In recent years, more and more foreign Chinese athletes have given up their foreign nationality, joined Chinese nationality, and become naturalized athletes, playing for China and winning glory.
In this Olympic Games, there is a naturalized beautiful athlete who is particularly eye-catching, she is the women's heptathlete Zheng Ninali.
Zheng Ninali came from a family of athletics, her grandmother Zheng Fengrong once set a world record in the women's high jump, and her grandfather Duan Qiyan was also the national champion in the high jump event.
When she was a child, Zheng Ninali and her grandmother's family portrait
In the 1950s and 1960s, the name Zheng Fengrong was a household name, and its popularity was no less than that of the current popular star. Even Premier Zhou Enlai came to watch her game and encouraged Zheng Fengrong to break the world record.
Premier Zhou Enlai encouraged Zheng Fengrong
Sure enough, Premier Zhou's encouragement became a reality, and Zheng Fengrong became the first Chinese to break the world record in athletics. She wears high jumpers on her right foot and barefoot on her left foot, and the scissor-shaped over-the-bar action makes her body look like a flying swallow, jumping at a height of 1 meter 77. This is the first time that a new Chinese female athlete has broken the world record, and she has also become the pride of all of China!
In such a sports family, Zheng Ninali has been infected by her grandmother and the influence of Chinese culture since she was a child, and after becoming a track and field athlete, Zheng Ninali has enjoyed the title of "talented girl" in Canada, ranking first in the 2017 IAAF women's heptathlon U20 world youth rankings, and won the runner-up in the women's heptathlon at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Heptathlon, including 100 meters hurdles running, high jump, shot put, 200 meters running, long jump, javelin, 800 meters running, is a very test of physical fitness of high difficulty sports, can master so many sports, showing Zheng Nina's talent. It is precisely because this event is too difficult that Zheng Ninali became the only Chinese athlete in the women's track and field heptathlon competition at the Tokyo Olympic Games!
Not only Zheng Ninali, but also his brother Zheng Enlai, who is engaged in professional ice hockey, has already joined the Chinese nationality and is already an important member of the Chinese ice hockey team, preparing for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.
Zheng Enlai and grandma Zheng Fengrong
In a family, there are two naturalized athletes, thanks to the good guidance and education of their parents and elders, who have inherited the family style of serving the motherland, both of them said that they speak Chinese, like Chinese culture, and are eager to represent China in the Olympic Games to win glory for China!
Zheng Ninali, who participated in the competition this morning, wearing a red Chinese team uniform, heroic and cool, careful netizens found that Zheng Ninali's legs had a Chinese tattoo: dedication.
Seeing this tattoo, Xiaobian was touched, tried his best, very simple four words, but it is also a loud sound! I hope that Zheng Nina can fulfill her grandmother and her long-cherished wish, win a medal for China, and become the pride of China!
Nina Cheng, come on!