Words from Wang Yifu

Wang Yifu: I think that during the athlete period, athletes have the protection of the national system, and retirement is a natural law of "the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves ahead". But after retiring, our athletes must first go to school to study and receive systematic cultural education, so that they can have the opportunity to participate in competition in society. No matter which industry you choose, as long as you do it with all your heart, you will definitely do well. I spent less time in the provincial team, basically in the national team. But I found that my teammates on the provincial team all have different jobs, and there is no fixed pattern. It mainly depends on how they explore their potential.

Reporter: If you are not a coach, you will definitely have more time to train, maintain your competitive state, and strive to win the third Olympic gold medal. Don’t you regret your current choice?

Wang Yifu: Every position has its challenges and values. Whatever position we take, we must first consider the interests of the country, not personal interests. As long as more Chinese shooters can get on the world's highest podium, it doesn't matter if one of them is missing me.

My daughter’s understanding touched me the most

Reporter: I heard that your daughter also wanted to practice shooting?

Wang Yifu: Haha, I have been playing for a while. In my opinion it's just for fun. I don't want her to practice this anymore, it's too hard. Her mother and I both respect her own opinions. If she wants to practice, we will support her; if she doesn’t want to practice, we won’t force her. We will not interfere with her choice, but the prerequisite is that she must study well first.

Reporter: You only won one silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. At the airport, your daughter kissed your silver medal.

Wang Yifu: That’s right! That's right! There is a big gap between gold medals and silver medals in the eyes of the people and the media. But my daughter doesn’t see me that way. Only one reporter captured my daughter kissing my silver medal. I was very excited and had very complicated emotions at the time, and almost shed tears. I thought at that time: For my daughter, I must win another gold medal!

Reporter: Your daughter was born in 1991, right?

Wang Yifu: Yes. At that time, I was competing in Norway, so I named her Wei Yang. Reporter: I heard that when your wife Zhang Qiuping (a famous shooter and now the coach of the national shooting team) was pregnant with her child, she almost lost her baby in order to prepare for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Abandoned this child?

Wang Yifu: How do I put this? It’s a long story. Our athletes basically train in their own training teams and can only live together on weekends. I never thought about not wanting this child, really, and neither did my wife.

Reporter: My daughter should be in high school soon, right?

Wang Yifu: She is in the third year of junior high school at Tsinghua High School and is about to take the high school entrance examination. This is a critical moment, but what can be done? Her mother and I are both coaches and we don’t have time to take care of her, so she has to rely on herself. I'm not a good father. During the Spring Festival, Wei Yang came to Guangzhou and spent a few days with me. A few days ago, I attended CCTV's 2005 Sports Figures Gala and took the time to return to Beijing for a day. I took my daughter with me. She reassured me that she could take care of herself.

Reporter: Are you quite touched that your child is so sensible?

Wang Yifu: Yes, listening to her words, I really feel bad. Our coaches and many athletes are actually like this, giving up a lot of time with their families and children. For example, Tao Luna went to the Guangzhou Huangcun Sports Training Base alone for training shortly after her wedding. But think about some people who have it harder than us. The aerospace hero Yang Liwei also gave up a lot for the aerospace industry. Especially during the period from when he took the Shenzhou V to landing, the pressure his wife endured was unimaginable.

There is a song called "Go Home Often", which seems to be written for us. This is what everyone in our industry is like. We train other people's children well, but delay our own children.

I owe my wife a lot

Reporter: We found that your wife also came to Guangzhou to watch the World Cup shooting competition?

Wang Yifu: She is the coach of the rifle class of the national shooting team. She has her own work to be busy here.

Reporter: You think you are unqualified as a father, but what about as a husband?

Wang Yifu: It’s also unqualified. I also took very little care of Qiuping. When she was pregnant, I failed to take care of her as a husband. I couldn't stay with her when she gave birth to her child. I owe her so much.

Reporter: Your wife is also a shooter and knows the nature of athletes very well. She will be considerate of you.

Wang Yifu: Yes, although I didn’t do well, she still supported me. In the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, I shot 6.5 rings in my last shot and could only win the silver medal, and fainted on the field. After I came back, I was in a bad mood and even thought about retiring. Qiuping said to me at the time: "If you want to retire, I support you. If you are willing to continue playing, I will support you even more. Even if you fail in the future, in my mind, you are still you." Because of her encouragement , I persisted.

Before the departure of the Athens Olympics, Qiuping said to me at the airport: "As a 'veteran of the six dynasties' of the Olympics, you have had great successes, so don't take personal gains and losses too seriously and keep a normal mind. , you are the winner." It was this sentence that kept me calm during the competition and finally won the gold medal.

Reporter: What kind of person is Madam in your mind?

Wang Yifu: She is the greatest wife in my heart. Everyone thinks my life is very successful because I have many gold medals, but success is not only measured by gold medals. My wife has also won many world championships. She gave up a lot of things to support me. Although she did not win an Olympic championship as an athlete, her life was equally successful. I would not have been able to continue my shooting career without her, she has made my life successful.

Wang Yifu: What I want to say most is the two words "go home".

Xu Gehui: I miss home. Why do you miss home? Because this is not your first time participating in the competition. You are also an old team member and have gone home many times. Why are you homesick now?

Wang Yifu: The older I get, the more homesick I get.

Xu Gehui: Do you feel old yourself?

Wang Yifu: Everyone thinks that I am old. They talk about me and say that I am old.

Xu Gehui: What do you think?

Wang Yifu: I think it’s okay.

Xu Gehui: What concept do you always have in mind?

Wang Yifu: The old man in my mind is similar to my current state.

Xu Gehui: You see, we have collected a lot of messages and comments from netizens online. Some of them said "Ginger is still hotter when you are old", and the title of the photo was "One man can stand the test", which obviously means ten thousand men. Not open at the end.

Wang Yifu: Thank you very much to the netizens. People are still hotter when they are old, but they are still not as strong as young people.

Xu Gehui: Did you feel old before you participated in the Olympics?

Wang Yifu: I will win the championship in any competition I participate in.

Xu Gehui: Are you so confident?

Wang Yifu: Because I participated in many competitions, I participated in six Asian Games and won four championships, and I participated in six Olympic Games and won two gold medals.

Netizen: Has Wang Yifu ever thought about what to do if he loses?

Wang Yifu: We often grow up through repeated changes. If I can afford to lose, I will win if I can afford to lose.

Xu Gehui: What choice will you make if you lose this time?

Wang Yifu: I really haven’t considered this issue.

Xu Gehui: No thought at all?

Wang Yifu: No, I never thought about myself before I competed.

Xu Gehui: I especially want to know about that moment when you were on the court. Let me look back at the particularly mysterious scene in Game No. 14. Which shot did you think was your best shot? Which shot did you feel bad about?

Wang Yifu: First of all, the third, fourth, fifth and sixth shots in the third group were not connected well.

Xu Gehui: Were you nervous at that time?

Wang Yifu: At that time, we were slightly behind in handling the problem.

Xu Gehui: We were all watching the finals on TV. I remember falling behind in the sixth group.

Wang Yifu: I’m not nervous at all.

Xu Gehui: You don’t even know. Then on the seventh shot, he overtook the opponent.

Wang Yifu: I don’t know.

Xu Gehui: You don’t even know?

Wang Yifu: Not very clear. I know after eight shots, I will definitely be behind after eight shots, I know that.

Xu Gehui: Do you still have confidence when you hit 8.9? How would you feel in your head at that time?

Wang Yifu: The overall operation is quite in place.

Xu Gehui: So there was no accident in Atlanta?

Wang Yifu: Atlanta can’t support it anymore. If I were a workaholic, I would be exhausted. As long as your career needs it and your motherland needs it, you must move forward when it’s time to move forward. Because I have been educated by the Party for a long time at my age, I have learned from Liu Hulan and Huang Jiguang since I was a child.

Xu Gehui: You are ready to die. Let me make a joke. If you leave a message, what will you leave?

Wang Yifu: I didn’t expect anything to be left behind.

Xu Gehui: I definitely haven’t thought about it. No one would think about this for no reason, but we have brought up this topic.

Wang Yifu: There is no such concept yet.

Xu Gehui: Do you have any unfulfilled wishes in life? Any regrets?

Wang Yifu: I have regrets, including not performing well in every game and not handling the situation well. I feel very regretful. There are regrets and conflicts in not winning the championship. Many issues should be viewed dialectically.

Xu Gehui: You really can’t have studied at Tsinghua University for that long, and I also heard that you particularly admire Chairman Mao and often read some of his works.

Netizen: The goal of the shooting team before the game was to maintain two points and increase three points. Now it has achieved the goal. Winning the gold medal below is overfulfilling the task. The next step is to earn one dollar for each dollar.

Wang Yifu: (laughing) The competition is like this. Every athlete wants to win the championship. Athletes who don’t want to win the championship are not good athletes. As long as you are not a weak player when you come to the Olympics, you will be stronger if the Olympics are full of strong players. One is that Du Li won the first gold medal for our country, and the other is that she is in the delegation, which can also be said to be very important among the athletes.

Xu Gehui: Those athletes are all children in your eyes.

Wang Yifu: Everyone calls me Uncle Wang.

Netizen: But Uncle Wang, I know you have poor eyesight. How do you aim when shooting? Is it really all about feeling as the media says?

Wang Yifu: I feel that this is true. You can tell this netizen that it is a very simple truth. If you are at work, when you come home from your work, you should not think about this. No matter how the road goes, when you get to your door, you will take out the key and open the door. You will not go the wrong way. It is natural and the law is like this.

Xu Gehui: In sports we call it realm, right?

Wang Yifu: That’s probably it. It’s very thorough and I may not be able to explain it at once.

Xu Gehui: Does this feeling mean that the old players have an advantage over the new players in the competition?

Wang Yifu: This is true for veteran players. He has experienced more games and has richer game experience. If an old player wants to carry out systematic cultural education, improve his own cultural level, improve his comprehensive ability, improve his ability to solve and deal with problems, and his cognitive ability will improve, he will avoid problems when dealing with problems during the game. Big mistake.

Xu Gehui: I’m talking about dealing with problems. Dealing with problems during the game. Let’s look back at when you fired the last shot. We noticed that when you fired the seventh and eighth shots, you Others were startled and thought they were having a heart attack. How could they tell the truth?

Wang Yifu: In fact, my heartbeat was very fast at that time. It was estimated to be 184. You could see the beating at that time. I pressed down to make it beat a little slower.

Xu Gehui: Is that really the case?

Wang Yifu: Through adjustment, through my own psychological adjustment, my heartbeat slowed down. I think other people should be like this. While adjusting their mentality, when it reaches a certain level, you need to adjust at this time. If you fail to seize this opportunity, your heart rate will start to increase immediately after it comes down, and you will have to adjust again.

Xu Gehui: I noticed that when you fired the last shot, you often raised the gun to aim for a while, and it took a long time after you put it down.

Wang Yifu: At that time, the competition was very fierce and I was very nervous. Taking a deep breath was also a good way to adjust my mentality. Drinking a little cold water is also a way to adjust my mind. I do this on a daily basis, and I do the same during competitions. Because we have several plans to deal with it during the competition, how should we solve this problem if it occurs, and how should we solve it if other problems arise.

Xu Gehui: When you hit the ninth bullet, you and your opponent were tied. Did you know at that time?

Wang Yifu: I feel like I know, but I don’t know. Because everyone was buzzing at the time. At that time, you still had to control yourself. No matter how well you played, you had to control yourself first.

Xu Gehui: The first shot was not fired, so you put the gun down. Your opponent, Russia, suddenly disrupted your rhythm?

Wang Yifu: The competition is open and fair. Although our correct guidance and thinking methods for the competition are all plans we made in detail before the competition. Generally speaking, we still follow the competition plan and do it well step by step.

Xu Gehui: It was a pity that you lost the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics, but you won the gold medal again this time. In comparison, where did the Sydney Olympics lose? Where did you win this term?

Wang Yifu: We both wanted to win the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics. Looking back now, we still didn’t adjust our mentality in time. I think this adjustment is much better than this time. I think I am competitive. Ability has been greatly improved.

Netizen: Old man, you have great ambitions. In these twenty long years, what has been with you? You have done a lot for the country. What kind of touch will you give us in the coming days?

Wang Yifu: I won another gold medal in this competition in 2012.

Xu Gehui: We know that you actually proposed to the team in 2001 that you wanted to retire?

Wang Yifu: At that time, I still had these ideas and might want to do something else. Later, the leader did ideological work.

Xu Gehui: Then you obeyed the organization again?

Wang Yifu: I obeyed.

Xu Gehui: Are you helpless?

Wang Yifu: As a veteran athlete, I obey the organization’s arrangements.

Xu Gehui: Have you ever thought about what I want to do most if I really retire one day?

Wang Yifu: What I want to do most is to go home and rest for a few days.

Xu Gehui: Very tired, right?

Wang Yifu: The main thing is to consume energy.

Xu Gehui: Can you describe to me what your state is like when your nerves are tense? What will happen?

Wang Yifu: When people are most nervous, like when I was the most nervous, let’s talk about my first time, when I participated in the Asian Championships in the Philippines in 1980. I was so nervous that I couldn’t help myself. My heartbeat was at least 180 and above. Look. I dance really hard with my clothes on, it's like "papapapa", that's the feeling.

Our shooting sport requires a high degree of self-control under a high degree of tension. You are not allowed to be nervous. If you are nervous, you will not be able to shoot well. But the game is really tight, it's very contradictory. Therefore, we must learn more about Mao Zedong’s dialectics, theory of contradiction, and theory of practice. Indeed, we have learned many things from Chairman Mao’s works.

Xu Gehui: I remember the chairman said a very interesting saying, the world is yours and ours, in the final analysis it is still yours.

He said that young people are like the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning.

Wang Yifu: Young people are like the sun at eight or nine o'clock, and hope is pinned on you.

Netizen: Mr. Wang, have you ever thought about who can take over your class after you retire? It is an honor to be a veteran of the Six Dynasties, but for the national team, there is no successor?

Wang Yifu: It should be said that we people in the 1980s had very good results. Tan Zongliang and others had very good results. This time Tan Dongliang did not achieve his own results, but he was better than me. I think they will all make a difference in this cause.

Xu Gehui: I remember a Sina netizen said, Lao Wang, can you analyze why Tan Zongliang always plays well in China, but always fails to perform well in international competitions?

Wang Yifu: There are many differences between domestic competitions and international competitions. One is the geographical environment, the other is the public opinion environment, and the other is the climate. They are all different. More people are paying attention to the Olympics. People all over the world are paying attention, people across the country are paying attention, people in your hometown are paying attention, and friends around you are paying attention, and they all hope you can do well. In this case, use a correct guiding ideology to guide you to a path. If you deviate even a little bit, you will not go well.

Especially at the Olympic Games and the Asian Games, we must grasp this. This is not something that can be explained clearly in just a few sentences, but every detail is taken seriously.

Xu Gehui: Although we understand that it cannot be explained clearly in one or two sentences, there are still netizens who really hope that you can explain it.

Netizen: You always decide the outcome with the last shot, you are the master of guns.

Xu Gehui: He just wants to know how you can perform your best at the most critical moment?

Wang Yifu: For athletes, the first priority in competition is the foundation, the foundation of problem-solving ability. If an athlete wants to play very well in every game during the competition, it is impossible. There is only one championship, and everyone is working hard for this championship. Not only athletes from our country, but athletes all over the world are working hard for each gold medal in this event. Only one succeeded. But those athletes who did not win medals and did not enter the Olympics did not necessarily pay less than those who won championships.

A champion should be said to have the guarantee of many people, especially the guarantee of our logistics. When we didn’t get up, the chef helped us prepare the meal. When we finished the physical education class, the bathroom The masters boiled the water, but we didn’t have their guarantee, so we didn’t get good results.

Without the support of the leaders and the care of the leaders, we will never achieve good results. This is the reason why the Chinese shooting team can achieve such good results. First of all, it is due to the arrival of a good leader in our center. He is the general manager. My personal impression and everyone's impression of him is that he has a strong working ability, and his work is very detailed and in place.

So far we have competed in five events and won eight gold medals. China has won the most gold medals in the Olympics so far.

Xu Gehui: Tell this netizen that gold medals are not born.

Wang Yifu: A strong man has no weak soldiers, and a good commander will have good soldiers.

Netizen: As the saying goes, a man never sheds tears. What were you thinking when you shed tears on the podium?

Wang Yifu: Every time I play or sing the national anthem, I don’t understand how I feel. I find it difficult to describe it in words. For 12 years, I have been working every day, and I am excited every day. In order to shoot, I shed tears without thinking about anything. People all over the world stood under the Chinese flag and accepted the playing of the Chinese national anthem.

Xu Gehui: You just mentioned that in the past 12 years, what do you think is the most difficult thing?

Wang Yifu: It was the silver medal in 2000. I want the gold medal the most. I think although I won a little bit, this point is also very important and it also gathered the efforts of many people. I think I got to the eighth round.

Xu Gehui: You overtook your opponent in the seventh round.

Wang Yifu: I want to bring a lot of psychological excitement to the audience in front of the TV. I think competitive sports are like this. You are taller, he is taller, you are taller, and you compete over and over again. Among them, the last shot is very important when the result is obtained.

Xu Gehui: I estimate your heartbeat was 180 beats for the last shot, let’s go to 200 beats.

Wang Yifu: I think your heart beats as much as mine. After all, we are all Chinese and we are all willing to win gold medals for the Chinese team.

Xu Gehui: We were very shocked when we saw Wang Yifu on the field. He could burst into tears on the podium. But I don’t know if Wang Yifu has another side. Is there anything in life that makes you angry?

Wang Yifu: Still less, because at this age, people are not as impulsive as those in their twenties and thirties. Now, especially after experiencing the competition, I have experienced a lot of hardships, especially when I have grown up amidst the ups and downs, I feel that I can deal with things calmly. I am a relatively extrovert person.

Xu Gehui: I heard that you can eat and sleep in the Olympic Village. You eat five mutton skewers every day?

Wang Yifu: I eat five mutton skewers. I have to eat them for the competition. There are Korean kimchi in the Olympic Village. I eat two or three boxes at a time. I eat the mutton skewers in order to eat the kimchi. There is nothing special about the Olympics. , that is, open, fair and fair, everyone is the same, so you must eat it, no matter whether it tastes good or not, you have to eat it. Sometimes I have to eat a steak or a leg of lamb. I don’t usually eat a lot of meat, but there is nothing I can do when facing a competition.

Xu Gehui: I understand why you want to go home.

Netizen: Your wife must be very happy to see you win the gold medal now. I heard that she is your coach, why doesn’t she participate in the competition? Did I give up for you?

Wang Yifu: No, that’s it. The Chinese shooting team is stationed in Tsinghua University as a group. She is the coach of this group, the coach of the national team, and also the Shooting and Archery Sports Management Center and Tsinghua University. A very meaningful practice, combining physical education with education. In this case, we will form a group. I am also in this group, there is also a national team athlete in it, and there are two national second-tier athletes in it.

Xu Gehui: We usually say that the military industry is half of you and half of me. Your wife must have paid a lot for you?

Wang Yifu: She paid a lot.

Xu Gehui: Is the communication between you two mainly via text messages, or by some other means?

Wang Yifu: Mainly through text messages, she gave instructions on how to train before the game, how to cooperate with the on-site coaches, and how to play the game well. She gave me a lot of support in terms of ideas and methods.

Xu Gehui: I don’t want to know too much about how she will guide you technically, and I don’t understand either. What I want to know is what is the most romantic thing that you can remember right now between you and your wife?

Wang Yifu: There is no romance between us. We often see each other at the shooting range every day. We haven’t seen anything romantic for a long time. When we spend time together every day, it becomes dull.

Xu Gehui: What do you most want the two of you to be most romantic about?

Wang Yifu: The two of us have never gone out to play alone. We don’t have any time. Our busiest time is Saturday.

Xu Gehui: Did she complain?

Wang Yifu: No, because we are used to working and adapt to the work, working seven days a week. (Laughs)

Netizen: Some people now say that you block the way of young athletes and affect their success. What do you think is the gap between young athletes and you? Why isn’t there a second Wang Yifu? The third Wang Yifu?

Wang Yifu: Many people said that I am going down, and many people came up. If you want to watch the Olympic Games, you will know that the Olympic Games are very cruel and very realistic. They are very realistic. It doesn't matter whether you are young or old, it only recognizes your achievements. If I say that I am older this time and I fail, if I don’t participate in this Olympics, will I not be the champion?

Netizen: The men's 50-meter pistol competition will be held tomorrow. Will Tan Dongliang appear tomorrow? Can you talk about how they face their opponents?

Wang Yifu: I think they are indeed very good athletes. If they can perform well, I think they will all achieve good results and good rankings. If they can play to their own level, I think they will achieve very good results.

Xu Gehui: One of your partners in 1984 is now a coach, and you are still an athlete. What is your mentality in this situation?

Wang Yifu: I think it is not easy for the country to train an athlete.

Netizen: You were not very good when you participated in the World Championships, but why did you adjust so well this time?

Wang Yifu: I was also the champion in the World Championships, but not as good as this time. The Olympic Games are indeed different from other competitions, with different levels of emphasis. After all, the World Championships is an individual event, while the Olympic Games is a comprehensive event, with very different levels of emphasis. Therefore, while attaching great importance to it, we must actively prepare. I started participating in the training camp in January this year and have been preparing for 8 months. I have been fighting for the Olympics every day for these eight months. My preparation is very different from other athletes. They have their way of preparation. I have my way of preparation. My preparation method is closer to reality. Maybe because of my age, there are many questions that I would be better prepared for.

Xu Gehui: Can you talk about your preparation method?

Wang Yifu: Don’t influence other people because they have different personal ideas.

Netizen: Do you know anyone who has participated in more Olympic Games than you?

Xu Gehui: Are you the athlete who has participated in the most Olympic Games?

Wang Yifu: I should be the one who is most interested in localization. From a global perspective, there seem to be one or two more, but I don’t know who they are, and I don’t know.

Xu Gehui: If you participate in the 2008 Olympic Games again, you will be a veteran of the Seven Dynasties. Are you ready to participate in the 2008 Olympic Games?

Wang Yifu: The Olympic Games are too attractive to athletes, and every athlete wants to do so. I just needed it at the time and my career needed it. My competitive level could indeed reach the level of the Olympics. I could guarantee that I would achieve good results in the Olympics. I could make a basic guarantee. I wanted to bring glory to the country, and every athlete was willing to do so.

Xu Gehui: Shouldn’t 2008 be your year of birth?

Wang Yifu: 48 years old.

Xu Gehui: Please describe to us the characteristics of people born in the Year of the Rat.

Wang Yifu: Judging from the phenomenon, when crossing the street, everyone shouts to be beaten.

Xu Gehui: And now you are shooting others with a gun.

Wang Yifu: I really like watching cartoons, "Tom and Jerry". I think mice are very smart, and they fight cats very wisely.

Xu Gehui: Yes, the small can defeat the big, and the weak can defeat the strong.

Wang Yifu: We can always promote ourselves.

Xu Gehui: Were you very naughty when you were a child?

Wang Yifu: Very naughty. I was very naughty when I was a child.

Xu Gehui: What bad things have you done?

Wang Yifu: He did a lot of bad things. I think a person must do some bad things as he grows up. If you don’t do any bad things, you will know which is right and which is wrong. You must be educated by your parents, criticized by teachers, and let people around you say you shouldn’t do this. When you are naughty, you don't know that you are naughty, you just think it is fun and interesting. So many things are affected by experience. If everyone can experience the Olympics, go through the baptism of the competition, go through failures, go through repeated ups and downs in life, I think he will deal with a lot of things.

Xu Gehui: You have such a rich life and hope to experience all kinds of different things. But athletes' lives are very boring. How many awards have you won in your career so far?

Wang Yifu: I haven’t counted it, but I probably have a lot. Why did you just say that it is not easy for the country to train athletes? We fire a bullet every day. We are not like football. Football can be played casually by twenty people and it will not break down after two years of playing. (Laughs) Once we shoot out the bullets, they are gone.

Xu Gehui: Have you ever thought about what you would do if you were not shooting?

Wang Yifu: I think as an old athlete, the thing I want to do most is to be a stepping stone for new athletes and young athletes who have achieved results. I hope they can climb to the highest peak in the world on my shoulders.

Xu Gehui: Your profession is shooting. The bullseye you usually hit is the target. If your professional goal is always that target, then what is your life goal?

Wang Yifu: Keep pursuing, keep making progress, keep giving, keep learning, keep making progress, and you can get many good results.