"Figure skating, it is my life, it is a part of my life, it is an inseparable part of my life." Chen Lu said that her eloquent narration let us see that figure skating is already a part of her life.
So who is Chen Lu? For the younger generation, the name may be quite unfamiliar, but the third issue of "Building a Dream beijing" launched by "China Sports" zhibo.tv will tell us the answer to everyone. Walking into the 45-year-old Chen Lu, she led us to read the "butterfly on ice" at zero distance, to uncover the story of the first person who belonged to China's figure skating, and to taste the legendary story she cast in the ice and snow arena.
Born into a sports family, Chen Lu is not surprising that she embarked on the road of sports, her mother is a former table tennis player, her father and uncle are former ice hockey players, especially her father is also the captain of the older generation of national ice hockey teams. Chen Lu has had a natural influence on ice and snow sports since she was a child, and even the window of her home can see the outdoor ice rink, which belongs to the world of ice galloping.
Chen Luyu remembers the feeling of the first time she stood on the ice rink, "Then I still remember the first time I went to the ice, it was two sisters and my father who took me, and the two sisters carried me one by one, walking on the ice, that feeling was very free..."
Chen Lu's first experience of ice sports is too beautiful, and she was still in the era of black-and-white television in the last century, once watched the documentary "Sun Canyon" by figure skater Peggy Fleming, and was deeply attracted by Peggy Fleming, who was like a fairy, and was also one of the "guides" who guided her to the road of figure skating.
With such an opportunity, Chen Lu began her own figure skating journey, so that at the age of 15, she became the only official member of the Chinese figure skating team. By the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Chen Lu, who was less than 18 years old, won China's first and Asia's second figure skating Winter Olympic medal, officially opening her era.
Chen Lu also sighed, "In fact, every competition and every result of my competition is a historic breakthrough in Chinese figure skating. To get that medal, I knew at the time, it wasn't going to be my end. ”
From 1994 to 1995, it was a year of great changes, Chen Lu at the 1995 Birmingham World Championships in the United Kingdom, With Long Hair Chen Lu, accompanied by the soundtrack of "The Last Emperor", Chen Lu completed five three-week jumps, and forced Guan Yingshan to become China's first figure skating world champion.
Chen Lu became China's first figure skating world champion and also established her status as the first figure skater in China. "When I came out, many of my former friends said they didn't know you at all." Chen Lu brought a refreshing feeling to everyone, and also broke everyone's impression of her past, and she conquered the world for the first time.
Despite the storm of changing coaches, Chen Lu once fell to the bottom of her career, especially at the 1997 World Championships, where she only finished 25th. Fortunately, with the help of coach Liu Hongyun, Chen Lu won the first place in the lost tournament, and at the last minute, he pressed the whistle to get the winter Olympic ticket.
At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, Chen Lu successfully won a bronze medal at the end of the Chinese music "Liang Zhu". Although Chen Lu is not optimistic about the outside world, two old men are full of confidence in her, namely coach Liu Hongyun and her father. Chen Luqu knelt on the ice for a long time and cried bitterly, drawing a successful end to his sports career.
Chen Lu's "Building Dreams in Beijing" series launched at the "China Sports" zhibo.tv tells her legendary ice and snow figure skating career. Just belong to Chen Lu's figure skating life is far from over, retired for 24 years, Chen Lu has already had a new identity, she founded Chen Lu International Skating Club, and lamented that her career is very lonely, after retiring hope to influence and help, more children who like skating, to promote the development of figure skating, and her daughter Anna is one of her "students".
This is the ice and snow life that belongs to China's "ice and snow people", Chen Lu has no regrets about her figure skating career, and the good qualities such as hard work, hard work, optimism and perseverance embodied in her body are also passed on to future generations and become an important part of China's ice and snow heritage.
Dream of Beijing and cheer for the Chinese team. Chen Lu perfectly embodies the concept of "for sports fans", and the Beijing Winter Olympics are coming, "Chinese sports" dream beijing, everything is ready, are you looking forward to it?