In the Field of the Tokyo Olympic Games, everyone saw Guo Jingjing, who retired for 10 years. Guo Jingjing played the Olympic Games again after 13 years away from the Olympic arena, and her identity was not an athlete but a referee. Now Guo Jingjing is a member of the Diving Technical Committee, and her job at the Olympic Games is to score referees to see if the refereeing process is reasonable and whether the deduction is appropriate.
In addition to Guo Jingjing, there are also 2 former diving team athletes who serve as referees to score athletes. One is Chen Ruolin, the diving queen after the 90s, and the other is Rao Lang, who has won the world runner-up in diving. Chen Ruolin has 3 years of referee experience, and Rao Lang is the only Chinese diving referee in the Beijing Olympic Games.
The Chinese national team also accompanied the team by Liu Guoliang, chairman of the Chinese Table Tennis Association, and Ma Lin, coach of the national table tennis team, and the two were sometimes relaxed and sometimes nervous on the stage. Watching the players fiercely clash for medals, the two also rubbed shoulders. When they saw the gold and silver medals being pocketed and the two players competing in the final, the two chatted easily.
Liu Guoliang was a former Grand Slam winner and served as the head coach of the Chinese national team for a time after retiring. Marlene has won the Olympic Championship twice and the World Cup four times, and both were once the souls of the Chinese national table tennis team. Now they continue to shine for the national team and cultivate talents after retiring.
Among the people who explained the game, we also saw a former women's volleyball player Li Ying, who participated in the women's volleyball competition with the team members in 2001 and won the championship. After retiring from the military, she served as a female volleyball commentator, and in this Tokyo Olympic Games, she appeared in the rear studio to serve as a commentator with Sun Yaopeng and others.
Whether it is Guo Jingjing, Chen Ruolin and Rao Lang who are referees, Ma Lin who is the coach, Liu Guoliang who leads the team, or Li Ying, who appears in the commentary seat, they have all been the best among the athletes, and even if they change their identity, they still play their important role and sweat on the field.
Let's take a look at 12 athletes who can still do well in business.
01 Li Ning
Li Ning is one of the earliest athletes to transform into a businessman, and one of them is also a very successful one. The sporting goods company named after him is currently valued at 40 billion yuan, although not the highest in the sporting goods industry, it is also one of the best.
Li Ning is known as the first generation of "gymnastics prince", after retiring in 1989, he founded the "Li Ning" brand, and founded a company that not only invested in sporting goods, but also e-sports clubs. At the 2008 Olympic Games, he lit the main torch as the last torchbearer, and the Li Ning brand debuted as an international brand at New York Fashion Week in February 2018.
In February 2021, Li Ning talked about his family life in an interview program, he and his wife are both members of the national team, i temperament is his sister, the love between the two is very simple. The two faced the problem of not having children, and after 6 years of marriage, they had a son Li Xiaoning in 1999, and in 2006, their wife gave birth to a daughter Li Xiaoyan.
02 03 Li Xiaoshuang, Li Dashuang
Gymnastics business is also the twin brothers Li Xiaoshuang and Li Dashuang, the brothers have been in the national team at the same time, Li Dashuang won the world championship all-around, Li Xiaoshuang in the national team 3 in 2 out has always been a legend, he won the only gymnastics gold medal for the Chinese team in the 1992 Olympic Games, and won the individual all-around gold medal at the 1996 Olympic Games.
In 1996, Li Xiaoshuang and Li Dashuang started a company. In 2000, Li Xiaoshuang Sporting Goods Co., Ltd. was established. Li Xiaoshuang was not as lucky as Li Ning, and his business process was also frustrated, reducing the number of stores from 36 to 26 in 2008. In 2017, Li Ning and former head coach Huang Yubin visited Li Xiaoshuang's sports city together, and the two generations of gymnastics princes were in the same frame.
He and his wife, Zhang Bening, married in 2003, when her wife said she would let her children learn gymnastics in the future. After his brother Li Dashuang divorced his ex-wife, he married actor Li Lin in 2012. At that time, It was Li Lin's agent who announced the wedding news. After that, Li Lin released her wedding photos. Neither of the 47-year-old brothers had children, and their company grew well. In 2016, the registered capital of the company was 100 million yuan.
04 Zhuang Yong
Zhuang Yong won the first swimming gold medal for China in 1992, the 100m freestyle champion, beating the world record holder at the time, and Chuang Yong chose to retire a year later. Zhuang Yong married Shen Jianqiang, who was also a member of the Shanghai swimming team, in 2003, and won five gold medals at the 1990 Asian Games.
Both husband and wife have successful careers, Zhuang Yong has entered the show business circle, also worked as a host, in 1998 into the business world to create an outdoor advertising company. The husband runs his own swimming club. Zhuang Yong runs a company that has grown rapidly, raising more than $70 million in three rounds in 2013, and was acquired by New Culture for 1.2 billion yuan in 2014, making Zhuang Yong a billionaire.
05 06 Xiao Hailiang Yang Wei
In June 2020, Wuhan hosted the Diving World Cup, and champions such as Zhou Jihong, Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia, xiao Hailiang and other champions gathered in Wuhan. Xiao Hailiang is not very familiar with many people, he was also an Olympic champion, after retiring as a principal of the provincial diving school, in 2004 switched to selling red wine, and became the owner of the first batch of wine companies in Wuhan.
Xiao Hailiang ended the wine business in 2016 and returned to the sports industry he was familiar with, setting up a sporting goods company. He was joined by Gymnastics Olympic champion Yang Wei and race walking Olympic champion Wang Liping. The company is involved in sports enlightenment, sports venues and sporting events.
In 2007, Yang Wei married his girlfriend Yang Yun, who retired in 2004. In 2008, Yang Wei married his fiancée Yang Yun in Sanya after winning the gymnastics all-around gold medal at the Beijing Olympics, and the following year had a son, Yang Wenchang, after which Yang Yun gave birth to twin daughters. Five years after his retirement, Yang Wei obtained an international refereeing license and appeared at the World Championships as a referee.
07 08 Wang Liping Xing Aowei
Wang Liping won the women's 20 km race walk at the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. After retiring in 2005, she transformed into an investor and established a sports investment fund with Olympic champion Xing Aowei and others, with an initial scale of 50 million. Xing Aowei is the gymnastics team's world champion and Olympic champion, and entered the investment world with Wang Liping in 2015.
09 Zou Shiming
Zou Shiming, a two-time Olympic champion, set up a company with his wife in April 2021, which includes sports competition organization, sports brokerage, information consulting services, etc. Public information shows that the company is jointly held by Zou Shiming and Ran Yingying, with a registered capital of 1 million.
In the variety show, we have seen Ran Yingying holding a child in one hand and cooking with the other hand, which is very powerful. She gave birth to three sons for Zou Shiming, the eldest son has now joined the national horse team, the younger son also has the opportunity to learn boxing with his father, the youngest son has the surname of his mother, and the family of four is sweet and happy.
10 11 Lin Dan, Xie Xingfang
Recently, Xie Xingfang posted a video of Lin Dan swimming with his son, and also joked that he would not become a world champion, which made everyone suspect that Lin Dan Xie Xingfang and his wife might choose to let their son learn to swim instead of badminton. Lin Dan once said that xiao yu was not allowed to learn badminton, and there was too much pressure on such a father.
In July 2020, the 39-year-old Lin Dan announced his retirement, ending his 20-year national team career. If it were not for the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, Lin Dan would most likely participate in another Olympic Games. He has won the Olympic men's singles championship twice and the men's singles championship of the World Championships twice, and is a well-deserved king of Chinese badminton.
He is also a highly wealthy athlete in sports, holding up to 20 endorsements at the most. The couple invested in a café in 2016, then launched a personal underwear brand and opened a sporting goods company with Xie Xingfang. After Lin Dan retired, Xie Xingfang unveiled the badminton education and training base, and the couple's desire to promote badminton was also realized.
12 Hui Ruoqi
After the women's volleyball team defeated Italy, former women's volleyball captain Hui Ruoqi praised the competition. In April 2018, Hui Ruoqi announced her marriage after retiring from the army, and later participated in the movie "Win the Championship". In June 2021, Hui Ruoqi's agent announced that she had given birth to a daughter.
Don't look at Hui Ruoqi retired for 3 years, but she is not idle, and she is still planning her own arrangements after retirement. In December 2017, she began to learn to integrate into society before she officially retired from the army. In 2020, she decided to start a business after visiting many places. Pregnant with Liujia, she also attends team meetings. In 2021, the 3,500-square-meter stadium opened in Xiamen.
Hui Ruoqi's idea of starting a business has taken shape since 2016, and she also feels very stressed, after all, she is an athlete who has won the Olympic championship. For her, how to survive in new areas is also very brain-intensive. While taking care of children, running a company, and studying for a doctorate at Nanjing Normal University, she is busy and fulfilling.
Conclusion
Seeing that so many champions can usher in the second spring of their careers even after retiring, most of them choose to continue to stay in the sports industry, some are education and training, some are opening venues, and some people are investing. From Li Ning to the current Hui Ruoqi, each has their own persistence and dreams.
From a website, it can be seen that basketball player Yi Jianlian opened his own cultural and sports education company, and he and his teammate Wang Shipeng founded a basketball training camp many years ago. Although Sun Yang was absent from this year's Olympic Games, he is also laying out his career, studying for a doctorate in sports, and also registered 5 companies, involving multiple fields.
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