Chinese people seem to like to talk about spirit.Especially in terms of sports, the spirit of sports is even more vulgar.Even if a small middle school student team won the championship, there must be a sigh of sports in praise of their hard work, unity, not fear of difficulties, and bravery.In other words, the grades are not the main, only the spirit is noble, extraordinary.

What exactly is sports spirit?The most well -known Chinese people are the spirit of the women's volleyball team. Some people interpret it as tenacious hard work, never giving up, etc. It is a bit like an American writer Hemingway that a person can be destroyed but must not be defeated.For a long time, I was convinced of this sports spirit.

In the 2004 Athens Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team fell behind 0 to 2, achieving a great reversal, defeating the Russian team 3-0, and we were also excited at the time.However, in a few years, the Chinese team of the Beijing Olympic Games reached the semi -finals in the local area. The London Olympic Games did not even enter the semi -finals, and no one mentioned the spirit of the women's volleyball team.Immediately after the Rio Olympics, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship again, and the spirit of the women's volleyball team became a hot topic. At the Tokyo Olympics, the group did not qualify, and the spirit of spirit was difficult to find.

From Rio to Tokyo, this Chinese women's volleyball team is almost the same coach. Why is the same group of members so different?Some people summarized many "spirit" problems, saying that after they won the championship, how many advertisements they took and how many endorsements they received, the spirit of the women's volleyball team had long been behind.As everyone knows, in Rio and Tokyo, the Chinese women's volleyball team's performance is 2 wins and 3 losses, but they are more lucky in Rio. They just go out and encounter Brazil with local fighting pressure.In Tokyo, the main attacker Zhu Ting took the wounded game, influenced, against Russia and other games, and unexpectedly did not win under the advantage.These are obviously not explained by simple "mental problems".

In this way, the so -called sports spirit is somewhat bluffed.When the grades are good, the spirit is an embellishment, the grade is not good, and the sports spirit is put aside, or it becomes the object of other people's population -it is because of the "spirit" problem that the results are not good.

Like the women's volleyball team, the Chinese women's football, known as the rose rose, also represents a spirit.In the 1999 Women's Football World Cup, the Chinese team sang all the way and broke into the finals. The semi -finals also defeated the Jinyou Norwegian team with a 5-0 score, causing a wave of boom.In the finals, the Chinese team loses the penalty to the United States, and the game process has been blurred.The most impressive is that the commentator Huang Jianxiang repeatedly recruited the congratulatory of the national leaders before and during the game. Of course, the content is also the spirit of praise their stubborn hard work.It is said that the congratulatory message brought tremendous psychological pressure to the women's football team at the time, and also laid a foreshadowing for the loss.

Later, the women's football movement gradually became popular all over the world, and the "first -mover advantage" of Chinese women's football teams became smaller and smaller.Until the Olympic Games and other important competitions, it lost 0-8 to Germany and lost to the Netherlands 2-8.Every time, the head coach and the team members will be criticized, and the spirit of the women's football team is even more mentioned.Until the Asian Cup last year, the Chinese Women's Football Finals reversed South Korea. After many years, they won the Asian championship, and some people showed a never -discarded sports spirit, saying that it explained the spiritual core of the rose.

This is the Chinese women's football team that won the Asian championship last year. Recently, the Women's Football World Cup was eliminated. The team was eliminated.After the women's football team, Wang Shuang, also became the focus.Wang Shuang mentioned, "We are not a good example." "I have always had a problem. Why do we have to practice hard and pay more than those players in Europe, but we have never got the results we want?"Wang Shuang's words have caused many people in social media.My understanding is that she is full of guilt about this defeat. Her doubt is that the spirit of the Chinese women's football team has not lost, she still endures hard work and never gives up, but her results can not go up.

Actually, what many people do n’t know is that last year ’s Women’ s Asian Cup, the Japanese women's football team sent the youth team used to practice military, and the success of that champion itself was a problem.This defeat is not surprising to many professionals, because the gap between Chinese women's football team and strong European and American teams is already very, very large, and the defeat is just a manifestation of strength.

Sports spirit is to face failure

In the field of sports competition, under the circumstances, maybe the mental strength may be strong and can play a role in a certain role.But once the gap between hard power is enlarged, the spiritual effect will gradually become insignificant.Blind emphasis on sports spirit will make people ignore those real problems, and various misunderstandings and discomfort will occur.Just like this Chinese women's football team, it is obviously poor, it is obviously the background and environment of Chinese football for a long time, but after the defeat, it has evolved into a conjoined coach and a relative, tactical backward, and so on.

What is the real sports spirit?In my opinion, it is not a hard work, a weak victory, and never defeating. The core of the spirit of sports is just to face failure.It is a athlete, and apologize to anyone without a failure of a game; all those who are concerned about sports, the person who pays attention to the game will not fight for this or report that;Children engaged in sports have completed a self -growth because of the suffering of failure. For his life, this is more important than anything ...

From this perspective, China is really a country that lacks a sports spirit, or talk less about sports.

The author is a reporter from Shandong