Everyone has to play a different role in their lifetime, and the role played by Zhou Jihong, the leader of the Chinese diving team, may be more colorful: China's first diving Olympic gold medalist, the head of the "Dream Team", the president of the Chinese Swimming Association and the vice president of the International Swimming Federation. As a woman, life has given her two happy roles, she is the wife of badminton world champion Tian Bingyi, and she is also an ordinary and ordinary mother.
In 1992, Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi, who had been in love for nearly 10 years, officially entered the marriage hall. Tian Bingyi retired and began coaching in this year, while Zhou Jihong ended his short two-year career as a national team assistant coach and returned to his family. In August 1993, Zhou Jihong gave birth to a son Tian Yu, the birth of the son allowed Zhou Jihong to wholeheartedly start the life of a housewife with her husband and godson, from 1992 to 1997, for five years, Zhou Jihong was dealing with pots and pans and children's eating and drinking Lasa...
At the beginning, Zhou Jihong enjoyed this kind of family life with children every day, but over time, this monotonous day was really difficult for her, and she began to lose her temper with her husband Tian Bingyi, who also became her "air bag". Fortunately, Tian Bingyi understands this very well, "Bringing children at home, if it is half a year, a year, it is not even close." But for nearly 5 years, and all day is at home with children, and the contact with the outside world is relatively small in all aspects, which is exactly the opposite of when she was an athlete. So she will be very impetuous. "Think about it, from the fiery Olympic champion back to trivial daily life, and Zhou Jihong is so strong, the gap in her heart can be imagined."
When the national diving team regrouped in 1997 and appointed Zhou Jihong as its team leader, she did not hesitate to seize the opportunity she had been waiting for for a long time. She returned to the plunge pool she loved and never left. After returning to her career, Zhou Jihong had no time to take care of her family and children, and her son Tian Yu was not at the age of kindergarten full care, she and her husband insisted that the school run a full day care, so that Tian Yu lived in the school from kindergarten to primary school, and could only go home on weekends. Because Zhou Jihong and her husband have been leading the team for many years, she can only take her in-laws from Wuhan to Beijing to help take care of the family and take care of Tian Yu with the nanny. In Tian Yu's memory, he grew up under the care of his grandparents, seven aunts and eight aunts and various relatives. Tian Yu once said: "Usually at home, the little nanny cooks, and my mother has not cooked a meal except for instant noodles. Dad didn't do it either. It's harder to meet mom and dad at the same time than it is to see Jordan. ”
In the midst of all the busyness, Zhou Jihong can only squeeze time to accompany her son. Only Sundays in the sports team can have a day off, as long as in Beijing, Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi will take their son to climb mountains, row, swim, and enjoy the happy time of a family of three. Without affecting his mother's work, Tian Yu often went to the diving hall to play with his brothers and sisters in the team. Tian Yu grew up in the diving captain since childhood, coupled with the sports genes brought to him by his parents and the ear and ears from childhood, Tian Yu showed extraordinary talent at a very young age, football, handball, table tennis, badminton, swimming, diving He was proficient in everything, and finally he chose golf.
When Tian Yu was 13 years old, he was selected to play golf in Shenzhen by chance, and at first Zhou Jihong and her husband were reluctant, "We are all engaged in competitive sports, we all know to practice results, it is really rare." So I wanted him to go to school and be an ordinary person. Like every ordinary mother, Zhou Jihong does not want her son to go his own way and eat his own suffering. "People like me and his dad are particularly lucky people, who can get some results, and more people who are engaged in sports, may have worked hard all their lives, and in the end they have achieved nothing, and after all, they can come out of a very small number." But under the firm attitude of her baby son, Zhou Jihong still chooses to respect her son's wishes, because she has always wanted to be an enlightened "loving mother". In the second half of that year, Tian Yu transferred to Shenzhen and officially began his study life at the Golf Academy.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when Zhou Luxin's last jump shattered Zhou Jihong's lifelong dream, this strong-looking woman was hiding in a corner and crying, crying like all women. In the phone call to her son, Tian Yu, who has never seen her mother shed a tear since she was a child, saw her mother's vulnerability for the first time, and her tears contained the unwillingness and regret of disillusioned dreams, as well as the guilt of her children and families for their careers in the past ten years. After hanging up the phone, a text message from her son made her cry, "Mom is fine, accidents always happen, you don't cry, you don't worry about me, I will take care of myself, I will work hard, I will not let you down, Mom don't cry." Zhou Jihong said that after reading her son's text message, her tears flowed down like a faucet, constantly lamenting that her son had grown up and understood.
Zhou Jihong is lucky, because while she is fully committed to her career, the family behind her has been silently supporting her, and her sensible son loves her and understands her, and is proud of her. In a TV program interview, to the mother score, Tian Yu very seriously scored a hundred points, he said that the mother is very gentle, every time he comes home will touch his head, although the mother is very busy and tired, even he wants to chat with the mother, sleep together the desire can not be satisfied, but still give the mother a hundred points, because the mother has cultivated so many world champions, she is the greatest, the most supreme mother, in Tian Yu's heart, the mother is always a hundred points.
In the face of work, Zhou Jihong is always as serious and meticulous as ever, habitually frowning or tightening her face. Only when talking about her precious son Tian Yu, Zhou Jihong's words will be soft, showing the most relaxed smile, and endlessly recalling every detail of her son's growth, she has endless everything about her son. "Every mother is like this, always feel that her child is the best one." Zhou Jihong said embarrassedly. Under various strong titles such as "Iron Lady" and "Strong Woman", we tend to forget that in fact, Zhou Jihong is also an ordinary woman and an ordinary mother.