Wang Meng, China's athlete who won the most gold medals and medals in the Winter Olympics, the first athlete to defend the Winter Olympic gold medal, the first athlete to win three gold medals at the same Winter Olympics.
In the short track speed skating 500 meters event, she is a lonely and defeating existence, has broken the world record 12 times, won more than 50 world championships, and created the "Mao era" of short track speed skating.
However, she was at the peak of her natural jealousy, but she was expelled from the state and endured the torture of "indefinite ban".
It was the fall of a star and a reflection of the dark corners of that time.
Born in 1984 in Qitaihe City, Heilongjiang Province, Wang Meng was very naughty as a child, often running around in the ice and snow.
At the age of ten, she was considered a malleable skater because of her dexterity and speed.
Having just touched the ice rink, she couldn't find an ice knife that suited her because her feet were too small.
The coach can only find her all over the world, and after exhausting her efforts to find the ice knife, Wang Meng has since "loved the knife as fate", and her speed skating career began.
Get up at three o'clock in the morning every day to train, day after day.
Finally, in 2001, at the age of 17, Wang Meng entered the national team as he wished.
In 2002, Wang Mao, who competed in the short track speed skating World Junior Championships for the first time, won the 500m championship in one fell swoop, which was China's first World Youth Championships championship.
At the same time, he also won the runner-up of the short track speed skating all-around award, a record that was not equalized by Han Tianyu until 11 years later, and was surpassed by Qu Chunyu 14 years later, which shows the high gold content of this achievement.
In 2003, Wang Meng, who participated in the World Championships for the first time, won the 3000-meter relay race together with veteran players Yang Yang, Wang Chunlu and Fu Tianyu.
However, Wang Meng, who had achieved great results at that time, was not optimistic, and at that time, the light of the veteran was still dazzling.
"We still have to rely on Yang Yang and these veteran players to win the gold, if they retire, our life will not be good."
Among the first-team members, wang Meng, was judged by many to be difficult to pick up the girder of China's short-track speed skating.
However, no one expected that Wang Meng would then erupt into a super strength to dominate the arena and dominate the speed skating arena.
In 2004, Wang Meng began to emerge in the World Cup, single-handedly winning four gold medals.
In this world, some people are born to create history, and Wang Meng is such a person who was born to skate.
The 2006 Turin Winter Olympics was a session in which Wang Meng "fought alone" and was also a session in which Wang Meng was "proud of the crowd".
At that time, the rest of the Chinese team members all failed to rush to the championship, and the layers of pressure on shoujin came to Wang Meng, who was only 22 years old and participated in the Olympic Games for the first time.
But I didn't expect to be out of the game.
In the semi-finals of the 500m, she was unlucky enough to meet the world record holder "nemesis" Dalanova, who had outstanding explosive power.
This caused a lot of pressure on Wang Meng, who had never run her before:
"If you start, you can't run out, it's dangerous to reach the final."
Wang Meng decided to fight backwaters, and she said to the coach:
"I put my bet on the starting line, I fought, and if I lost, I lost, but as long as I surpassed her in the first three steps, she would never win me."
In the end, with her steady strength and excellent psychological quality, she won the bet.
The first knife overtook Dalanova, causing her morale to drop sharply, and Wang Meng led the way to the final.
The first time she participated in the Olympic Games, she won a gold, a silver and a bronze.
This is not only her own achievement, but also the performance of the entire women's short track speed skating team at that Olympic Games.
In the next four years, Wang Meng set an impressive record of winning the championship in his dominant short track speed skating 500 meters, becoming the first woman in the world to win the short track women's 500 meters.
The reporter asked her: "Do you think those foreign opponents are afraid of you?" ”
Wang Meng said, "Be afraid, it won't work anyway, I'm in a good state or not, I'm standing there, they are all afraid of me." ”
At that time, Wang Meng "soldiers will come to block, water will come to cover", you say that she is proud, but her strength is there, she is just telling the truth.
"With me in the race, they just have to compete for second. When they finish second, they can celebrate like champions. Because in this life, they can only take the second. ”
Unlike most low-key and modest Olympic champions, she always appears to be straightforward and brash, but even if she is "crazy", she has the capital of "arrogance", not to mention that she is only realistic.
In her advantage project, Wang Meng can even slide to the first place without touching the whole backhand, and can also surpass the second place ten meters to win the championship, with strong explosiveness, fast starting and stable mentality, Wang Meng is the existence of short track speed skating.
Before the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, many people predicted that she would win the championship.
The American player said:
"If anyone can pack tickets for the game, it must be Wang Meng."
"Winning the championship requires a realm, and when the realm arrives, the championship arrives." If you still don't understand, just watch Wang Meng's game. ”
It turns out that in the short track speed skating 500 meters, there is no first that Wang Meng can't take.
In the first corner, she quickly distanced herself from her opponents, defended the gold medal and achieved two consecutive 500 meters of the Winter Olympics.
After the 500-meter final, Wang Meng suffered from a heavy cold, and at that time, she struggled to speak, and even equipped with an oxygen bottle.
However, in this state, she still spelled out the gold medal in the women's 1000 meters without any danger, and basically slipped the whole time.
This state of mind, mental quality and extraordinary strength have made the whole world boil.
Even the South Korean media, which pressures us everywhere, are willing to bow to the wind:
"Wang Meng is an epoch-making genius player who has raised the Chinese team to a notch."
The NBC narrator was even more praised:
"Wang Meng is in the last place, but it doesn't matter, she can achieve the transcendence of the inner path, and she can also achieve the transcendence of the outer path." She can surpass any runner effortlessly and is the best short track speed skater in the world."
An American athlete treats her with great respect:
"Wang Meng once said that as girls, we don't want to hear people say 'ah sorry I didn't mean to stand in your way', we will do our best to go to the game. That's why I respect her so much. ”
At that time, the media enshrined her on the altar, and at that time, the Central Channel was her interview and report.
"Water can carry boats, and it can also overturn boats."
The purpose of the gods was to wait until one day to pull her off the altar.
In 2011, she was expelled and banned indefinitely.
As Wang Meng said:
"Maybe in the outside world I am an Olympic champion, a star, a high-ranking person, but in fact, in the sports team, in front of the leaders, leaders and coaches, I am just a vulnerable group like all athletes, and many times we are nothing." 」
In June 2011, the Chinese National Short Track Speed Skating Team clashed with security guards in Lijiang.
Originally, it was also a small thing, but because Wang Meng was the world champion, she was portrayed by many people who ignored the facts and only for the hot media to be an Olympic champion who took the lead in fighting because of her strength.
Suddenly, Wang Meng encountered unimaginable online violence, and even her niece was insulted.
The person who said at the police station in the report, "I am an Olympic champion" and "I am a deputy to the People's Congress," was violently attacked, and Wang Meng was not a people's congress deputy at all, but only a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
Rumors were rife, and Wang Meng was anxious to prove his innocence.
However, in order to avoid the expansion of the situation, the leader asked her to focus on the overall situation and would help clarify it to the public afterwards.
Wang Meng obeyed the arrangement, but the accusations from the outside world did not stop, the agreement to clarify to the public was not fulfilled, and Wang Meng's public image fell to the bottom.
I have to say that Wang Meng was wronged.
This also indirectly led to the occurrence of the Qingdao beating incident.
In the same year, during the short track speed skating team training in Qingdao, Wang Meng and his party went out to eat and returned twenty minutes late.
Wang Chunlu, the leader at the time, blocked them at the elevator entrance and reprimanded them.
After that, Wang Chunlu followed Wang Meng into her room and conducted a separate interview.
Wang Meng said that the time is too late, and I don't want to say anything to you.
Wang Chunlu was furious and said, "What's the matter, why don't you take me seriously." ”
Wang Meng couldn't hear this sentence the most, and he was very angry and drove people away.
"You go out, something to talk about tomorrow."
At this time, Wang Chunlu pushed violently, causing Wang Meng to bump into the TV set at once, and Wang Meng's arms were injured.
Then the teammates saw Wang Chunlu running in front of them and shouted, "Wang Meng hit someone!" And Wang Meng, who was bleeding from his hands, chased this scene angrily from behind.
Subsequently, Wang Meng was taken to the hospital and had 51 stitches on his hand.
As soon as the incident came out, the injured Wang Meng became the target of everyone.
"A girl who drinks at every turn, fights when she is drunk, what kind of body is it like, fighting to be an Olympic champion?"
If you want to add to your sins, there is no excuse for it.
Coupled with the Lijiang incident that was wronged before, the media's spearhead was all aimed at Wang Meng.
Wang Meng, who thought he could get a fair deal, was punished by being expelled from the national team.
Zhou Yang, Liang Wenhao, Han Jialiang and other six team members were dissatisfied with this vote and expressed their withdrawal from the national team.
Wang Chunlu transferred his post, left the short track speed skating team, and later became the vice president of the Hockey Association.
In fact, the team members' dissatisfaction with Wang Chunlu has long been hinted at, and Wang Chunlu's "targeting" of Wang Meng is not the first time.
Wang Chunlu often held "small meetings."
Once she talked to Liang Wenhao and Han Jialiang, hoping that they would not "hold stinky feet" and let them stay away from Wang Mao, and said that she did not understand why Wang Meng had such a strong cohesion.
The next day, Liang Wenhao and Han Jialiang relayed the remarks to Wang Mao, who said that she "couldn't do it" and that she did not understand why the leader was targeting her so much.
Wang Chunlu's management style has also caused many dissatisfaction among the team members.
The team members ate instant noodles while going out to compete, often hungry, and often met to criticize the athletes, which indirectly led to Zhou Yang's depression.
As soon as the Wang Meng incident came out, many athletes also followed suit, which made the leader feel panicked.
They began to persuade Zhou Yang, who had sworn to advance and retreat with Wang Meng, to return to the team and move out of her parents.
In this regard, Wang Meng also spoke on Weibo:
"Can you not force Zhou Yang?" She was a patient. ”
At this time, she was still defending her friends.
"There is no right or wrong in the adult world, not even cause and effect. It ended with the confession of all the athletes. ”
After the dust settled, Wang Meng, who could no longer play on the field, had to be alone, leave his hometown, and go to Canada for training.
"I'm an athlete, the ice rink is my battlefield, although I can go back to the national team if I perform well, but I don't know how to perform, the road in front of me makes me very confused, I can't see the direction at all, there is a wall behind me."
She could only train desperately while waiting for the country to need her again.
It wasn't until a year and a half later that she survived.
She was allowed to make a comeback in 2012, the year she was twenty-eight years old.
But she is still at her peak, and she still did not disappoint when she stepped on the field again.
In six World Cups, she won six crowns in the five hundred meters and set a new world record five years ago.
"Wang Meng is like a person who has been underwater for a long time, suddenly appearing on the surface of the water for a breath, this breath has been changed for too long... ”
At the 2013 World Championships, the Chinese short track speed skating team won a total of five gold medals, of which Wang Meng accounted for four.
She returned to the ice rink with absolute strength, and at this moment, she was no longer so sharp.
"Actually, the grades don't matter, I just want to tell myself and the outside world that I didn't fall and I'm back."
However, when it was only 22 days before the Sochi Winter Olympics, Wang Meng, who was preparing for the battle, collided with his teammates during training, resulting in a fracture of both the right foot and the inner and outer ankles, and finally missed the Winter Olympics.
The 29-year-old Wang Meng's career as an athlete came to an end.
This is a king of short-track speed skating that should not be forgotten, and it is also a Shenyang girl with the true temperament of the country and the nation.