After retiring, most domestic athletes will choose to engage in specialized sports coaching professions. In this way, they can not only continue to love the sport, but also teach the younger generation of athletes based on their own experience, including some coaches who guide their disciples to win awards in international competitions. Lei Sheng, the former Chinese foil Olympic champion, played such a role after retiring. He successfully transformed into the coach of the national fencing team and guided his disciple Chen Qingyuan to win the bronze medal in the Women's Foil World Cup.
Lei Sheng was a leading figure in the Chinese men's foil team, and at the 2012 London Olympics, he won the gold medal in the individual competition, becoming the first person in the Chinese men's foil team to win the Olympic gold medal. But four years later, Thunder stood on the rio Olympics again, but for some reason, his mental state was so bad that he finally lost. After the Rio Olympics, Thunder may have been hit hard, and he announced his retirement and went behind the scenes.
Soon, Thunder returned to the national fencing team, transforming his identity from a foil player to a fencing team coach. Under his leadership, Chen Qingyuan, a 25-year-old athlete, improved his training performance by leaps and bounds, and finally successfully qualified for the Poznan Women's Foil World Cup, and won the bronze medal in the World Cup on the field, winning the third place in the world.
After many years of separation from the fencing field, Lei Sheng still looks forward with confidence to the disciples to continue to achieve new achievements for the national fencing sports cause in the Olympic Games. It's just a pity that he suddenly said goodbye to the field for some reason in his early years, otherwise he might have won a few more gold medals.
Now, the thunder in his thirties can also be regarded as a double harvest of career and family. Since becoming the coach of the national fencing team, the disciples have constantly made new breakthroughs, and his son has also inherited his height well, and his body in the six-year-old has been significantly higher than that of his peers. It is believed that the national fencing team, under the leadership of thunder, will go farther and farther and get better results.