In China, the two universities in the Northern Qing Dynasty have always only said that they are the first, and have never admitted that they are the second.
But there are always people who want to be superior, so at the end of the last century, suddenly some school leaders had the idea, hoping to follow the example of Cambridge and Oxford in the United Kingdom, a rowing challenge, the two schools to compete in this sports competition, and held for a hundred years, become the European "Cambridge Oxford Confrontation", the United States "Harvard Yale Confrontation" three classic rowing classic events, this is the once boiling "Northern Qing Dynasty Centennial Rowing Competition" came from.
At the beginning, the idea and original intention were of course good, the two universities in the Beiqing Dynasty wanted to become a world-class university, not to mention the hardware for the time being, but also to keep up with the software.
They invited the rowing teams of Cambridge and Oxford as guests, invested a lot of money and energy, and did a good job, but then, the two teams gradually became professional in the practice of just having fun, recruiting rowing students, inviting national coaches to train, and even allowing the rowing team to enter the school as students of the school to participate in the competition between the two schools.
In the middle of the way, all kinds of tearing, all kinds of flavors, all kinds of violations, and finally it became a vicious circle, the original advocates no longer insisted, the earliest original intention was never mentioned again, and in the end it was not done, and it could not be done.
"We only followed the model of others, but ignored the foundation of rowing, which eventually led to a lack of fresh blood, insufficient social influence, and various external factors.
An old man sat in the lounge, facing the ten team members facing the extreme challenge, as well as Coach Xu Feng, told the whole story with some emotion, causing a sigh of embarrassment around.
On July 2nd, the extreme challenge recorded a program at the Zhongjing Kunyuhe Community Party and Mass Activity Center, and the guest invited was Huang Qinian, the former head coach of the national team rowing, and also the first coach of the rowing team of Tsinghua University.
Sha Bei quietly poked Yang An's arm, raised his chin slightly, and asked if there was a problem with saying this.
Yang An received the instructions of Director Guo Hongyang and understood, regardless of whether he cut it out or not, anyway, the story had already been recorded, and they would listen to it first "Huang Lao, I want to ask a more pointed question, do you think the real reason for the untimely death of the Beiqing competition is really the lack of fresh blood, and there is no new rowing major student recruited You are the most recent participant at that time, I want to hear you tell the truth."
Yang An asked very sincerely, and finally pointed to the ten people on his side, and added: "I ask this question, mainly because our extreme challenge program team is also trying to promote this sport now, and it is in cooperation with the State General Administration of Sports, in recent months, after our rowing special was broadcast, it seems that there has been a lot of racing fever in China, and it is about the same as the first two years of the Beiqing competition, I don't want you to understand."
Huang Qinian nodded slightly and smiled: "You are afraid of repeating the mistakes of the past" Well Everyone nodded their heads, this is a lesson from the past, two of China's best universities tried more than a decade ago, but unfortunately failed, their extreme challenges to rekindle the passion for rowing, and no one can say how many years it will last.
Huang Qinian habitually reached out and touched it in his chest pocket, he was looking for a cigarette, and suddenly realized that the show was being recorded here, and he smiled awkwardly.
He made a difficult decision and decided to mercilessly uncover the scar that had been covered up for more than ten years and reveal the inside story of the year "I'll be honest, I think there are three reasons, the first one is that there are no new students joining because rowing is too expensive for the school to afford.
The school does not have suitable water training, so it can only lease aquatic centers in other places, pick up and drop off students, and place employees, with various expenses of hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
In addition, an eight-person boat is hundreds of thousands, an ergometer is hundreds of thousands, and money is burning everywhere, so it is better to invest in basketball, a sports major that does not waste much money and can still get a good reputation.
Anyway, cuba is also a commercial project, and if you go up to BA, excellent basketball students may be able to enter the professional league draft, and what about rowing, rowing has it."
It's a great truth Yang An and they were all embarrassed, and they had previously attributed the crime of the untimely death of the event to the reason of "no new students", which was to throw the pot to ordinary people to bear, and it turned out that everyone decided by looking at the money Huang Qinian completely let go today and continued: "The second point is that the Chinese value face too much and cannot afford to lose. ” This also made several people snicker.
This is not to laugh at the two schools of the Northern Qing Dynasty that they can't afford to lose, they can't afford to lose this person, the leaders can't hold their faces, what other reason can they have Yang An nodded: "We went outside for a spin last month, and the current rowing atmosphere is indeed a little different from that in China."
Especially in Cambridge, every July is their rowing season, and the last time we went was not an official race day, it was already lively, and the river was full of rowing.
I heard that after the official start, there were more than 1ooo boats in the participating teams, tsk, that scene, I can't think of it" Shabei said: "And I have seen their competition schedule, children's group, elderly group, amateur group, professional group, men, women, all are competing, this is really a national rowing, national fitness" Huang Bo suddenly realized, clapped his hands and said: "Do you remember the nameplate of the Knight Army Club we saw by the Thames, sce1856 written on it, do you remember?"
When I said that, everyone remembered it.
At that time, everyone wondered if it was the age of some ancient building, or some kind of place such as the Hall of Honor of English gentlemen and knights, with a crossed sculls painted next to it, and no one knew the reason at the time.
Huang Bo said: "I later checked on the Internet, this is a rowing club that has lasted for more than 100 years, or a well-known old club in the UK" "Oh my God, the rowing club founded in 1856" "It still exists" "Not only does it exist, but it is also very influential, and there have been some British ministers, parliamentarians, CEOs, lawyers, and people in this club with a long history."
"Good boy, this is really ahaha" Everyone doesn't know what to say, a rowing club is longer than the establishment of the two universities in the Northern Qing Dynasty, and the cultural heritage is not a little bit worse, so the UK can participate in all ages, and rowing can persist for a hundred years, purely because the people love this sport: