Artistic Gymnastics Only 2 bronze, the worst in 32 years, China has no "referee fate"
Artistic Gymnastics On the last competition day of the event, China participated in men's parallel bars and women's free exercise. On the parallel bars, Brother Deng ranked fifth in the row, and You Hao sat down at the bottom when he stepped off the bar. Wang Yan's high degree of movement completion but low difficulty won't win the medal. In the end, the Chinese gymnastics team won 0 gold, 0 silver and 2 bronze, which was the worst performance since 1984.
Gymnastics is a scoring project, and the referee's subjective scoring directly determines the result of the game. This session Olympic Games At the beginning of the qualification match, the referee problem has always been an obstacle for the Chinese gymnastics team. In the women's qualification competition, Fan Yilin, the strongest player on the uneven bars in China, ranked ninth in her complete set of no mistakes. Liu Xuan commented that "this (the referee scored) caught up with the Chinese diving team." Chen Yibing participated in all the matches as a commentator, and almost every time he mentioned the referee's problem. Women's Team Leader Shang Chunsong She was defeated by Russia's Mustafana in 0.116 points in her all-around ability. Her failure to win a medal puzzled her: "My difficulty scores were very high, and there were no mistakes, but the completion score was always low." In that game, Mustafana made major mistakes in two events, and Shang Chunsong only scored 15 points on the uneven bars in four events.
So, the referee really hacked the Chinese team collectively? On the men's parallel bars, You Hao fell to the ground with the most difficult movement. The men's rings, Liu Yang's inverted cross, were not in place. Fan Yilin made many mistakes in the balance beam final and almost fell off the equipment
It is true that the referee is suspected of pressing points, but the error is not caused by the referee's scoring. There is no excuse for not being able to enter the finals in so many individual events. There is only one reason: Chinese gymnastics has lost its glory in Beijing in 2008, and we are in the most difficult stage.
The first question is that this year, all 10 members of the gymnastics team are rookies. Only Zhang Chenglong has participated in the London Olympic Games. Before the gymnastics team, there were always Li Ning, Li Xiaopeng, Li Xiaoshuang, Yang Wei, Zou Kai and other leading figures. The lack of such a sea calming needle makes young players unable to withstand psychological pressure and make frequent mistakes. Mao Yi, who won the silver medal in last year's national championship, said, "I am very nervous, and it takes a process to adapt to the competition." In just one year, almost all young players played out of order from domestic competitions to the Olympic Games. In the last event, Chen Yibing also stopped talking about the referee. He sighed: "Young players have strength and lack of arrogance, and they are always so bad." Chinese gymnastics is no longer the king's teacher eight years ago.
The second problem is that the gymnastics team is not in the right direction in terms of material selection and movement arrangement. The selection of Chinese women's gymnastics team has always been short and smart. With this low center of gravity, you can make more difficult movements in the air. However, in the past Olympic cycle, the preference of judges has changed. The absolute strength type is as follows Byrs The tall and stretching type, such as Mustafana and Vivos, the Chinese players do not blindly pursue the difficulty at both ends, and they are not favored by the referee.
The third and most important problem is that Chinese athletes have no "referee fate". It is no secret that judges have preferences in scoring. Their personal preferences, the nationality of players, their preferred style, the order of players' appearance, and even whether the players are well known internationally will affect the scoring. But "fate" could have been cultivated, but the Chinese gymnastics team has ignored this recently.
If you want to make a player popular, you must let him appear in the appropriate game in good condition. What impression a player left on the referee in several international competitions before his career is a benchmark, such as Shang Chunsong, who was "scored down" for her all-round ability. She made her debut in the 11 year Dross Invitational Tournament and won the gold medal in the balance beam and two silver medals in the uneven bars and free exercise. According to this trend, she could have become the favorite of judges. As a result, Shang Chunsong became the victim of the provincial power struggle in the 12 year national championship, and suffered the worst referee fate in his career. Shang Chunsong, who was delayed in China, was not successful again.
Are there any successful cases of Chinese women's gymnastics? This cycle has one - Yao Jinnan. Some people in the industry have sighed that Yao Jinnan's E point (completion point) has not been suppressed since his debut. Yao Jinnan also entered the international arena in 11 years. In the Stuttgart World Cup, one person won three gold medals and played well in the subsequent world championships. At that time, the talented girl was in the limelight. She also took the bus of the London Olympic Games to accumulate experience. Since then, she has won gold medals in the All Championships and the Asian Games. She is the most qualified gymnast in the international arena. Unfortunately, Yao Jinnan's career was seriously frustrated due to injury, and he didn't get the chance to go to Rio.
China's Gymnastics "Can't Go Out" in the Olympic Year
After the women's qualification competition, the domestic media and a number of former Olympic champions were complaining for the little girls. He Kexin, the "uneven bars princess", directly fired at the referee: "I really don't understand the scoring, so the rules should be changed." After the competition, he interviewed reporters, Artistic Gymnastics Huang Yubin, the head coach of the team, said, "I have no right to speak." This sentence pushed back the momentum of the public opinion counter attack.
When saying this, I wonder if Head Coach Huang Yubin has remembered a decision made a few months ago. In March this year, Ye Zhennan, the leader of the gymnastics team, announced publicly that in order to ensure the systematic preparation of the main players, the Chinese team will send second tier players to participate in all international events before the Rio Olympic Games, and the main players will only participate in the national championship and Olympic trials until they go to Rio.
Now it seems that this decision is too stupid. First of all, the international events before the Olympic Games can enable athletes to adapt to the atmosphere of the stadium and accumulate valuable experience; In addition, such an international competition is the best opportunity for judges to know Chinese players. Perhaps the coaching team of the gymnastics team is still immersed in the illusion of "beating the opponent with a surprise by secret exercises". You should know that the gymnastics project eight years ago may be OK. Now, through several months of internal training, selection and development of difficult movements, we hope to sweep the army. Such a dream should have been awakened long ago.
Head Coach Huang Yubin may have realized that we have no say in the referee issue. Taking the uneven bars event that Fan Yilin lost, for example, Russia and the United States were the most powerful referees in the pattern of the International Sports Federation, so there was a suspicion that Fan Yilin's 7.1 difficulty score was too high, which was too threatening to the United States and Russia. However, Bayers was weak in this event, and simply forced Fan Yilin out of the final by scoring low in the morning. Regardless of whether this "conspiracy theory" is true or not, the top three on the uneven bars are Mustafana of Russia, Kosian of the United States, and Schchader of Germany, representing the three most powerful systems of the referee, Russia, the United States, and the European referee in a group.
At this year's Rio Olympic Games, there was only one Chinese referee, Zhu Jieya, who served as the referee of Group D (difficulty score) of women's vault, and there was no point with E (completion score). In other events, there will be no judges speaking for Chinese players. In contrast, in the Beijing Olympic Games, where the Chinese gymnastics team won nine gold medals and created history, Huang Liping, who swore the oath on behalf of the judges at the opening ceremony, had a voice in gymnastics.
The referee problem has puzzled the Chinese gymnastics class for more than two days, and there are many ways to do it. Under the current sports system in China, training referees is not an immediate success, and English will wipe out many people. Even if you are admitted to the international referee qualification, you have to go through many international competitions before you can enforce the law in the Olympic Games. The referee needs to be re certified every four years. What about officials at all levels? It is better to find a few good candidates than to spend energy on training judges, and the immediate benefits will be great if you practice in death and make achievements.
Shao Bin's change of score at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games was the turning point of the referee problem. In the final of men's free exercise, Shao Bin, as the referee of Group D, informed the recorder to modify the score directly in violation of regulations before the score of Group F was publicized. This behavior led to Jackie Chan's score and South Korean player Kim Soo mian ranking first, because Jackie Chan came out first and played the Chinese national anthem when presenting the award.
The attitude of the Chinese Gymnastics Association towards this incident is personal and has nothing to do with us. Dong Fangxiao's "age gate" was also personal. It is normal for FIG to doubt the professional ethics of Chinese referees and even Chinese gymnasts. At this year's Olympic Games, foreign journalists asked Shang Chunsong about his age. Such distrust came not only from the media but also from the judges.
In recent years, Liu Xuan and Chen Yibing have both passed the international referee qualification, but the issue of referee voice cannot be changed by one or two former Olympic champions. Without the attention and support from the leadership, the situation that Chinese gymnastics has no voice in front of the referee will not be improved.
Lose at the starting line, 100000 people in the United States are engaged in gymnastics, and only 3000 people in China
This Olympic Games Artistic Gymnastics There is another detail of the game that many people may not have noticed. Foreign players, such as Baiers from the United States and Mustafana from Russia, are full of passion and smiles when they do their moves, which makes people feel energetic. The Chinese players are very serious, and their smiles are tight. It has to be said that the referee scoring also has this factor, that is, the investigation of the players' mental state.
Before attending the Olympic Games, there were not many people who knew about Shang Chunsong. During the competition, the media reported as usual some stories about where she came from, how hard the training was, and how many people expected her to shoulder. Shang Chunsong came from the deep mountain of Zhangjiajie. She took the road of gymnastics because her family felt that if she made a difference in gymnastics, her family could go out of the mountain.
Since she was 6 years old, Shang Chunsong has been carrying the responsibility of taking her "family" out of the mountains. For more than 10 years, she has not dared to relax for a moment. In the words of Huang Wei, the enlightenment coach, "When she first came here, she was a little older, and it was very hard to pull the ligaments, physical strength, and strength training. Even so, Shang Chunsong has never said, 'I will not practice' once."
Shang Chunsong is really admirable, which is also the biggest impression that gymnasts give to Chinese people - thin and poor. Most gymnasts are like Shang Chunsong, hoping that gymnastics can change their lives and that of their families. Only winning the championship can be a success. As a result, parents tend not to let their children practice gymnastics as long as they have other ways out. Now it seems that this road is getting narrower and narrower. Ye Zhennan, the head of the gymnastics team, said that at present there are only more than 3000 registered gymnasts in China, and gymnastics schools everywhere are facing difficulties in enrollment.
How did the United States, the world champion of women's gymnastics, do it? There are more than 4000 gymnastics clubs in China alone, 100000 registered athletes and more than 5 million gymnasts. Gymnastics is like piano and painting. Its purpose is to cultivate children's interests. Parents send their children there to exercise and make friends. Many children finally chose gymnastics, the biggest reason is that they love it, rather than being like Chinese athletes who are always carrying the fate of the whole family, the achievements of provincial officials, and the expectations of the whole nation.
While children in the United States participate in gymnastics training as a hobby, our children have gone all the way to the dark as professional preparation. When they only practice for two hours a day, our children's training time is several times more. When their parents would punish them for not practicing gymnastics today, our coach said that not practicing gymnastics would be regarded as a reward. Their gymnastic training time is short, but there are many competitions. There are competitions in all cities and states. Until the national competition and the world competition, the elite players who have been selected at all levels can be said to have a hard time. In China, only day after day training fills the lives of these children, and the only few competition opportunities in a year fail to win the championship. It may be that years of hard work will come to naught, thus making many people "disappointed". Because there is no other way out, I have to keep practicing. When can I become as famous as them? This is every Olympic Games. Many children who practice gymnastics in China look at the TV and have ideas in their minds.
Therefore, in the United States, gymnastics has formed a virtuous circle from hobbies to amateurs and then to professions. When the base is large enough, better players can be selected naturally. In China, gymnastics (including weightlifting and other events) means suffering, being injured, and being apart from our families. In this regard, we are not only inferior to the United States, but also inferior to our neighbor Japan. They combine the strengths of the United States and China, improve the participation of the public in gymnastics through amateur gymnastics clubs, and then select young people to receive professional training and participate in competitions. The number of Japanese gymnasts is relatively abundant. There are more than 100 all Japanese gymnastics clubs, and there are about 6000 male gymnasts alone, twice the total number of Chinese gymnasts.
This is not invisible to domestic gymnasts. Many coaches and officials have sighed: "It is increasingly difficult to find players, and they will not practice for a year." But how to change the social impression of gymnastics and how to change people's perception of gymnastics, no one can come up with a feasible idea. Maybe we should wait until one day when children have more PE classes in school.
Conclusion: The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass are in advance. In fact, before the Olympic Games, China's gymnastics had already lost. This is not a problem for the athletes themselves, but for the whole gymnastics industry. There was a national system to fight chicken blood before, but now the chicken blood is exhausted, leaving a ground of chicken feathers. We need to start step by step.
