At the Beijing Winter Olympics two years ago, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the pairs figure skating championship. Beijing News data picture
Two years ago on February 19, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong won the Beijing Winter Olympics figure skating pairs championship. At the 14th Winter Figure Skating Competition held in Hulunbuir, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong once again appeared on the ice rink at the same time. However, now they all have new identities. Han Cong is a technical expert in pairs skating, and Sui Wenjing appears on the sidelines as the coach of the Guangdong team.
After the Beijing Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing and Han Cong have their own new directions in life. Han Cong has become an athlete member of the International Skating Union's Singles and Pairs Skating Technical Committee and has participated in the refereeing work of a number of domestic and foreign competitions. Sui Wenjing devoted herself to choreography and tried out as a coach for the first time in Fourteenth Winter. Sui Wenjing said that she has received help from too many people in her career, and now she hopes to help more young people move to a bigger stage through her own efforts.
Sui Wenjing
Dream choreographer, turning trust into motivation for young people
html On the afternoon of February 22, after the Guangdong team Guo Rui/Zhang Yiwen finished the pairs free skate in the team competition, Sui Wenjing accompanied them in the waiting area. . Official information from Fourteenth Winter shows that Sui Wenjing is the coach of the Guangdong team. "The choreographer also has to bring in the coach's certificate." Sui Wenjing said with a smile.During the 14th winter, Sui Wenjing came to Hulunbuir early and served as the flag bearer at the opening ceremony. During the figure skating competition, she will assist the Guangdong team coaching staff with some auxiliary work, hoping to use what she is good at to help everyone.
At the figure skating competition, Sui Wenjing (middle) does auxiliary work on the sidelines as the coach of the Guangdong team. Photographed by Beijing News reporter Wang Fei
During 2015 and 2016, when Canadian choreographer Lowry was assisting the national team in choreographing, Sui Wenjing planned to become a choreographer after retirement, which would help athletes move forward. She felt Especially meaningful. "When we were athletes, many people provided services to us and helped us to perform at our best on the field. When I came down, I was also thinking about how to help more children and give them more power."
After the Beijing Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing went to the Beijing Dance Academy to study and transitioned into a choreographer. Over the past year or so, she has arranged multiple programs for several young combinations such as Guo Rui/Zhang Yiwen, Zhang Jiaxuan/Huang Yihang, and Wang Yunjie/Liu Helin. These are also her first batch of disciples since coaching.
Guo Rui/Zhang Yiwen are a young combination. The female partner is less than 13 years old this year, but they performed very well in both programs in the team competition. Zhang Yiwen also talked about Sui Wenjing's help to them after the game, "Teacher Sui Wenjing told us not to be anxious, to think carefully about every move before doing it, not to go sideways, and to keep the focus down." After learning for more than a year, He gained a lot.
Sui Wenjing is particularly grateful to the coaches of each team for their trust in her, hoping to turn trust into motivation and help the young players reach a higher artistic level. In addition to pairs skating, she also choreographed several ice dance pairs.
Han Cong
became a referee and physical education teacher, trying his best to popularize ice and snow sports
While Sui Wenjing was watching the disciples from the sidelines during the competition, her former partner Han Cong was sitting on the technical official's seat, also paying attention to whether every action of the athletes on the field was standard. .
Han Cong (middle) sat in the technical officials' seat to watch the game. Photographed by Beijing News reporter Wang Fei
Two days ago, on the second anniversary of the pair skating win at the Beijing Winter Olympics, Han Cong posted on social media, “It’s been the second anniversary in the blink of an eye, and the boat has already passed the Ten Thousand Mountains in the journey; Looking forward, the road is long and bright."
After the Beijing Winter Olympics, Sui Wenjing/Han Cong have not participated in any competitions, and their life focus and development have also taken a new direction. In August last year, Han Cong said that after one and a half years of treatment, his physical condition was not good enough to return to the game and he chose to withdraw from all games in the Milan cycle.
In September 2022, Han Cong was elected as the athlete member of the International Skating Union's Singles and Pairs Skating Technical Committee, starting a new role transformation. In November 2022, he passed the assessment and became a national-level figure skating referee, and subsequently participated in the refereeing work of many international and domestic competitions.Han Cong said that in the past, he only saw the referees on the referee's bench during the game, and analyzed the problems based on the score sheet after the game. But after becoming a referee, he began to look at the athletes on the field from the referee's perspective and looked at each program more objectively.
In addition, Han Cong also has another identity - a physical education teacher at Tsinghua University, which gives him a better understanding of sports inheritance. Before each class, Han Cong would ask a classmate to tell a positive story. Sometimes, he would also tell stories about his time as an athlete, hoping that students could learn from them how to face difficulties and grow better in the face of adversity, “As an athlete, I know what the staff on the team have done for us. After becoming a teacher, I also want to give back what sports gave me to my classmates."
Talking about the change of identity, Han Cong said that whether he is working in an international organization or as a physical education teacher at Tsinghua University, he is thinking about how to promote Better popularization and development of ice and snow sports requires not only verbal commitments, but also practical actions.
Beijing News Chief Reporter Sun Haiguang
Photography Wang Fei
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