What China should reflect on most is not competitive sports, but the issue of sports industrialization

What China should reflect on most is not competitive sports, but the issue of sports industrialization. Author Phoenix Hou Feng...

Author Phoenix Hou Feng

The Olympic Games have become a global peace exchange event held every four years for humans to challenge physiological limits, innovate in sports science and technology, and demonstrate national strength. Athletes from all over the world cross the sea to show off their magical powers in order to be "faster, higher and stronger". Whether they are athletes trained by the club or the country, they are all ways of exploring human abilities. There are improvements but there is no distinction between them.

1. Sports supremacy made Phillips’ glory.

> Phillips won 6 gold medals in the 2004 Athens Olympics, 8 gold medals in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and 4 golds and 2 silvers this year. He is touted as a great athlete. In fact, if the swimming events were divided into more details, Phelps would still be able to win 10 more and eight more gold medals. Table tennis entered the Olympics very late, with only four gold medals in total, and the rules are constantly being revised to limit the number of participants from a certain country. No matter how great an athlete is, he will only be capped by one or two cards.

Swimming and track and field are the traditional strengths of European and American athletes, so the more the better, the more troubles are taken in setting up Olympic events, and there are no restrictions on participants. However, if it is someone else's strong point, the Olympic spirit must be paid attention to in setting up the events, and it must be fair, fair, and fair.

The Chinese swimming team suddenly emerged in the London Olympics and began to erode the strong sectors of Europe and the United States. This is why the Americans are so panicked and will not stop until the leaves are made synonymous with doping. Who is the originator of doping technology and the leader of the new generation of doping? In fact, thieves know best. The West has the right to speak and is the maker of rules. China is able to create a world in an unfair circle to compete with the United States, which deserves applause. From the perspective of human progress, competition will lead to progress. Peaceful competition between China and the United States promotes the improvement of human physical fitness far better than war.

2. From the perspective of unbalanced development of human society, the training method of excellent athletes depends on national conditions. There is no need to favor one over the other or belittle oneself.

It is simply ignorant to say that foreign athletes are basically "amateurs". Go and ask which athlete in developed countries is not professionally trained? Let alone top athletes, my daughter learned gymnastics for several years when she was a child and spent thousands of dollars. Even the gymnastics clubs that train beginners in the United States hire coaches or athletes who have retired from the national teams of the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and China. Just imagine, except for a few wealthy countries, do other countries have this kind of "amateur" level? What's more, growing up to be a professional athlete, is this something a family in a third world country can afford?

If according to the rules of the United States, everyone is "amateur", and all third world countries will not play at all. Who can afford the sharkskin swimsuit that Phillips wore when he won 8 gold medals? The Olympics is a club for the rich. Can this kind of "amateur" athletes be considered the "Olympic spirit"? In fact, many sports in the United States are also just sports for the rich. Although we in the United States had just lived a subsistence life, the Chinese tradition of attaching importance to education made us willing to spend "huge sums" to train the next generation. As for my daughter's white friend, although her body flexibility and desire to learn are much greater than my daughter's, her family has no money, so she can only helplessly follow my daughter to learn and practice at home. If she had been born in China, she might have been selected by the country to become a sports star. From the perspective of human progress, isn’t it obvious which system is conducive to talents standing out?

In fact, in terms of the social cost of training an athlete, the resources wasted in the United States are staggering. The equipment of a small club and the outfits of beginners are very professional, which shocked us immigrants from the third world. The so-called Green Olympics, should we be more diligent and thrifty from the first step of talent training, and be green and environmentally friendly.

There is something wrong with the way many Chinese people think. They seem to think that everything the West does is right. China is often blamed and its own people look down upon itself.

3. China attaches great importance to competitive sports, but the colonialization of sports culture has made the development of mass sports increasingly lost its direction.

We used to play volleyball, badminton, basketball, and table tennis on the cement platform in the playground; we used to roll hoops, play shuttlecock, jump rope, and do gymnastics; Chairman Mao swam in the Yangtze River and everyone practiced swimming. But now there are more and more fans, but sports have been greatly reduced. Competitive sports are making progress, while mass sports are regressing. Why? Because China has never developed a modern sports industry suitable for China's national conditions and involving all people. The United States has the three major sports of American football, basketball and softball to promote national fitness. India has cricket, and Japan has sumo wrestling, which is popular among the people. Even Rugby, the national sport of New Zealand, a small country with few people, can make fans so enthusiastic that no one will watch the Olympics or the World Cup. What does China have? Apart from being passionate about Western football stars and idols, nothing seems to be able to arouse the enthusiasm of Chinese young people for a certain sport.

The sports industry actually goes beyond the scope of sports. It has a lot to do with culture, media, and even government and social mentality. In the environment where the whole society worships foreigners and favors foreigners, China's sports industry has embarked on the road of no return of making wedding clothes for others. Turn on the TV, and sports programs are full of Serie A, La Liga, UEFA Champions League, American NBA and other competitions. However, China's local sports industry has developed as abnormally as Chinese football. American sports are a mirror. The three major sports of football, basketball, and softball are booming and popular among the people. They not only achieve the goal of national fitness, but also create a huge sports industry and enrich the people's cultural life. Americans enjoy themselves and strive for self-improvement, regardless of the turmoil caused by the World Cup football outside. This is the mentality of a certain confident country. Black children in the United States all dream of becoming Jordan one day, which is a powerful driving force for sports. India and Japan are also role models. Cricket is not well known to many people in the world, but it does not prevent it from becoming India's national sport that the whole people are crazy about, and it has become a sports industry in the country. The ugly sumo wrestling sport has been developed by the Japanese into a national sport, and it is also a sports industry with unique national characteristics.

China has its own sports strengths and a sports model suitable for the characteristics of small venues and large populations. It also had a national movement and mass sports projects participated by hundreds of millions of people. However, I don’t know when the Chinese people started to lose themselves in the concept of sports. They resigned themselves to inferiority in sports culture and mentality. There was even a phenomenon of cultural colonization in sports culture. As a result, Chinese football can no longer break out of the Asian weird phenomenon.

Many people are discussing and reflecting on the phenomenon of Chinese football. In fact, Chinese football is a typical colonial freak of the sports industry. Putting football in such an important position in Chinese society is a manifestation of inheriting other people's values ​​and losing the sense of being a civilized subject. The 5,000-year-old civilization has degenerated to the point where it no longer even knows how to play. It is worse than America and Australia, which only have a history of several hundred years. Although they are also separated from Europe, they do not take football seriously and have also developed a spectacular sports industry. The British colonies have already gotten rid of colonial culture. Why do we have to cry and shout to be in line with the "mainstream culture"?

>China's three major balls are suffering from rickets and it is not unrelated to the fact that the three major balls are the hardest hit areas of colonial culture. Just imagine that under the media's overwhelming exaggeration of sports advocating foreigners, the Chinese football world is not only filled with low self-esteem. Chinese people are addicted to watching Western football broadcasts at home. Large sums of broadcast and advertising fees are flowing to foreign clubs. China's mass sports industry, which is in urgent need of funds, has lost its source of vitality, especially children who are misled by the media. Nowadays, only popular sports in the West are called sports. They disdain traditional Chinese sports and disdain the company of Chinese football, which has suffered repeated defeats. Fans will only sit on the sofa and eat junk food to watch football games. They are all fat little guys who worship foreign stars. Does this kind of humanistic environment have the soil for China's football industry to thrive? The fact that football, basketball, and volleyball are all facing a crisis of talent shortage is an important indicator of the decline of mass sports in China.

No one in China knows about Zhuang Zedong, Lang Ping, and no one values ​​Lin Dan or Wang Hao. They only know about foreign stars and are proud to know how many foreign stars they know. China's mass sports lack motivation. Without widespread public participation, China's sports industry will not be able to scale. China's sports industry can only be reduced to a wage earner in the Western sports industry. Without a solid mass base, no matter how hard the Chinese Football Association struggles, it will only be able to make ends meet.

The rise of competitive football in China (regardless of whether it is important or not) should be based on the substantial improvement of the physical and psychological quality of the people. The improvement of the people's sports quality requires a healthy and benign sports industry and undertaking similar to the three major sports industries in the United States. Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. China's table tennis, volleyball, and badminton have a good mass base and facilities. However, due to incorrect sports mentality, no one in the government, media, or society has used their brains to create and expand China's own sports industry. They do not regard their own strengths as sports. They insist on following the foreigners and hyping the Chinese people's weaknesses, and promote football that occupies a large area of ​​land and is not suitable for the national conditions. China should identify and vigorously promote a sports industry that suits its national conditions. When the physical and mental quality of the entire population improves, will it still be important for Chinese competitive football to go beyond Asia? Is it still difficult?

4. Abandoning the colonial sports culture mentality and developing and cultivating a mass sports industry suitable for national conditions is a major event that the whole society should pay attention to.

China Youth Daily reported: Compared with 2005, the standing long jump scores of urban boys and rural boys in the 19 to 22 age group dropped by 1.29 and 0.23 centimeters on average, respectively. The running scores dropped by an average of 3.37 and 3.09 seconds respectively; while the standing long jump scores of urban and rural girls of the same age dropped by an average of 2.72 and 0.92 centimeters respectively, and the 800-meter running scores dropped by an average of 3.17 and 1.87 seconds respectively. What a shocking set of figures. In recent years, the colonial sports culture mentality has had a disastrous impact on the health of the entire population.

The loss of mass sports is probably just the tip of the iceberg in the ideological confusion caused by the self-loss of Chinese civilization. Nowadays, the current situation of some "tasteful Chinese" is to wear foreign brands, carry foreign bags, hold foreign mobile phones, drive foreign cars, eat and drink foreign food and wine, and talk about foreign stars in detail. There are even people like Huang Jianxiang who can praise foreigners and turn them into stars. In the long run, China's Not only will the next generation physically transform into a new generation of sick men of East Asia, but civilizational self-dwarfing and inferiority will also limit cultural progress and seriously constrain the pace of China's reform and progress. A nation that loses spiritual self-confidence and physically degrades will eventually fail like Chinese football in the fierce competition.

The Chinese government, media, and Chinese intellectuals should wake up!