No one can succeed casually. In order to be able to spell out good results, the Olympians have made unimaginable efforts and endured hardships that ordinary people cannot bear.
In the Chinese delegation to this Winter Olympic Games, there are many athletes who carry the pain caused by years of training, and several of them insist on playing with their teeth and spell out good results, which is touching.
l 01 Xu Mengtao meniscus only 30% left
Recently, in the beijing Winter Olympics freestyle ski women's aerial skills final, Xu Mengtao, who won the gold medal for successfully completing the top difficulty action BFFF, is a very strong girl.
Xu Mengtao, born in 1990, will turn 32 this year, and this is also her fourth Olympic competition.
At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao competed in the freestyle ski event, but she only finished sixth in the mistake and missed the podium.
Later, at the Sochi Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao won a silver medal, but at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, she scored a high score of 99.37 the day before, but because of a jump mistake, she only scored 59.25 points, missing the medal round.
At this time, Xu Mengtao was 28 years old, and she still tried to control her emotions with tears in her eyes: "There are no tears in Pyeongchang, only go all out."
This year's Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao finally stood on the highest podium, and it was not easy to realize the dream of olympic gold medals.
Some people think that Xu Mengtao has participated in the Olympic Games four times, and each time the results have ups and downs, which makes people sweat in their hearts. But you know, behind every Olympic Games, she has endured hardships that are unimaginable to ordinary people.
Before the Winter Olympics in Wenge, Xu Mengtao's anterior cruciate ligament in her right leg was ruptured, and before the Sochi Winter Olympics, the medial collateral ligament of her right leg was torn, the cervical disc was herniated, and before the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, Xu Mengtao suffered a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of her left leg.
It is hard to imagine that after Xu Mengtao was injured in 2016, she underwent anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in her left knee, cutting off 60% of the meniscus on the outside of her left knee, and she underwent meniscus surgery on her legs again in 2018 due to injury. Now she has 40% of the meniscus left on her left knee and only 30% of the meniscus in her right knee.
When talking about these injuries, Xu Mengtao was very calm, and even some ankle and elbow injuries were directly ignored by her.
Even this time to participate in the Beijing Winter Olympics, she also has nails in her legs, but she said lightly: "Now the legs are all absorbable nails, it's okay." ”
It wasn't until Xu Mengtao learned that she had won the championship and cried on her back that everyone felt how much grievance, regret and pain she had in her heart, and finally released it all at this moment. Understand that she is also a girl, not a man of steel. This made many viewers follow her mood, rejoice and cry together.
l 02 Jia Zongyang had 22 steel nails in his legs
As Xu Mengtao's teammate, Jia Zongyang, who is 31 years old, is also a "veteran" who participated in the Winter Olympics for the fourth time. Don't look at Jia Zongyang is a post-90s, perennial training and the baptism of wind and snow make him look a lot more vicissitudes than his actual age.
At the Winter Olympics, Jia Zongyang and his teammates Xu Mengtao and Qi Guangpu won the second place in the freestyle skiing aerial skill mixed group.
The results that looked good in themselves made Jia Zongyang's heart ache. Because in the final, it was precisely because of his mistake in the jump that they missed the gold medal.
Jia Zongyang was very remorseful after the game, saying sadly: "I lost the gold medal because of my mistakes, I am really sorry." And the tough guy shed tears, but also made the audience's heart very uncomfortable.
Everyone did not harshly criticize Jia Zongyang, but more was cheering for him. And when everyone learned about Jia Zongyang's physical condition, they had more admiration for him.
After participating in the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014, Jia Zongyang was full of injuries, and because of the injury, he had to interrupt his training and rarely participated in the game.
Under the tenacious willpower, Jia Zongyang, who left the training ground for 465 days, finally returned to the project he loved. He also won a silver medal at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. At that time, he and the champion had a point difference of only 0.46 points, which was also very regrettable, but it was already a success to return from injury and win the silver medal.
In order to participate in the competition, Jia Zongyang actually made a steel nail bracket in his leg. The shortest steel nails are also more than three centimeters, and the longer ones are four or five centimeters.
Judging from the X-ray photos of Jia Zongyang's legs, his legs were densely packed with steel nails, and if you counted carefully, there were as many as 22 of them. Just looking at the picture, I already feel a lot of pain.
And Jia Zongyang has completed one game after another under such physical conditions, which is very painful. Therefore, the hope of many viewers for Jia Zongyang is that he can be safe and safe, do not get injured, and it is already remarkable to be able to stand on the Winter Olympic field.
l 03 Wu Dajing has double 50-year-old feet
The injury to Wu Dajing's foot, which won the gold medal in the short-track speed skating 2000m mixed relay race with his teammates at this year's Winter Olympics, is very obvious.
He once showed his feet when he participated in a variety show, and he said with a slight inferiority: "I have a pair of very ugly feet."
It turned out that Wu Dajing was too hard in training, the skates were not good for the injuries from the foot wear, and he was still insisting on non-stop training, the wear intensified, the damage accumulated layer by layer, and slowly the feet were seriously deformed. This gave Wu Dajing, who was less than 28 years old, a pair of 50-year-old feet.
On Wu Dajing's feet, the bones that looked prominent were actually formed after the wound was worn and worn. It is conceivable that when he was training, how much and how long he endured the pain.
Wu Dajing once said self-deprecatingly that because his results were too poor, he could only be a sparring partner for female team members. And in the long distance event, he is always surpassed by female athlete Zhou Yang. Every time Zhou Yang surpassed him, he would give him a look, which made Wu Dajing very shocked, but at the same time it was also an encouragement.
Later, through desperate training, Wu Dajing finally won the only gold medal for the Chinese delegation at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, and became the Olympic record and world record holder in the men's short track speed skating 500 meters event.
When talking about Wu Dajing's foot injury, Wang Meng also said that the athletes who skated in short track speed skating "have stories about whoever has their feet." She also had a noticeable scar on her ankle.
Wang Meng even said that because of her foot injury, sometimes she walked and walked, and suddenly she couldn't walk, and a sneeze could misplace her ankle. It can be seen how difficult it is for athletes.
l 04 Gao Tingyu once withdrew from the national team due to a waist injury
This year, Gao Tingyu, who won the gold medal in the men's 500m event in speed skating for the Chinese team, is a very young athlete, born in December 1997, just 24 years old.
In the competition, Gao Tingyu broke the Olympic record with a time of 34.32 seconds and won the first gold medal in the history of speed skating for the Chinese team.
However, it seems that this sunny and handsome big boy is actually plagued by injuries. Gao Tingyu began skating at the age of 8, entered the provincial team at the age of 14, and was selected for the national team at the age of 18. In 2018, he won the bronze medal in the men's 500m in speed skating at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. But years of training, let him have a more serious waist injury. Around 2018, he even had plans to retire.
After that, although Gao Tingyu persevered, his back injury recurred again in 2020, for which he also left the national team for a while.
In order to heal his injuries, Gao Tingyu constantly traveled back and forth between the infirmary and the training ground. Gao Tingyu has not stopped the high-load training, so in the treatment of waist injuries, more and more needle eyes are acupuncture and moxibustion on him, in Gao Tingyu's own words, that is, the body is "all eyes".
Media people familiar with Gao Tingyu also revealed that Gao Tingyu was stabbed with blood on one of his backs. It was under such insistence that Gao Tingyu returned to the Olympic arena and won the gold medal with amazing perseverance.
Just the day before Gao Tingyu won the gold, he was also injured, if it were not for this injury, his results would be better, really good.
epilogue
In addition to the athletes mentioned above, many of China's Winter Olympics are strong in the pain. Su Yiming, 17, fractured his bones in the skis when he was 7 years old, and when he was a child, he knew to be strong and not give up.
Before the Winter Olympics, figure skater Jin Boyang suffered from appendicitis, but for the Winter Olympics, he chose conservative treatment.
Gao Hongbo, a young player who participated in the men's U-shaped track skill competition on snowboarding, fractured his ankle before the competition, and his "tear fracture" could not stand for ordinary people, he insisted on participating in the competition with injuries and completed the action, and he went to the operation after the game.
In fact, it is already very difficult to stand on the world-class competitive arena, no matter what kind of achievements are achieved, behind each athlete is a tenacious struggle intertwined with sweat, tears and pain.
Just like the song sings: "Whoever says that standing in the light is the hero", on the Winter Olympic Field, Everyone in China's athletes carries the Olympic spirit of bravely moving forward, which is very admirable.
This article is "selected by the author of the "exclusive film and television" to "choose the original", without the author's authorization and consent, any other platform account shall not reprint this article, and the offender will be investigated for legal responsibility. Welcome to subscribe to "Exclusive Film", thank you for your support!