Chinese weightlifting team pays more attention to lifters' psychological condition
29/7/2008 18:09
Chinese weightlifting team has paid more attention to the lifters'
psychological condition while cutting daily training to some extent as there are
only 10 days left for the Olympics.
As China, a traditional weightlifting
powerhouse, may probably get its first gold at the Beijing Olympics from the
weightlifting events, the weightlifting team takes psychological consultation as
an important part of the preparation for upcoming events.
Ma Wenguang,
director of China's Weightlifting, Wrestling and Judo Administrative Center,
said coaches began to watch weightlifters more carefully after the list of
athletes for Olympics was announced on July 26.
The 10 strongmen and women,
who will participate in nine categories events at the Olympics, acted with no
difference as usual, Ma said.
However, "they will feel certain pressure after
moving into the Olympic Village and feeling the Olympic atmosphere," he
said.
He said certain extent of pressure will help athletes to be prepared
for the competitions, however, "if we find someone is over-pressured, we will
offer psychological consultations for them, " he said.
The lifters, including
Athens Olympic champions Chen Yanqing, Liu Chunhong and Shi Zhiyong, are being
trained at the training center of China's General Administration of Sport. They
currently get two-hour training every afternoon, 80 to 90 percent of their
normal intensity, men's weightlifting head coach Chen Wenbin told
Xinhua.
They won't move into the Olympic Village until August 6. The Olympic
weightlifting events will be held from Aug. 9-19 in Beijing University of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (BUAA) Gymnasium.
Xinhua
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