In the Chinese sports world, in addition to table tennis, gymnastics is the strength of China's sports, and Chinese gymnastics is also a popular competition for gold medals in previous Olympic Games. In particular, Li Xiaopeng, Liu Xuan, Yang Wei, Zou Kai, etc., who are familiar with the world champions, are also because of their excellent results, so that Chinese gymnastics has a very high status in the world.
In the 1990s, there was such a girl in China's sports world known as the "Chinese Gymnastics Princess", who became an Olympic champion at the age of 16, but was forced to retire due to liver disease at the age of 18, and now she is married to the United States as the boss, she is Lu Li.
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Lu Li was born in 1976, is an authentic Changsha girl, her parents are ordinary workers, but because Lu Li was thin and thin since childhood, and is particularly picky eaters, she is very worried about Lu Li's parents, decided to send her to practice gymnastics, strengthen physical exercise, and change the bad habit of picky eating. It was this inadvertent decision that made Lu Li have a deep relationship with gymnastics ever since.
Lu Li, who entered the gymnastics class of the hunan amateur gymnastics school, was soon discovered by gymnastics coach Zhou Xiaolin that she was not afraid of going to high horses at all, but also had a healthy posture, was very smart, and was a good seedling for practicing gymnastics.
Under the careful teaching of Coach Zhou Xiaolin, 9-year-old Lu Li became the first batch of students in the improvement class of Hunan Gymnastics School, after entering the improvement class, she had to practice for seven or eight hours a day, very hard and hard, all her efforts made Xiong Jingbin, the coach of the Hunan Provincial Gymnastics Team, see in her eyes, so 12-year-old Lu Li was named and selected to the Hunan Provincial Team.
Lu Li, who entered the provincial team of Hunan Province, was deeply valued by Coach Xiong Jingbin, and also specially designed a set of new movements with high difficulty of three D connected high and low bars, she would practice repeatedly every day, and summarized insufficient mistakes, although she was thin, but the strong and strong in her bones was admirable.
In this way, Lu Li went farther and farther in her gymnastics career, and she also fell deeply in love with this gymnastics sport, although there were many ups and downs in it, including parents seeing their daughter suffering so much and couldn't bear to take her home, but she refused, and she was determined to make good results in the gymnastics world.
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Under the guidance and leadership of xiong jingbin, the coach of the provincial team, Lu Li finally had new gains after nearly a year of hard training. At the 1989 National Youth Games, she won the championship of women's uneven bars with her own classic moves. After winning the first battle, she was out of control, not only won the women's high and low bar championship at the National Youth Championships a year later, but also won the gold medal in the women's high and low bar of the national championships, at this time Lu Li has become a well-known gymnastics star.
Subsequently, Lu Li also naturally joined the national team and began to fight for Chinese honors, in the 1992 Barcelona Olympic Games, due to the injury of the main team member Shi Liying, she had to let Lu Li, who was only 16 years old, temporarily replace. As a result, Lu Li played very well in that game, and the foreign referees present were shocked by the uniqueness of their actions, and the 6 referees all showed a full score of 10 points on the spot, which is unprecedented in history and has not been surpassed by anyone so far.
Undoubtedly, she won the first Olympic gold medal in the uneven bars in her life, setting a precedent for the first gold medal in the history of Chinese gymnastics for women's high and low bars. And after the game, the International Gymnastics Federation also named her three-D connection "Lu Li Action".
Once in order to be able to complete the action perfectly, she did not know how much sweat and tears, it is because of the hardships she has suffered, there are today's brilliant results, so Lu Li's sweat and tears did not flow in vain, the Olympic champion is the best proof for her, which also proves how correct the choice of Coach Zhou Xiaolin and Xiong Jingbin is.
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But after that Olympic Games, Lu Li was diagnosed with liver disease, and the situation was not very good at that time, but because of Lu Li's ability and conditions, the gymnastics center was reluctant to give up and had been hiding from the outside, afraid that Lu Li's gymnastics career would be ruined.
Coach Xiong Jingbin in the middle also boiled medicine for her every day, but Lu Li, who suffered from the disease, faced with such high-intensity training, even if taking medicine was of no use to Lu Li, although later she was also insisting on training, but her body felt more and more uncomfortable, and her parents had to take her out of the team to check her body.
Unexpectedly, her condition deteriorated, but in the face of the upcoming competition, Lu Li still insisted on completing, with illness and finally won the national championship, although her spirit of not being afraid of illness and insisting on fighting was admirable, but retiring due to illness was the end she had to face. Finally, in 1994, 18-year-old Lu Li officially withdrew from the national team due to liver disease, officially bidding farewell to her favorite gymnast status.
Unlike others, Lu Li did not choose to continue to fight with the cause she loved, and in the first year after retiring, she came to Beijing Sport University for further study, and the next year she entered the cultural exchange major of Peking University. As an athlete since she was a child, she knows what she needs to improve, what knowledge she needs to enrich herself, and she is also very clear about what she wants.
Therefore, after graduation, Lu Li resolutely left China and went to Las Vegas as a gymnastics coach, and after a few years, she had a new goal, that is, to choose to run her own gymnastics club and start a business to become the boss.
Moreover, Lu Li also harvested her own happy love in the United States, he is the American vaulting star Ken GassenHoven, the two people because of the common hobby, very common language, soon after entered the marriage, Lu Li and her husband have a lovely son. But it is worth mentioning that Lu Li still retains her Chinese nationality.
Now Lu Li can be described as a winner in life, a successful career, and a happy family. Although she has her own new life in the United States, her great contributions to the Chinese gymnastics industry are worth remembering for a lifetime, and her brilliant achievements will always be the pride of Chinese.
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Lu Li chose to enter the gymnastics team due to poor health since childhood, her steady and steady play at every step, so that she has an impressive achievement, although the path her parents pointed out to her is correct, but the subsequent many championship honors are completely dependent on her own efforts. I had regrets about having to retire due to liver disease, but I did not give up for this, but chose to open up more new possibilities.
Seeing Lu Li, who has now entered middle age, her life and career are smooth, and as a person who has cheered for her, she is also really happy for her. Maybe success is lucky for talented people, but behind this success must be full of efforts and choices, may we all have a life like Lu Li, who has the courage to choose, and dare to fight.