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The team competition of the 2023 Asian Youth Badminton Championships was held in Indonesia. It was supposed to be a youthful and energetic arena, but a sad accident happened.
Chinese teenager Zhang Zhijie unfortunately fell to the ground in the game, and finally passed away at the age of 18 after rescue efforts failed.
This Asian Youth Championship was originally an excellent stage for Zhang Zhijie to show himself.
As the core strength of the national youth team, Zhang Zhijie has high technical combat power and unlimited potential, and is expected to be high. No one expected that this expedition would become the last stop of his life.
What is embarrassing is that Zhang Zhijie fell to the ground on the spot and was carried away only two minutes later. Although the medical staff at the scene immediately rushed him to the hospital for resuscitation, his pulse and breathing had stopped. After 4 and a half hours of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Indonesia and China hospitals, he was still unable to be dragged back from the ghost gate.
According to an authoritative doctor in China, Zhang Zhijie's condition is very likely to be "sudden death due to exercise". Without any warning and physical contact, young people who suddenly suffer cardiac arrest during strenuous exercise are prone to permanent brain damage after 5 minutes if CPR is not performed in time.
It is precisely because of the slow rescue response and various mistakes in the on-site rescue that Zhang Zhijie will have such a tragedy. Many public opinion believes that if first aid measures had been taken at that time, the result might have been completely different.
Zhang Zhijie, who was only 18 years old, died without a problem, and the flower of life withered before it had time to bloom. This news undoubtedly brought great shock and condolences to the Chinese badminton world.
Countless people have been hurt by it, and the badminton superstars are even more heartbroken. Olympic champion Lin Dan commented: "I don't think [the International Badminton Federation] has taken into account the details. They should create a better playing environment and rest time for athletes. "
Cai Yun also posted a message of condolences on social platforms: "I am extremely sad to wake up early in the morning and see such news, the Chinese badminton team has lost an excellent young man, and my parents have lost a good son forever."
On the day after Zhang Zhijie's death, that is, on July 1, the tragicSSSSS day, before the start of the Asian Youth Championship team competition, the audience paid a silent tribute to him. In the subsequent match between the Chinese team and Chinese Taipei, the winning Chinese player looked at the sky and comforted his deceased teammates in this way.
A young life withered away like this, which is sad and makes people reflect: in high-intensity professional sports, should athletes be given more humane care and protection? Judging from what happened to Zhang Zhijie, it seems that we still have a long way to go. This heart-wrenching accident not only deprived the Chinese badminton world of a young rookie, but also made the world see the safety hazards in professional sports. Young life withers away, and the lesson is painful.
In response to Zhang Zhijie's death, there are reflections and suggestions from all sides. The Indonesian Badminton Federation has proposed to the International Badminton Federation (IBF) to amend the existing rules to allow medical personnel to rescue athletes who have fallen to the ground at the first opportunity. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs also said that it will continue to guide the local embassy and do a good job in follow-up related work.
The top priority is to give Zhang Zhijie justice. The mistakes made at the time of the incident have left young lives withered in vain, and they must not be repeated in the future. Both the event organizers and the athletes themselves must take precautions and effectively improve safety awareness.
At the same time, the rules and regulations of professional sports also need to be improved urgently. It turns out that the existing security measures are far from enough, and there is an urgent need to upgrade from a humane perspective. For the physical and mental health of the participants, the event party must pay attention to and protect the non-conditions. In addition, the tragedy is a reflection of the inadequacy of humanitarian care for international sports organizations. The pursuit of interests is too much, and the basic rights and interests of athletes are ignored, which has led to such a tragedy. In the future, they must face up to this problem and rebuild the humanistic spirit of sport.
In general, Zhang Zhijie's death makes us wake up: while pursuing higher, faster and stronger, humanistic care and life value should always be the highest criterion. If we only focus on gold medals and ignore the safety of human lives, tragedy will be repeated again and again.
We all hope that Zhang Zhijie can become the last young life to wither on the stadium. By learning lessons and continuing to improve, his death will not be a tragedy in mourning, but a turning point in the humanization of professional sports. Zhang Zhijie's death is nothing less than a thunderbolt, which suddenly awakens us to ignore the safety of professional sports. It is truly deplorable that the life of an 18-year-old has withered away like this.
What is even more worrying is that this tragedy is not an isolated case. In recent years, in high-intensity professional sports events, many young athletes have died violently on the field for various reasons, and their lives have suffered an unjustified disaster.
Just in 2022, a 19-year-old Danish footballer suddenly collapsed during a warm-up, and although his life was saved after 40 minutes of rescue, he suffered permanent brain damage. In 2021, a 22-year-old English football club player died suddenly during training. There are many other tragic deaths of young lives...
These events are a powerful wake-up call: are we ignoring the fundamental rights of athletes in our pursuit of being higher, faster, and stronger? Do you attach too much importance to gold medals and ignore the preciousness of life? It is clear that the existing security measures for sports events have seriously lagged behind and are in urgent need of drastic reforms. Neither the event organisers, associations, nor individual athletes seem to have paid enough attention to sports safety.
At present, the most urgent thing is to start from the institutional level and make fundamental adjustments and improvements to safety management. For example, reform the establishment of on-site ambulance teams to ensure that first aid is provided to victims as soon as possible;
Optimize the schedule and reserve sufficient rest time for athletes; Strengthen physical examination checks, prevent problems before they occur, and so on.
At the same time, it is also important to raise the safety awareness of the whole society. We should all take Zhang Zhijie's death as a lesson and earnestly put the safety of athletes' lives as important as the pursuit of championships, and there must be no more young lives withering.
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