Recently, Lang Ping, the female head of the two kings of Chinese sports, and the good sister Li Yan conducted a live video connection, Lang Ping and Li Yan recalled the great friendship of acquaintance, Li Yan also shared the joy of the success just achieved in the Winter Olympics to Lang Ping, and specially queued up for Lang Ping to buy the Mascot ice pier of the Olympic Games, this gift is a witness to the feelings of the two.
Lang Ping is the well-deserved first person in the Chinese women's volleyball industry, in the athlete period is the representative of the five consecutive championships, although Lang Ping did not participate in the 1986 World Championships, but the honor of the four world three major championships, but also the first main attack of the Chinese women's volleyball team, won the MVP of the three major competitions, so far the Chinese women's volleyball team is only Lang Ping alone. Compared with Lang Ping, a well-known "iron hammer" in the domestic sports world, Li Yan was also an Olympic gold medalist, but at that time, the short track speed skating she participated in was still a performance project, and the gold medal won was not counted in the gold medal list, until 2002, When Yang Yang achieved a breakthrough of zero for the Chinese Winter Olympic delegation.
After Lang Ping and Li Yan retired from the army, they both embarked on the road of coaching and achieved great success. Lang Ping returned to China in 1995 to coach the Chinese women's volleyball national team, and soon brought the Chinese women's volleyball team to the third place in the World Cup, the runner-up of the Atlanta Olympic Games and the runner-up of the World Championships, and also let the Chinese women's volleyball team in the trough return to the ranks of the world's strongest teams.
Lang Ping and Li Yan first met in the United States, both in 2007 in the United States team coaching, Lang Ping is the head coach of the United States women's volleyball national team, and Li Yan coached the American short track speed skating team, because the training location is similar, and are Chinese, so Lang Ping urgently to know Li Yan, did not expect the two to see each other, quickly became a good friend without talking, Lang Ping knew Li Yan after going to Li Yan's house to rub rice, and formed a deep friendship between them. During his coaching in the United States, Lang Ping led the United States team to the third place in the 2007 World Cup and the runner-up in the 2008 Olympic Games, and Li Yan brought out the first Olympic champion of the American men's short track, Apollo.
After that, Li Yan returned to China to coach and led the Chinese short track speed skating team to great success, winning all 4 women's short track gold medals at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, coaching the speed skating team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and then playing the men's 500 meters speed skating champion Gao Tingyu! In this connection with Lang Ping, Li Yan talked freely about the process of Gao Tingyu winning the championship, and also expressed his sincere love for speed skating and psychological feelings about short tracks.
Lang Ping and Li Yan are the "Iron Lady" of their respective projects, not only outstanding achievements in the athlete period, but also brilliant in the coaching career, Li Yan in the United States short track team, The Chinese short track team and the speed skating team have brought out the Olympic champions, Lang Ping's second time as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team also brought the team to the highest podium of the World Cup and the Olympic champion, every exchange between the two revealed the taste of pity for each other, thanks to the two great coaches for their contributions to Chinese sports, their dedication to the small family is worthy of respect!