Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo is a legendary couple in the history of China's ice and snow projects, and their sports achievements and love stories are also envied by outsiders. Let's look back at the story of the two of them together.
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Zhao Hongbo was born in September 1973, and five years later, Shen Xue was born, both from Harbin.
When Zhao Hongbo was born, his eldest brother was 17 years old, and he had 2 older sisters, and the youngest was 9 years old.
Zhao Hongbo liked to play basketball when he was a child, and was once discovered by Sun Zhiping, the coach of the skating team. Later, he proposed to Zhao Hongbo's parents to let him practice skating. At first, Zhao Hongbo's parents did not agree, and the second was that the skating team three Gu Maolu impressed Zhao Hongbo's father, Zhao Yumin.
Later, he was admitted to the sports school, and he did not have to pay for skating, and he also moved to the dormitory of the skating team.
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Shen Xue was born when Zhao Hongbo was five years old, and she was born around 3:30 a.m., when it was snowing, and her parents named it "Snow".
Shenhua was born with a very low weight, was not in good health, and often got sick. Shen Xue has been very smart since childhood, she can know more than 100 Chinese characters at the age of 3, she is quiet and not naughty.
On Shen Xue's 5th birthday, her father, Shen Jie, bought her a pair of skates as a birthday present.
When Shen Xue was in kindergarten, the husband of a female teacher was a skating coach in an amateur sports school, and Shen Jie wanted to improve Shen Xue's physical fitness, and once the female teacher went to Wang Jin's shop to buy things.
Shen Jie mentioned to her that he wanted his daughter to exercise and follow a piece to practice skating. At that time, Shen Xue was particularly thin, and Shen Jie took her to an icy football field the next day to meet the coach, the coach felt that the child was too weak, but seeing Shen Jie's enthusiasm, he decided to let Shen Xue try for three months.
Shen Xue trained hard and eventually became one of the 46 children who stayed. At the age of 9, she officially entered the Harbin Sports School and received formal skating training, when he was the youngest student in the school.
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Mention Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo, always Shen Xue in the front, Zhao Hongbo in the back, the two partners impression Shen Xue is more important, Zhao Hongbo is the man behind her.
But in fact, Zhao Hongbo is very high at the starting point of pair skating, he participated in the amateur group competition, defeated the professional group to win the 500 meters speed skating championship. In another competition, he won four titles. By 1992, 19-year-old Zhao Hongbo was already a local hero. He teamed up with his first partner, Xie Maomao, to win the quadrennial National Winter Games double skating championship.
When Zhao Hongbo was 13 years old, Li Yaoming wanted Zhao Hongbo to change to a pair skater, and later Zhao Hongbo studied under the famous coach Yao Bin. In 1991, when Zhao Hongbo and Mao Mao went to Russia to participate in the World Youth Championships, they stayed there for six months, and Mao Mao, because he loved to eat potatoes, his weight increased rapidly, resulting in the inability to skate with Zhao Hongbo in pairs.
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In order to find a new partner for Zhao Hongbo, Shen Xue, 14, had the opportunity to partner with Zhao Hongbo in 1992.
Shen Xue was not in good health when he was a child and was prone to illness. Parents let Shen Xue practice skating in order to enhance his physique. At the age of 12, Shen Xue's body began to develop, which made him encounter a bottleneck in his skating career, and she felt that the single event might not be strong enough, and wanted to change to double skating.
At this time, Zhao Hongbo was also looking for a new partner, and Shenhua also intended to slide up to the double.
In 1992, Yao Bin found more than 100 girls for Zhao Hongbo, Shen Xue was less than 1.5 meters tall at the time, and Zhao Hongbo saw that Shen Xue still had a disdainful face: "Try it, practice for a month first." ”
This year, Zhao Hongbo was 19 years old and Shenhua was 14 years old, when the two had different developments, and when they first met, they felt a big gap. Shen Xue trained hard to partner with Zhao Hongbo, and it took her 3 years to catch up with Zhao Hongbo's level.
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The two worked together for four months before competing in the National Championships, where the two won the championship. In 1993, the two teams won the silver medal in the Asian Cup pair skating, which strengthened the confidence of the two to work together.
At the 1996 World Figure Skating Championships in Edmonton, Canada, although the two only ranked fifteenth, their performances were loved by the audience, so that Mr. Gagia, president of the French Figure Skating Association, asserted at the time: "Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo will definitely become world champions in the near future!" ”
The duo missed the doubles event at the 1998 Winterfield Olympics, finishing fifth at the time. At the 1999 World Championships, the duo won the silver medal in pair skating. He was the silver medalist of the competition in 2000 and the bronze medal in 2001. They have the strength to win the championship in the World Series, which is also a thick accumulation.
Due to the monopoly of European and American players in this project, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo changed their thinking and began to pay attention to the power of artistic expression from focusing on difficulty, and the two began to train "Turandot", and finally made the two gold medalists at the World Championships. At the 2002 World Championships, the duo won the gold medal at the World Championships with Turandot.
On March 21, 2007, at the World Figure Skating Championships in Tokyo, Japan, Shen Xue/Zhao Hongbo won the third World Championships of their careers with a perfect performance. At the end of the song, Zhao Hongbo fell on one knee and openly proposed to Shen Xue, and the couple finally came together after holding hands for 15 years.
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After Zhao Hongbo successfully proposed to Shenhua, the two left the project for two years. In 2010, the two married, and the two came back to complete their Olympic gold medal dream.
At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo chose the free skating background music "Adajiu" to win the first pair of pairs skating in Chinese history, this year Zhao Hongbo was 37 years old, Shen Xue was also 32 years old, the two were the oldest pair of pair skating in the history of the Winter Olympics, and created a new scoring record of 216.57 points. Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo finally joined hands for 18 years, a dream of Olympic gold medal.
On May 13, 2013, the Winter Sports Management Center officially announced the list of the new figure skating national team, and Zhao Hongbo was the head coach of the new figure skating national team pair skating. For figure skating, Zhao Hongbo said: "The first half of my life was dedicated to figure skating, and I don't think I will leave it for the rest of my life." I hope I can do it, I want to be a great coach like Yao Bin. (End)