
Xiong Dunhan took photos by himself.
Who was the first athlete to lap in this Tokyo Olympic Games?
A few days before the opening of the Olympic Games, social networks screened a photo of a beautiful girl-she was tall, beautiful and took exquisite selfies.
But from the photos captured during the competition and training, you can see her "masculinity", with a strong look in her eyes. Coupled with a unique surname and a slightly awkward name, she is particularly noticeable.
She is Xiong Dunhan, captain of the China women’s water polo team.

China women’s water polo team, with Xiong Dunhan on the left in the front row.
At the Tokyo Olympic Games, together with Xiong Dunhan, the China women’s water polo team also gained attention. On the afternoon of the 3rd, the girls regretted that they lost to Spain 7-11 and missed the semi-finals, but their previous performances of beating Japan and Hungary proved themselves.
Behind the face value of Xiong Dunhan is the hardships that the water polo girls can’t see.
Under the face value, it is strength.
Being able to bring his own traffic before the Olympics, Xiong Dunhan’s response was decent and atmospheric.
"I sincerely thank you again for your love. I hope you can pay more attention to my normal state, because every athlete’s sweat on the field is the same as the hard work behind it."
Xiong Dunhan, born in 1998, is only 22 years old this year. Although he is young, he has participated in two Olympic Games. In 2013, Xiong Dunhan’s China Youth Team won the Asian Youth Water Polo Championship and won the fourth place in the World Women’s Water Polo League in 2014.
In July 2016, Xiong Dunhan went to Rio with the team and won the fifth place. In 2018, Xiong Dunhan helped China win the women’s water polo championship at the Asian Games in Jakarta.
In 2018 and 2020, Xiong Dunhan was also selected as the MVP of China Women’s Water Polo Championship.

"I participated in the Rio Olympics as a young player. At that time, my thoughts were not very mature. The Jakarta Asian Games was my first time to participate in the competition as a main center."
In the Asian Games in Jakarta, Xiong Dunhan scored four goals alone in the final. After the game, she cried with her teammate Mei Xiaohan in her arms, and was captured by a photojournalist. Xiong Dunhan said that he cried because he released all the hardships during the pre-competition period.
"For the whole national team, I am grateful. My teammates gave me unreserved support. As a center, I got more chances to shoot. As long as I succeed, the camera will point at me. And you know, the cooperation of teammates passing the ball has made my highlight moment. "
When it comes to the Tokyo Olympic Games, "the best result of our China women’s water polo team in the Olympic Games is the fifth. This time, let’s see if we can set a good record in history. Take dreams as a horse, and live up to its youth. China is in its youth. Come on, girls, let’s fight! "

Xiong Dunhan is in the game.
"Not Xiong Haizi, I want to be the king of beasts."
Xiong Dunhan’s position in the water polo team is the center, which is a very key role. In the overall technical and tactical arrangement, the center position belongs to the offensive focus.
"After practicing for more than a month, I watched the national team’s game on TV. I saw that the center used the hook that I am good at now. This is so handsome. Later I fell in love with this position."
With the blessing of love, Xiong Dunhan made rapid progress and grew into the main force of the national team. Because of the key position of the center, there will inevitably be many collisions and "struggles" on the court, but Xiong Dunhan is not afraid.
"When our coach asked me to play center, I had already accepted this kind of struggle, and I liked it very much. That is to say, I was scratched by some unintentional scratches. When I was a child, I felt’ Ah, it hurts’, but I forgot it quickly when I was young, and I recovered. When I grew up, I became accustomed to this kind of thing. "
This Hunan girl is full of passion off the court, and even more brave on the court. She said that although her surname is "bear", she wants to be a tiger.
"Because of the surname, everyone called me bear since I was a child. Now I am the captain of the national team, and everyone still calls me that. But I don’t want to be a Xiong Haizi, I want to be the king of beasts. "

"Someone once asked me why girls like tigers? But I just like the tiger’s domineering and courage. Both opponents and teammates have learned my momentum in confrontation in the swimming pool. "
As a center, Xiong Dunhan wants to attract more firepower. Sometimes when facing the ball flying from the opposite side, she will block it with her face. She will not hesitate-"My first reaction is not to protect herself from injury, but to do something to help the team win."
Over time, in the international water polo world, the bear is also famous for its toughness.
Since you are a tiger, you won’t show your scars easily. During the preparations for the Olympic Games, Xiong Dunhan broke his toe during a training session, and the pain was unbearable. But apart from the team doctor, she didn’t even tell her mother, but she didn’t delay training.
"Since I became a water polo player, I am used to leaving my strongest side to the people I love and not letting them worry about me."
"Injury is a common thing for athletes, and the fracture is very painful, but when I played the game, I forgot that I had a broken foot."

Xiong Dunhan is in training.
Charge signal to strengthen physical fitness
The hot search for Xiong Dunhan has opened people’s understanding of China women’s water polo team.
The young China women’s water polo team was founded in October 2004, and then won the fifth place in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. This is not only a breakthrough in the water polo field in China, but also in the water polo field in Asia.
After that, China women’s water polo achieved triple jump-won the third place in the World Cup in 2010; Won the runner-up in the World Championships in 2011; In 2013, we achieved a historic breakthrough and won the first world championship in the FINA World Water Polo League!
In the Asian Games, it won three Asian Games champions from Guangzhou in 2010 to Jakarta in 2018 and staged a "hat trick".
At the Rio Olympics in 2016, China women’s water won the fifth place again.

Xiong Dunhan (left) and his teammates.
In the process of water polo competition, technical and tactical decisions determine the success or failure of the competition, while women water polo players in China are weaker than foreign players in physical strength, so it is particularly important to improve their physical fitness.
Since the end of May, 2020, the China women’s water polo team has sounded the call to strengthen physical fitness, and specially learned from the China rowing team, which is at the leading level in physical fitness training. Girls have to train with the same standard and intensity as rowers every day, which they have never experienced before.
At a symposium, the girls shared their recent training experience. Goalkeeper Peng Linji said:"It is right to increase physical training in this direction. Every game always loses more points and scores less in the fourth quarter, and can’t stand it at a critical moment. "
Peng Lin said that although the training is very hard, the effect is obvious-the reason for the hard training now is to pay back the "debt" of the previous physical weakness.
Team member Huan Wang also said that after the pre-Olympic training, the feeling strength has been greatly improved, and the moving speed of the water support has also been obviously accelerated.

Porobic coaches the players.
Strict "panda coach"
At the same time, during the Tokyo Olympic Games, the national team changed several head coaches.
The current coach is Porobic from Montenegro, because his name is very similar to panda, and the players sometimes call him "Panda Coach" in private.
But his temper is nothing like a tame panda-if the girls don’t behave well in the competition or training, the coach will give no face when he scolds them.
He has a big temper, but "panda coach" really has two brushes-since he taught, it is the action of "water spider" that the team members have to overcome first.
In the past, most of the women’s water players in China used treading water to stay in the water, while the strong teams in Europe and America were prone on the water like spiders, which had a fast line speed and a large defensive area, but required a very high physical reserve.
When "Panda Coach" arrived with this concept, China Women’s Water began a lot of physical training.
Perhaps, the girls of the women’s water polo team suffered a lot, but in Tokyo, they all turned into happiness.