Dong Dong is coming! Yesterday's Northwest University Chang'an Campus Gymnasium, the legend of the Chinese and even world trampoline industry appeared and became the darling of the audience. Dong Dong, the elder of the four Olympic dynasties and the five dynasties of the National Games, who is just 32 years old this year, has already proved himself with unyielding experience and good results, coupled with his handsomeness, humility and kindness, which has set off a "whirlwind of Dong Dong" in the National Games. Will this National Games be Dong Dong's curtain call? His response was: "I don't think it's easy to say right now." According to my usual characteristics, I will not think so far, I only think about the present, do a good job in the present. ”
Photo: Dong Dong Xinmin Evening News reporter Li Mingyan photo (the same below)
Since 2005, Dong Dong has represented Shanxi in the 5th National Games. In the previous four editions, he has won one team championship, two individual championships and one individual runner-up. Among them, in 2005, Dong Dong and his teammates won the trampoline men's team crown of the 10th National Games with 154.80 points, laying the leading position of Shanxi Province in the national trampoline project. In the 11th National Games in 2009, Dong Dong won the men's trampoline with 42.30 points. At the 12th National Games in 2013, he won the championship with 61.685 points. At the 13th National Games in 2017, Dong Dong ranked second in the men's trampoline with 60.985 points, and the champion was his teammate Tu Xiao.
Pictured: Dong Dong in the game
In fact, Dong Dong, who started practicing gymnastics at the age of 5, is a native of Henan, but when he was 12 years old, the Henan gymnastics team was canceled, and he happened to be recruited by the Shanxi trampoline team, so he changed to trampoline and grew all the way to become a legend. Dong Dong has participated in four Olympic Games, won 1 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze for a total of 4 medals, and did not return empty-handed in each Olympic Games, and his trampoline career was perfect. "Life goes on, dreams go on. Dreams are the driving force of our lives, and I will motivate myself to keep practicing and enjoy more games. Dong Dong said that he was fighting for results in the early days, and now he is more to enjoy the game, "Before many people thought that my age was relatively old among athletes, the Rio Olympics should be my last Olympic Games, but I did not expect that I insisted on the Tokyo Olympic Games." ”
After the Olympic Games, he participated in the National Games non-stop, although the training during the quarantine period was very unsystematic, but Dong Dong's self-confidence and experience accumulated over the years helped him. In yesterday's National Games men's trampoline preliminaries, the Shanxi team led by Dong Dong, the runner-up of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and Tu Xiao, the champion of the men's online individual competition of the last National Games, performed well, Dong Dong personally scored 111.975 points, and advanced to the individual event final as the second in the online individual preliminary competition, and the Shanxi team also ranked second in the preliminary round with a total score of 427.030, successfully advancing to the men's team event final.
At the scene of the competition, Dong Dong is not the most difficult or the best, but he is the most powerful in the aura and the most stable in play. When it was not his turn to play, he sat quietly on the sidelines to watch others play; when it was almost his turn to play, he warmed up meticulously on the sidelines in advance; and when he saw that some young players played well and won the highest score in the preliminary round, he also went out to shake hands with each other to congratulate. Calm, confident, but not lacking in the desire for the championship, Dong Dong said after the game, although the schedule is very tense, but he hopes to be able to launch an impact on the two champions.
Pictured: Dong Dong will launch an attack on the two championships
Will this be your last National Games? Facing the reporter's question after the game, Dong Dong shook his head after thinking about it: "I haven't considered this problem yet, I think it's better to live every day in front of me first, and then leave the future days for the future to think about." But one thing he's sure of is that no matter when he retires, he will leave calmly: "One day I will leave the arena and change my new identity and role." But I feel like a very lucky athlete who has practiced trampolines for so many years and has achieved a lot. If I leave the arena one day, I will definitely leave with pride and pride, and I will not leave a single regret. (Xinmin Evening News special correspondent Li Yuanchun Xi'an Today)