[Sports Road to Hangzhou] Liang Jiaru’s Journey from Team Pursuit to Individual Medals

[Sports Road to Hangzhou]Liang Jiaru, who won the silver medal in the men’s team pursuit competition with Liang Junrong, Zhang Jingle, Miao Zhengxian and Gao Zhaowei at the last Asian Games, finally realized his dream of medals in the individual competition five years later. He said that he “never succeeded in any major competition”. After winning the silver medal in the men’s all-around competition, he revealed that he considered retiring for a while, but later decided to stick to it. “Finally, he has lived up to his years of training.”他在衝線後的怒吼、然後振臂高呼、繼而在鑊場就地嚎哭的過程，已透過直播畫面深深印在觀眾腦中，也肯定會成為今屆亞運港隊其中一個最難忘的context.

In the past, he had never won a medal in an individual event at the Asian Championships, World Championships or Asian Games. The 27-year-old Liang Jiaru had an emotional outburst after the game, which is understandable. The championships are good, and every time they are “finishing fragrance”. Three months ago, the top three in the Asian Championships entered the finals, but ended up with nothing (6th place), and I was afraid that the same mistake would happen again. But after this time, I feel that I can stand up to myself and be accountable to myself.”

In the year of the Incheon Asian Games in 2014, Liang Jiaru had just joined the cycling team full-time and was just a sparring partner in Kunming. Four years later, at the Jakarta Asian Games, he was already a regular member of the men’s team pursuit team, and even joined hands with Liang Junrong, Zhang Jingle, Miao Zhengxian and Gao Zhaowei. Although he won the silver medal, the focus of the crowd was still on “Ale”, “Fei Rong” and even “Fei Gao”. After leaving the podium, Liang Jiaro disappeared without a trace. In the end, he was still a “foil”…

Today, he finally put on the halo of the protagonist and felt all kinds of things in his heart.

The Hong Kong team unexpectedly won the bronze medal in the women’s team pursuit yesterday, but the men’s team lost. The contrast between happiness and sadness once again struck a chord with Liang Jiaru: “I was so shocked before I started playing today that I asked my coach to stay with me. . I have been preparing for 5 years, constantly forcing myself to make progress and speed up, just for today. I am really afraid of losing again.” He also revealed that he thought about retiring last year, but almost missed the Asian Games medal: “Last year I stopped training for three months in October and had already thought about retiring. However, the Asian Games were only half a year away anyway, so why not hold on? Even after I returned to the team to train, I was actually under a lot of pressure. This silver medal is worthy of me. Personally, I have been preparing for this Asian Games for several years, just for this moment.”

In today’s final scoring competition, Liang Jiaro’s overall ranking fell to fifth place. He said that he didn’t think about anything at the time. “I thought it would be a matter of catching up, because if I don’t catch up, there will be nothing. So I just bite the bullet and bite the bullet.” “After catching up, I saw my opponents falling behind one by one. I knew I couldn’t stop. Once I stopped, all my hard work over the past few years would be in vain. This is how I pushed myself to the end.” He also admitted that he was worried about the silver medal. The result was surprising: “Initially, I did it for a bronze medal. I was always behind my Japanese opponents. I never thought I could win the silver medal in the end.”

After the award ceremony, because Li Siying was taken for a drug test, not everyone was included in the group photo.

When asked if this silver medal would help him regain his confidence and stay in the team after the Asian Games to pursue new goals, Liang Jiarru did not respond directly: “Let’s figure it out later! I still have road races this year. In fact, Madison will be cooperating with Liang Junrong tomorrow night. There is also a (medal) opportunity, and I really want to fight for it together! The first thing now is to recover well and prepare for tomorrow’s competition.”

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Pictures and text: Vincent

This article is written by “Sportsroad“Originally published in”[Hangzhou Asian Games·Direct Attack]The audience was moved by his cry after winning the silver medal. Liang Jiarru vomited black energy: He was so afraid of making the same mistake again.」

2023-09-28 12:48:51

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