Source: Global Times - Global Network
As Fan Kexin won the first gold medal for the Chinese team in the short-track speed skating mixed group relay on February 5, her hometown, Qitaihe, a small town in Heilongjiang Province, 1600 kilometers away from Beijing, rejoiced. On the night of the match, his father Fan Shizhong and his mother Nie Guiling, who watched the live broadcast, hugged and cried. When the Global Times reporter rushed to Qitaihe to visit the small city that gave birth to Olympic champions such as Yang Yang, Wang Meng and Sun Linlin, the Global Times reporter visited Fan Kexin's parents, and they shared dozens of private photos and the stories behind them with the reporter. They said that in the past ten years, the daughter has made efforts that are difficult for ordinary people to reach, and although there are fewer and more, the whole family is still warm and harmonious. However, when it comes to "personal issues", it seems to be an exception.
Winter Olympic champion Fan Kexin's mother Nie Guiling (left) and father Fan Shizhong (right) demonstrate new childhood photos
In an 83-square-meter two-bedroom apartment, Fan Kexin's parents warmly received reporters and changed into Olympic costumes printed with the Chinese flag. The interior of the house is clean and bright, and the photos displayed on the display are almost all related to Fan Kexin. Dozens of medals and honor memorabilia, large and small, she received filled the living room showcases. On her bedroom bed in the morning, there are embroidered pillows that fans have given her. Today's life has been greatly improved, and recalling the previous experience of a family of four squeezed into a 7-square-meter basement, Fan Kexin's parents are still full of emotions.
The living room of Fan Ke's new home
Fan Kexin's bedroom, the bed is placed with embroidered pillows sent by fans
The medal display cabinet in Fan Kexin's home is full of medals large and small
The day Fan Kexin won China's first Winter Olympic gold medal, "we both lost sleep," her mother, Ms. Nie, told reporters.
"Sometimes it's not easy to think about my daughter's efforts over the past ten years," the father added.
In the short track speed skating mixed team relay final held on the evening of the 5th, the Chinese team won the championship with a time of 2 minutes 37 seconds 348 seconds.
Fan Father told reporters that he suffered from polio at the age of 2, had been in the garment business in the 80s, and later changed to "shochu, tofu" and "pig raising" due to cervical and lumbar spine diseases. However, the fortunes plummeted, and tens of thousands of yuan were lost, so he brought his family from Shuanghe Town under the jurisdiction of Qitaihe City to Qitaihe City to join his relatives, and did the work of repairing shoes and bicycles. At that time, "just 4 of us, nothing, brought 300 yuan, and just kept it up."
Mom recalled that the small basement of 6-7 square meters where she lived at that time was cold and damp, with bunk beds, no bathrooms, no water, and needed to go to someone else's house to carry it. Her mother said that Fan Kexin loved to dance when she was a child, but when she heard that the clothing fee and tuition fee were 150 yuan, she went home and told her mother that she did not like to learn, and asked what reason she did not say. On the way out of school, the young Fan Kexin would pick up mineral water bottles and sell them for stationery.
Fan Kexin's parents collect photos to record Fan Kexin's growth
"All the children in the family see things in their eyes and understand things from an early age," the mother said.
Father Fan said that he often told Fan Kexin that if he wanted to do this line of work (skating), he needed to have a confident and self-reliant heart. The father said that there were about 40 Qitaihe athletes who were in the same stubble as Fan Kexin, except for her and a member of the Inner Mongolia team, no one else insisted.
He told the Global Times reporter that due to the lack of equipment, every year when he returned home on vacation, Fan Kexin would set a training plan for himself, and when he came back from running in the morning, he would train his physical fitness. "Because I was only 100 pounds, I rode on her neck, I still had to bring a little rice, she kept squatting down and getting up to practice her legs, as a father, my tears were in my heart." It is said that this achievement is remarkable, and this achievement is not easy. ”
Fan Kexin won the silver medal in the women's 1000m short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia
Fan Kexin's medals
Fan Kexin's parents showed dozens of photos to reporters, some recording her thin figure with long hair when she first went to ice, some recording her joy at winning the national primary school competition championship, some recording her spirit in the national team jersey, and her cherished group photo with her idol, which is also a fellow villager Wang Mao. There are also four family portraits.
Fan Kexin's parents collected a group photo of Fan Kexin and "fellow student sister" Wang Mao, and the photo has Wang Meng's autograph
"She has been with the national team for 12 years, and not a single day has been at home with us for the New Year, because every year the holiday is in April. When she came back from vacation, we took a family portrait to commemorate our whole family sitting together and having a meal, just like the New Year. The father told reporters.
"The girl came back to call the New Year," Mom added.
The mother told reporters that Fan Kexin has always reported good news and not worries, and many news was learned in chats with her teammates' parents. After winning the Winter Olympics, Fan Kexin sent a message to his parents, asking them to pay attention to rest and not patronize happy.
The father told reporters that many Fan Kexin's games, the old two will actually fall into the jet lag, this Fan Kexin may not know.
"Since she went to the sports world for 20 years, the child has not rested for a day, including the ten days of returning home in April every spring break, and we both feel so sorry for her that we both say it's time to rest," mom said.
"Every time I say that my child is so old, I should also consider personal issues, and my daughter says, 'Mom, what do you two think?' I said, you can't always be like this, sad to kill your father and me, then everyone's little handsome guy will be picked up by others. ”
In a relaxed laugh, her mother said that although the personal honor has achieved a bumper harvest, Fan Kexin has no idea of resting, "She always says, 'The country needs me, I am still training on the field to compete and win glory for my hometown', and she also hopes that in the future, the athletes of Qitaihe can take her this baton." ”
On February 13, in the women's 3000m relay final of short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics, the Chinese team composed of Fan Kexin, Qu Chunyu, Zhang Chutong, Zhang Yuting and Han Yutong won the bronze medal. After the game, Fan Kexin kissed the ice surface, which moved countless people.
"Do you want to kiss the ice rink to say goodbye?" I have loved this ice rink since I was a child, only this ice rink I have come out on top, I will be on this ice rink all my life," my mother told reporters, who was dumbfounded by Fan Kexin's response at the time.
"Immediately the ice pier will come back, and my girl's golden pier," nie guiling, a mother, proudly said, she had set aside a seat for the girl's gold pier and gold medal in the medal cabinet.
Medal showcase in Fan Kexin's home
Fan Kexin's new home posted winter Olympics & Spring Festival theme decorative window flowers
The reporter did not have the heart to tell her at that time, on February 20, Wu Dajing, a speed skating celebrity who is also a northeasterner, sent a Weibo post saying that he wanted to auction the golden dun dun, and all the proceeds were donated to the public welfare organization, Fan Kexin left a message below" "With the big brother, I also auction one."