At the Winter Olympics, the speeding short track speed skaters were simply burning to the extreme, and after winning the championship, the 29-year-old veteran Fan Kexin was so excited that he couldn't cry, she said, I have waited for this gold medal for too long.
Yes, an athlete has only a few chances to stand on the field in his life, and the peak moment is only a few minutes, 29 years old, for ordinary people may be just youth, and for a speed skater, this may be the last chance.
Therefore, this gold medal weighs a thousand pounds for Fan Kexin, which is the greatest glory of her life.
Everyone knows that athletes train very hard, but they don't know that in addition to training, their path to chase their dreams is not simple, such as Fan Kexin, before the Winter Olympics, who knew that her family conditions were actually very poor, her father relied on shoe repairs to help her realize her Olympic dreams, and even the dumplings for Chinese New Year's Eve nights were sent by neighbors when they were poorest.
In 1993, Fan Kexin was born in a poor family in Qitaihe, Heilongjiang, his parents were physically disabled, finding a job became difficult, in the early years he set up a shoe repair stall to earn some living expenses, and later gave birth to a son and a daughter in succession, the family conditions were even worse, and sometimes even eating became a problem.
Left thinking and right thinking, Fan Kexin's father took his wife and daughter to run to relatives, Fan Kexin's brother stayed in his hometown to study, came to relatives, Fan Kexin's father made a small storefront, when the business is better, his mother will lay hands in the store, usually go outside to pick up some waste to subsidize the family, but life is still very hard, their family of three is crowded in a tin house of only 6 square meters, in the winter outside the wind and snow, the house is also particularly cold, their thick quilt is not enough, the family is crowded in a bed for warmth.
When Fan Kexin was studying, he saw that other children ate meat, and he was also hungry, and every time he returned home and told his parents that he wanted to eat meat, his parents were in trouble.
However, Fan Kexin was very sensible, and saw his parents' embarrassment, so he mentioned it once and did not mention it.
Not only that, often after school, Fan Kexin will also go with his mother to collect waste products, as well as pick up waste paper waste cans in garbage cans, when others ask her, are you not afraid that your classmates will laugh at you?
Fan Kexin looked up and said, what are you afraid of, it is not shameful to make money with your own hands, my school supplies are all picked up by myself.
Other parents saw Fan Kexin and praised her for being very sensible, the kind neighbors would take care of their home, and Fan Kexin always mingled with her friends.
This is Fan Kexin's growth, she has not played with many toys, nor has she enjoyed a superior material life, but she has a happy and upward heart, a father and mother who love her, a brother who cares for her, and the skating dream that accompanies her growth.
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Fan Kexin never thought of becoming a speed skater when she was a child, she just wanted to grow up quickly, and then work to earn money and share the burden of her parents' lives.
Parents are really too bitter for half a lifetime, when the shoe repair shop business at home is not good, even life has become a problem, one year during the Spring Festival, their family could not afford to buy meat, after the neighbors knew, Chinese New Year's Eve night to send hot dumplings to their family, holding this bowl of dumplings, Fan Kexin's eyes were also moist.
Although the family conditions are not good, but the parents attach great importance to Fan Kexin's education, but also sent her to the dance class to study, studied for a week, the teacher said to Fan Kexin, it is time to pay a hundred and fifty yuan tuition, Fan Kexin knows that his parents can not take out the tuition of more than one hundred yuan, so he returned home and said to his mother, I do not like dancing at all, and I will not go to class in the future.
Suddenly, once, Fan Kexin went to the stadium alone to play, saw an athlete practicing short track speed skating, he curiously walked up to see, just coach Ma Qingzhong next to him, looked at Fan Kexin, although the body is a little thin, but the light in the eyes can not be covered.
So I asked Fan Kexin, do you want to learn this sport? Fan Kexin nodded, and immediately remembered that he would not have to pay tuition again, right? So I asked my doubts, but I didn't expect Coach Ma Qingzhong to smile and say, don't charge money, but you must train hard.
Fan Kexin was very happy, and when he returned home, he told his parents about this matter, during that time, Fan Kexin was very active, and he got up at four o'clock in the morning every day to go to training.
The basic essentials of the coach taught her, she kept in mind, in fact, the training is very hard, but Fan Kexin will never tell her parents.
Once, when her mother changed Fan Kexin's clothes, she saw that her body was full of scars, and her heart was very unhappy, so she hugged Fan Kexin and said, Girl, we don't practice.
Fan Kexin got serious, that was not okay, I promised the coach that he would practice well.
Mom didn't have much to say, and could only tell Fan Kexin to pay attention to safety.
But every time he arrived at the training ground, Fan Kexin was always immersed in sports and could not extricate himself, and he did not care at all whether he would be injured, and he often knew that he would fall in pain.
When the other children finished practicing, Fan Kexin was still on the training ground, just wanting to practice a few more laps.
Soon, she had mastered the basic skills and skills, Coach Ma Qingzhong saw her so hard, he bought her a pair of second-hand ice knives from his own pocket, Fan Kexin did not sleep one night happily, and the next morning, he put on an ice knife and slid on the ice.
She gradually began to participate in competitions and achieved good rankings, and in 2005, Fan Kexin was favored by Coach Meng Qingyu and began to train in harbin's professional team.
Here, Fan Kexin received more rigorous training and more professional skills, but for Fan Kexin, it felt hard at all, but he enjoyed it.
Coach Meng Qingyu is very pleased, as long as she has this momentum, then she will definitely be trained.
Fan Kexin, 12 years old, won the championship of 500 meters, 1,000 meters, technical skating and other events in the national primary school short track speed skating competition, and is already a well-known figure in Harbin.
In 2010, 17-year-old Fan Kexin was selected for the Chinese women's short track speed skating team, which was a glorious moment of her life, but do you know what happened behind it?
After Fan Kexin entered the provincial sports school in 2006, she began to train more intensely, and she wanted to win the gold medal in the national youth competition.
However, at the 11th National Winter Games in 2008, Fan Kexin did not achieve the expected results, and could only rub shoulders with the gold medal.
Fan Kexin was very depressed when he returned home, and God made a joke to her again at this time.
Once, in the middle of training, she suddenly felt extremely unwell, so she rested on the side, and the rest did not ease for a long time, the coach thought it was an emotional reason.
As a result, when he returned home, the discomfort of the body became more and more serious, and Fan Kexin went to the hospital for examination, and the result was diagnosed with anemia, and it was more serious.
Anemia is a very common physical reaction, and even many people do not think that this is a disease, but for an athlete, it is extremely serious, and even to say goodbye to the three words of athletes completely.
The doctor and her family advised Fan Kexin not to return to the team, but Fan Kexin was very unwilling, and her dream gold medal had not yet been won, how could she just give up?
She cried and must return to the team, her parents really had no way, so they called Coach Ma Qingzhong, Coach Ma learned of the situation, contacted the hospital in Harbin, and then let Fan Kexin recuperate in his own home, and then go on the field after his body was well.
After a year of recuperation, Fan Kexin's health finally gradually improved, and in 2009, Fan Kexin returned to the provincial team for training and was selected for the national youth team.
The next year, she entered the national team, and at this time, Fan Kexin was one step closer to her gold medal dream.
Fan Kexin and Wang Meng, Sun Linlin and other people became teammates, because they are fellow countrymen, their feelings are very deep, but the national team is all elite, Fan Kexin soon found her own shortcomings, so she can only train harder, in just one year, Fan Kexin made rapid progress.
After winning the 500m final at the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in 2011, Fan Kexin has been looking forward to standing on the podium of the Olympic Games.
In 2014, in the semifinals of the short track speed skating women's 500 meters at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin accidentally fell and passed the final.
In the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics short track speed skating women's 500m competition, All Chinese female athletes, including Fan Kexin, were eliminated in the sprint semifinals.
Back on the training ground, Fan Kexin could not calm down for a long time, she did not know how much time she had left for herself, if she could not stand on the podium of the Olympic Games next time, she might not really have a chance.
Finally, Fan Kexin waited for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she is already 29 years old, she told herself in her heart, this time must win the gold medal, there is no choice.
Before the game, Fan Kexin and the players trained day and night on the training ground, and his parents also prayed secretly for Fan Kexin.
On the day of the Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin, Wu Dajing, Qu Chunyu, Zhang Yuting and Ren Ziwei won the first gold medal of the Chinese delegation.
Fan Kexin, who won the gold medal, was so excited that he shed tears, and then said, I have been waiting for this gold medal for too long.
Yes, it was too long to wait, but fortunately it was not let down.
But she is still very young, and she has more challenges than to compete.
On the road ahead, Fan Kexin will definitely run forward like on the field.