| Competitive Gymnastics is one of the major and dominant sports events in China and also the important part of Olympic Glorious Program. In Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, our gymnasts has endured all the hardships to win 9 gold medals,1 silver medal and 4 bronze medal, a marvelous record, a great historic break-through. Particularly, the male team has won 7 gold medals in 8 individual events, only horse-vaulting being an exception. The phenomenon of outshining others forms a new pattern of world's male competitive gymnastics. Meanwhile, the performance of our Chinese female gymnastic team has also been gotten ahead, with a historic record of 2 gold medals and 4 bronze medals, a significant break-through compared to the embarrassment of only one bronze medal in the previous Game. Evidently, it is not appropriate to depict the performance of Chinese team as perfect, especially the female team. Two traditional dominant events, horse-vaulting and balance beam, has been lost when facing challenging competitors; weak events has not been developed effectively; gymnasts lack experience in world-class competition; leading players' performance is instable. All the factors mentioned above has been influenced the further development of Chinese female team. Therefore, it has become what we should summarize and explore comprehensively that how to maintain our traditional dominant events and to develop other relatively weak ones when facing strong national teams in gymnastics, especially the growing-up American team.This paper focuses on the development of Chinese female gymnastic team, and the study of the preparation for 2012 London Olympic Games. By studying the gain and loss of Chinese female competitive gymnastics team in Beijing Olympic Games and investigating the influential factors, it thoroughly explores the problems of the current system of Chinese female gymnastic team and the contradictory factors which impact the female team's development. It provides, to some extent, referential evidence and value in the promotion of Chinese female gymnastic team's development, and the formulation of its counter measures of Olympic strategy programming and sustainable development for 2012 London Olympic Games.Conclusion:The status of world female gymnastics competition has revised from earlier "four-nation competition" to new "Sino-America competition"; Chinese female gymnastics team's overall level has made a significant progress, standing with the best ones in the world; the strength of dominant team event and uneven bar is apparently close to American team, while the strength of weak events, as well as potentially dominant events such as horse-vaulting and balance beam, developed to some extent very slowly, with a latent decline due to the retirement of older team members; our team is in need of gymnasts with balanced development, or so-called all-round developed players, and is also over-depended on older team members, which shows the irrationality in forces construction; some deficiency in technique level are uncovered, such as insufficiency of strength, inadequacy of novelty, relatively poor stability and elegancy, lack of unique skills; the psychological quality of team members is not strong enough when confronting important competition, which resulted in major mistakes in the final match; coach team is in need of improving comprehensive strength; our competitor American team is powerful, with a excellent result of 2 gold medals and 5 silvers, which is a major opponent of China considering the chanciness of female gymnastics.Counter Measures for Development:With better understanding and adaptation of new rules, and with scientific training as the core guiding, we should promote the coaches'comprehensive strength, develop the gymnasts' psychological quality in competition, train all-round and distinctive players, strengthen the creation of difficulties, improve the performance quality of movements, strengthen scientific research teams and guidance, and to develop reserve forces. |
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