The name Xu Haifeng is unknown to Chinese. Because we will learn about his deeds from a young age, he also appears in the compulsory textbooks of primary schools, which is enough to show how worth learning Xu Haifeng is Chinese. However, as time passes day by day, the name Xu Haifeng is rarely mentioned by the public.
Just as an example, a kind of pride remains in the hearts of all. However, on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the motherland, in a group of photos posted by former Chinese table tennis player Deng Yaping, Xu Haifeng once again aroused heated discussion among netizens.
The general content of the discussion is that Xu Haifeng looks very old in the photo with Deng Yaping, and at the age of 61, he has long been unable to see the appearance of the spirit in the textbook, and some are just the traces left by the years.
So many people paid new attention to Xu Haifeng, but found that his life was not so good, and his eyesight was getting worse and worse, and now he and his wife still lived in the unit house, which was very surprising.
Xu Haifeng, a character who appears in textbooks, has always been the pride of all of China. He won the men's pistol 60-round diffuse championship at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, becoming the first Olympic gold medalist, and more importantly, he was also China's first Olympic champion, achieving a breakthrough of "zero" in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games.
While singing the national anthem, the whole world witnessed the rise of Zhongzhong, and at the same time became an idol for many junior athletes, and with his spirit, he has been working for the national honor. Xu Haifeng is also the first Olympic champion, Asian Champion, World Championship champion and other athletes in the history of Chinese sports shooting, who combine many honors.
Xu Haifeng's physical condition has been bad after the Los Angeles Olympics, because he is eager to win honor for China, so he practiced shooting morning and evening before that, and after 1991, he practiced too much and migratory retinitis to reduce his vision to about 0.2. Such vision, for a professional shooter, is undoubtedly the most serious blow.
But Xu Haifeng did not give up shooting because of this. In a state where physical conditions did not permit, Xu Haifeng also insisted on several major international competitions and won awards, and in 1995, due to physical reasons, he was forced to put down his gun.
But he did not give up contributing his strength to the motherland, after giving up shooting, he served as the coach of the women's pistol group of the national shooting team, wanting to dedicate everything he had to the motherland. Bow down to the motherland. Xu Haifeng was later appointed deputy director of the Shooting and Archery Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport.
He also won countless gold medals with the Chinese shooting team, breaking 3 world records. It is such a person who is dedicated to the country, but a person who does not care about life. Because he put all his energy into sports.
Xu Haifeng, 61 years old this year, looks much older than the elderly of the same age, and his hair is more gray and rare. This was evident at the Busan Asian Games that year. After serving as the coach of the national team, Xu Haifeng not only did not slack off in the slightest, but even worked harder than when he was the most player.
Because as a player, you only need to impose hard work, but after being a coach, the responsibility on your shoulders is more. He needs to consider the development of the entire sports team, needs to take care of every player, and needs to take on the honor of a country.
Therefore, Xu Haifeng often trains athletes during the day and talks to athletes at night, cares about their emotions, and helps athletes solve their problems.
So he never slept before 12 o'clock, but even then he felt that he had very little time at his disposal, so he didn't have much time to go home and often lived in the dormitory. After the End of the Busan Asian Games, some media said: The more gold medals Coach Xu has, the less hair he has.
In interviewing him, he himself said that he had too many things to worry about, so his hair was white faster than others, and he fell a lot. Shooting is Xu Haifeng's greatest wish, and the same is true for winning honor for the motherland.
After the 2004 Athens Olympics, Xu Haifeng was transferred to the Fencing Center as deputy director, and it can be said that he has a satisfactory answer in his life: from a gold medal athlete to a gold medal coach to a leading cadre, this is already a success. Xu Haifeng relaxed a lot without the pressure of shooting, but he "did not let go" of himself and picked up new hobbies: photography and collecting.
His computer has a lot of competitions and some terroir photos, after the end of the tense and disorderly life, he still can't stop, go to various places, while taking pictures, while collecting coins from all over the world, photography is mostly sports-based, mainly shutter continuous shooting, in order to record these movements.
These actions can not only be collected, but also provided to the team to do some research on the sports of foreign players, which is conducive to the learning and development of domestic players. From this point, it is not difficult to see that he has never given up on sports.
In 2017, Xu Haifeng resigned as the deputy director of the Fencing Management Center and officially entered a retirement life. Because his fame is too loud, many people invite him to participate in various activities and speeches after retirement. When there was nothing to do, he and his wife went to the market together, cooked together, walked together, and enjoyed his leisure life.
His wife has been working in Shougang since graduation, but because Xu Haifeng's training is too busy, he resigned to take care of housework at home, when training, Xu Haifeng often lives in the dormitory, rarely goes home, retired, he can finally live a quiet and comfortable life with his wife.
Because Xu Haifeng has not had much requirements for the quality of life, so after his daughter grew up and moved out of the house, he and his wife still insisted on living in the unit house, he thought that this place is very comfortable, from a young age here, the next door neighbors are very familiar, he is not willing to move away.
Although Xu Haifeng's current vision is 0.2, seeing things is very blurry, but not invisible, this is already a blessing, although Xu Haifeng looks much older than his peers, but perhaps because of the relationship between athletes, he can still see a proud spirit, that is a kind of brilliance that no one else can learn.
Although in the interviews and photos, he can no longer find the youthful appearance at that time, but he left the spirit of that generation to everyone, his reputation is still known to everyone, and he has always been the pride of China.
Text/Nangong Qin