Original title: Close-up丨Unforgettable "Perfect score captain" Zhang Boheng
Zhang Boheng in the men's team finals of the Paris Olympics gymnastics event. Picture source/Xinhua News Agency
took a deep breath and took the stage. The high difficulty level of 6.3 and the completion score of 8.433 landed perfectly. But no one knew that when he finished the first movement of the horizontal bar, his left shoulder had already cramped.
As the captain of the Chinese men's gymnastics team, Zhang Boheng successfully completed all his competitions in the team finals of this Olympic Games.
When he walked off the stage, every Japanese team member in the same group came up and gave him a hug. At this time, the Bercy Arena is waiting with bated breath for Zhang Boheng's final score. His score will determine the men's team championship in the gymnastics event of the Paris Olympics.
In the end, the miracle did not happen to the Chinese team. The Chinese men's gymnastics team, composed of Zou Jingyuan, Liu Yang, Xiao Ruoteng, Zhang Boheng, Su Weide, won the silver medal with a total score of 259.062 points. The Japanese team and the American team won the championship and third place respectively.
Horizontal bar is the last event of the Chinese team today. Before that, the Chinese team ranked first with an advantage of about 3 points. Veteran Xiao Ruoteng took the lead. A small mistake caused his final score to be only 13.433 points. Subsequently, Su Weide dropped the bar twice in the competition and only scored 11.600 points. At this time, the advantages accumulated by the Chinese team are not only gone, but also difficult to catch up with.
All eyes were focused on Zhang Boheng, and so was the pressure on the entire team. This "post-2000" captain, with an almost tragic expression, completed his game calmly and firmly, but it was still difficult to change the outcome.
"The Chinese team won the runner-up." As the broadcast sounded at the scene, the three veterans Liu Yang, Zou Jingyuan, and Xiao Ruoteng were all in tears and burst into tears. For them, Paris is already the other side that they have tried their best to reach, but in the end they failed to win the gold medal that they had missed for 12 years in this European continent. It would be false to say that they have no regrets.
Zhang Boheng, who has been a "little cry bag" since he was a child, even though his eyes were filled with tears when he saw the scores, he always maintained a touch of warmth, hugging and comforting every teammate, standing behind them, and gently Pat them and pull them up from the ground one by one. Facing Su Weide, who was completely enveloped in self-blame, Zhang Boheng also gave him a thumbs up.
At this moment, although Zhang Boheng has completed 12 sets of difficult and high-quality movements from the qualifying rounds to the finals, and is already exhausted, he is still trying to do what a captain should do - boost the morale of the team. After the game, Zhang Boheng said in an interview with the media: "The first priority now is to calm everyone's mood. There are still many games waiting for us."
Before the game, Zhang Boheng's first coach, Changsha Gymnastics School coach Qiu Qi It means that compared with the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, Zhang Boheng has become calmer and more determined after the 2024 winter training. As the captain of the men's team in this Olympics, Zhang Boheng also said before leaving for Paris: "I will shoulder the responsibility of being the captain."
Today, he has fully shouldered this responsibility. Netizens left messages on their Weibo after the game: "The best captain."
From winning bronze at the Rio Olympics to winning bronze again at the Tokyo Olympics, throughout the Paris Olympics cycle, the Chinese men's gymnastics team had the same goal - to strive for the team gold medal. . As the captain, Zhang Boheng also repeatedly mentioned in interviews with the media on many occasions: "The first goal must be to win the team gold medal with teammates." In the qualifying competition, Zhang Boheng scored 88.597 points in six events. Today, Zhang Boheng won the six events. Scored 87.865 points.
Tokyo Olympic parallel bars champion Zou Jingyuan also made a breakthrough in the rings event this cycle. He said, "I do the rings mainly for the team, hoping to contribute higher scores." Xiao Ruoteng, the former "all-around king", still chose to come back after surgery. Return to competitive form with amazing willpower. And Liu Yang is already a veteran who has competed in three Olympic Games.
I missed Tokyo, I was disappointed in Paris, and I couldn’t reach Los Angeles. This is cruel competitive sports, so how can I not regret it.
But the pace of progress will never stop here.At 23:30 on July 31, Zhang Boheng will join hands with Xiao Ruoteng to compete in the men's individual finals. In the previous qualifying competition, the two ranked first and fourth respectively. (Zhou Yumo)
(Red Net)
