These days, the Beijing Winter Paralympic Games are in full swing, with Chinese winter Paralympic athletes winning gold and silver, setting records repeatedly, letting the five-star red flag fly high on the podium again and again, and the march of the volunteer army sounding over and over again at the awards site, which makes people tearful.
At this moment, under the Golden Mountain Corridor, a Golden Mountain Paralympic champion who once had the same experience sat in front of the TV set and witnessed the feats of the Winter Paralympic athletes, and his heart was full of excitement. She is the Chinese Paralympic fencer Yao Fang, who has won five medals in gold, silver and bronze at the Beijing, London and Rio Paralympic Games.
"The Beijing Winter Paralympic Games is an event held on our doorstep, and we pay more attention to it. In this Winter Paralympic Games, the mainland has developed from participating in two events in the past to participating in all six major events, which shows that our country has made great achievements in vigorously developing winter sports and promoting 300 million people to go to ice and snow activities. Yao Fang said: "Especially in these days, the winter Paralympic athletes have performed well, the success is frequent, and I am very excited to bless all the disabled athletes, but also to all disabled friends, the future is even better." ”
In 1998, 28-year-old Yao Fang was paralyzed by a car accident. Unwilling to sink into this, with the help of the District Disabled Persons' Federation, she began to train in sports for the disabled and engaged in wheelchair fencing from 2002. Soon after, she won the foil and team bronze medals at the 8th Far South Para Games in South Korea, and after that, Yao Fang joined the national wheelchair fencing team, and she set herself a goal - the Paralympic championship. At the 2008 Paralympic Games in Beijing, she finished second in two categories: Women's Foil Individual B and Epee Individual B.
In 2012, at the age of 40, she wore another outfit to participate in the London Paralympic Games, this time she lived up to expectations, winning the gold medal of women's foil B and the women's team epee gold medal. Become the first Paralympic champion in the history of Jinshan! Four years later, at the Rio Paralympic Games, she fought hard to win a bronze medal and once again won glory for the country.
Today, she is nearly half a hundred years old, serving as the part-time vice chairman of the Jinshan Disabled Persons' Federation and the vice chairman of the District Limb Association, and has organized the disabled in Jinshan District to participate in wheelchair marathons, wheelchair dances, darts and chess competitions at the municipal and district levels for many times. He was also invited to give lectures to government organs, enterprises, public institutions, schools, etc.
Because she is a retired Paralympic athlete, she is also very concerned about paralympic events. During the Tokyo Paralympic Games, she paid attention to the wheelchair fencing team's competition, watched some game videos, felt that the Chinese team was getting stronger and stronger, and cheered for them at the same time.
Yao Fang, who has tried to install a prosthesis, said, don't be afraid of any suffering and danger, although the heavens have closed a door for you, it will still open a window to the light for you.
Yao Fang said with a sentence "Hope is always on the way!" ”
Encourage friends with disabilities,
On the occasion of International Women's Day,
Also pay tribute to and inspire them to shine!
Source: i Kingsoft