Female gymnast Deng Linlin won consecutive gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and the 2012 London Olympic Games, becoming the only female gymnast in the history of China's gymnastics to win the Olympic championship twice. However, before winning the Olympic championship, Deng Linlin belonged to the kind of unknown athletes, because she was not talented and did not stand out in training, so the coach was not optimistic about her. So what did she rely on to win the Olympic championship? What about her current situation?
Deng Linlin is a standard post-90s. In 1992, Deng Linlin was born into an ordinary family in Lixin County, Bozhou City, Anhui Province. Her father, Deng Jiegu, was a sports enthusiast who practiced athletics in his early years. However, he regretted not being able to become a national athlete due to his difficult conditions, so he pinned his hopes on his children.
However, it was not Deng Linlin who had high hopes at that time, but her brother Deng Xiaoxiao.
When Deng Linlin was 5 years old, Deng Jiegu moved to Fuyang City due to business needs, and then he sent Deng Xiaoxiao to the sports school to learn gymnastics. Due to her parents' busy work, Deng Linlin, who was left unattended, became Deng Xiaoxiao's little follower, and also followed her to the sports school every day to learn gymnastics.
After about half a year, the coach found that Deng Linlin not only had strong imitation ability, but also that she was more able to suffer than ordinary children of the same age. So under the advice of the coach, Deng Linlin and her brother entered the municipal gymnastics team together and officially began gymnastics learning and training.
In the process of training, in order to strengthen Deng Linlin's lower limb strength and explosiveness, the coach has always let her do high-intensity training with the boys. The hard training did not frighten Deng Linlin, but because she was so strong, she often learned new moves, and after everyone's training, she stayed alone and repeated the new actions dozens of times.
Deng Linlin herself knew that in addition to the advantages of hard work, she really did not have an advantage in other aspects. But she loves gymnastics, and in order to be better, she is willing to sink her heart into practice.
In gymnastics training, Deng Linlin was always a substitute player because her achievements were not outstanding enough. For example, in the second year of study at the Municipal Sports School, when the Provincial Games were imminent, but one member of the Municipal Women's Gymnastics Team was temporarily injured and could not participate in the team competition, so it was necessary to quickly replace a new team member to continue training. By chance, Deng Linlin got the opportunity to participate. In the competition, Deng Linlin performed very well, and finally achieved a very good result in the team competition. She was also selected by the provincial gymnastics team, and it was only then that she officially began her gymnastics career.
In the provincial sports team, Deng Linlin got more professional training, the intensity of training has increased unabated than before, whether it is a flip, a backflip, or a variety of actions such as standing up, she will continue to train.
Once, Deng Jiegu visited Deng Linlin in the provincial gymnastics team and found that Deng Linlin's hands had worn out their skin to varying degrees due to frequent training. Seeing that his daughter had suffered so much, Deng Jiegu was very distressed at that time, and he pulled Deng Linlin and choked up and said, Let's stop practicing, let's go home. Unexpectedly, Deng Linlin insisted on refusing, and she said in a loud voice, please, let me continue practicing.
After 4 years of solid training in the provincial team, Deng Linlin's basic skills were unusually solid. In addition, for difficult actions, Deng Linlin can also complete it beautifully. It is in view of these two points that the 11-year-old was fortunate to be selected for the national team, under xiong Jingbin and Zhang Xia.
The national team hides dragons and crouching tigers, Deng Linlin has just arrived, on the one hand, the psychological pressure is very large, on the other hand, the training in the national team is more stringent, which makes her uncomfortable for a while. In the training process, she often cannot meet the requirements of the coach, so the coach does not pay attention to her. Even because she could not complete the difficult actions that had to be completed as scheduled, she was advised not to practice at all. The coach's words made Deng Linlin can't help but cry. After crying, she wiped her tears and went to the coach, asking to continue training and promising to practice the movements well.
In the coach's view, teaching one Deng Linlin is equivalent to teaching 5 players, which is particularly tiring. Why? It turns out that according to the training plan, every day like the general difficulty of the action, the team members will do 10, if the difficulty is high, do 3. But I don't know how, the actions that others can easily complete, when they get to Deng Linlin, they are always stuck, and they need to be repeated several times to pass. What made the coach most dissatisfied was that the action she had already done the day before, and the next day, she didn't seem to be able to do it again. Therefore, in the process of training, Deng Linlin was scolded the most and cried the most times.
But Deng Linlin has an advantage, that is, after crying and practicing, she is particularly obedient. The coach told her to do whatever she wanted and never played small tricks.
However, in the next training, the coach found one of The advantages of Deng Linlin, that is, she would play in a special way.
Due to her young age, the coach only let her participate in domestic gymnastics competitions.
Once, when Deng Linlin returned from a competition, a dance teacher who led the team said to her coach, don't underestimate Deng Linlin, she is very brilliant on the field. When she vacates the balance beam, her calves are very strong, her body is light, and she is particularly tall when she vacates. The coach did not go to the scene of the game, but he was still familiar with Deng Linlin's usual training, so he could hardly believe the words of the dance teacher. However, through later observation, the coach found that Deng Linlin's psychological quality was very strong, and she was calm and composed at the scene of the game, and she was very motivated in the process of the game.
Since then, the coach has begun to consciously train Deng Linlin, and under his special training, Deng Linlin has made rapid progress.
In 2008, Deng Linlin finally got the opportunity to appear in international competitions. In the Gymnastics World Cup Qatar Branch, Deng Linlin won the first game and easily won 1 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze. Subsequently, she won two titles in free gymnastics and balance beam at the Gymnastics World Cup in Russia. With her good results in the World Cup, Deng Linlin qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
At that time, although Deng Linlin was 16 years old, her height was only 1.37 meters, which was the shortest in the entire women's gymnastics team. However, due to her small size, Deng Linlin can better control the balance of the body during the game. In addition, she is very explosive, and when she usually trains, the coach deliberately trains according to the rules of the Olympic games. After all, she had only one world cup experience before participating in the Olympics. Therefore, many people are not familiar with her, and there is no hope of repaying her for gold.
It didn't attract much attention, but it allowed Deng Linlin to enter the game state more securely. In the end, she played steadily in the women's gymnastics team final, helping the Chinese team win the team gold medal. And she also became a blockbuster and became a household name Olympic champion.
Subsequently, Deng Linlin began her life's championship moment. In the following three years, she won gold medals at the National Games, the World Gymnastics Championships and the Asian Games. With the London Olympics just around the corner, almost everyone thinks she will be able to win another gold medal at the Near future Olympics.
However, in 2011, Deng Linlin found that with the development of her body, her state began to decline. Some of the difficult moves can't be done as easily as they used to. Fortunately, she has a lot of perseverance and self-control, so by the time of the 2012 London Olympics, she still won the balance beam championship, thus becoming the first athlete in the history of gymnastics to win the Olympic championship.
Subsequently, Deng Linlin announced her retirement as an undergraduate student majoring in politics at Peking University's School of International Relations.
After entering Peking University, Deng Linlin found that reading was far more difficult than training. As long as the training is completed every day according to the requirements of the coach, there is no need to think about anything else. However, reading books requires completing various assignments and learning to interact with classmates.
At first, Deng Linlin would not know anything, and she felt very anxious. Especially homework, she always writes a few sentences and can't write down. A lot of times she was very depressed. Once, when she went to visit her coach, she sighed that she wouldn't do anything, and she felt that the previous training had no effect on her life now.
However, after all, Deng Linlin is an athlete after all, with the spirit of not admitting defeat, so in her later studies, she did not want anything, and she studied with all her heart. Especially English, she learned from scratch, at that time, even if she was walking on the road, she was always silently memorizing words.
In the 4 years of college, although Deng Linlin started lower than other students, she was the hardest one. So she not only successfully obtained a bachelor's degree, but also passed the certification of an international referee in gymnastics.
Because of her love of gymnastics, Deng Linlin did not choose employment after graduation, but went to the Shandong Provincial Sports Bureau for internship and was admitted to the graduate school of Beijing Sport University. After graduation, Deng Linlin worked in the Gymnastics Center of the Anhui Provincial Sports Bureau.
Today, Deng Linlin is very satisfied that she can continue to pursue her sports career. She once told reporters that she was willing to devote her limited life to sports and shine for national sports. Obviously, Deng Linlin's wish has been fulfilled, and she is blessed that in the future life, she will not only be able to make achievements in sports, but also live more wonderfully in her personal life.