Chongqing- Zhao Hongbo, the head coach of the Chinese figure skating team, is tenacious on the training field. His unyielding will won him an Olympic championship at the age of 37. He admitted that being a coach was no easier than being an athlete. Here is an interview with Zhao Hongbo, an Olympic champion and head coach of the national figure skating team, before the China Cup World Figure Skating Grand Prix in Chongqing.
Chongqing is likely to foster a world champion of its own in figure skating one day. Sometimes the athletes cannot put up with his strictness. Many athletes thought they had done well enough, but thinking about the opponents, would they rather take second place? Athletes training themselves hard do not care about the trophy because it's easy for them to step onto the top of the medals podium. For this episode of the Chongqing Interview Series, Zhao Hongbo talked about his coaching life.