The competitive spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team once inspired all the Chinese to work hard, and the Chinese women's volleyball team at its peak once won five gold medals in a row, making China the first country in the history of world volleyball to win five consecutive championships.
As a women's volleyball player who single-handedly created this legend, only one Lang Ping is still coaching in first-line volleyball training, and she is also the most well-known of all women's volleyball players.
However, when mentioning Lang Ping, we have to mention another volleyball female general, that is, Chen Zhaodi, who has always been known as the "one-armed general", as one of the people who created the legend of the "five consecutive championships" of the Chinese women's volleyball team, she witnessed the rise and glory of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and also dedicated her life to the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Until her death, she still remembered the follow-up development of Chinese volleyball, and because of this, her spirit touched Lang Ping, which made Lang Ping comeback under unimaginable pressure.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="5" > women's volleyball general Chen Zhaodi</h1>
At three o'clock in the afternoon of April 1, 2013, "Volleyball General" Chen Zhaodi died of illness at the age of 58, and before she died, a conversation with her former teammate Lang Ping has become one of the reasons in the hearts of countless people that Lang Ping can return to China to coach.
This "one-armed general" who has struggled for the cause of the Chinese women's volleyball team all his life Even in the last moments of his life, he was worried about the development of the Chinese women's volleyball team, but at that time, no one knew what the two of them talked about.
It was not until five years later, in an interview, that Lang Ping finally revealed that when she returned to China to visit her former teammates and saw Chen Zhaodi, who was already extremely weak in the hospital bed, Chen Zhaodi seemed to have already felt something in her heart at that time, she did not talk too much about her illness with Lang Ping, but instead took Lang Ping's hand and discussed the training tactics of the new women's volleyball team with her.
This also greatly touched Lang Ping, at that time, the Chinese women's volleyball team experienced the glory of "five consecutive championships", with the successive retirement of the main players, it has begun to have a downward trend, but even so, Chen Zhaodi has never given up.
Lang Ping admitted that it was Chen Zhaodi who made her hesitant to return to China to teach, and she finally firmed up her last thought, she said: "When the Chinese women's volleyball team needs people the most, why can't I make some sacrifices? ”
It can be said that the death of Chen Zhaodi's illness has brought great influence to the older generation of volleyball players, which also makes the Chinese people have to revisit the past of this "volleyball general", why has her life been dedicated to China's volleyball cause?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > talent is not enough, try hard</h1>
Compared with Lang Ping, who is known as the "iron hammer", Chen Zhaodi's volleyball road is more difficult.
Chen Zhaodi began studying volleyball in high school, because she loved it too much, so she decided to go to Beijing to systematically learn volleyball, although this practice was not understood by her parents at the time, but at her insistence, her parents chose to support.
In this way, Chen Zhaodi came to the Beijing Institute of Physical Education, and she thought that it was time for her to show her fists here, but what Chen Zhaodi did not expect was that after less than a month of training, the coach made her a "no talent, no foundation" evaluation.
As we all know, competitive sports in many cases, talent can almost determine how far you can go in the future, so after hearing the coach's evaluation, you can imagine how uncomfortable Chen Zhaodi's heart is.
However, such a blow did not erase Chen Zhaodi's love for volleyball, on the contrary, in order to meet everyone's standards, she began to demand herself harder, and every day after completing the exercises assigned by the coach, she also customized a special training plan for herself.
In the gymnasium, the students who practiced with her could most hear Chen Zhaodi's often hanging on her lips was the sentence "Since you have done it, you must do it well".
During that time, whether it was the teammates who trained together, or the coaches, or the uncle in charge of opening and closing the doors in the gym, they all remembered the girl who came first and left last every day, and she spent all her time in training, as if it was enough to make up for all the foundations she lacked.
Gradually, even the coach who was not optimistic about her had to admit that this little girl named Chen Zhaodi had an attachment that her peers did not have, and this persistence was exactly the most needed spirit in competitive sports.
In this way, under Chen Zhaodi's training day and night, she finally got a substantial promotion, she finally began to emerge among a group of teammates, and in the academy, more and more people also began to know that there is a girl who plays volleyball, called Chen Zhaodi, she is not trained to die.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="22" > enlisted in the army, the starting road of "women's volleyball general"</h1>
Fortunately, Huang Tian did not pay off, after nearly half a year of training, Chen Zhaodi's training has a significant effect, from the beginning of the team's dragging role gradually grew into the main team, she only took half a year.
Just when her skills had been recognized by her coaches, she chose to join the army and joined the famous "Bayi Team".
Perhaps, since that time, this thin-looking little girl has already planned her own future life path.
Chen Zhaodi, who joined the "Bayi Team", still adhered to the training intensity she customized for herself when she was in the academy, although her volleyball skills were very mature at this time, she still maintained the habit of tossing two thousand balls a day.
In this way, because of her outstanding performance and steady play, two years later, Chen Zhaodi was selected by Yuan Weimin, the coach of the women's volleyball national team at the time, and officially became a member of the Chinese women's volleyball national team.
After joining the team, Chen Zhaodi took the position of the second pass and receiver of the team, and became one of the main players in the team, coach Yuan Weimin has said many times that in the national team at that time, Chen Zhaodi was the one who most assured him.
Yuan Weimin
Such an evaluation has not even been obtained by the later "iron hammer" Lang Ping, so it is not difficult for us to see that years of hard training have paved a heavenly avenue for Chen Zhaodi, even compared with the athletes who have trained since childhood, she is not lacking.
On November 16, 1981, at the third Women's Volleyball World Cup held in Osaka, Japan, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the host Japan team to successfully win the first championship in the history of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Among them, in that group of volleyball women, in addition to Lang Ping's fame, there is also a "desperate sanlang" Chen Zhaodi who does not want to die when playing balls, and has also become a volleyball goddess that the Chinese people talk about.
Since then, China has begun its own "volleyball era", and Chen Zhaodi has become a witness and participant in this legend.
In many matches since then, Lang Ping, Chen Zhaodi, Chen Yaqiong and other volleyball athletes have shown their fists and feet, and they have won one gold medal after another for China, becoming a role model for countless Chinese sons and daughters.
Chen Zhaodi once said such a sentence: "I stood on the podium, watched the five-star national flag slowly rise, and listened to the national anthem ringing all over the field, I was happier than ever." ”
Perhaps, this is the lifelong yearning of every athlete who has won glory for the country, and this sense of satisfaction and honor is something that we cannot obtain no matter how much wealth we have.
However, flowers and applause have always walked side by side with thorns and doubts, and what the Chinese people can see is the spirit of the volleyball athletes on the field, and what they can't see is the trauma left over from their training for many years.
Along with one honor after another, it is the result of Lang Ping Chen Zhaodi and others who are unable to choose to retire because of years of trauma, the most famous of which is the story of her one-handed participation in the National Games.
In 1978, when the Bayi team played the National League, Chen Zhaodi's left arm was injured due to broken radius, although he was later treated, he also fell into the problem of often pain, but in the following year, when the Japanese women's volleyball team visited China, in the Sino-Japanese friendship plug, the Japanese team members were again hit by the injured troops, which caused a crushing fracture of the radius of the left arm.
This made the women's volleyball team very worried, after all, it was only two months before the National Games, but no one could have imagined that despite the serious injury to his left arm, Chen Zhaodi still followed the team to participate in daily training.
And just two months of the National Games, with her left arm hanging her arm with a bandage to play in the field, although the injury is inevitable, she still chose to persevere, and still played a good result in the end, and because of this, many fans later called her "one-armed general".
In the years that followed, Chinese volleyball won world championship medals, large and small, and Chen Zhaodi finally realized her dream of winning as a teenager.
But behind the fulfillment of this dream is the price of being tormented by pain every day and night.
As we all know, Lang Ping caused many traumas on his body because of his brave style in the game and the reason why he did not die when he played, and finally had to choose to retire, and then went to the United States for medical treatment.
And Chen Zhaodi, who has always been known as "Desperate Sanlang", is of course no exception, because of the intensity of training, many injuries on the field, and after injury, he cannot get enough rest, and after years of accumulation, Chen Zhaodi has also fallen ill.
In 1986, Chen Zhaodi had to choose to retire due to physical reasons, but although she no longer participated in the competition as a women's volleyball player, she chose another way to continue to support her beloved volleyball career.
After retiring, Chen Zhaodi served as the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team and began to guide more women's volleyball players who have more championship dreams like her how to play volleyball better.
Perhaps in her, everyone can clearly see what is the real spirit of the women's volleyball team.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" Data-track="49" > help Wang Zhizhi return to China</h1>
Although Chen Zhaodi's greatest love is her volleyball career, after she became the director of the Bureau of Culture and Sports of the General Political Department, she began to expand her attention to the entire field of competitive sports in China, and almost many of the things that can contribute to Chinese sports have her presence.
Among them, Wang Zhizhi's smooth return to China is inseparable from Chen Zhaodi's mediation and help.
Wang Zhizhi
As the first Chinese to log on to the NBA, Wang Zhizhi placed very high expectations on his countrymen, but during the critical period when the national team asked Wang Zhizhi to return to China to participate in training and participate in the game as a Chinese representative, he stayed in the United States for various reasons.
And this incident also became the most criticized point of his career, but at such a critical moment, Chen Zhaodi, as the director of the Bureau of Culture and Sports of the General Political Department at that time, personally contacted Wang Zhizhi's parents and entrusted them to express to Wang Zhizhi the hope that the state hoped that he could return to China to win glory for the country, and also assured Wang Zhizhi that the state would not pursue any matter of the previous situation, as long as he could return.
In addition, in order to encourage Wang Zhizhi to return to China to participate in the competition without burden, Chen Zhaodi almost did not have a single comment on Wang Zhizhi's "no return door" in all public places, and it can be said that she cleared all obstacles for Wang Zhizhi to return to China smoothly as much as possible.
As a result, it can be imagined that in 2006, Wang Zhizhi finally returned to China, when Yao Ming retired due to injury, Wang Zhizhi took over the banner of the Chinese men's basketball team from him, and finally led the Chinese men's basketball team to win another world championship again.
It can be said that it is precisely because of Chen Zhaodi's efforts to dredge up that Wang Zhizhi was able to win glory for the country without pressure.
In addition, Chen Zhaodi has also made great contributions to the development of competitive sports in China in various other sports.
In 2006, Chen Zhaodi was awarded the rank of major general, becoming the first veritable general among women's volleyball players, she once said that she had two wishes, one was to play volleyball to win the championship, the other was to be a soldier to be a general, and at the age of 51, she finally fulfilled two wishes in her life.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="60" > the development of the Chinese women's volleyball team on the verge of death</h1>
In February 2013, Chen Zhaodi was diagnosed with cancer and was hospitalized, but after only two months, her condition deteriorated rapidly, and she finally died at 3 p.m. on April 1.
However, in the last moments of her life, she never forgot the volleyball she once loved the most, at that time, the Chinese women's volleyball team caused the consequences of "green and yellow" due to the injury retirement of many main players, the Chinese women's volleyball team once fell into a low tide, Chen Zhaodi looked in the eyes, anxious in her heart, that is, in the last moment of her life, what she thought about was also the future development of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
At this time, there have been voices within the Women's Volleyball Association, hoping to invite Lang Ping, who is in the United States, to return to China as a coach and once again lead the women's volleyball players to revive their former glory, but for various reasons, this proposal has not been formed.
Until Chen Zhaodi was hospitalized due to illness, Lang Ping, who was far away in the United States, returned to China to visit, she looked at her teammates who had been in the field together in the past, and tears fell like rain, Chen Zhaodi took Lang Ping's hand and recalled the beautiful years when they played volleyball together.
In addition, she also exchanged with Lang Ping the problems she found when she was the coach of the women's volleyball team, and finally told Lang Ping that she hoped that Lang Ping could continue to shine for the Chinese women's volleyball team.
At that time, Lang Ping's physical condition was not as good as before because of the trauma left over from her early years, and she wanted to spend her future time with her family, but Chen Zhaodi's words seemed to give her another touch.
Perhaps Chen Zhaodi's love for the Chinese women's volleyball team infected Lang Ping, or perhaps Lang Ping never put down the Chinese women's volleyball team, after Chen Zhaodi's death, Lang Ping agreed to the invitation of the Chinese national team and returned to China to serve as a women's volleyball coach.
In the second year that Lang Ping coached the Chinese women's volleyball team, he led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win the second place in the World Championships, and there was also a hope of Chen Zhaodi in the dark.
After Chen Zhaodi's death, family and friends held a simple farewell ceremony for her, and at her funeral, in addition to family and friends, there were former teammates, Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang, Zheng Haixia and others who came to participate in her memorial ceremony.
During the Qingming Festival, the rain is pouring, and the pedestrians on the road want to break their souls.
Chen Zhaodi's funeral was held in the Qingming Festival, the funeral scene, the funeral team led by coach Yuan Weimin, Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang, Zheng Haixia and others followed, Chen Zhaodi's daughter could not help but shed tears when she saw her mother's former teammates reunited to bid farewell to her mother's last journey, seeing this scene, Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang, Zheng Haixia also shed tears.
At that time, the teenager was full of spirit and went overseas to win glory for the country, and now, the Slovak people have passed away, and there is room to mourn.
Chen Zhaodi's daughter told everyone that after her mother was cremated, there were still several steel nails left in the ashes, which were left by Chen Zhaodi's injuries when she played volleyball, and these steel nails were both painful and glorious for her mother, so she would keep these steel nails and bury them with her mother.
Lang Ping listened, silent, no one knew what was going on in her mind at that time, whether she was reminiscing about the time when she used to play with her teammates, or considering whether she should come back.
Immediately after the funeral officially began, everyone looked at the black and white photos of Chen Zhaodi in front of them and cried, and the legendary women who had once been famous overseas finally got together again after many years, however, no one expected that this reunion was actually to send Chen Zhaodi on the last journey.
Lang Ping, Zheng Haixia, Sun Jinfang and others also chose a special way to mourn Chen Zhaodi, they trimmed the flower ball into the shape of a volleyball ball together, and wrote the words "all members of the old women's volleyball team" on it, perhaps only they can understand that the significance of volleyball to Chen Zhaodi is unparalleled.
Then, countless fans from afar came forward one after another to send Chen Zhaodi on his last journey, and in everyone's hearts, she will always be the spirited "women's volleyball general" on the court!
Everyone looked at the black and white photos of Chen Zhaodi in front of them and cried silently, and the legendary women's queue that was once famous overseas finally got together again after many years, however, no one expected that this reunion was actually to send Chen Zhaodi on the last journey.
At the memorial service, countless fans from afar came forward one after another to send Chen Zhaodi on his last journey, and in everyone's hearts, she will always be the "women's volleyball general" who is full of spirit on the court!
Chen Zhaodi, as one of the athletes who witnessed the legendary history of the Chinese women's volleyball team, her faith is almost closely linked to the spirit of the women's volleyball team, tenacious fighting, brave struggle, forever moving forward, Chen Zhaodi left, but the spirit of the women's volleyball team was left forever and became the eternal spiritual guide of Chinese sports.