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Original title: Pass love with love, light up life with life
Liu Yingyu
“Wheelchair basketball not only changed my life, wheelchair basketball is my life.” This is the famous quote of Matt Scott, a famous American men’s wheelchair basketball player. He is called “Wheelchair Basketball Curry”. In the wheelchair basketball world, he is a god-like existence.
Scott is also the idol of many girls on the Chinese women’s wheelchair basketball team. Today, wheelchair basketball has changed their lives and is gradually becoming theirs.
Last week, in the Wheelchair Basketball World Championships held in Dubai, the Chinese women’s team made it all the way to the finals. Although they lost to the Dutch team and finished second, they still created the best record in the history of the Chinese team’s World Championships, and also won the championship for the Asia-Pacific region. A qualifying seat for the Paris Paralympics.
The presence of the girls is still meager. On the night of the finals, there were no live broadcast signals on major TV stations and online platforms, only the mobile live broadcast bar had live video broadcasts, and there were only dozens of netizens in the chat room. However, even so, the Chinese girls still won the respect of the world, as evidenced by the constant emergence of simple Chinese in the English commentary.
Losing to the Dutch team is not surprising. In the wheelchair women’s basketball final of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team lost to the Dutch team and won silver with regret. The Dutch team stands out from the crowd, and there is also a mature wheelchair basketball league in China. In recent years, they have rarely missed in the World Series.
Not only the Netherlands, many countries in Europe, even Japan and South Korea have home and away wheelchair basketball leagues. Ding Hai, the first disabled wheelchair basketball player in China to participate in a foreign professional league and went to “La Liga”, said that the Spanish wheelchair basketball professional league has a great influence. “Spain’s wheelchair basketball league is very developed, and there are games every week. Every time after the game, there will be more than a dozen or even twenty media participating in the press conference, and the club also has a special person to teach us how to answer media questions and show the personal charm of the players.”
In China, however, a national wheelchair basketball league has yet to be established. According to Xue Liang, contact person of the wheelchair basketball project of the China Disabled Sports Management Center, there are only 10 men’s teams and 8 women’s teams in China’s wheelchair basketball team, and the number of registered athletes is only about 400.
Chen Qi, the head coach of Chinese women’s wheelchair basketball, is well aware of this reality, but there is nothing he can do about it. It has always been his dream to have his own league. With the league, the girls can support themselves, instead of playing basketball while looking for another job to supplement the family income as they do now.
What a wonderful dream it is to make wheelchair basketball a life, but it has not yet been reflected in the reality of the girls.
However, Chen Qi and the girls have never been discouraged—from the Tokyo Paralympic Games to the Dubai World Championships, they have made wheelchair basketball constantly seen by the Chinese people with their hard work, and they have also inspired the girls’ spiritual growth and development time and time again. experience.
Wheelchair basketball not only teaches girls sports skills, but also teaches them to live and understand life. This is the original intention of Chen Qi leading the team. He has a famous saying: not only to win the championship on the field, but also to be the champion of life.
In the wheelchair basketball world, Chen Qi is one of the few coaches who came from disabled athletes. Chen Qi, born in 1976, was disabled by polio when he was 4 months old. At the age of 23, Chen Qi encountered a sport that made him feel “no work in vain” – wheelchair basketball. In 2004, he represented the Chinese team in the qualifying competition for the Athens Paralympic Games. His opponent won by more than 100 points. Chen Qi cried as soon as he was on the field because they practiced very hard… After Chen Qi retired, he continued to study business. Both the team coach and the national team coach have achieved remarkable results.
Because of experience, we understand; because we understand, we have compassion. While Chen Qi measures his own life with optimism and tenacity, he also infects his team members with unyielding, humility and love. Team member Zhang Xuemei described Coach Chen Qi as a ray of light, illuminating the darkest moments of her life and giving her a second life; Lin Suiling was the least confident girl in the team at the beginning, and the most frequently said was “I No, I can’t do it’, but with Chen Qi’s help and encouragement, she later became the captain of the team…
This is not the struggle of one person, but the struggle of a group of people. Passing love with love and illuminating life with life, the spirit of solidarity and cooperation and high-spirited strength shown by the Chinese women’s wheelchair basketball team is the epitome of the continuous self-improvement of the disabled in China, and it is also a display of the country’s image and vitality.
According to data released by the China Disabled Persons’ Federation, there are about 85 million people with disabilities in China, including nearly 25 million people with physical disabilities. I sincerely hope that wheelchair basketball can be seen by more people, and I sincerely hope that more disabled friends can join this sport.
2023-06-28 01:21:22
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