Why can a small town win this honor? The reporter walked into Xiantao to explore the road to forge ahead in the hometown of gymnastics.
Stick to it for 40 years and achieve the "cradle" of champions.
Athletes have participated in five consecutive Olympic Games, from which China's two gymnastics men's all-around gold medals originated. In major international and domestic competitions, winning 12 1 gold medal and 143 silver medal is unique in China.
The outside world lamented that this was a miracle. Xiang Xiang, director of Xiantao Sports Bureau, said that this is the result of persistence.
1972, Xiantao gymnastics started hard, and Ding Jiao's gymnastics class was neglected. It was not until 1980s that Li Dashuang and Li made achievements, and the gymnastics class developed into a children's sports school. 1992, Li won the gold medal of floor exercise in Barcelona Olympic Games, Xiantao was boiling, and gymnastics entered a period of rapid development.
In March, 2000, the National Gymnastics Management Center awarded the plaque "Hometown of Gymnastics in Xiantao, China". In June 2004, Xiantao held the first International Gymnastics Festival. In 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Xiantao wrote the myth of "one town, two champions (Yang Wei and Liao Hui), three gold medals and four medals"!
Brilliant gold medals have soaked the sweat of generations of Xiantao gymnasts. "Without the persistence of grassroots coaches such as Ding, there would be no Xiantao Sports today!" Tell Shao Xin.
National fitness, supporting a famous sports city
Li, Yang Wei and Zheng, three Olympic gymnastics champions, plus Olympic weightlifting champion Liao Hui and world gymnastics champion Li Dashuang, are all in the same city. What is the secret? Over the past five years, Xinhua News Agency, NBC, Yomiuri Shimbun, Star Weekly and many other Chinese and foreign media have come to Xiantao to ask questions.
Xiantao's answer is very real: national fitness is the key. Of the city's population of 6.5438+0.55 million, the sports population is nearly 700,000, reaching more than 45%!
As early as when the Eleventh Five-Year Plan was formulated, Xiantao demanded "building stadiums around the masses, improving organizations and organizing activities" to ensure that the sports population increased year by year. In 2009, after Xiantao successfully held the seventh sports meeting, it held more than 50 mass sports activities such as "Basketball League" and "Track and Field Games for Primary and Secondary School Students" every year, with nearly 10,000 participants. It can be said that "there are activities every day, there are events every month, and there is a climax in each season". Rural sports is the shortcoming of national fitness. The city increased investment in the implementation of farmers' physical fitness project, which was basically completed early last year.
At present, the construction of the Olympic Sports Center with an investment of 350 million yuan in Xiantao City has been fully started, the renovation of the basketball hall of the amateur sports school has been fully put in place, and the hardware of the "World Gymnastics City" is basically ready.
Polish your business card and start again in the hometown of gymnastics.
Gymnastics is a beautiful business card that Xiantao gave to the world.
What is the value of this business card? During the first International Gymnastics Festival held in 2004, Xiantao won more than 60 agreements and successfully attracted 3 billion yuan. Long Yongtu, then secretary-general of Boao Forum for Asia, who was invited to attend the meeting, commented: "Xiantao has found an entry point to integrate into the world, and this point is gymnastics." In recent years, this hot stamping business card has attracted famous brands such as Bao Si, Want Want, Yanjing Beer, COFCO and Jiaduobao.
At the beginning of this year, several businessmen from Xiantao traveled to Romania and were questioned by the police. When the translator introduced these guests from the hometown of Li and Yang Wei in Xiantao, China, the police immediately smiled admiringly and suggested sending them back to the hotel by police car. "Playing gymnastics cards and singing economic and trade plays", Xiantao people are keen, intelligent and open, which explains the new city spirit of the hometown of gymnastics. Mayor Feng Yunqiao said, "Gymnastics is not just a sport in Xiantao. The gymnastics spirit of "self-improvement, tenacious struggle and striving for the first place" has become the core of Xiantao's urban spirit and a powerful spiritual driving force to promote the scientific development of Xiantao. "
And this is the inexhaustible source for Xiantao to polish its business card and start again.