Compared with previous editions, the Online Discussion of the Tokyo Olympics is significantly higher.
From the pre-match report, the situation during the game to the interview after the game, the off-screen audience can be said to be full of "participation".
Of course, due to the uncontrollable environment of online public opinion, it has also triggered some irrational and unfriendly incidents.
But at the same time, it also greatly accelerates the output of athletes' personal image.
Commonly known as "Amway".
But there is a saying that both appearance and strength are the historical attributes of China's women's gymnastics industry.
In addition to world champions such as Mo Huilan, Pang Panpan and Huang Qiushuang, Liu Xuan, who entered the show business circle after retiring, is the former "gymnastics queen" who is talked about.
From the perspective of looks, she does not lose Guo Jingjing, who is already a giant; if it comes to the legend of her sports career, she also has the wonderful of her own faction.
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Liu Xuan participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games as an "elderly" athlete in gymnastics, setting a record for the oldest Chinese women's gymnastics team.
At that time, Liu Xuan admitted that her age did not allow her to participate in the next Olympic Games.
And when we look back at her sports career, we will find that "age" is indeed an extremely important label.
Before 1996, Liu Xuan was a teenager in gymnastics.
In 1992, at the age of 13, she competed in the National Gymnastics Championships, becoming the country's youngest uneven bars champion.
In 1993, at the 7th National Games, she won the women's team championship and was selected for the national team.
In 1994, she won the women's team championship with a score of 194.375 points in the gymnastics competition of the 12th Asian Games, and finished second on the uneven bars with a score of 9.862 points.
In 1995, in the women's individual all-around competition of the China Cup International Gymnastics Championships, she won the women's balance beam, free gymnastics and women's individual all-around championships.
At this time, Liu Xuan turned 16 years old, which is the golden age for gymnastics athletes to finally sprint to world-class events such as the Olympic Games.
However, she first did poorly at the World Championships in Puerto Rico, and then fell directly from the equipment at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics...
That year, Liu Xuan was 17 years old, a beautiful rainy season for ordinary girls, but it was already the time when gymnasts could retire.
Not only that, but her athletic career also caused serious injuries to her body.
Under the dual effect of age and injury, 17-year-old Liu Xuan chose to retire for the first time.
After retiring, Liu Xuan served as an assistant coach for a period of time, but he still could not let go of his love for gymnastics.
Fortunately, the god of luck took care of her the following year: the Hunan provincial team hoped that she could represent the province in the 1997 Asian Games.
So Liu Xuan seized this opportunity to train, and finally won the women's individual all-around and balance beam championships, and then took over the captainship from Mo Huilan, who was a year younger than her.
Since then, Liu Xuan has won the high and low bar championship and the balance beam championship many times in international competitions such as the World Cup and the Asian Games.
In 2000, Liu Xuan, 21 years old and already an "advanced" gymnast, knew that this was her last chance to participate in the Olympic Games, and at that time she even set a record for the oldest Chinese women's gymnastics team.
She said: I know very well in my heart that it is impossible to stick to the next edition, so I firmly launched a challenge to the championship.
Many viewers also had a big reaction to this: why let an "elderly" athlete play? Why not give young people a chance?
In the end, Liu Xuan understood all kinds of pressure and won the gold medal in the women's balance beam with a high score of 9.825 points, which was also the first Olympic gold medal in the history of China's balance beam project.
Liu Xuan drew a complete end to his career as an athlete and created a unique sports life.
At the age of 18, this "senior age" that many gymnasts have retired, is the beginning of Liu Xuan's brilliance.
Liu Xuan once used the term "test field of the Chinese gymnastics team" to describe her athlete career, and to a large extent, she did make a great contribution to the country's experience in exploring the training of female athletes, and as we can see, she created many impossibilities.
One of the things that has to be mentioned is her original one-armed giant slalom.
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As early as the Hunan Provincial Gymnastics Team, Liu Xuan was very fond of and good at studying new movements.
In 1992, after entering the national team, she did not forget to study the action.
According to Liu Xuan' recollection, before the 1996 World Championships, the internationally famous Russian athlete Khorkina was already recognized as a strong contender for the uneven bars, so the Chinese team was also carefully studying how to win the gold medal.
In the preliminary round, Liu Xuan surprised all the spectators with his original one-armed giant slalom with a high difficulty coefficient, and finally entered the final with the first place.
However, after only a day, she fell from 1st to 9th: in the World Championship final, the referee relegated her original move to a low score.
The reason is unbelievable, it is: the difficulty coefficient is too large, not suitable for girls to develop...
This blow directly affected the Olympic Games two months later, because in such a short period of time, Liu Xuan could no longer come up with a new action to pull points.
What's more, earlier because she had been pumping pus and blood with a needle like a steel needle, she couldn't start to close it, and before the game, all three ligaments were broken...
For Liu Xuan, it was an experience comparable to a nightmare.
However, although the referee judged it to be a low-scoring action, Liu Xuan's set of one-arm big slalom movements has also become a good story in the gymnastics world, and it is still difficult to surpass.
And this series of actions has also been named "Liu Xuan's one-arm giant slalom", and "Liu Xuan's one-arm giant slalom connects with Jingger" after her, which has been recorded in the annals of Chinese gymnastics.
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For athletes, injuries have always been commonplace, and Liu Xuan, who began practicing gymnastics at the age of 5, is even more so.
Due to his short stature, Liu Xuan was often placed at the end of the line from an early age.
The reason why she began to get the attention of the coach was the hard work of learning and training, and the coach paid special attention to her.
During this period, Liu Xuan had to learn cultural knowledge during the day and go to the Children's Palace to practice at night.
After entering the Hunan provincial team, she began more arduous training, gymnastics room, sponge and magnesium powder constitute her childhood memories.
But what is valuable is that Liu Xuan does not regret this, but regards it as a special experience.
The most important person who accompanied her throughout her gymnastics career was her father.
From riding her bicycle to study as a child, to learning professional massage techniques and very professional gymnastics straps in the gymnastics world during her time with the provincial and national teams, and chasing her daughter with a camera and scorebook in every race.
However, although my father has always given him the greatest care and encouragement, the damage caused by practicing gymnastics has never stopped.
For gymnasts, leg presses and hand grinding are routine.
But the former becomes easier after pressing the ligaments open over a long period of practice, while the latter is the most injured play of each practice.
From skin breakage to bleeding to suppuration to scabs, the cycle repeats and eventually grows into calluses.
Liu Xuan, who is only 7 years old, learned to use a blade to cut off the calluses on his hands, and each time he bought a blade from ten.
Before her first asian games in 1994, she had torn her medial ligament in her knee.
At the low point of 1996, both of her ligaments were broken.
During the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, she had just experienced waist folding, but in order not to affect the competition, she endured the pain.
In addition, as the captain of the gymnastics team, Liu Xuan has a very strong sense of responsibility, no matter what the situation has always maintained a calm and calm state, although she is only a girl who has just come of age.
In 2001, Liu Xuan, who dedicated more than ten years to the cause of Chinese gymnastics and achieved many brilliant achievements, officially retired.
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Liu Xuan once said that many choices in life are passive, but if you can persist for a long time, it will eventually become active and have meaning in your life.
Just as practicing gymnastics at the beginning is also the meaning of parents, but insisting on going down until the provincial team, the national team to the world championship, it depends on their own efforts.
The same is true of Liu Xuan after retiring, she saw that her predecessors Deng Yaping and others chose to study first and supplement cultural knowledge, so she also took this road and went to the Department of Journalism of Peking University to study.
In the early stage of learning, Liu Xuan, who had a weak foundation, struggled quite hard, especially in high number subjects, which made her a headache, in addition, she had always been accustomed to the regular life of the gymnastics team, and she was incompatible with the surrounding environment.
But fortunately, the gritty character she developed from childhood made her not give up lightly in the study of cultural classes, and at the same time, she gradually opened herself in the process, she began to take the initiative to consult teachers and classmates, and often invited everyone to the home.
At the same time, Liu Xuan, who has an outstanding appearance and temperament, has also won the favor of people in the show business circle, and director Yu Zhong threw an olive branch of the movie "My Beautiful Nostalgia" to her, partnering with Xu Jinglei and Chen Xiaodong, who were just red at the time.
This play also immediately opened Liu Xuan's acting career.
In 2002, when Liu Xuan was 23 years old, she starred in the female number one of the first TV series, that is, the TV series "My Father and Me" tailored for her to show the "life of gymnasts".
Liu Xuan's popularity at that time was called "top stream", and it is said that when filming in college, he was collectively confessed by the school boys "Liu Xuan, I love you", shouting one after another, shaking the whole school.
After that, she also participated in the police drama "The Ultimate Goal" with the participation of many stars, Huang Lei's self-written and directed drama "Midnight Song", the TV series "Heroes' Expedition" to welcome the 2008 Olympic Games, and the revolutionary historical theme "Eastern Battlefield".
In addition to this, she has released several music albums and singles.
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In Liu Xuan's words, life is expensive to try, just like gymnastics competitions, although the championship is the goal, but the sour, sweet and bitter experienced in the process is also a wealth.
It is worth mentioning that although she entered the show business circle, Liu Xuan's film and television works are not many, because she always regards her studies as the top priority, and basically only accepts film and television dramas filmed during the holidays.
After she retired from the army, she also met the most important person in her life, that is, Wang Tao, who is now her husband and father of two babies.
At first, Wang Tao did not have a good feeling for Liu Xuan, and even had a lot of opinions about her turning to the show business circle, and later at the invitation of Teacher He, the two began to have contact.
Slowly, Wang Tao changed her mind about this self-disciplined and strong little girl, and then the two naturally came together.
At the beginning of the relationship, due to Liu Xuan's status as a world champion, the two were very low-key.
Once, even Wang Tao's hand was scratched by gangsters and did not dare to call the police to deal with it, knowing that he was a clarinet master's student at the Central Conservatory of Music.
According to Wang Tao's recollection, Liu Xuan, who had never cried in front of him, shed tears for the first time because of his injury.
In December 2013, Liu Xuan and Wang Tao, who had been in love for 12 years, held a wedding in Hong Kong, and before the wedding, Wang Tao wrote a 20,000-word long message to confess to his wife, and cried uncontrollably at the wedding.
For the outside world said to "marry into the rich", Wang Tao denied it, because before becoming famous, his salary was not much, Liu Xuan always refused expensive gifts and went to high-end restaurants during the relationship, occasionally went out to spend a handful, and eventually she would ask to take the subway back.
After getting married, Liu Xuan still did not forget her career pursuits, film and television works occasionally made cameos, and also created her own clothing brand, in the process of entrepreneurship, she also had her own insistence, from the beginning of the crowd rejected the way of micro-business.
You see, wearing professional attire is also a "domineering female president" style.
In terms of family, Liu Xuan is now a mother of two children, and Wang Tao has become a professor at the Central Conservatory of Music.
From a petite gymnast to a world gymnastics champion and "balance beam" queen, from an actor who first entered the show business circle to a "domineering female president" who crossed border business, from a little girl who immersed herself in gymnastics to now being a wife and mother, Liu Xuan's life experience can be said to be the ordinary in the ordinary to nurture the great, the great to enjoy the ordinary.
She once said that after retiring from the army, she "experienced more than ten years of confusion", but in the process she never gave up lightly, because short-term goals and long-term ideals need a process.
At the same time, she also said that there is never only one node in life, even if it has an Olympic gold medal recognized by the whole world, it cannot define everything about the athlete himself.
Persistence and breakthrough is Liu Xuan's way of life, which is also worth learning from each of us.
Bluestone Movie | Ke Tang
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