On the evening of March 4, Beijing time, the Opening of the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, the final link of the opening ceremony, the Beijing Winter Paralympics official made a bold attempt to let blind athlete Li Duan light the main torch, which is a bold attempt that has never been made in previous Paralympic Games. Due to blindness, Li Duan spent a relatively long time lighting the main torch, at this time, the audience shouted "come on"! Staged a warm scene, in the end, Li Duan successfully lit the main torch!
Speaking of the role of lighting the main torch in the final stage, Li Duan said: "I am not only on behalf of myself, but on behalf of all athletes and athletes with disabilities, I want to show the spirit of self-improvement of these athletes and 85 million disabled people across the country, I am particularly excited and confident." ”
Li Duan's sports resume is rich enough, Li Duan is from the Liaoning region, played basketball since childhood, and was twice selected for the national youth team in his youth, and won the dunk championship of the national youth men's basketball team, Wang Zhizhi and Chen Ke were his teammates at that time. But in 1996, Li Duan suffered an accident and moved a fire extinguisher to clean up. The bottom of the fire extinguisher suddenly exploded, and the upper part flew up and hit him directly in the head. The accident led to Li Duan's blindness, the original bright basketball road was interrupted, and the trajectory of his life changed significantly.
But Li Duan was not crushed because of this, relying on strong willpower, quickly found the state of life after blindness, and mastered the basic knowledge of Braille in just ten days, creating the fastest learning record since the establishment of the blind school.
Later, due to the strong bouncing power that Li Duan had trained in the basketball career since he was a child, Li Duan once again had contact with the athletes and began to practice long jump. From 2000 to 2012, Li Duan participated in four Paralympic Games and won four gold medals, including the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games, li Duan set a new world record for the men's triple jump held by Spanish athletes for 10 years. At that time, Li Duan, who was in an excited mood, said: "I am really proud to sing the national anthem with 90,000 spectators. ”
If there had been no accident in 1996, Li Duan's original life would have been to play in the professional league, and he might have the opportunity to become a Chinese men's basketball national player. But the sudden arrival of the accident shattered all this, but Li Duan did not give up, he continued the story of the movement in another way, and once again put on the national team jersey, fought for the honor of the country, and became the Olympic 4 Golden King! Li Duan's strong willpower and attitude to life that does not accept defeat are worth learning. This time, the main torch of the Winter Paralympic Games was lit by Li Duan, including the light that belonged to his life!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)