Since the Chinese men's football team relaxed the naturalization policy, naturalization has become a main theme of the current Chinese sports, before the American Chinese free skiing genius Gu Ailing, decided to give up the American nationality, return to the embrace of the motherland, became the first domestic skier to complete naturalization, but with the Canadian ice hockey player Zheng Enlai also announced to the outside world, after his return from injury, will join the Chinese nationality, become a member of the Chinese ice hockey team, then also unveiled the zheng Enlai family sports legend, especially his grandmother, It is also the first female player to break the world record since the founding of New China!
Born in 1997, Zheng Enlai, currently under the age of 23, with a height of 1.97 meters, currently plays for the WHL Tigers of the Canadian Youth Ice Hockey League, Zheng Enlai's father is a German, his mother is a Chinese, Zheng Enlai can have excellent sports genes, completely thanks to the relationship between his grandmother. Speaking of Zheng Enlai's grandmother Zheng Fengrong, it is really not small, she is the first female athlete in New China to break the world record, and she was once received by Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou, she is a famous track and field athlete Zheng Fengrong in China, because of the great admiration for the premier, Zheng Fengrong specially named his grandson Zheng Enlai, and his original name was called "Zheng Tai".
Zheng Enlai's grandfather is also an excellent sports player, in 1959 the first National Games, Zheng Enlai's grandfather Duan Qiyan won the gold medal in the men's high jump, was a very outstanding athlete in China at that time, thanks to the sports genes of his grandmother, so that Zheng Enlai showed outstanding athletic talent at a very young age, from the age of 3 to learn skating, 5 years old began to learn ice hockey, and after this, Zheng Enlai in the ice hockey project is more and more good, there is a high probability of becoming an excellent player, This made Zheng Fengrong and Duan Qiyan at that time look anxious in their eyes, after all, they also hoped that Their grandson could represent the motherland, until the day of Zheng Fengrong's 80th birthday, Zheng Enlai told his grandmother that he would definitely represent the Chinese delegation in the future to participate in the competition, which made Zheng Fengrong put his mind at ease.
Interestingly, another granddaughter of Zheng Fengrong, Nina, also plans to become a Chinese citizen in the near future. Yes, you read that right, Nina and Zheng Enlai are cousins, Nina is a rising star in the Canadian athletics field, and has a very good performance in the 7 all-around events and is regarded as a key training object by the Canadian athletics team.
Like Zheng Enlai, Nina also plans to join the Chinese nationality in the future, he was also invited to participate in the National Games as a Chinese athlete in 2018, in an interview with domestic reporters, Nina also used Chinese to express that she hopes to be able to represent the Chinese sports delegation to participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games, it can be said that Nina and Zheng Enlai will become the backbone of Chinese sports in the future!
Special Editor: Su Daqiang