This recently in China with solid business ability and face value circle fans, the former Korean, former Russian athlete, and now Chinese short track speed skating coach has a legendary career.
Speaking of which, Wang Meng and Victor Ann's careers are also strikingly similar, quite a sense of genius cherishing genius.
They turned out to be in the same World Youth Championships, Wang Meng was the world youth championship women's champion, and Victor An was the world youth men's champion.
After that, he represented his respective countries in the Olympic Games, and won three gold medals in one Olympic Games, opening his own era of rule.
Later, Wang Meng became the head coach of the national team, and invited the retired Victorian to coach in China, so Victor an became the current technical coach of the Chinese team.
The same talented athletes who became famous at a young age are forced to change the trajectory of their sports careers because of external interference factors, but they still do not abandon the sports they love in a different identity.
This pure love and dedication makes them shine brightly even if they are not on the field.
A genius who has been born out of nowhere, a victim who has been abandoned
Victor An's original name was Ahn Hyun-so.
When I was a child, I saw short track speed skating competitions on TV, and the seniors shined on the international stage, so they were eager to win glory for their country, so they began to practice this project.
Coincidentally, he is really a short track speed skating genius.
The start of his athletic career was also dreamy enough to live up to his reputation as a genius.
At the age of 17, he participated in the World Junior Championship and won the championship.
The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin made his first highlight moment. 3 gold and 1 bronze, he was the athlete who won the most medals at that Olympic Games.
This should have been the starting point for him to start an era, but the result was a cliff-like decline.
He was injured once in a training match, but because he was not injured in a regular game, the Korea Ice Federation refused to provide him with medical help.
So indifferent to their own country's Olympic champions, it is difficult for anyone not to be chilled?
Not only that, but because the Korean short track itself is highly competitive, the factions are numerous, and the male champion can not obey the benefits of military service, resulting in internal rolls into deformity.
Ahn Hyun-so's status as a champion did not allow him to gain more respect, but instead suffered bullying and snubbed.
How serious is the infighting in South Korea?
Everyone sees holding hands and making teammates fall out of the ice together, "You don't want to get what I can't get" This kind of picture is no longer a big deal.
Even the ice knives that athletes put in the lounge are passive. This is tantamount to criminal vicious competition.
Although not everyone will compete maliciously, there will always be moths in this environment.
For example, another South Korean athlete who has joined the Chinese nationality, Lin Hyo-ho, left South Korea because his former teammate Huang Daxian accused him of indecency (pulling his pants) and was scolded by the Whole Network of South Korea. The lawsuit was fought for several years, and it was only after the testimony of female athletes that the grievances were cleared, but it also delayed the golden period in vain.
Ironically, in the same event, the champion of the last Winter Olympics was the wronged Lin Xiaoxiao, and this champion was Huang Daxian. The one who stole the championship became the hero of his own country, and the wronged person was not even eligible to participate.
Dig up the story about him and have the opportunity to write again, saying back to Ahn Hyun Soo.
Under the indifferent treatment of the Korea Ice Federation, Ahn Hyun-so had to perform surgery at his own expense, and underwent four surgeries in a year.
He didn't have enough points to miss the game due to injury, so he didn't get a place at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
But even if he missed the Winter Olympics, he is still working hard to return to the South Korean national team. However, the South Korean team changed the selection criteria again, resulting in Ahn Hyun-so failing again.
On the surface, it did not meet the selection criteria of the Korean team, but in fact, the Korean team has given up on him.
After all, the selection criteria are dead, but the people who set the selection criteria are alive.
In Ahn Hyun-so's own words: The Korean team has no place for me.
If you can't get into the national team, you will never have the opportunity to participate in the Winter Olympics.
During this period, many countries sent invitations to Ahn Hyun-so to prepare for the Sochi Winter Olympics, and Russia was one of them. The conditions are also tempting, as long as he joins Russia, he can book places directly for the Winter Olympics.
Although the South Korean team gave up Ahn Hyun-so, it did not want him to have a chance to come forward, and also tried everything to hinder his naturalization in Russia.
At first, Ahn Hyun-so did not agree, but did not make up his mind to naturalize Russia until the quota of South Korea was determined.
From Ahn Hyun-so to Victor An, genius doesn't stop there
After naturalizing in Russia, Ahn Hyun-so changed his name to Victor An, victor an attempt to win and lose in his name.
He also specially customized an exclusive helmet to take to Russia, and the helmet was printed with the following sentence: No pain no gain (no pain, no gain)
The South Korean team probably did not expect that its abandonment would become the sharpest sharp knife in Russia at this Olympic Games.
At the Sochi Winter Olympics, Victorian won three gold medals in one go, leading the Russian team to the relay championship. Not only did it set a new personal record, but it also single-handedly changed Russia's short-track history. Become the king of six golds in the history of short track speed skating.
The photo of him kneeling and kissing the ice after sprinting was also one of the most moving moments of that Winter Olympics.
When everyone thought that the genius had fallen, the strong comeback, the genius returned, and punched the face of the person who abandoned him.
Quietly speaking, in the 500m final of the Sochi Winter Olympics, our Wu Dajing lost to Victor An, who made a strong comeback.
Good athletes are not distinguished by nationality
However, who would have thought that the original opponent would now become a master and apprentice
When Wang Meng was the head coach of the national team, he "stirred" Victor An, who was ready to retire, to come to China as a coach.
So After Retiring from the army, Victoran came to China to teach.
Good athletes don't necessarily have to be good coaches. Although he did not have extensive coaching experience, he not only became a coach, but also played as a sparring partner.
It belongs to the type of teaching by example, leading the team members to the skating, teaching them how to control the rhythm, and letting the team members imitate his sliding route.
During the short track speed skating competition, you can always see the figures of the two Chinese team coaches, wearing glasses is another Korean coach Kim Sun-tae, and the one who does not wear glasses is Victor An.
Although the excellent athletes are admirable, the netizens in our country like Victor An, but also because of his dedication and professional ability as the coach of the Chinese team.
I just didn't expect this dedication, which was understood as a "traitor" by Korean netizens who were annoyed and angry, not only to storm him personally, but also to threaten his family in South Korea.
The clear-eyed people look at the picture of comforting the younger generations, and it is also misinterpreted by South Korean netizens as stealing tactics.
Scolded him on the Korean net.
Originally, he had stopped giving interviews since he retired as a coach, but he had to apologize for the safety of his family, hoping that Korean netizens would be more rational.
If it were not for the fact that the personal safety of his family could not be guaranteed this time, he would not have spoken out on social platforms.
He said before: He will do his mission and responsibilities in every role and position of his own life.
In fact, regardless of nationality, in the ups and downs of life experience, he has played his role as he said. Who says being a coach in another country is a betrayal? Doesn't this show the strength of your country in this field, can cultivate excellent athletes, and can also export excellent coaches? Of course, narrow-minded people will not understand.
Besides, as Wang Meng said, why did Victor come to the Chinese team to coach? It's not because only the Chinese team provides a platform for display.
Good athletes don't matter what nationality, he just stays in the field he loves in a different way. For this pure love, he also deserves admiration.