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At the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics, an event that caused dissatisfaction and controversy among many sports fans took place in the men's all-around gymnastics.
Japan's Daiki Hashimoto was clearly out of bounds in the course of the competition, and in the end his score was still as high as 14.7.
However, this unfair judgment has made China lose this gold medal.
As soon as the news came out, netizens spoke out on major social platforms to support Xiao Ruoteng.
In the midst of the many waves of solidarity on the Internet, this person's post caused a heated discussion as soon as it appeared.
He is the veritable Olympic gymnastics champion Zhang Chenglong.
You may feel strange to hear this name, but in 2012, his name was really on top of the world.
In 2012, the 24-year-old Zhang Chenglong represented the Chinese team at the London Olympics, defeating the Japanese team and winning the gold medal for the men's gymnastics team.
And this big boy not only achieved career glory, but also harvested a happy love.
In Zhang Chenglong's community, Zhang Chenglong's wife in the photo looks like a good-looking beauty, and it is said that she is still a real little rich woman!
So what did Zhang Chenglong rely on to get the favor of his beautiful wife and be chased backwards by "sacrificing himself"?
Zhang Chenglong has experienced what he has experienced along the way?
01. The road to fame
In 1989, Zhang Chenglong was born into an ordinary family in Zhangdian, Zibo City, Shandong Province.
Father Zhang Bingguo and mother Geng Qinghong, both are workers, and the conditions at home are not too good.
Zhang Chenglong
As the old saying goes: "The children of the poor are in charge of the family early", Zhang Chenglong understands the hardships of his parents and has developed a precocious personality.
He began to learn to do some housework, such as washing dishes, washing clothes and the like, and even at the age of six, he learned to make dumplings, hoping to help reduce the burden on his parents within his ability.
Material is not rich, but does not affect the parents' care for Zhang Chenglong, they attach great importance to the diet and nutrition, so that the son not only has to eat full, but also eat well, which also makes Zhang Chenglong look very tall among his peers.
In 1995, Zhang Chenglong went to preschool at Zhangdian Primary School, one day, the Zibo Gymnastics Team came to their school, wanted to select a group of gymnastics team seedlings, Zhang Chenglong's taller and taller figure than his peers naturally attracted the attention of the gymnastics team, was taken by the coach at a glance, and became a member of the Zibo Gymnastics Team.
Zhang Chenglong's parents also expressed their support for their son, and also encouraged their son to maintain a serious attitude and train hard with the coach, and Zhang Chenglong also secretly resolved to make some famous achievements in this field.
In 1998, at the age of 9, Zhang Chenglong ushered in the first important choice in his life.
Because diving and gymnastics basic training are relatively similar, a coach of the Shandong diving team took a look at Zhang Chenglong, who was well-proportioned, and the coach found him and tried to persuade Zhang Chenglong to give up gymnastics and practice diving, on the grounds that his body shape is more suitable for diving sports, and there will be greater possibilities for success.
At first, Zhang Chenglong disagreed, after all, he had studied for three years, plus he had been determined to make achievements in the gymnastics world.
The diving coach repeatedly insisted, and even found Zhang Chenglong's parents to do his homework: "The child is still young, there is a great possibility, since he chose sports, the purpose is to win the championship, so why not choose a path with a higher success rate?" ”
Unable to withstand the pressure of many parties, Zhang Chenglong finally gave up gymnastics and chose to go to the Shandong diving team to learn diving.
The diving coach's vision is poisonous, and sure enough, Zhang Chenglong has shown amazing talent in diving, and in just over a month, he has mastered a lot of diving skills, and even learned some difficult skills, compared with some students who have practiced for one or two years, they have not lost each other at all.
But even so, Zhang Chenglong dreamed back in the middle of the night, still obsessed with gymnastics that he had been practicing for three years.
He felt as if he and gymnastics were firmly bound by an invisible thread, and this life was destined to have a bond that could not be escaped.
After some thought, the retention of the coach and classmates did not make him change his decision, and he resolutely returned to Zibo Sports School, began to practice gymnastics again, and joined the national gymnastics training team.
However, what was once an advantage has now become a fatal flaw, not only making him lose touch with the national team, but also almost ending Zhang Chenglong's gymnast career.
In 2005, Zhang Chenglong, who was in the development period, was out of control of his height, his hands and feet made him more clumsy than those who were shorter, and the beauty of his actions was slightly inferior, which not only made his performance at the National Games a mess, but also made him directly "returned" by the national team.
Zhang Chenglong, who suffered a double blow, even had the idea of giving up, while his parents appeared at the time when he was most vulnerable, giving him the strongest support.
"You have been practicing for ten years, don't deny all your previous efforts because of a failure, give up once you fail, it will only get farther and farther away from success, and then insist on perseverance, success is not far away." 」
The parents' earnest teachings made Zhang Chenglong suddenly wake up, the height he could not change, then change his movement habits to adapt to the requirements of the game; technical problems, he practiced over and over again until he formed muscle memory.
In 2008, Chen Xiong, the coach of the Chinese gymnastics team, went to the Shandong gymnastics team to inspect the team members, and after three days of close observation of Zhang Chenglong, coach Chen Xiong, who had trained many famous gymnasts, decided to recruit Zhang Chenglong into the national team.
Experienced the darkness of falling to the bottom, just to wait for this moment of success to dawn.
In 2009, at the National Gymnastics Championships, Zhang Chenglong lost to teammate Guo Weiyang with a high score of 15.425 and finally won the second place
Although he failed to win the championship, he could not stop a new star in the gymnastics world from rising, and in the same year, Zhang Chenglong was invited to enter the national gymnastics team, which was the key training object of the Chinese gymnastics team at the London Olympic Games.
In October 2010, Zhang Chenglong won his first world championship in his life with a horizontal bar action with a difficulty of 7.5 points in the final of the Gymnastics World Championships, and won the highest overall score of 16.166 in the whole game.
For Zhang Chenglong, while moving towards the peak of his career, in 2012, the old man under the moon quietly helped him pull up the red line...
02. Beautiful wife "backwards"
The heroine on the other side of the red line is named Zhao Ziyan, three years younger than Zhang Chenglong, when Zhang Chenglong was 22 years old, born in 1992, she came from a wealthy family, and after high school, her family fully supported her to study overseas.
Zhao Ziyan
She graduated from the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, where she was a design student, and in that era, as a returnee, she was a veritable "white rich beauty".
One is a gymnast from an ordinary background, and the other is a returnee beauty designer with a wealthy family, and the two should be two parallel lines without any intersection.
However, Zhao Ziyan has always been a fan of Zhang Chenglong, she did not land on the end of Zhang Chenglong's game, worried about the teenager flying on the horizontal bar, and secretly admired this handsome big boy who sweated on the gymnastics field.
Her admiration for Zhang Chenglong lasted for many years, leaving messages under every dynamic of Zhang Chenglong, and even sending private messages, similar to the little fan sister chasing stars, paying attention to his every word and deed.
After returning to China, a gathering of mutual friends allowed the two parallel lines to gradually enter the orbit of intersection by chance.
After a party, Zhao Ziyan looked at the big boy in front of her and was more determined in her inner choice, although he was not good at words, but his behavior seemed very reliable, and he was a person worth entrusting for life.
After the party, Zhao Ziyan put down her reticence and plucked up the courage to ask Zhang Chenglong for contact information, but the other party seemed to be less interested, even if she stirred up, the other party did not respond, and even disappeared for several days.
It turned out that because Zhang Chenglong had been in the rhythm of life of "training-competition" from childhood to adulthood
As a straight man of steel who is thinking about how to win the championship, he is a little sluggish and numb to the feelings, he does not understand Zhao Ziyan's meaning at all, thinking that he is just making a friend, and later realized Zhao Ziyan's enthusiasm for him under the reminder of his friends.
Although the girl in front of him is delicate and cute, he has no idea of falling in love for the time being, nor can he be responsible for her, after all, his daily training occupies most of his life, and Zhang Chenglong does not want to delay the beautiful years of other girls.
Even if she didn't get a response, Zhao Ziyan didn't want to give up, life is just a few decades, if you can't share the white head with the person you like, life will lose its meaning.
She was not afraid that Zhang Chenglong would reject him, but she was afraid that because of her cowardice, she would miss the good person she recognized.
For Zhang Chenglong, she gave up the enviable opportunity to study graduate school in the eyes of everyone's surprise, and spent more than three years, the two had dinner together, watched movies, and visited amusement parks.
In this process, Zhang Chenglong also gradually fell in love with this lively and cute little girl.
The two young people silently confirmed the belonging of the heart, while Zhao Ziyan's parents had different opinions on the relationship.
They feel that Zhang Chenglong's family is ordinary, he has not read for several years, although he is an athlete of the national team, this profession also eats youth rice, does hard work, may not be able to survive the head, and even if he survives the head, the way out after retirement is not clear.
Since childhood, they have been "afraid of falling in the palm of their hands, and afraid of melting in their mouths", how can they be assured when entrusted to such people?
When the daughter chased Zhang Chenglong, they had always opposed it, they did not expect that their daughter was a cow temper, decided a good thing, eight horses could not be pulled back, and now the daughter brought this person to the house, told them in front of them that this was their future son-in-law, as a parent, for a while there was still some acceptance.
Zhang Chenglong was well aware of the concerns of Zhao Ziyan's parents, and he knelt down in front of the second elder, promising that he would assume the responsibility of a man and would never let their daughter be wronged for the rest of his life.
A sincere oath still touched the second elder, they are not willing to beat the Mandarin duck, since the daughters have determined, then let them go, they are not suitable to interfere in the lives of young people.
"In this relationship, you have taken 99 steps, let me take this last step." 」
In 2015, Zhang Chenglong achieved the highlight of his life's romance, on this day, he wrapped up the big screen of a shopping mall in Beijing and proposed to his lover Zhao Ziyan.
On the screen, he recounts his love for his wife word by word, while off the screen, in front of everyone, he kneels on one knee, holding flowers in one hand, and holding up a diamond ring in the other, telling his unwavering vows.
Under the blessing of the crowd of onlookers, Zhao Ziyan accepted the marriage proposal of the male god with a happy smile, and the two embraced each other excitedly, unwilling to let go of each other for a long time.
In 2017, Zhang Chenglong shared with netizens the joy of becoming a grandfather for the first time through Weibo
The wife gave birth to her daughter safely, and the mother and daughter were safe, and also expressed their gratitude to their wives and their feelings of great maternal love.
The photo only reveals the small hand of the small cotton jacket powder, which looks less than the size of Zhang Chenlong's index finger in the picture, and the appearance of tightly holding his father's finger makes a group of netizens call it cute.
03. Today
Perhaps inspired by the small cotton jacket, Zhang Chenglong, who played abnormally due to poor form in the previous competitions, won the horizontal bar championship in the gymnastics competition of the National Games held at the Gymnastics Gymnastics Of the 2018 Tianjin Haihe Education Park Sports Center Gymnasium.
It was a successful end to his sports career.
Originally, Zhang Chenglong hoped to continue to fight for the glory of the country at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
However, considering his physical condition, it is really not suitable to continue, and the opportunity should be left to more excellent athletes, so Zhang Chenglong announced the news of the withdrawal of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
As soon as the Hashimoto Dahui incident came out, Zhang Chenglong immediately sent a Weibo to express his regret that the Chinese players did not win the championship, and also saw his love and loyalty to the gymnastics cause.
Even if he has faded his glory and returned to chai rice oil and salt, he still has the country's sports career in mind, and he is always worried about his brothers and sisters who are fighting abroad.
In order to keep his original promise and better accompany his wife and daughter, Zhang Chenglong decided to transform and turn his career behind the scenes, from a professional gymnast to a national gymnastics coach, determined to continue to cultivate a batch of gymnastics talents for China.
Today, he relies on online fitness courses, and Zhang Chenglong, who works together with his wife, has already become more than 100 million, with a gentle and beautiful wife and a smart and lovely daughter, which has become the object of everyone's envy.
But he always has a normal heart, cherishes the people in front of him, enjoys a plain and happy life, sprinkles dog food with his wife on social platforms, and shares the process of his daughter's growth, which has become his daily life.
His Weibo top is a commitment to his wife Zhao Ziyan and his daughter, and Zhang Chenglong also exaggerates his wife's beauty in the blog post, which shows that after 7 years of marriage, the two are still like glue, and the feelings are very sweet.
In addition to sprinkling dog food on Weibo, the couple also likes to send some of their daughter's daily life, and the daughter in the photo is dressed in red, which looks festive and cute.
Worthy of being the descendant of athletes, Zhang Chenglong's daughter also showed extremely high athletic talent and looked heroic on the horse.
Compared with the athletes of the same period, Zhang Chenglong is lucky, from ordinary birth, to marrying Bai Fumei, to seizing glory for the country, which seems to go with the flow, but we cannot deny that without Zhang Chenglong's sweat and unremitting struggle on the road of athletes, all this will only become a daydream today.
It is these efforts that help Zhang Chenglong climb up step by step, and finally reach the peak of his life.
Camus once said:
"Climbing to the top, this struggle itself is enough to enrich people's hearts. People must believe that the bastion is more than happiness. ”
In the process of moving forward step by step, although he has shed tears and sweated, Zhang Chenglong will not regret it, but is grateful for the difficult time at the beginning, grateful for the hard work of himself in the past, and they have made him a better person.
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