At this year's Rio Olympics, when the Chinese women's gymnastics team was training before the game, the captain Shang Chunsong failed to complete the set of actions because of fever, and he cried at the time.
However, the Chinese women's gymnastics team finally advanced to the team final in second place, and their performance was still quite good! And captain Shang Chunsong, a 96-year-old little girl, also let everyone breathe a sigh of relief.
However, there is another high-profile player on the field of this year's gymnastics project, the "Qiu Ma" in the mouth of the Chinese gymnastics team, and the Olympian Qiu Suoweikina, who is known as the "Elder of the Seven Dynasties" by the Jianghu people.
For her, the current opponents were not yet born when she won the gold medal. Moreover, Mama Qiu's trip to Rio this time is not to make soy sauce.
▲ In the Gymnastics World Cup Mersin station competition that just ended at the beginning of last month, Yau Mama successfully completed the most difficult action for women's vaulting.
However, in the Olympic women's preliminaries, she has not yet used the ace. If she can reach the final and play the highest difficulty move normally, then she will win the medal very likely!
▲Look! Qiu Mama this explosive power!
▲ 41 years old, the body is still very strong ~ steady landing!
Every appearance of Qiu Mama received the warmest applause and cheers from the audience. Moreover, for the audience, whether Mama Qiu can stand on the podium is not necessarily very important, as long as there is her in the game.
▼ The name "Qiu Ma"
Full of everyone's respect for her
Chusovkina, 41, is the first athlete in the history of gymnastics to participate in seven Olympic games. The age of the mother is the grandmother level in the history of the Olympic Games.
She was born in 1975 in a small city in Uzbekistan. In this small country where gymnastics is considered a desert sport, Chusovkina became a symbol and symbol of national sports.
▲ Because of her love of gymnastics since childhood, Chusovkina has always been the best among her peers, dancing at the peak since she was a child.
▲ In 1991, at the age of 16, she won the gold medal in the women's team and the gold medal in the free gymnastics and vaulting events at the World Championships for the CIS.
In 1992, at the age of 17, she represented the CIS for the Olympic Games for the first time and won the gold medal in the women's team.
▲ From left to right, the fourth place is the young Qiu classmate
In 1996, shang Chunsong, who played in the Rio Olympics, was just born, and Chusovkina had already participated in the Atlanta Olympic Games and won the tenth place in the individual all-around.
Subsequently, she retired at the most beautiful age, married the wrestler Bakdal Kepanov, and returned to the family.
In 1999, Chusovkina's eldest son, Alyosha, was born. She could have been an ordinary woman, a husband and a godson, and enjoyed the joy that life brought her. But in 2002, Alyosha was diagnosed with leukemia, which was undoubtedly a huge blow to the family that was not rich in the first place.
At that time, the German gymnastics team reached out to her, not only paying part of Alyosha's medical expenses, but also providing Chusovkina with all the conditions to resume training. For the sake of her son, she decided to join the German gymnastics team and returned to the field.
"If I don't play, Alyosha can't live, a world championship gold medal equals 3,000 euros, it's that simple, I have no choice at all."
Mama Qiu quickly adjusted her form and returned to her familiar training ground.
But gymnastics has always been a project dominated by young people, and The physical condition of Qiu Ma, who is nearly thirty years old, has long been inferior to that of before, and the actions that were easy in the past may be torture for her to return to her old profession.
Just for the sake of her son, she must not fall. The mother, after returning to the field, showed amazing strength.
▲In 2002, she won the gold medal in the women's vaulting and free gymnastics competition at the Busan Asian Games, and the silver medal in the individual all-around and balance beam.
▲In 2003, he won the gold medal in vaulting at the World Championships in Anaheim, USA.
▲In 2005, he won the silver medal in vaulting at the World Gymnastics Championships in Melbourne, Australia.
▲In 2006, he won the bronze medal in vaulting at the World Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus, Denmark.
▲ At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 33-year-old Chusovkina was in amazing shape, winning the silver medal in the season vault and ranking ninth in the women's all-around.
By this time, Alyosha had recovered and returned to school, and the family was back on track. Until now, the slogan of "You are not cured, I dare not grow old" still touches the hearts of countless people.
▼ Finally, I can enjoy the game
Fight for your interests and write your own legend
Behind the brilliant achievements of every athlete, there are little-known hardships, not to mention the elderly Qiu Ma. When she suffered a serious fall during training that resulted in a ruptured Achilles tendon, she was asked if she would retire.
▲ Injured Yau Mom
But she said: "I used to go to training for my son and it was a last resort. When my son recovered, I told my son that my mother was going to enjoy gymnastics now. I didn't expect to encounter such a serious injury. But I'm going to try again, and even if I have the slightest chance, I'll take the risk of getting back on the field. ”
When she no longer had to worry about her son's condition, she said: "Now I am practicing gymnastics for myself, I am like a fish in the water." As a result, Aunt Qiu was still hanging on the field, exerting the power of the flood in her body.
▲In 2011, she won the silver medal in the women's vault at the European Gymnastics Championships.
▲In 2012, she won the silver medal in the women's vault at the European Gymnastics Championships.
▲ At the London Olympics in the same year, the 37-year-old Qiu Mama won the fifth place in the women's vault event of the London Olympic Games. This is her 6th Olympic participation.
▲ In 2014, in the women's vaulting competition at the Incheon Asian Games, 39-year-old Qiu Mama won the silver medal in the case of injury.
In an interview, she said: Actually, I am very happy to be able to achieve such results. If anything, it's that I had a foot injury, which affected my state. In this case, it is already very rare to be able to go home with a medal.
Asked about the final battle, she said: "I hope to win another medal at the Rio Olympics and then end my sporting career successfully." As for the Tokyo Olympics, that's too far away, and maybe we'll talk about it after the Rio Olympics are over.
Mama Qiu is going to impact the Rio Olympics at the age of 41. So when I saw Qiu Mama appear, if sister was excited!
▲At this time, although her youth is not there, her posture is still elegant and fast.
▲ When Mama Qiu came down from the balance beam and made this ending action, her sister could feel the pride across the screen!
However, a few days ago, Mama Qiu herself vowed that she would bid farewell to the field after her seventh Olympic appearance, "I think I will not participate again after the Olympic Games." Moreover, she seems to have thought about it, saying: "Retirement must be on Monday, because that is the hardest day of training." ”
However, Mama Qiu is also a woman in the end, and after only 3 days, she repented, "I said I was going to retire, but when I woke up the next morning, I felt that I could continue." ”
▲ If sister estimates, Qiu Mama is always flipping in the air, so everyone who changes back and forth should get used to it...
But the real reason is: "I love gymnastics, I like to do it, it gives me that joy that is hard to say." When I will end my gymnastics career, I don't know myself. ”
In addition, due to the problem of age, she would always be asked how she felt about playing with teenage girls, and the previous Qiu Mama would respond domineeringly: "I think they should be very stressed, because people of my age can still compete with them." 」 But this time, she replied in a different way: "I only think about my son, I don't think about other gymnasts." ”
Everyone has had a youthful time, and perhaps no one likes to be compared like this. But this feeling is like meeting your future self.
The girl with clear and slightly confused eyes has become a wrinkled but gritty mother and a world-class athlete, who said that the years must bring old age?
Moreover, there are many players who are on the field for a long time like Aunt Qiu.
▲ 39-year-old Chen Ying participated in the competition for the fourth time this year, and she has won the gold medal of the Beijing Olympics and the silver medal of the London Olympics. She said: The Olympic dream has always beckoned me, and winning glory for the motherland and the eternal pursuit of the shooting project is the most sacred goal in my life.
▲ 53-year-old Ni Xialian, as the oldest female athlete in the table tennis event of this Olympic Games, has participated in the Olympic Games for four times. She admitted that table tennis is no longer the whole of life, but she also insists on doing her best when she is on the field.
▲ He Zhiwen, a former national player in table tennis, the oldest tour champion in the history of the International Table Tennis Federation, is still playing in Rio at the age of 54, and he has set a new record for the oldest Olympic table tennis competition created by himself four years ago.
When fencer Luan Jujie competed in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, he was already 50 years old and defeated Inabbekri, who was 30 years younger than himself. After the game, because it took many years to return to the motherland, Luan Jujie took out a banner that read "The motherland is good", and the audience present boiled! Although she represented Canada, she won applause from everyone.
▲ The 71-year-old dressage riding technique Hua Jinkuan participated in the 2012 London Olympics. But this year, due to the illness of his mount, it is a pity that the 75-year-old missed the opportunity to break the record for the highest age to compete in the Olympics.
Nowadays, these sports veterans are no longer entangled in winning or losing, they just use their love and persistence to let the Olympic spirit walk ahead of the old years.
Finally, put a picture that has made Sister If very moved, and give it to everyone:
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