She was a legend in the world of gymnastics, winning her first Olympic high and low bar title at the age of 16. The IOC spoke highly of her, even naming her unique set of high and low bars directly after her.
Just when everyone felt that the world gymnastics world would rise to a bright new star, she was forced to retire at the age of 18 due to hereditary hepatitis, and bid a tearful farewell to her 13-year gymnastics career.
In this issue, the Ziya Children's Fun Sports Observer will learn the story of Lu Li, the princess of the high and low bars, with everyone.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="52" > are born with genetic diseases</h1>
On August 30, 1976, she was born into an ordinary worker family in Changsha, Hunan Province, and when her parents were still immersed in the joy of the birth of this little life, misfortune swept in.
Not long after she was born, Lu Li was diagnosed with hereditary hepatitis, which made her look much thinner than children of the same age, and she was all distressed.
This is only secondary, the children's growth is inseparable from the small partners around them, but she has no playmate, always alone. Adults who knew about the situation were afraid that her hepatitis would be contagious and would not let their children come into contact with her at all.
She spent a dark childhood under the double destruction of body and mind, and her parents were also sad about their daughter's situation, but as ordinary workers, they really could not change their daughter's current situation.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="54" > first touch gymnastics</h1>
Because a friend around her suggested that Lu Li practice gymnastics, which would help improve her physical condition, the parents made the decision to send their 5-year-old daughter to learn gymnastics.
The family came to the registration office of the gymnastics class of the provincial amateur sports school, and the well-known coach Zhou Xiaolin saw Ying, and felt that Xiao Luli was born petite and had high flexibility, and would become a great instrument in the future, so he took the initiative to accept her as an apprentice. She began her gymnastics training career.
This sister from Changsha has been very stubborn since she was a child, and she never missed any opportunity to train in the gymnastics gym. Due to hereditary hepatitis, under such a strong amount of training, her body is overloaded every day.
Even so, she gained unprecedented happiness in the gymnastics gym, where she could not experience the loneliness of not having a playmate, nor could she feel the discomfort of her body, and Xiao Luli could never forget this feeling, and gymnastics has become an inseparable part of her life ever since.
In October 1985, she joined the hunan gymnastics school as one of the first students. At the beginning of 1988, due to her outstanding performance, she was officially selected for the Hunan Provincial Gymnastics Team, where she studied under the famous gymnastics coach Xiong Jingbin.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="56" > amazingly talented</h1>
From this moment on, she began formal training as a professional gymnast. Originally very talented in gymnastics, she is even more sharp after professional training.
Over time, each time her gymnastics results will be thrown out of other students, appearing to be outstanding.
Through the continuous practice of gymnastics, she gradually got rid of her weak state, although hereditary hepatitis did not leave her, but at least now she seems to be a very sunny girl.
Her early gymnastics career was smooth, after experiencing many competitions, she won a variety of large and small awards, because she has amazing gymnastics talent, so everyone thought that she would successfully join the national team, but did not expect to make a mistake when entering the national team.
In 1991, when her mentor Xiong Jingbin was transferred to the national team from the Hunan Provincial Gymnastics Team, the teacher was reluctant to take his most important disciple, Lu Li, so he also wanted to bring her to the national team, so he applied to the leader.
Although approved, everyone in the national gymnastics team at that time was very taboo about Lu Li, and everyone knew that she had hereditary hepatitis.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="58" > successfully entered the national team</h1>
Except for en mentors, no one wanted her to join the national team, but it was fortunate that Enshi tried to make her successfully enter the national team training.
All this, Lu Li remembered, secretly determined to one day use her success to repay the mentor, so after entering the national team, she trained harder every day.
Heaven will not fail everyone who strives. After years of experience, it was finally time for Lu Li to show her fists.
At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, the Chinese national gymnastics team did not make a good start, and before the start of the high and low bars event, none of the Chinese gymnastics teams reached the final except for the men's team that won a silver medal.
Unexpectedly, the high and low bar project was about to start, but the main team member Shi Liying was accidentally injured.
At that time, the six referees who were in the project were all foreigners, and in that environment, foreign referees all had unspoken rules that were not very friendly to Chinese sports, and coupled with the injury of the main force, it was undoubtedly worse for the Chinese gymnastics national team.
Although Lu Li also participated in the Olympic Games at that time, she was only a substitute for the national team, and she only had the opportunity to play when the starter was injured and could not play, and everyone did not have much hope for her.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > world war fame</h1>
But if she doesn't shoot, she will be a hit.
Lu Li, a Chinese player who came off the bench, made her movements flowing smoothly, churning up and down, like a flying swallow, with a straight body, and landing steadily like Mount Tai.
In the end, it conquered the referee and the audience with 6 perfect scores, and won the first gold medal for the Chinese gymnastics team at the Barcelona Olympic Games, which was the most surprising gold medal in the history of Chinese sports.
This match was also her first time representing the Chinese gymnastics team in the World Series, and she was very stable after playing, and did not show any stage fright.
In particular, her set of high and low bar movements is the most amazing, using her maverick method, perfectly made the world's most difficult three-D connected high and low bar action, her game caused a sensation in the international gymnastics community, shocked the entire gymnastics community.
This set of standard actions was even named after her directly by the IOC. There is no doubt that this little girl who is not yet 18 years old has created a miracle, a miracle that belongs to her.
Her contributions are not limited to the high and low bar projects, and she is also highly accomplished in the balance beam project.
When carrying out the balance beam project, she created a leg flexion and a leg straight jump 90 degrees into a cross standing wood action, because of the high difficulty coefficient of this action, so it was named "Lu Li Jump" by the International Gymnastics Federation, and she created her own world in the gymnastics world through unremitting efforts and innate talent.
After winning the championship, Lu Li suddenly became famous.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="62" > helpless to say goodbye to the beloved gymnastics stage</h1>
To everyone's surprise, in 1994, Lu Li, who was only 18 years old, announced her retirement, because pneumonia made it impossible for her to continue to be active in the gymnastics field, and suddenly leaving this familiar stage made it difficult for her to leave.
After retiring from the military, she chose to study at Beijing Sport University, and after graduation, she made a thoughtful decision to go to the United States. Even in a foreign country, Lu Li has always had a special love for gymnastics. Here, she served as a gymnastics coach in Northern California.
By chance, he met Ken Gassenhoven, who also loved gymnastics, and the two were rivals in gymnastics, but outside of the sport, the two developed an extraordinary friendship. Soon after getting along, the feelings of the two began to heat up and became a couple of lovers.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="64" > the happy state of affairs after retirement</h1>
After three years of love, Lu Li and Kenm married in 2003, and her mentor Xiong Jingbin came across the ocean to congratulate the couple after learning the news.
After marriage, the two still loved gymnastics, and they knew each other through gymnastics, so the couple joined forces to start a gymnastics club, named ACC Club.
Today, Lu Li lives in the United States, and at the same time has her own son, and her life is happy and happy, but she does not forget her original intention, insists on running the ACC club with her lover, providing a good platform for those who like gymnastics, and she usually practices a few times to find the feeling of that year.
Lu Li can be regarded as a milestone figure in the Chinese gymnastics industry, if it is not hereditary hepatitis, she will definitely be able to achieve higher achievements and create more miracles.
This is fate, blindly complaining is futile, after retiring from the army, she still made herself live a happy and happy life through her own efforts and hard work.
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