Talking about the badminton king on the Chinese Olympic sports arena, the male has the big devil Lin Dan, and the corresponding badminton queen is Zhang Ning.
As a talented player in badminton, Zhang Ning was selected for the provincial team for training at the age of 12 and entered the national team at the age of 15.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, she successfully defeated her teammate Xie Xingfang with her excellent physical strength and skills, becoming the first olympic badminton women's singles gold medal.
But it is such a sports queen, after the Beijing Olympic Games, she resolutely chose to retire as a coach, ending her glorious nearly 18 years of sports career.
After retiring behind the scenes, except for the occasional news that she led the team to compete, it was basically difficult for everyone to hear the name again.
People can't help but wonder, what is Zhang Ning, who is 47 years old this year, busy with? Is she still in love with her 58-year-old German husband for nearly 10 years?
During the player period, Zhang Ning became a late bloomer
In the recently revisited TV series "Soldier Assault", Gao Cheng, the commander of many companies, said a sentence that was very impressive.
When the Seventh Company of Steel was disbanded and the company wanted to redistribute Gaocheng, he said in the farewell to the regimental commander: Precocious people are usually very late,000, and proud people are very acute.
This sentence will always be reminiscent of a word, called "late completion of the big instrument". In fact, this word is most appropriate to describe Zhang Ning.
Many people mention Zhang Ning's sharp youth, always give a thumbs up and praise, but quickly sigh that although this person has talent, it is too late to become famous, and it is not in time for the athletes to really bloom.
Indeed, as a student born in 1975, Zhang Ning showed his badminton talent at a young age, which impressed the coaches of the local sports school.
Once, the coach asked the little girl who was still in the first year of junior high school: "Have you ever had professional badminton training since you were a child?" Zhang Ning just smiled embarrassedly, saying that badminton is just her own after-school hobby, and she often has to hide from her parents to play, or should she say that she is not doing her job.
Although Zhang Ning's skills were still very young at this time, the coach with fire eyes and golden eyes saw her extraordinary and thought that she would become a great instrument in the future.
So he painstakingly persuaded Zhang Ning's parents to let her join the sports school for intensive training.
Watching the coach's sworn attitude, coupled with the daughter's soft and hard bubbles, the parents finally agreed to let her be a sports student.
Since then, Zhang Ning, the calf, has officially embarked on the right track of badminton sports.
The days of sports school were hard. There is no distinction between men and women, and there is no qualification for being lazy, only wholehearted effort and 100% sweat.
After all, if you choose here, you choose to make a desperate bet, and there is no way back.
This bitterness, Zhang Ning, but enjoyed it.
In day-to-day training, she gradually found pleasure in the process of serving and receiving the ball, and every small improvement made her ecstatic.
Every late night, lying in bed, she always thinks, when will she be able to enter the national team and compete with the real masters in the world?
This goal of entering the national team was achieved when Zhang Ning was 18 years old.
After learning this news, Zhang Ning's mother's eyes were red with excitement, and she couldn't stop holding the hand of the sports school coach and saying that thanks to him discovering Zhang Ning's talent.
As Zhang Ning's first Bole, the coach was also very happy, but still did not forget to tell Zhang Ning to continue to work hard in the national team and strive to give the country a few more championships to come back.
People who become famous as teenagers are often not as calm as those who walk slowly.
After entering the national team, although Zhang Ning still relied on his own talent, he was well-known in the team. Whenever the coach of the national team saw this girl, he couldn't help but praise her for having an aura.
However, compared with those players who have received professional badminton training since childhood, Zhang Ning's results are still not bright.
In the ten years from the age of 18 to 28, Zhang Ning also participated in many competitions, large and small.
But every time, she felt very reliable, but there was no possibility of becoming a dark horse.
Because he has not been able to bring surprises to the public, gradually, Zhang Ning has become the most unpopular athlete in the national feather.
From the former little star to the "invisible crowd" in the team, Zhang Ning's mentality naturally had a time of collapse.
But she also knew that after the collapse, she still had to cheer up and fight hard. After all, if you don't even look after yourself, why should you win the applause and attention of others?
The old Ji Futuo, determined to be in a thousand miles. In 2004, Zhang Ning was 29 years old.
For an athlete, 29 is undoubtedly a sad number. If you have not made achievements at this age, you must consider the practical problems of retirement.
Moreover, at this time, Zhang Ning did not have any achievements to get his hands on.
However, it was also that year that the opportunity that belonged to Zhang Ning came.
On August 13, 2004, the 28th Summer Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece.
As a player with a stable output of national feathers, Zhang Ning and his teammates represented the Chinese team. At this Olympic Games, the Chinese team exerted the Olympic spirit of not being afraid of challenges and daring to fight, and successfully won 32 gold medals, with a total of 61 medals.
Among these gold medals, one of them came from Zhang Ning's Olympic singles.
It was also from this game that people found out that this 29-year-old female badminton player had also eaten the bowl of rice in the Olympic sports world.
Others were surprised by Zhang Ning's breakthrough, but Zhang Ning himself was not too surprised.
Because only she herself knows how much she has paid for this day's victory and how long she has waited.
But this achievement is not worthy of her ambition, and her goal is to become the deserved empress of China's feathers.
Two years later, Zhang Ning went to Tokyo, Japan, and won the title of the 21st Uber Cup Women's Badminton Team Championship with his teammates.
And this victory has an extraordinary significance for the Chinese women's team.
You know, since China began to form a team to participate in the Uber Cup in 1984, in addition to the forces in 1994 and 1996, from the Uber Cup in 1998 to 2006, the Chinese women's team has maintained a five-game winning streak.
For this game, Zhang Ning himself also said that there was no danger.
Because of the wind, several of his balls were unfortunately lost.
Fortunately, at the final critical moment, she relied on the changeable line and the mentality of winning, and finally won back the most unsafe 1 point for the Chinese team.
Although it was a narrow victory, Zhang Ning's game also confirmed that sentence: the harder you work, the luckier you are.
The premise of all narrow victories is actually the strength to back it up.
Zhang Ningli turned the tide and won the key point, not because of good luck, but because of the hard training she carried out behind her as a guarantee.
At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Zhang Ning surpassed her rival Xie Xingfang with her personal stability and strong psychological quality, and successfully won the Olympic badminton women's singles championship and won the Olympic gold medal.
Regarding this game, many people think that Zhang Ning's victory is not worthy of the name.
After all, as the oldest women's Olympic champion in the history of badminton, Zhang Ning's level is not necessarily much stronger than Xie Xingfang.
There are even many sports fans who said that if Xie Xingfang won the championship in that year's Olympic Games, wouldn't she and the men's singles champion be able to start a legendary story comparable to the eagle hero!
However, victory or defeat is already decided. Zhang Ning's title of champion is not something that can be obtained casually.
Outsiders only know the joy of victory moments, and how many people care about the private blood and tears of these athletes?
During the coaching period, the merit and fame were brushed away
Zhang Ning's brilliant moments came late, and the flowering period was also very late.
After winning the championship in North Austria in 2008, Zhang Ning's health was not very good because of long-term overload training and age restrictions.
In desperation, she could only choose to retire and leave the arena where she had struggled for more than ten years.
Can't continue to rent athletes, what should Zhang Ning, who is already 33 years old, do?
Undoubtedly, as a veteran of national feathers, Zhang Ning is fully qualified to be the coach of the national team and use his experience to cultivate the next batch of good seedlings.
Of course, she can also use her well-known reputation to go to the capital market to compete for fame and profit.
Obviously, Zhang Ning chose the former.
Her idea is very pure, if one day she is old enough to no longer be able to jump on the sports field, it is another realization of the value of life to send excellent athletes to the Chinese badminton industry.
After becoming the coach of the national team, Zhang Ning completely entered a state of seclusion, and rarely appeared in the vision of the general public. She'd rather spend more time on the training ground than in front of the media screen.
It is better to teach people to fish than to teach people to fish. During his tenure as the coach of the national team, Zhang Ning can be said to have deeply experienced this sentence. When teaching students, she pours out her years of practical experience and skills.
In the face of the questions of the team members, she never got tired, and every time she was extremely patient, afraid of missing out on any good seedlings.
Zhang Ning said that if it were not for the fact that my sports school coach had discovered my potential, I would not have the glory I have today.
This spirit of Bole Soma is worth learning from every sports person.
During Zhang Ning's tenure as coach, the Chinese national team has produced many outstanding athletes such as Wang Yihan, Wang Lin, Li Xuerui and other outstanding athletes.
Every time he takes these athletes to fight side by side on the field and cut through thorns, Zhang Ning will have a great sense of satisfaction in his heart.
She lamented more than once that this was really a glorious period of Chinese badminton, a period of blossoming flowers and torrential currents!
Although many people praise Guoyu's excellent results, they do not mention the people behind the scenes such as Zhang Ning who are silently working behind the scenes.
In this regard, Zhang Ning did not care at all. Because of the removal of merit and fame, she always believes that the pride of the Chinese team in the world is also the pride of every Chinese. And these prides are not divided into front of the stage and behind the scenes.
Of course, there are wins and losses in the race, and there are unfavorable times in the flow of years, as the queen of the feathers, Zhang Ning also has a time to roll over. At the 2013 World Championships, the women's singles event of the national women's team played very badly.
As the coach who led the team, Zhang Ning could not escape the blame, was dismissed from his post, and was temporarily left in the second team as a coach.
This state continued until the 2018 national coaching staff rectification. As an old man in the team, Zhang Ning was once again valued by the above and was reassigned to the first team coaching team.
The national team originally wanted Zhang Ning to perform well in the first team and pull the level of national feathers back.
But I didn't expect that during that period, the personnel changes in The national feather were too huge, and the strength of the fresh blood at that time had not kept up, and a large number of veteran players were retired, and it was conceivable how bad the results were.
As a result, Zhang Ning once again bore the guilt of dereliction of duty.
At this time, Guo Yu was obviously not in harmony with Zhang Ning's state. Zhang Ning chose to follow his heart and took the opportunity to choose to retire from the coach's position.
Without the aura blessing of the national team, the name Zhang Ning has gradually faded out of people's vision.
Many people think that today's Zhang Ning is middle-aged and has experienced various changes, and I am afraid that there will be a decadent old state.
Unexpectedly, in the photos of Zhang Ningqingsheng that broke out in 2021, the 46-year-old Zhang Ning's mental state is still very good. The skin is white and beautiful, and the eyebrows are bright. She is still the proud and confident Queen of Yutan.
Marriage, the greatest arranged by Heaven
Perhaps to this day, many people still regret the relationship between Zhang Ning and the former national feather name General Yang.
After all, the two are both strong players in the national badminton industry, like-minded, honorable and shared.
In the team, they are perfect mixed doubles partners; in life, they need to be frequently contacted in training and competition, and they have long honed their extraordinary friendship.
The combination of these two people is simply a good story in the Chinese sports world.
However, Zhang Ning and Yu Yang have been running into each other for six years since their high-profile marriage in 2004, but they are still halfway husband and wife, and they have parted ways from each other's world.
Regarding this marriage, it is impossible to say that the two have no feelings. But marriage is often unpredictable.
Presumably, Zhang Ning could not have imagined that his second love would happen quietly in a fortuitous trip to Germany.
In 2010, Zhang Ning came to Germany for a business trip. By chance, she met a man named Leon. Speaking of this Li Ang, it can also be regarded as Zhang Ning's former peer.
In the early years, when Li Ang was still developing in China, he was also a badminton player in the national team. But he never waited for the brilliant moment of "late success" like Zhang Ning.
Therefore, at the age of retirement, Leon chose to come to Germany to develop his career.
With his strong sports background and business acumen, Leon founded a sports company in Germany, which can also be regarded as a small achievement.
Later, he changed his nationality to Germany, determined to develop here for a long time.
In fact, as early as the national team, Li Ang had already heard about Zhang Ning.
For this legendary figure, Li Ang naturally admired it in his heart, and now in close contact with reality, his heart is even more rippled.
Although Li Ang is 11 years older than Zhang Ning and is also a divorced person who has been hurt by his feelings, he can't stop his desire to pursue this woman.
At this time, Zhang Ning actually did not spend too much thought on feelings, but Li Ang's pursuit was too fierce and sincere. Gradually, her dusty heart was opened by Li Ang, and after a sweet relationship between the two, they decided to get a license to get married.
Life after marriage is undoubtedly blissful.
Li Ang has more life experience than Zhang Ning, and as a husband, he will be more distressed. After two years of intense love between the two, the crystallization of love was born.
Leon has now changed his German citizenship and it is inevitable that he will live here. But Zhang Ning was different. She is a Chinese, and her pride and hometown are on The soil of China.
Therefore, after discussion between the two, they decided to open the separation mode between the two countries. Wait until each other has a holiday break, in a brief reunion for a few days.
In 2022, Zhang Ning has been separated from her husband in Germany with her children for nearly 10 years.
Many people do not understand the couple's exotic love model, and some even persuade her to take her children to Germany and reunite with her husband.
In this regard, Zhang Ning just smiled and said that her and her children's roots are in China. Leaving this land, the roots are dead.