On July 25th, in the Tokyo Olympic Women's Gymnastics Qualifier, 46-year-old legend ChusovyKina ushered in her own curtain jump! This summer, it is her eighth time to participate in the Olympic Games, and the last time, it is also to fight for herself, to fight for the country! She is Oksana Alexandrovna Chusovkina, the woman who has touched the whole world!
The first time I heard the name was at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, a 33-year-old German athlete, dressed in the same color as the German flag, a clean and neat short hair, a pair of big eyes with a bright spirit, full of determination and victory! Sprinting, getting on the horse, spinning, landing, moving clouds and flowing water, as fast as lightning, after landing, it ushered in the screams of the whole audience!
That night, she won her second Olympic medal and let the whole world know her story.
2008 Beijing Olympic Games
It was her fifth Olympic appearance this year, and this time, she was going to fight for Germany! Fight for your son and challenge the battle book of destiny! I can't help but think of the sonorous and powerful words in "A Mother's Revenge", "God is not everywhere, so he created the mother." Chusovkina is such a god!
In 2002, ChusovyKina, who was far away in Busan, received a phone call that made her five thunderbolts, and her son Arish was coughing up blood and was sent away by ambulance! On the way home, in the tens of thousands of feet of air, she kept praying for her son. In the end, what she waited for was a sunny thunderbolt, and her son was diagnosed with acute leukemia, and without chemotherapy within a month, he would undoubtedly die!
At that moment, the mother and son duo went to the largest hospital in Uzbekistan, but when they arrived at the hospital, they came to a thorough cold, a treatment machine, dozens of people were rushing to use! At this moment, tears welled up in her deep, anxious, heart-wrenching eyes, for she knew that there was only one outcome of staying here, when someone told her, "There is a hospital in Cologne, Germany, that can save your son, but for £90,000..."
2002 Busan Asian Games
Go, how much money has to go, even if it is a ruin, although she and her husband have sold all their belongings cheaply, and they can't make up half of the medical expenses, helplessly, she is desperate, she made a decision, the son is her life, she wants to exchange her life for her son's life!
This year she is already 27 years old, in the gymnastics world, the golden age of athletes is 16-20 years old, after 25 years old, the state is in a cliff-like decline! This means that she has to compete with opponents who are more than ten years younger than herself and grab the gold medal!
Why does it have to be a gold medal? Because according to the market price, a gold medal at the World Championship is worth 3,000 euros!
At this time, she also knows that fighting physical strength must not work, it is better than technology! So she began to practice the vaulting horse move known as the "Sky of Death", and a single mistake could cause lifelong paralysis!
Chusovkina with her son
Faced with high medical expenses, she had no choice but to participate in 12 international competitions in 6 years! During this period, uneven bars, balance beams, free gymnastics are all impossible, it is such an excellent player, there are 2 in the International Gymnastics Federation in vaulting, 2 high and low bars, 1 free gymnastics action, are named after her.
In the interview, she said that pain, mistakes, elimination, she must smile, because her son is watching, even if there is no glimmer of hope, let the child remember herself in the run, not the mother's tears!
This sentence has touched countless people! The whole world applauds this mother, and the world will not fail any mother. After the Busan Asian Games, Germany threw an olive branch to her, in order to cure her son's illness Chusovykina came to Cologne, Germany, the German Sports Bureau paid for her son's medical expenses, peers donated for her, and even the poorest friends also brought her a cart of grain!
Perhaps, she was moved by this, and in 2006, Chusovkina put on the uniform of the German gymnastics team after the expiration of the "three-year rule" of the International Gymnastics Federation. Represented Germany at the World Gymnastics Championships in Denmark, and in the same year she decided to officially become a German citizen, which is why we saw the cool angels at the 2008 Vault!
This decision can be described as explosive news, and for a time, the insults of "traitors", "gold worshippers" and "Olympic traitors" have risen one after another! Yes, it is true that this is against the Olympic spirit and does damage the national honor, but she is first a mother, and then a gymnast!
However, in the face of all this, she chose to be silent, gritted her teeth, and replied, "This country has done enough for me to repay them in this way", and she also fulfilled her promise, and in 2008, Chusovkina won Germany's first Olympic gymnastics silver medal in 62 years!
Chusovkina Vaulting Horse
Also, on this night, she received a phone call that made her ecstatic, Alyosha's illness, will not recur!
Sure enough, the world will really treat every mother kindly, Chusovkina touched the whole world, and was affectionately called "Qiu Ma", and even more known as "Gymnastics Grandma"!
Fast forward 13 years, and my son has grown into a big guy! It is reported that Alyosha loves basketball and is now a basketball player. Whenever she mentioned her son, Qiu Mama's eyes were always full of joy, yes, this is her life, and it is also the result of her life!
Whenever she mentions her son, Mama Qiu will also stage a "Versailles Literature", this child, ah, always do not let me play, how good it is to be a coach, it will not be so hard! Look, how sensible this child is, and it is really worth exchanging his life for!
Now, all the pain in the eyes of Qiu Ma, is worth it, falling down again and again, suffering again and again, desperately again and again, and finally presenting to the world is a steady landing with a smile.
Chusovkina as coach
It is such a female fighter also has a "timid" time, after the Beijing Olympic Games, she returned to Uzbekistan as a gymnastics team coach, experienced, skilled, no fear when training, but once on the field, it is really "seconds to instigate", to the girls to fight, lying on the table, covering their faces, are she, obviously she is very anxious, is not to see, a vigorous ask the deputy coach, the children are like, okay, right? Did it fall? How many points? Breathe a sigh of relief when you learn that the children have achieved good results!
Because she knows this road, how far, how long, and even how painful, she knows everything! At the age of 13, she won the all-around championship at the Ussrus Junior Championships and later entered the national team; in 1991, she represented the former Soviet Union at the United States World Championships, winning the women's team and free gymnastics world championships, and also won her first world championship, when she was 16 years old; in 1992, Chusovkina won the gold medal in the women's gymnastics team competition for the CIS at the Barcelona Olympic Games, this year, she was 17 years old; in 1996, Chusovykina represented Uzbekistan at the Atlanta Olympic Games. Finished tenth in the individual all-around. No one knows more than her the hard-won success of all honors, even the famous American Cicena knows that her trick cannot be tried, "will die"!
Chusovkina in 1992
In fact, as early as 1996, she thought about retiring, for her son in the 2002 Busan Asian Games and returned to participate at the age of 27, who thought, a race is 19 years, after the 2012 London Olympic Games, I thought she had announced her retirement on Monday, who knows she regretted it again, facing the camera, she said, "I said it was Monday, but I didn't say what year, which month, I haven't played enough"
This kind of play, it is another 9 years, just like this, she swept the major vaulting competitions, and the gold medal won softly! Profoundly explain what is called, "ginger or old spicy"!
Whenever she was ridiculed for being "old", she always had a confident smile on her face and teased that if the referee could give me a few more points because of my age, it would be good to get the gold medal! No matter what time, Mama Qiu's face is full of bright smiles!
Chusovkina in her youth
Her son has recovered and 46-year-old Chusovykina has decided to return to the country and fight for herself! In the final battle, challenge a set of actions with a difficulty coefficient of 5.8, helpless, and finally ranked eleventh with 14.166 points, missing the vault final! "Elder of the Eight Dynasties", the final leap to the perfect end, she walked off the field with a smile, and with her son's age players to bump fist encouragement, but when she walked to the side of the field to see the coach, she could no longer suppress her emotions, in the arms of the coach, lost her voice and cried!
Chusovkina 2021
At this time, she must have infinite regrets in her heart, but despite this, after calming down, she walked onto the stage again, kissed everyone in the audience, and waved goodbye to the camera. In this way, she really said goodbye to her beloved Olympic stadium!
Speaking of this, I have to feel sorry for Aunt Qiu, who was originally elected as the standard-bearer of Uzbekistan, but somehow she was disqualified, is it because they are "foreigners"?
The 46-year-old gymnastics legend Chusovykina ended perfectly, although it is exciting to not be able to bring everyone a gold medal at this Olympic Games, but at such an advanced age, the tumbling of the difficult movements on the jumping horse has made the world applaud! She became the only gymnast in the world to make eight Olympic appearances!
Chusovkina
The story she wrote is not only the Olympic spirit of persistence and fearlessness and firm faith, but also the praise of a great mother who created miracles, in order to repay what Germany has done to herself, to join German nationality, to win easy, to return to the country, to fight for the honor of the country, such a great woman, is not worthy of every respect?
It is said that "the female is weak and weak, the mother is just", after the hardships of Chusovkina, the world has never shown a sad mother, but an optimistic, courageous, resolute and indomitable mother! Wasn't Alyosha able to overcome the disease precisely because he had such a tenacious mother?