How to Walk in Centennial Gymnastics: Difficult movements bring endless accidents and injuries.
Kenzo Shirai, a Japanese gymnast, spun for four consecutive rounds in the competition, and was called "drum washing machine" by Japanese netizens. (Xinhua News Agency)
China, who also pursued difficult movements, lost the championship because of many mistakes.
This is a microcosm of gymnasts' pursuit of difficult movements. The other side of this pursuit is endless accidents and injuries.
How to Walk in Centennial Gymnastics: Difficult movements bring endless accidents and injuries.
German gymnast Toba tore the cruciate ligament of his right knee when he participated in the men's team floor exercise. In order to qualify for the German team, he completed the pommel horse project with injury, and finally the German team advanced to the final. After that, Doba could only watch his teammates play football on the sidelines with tears in their eyes.
Two days after the start of the game, players were injured frequently.
Just before the start of the men's team competition, in the women's gymnastics all-around competition, the British girl Irina Kaptelova? Downey landed on his head while doing a somersault, and the photo at that time was once again listed as "cautious" by the website. "I heard my neck creak, which sounded scary." Irina Kaptelova said.
Finally, she left the stadium in a wheelchair. This reminds people of Sang Lan. Both of them had an accident when 17 years old. I hope Irina Kaptelova's injury is not so serious.
How to Walk in Centennial Gymnastics: Difficult movements bring endless accidents and injuries.
French player Aite? Sade broke his calf in the vault qualifying. This accident is called "the most serious fracture in the history of Olympic vault".
Only two days after the start of Olympic gymnastics, the news of athletes' injuries kept coming. 1. French player Aite? Sade broke his left leg in the vault qualifying. A reporter from Washington post said: "When his bones broke, the whole stadium could hear the sound of bone brittle fracture." However, the French Gymnastics Federation said the next day that Sadr had successfully undergone surgery overnight and the operation was more successful.
How to Walk in Centennial Gymnastics: Difficult movements bring endless accidents and injuries.
British player elisa? Downey landed on his head when he somersaulted, which was worrying. (The pictures in this edition are based on Sina Sports except the signature.)
Next, Andreas of Germany? Toba injured his knee in training and was helped off the field. His former gymnast Fabian? Hambutzen told the media: "Everyone is pursuing higher and higher difficulties, and correspondingly they are taking greater and greater risks."
High risk does not necessarily bring high returns.
The root of all this comes from the change of rules by the International Gymnastics Federation. After the Athens Olympic Games, the gymnastics scoring system is divided into two parts, including difficulty scoring and completion scoring. Difficulty scores are divided into different coefficients, so the pursuit of difficult movements has become the only way to achieve good results. There have been many previously unimaginable movements, which are beyond the physical laws and the physiological endurance limit of the human body. It not only brings more sensory stimulation to the audience, but also gives athletes the feeling of dancing on the tip of the knife.
This is not the whole problem. Because the gymnastics scoring system is too complicated for outsiders to understand, the referee can deliberately raise or lower a player's score according to his own preferences or other inhuman reasons. For example, Chen's score in the London Olympics was taken care of by the referee.
1997, Kui Yuanyuan was also "taken care of" and later received an apology from the Gymnastics Federation, but the Federation obviously did not intend to learn from it. In the preliminary round of the women's team in Rio Olympic Games, there were many disputes about the referee's penalty again. Liu Xuan, a gymnast, said that the score given to China caught up with the diving team, while the score given to the United States was like sitting on a rocket.
This means that paying a high-risk price to fight against difficult fluctuations may not be rewarded.
How to get to Centennial Gymnastics?
Olympic athletes are just the top of the pyramid. In fact, in order to reach the spire, a large number of children who take part in gymnastics training will give up halfway. Broken bones and tendons will ruin your sports career, but it will affect your life. Fortunately, many grown-up famous players fell on the threshold of the Olympic Games: for example, before the London Olympics, Cheng Fei, the main force of the China women's team, was injured and quit. Gymnastics is more dangerous than football and even boxing.
In addition to injuries, gymnasts must make themselves shorter in order to keep balance better. To this end, many people are over-controlling their diet and affecting their development. This is a kind of harm to health, which is of course quite different from the Olympic spirit. Gymnastics Federation is going further and further with gymnastics. In the long run, no parents will be willing to send their children to gymnastics.
Ye Zhennan, the leader of China Gymnastics Team, expressed his dissatisfaction at the London Olympic Games: he thought that blindly pursuing difficult development violated the physiological characteristics and growth and development laws of athletes and must be paid attention to, otherwise, "Centennial Gymnastics will go to a dead end". Fabian? Hambutzen said directly, "I don't like this scoring system. I hope they will change it after the Rio Olympics. "
It's time to change. People can't become washing machines. If we continue along this road, gymnastics will become more irrational and inhuman and eventually wither.