Yang Shuyu (right) and sister Yang Liwei.
"See you at the top, don't forget your original intention, and hope for good luck!"
Before the Chinese women's basketball team went to Tokyo, Yang Shuyu posted a photo with his sister Yang Liwei on Weibo. This Weibo quickly received 99,000 likes.
It is not uncommon for sisters to play in the Olympic games, but the sisters Yang Shuyu and Yang Liwei jointly participated in the Olympic women's basketball field, but they are still full of stories.
As early as March this year, she has become a "treasure girl" for netizens; standing on the stage of the Olympic Games, this 19-year-old girl has brought many surprises: shaking down the opponent's basket successfully, three-point projection to see the blood seal throat, Yang Shuyu has become a "common guest" in hot search.
In the face of many applause, Yang Shuyu first thought of the team, "The motherland needs me, I will definitely play!" Please pay more attention to the three-person basketball, pay more attention to the women's basketball team, we also have a lot of ornamentation! ”
When she stood on the Olympic podium, she had fulfilled her promise and now waited for her sister to realize her dream.
The sisters as children.
I have a name, not Yang Liwei's sister
If Yang Shuyu had to choose the most hated sentence, she would probably choose the one that she had heard from childhood, "This is Yang Liwei's sister." ”
As one of the main defenders of the Chinese women's basketball team, Yang Liwei has been famous for a long time, and Yang Shuyu, who is 7 years younger than Yang Liwei, hears the name of his sister the most.
I don't know when, when others call her "Yang Liwei sister", she will always feel uncomfortable in her heart. So the family will deliberately avoid such a description, but still can not avoid such a voice.
"Sometimes the coach, or the coach's friend, says, 'This is Livy's sister,' and she says, 'I have my own name.'" ”
Yang Shuyu is 7 years younger than Yang Liwei, and 7 years old is the age when Yang Liwei went from Kunming to Guangzhou Weilun School to study basketball.
The sisters come from a sports family, their grandparents are athletes, and their father is a football player.
Yang Liwei represented the Chinese women's basketball team in the Olympic Games.
The sports atmosphere of the family has allowed Yang Liwei to be "free-ranged" since she was a child, and she has also learned to be independent at a young age. So in 2002, when Yang Liwei said to his father, "Dad, I want to play basketball", his father agreed, "She likes, we will give support, you can let her exercise." ”
1300 kilometers from Kunming to Guangzhou, Yang Liwei embarked on a basketball journey alone, living in school, learning ball, and handling big and small affairs alone.
However, Yang Liwei did not have long to drift, and the next year the whole family moved to Guangzhou, but at this time Yang Liwei had a younger sister Yang Shuyu.
Unlike his active sister, Yang Shuyu has a quieter personality, but the family's sports genes are innate, and the 100-meter gold medalist in the primary school sports meeting is coming.
But when her sister practices balling, Yang Shuyu will naturally be asked whether she wants to play, and she is always very resistant, "I don't like it." ”
It wasn't until the fifth grade that a friend of Yang's father asked Yang Shuyu how he was willing to practice basketball, and Yang Shuyu, who was having fun with the puppy at the time, proposed, "Send me a puppy." ”
The friend sent the dog to Yang's house the next day, and Yang Shuyu also fulfilled his promise and went to the Weilun basketball team where his sister had sweated.
Handsome Yang Shuyu.
Stubborn, the two are very similar
In appearance, the sisters are now short-haired and handsome in appearance. But if there is any place where the sisters are most similar, it may be that stubbornness.
Yang Liwei has lived in sports school since he was a child, and he chooses to carry everything himself. When he was a child, Yang Liwei was injured in training, and a total of 31 stitches were stitched on his arms and legs. "The coach called us and said he had come to see Livy, but he didn't say anything, but Livy told us not to use it, we were busy with us." Yang's father recalled.
The Yang family, who thought there was no major incident, did not find the time until a month later, "At that time, the lines were all removed, the child's mother cried when she saw the wound, and Li Wei was still comforting us." ”
What is even more unexpected is that Yang Liwei did not go to the regular hospital to get anesthesia at that time, but carried it raw, "Two doctors sewed at the same time, and the teammates next to him insisted on coming!" It's hard to believe now! "As a father, Father Yang is both distressed and admired.
And this stubbornness also runs through Yang Liwei's career - 35 points lost to Japan at the 2015 Asian Championship, Yang Liwei personally experienced; in 2016, Yang Liwei had to operate on his ankle and missed the Rio Olympics; in 2017, he was repeatedly injured and lost the Asian Cup at the last minute; in 2019, he received a formal guarantee contract from the WNBA Sparks team, and Yang Liwei, who was preparing for the Olympic window, chose to give up the latter...
But even with so many setbacks, Yang Liwei can get back up every time. She once said in an interview: "I think people live this life, to be themselves, to be their favorite self, not to waste time." ”
Taking the bronze medal, this is the roar of Yang Shuyu (left).
The same is true of her younger sister Yang Shuyu, because she is exposed to formal training later than her classmates in school, Yang Shuyu has a harder time starting, and the stubbornness in her personality always makes her confidence frustrated.
When she was 14 years old, Yang Shuyu suffered a foot injury and needed to recover from an injury for a year, and she always worried that she would not be able to play the ball when she wore protective boots every day.
"Because of the injury, I failed to carry out a complete training for a year, and I felt that I couldn't keep up with it after returning to the team," recalling the feelings at that time, Yang Shuyu was very tormented, "I can feel the obvious gap, I am particularly tired, my mentality is very broken, I am quite depressed, and I don't want to practice a psychological state." ”
But the stubborn Yang Shuyu said lightly, "Later, I also actively adjusted my mentality, slowly from the substitute to the main force, in short, things are getting better and better." ”
But such struggles may just be too demanding of themselves. Yang Shuyu, who officially began training in 2013, represented the national youth in the U18 Asian Youth Championship in only 5 years. In the same year, at the age of 16, she was promoted to the Dongguan Xintongsheng Women's Basketball Team, and in the sixth round of the game, she hit 5 three-pointers and scored 17 points.
When she became a member of the three-person women's basketball team at the age of 19, in an interview with Tencent Sports, Yang Shuyu said: "The outside world will use some keywords such as 'young general' and 'young', but I want to say that young does not mean childish, and I will go all out." ”
The stubbornness in his words is exactly the same as that of his sister.
Yang Shuyu's family.
Open a small stove, sisters' mutual help
Although Yang Shuyu did not like the title of "Yang Liwei's sister" when she was a child, she was deeply influenced by her sister when she embarked on the road of basketball.
When he first started practicing, Yang Shuyu could not keep up with the rhythm of training, and once came close to giving up basketball, and the persuasion of his parents did not work. At this time, Yang Shuyu suddenly made a phone call to his home and made a request, "Dad, can I get the key to the stadium with the coach?" I want to go to practice with my two sisters in the evening. ”
Such a reverse transfer Yang Dad was quite surprised, after asking, he learned that Yang Shuyu's additional training content was from his sister Yang Liwei - Yang Liwei, who had entered the national team at that time, recorded some of the essentials and details of the action into a video, and gave his sister "open a small stove".
Sister Yang Liwei's own physical fitness is quite outstanding, speed, bounce, balance are excellent, but even Yang's father admitted, "My sister's talent is better." ”
Yang Shuyu is not afraid of confrontation.
When 16-year-old Yang Shuyu was promoted to the first team, the sisters had more time to communicate with each other. "After the team's normal training, my sister would often do secret special training for me, which for me was devil training. Whether it is technical or mental, she can bring me and coach a different experience. ”
With the help of his sister, the leader, Yang Shuyu made rapid progress.
"She will teach me some of the secrets she has accumulated in her own usual competitions, and when she trains, she is also very strict with me, we usually rest, she often takes me to train, even now, every time she says that she wants to practice, I feel like my head is going to explode." 」
In front of Yang Shuyu, Yang Liwei is more like a demanding parent. Yang's father described the two as follows, "The sisters sometimes have a 'cold war' because her sister will criticize her, but the reason why her sister does this is because she hopes that the detours she has taken on the basketball road and the problems she encounters can be avoided by her sister." ”
So when a group of main players such as Yang Liwei and Li Yueru exchanged to the Inner Mongolia women's basketball team in the 2020-2021 season, Yang Shuyu seized the opportunity to quickly become the main force of the Guangdong Xintongsheng women's basketball team. After each game, the sisters will video connect to talk about the gains and losses of the game and training.
Yang Shuyu broke through to the layup.
Don't forget your original intention, meet at the top
In order to prepare for the Olympic games, her sister Yang Liwei gave up the opportunity to go to the WNBA; in order to concentrate on the game, her sister Yang Shuyu chose to stay away from more troubles.
Yang Liwei is an extremely hard-working player, every time he talks about what influence his sister has on himself, Yang Shuyu's words will definitely have these words, "hard work" and "willing to suffer".
Although Yang Liwei, who is a very romantic family, loves to run home without competition, even at home, most of them are spent in the training hall. According to Yang's father's words, "It's hard to take a holiday, people have not yet arrived in Kunming, the training hall has already made an appointment." ”
Yang Liwei, who always hangs "I'm going to train" on his lips, always has a surprising degree of self-discipline. Look at the abs posted on her Weibo, you know the degree of Yang Liwei's efforts. When Yang's father advised her to rest, Yang Liwei would say, "Dad, this is the basic quality of professional players, as long as they do not retire, training cannot be stopped." ”
Under the influence of his eyes, Yang Shuyu also understood the importance of meditation.
For basketball, Yang Shuyu cut off his long hair.
In order to prepare for the Olympics, Yang Shuyu, who originally had long hair, cut a short hair, which is the "standard" in the three-person women's basketball team. It is also the handsome appearance of short hair that makes Yang Shuyu popular on the Internet.
When business endorsements ensued, she chose to avoid them. Yang's father recalled in an interview with Tencent Sports, "She turned off social media for a week or two, saying that it would affect training, and then there were eight or nine brands to talk about cooperation with her, and she cut it off, did not want to distract her attention, and had to prepare for the game wholeheartedly." ”
When the reporter asked about the fans during the Olympic Games, Yang Shuyu first thought of the team, "Thank you for your support, the motherland needs me, I will definitely play!" Please pay more attention to the three-person basketball, pay more attention to the women's basketball team, we also have a lot of ornamentation! ”
Before the expedition, Yang Shuyu called out to his sister, "See you at the summit, don't forget your original heart, I hope good luck!" Today, Yang Shuyu has stood on the Olympic podium, and Yang Liwei and the Chinese women's basketball team are moving towards a higher goal...
Author: Hu Jie, trainee reporter of The Paper
Source: The Paper