At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, everyone remembered the figure who wore a red flag to the audience after winning the 5,000-meter race, and she made history at that moment, winning the first gold medal in the Long Run of the Chinese team at the Olympic Games, and later people called her - the Oriental Sacred Deer.
1. Rural girls
In 1973, in a poor rural family in Jilin Province, a lovely girl was born, and the family named her Wang Junxia, and no one could have imagined that this young girl born in an ordinary rural family would become an Olympic champion in the future.
Wang Junxia's parents often go to the field to work, so Wang Junxia understands things very early, and can live independently at a very young age, although the school is far from home, but Wang Junxia insists on walking and running to school every day, maybe a bicycle is not expensive, but for a rural family at that time, it was still a big burden.
Unexpectedly, running and running, Wang Junxia gradually developed a good physique, and showed her talent for long-distance running, in 1988, Wang Junxia represented her school to participate in the city's primary and secondary school students' games, did not expect a blockbuster, in the absence of professional guidance training, ran out of 4 minutes and 58 seconds of results, among peers appeared to be very top-notch.
Excellent performance will naturally attract the attention of Dalian Sports School, they sent people to bring Wang Junxia to the test, but the results of the test are not satisfactory, they think that although Wang Junxia has a lot of hard work, but the physical condition is still not a small gap, probably the situation at home is difficult, resulting in some malnutrition, so the coaches are not optimistic about her, and in the trial training, Wang Junxia, who has not been guided, is difficult to complete the training action, and it is difficult to keep up with the daily training volume, so they dissuade Wang Junxia from retiring.
But Wang Junxia did not give up, this time the blow turned into her motivation, after a period of exercise, she successfully won the second chance to enter the sports school, in this test, she performed extremely well, and in the training was appreciated by Coach Wang Shizhong, he believes that the traditional training method may not be suitable for this girl, he decided to let Wang Junxia run happily and easily, under such encouragement, Wang Junxia seems to find her own rhythm and win the championship of various competitions many times.
2. High pressure training
In 1991, Wang Junxia, who performed well, was selected by the famous domestic coach Ma Junren, and after training, she achieved good results in the city-wide games at that time, and was appreciated by the coach of the Liaoning Provincial Athletics Team at the time, so Wang Junxia began to follow Ma Junren for a new round of training.
But compared to coach Wang Shizhong, Ma Junren is much stricter, the personality is also relatively bad, not only the training task is heavy, and the management of life is also very strict, he does not allow the team members to fall in love, long hair, and even reading are prohibited by him, but in such high-pressure training, the team members have indeed achieved very significant results, when Ma Junren led the track and field team won the championship in various domestic competitions, and repeatedly broke the record, maintained indisputable results, and even a number of achievements broke the world record.
Ma Junren
In this year, the 7th National Games was held as scheduled, and this year's women's athletics qualifiers, a girl successfully won the women's 10,000 meters, and broke the Asian record in this competition, this girl is Wang Junxia. In the same year, in the World Cup marathon, she beat her opponent to win the championship trophy; and broke the world record three times in the National Games, by which time she has become a miracle.
But behind such an aura of honor, it is the torture brought by the pain, Wang Junxia is not in good health, the long-term high-pressure training makes her unbearable, the 50-kilometer long run during winter training is comparable to hell for Wang Junxia, the sun on the Qinghai Plateau is exposed to skin blisters, and finally Wang Junxia can't stand the high-pressure training and decides to leave Ma Junren.
After leaving training, Wang Junxia fell into a low point, athletes without the guidance of a coach, it is difficult to maintain their own training state, just when Wang Junxia is about to give up, coach Mao Dezhen offered to help her train.
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At that time, Mao Dezhen did not understand Wang Junxia, and could only use a variety of training methods to test, one of which was tied to Wang Junxia's body with 12 balloons to increase resistance, and pinched off one after each lap, although this training method was also very tiring, but compared to Ma Junren's hands, it was already easy.
3. The sacred deer won the championship
In 1996, Wang Junxia and Mao Dezhen led the coaching team, representing China in the Atlanta Olympic Games, for this quadrennial sports event, Wang Junxia herself attaches great importance to it, she wants to prove herself through this worldwide competition, but also to thank the coach of Mao Dezhen for his comeback, but before the start of the game, Wang Junxia appeared serious insubordination, not only diarrhea, but also fever, but she and the coaching team were afraid of affecting morale, not as revealed by the outside world.
At that time, Wang Junxia signed up for the 5000 meters and 10000 meters of competition, due to the reasons of water and soil dissatisfaction, the coaching team decided to let Wang Junxia give up the 5000 meters after discussion, and put the focus on her own strengths of 10000 meters, but Wang Junxia refused, she felt that she should fight, in order not to give her pressure, the coaching team agreed to her request, and told her that although she went to run, the results were not important.
After letting go of the psychological burden, Wang Junxia slept the most comfortable sleep after coming to Atlanta, and the state recovered a lot, and the time also came to July 28, 1996, today, is the day when Wang Junxia played 5,000 meters.
After the starting gun sounded, Wang Junxia began to run, in the first half of the game, Wang Junxia has been in the team, there is no sign of winning the championship, but at this moment no one thinks, Wang Junxia's mind is very clear, she listens to the wind whistling in her ears, the cheers of the crowd, she knows that at this moment she is getting closer and closer to her dream, and if you want to touch the gold medal, you must be calm! Adjust your breathing, slow down your steps, and regain your rhythm!
In such a fierce chase, eight minutes have passed, the focus of the competition has become the competition between the first and second two players, and one of them is Wang Junxia, in the last few hundred meters, Wang Junxia seems to see that the gold medal is already beckoning to herself, she clenched her teeth and tightened her muscles to start the final sprint, five hundred meters, three hundred meters, one hundred meters, finally, Wang Junxia successfully surpassed the opponent from Kenya, although she was a little nervous, but her face was as usual, only in this way could she win the psychological battle with the opponent, Perhaps seeing Wang Junxia's determination, perhaps overwhelmed by Wang Junxia's belief in victory, or perhaps conquered by Wang Junxia's strength, Kenyan runners are getting farther and farther away from her, and in the end, she is the first to cross the finish line.
At this time, everyone did not expect that Wang Junxia would actually win the championship in the 5000 meters field, which was not the project she was best at, the incident occurred suddenly, the coaching team was not even prepared for the national flag, when Wang Junxia jogged along the track to resume, the audience handed her the national flag, which had a classic scene of wearing a national flag.
In the later 10,000 meters event, although she did not win the gold medal, she still won the silver medal with the second place, and the income of one gold and one silver made her known as the "Oriental Sacred Deer" by the audience at home and abroad.
4. Get back to life
After the Olympic Games, everyone thought that Wang Junxia would continue to fight, because at this time she was in the golden age, if she maintained a good state, it was likely to win the gold medal again, perhaps the high-intensity training made her tired, or perhaps she lost the goal of winning the Olympic gold medal, and finally Wang Junxia chose to retire.
After retiring from the army, like many of her peers, she also began to look forward to her love life, in 1997, under the introduction of friends, Wang Junxia met the football player Zhan Yu, although at first the two were not very satisfied, but after a period of time together, the two still chose to get married. But Wang Junxia's married life is not happy, although they have a child, but Zhan Yu is very cold to Wang Junxia, maybe this is the seven-year itch of love, and finally after nine years of marriage, Wang Junxia can't stand the unresponsive efforts and chooses to divorce.
Later Wang Junxia got to know her second husband Huang Tiantian, in 2008, the two who got along well got married and went to live in the United States, but Huang Tiantian was very strict with Wang Junxia, as if treating her as his own personal belongings, not only restricting her to get along with friends, living expenses were also very small, the most unbearable thing is that Huang Tiantian actually installed a monitor at home to monitor his wife, such a constraint makes Wang Junxia tired, As a former oriental sacred deer, how can it be a canary in a cage? So the two divorced unsurprisingly. After marriage, Wang Tiantian still did not let go of Wang Junxia, he wrote a book to recall his wife, he said that the content he wrote was warm and true, absolutely not for the purpose of hurting others, but most of the books were accusing Wang Junxia, which brought more harm and pain to Wang Junxia.
Wang Junxia, who has lost two failed marriages, may no longer believe in love, but at this time, Li Huiyang's appearance saves her.
When they met, Li Huiyang did not know that Wang Junxia was the world champion, they were like ordinary couples, typing and chatting every day, not even voice video, Wang Junxia felt that maybe this man really loved himself, not his own champion aura.
So the two people fell in love in the daily chat, Li Huiyang carefully took care of her to make her feel warm, in 2005, the two held a wedding, at the wedding, both people held a handicraft deer, Wang Junxia's face smile was bright as light, at this moment, she seemed to have become the oriental sacred deer many years ago.
The married life of the two is also very happy, the two have a son, Li Huiyang never forced her in life, the life of the two people goes with nature, just like ordinary couples, Wang Junxia, who has faded the aura of the champion, is still very happy under the care of her husband.
Wang Junxia also got along well with her children, she took herself and her ex-husband's children with her, and let them all recognize Li Huiyang as her father, and the children also inherited her athletic talents, but Wang Junxia never forced them to train, but let them choose their own preferences, and she always believed that interest was the best teacher.
Now she still maintains the habit of running and exercising, and insists on running 12 kilometers every day, rain or shine. Not only do she like to run, but also like to discuss with running enthusiasts on social platforms, share her running skills, guide everyone to the correct running posture, and answer the questions raised by everyone carefully and carefully, and the avatar of her social platform is the photo of herself wearing the national flag.
Looking back on her life, it seems that she is running every moment, perhaps in her blood, she has long been left with the gene of running, and only in running is she the real self, the oriental sacred deer that was radiant and made countless people proud.