When you think of the Olympic Dream Team, which team comes to mind first?
Is it the American men's basketball dream team that gathers a group of NBA stars? However, the U.S. men's basketball team lost to Argentina in the semifinals of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and eventually won only one bronze medal. Is it the Chinese table tennis team that dominates the world table tennis arena? Also in Athens, Wang Hao, then the world's number one Male Table Tennis Player, lost to South Korea's Yoo Seung-min in the men's singles final.
There is such a team, since participating in the Olympic Games, every time has won gold medals. So far, in the 10 Olympic Games, the event has produced a total of 64 gold medals, of which 47 have been won by this team, with a gold winning rate of 73.4%. Speaking of which, many people already have the answer in their hearts, this team is the Chinese diving dream team.
China's national diving team has a variety of famous players, and Guo Jingjing, known as the "diving queen", is one of the best.
Exercise options for diving
At this year's Tokyo Olympic Games, Guo Jingjing was invited to serve as a diving judge. In the women's 10-meter platform final, 14-year-old Quan Hongchan added another gold medal to the history of the Chinese diving team with a near-miraculous 466.2 points (out of 470 points). Guo Jingjing in the stands witnessed this moment, presumably full of her original appearance.
Guo Jingjing was born into an ordinary family in Baoding, Hebei Province, her father Guo Shuzhong was a railway repairman, and her mother Fan Yumei worked in the Lucky Film Factory. Because her parents were busy at work, they entrusted Guo Jingjing to her grandmother to take care of her.
Young Guo Jingjing
Grandma was particularly fond of her granddaughter, so that the young Guo Jingjing developed a bad habit of picky eating. She doesn't eat well and often goes to the commissary to buy snacks. Therefore, in order to allow Guo Jingjing to have a healthy body, her parents decided to send her to practice diving.
The sword blade came out of the grinding, and the plum blossom fragrance came from the bitter cold. The initial stage of Guo Jingjing's diving career was not smooth. After practicing diving for a while, the coach found that her kneecap had some external protrusions, which affected the aesthetics of the aerial shape. So at the suggestion of the coach, Guo's father had to force Guo Jingjing to "press his legs".
The so-called leg pressing is to sit on Guo Jingjing's leg and correct the kneecap of the extrusion through weight, and the pain of the whole process can be imagined. Every time she pressed her legs, Guo Jingjing's beads of sweat fell down in pain. Pain in your body, pain in my heart, every time you press your legs, Guo Shuzhong and Fan Yumei are torture. In the middle of the way, Guo's mother did not want her daughter to suffer this kind of crime several times, but Guo Jingjing showed unusual stubbornness, never issued a wailing, and never had the idea of giving up.
The best education is the company of parents. At the age of 10, Guo Jingjing entered the diving team of Hebei Province. Guo's father and mother did not let their children go unchecked after sending their children to the training base like other parents. Every day after work, Guo's mother would rush to the training base and watch her daughter train and eat until she left after her daughter went to sleep. Later, Guo Jingjing went to Beijing for training, and Guo's mother quit her job, put the bicycle on the luggage cart, and went to Beijing with her daughter, which lasted until Guo Jingjing gained a firm foothold in the national team.
In 1993, Guo Jingjing was caught in the eye by diving team coach Yu Fen and successfully entered the Chinese diving team, when she was only 12 years old.
Head coach Yu Fen
Early in his career, he folded the Olympics twice
Just after entering the national team, Guo Jingjing got the opportunity to participate in the Diving World Cup. She lived up to expectations, first winning the gold medal with Wang Rui in the women's double platform diving, and then cooperating with Deng Lin to win the gold medal in the women's double three-meter springboard diving competition. Counting the women's team and mixed team champions, Guo Jingjing won a total of 4 gold medals in this cup, making the national anthem sound many times in Atlanta, USA.
Due to her outstanding performance in the first competition, coupled with the advantage of accumulated points, Guo Jingjing successfully won the place in the women's 10m platform event at the Atlanta Olympic Games in the United States. Becoming famous at a young age inevitably made Guo Jingjing a little fluttery, and she even regarded the gold medal as a bag before the start of the competition. However, her performance was a big surprise, and Guo Jingjing actually forgot to make a turnaround action in the final. The result of the competition can be imagined, she only won the fifth place, and did not even get a medal.
At that time, public opinion was not as inclusive as it is now, and the loss of this competition made Guo Jingjing suffer from thousands of fingers. The stubborn Guo Jingjing did not collapse, this defeat made her mentality more mature, she lowered her posture, trained hard, hoping to prove herself with her achievements in the next Olympic Games.
The roof leaked during the overnight rain. During a national team training session, the power system of the training hall suddenly failed. Guo Jingjing accidentally fell off the springboard, resulting in a fracture of the tibia fibula, so she recuperated for 10 months. After recovering from her injuries, Guo Jingjing did not dare to slacken off in the slightest, and soaked in the training hall day and night.
Finally, the opportunity came. In the National Diving Championships and Olympic Trials held in Chengdu and Jinan, Guo Jingjing cooperated with Liang Xiaoqiao and Fu Mingxia to win the first place in the women's three-meter board double diving for two consecutive times. And in Jinan, Guo Jingjing won the women's single three-meter board championship, counting the previous Sydney World Cup diving in Australia and the Canada Cup International Diving, almost all the three-meter board championships before the Sydney Olympics were taken by her.
Everyone thought guo Jingjing's first Olympic gold medal was nine out of ten, but she once again passed by the Olympic champion. At the Sydney Olympics, Guo Jingjing and Fu Mingxia joined forces strongly, but only won the silver medal in the women's double three-meter board. And in the women's singles 3m board final, Guo Jingjing lost to her partner Fu Mingxia with a narrow score difference. Although she took two silver medals, in the hearts of the Chinese people, the female "King of Diving" is still her "sister" Fu Mingxia.
In this way, in her second Olympic trip, Guo Jingjing once again missed the gold medal.
Late success of the great instrument eventually became the diving queen
Nietzsche once said, "Those who cannot kill you will eventually make you stronger." Michael Jordan did not rush out of the East for seven consecutive years early in his career, but he concentrated on honing his skills, and eventually won two triple crowns, becoming the well-deserved "Goat" in basketball history. Lin Dan was firmly suppressed by The Indonesian star Tawfik early in his career, but did not give up, and finally defeated Tawfik, and "Super Dan" almost became synonymous with badminton.
After two consecutive Olympic games, Guo Jingjing's parents felt that their daughter had won the silver medal and did not want to let their daughter feel too much pressure. Therefore, she was persuaded to give up diving many times. But Guo Jingjing, who has always refused to accept defeat, can bow her head, she watches the videotape to find her own technical defects, treats the training hall as her home, and plunges into the swimming pool every day to carve her own diving skills.
Guo Jingjing, who trained hard
Choice is more important than effort. In a daily training, Mentor Yu Fen suggested that Guo Jingjing might as well give up diving on the platform and focus on springboard diving. This reminder made Guo Jingjing suddenly realize that she lacked a center of gravity before, both practicing jumping platform and learning springboard. Every project wants to do well, and the results are not at the top.
After establishing the springboard diving as the focus of the research, Guo Jingjing seemed to have opened up the second vein of Ren Dou. She won the women's three-meter single springboard diving title at two World Swimming Championships and one World Cup diving tournament. However, in the 14th World Cup diving tournament held in 2004, Guo Jingjing was the runner-up. At this time, there are only 6 months left before the opening of the Athens Olympic Games, is the Olympic curse going to be staged on Guo Jingjing again?
After the defeat, Guo Jingjing could not hide her disappointment
After this "accident", Guo Jingjing hid in the room and cried for a long time, and even became suspicious for a while. But after calming down, she chose to face the difficulties. Guo Jingjing looked back at the game video over and over again, and she finally summed up her fatal shortcomings - the ability to adjust on the spot was too poor. Whenever the score was more intense, the opponent quickly adjusted to the state, and she often slowed down half a beat.
After realizing her shortcomings, Guo Jingjing fought harder than before, and often asked Fu Mingxia, who had retired at the time, for advice on emotional regulation methods. In this way, Guo Jingjing gradually came out of the shadow of defeat.
In 2004, Athens, Greece, at this time Fu Mingxia has retired, Wu Minxia has just emerged, Guo Jingjing is the deserved leader of this diving national team. Guo Jingjing also lived up to expectations, passing the barrier and successfully reaching the final.
In the women's three-meter single springboard final, from the stage to the completion of the action, and then into the water, Guo Jingjing won the championship in one go. Within a few days, she took advantage of the chase and partnered with Wu Minxia to successfully win the gold medal for the women's three-meter double springboard. In one fell swoop, Guo Jingjing became the first player in the history of the Chinese diving team to win all the three-meter springboard championships at the same Olympic Games.
After single diving and winning the championship again, Guo Jingjing was full of spirits
From being selected for the national team to standing on the Olympic champion podium, Guo Jingjing has experienced 11 years, when she is 23 years old. Fu Mingxia was 13 years old when she won the first Olympic championship, and this year's high-profile Tokyo Olympic diving champion Quan Hongchan was only 14 years old. Compared with them, Guo Jingjing paid more sweat and tears. The moment she took the podium, she burst into tears of joy.
After winning the Athens Olympics, Guo Jingjing grew from the child who suffered all night because of the loss of the competition to a real strongman. In the various diving world competitions between the Athens Olympic Games and the Beijing Olympic Games, Guo Jingjing won a total of 13 springboard diving gold medals, becoming a veritable "gold medal harvester".
Guo Jingjing's outstanding performance conquered every referee on the field, when the media evaluated her, she used an ancient Chinese poem "Clear water out of the hibiscus, natural to carve", affectionately calling her "diving queen". In 2007, Guo Jingjing was successfully selected as one of the 50 most influential women in the world with great influence.
Honors and others choose to retire
By the time of the Beijing Olympics, Guo Jingjing had turned 27 years old, and by this time she had become a full-fledged "veteran". In the sport of diving, as they age, the athlete's degree of movement stretching and ability to control splashes will gradually decline. At the same time, because of long-term diving, Guo Jingjing faced the risk of retinal detachment, and her vision once dropped to 0.2. At this time, there were substitution remarks in the media, and public opinion was worried that she would lose at the doorstep.
The old Ji Futuo, determined to be in a thousand miles. In the face of media doubts, Guo Jingjing's response was only two words, that is, training. She endured all kinds of injuries and illnesses, bent on winning glory for the country in Beijing.
Kung Fu pays off, in Beijing Water Cube, Guo Jingjing broke the public opinion with her performance, once again won the women's three-meter springboard single and double gold medal, becoming the second most Olympic gold medal in China (4). At the same time, she also surpassed Fu Mingxia with 4 gold and 2 silver Olympic medals, becoming the first female athlete to win 6 medals in the women's diving event since the 1912 Summer Olympics were established.
Beijing Olympics Guo Jingjing made history at the Water Cube
Only one year later, at the World Swimming Championships in Rome, Guo Jingjing easily won the gold medals in the women's 3m board singles and doubles, becoming the first person to win the world championships in double materials for five consecutive times. In December of the same year, she and her old partner Wu Minxia won the women's doubles three-meter board championship at the 5th Hong Kong East Asian Games, which was also the last time Guo Jingjing appeared on the field.
Just when the media was speculating about how long the "diving queen" would continue to dominate, Guo Jingjing appeared on the campus of Chinese Min University in a low profile, choosing to challenge herself in another field. At that time, Guo Jingjing did not know whether to end her diving career. Before the Guangzhou Asian Games, Guo Jingjing's name also appeared in the national diving team training list, but she eventually missed the Guangzhou Asian Games. A year later, on January 22, 2011, Guo Jingjing officially announced her retirement.
Guo Jingjing was interviewed after announcing her retirement
Like many retired athletes, the state will give Guo Jingjing a pension. You are a "diving queen", and Guo Jingjing's pension is about 6,000 yuan. Seeing this, many netizens may give Guo Jingjing a grievance, thinking that how the world champion of the hall has such a pension. In fact, Guo Jingjing's pension is already considered to be a lot. Many athletes still need to earn money to support themselves after retiring, and most will go to work in local sports bureaus.
However, Guo Jingjing chose to improve herself, and after graduating from the business school of Chinese University, she chose to go to the Uk to study English and business knowledge. During this period, Guo Jingjing and her boyfriend huo Qigang, who has been in love for 8 years, entered the marriage hall.
Guo Jingjing and Huo Qigang's wedding scene
Years of love run under the marriage of the tycoon
After the Athens Olympic Games, Guo Jingjing, as a member of the Chinese gold medal delegation, went to Hong Kong with the delegation to participate in the event. At the party, many people asked to take a picture with her.
At this time, a gentle and elegant man in stumbling Mandarin asked Guo Jingjing: "Can you take a photo?" After Guo Jingjing agreed, the man walked to the stage. The crowd couldn't help but exclaim, it turned out that this person was Huo Qigang, the eldest grandson of Hong Kong billionaire Fok Yingdong, a veritable prince of the rich family.
Speaking of the Huo family, it is a household name in Hong Kong. As we all know, Mr. Fok Yingdong, the grandfather of the Huo family, was once a famous patriotic businessman. During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Huo Yingdong secretly donated materials to the volunteer army, and in the early days of reform and opening up, the Huo family vigorously invested in national construction, and even behind Beijing's successful bid for the Olympic Games, there were also the efforts of the Huo family.
However, many years later, Guo Jingjing told the media that she did not pay attention to Huo Qigang at that time, nor did she remember what he looked like, only that his Mandarin seemed to have just been learned. After the group photo, Huo Qigang found Guo Jingjing again and asked for another photo. Guo Jingjing was very puzzled but still agreed, and she also noticed the man who took the group photo twice.
Huo Qigang hooked up with Guo Jingjing
After the dinner, the delegation took a boat to Macau. Unexpectedly, at the dock, Guo Jingjing met Huo Qigang again, and he ran over and offered to help Guo Jingjing carry his luggage. In this way, they got on the boat together, and Huo Qigang was on the boat to find various topics to chat awkwardly with Guo Jingjing, and successfully asked for Guo Jingjing's phone number. Curiously, as soon as the ship arrived in Macau, Huo Qigang returned the same way. Later, Guo Jingjing guessed that Huo Qigang had gone to Macau specifically for her.
After the separation, Huo Qigang accompanied Guo Jingjing to chat on his mobile phone. But at this time, the two had a bit of a language barrier, Guo Jingjing could not speak Cantonese, and Huo Qigang's Mandarin was not very good. However, in order to communicate with Guo Jingjing by text message, Huo Qi just took the initiative to learn pinyin. Gradually, Huo Qigang impressed Guo Jingjing. One after the other, they were together.
After falling in love, Huo Qigang became a veritable "pet girlfriend demon". No matter where Guo Jingjing went to play, Huo Qigang would accompany him. Guo Jingjing played on the springboard, and Huo Qigang recorded it with a camera in the audience. Between the games, he texted Guo Jingjing to remind her what to pay attention to. The media also laughed that he was "looking forward to his wife". Guo Jingjing dominated the women's springboard diving after the Athens Olympic Games, and it was inseparable from huo Qigang's silent support behind him.
Nicknamed "Looking Wife"
Two years after retiring, Guo Jingjing accepted Huo Qigang's marriage proposal. In the past 8 years, Huo Qigang spent a difficult day with her, and for the rest of her life, Guo Jingjing chose this man who has always stood behind her to give her spiritual support.
After marriage, Guo Jingjing gave birth to a son and two daughters, but she did not live the life of a husband and a godson. Guo Jingjing began to devote herself to public welfare undertakings, and during the epidemic in Wuhan, Guo Jingjing donated 70 million yuan. Huo Qigang, on the other hand, supported his wife's career as always, no matter how busy he was outside, as long as he had time, he would go home.
Many people say that Guo Jingjing has a good life and can marry into the rich. But Guo Jingjing said: "He is a giant, I am a champion, there are many giants, but there is only one champion." ”