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He Shibei Two silver medals in the Olympics︱World-class time management, self-discipline, persistence and achievement of Hong Kong-produced world flying fish

2021-07-30T03:03:09.748Z


Siobhan Bernadette Haughey (Siobhan Bernadette Haughey) became a well-known name in Hong Kong during the Tokyo Olympics this year. Hong Kong has always been "aspiring to participate" in Olympic swimming events. The emergence of He Shibei has changed everything


Siobhan Bernadette Haughey (Siobhan Bernadette Haughey) became a well-known name in Hong Kong during the Tokyo Olympics this year.

Hong Kong has always been "aspiring to participate" in Olympic swimming events. The emergence of He Shibei changed everything, and even stepped onto the podium, breaking Asian records one after another.


Hong Kong people are no longer only interested in foreign stars in Olympic swimming. He Shibei is the dazzling superstar that we can't do without.

In the end, how can a girl born and raised in Hong Kong become a world-class flying fish?


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The emergence of He Shibei made Hong Kong people no longer only look at foreign stars when watching Olympic swimming events.

(Photo by Gao Shiqi)

The little girl who didn't like swimming

He Shibei started to learn to swim with her two-year-old sister He Yashu at the age of 4. She had said in previous interviews that she was actually very averse to swimming at the time. She would scream and cry loudly. Mom and dad thought it was a survival skill and ordered her to Must learn.

At that time, many coaches praised her for being talented and begged her to "don't learn." She bit her head and continued to swim. After swimming, she found out, "So I like swimming."

At that time, she and her sister were only interested in swimming, until one person appeared-the man who was like a god in the water and the legendary American swimmer Michael Phelps.

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As a child, He Shibei learned to swim with her sister He Yashu.

(He Shibei IG picture)

That year, she met Phoebe

At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 10-year-old He Shibei watched Phoebe glow in the audience, winning eight consecutive gold medals in one breath, and a wish was ignited in her heart: I am the older one to participate in the Olympics.

Watching Phoebe swim, almost all the little swimmers also want to swim faster than anyone on the most spectacular and gorgeous stage in the world like him in the future, and accept the admiration and applause of the world.

However, not many children, like He Shibei, will put their ambitions into action and set goals to realize their dreams step by step.

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In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 10-year-old He Shibei looked at the majestic Phoebe in the stands.

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13 years old, the first Hong Kong record

She continued to win prizes in competitions. At the age of 13, she broke the first adult Hong Kong record: the 400-meter medley.

A year later, she continued to chase stars in the London Olympics. The figure of idol Phoebus made her desire to be on the same stage increasingly strong.

All Hong Kong children "do their supplementary exercises without interruption". Parents and children can't breathe under the pressure of homework and study. They are already busy enough to deal with their studies. How can they take time to take care of extracurricular activities?

What's more, He Shibei, who was studying at St. Paul's Middle School, is no longer interested in swimming, but a goal she strives to pursue.

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He Shibei broke the first Hong Kong adult record when she was 13 years old.

(He Shibei IG picture)

World-class time allocation and focus

With a maturity and determination that surpassed his age since childhood, He Shibei never thought of giving up school for swimming.

To become a top swimmer, you first need to spend a very long time training, get up every morning to practice, and then go to school.

I believe that many parents have to worry about waking up their young children to go back to school every time. The young Shibei not only consciously wakes up early to go to school, but also wakes up earlier for morning training.

The magistrate may ask, in this way, how can she have time to read the book?

This is where she is most powerful. If you want to practice water in the morning, then get up in the middle of the night to study. Not only is the perseverance amazing, but also the self-discipline is terrible.

No Hong Kong people are not busy.

Children have their worries: classes, tuition, interest classes, homework, exams.

The supplementary exercises that the parents have brought in have not been counted.

He Shibei not only managed to deal with it, but also strived to be perfect in everything. She scored 35 in the DSE exam. Don't be fooled by her "Ghost Girl" appearance. She passed Level 4 in the Chinese Department and Level 5 in the oral exam.

After completing the exam in May 2015, three months later, he was out of the first Olympic A-mark in Hong Kong history, and his time management was rated as world-class.

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He Shibei gets up in the middle of the night to study, and then practice water in the early morning.

(He Shibei IG picture)

From the audience to the protagonist

She has watched two Olympics on the spot. For the third time, she is no longer just sitting in the stands as a spectator, but participating as a swimmer.

Hong Kong has swimmers participating in the Olympics almost every year, and He Shibei is the first person in history to achieve A-standard results.

In the same year, he completed the high school diploma examination with excellent results and entered the Olympics with A mark. The hard work and sweat behind it is hard to imagine.

Not to mention young people, even adults can hardly be expected.

That year, she was 18 years old.

When I went to Rio de Janeiro, I suddenly entered the grandest stage of the sports world. I felt fresh and unfamiliar. "The first time I went to study," she was surrounded by famous players she admired and turned into small fans.

Even though she was not ready at the time, she was able to advance in the 200-meter freestyle, becoming the first Hong Kong swimmer in history to be in the Olympic semi-finals.

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In the 2016 Rio Olympics, He Shibei played with a learning mentality.

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Choose to practice hard at "Swimming Shaolin Temple" for progress

Seeing that Liu Yanen, another Hong Kong general at the time, went to the University of Michigan to study, his swimming performance improved rapidly. He Shibei followed in the footsteps of each other to study at the University of Michigan. In addition to fancying this prestigious school as a prestigious top swimmer "swimming training camp", he also believed that There she can take care of both swimming and schoolwork at the same time.

Why?

Because the city of Ann Arbor, where the University of Michigan is located, is basically a university town, with as many as 30,000 employees of the University of Michigan with a population of 110,000.

There is no Los Angeles’s splendid nightlife, and no gorgeous high-end restaurants. For young people who love Yepu, they probably have to live a stereotyped life like asceticism and hatred. Instead, He Shibei has a fancy to this, so that she can concentrate on reading and studying. Practice water.

The average temperature in Ann Arbor in winter is as low as minus 17.8 degrees. When there is a sudden heavy snowfall, if the snow shovel fails to clear the snow in time, students will even have to climb the "snow wall" to go to school when crossing the road.

In preparation for the Tokyo Olympics, which was postponed for one year, He Shibei stayed there for one more year after graduation.

The epidemic in the United States is more serious than that in Hong Kong. All swimming pools are closed. Shibei went to the lake to train in a low temperature close to zero. After she was in the water, she rushed to class. Even her hair was frozen. Even this still prevented her from practicing. And perseverance is indispensable.

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UM's 57-year wait

He Shibei has made rapid progress on the University of Michigan swimming team under the guidance of head coach Mike Bottom and coach Rick Bischop, but Olympic medals are by no means inevitable.

The Olympic medal swimmers produced by the University of Missouri are prosperous for men but not women. Apart from the "God of Water" Phoebus, there have been many award-winning male swimmers in the past as many stars. The number of female swimmers' individual swimming medals has been counted until 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

This shows that even if you study in the world's top swimming schools, there is no guarantee of Olympic medals.

Participating in the Olympic swimming event is hard enough, and getting to the finals is even harder. It is even more difficult to reach the top three on the podium.

The two Tokyo Olympics, 57 years apart, He Shibei and his junior sister (Margaret Macneil) won three individual swimming medals for the Women’s University of Mississippi in one breath. The University of Mississippi and the coaching team have contributed, but the biggest credit comes from the two swimmers. The effort of the hand itself.

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He Shibei has moved from Hong Kong to the top of the world swimming world. Her world-class time management, hard life, self-discipline, and her determination, perseverance and action to implement her dreams are amazing. The most important thing is that she has always set her own goals since she was young. Persevere, consistent throughout the years.

There has never been a shortcut to reaching world-class swimming performance, and it is by no means accidental. The Olympics shines brightly, and it is definitely He Shibei's years of hard work and sweat.

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He Shibei won the Olympic silver medal emoji comics:

He Shibei's road to Olympic silver medal:

Preliminary:

Tokyo Olympics | He Shibei competes in the 200-meter freestyle preliminary and advances to the semi-finals tomorrow morning in 8th place

Semi-final:

Tokyo Olympics hits directly | He Shibei enters the 200-meter freestyle final, the first port in history to compete for swimming medals

Finals:

He Shibei won the first medal in the history of the Silver Harbor Swimming Team in the Olympics, one gold and one silver, the best ever.

Revisit: He Shibei played in the 200m freestyle final and won the silver medal:

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