professional, most of them are working,” Qi said. Many of them are employed by a mobile phone company in Guangdong. Detailed information is also difficult to obtain from Qi. Only success is obvious. “China is in a different alliance,” said Carl Quaid, the head of the delegation. “Unbelievable is what is happening: for all those participating in the Paralympics, ten people are ready and want to come here.”
