On the morning of the 12th, Olympic champion Shi Zhiyong and his wife Chen Xiaodan held a wedding ceremony in Xikou Town, Fenghua District. They were all athletes at the Ningbo Sports School, Shi Zhiyong was a weightlifting team player, and Chen Xiaodan was a member of the women's volleyball team. The couple got to know the sports, from elementary school classmates to lovers, and today they have achieved positive results.
Chen Xiaodan's mother thanked people from all walks of life on behalf of the relatives of both sides, "Today is very exciting! I wish the bride and groom mutual respect and love in the days to come, grow old and happy! ”
After winning the Tokyo Olympics this year, Shi Zhiyong revealed in an interview with the media that "wait for me to come back and marry you", after which her love with Chen Xiaodan gradually surfaced. On September 23, Shi Zhiyong, who had just won the national games, rushed to Shaoxing without stopping, and planned a romantic marriage proposal without his girlfriend Chen Xiaodan, who worked in Shaoxing.
"In fact, we have long agreed that after the end of this year's Olympic Games and the National Games, we will choose a good day to get a license and get married." Chen Xiaodan said. Last month, Shi Zhiyong also said in an interview with this reporter that "the marriage is being arranged recently, but I still want to keep a low profile."
Shi Zhiyong and the groomsmen group set off from the Yinjiang national team apartment to Fenghua to marry the bride
The couple got acquainted with sports, got to know the Olympics, and from classmates to lovers, today they cultivated positive results. They were all athletes of Ningbo Sports School, Shi Zhiyong was a weightlifting team player, Chen Xiaodan was a women's volleyball player, although the projects were different, but the cultural class in the sixth grade was divided into the same class, when Shi Zhiyong was the class leader. After that, Shi Zhiyong went to the provincial team, and Chen Xiaodan went to the provincial young women's queue. "When we were in the Provincial Sports Vocational and Technical College at the same time, we didn't have much contact because of different projects." Chen Xiaodan said that as Shi Zhiyong entered the national team, he went to university to study and gradually "lost contact".
When Shi Zhiyong won the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Chen Xiaodan, who was studying at Hunan Normal University, came to Ningbo Evening News for an internship during the summer vacation to do Olympic reporting with reporters. Shi Zhiyong triumphed from Brazil, and the reporter specially asked Chen Xiaodan to interview Shi Zhiyong together, and in this way, the two elementary school students "picked up the head". "Later, our classmates and teachers at Ningbo Sports School met from time to time, so we had more contact and contact." Chen Xiaodan laughed that it was a long-term love affair, at first it was just pure classmate chat, and then the more the topic was talked about, the feelings gradually warmed up.
Sweet moments on a big day
At the 2017 Tianjin National Games, Chen Xiaodan cheered for Shi Zhiyong in the WeChat circle of friends. A reporter who was covering in Tianjin at the time asked Chen Xiaodan, "Why didn't you come to Tianjin to cheer for Shi Zhiyong," and she said: "He won't let me come, and I'm afraid he'll be distracted." That year, Chen Xiaodan was still working at a primary school in Fenghua. In 2019, at the invitation of the famous volleyball coach Yu Juemin, Chen Xiaodan went to Shaoxing to become a volleyball coach at the local sports school.
Even after the agreement to get married after the Olympic Games and the National Games, Shi Zhiyong's air courtship in Tokyo still surprised Chen Xiaodan. "It was a friend who forwarded the news to me, and I learned that he said this in Tokyo." Chen Xiaodan said that at that time, he really felt sweet in his heart, "The next morning, we only chatted for a while on WeChat video. "Stepping into the palace of marriage now, nature is infinitely sweet. At the wedding ceremony in Fenghua, Chen Xiaodan's mother thanked her relatives and friends on behalf of the relatives of both sides: "Today is very exciting! I wish the bride and groom mutual respect and love in the days to come, grow old and happy! ”
Source: Ningbo Evening News, Modern Gold News