An 11-year-old girl learns to swim for one year and wins 2 gold medals in the national competition.
On the 4th of this month, Ming Xinyue, a student of Nanzhou Primary School in Qijiang District, won two gold medals in the 100-meter butterfly and 50-meter freestyle in the 2016 National Children’s Swimming Division Competition (Guangdong Division) organized by the Swimming Management Center of the State Sports General Administration.
The 11-year-old Ming Xinyue only started to learn swimming a year ago. As the youngest athlete in the sports history of Qijiang District, she has now reached the national second-class athlete standard and is also the captain of the school’s Young Pioneers. How did she manage to balance study and physical education?
In Class 6, Grade 6, Nanzhou Primary School, Qijiang District, Ming Xinyue is sitting in the last row with a pair of 300-degree glasses. When the bell of Chinese class rang, flowers exploded in the classroom immediately, and the students jumped up and ran to the corridor to play.
Ming Xinyue took out the homework that the Chinese teacher had just assigned and did it. While doing this, she told the Chongqing Evening News reporter: "With 10 minutes and noon time after each class, all the homework today can be completed. When you go home at night, you can review your lessons and read other extracurricular books. "
"When I was a child, my parents often took me to play in the Weihe River. I always liked the feeling of being free in the water." Ming Xinyue said. Last July, her parents sent her to a sports school to learn swimming.
After going to the swimming team, Ming Xinyue discovered that it was very different from playing with water when he was a child. "At most, I swam more than 8,000 meters in a training session. According to Fu Yuanhui’s words, I have tried my best and I am so tired. I have thought about giving up several times, and I have thought about giving up when I can’t finish my homework. " Ming Xinyue adjusted her glasses: "I got used to it after a long time."
At 4: 20 pm, the bell rang, and Ming Xinyue trotted out of the school with her schoolbag on her back. At 4: 40, Ming Xinyue and his mother Qing Yang arrived at the gate of Qijiang District Youth Sports School. At 5 o’clock, 15 players arrived, and Ming Xinyue and other players got on the bus under the guidance of coach Zhou Long.
Zhou Long said: "With the improvement of children’s swimming intensity, after the National Day this year, the sports school chartered a car to Wansheng for training every day."
At 5: 56, the bus arrived at Wansheng Cultural and Sports Center. The water temperature in the swimming pool is 29℃ and the indoor temperature is 30℃, but Ming Xinyue is still rubbing his limbs with cold. At 6: 10, at the command of Zhou Long, Ming Xinyue first jumped into the deep water area.
"Hurry up, Ming Xinyue, your grades have been turned over. If you don’t work hard, there will be no breakthrough." Zhou Long shouted at Mingxinyue in the swimming pool.
"There is no rest at all. After swimming round and round, every time they come, they are fighting for time." The swimming pool manager told the Chongqing Evening News reporter.
At 7 o’clock in the evening, after training, Ming Xinyue and other children got on the bus with wet hair. This time, she and her companions fell asleep in the car.
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Two noes in parental education
In Ming Xinyue’s home, mother Qing Yang took out a bag of awards, "Long-distance running, dancing, singing … … . Too many. We never spoil our children. When she was young, we didn’t hug her. We encouraged her to stand up by herself. "
"We won’t ask too much of her, and we will discuss everything with her, as long as she can do her best." Qing Yang said.
Gold medal girls also have troubles.
"I will also participate in the national championship in February next year. The next goal I set for myself is to win the national first-class athletes before I graduate from primary school." Ming Xinyue said.
After winning the prize, Xiao Xinyue’s life at school still changed: "Some students asked me for an autograph, saying that I would become a sports star in the future. I feel uncomfortable when they say this. I don’t feel different from others. The coach and parents control the diet very strictly. I haven’t eaten cake and sweet bread for a long time. " (Hao Yao, Yan Wen)