"What is the spirit of the women's volleyball team? It is selfless dedication, victory and defeat, supreme sense of social responsibility and down-to-earth efforts. --Chen Zhaodi
"Raise the national flag and play the national anthem."
The Chinese women's volleyball team started from the five consecutive championships in the 1980s, and today in the 21st century, it has won five championships and won the world championship ten times, and the spirit of the women's volleyball team has inspired generations of Chinese sons and daughters to forge ahead.
It is a team that cooperates with each other and has strong patriotic feelings.
Mention the women's volleyball team, you have to mention the "women's volleyball general" Chen Zhaodi.
She once helped Wang Zhizhi return to the motherland, and was also an old predecessor of sports celebrities such as Zhang Rongfang and Chen Zhonghe.
Chen Zhaodi
It can be said that Chen Zhaodi is a myth in the Chinese women's volleyball community, it is she who witnessed the rise of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and at her funeral, Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang, Zheng Haixia and others have come to mourn.
As early as the time of Chen Zhaodi's death, she still has been thinking about the cause of China's women's volleyball team.
"We still have a long way to go in the Chinese women's volleyball team, and we must work together to make progress together." Remember, winning the championship is something we have to do. ”
The Chinese women's volleyball team on the Internet once said such a paragraph:
"Other people's youth is spent under the moon before the flower, the youth of the Chinese women's volleyball team is sweating on the field, they have been sweating, they have been in pain, but their youth has no regrets, because they have always been shining for the motherland."
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Perhaps the name Chen Zhaodi is a little unfamiliar to contemporary youth, but when it comes to Lang Ping's name, everyone in China knows it.
Chen Zhaodi is a key figure who has a very important influence on Lang Ping's life, she is not only the mentor and predecessor of Lang Ping's women's volleyball career, but also an old comrade-in-arms of Lang Ping.
Chen Zhaodi was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, to parents who are ordinary local workers and peasants.
In her early years, she was no different from ordinary children, and she studied and went to school step by step under the arrangement of her parents.
It wasn't until that year of high school, under a fortuitous opportunity, that Chen Zhaodi began to contact the sport of volleyball, and since then she has become more and more passionate and uncontrollable.
After consulting her parents in high school, she finally decided to go to the Beijing Institute of Physical Education Youth Training Team.
Chen Zhaodi's contact with volleyball is relatively late, so she is almost zero foundation in the team, at that time, in the eyes of the coach, "Chen Zhaodi, this girl really has no talent for volleyball." ”
Just by virtue of his obsession and love for volleyball, no matter how painful and tired the past three years, Chen Zhaodi has gritted his teeth and persevered.
For a person who has neither talent nor foundation, it is almost impossible for Chen Zhaodi to stand out among many students.
It's just that this girl has the tenacity to not accept defeat.
Not to be left behind, she always shouted, "Do one thing, and if you do it, you must do it the best." ”
Chen Zhaodi's requirements for herself are very strict, even to the point of being harsh.
The training team practiced at seven o'clock every day, and she arrived at the training ground at five o'clock.
She arranged a very strict training program for herself, each of which was reinforced by her weaknesses.
The coach said that her physical fitness was not up to standard, and she started to get up at five o'clock in the morning to run on the playground in the morning.
She felt that the strength of her attack was not fast and angled enough, and she could not play the same type of ball repeatedly on the field.
At her hardest, she slept even three or four hours a day.
In just two or three months, Chen Zhaodi's volleyball level has improved by leaps and bounds, and even the coach finds it a little incredible.
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Until the year she graduated from the youth training team of the Beijing Institute of Physical Education, Chen Zhaodi was already a leader in the team.
Although Chen Zhaodi's volleyball skills at that time had been approved by the coach, bluntly saying that she was qualified enough to join the team of professional volleyball teams, Chen Zhaodi chose to join the army.
It was also in the same year that Chen Zhaodi joined the "Bayi Team" of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
At the critical moment of each game, Chen Zhaodi's lifeless playing style is very open-minded, so she also has a nickname, known as Chen Zhaodi as "Desperate Sanlang".
Chen Zhaodi's fast attack skills are skilled, outstanding defensive skills, extremely fast response on the court, bouncing ability is also very good, in the "Bayi" volleyball team for only two years, she was selected into the national volleyball training team, included in Yuan Weimin's command.
In the women's volleyball national team, Chen Zhaodi played the position of second pass and receiver in the team, and was a main player of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Chen Zhaodi's performance in the team has always been very good.
In recent years, the foundation of perseverance laid by hard training, coupled with the high-level command and coordination of coach Yuan Weimin of the national team, Chen Zhaodi's volleyball level is even more daily, and it has become a well-known role in China.
Speaking of Chen Zhaodi's queuing career, we have to mention the highlight moment of the "five consecutive championships" of the Chinese women's volleyball team, she is also a witness and participant in the glorious era of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
The first world championship of the Chinese women's volleyball team was also earned by Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang, Chen Zhaodi and other core members of the Chinese women's volleyball team under the leadership of Coach Yuan Weimin.
It was also from this time that the world women's queue began to enter the "Chinese era".
At the World Championships in Peru, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the host team with an excellent result of 3-0 and won the world championship for the first time.
At the Los Angeles Olympics, China played against the United States team and finally won the "triple crown" with a result of 3-0.
At the Tokyo World Cup, the Chinese women's volleyball team defeated the Cuban team 3-1, and at this time, the whole of China was boiling, which was a brilliant record unprecedented in history.
At the former World Championships in Czechoslovakia, the Chinese women's volleyball team finally won the championship with an outstanding record of 8 wins and 8 wins, becoming the first team in the history of world volleyball to win the "five consecutive championships".
Since the 1990s, due to the retirement of Lang Ping, Liang Yan and other famous players, the Chinese women's volleyball team has a phenomenon of inadequacy, and for a long time after that, the performance of the Chinese women's volleyball team began to stagnate, and there was a phenomenon of downhill ashes.
The brilliant achievements of the Chinese women's volleyball team's "five consecutive championships" have made the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team become the banner of that era, and also written a myth of Chen Zhaodi and the Chinese women's volleyball team.
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Due to the excessive intensity of hard training for a long time, Chen Zhaodi fell ill at a young age.
In a World Cup battlefield between the Chinese and Japanese women's volleyball team, in the third round, Chen Zhaodi and Sun Jinfang accidentally sprained their waists when passing the ball, but at that time she did not flinch, still insisted on finishing the whole game without a sound.
Because she did not receive timely treatment, this low back injury accompanied her for a lifetime, and she was often in excruciating pain on weekdays, and often even walked hard when the weather was cold.
Chen Zhaodi stumbled all the way, because of this large and small patient, Chen Zhaodi could not continue to struggle on the front line of the court, and began to go to the General Political Affairs Bureau of Culture and Sports to start behind-the-scenes work.
Even so, Chen Zhaodi loves the motherland, loves China's sports cause, and loves the heart of the Chinese women's volleyball team that has never changed.
It is said that Yao Ming, Wang Zhizhi and Battle were called the "Mobile Great Wall of China", and they were the most talented teams in the Chinese men's basketball industry in the past few decades, of which Wang Zhizhi's achievements were the most famous.
Wang Zhizhi
Wang Zhizhi represented China in the Olympic Games at the age of nineteen, known as the "wind-chasing teenager", and he is also The first Chinese China to land in the NBA world.
Wang Zhizhi is the main player of the Chinese men's basketball team.
In accordance with the agreement between the Chinese men's basketball team and foreign teams that year, Wang Zhizhi should obey the regulations of the national team and return to China in time to participate in training as required, and then continue to participate in world competitions as a Chinese representative.
However, at that time, wang Zhizhi was always stranded in the United States under various pretexts for personal reasons, overdue, and even interrupted all channels of contact with the country, so that almost everyone in the country could not find him.
The fact that Wang Zhizhi overdue his return to China caused great repercussions and heated discussions in China at that time, when his unit was subordinate to the Cultural and Sports Bureau of the General Political Department, and Chen Zhaodi was the director at that time.
In the following three months, Chen Zhaodi has been actively doing a lot of work with Wang Zhizhi's team.
Chen Zhaodi bitterly urged the "middleman" and Wang Zhizhi's parents to return to China as soon as possible.
Chen Zhaodi and the Chinese men's basketball team have twice written to Wang Zhizhi, in which they clearly expressed the attitude of the Chinese Basketball Association.
"Although you have to dispel any concerns and return to your home country to participate in the competition, the country will not give you any punishment."
In order to avoid the arbitrary delusions and speculations of Chinese and foreign media and the majority of fans about Wang Zhizhi, Chen Zhaodi never said anything to smear Wang Zhizhi when interviewed by reporters, and clarified some of the truth between the words, leaving room for Wang Zhizhi to return to the team in the future.
In addition, in order to create a safe and relaxed external environment for Wang Zhizhi to return to the team, Chen Zhaodi has never revealed any bad news about Wang Zhizhi to the public media, which can be said to have given him enough dignity.
Chen Zhaodi has been under heavy pressure to actively maintain contact with Wang Zhizhi, and finally helped Wang Zhizhi win the opportunity to return to China, and also suppressed the punishment of Wang Zhizhi by the Chinese Basketball Association.
After nearly five years, the moment Wang Zhizhi arrived at the Beijing Capital Airport, it seemed that the wanderer who had been wandering outside for many years had finally returned home, and the mother of the motherland had also been waiting for Wang Zhizhi's return.
Unfortunately, after Wang Zhizhi returned to China, he led the Bayi men's basketball team to win the last championship in history, and after that, the Bayi team's Chinese men's basketball team completely ended.
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Chen Zhaodi said: "Winning the championship is my persistent pursuit as an athlete, and being a general is my glorious dream as the People's Liberation Army of China. ”
At the moment when the Central Military Commission approved Chen Zhaodi's promotion to the rank of major general, accepting the appointment and changing into a military uniform also meant that her dream came true at this moment.
Chen Zhaodi is the first female general to come out of the sports world, and what she has done is worthy of the four words that people call her "women's volleyball general".
She always felt that she was a soldier who had been a soldier, and a little pain on her body did not hinder her, so she could often be seen on the field with an injury, and there was a game in which she insisted on finishing the game with an injury to her left arm, so she also had another title - "One-Armed General".
Even if she retreats behind the scenes, this excellent women's volleyball player, as long as she encounters the women's volleyball team's event, even if her waist injury recurs, she will personally come to the first scene to do tactical guidance for the team members, cheering for them on the side.
Even if she can't personally fight on the battlefield, she is also supporting the cause of China's women's volleyball team in another way.
In the Beijing Olympic Games, Chen Zhaodi also worked with Song Shixiong as a commentator to explain the women's volleyball competition to the audience.
She said: "The road of the Chinese women's volleyball team in this Olympic Games is not easy, and the girls are about to face more and more opponents, which means that we have more and more difficulties, but we will all do our best to enter the Beijing Olympic Games." ”
No matter which role focuses on the Chinese women's volleyball team, Chen Zhaodi is always shining for the motherland.
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If it were not for the ruthlessness of the disease, I believe that Chen Zhaodi would definitely be able to bring greater glory to the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Previously, there were media reports that Chen Zhaodi suffered from the disease of "rectal carcinoma".
She has undergone two major surgeries in the hospital.
During Chen Zhaodi's illness, she still cared about the competition of the Chinese women's volleyball team, and she did not forget to report to the work assistant every day about the future construction and development of the Chinese women's volleyball team.
A few days after admission to the hospital, Chen Zhaodi's condition suddenly deteriorated rapidly, and her spirit sometimes improved, sometimes comatose, and the situation has been repeated.
In the hospital, her family was always by her side, never daring to leave a step, and the old teammates and fighters of the former women's queue came to visit her first.
Yuan Weimin, the head coach of the former Chinese women's volleyball team, walked at the forefront of the funeral procession and has been looking back at the team behind him frequently.
Unfortunately, Chen Zhaodi was not able to survive the last hurdle in the end.
From serious illness to critical illness, Chen Zhaodi eventually died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight due to ineffective rescue.
During the Qingming Dynasty, it rained a lot, and the early morning in Beijing still emitted cool air everywhere.
Chen Zhaodi's funeral was held on these two days.
Old teammates Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang, Zheng Haixia and others came to mourn, as well as Song Shixiong, Sun Zhengping, Hong Gang and some colleagues of the General Administration of Sports.
The Chinese women's volleyball team, which once had unlimited scenery in the world, has gathered again, but it is a pity that it is saying goodbye to Chen Zhaodi in this way.
The farewell ceremony of Chen Zhaodi's body was held in the BabaoShan East Auditorium in Beijing, and the old women's volleyball team members led the way under the leadership of Yuan Weimin.
When these people walked up to Chen Zhaodi's daughter to mourn, everyone present had long been silent.
The farewell ceremony was scheduled for around ten o'clock in the morning, and as early as eight o'clock, thousands of people were already gathered at the entrance of the auditorium.
Among them, in addition to Chen Zhaodi's relatives and friends, former comrades-in-arms and coaches, the rest are fans who spontaneously come to see him off, some local in Beijing, and many who have just come from other places in a hurry.
People's thoughts and sorrows seem to fill the air above the Babaoshan Auditorium, and people just want to quietly send the "women's volleyball general" on their last journey.
Yuan Weimin's sentence "Don't fall behind, keep up, don't cry", but also let the tears of this group of women's volleyball veterans burst the embankment instantly, only they know, this is a mantra that the coach often said when they first started training.
Chinese people will not forget you, will not forget your glory, will not forget your merits, and will not forget your efforts.
The veteran members of the women's volleyball team of the former national team also trimmed a flower ball into the shape of a volleyball.
"We want to use this volleyball-shaped flower ball to express our commemoration of Chen Zhaodi, which says the five words 'the whole of the old women's volleyball team', no matter when and where, Chen Zhaodi will always be a member of our old Chinese women's volleyball team."
Chen Zhaodi is the memory of a generation of Chinese people, but she died young, which is a major loss for the Chinese and even world volleyball community.
She has been committed to volleyball all her life, as a member of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Chen Zhaodi showed the spirit of tenacious struggle and brave climbing the peak, and personally inherited the "spirit of women's volleyball" to the world, and became the spiritual driving force for the Chinese nation to move forward.
Today, in the 21st century, the spirit of the women's volleyball team still has great value of the times.