"Li Yuxi is out!"
After a long wait, Li Yuxi, a 23-year-old Sichuan girl this morning, finally began her debut at the Beijing Winter Olympics. Running, pushing a cart, rushing onto the track... Coherent.
"Looks so beautiful, still so good..." In people's eyes, Li Yuxi is the "child of other people's families", and her success is a matter of course. However, this is just the wishful thinking of the outside world, the reporter learned through the interview, she was also a naughty, lazy "own child", is the enlightenment coach Yang Xiuzhen's reluctance to give up, is the mentor Of Wu Feng's earnest teaching, let her break the cocoon in Chengdu into a butterfly, for the later become an excellent female steel frame snowmobile athlete to lay a solid foundation.
Fathers who do not want their daughters to inherit their father's business
Send her on the tracks
Born in Mianyang in September 1998, Li Yuxi has had outstanding sprinting ability since she was a child.
But the father, who was a long jumper, did not want his daughter to continue her unfinished athletics career, until she was in her third year of junior high school, and her father felt that professional practice in athletics would help her to enter the university in the future, so he sent her to mianyang Olympic School to learn from Yang Xiuzhen to practice athletics professionally.
Because her profession is training shot put and discus, and she does not want to see Li Yuxi's talent buried, yang Xiuzhen sent Li Yuxi to the affiliated competitive sports school of Chengdu Institute of Physical Education in the summer of 2014, and wanted her to learn hurdles professionally from Wu Feng, the head coach of the school's athletics team hurdles and a national youth hurdles expert.
In the face of the recommendation of his old friend, Wu Feng responded with enthusiasm and immediately said: "Look at it." What Wu Feng did not expect was that at first it would be such a scene, "The first day was arranged (in the afternoon) 3 o'clock training, I did not expect that when the training was over, Li Yuxi was still in bed and could not get up, so I went to the room to see her. I said 3 o'clock training, you have to come. She replied, 'Ah, 3 o'clock training?' ’。 ”
Looking at Li Yuxi's disapproving look, Wu Feng was angry and did not hit a place, so he put down a sentence of "Tomorrow at 2:30 pm training, you must come" and left.
The trial was rejected three times without active training
Yang Xiuzhen begged Wu Feng to keep her
What Wu Feng did not expect, the next day Li Yuxi still did not arrive, when Wu Feng rode his bicycle to the guest house where they lived, he saw Li Yuxi leisurely eating popsicles on the bed, which made Wu Feng, who had been waiting under the hot sun for a long time, cry and laugh, and once again released harsh words to his friend Yang Xiuzhen: "I said a few training points on a few training points... You take this kid away, I don't want it! ”
Even so, Li Yuxi still did not realize the seriousness of the problem, and later under the persuasion of Yang Xiuzhen, Li Yuxi arrived at the athletics field on time on the third day. She just started training and did not take the initiative, after Wu Feng taught the action, she stood on the sidelines to watch the other team members train, and she did not follow the practice. Wu Feng asked, "Why don't you follow the practice?" In the face of the coach's rebuke, Li Yuxi stared at her big eyes and asked, "Is it time for me to practice?" Recalling this, Wu Feng couldn't help but smile: "When I first started practicing, the coach said ten times that she wouldn't move, as if the training had nothing to do with her." Wu Feng, who was really intolerable, issued an "eviction order" to Yang Xiuzhen for the second time: "You quickly take her away, I resolutely do not want this child." ”
If that had been the end of the matter, perhaps there would not have been Li Yuxi, who was riding a steel-framed snowmobile on the winter Olympic snow tracks today. In the face of her friend's stern refusal, Yang Xiuzhen did not give up, she said to Wu Feng: "Give me a week, I promise to let her practice well." The following week, Yang Xiuzhen accompanied Li Yuxi at any time, accompanied her to the athletic field, and practiced together. A week later, Wu Feng rejected Li Yuxi for the third time: "Still not, her self-discipline and self-consciousness are not good, training is like having nothing to do with her, she doesn't want to practice... You take her away. In the face of her friend's refusal, Yang Xiuzhen pleaded again, and Wu Feng gave a deadline of "practicing for another month".
No "dependencies"
She became a better version of herself
This time, Wu Feng did not allow Yang Xiuzhen to accompany him, and Li Yuxi, who had no "dependence", became better under Wu Feng's strict guidance and trained hard. Through training and contact in life, Wu Feng discovered the advantage of Li Yuxi, that is, "as long as she practices, she will think very carefully, and the practice will be very serious"; during the holidays, Wu Feng called the students to the family reunion, "Other children will just sit there and wait, she will wash and cut the dishes... Finally, I cleaned up all the pots and pans, which was very careful."
Wu Feng fell in love with Li Yuxi, saying: "Li Yuxi is one of my two favorite female students. "From 2014 to 2018, the four years of studying at the Athletic Sports School affiliated to Chengdu Sports Institute were the four years that Li Yuxi started his sports career and the four years when he broke through the cocoon and became a butterfly. In 2017, Li Yuxi was not admitted to the Chengdu Sports Academy due to injury, Wu Feng once had the idea of letting her go to the Xi'an Sports Academy, and the stubborn Li Yuxi was unwilling, she said to Wu Feng: "I must follow you to practice." And just when Li Yuxi was once again preparing for his own road to further education, an "accident" appeared - in April 2018, Guangdong Zhaoqing held a national athletics competition, and Wu Feng, who wanted to use this competition as a farewell before the start of his life at Aitu University, deliberately applied to the principal to let Li Yuxi participate. What Wu Feng did not expect was that at that time, the Winter Sports Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport was selecting materials for cross-border cross-sports in Zhaoqing, "through trial training, the steel frame snowmobile chose her, and the snowmobile also chose her," Wu Feng said.
Abandon the snowmobile and choose a steel frame snowmobile
Bravely, she chose a one-man project
Is it to practice snowmobiles, or to train steel frame snowmobiles? Wu Feng and Li Yuxi's mother chose the snowmobile because the 4-person snowmobile is safer, while the 1-person solo-finished steel-framed snowmobile with the "Brave Game" is relatively dangerous. But in the end, everyone still decided to respect Li Yuxi's personal wishes, and when Wu Feng put this multiple choice question in front of her again, the 20-year-old Li Yuxi chose a steel frame snowmobile because it was a "personal project". This is a performance of Li Yuxi's confidence in his personal confidence and looking forward to the challenge.
After leaving the coach and leaving his family in 2018, Because of training and competition, Li Yuxi rarely met with his family, and he only met with wu Feng, a mentor, wu Feng said: "Once was Nanjing, once was In Guangzhou, the most recent time was when I went to Shanghai as a youth hurdles expert, at that time she was preparing for the Beijing Winter Olympics, I told her that she had reached this point, and the Beijing Winter Olympics must rush." From September to November 2021, Li Yuxi won the Women's Singles Championship of the National Steel Frame Bobsleigh Championship and the 4th leg of the 2021/2022 Steel Frame Bobsuit European Championships in Lillehammer and Winterberg.
On January 24, Li Yuxi finally realized her dream of entering the Beijing Winter Olympics, she told her family and coach the news, everyone was very happy, in Wu Feng's view, she fulfilled her Olympic dream, hoping that she would continue to work the Beijing Olympic field, Li Yuxi also made a response of I will definitely strive to win glory for the country. During this time, Li Yuxi has been training silently, and the only time she went out was to attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Winter Olympics on February 4, and her family refused all media interviews in order not to affect her daughter's preparations.
Chengdu Daily Jinguan News Reporter Hu Ruikai Picture according to the Provincial Winter Management Center Migu video live screenshot Editor Wang Juan Proofreader Song Hexiao