After the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, it was hard to hear Fu Mingxia's joyful laughter anymore. Her bright eyes and childish little face. Today, it gives people a feeling of having been in the sea. At that time, she was only 12 years old, and at a young age, she experienced a tribulation on the road of life. On October 4, 1990, in the final of the women's 10-meter platform at the Beijing Asian Games, Fu Mingxia had extremely high expectations, but she not only did not win the championship, but also lost to the unknown North Korean athlete Kim Chun-yu, ranking third.
Maybe she wanted to win the gold medal too much, or maybe she lacked experience in the competition, Fu Mingxia made a mistake in the last two difficult moves in the women's platform diving final.
Climbing up from the plunge pool, Fu Mingxia's nose was sour, and tears fell "bar click" and "bar click". She looked up at her coach Yu Fen and cried sadly. She felt that the competition was not better than that, and she had failed to live up to everyone's enthusiasm for her.
Fu Mingxia was born in Wuhan to parents who worked for an electric power engineering company. She has been active since she was a child, and she is "wild", and she can't catch up with boys of her age. What's even more naughty is that she and her friends play, either going up trees or climbing walls, picking up other people's non-dry play. Therefore, she was often touched with a piece of blue and purple, and her clothes were also scratched by branches, for which she did not suffer from her mother's scolding and her father's "family law" education.
At the age of 4, Fu Mingxia followed her sister, who was 3 years older than her, to an amateur gymnastics school to watch gymnastics. She first watched from the sidelines, then drew a line, and without much effort, she entered the driving range barefoot, kicking her legs and lowering her legs, making everyone laugh. The sister was still angry and cried her nose, and vowed not to take her to the gymnastics training room again. Later, her sister entered the Hubei gymnastics team, Xiaomingxia's eyes were very red, and she also hoped that she would grow up quickly and become a gymnast.
In the summer vacation when I was 5 years old, the opportunity finally came to the girl. The gymnasium near Fu Mingxia's home held a gymnastics summer camp, and seeing her daughter's fascinated look, her parents took Xiao Mingxia to sign up. She was very happy and practiced very well, so after the summer camp, she became a student of the gymnastics class of the amateur gymnastics school.
In the gymnastics class, Fu Mingxia practiced the hardest and most obediently, and she single-mindedly wanted to become an athlete like her sister. But soon, the coach found that her joint flexibility was relatively poor, which had a great impact on the difficulty of development, so he advised her not to practice. But who knows, no matter how much the coach persuades her, she always comes to training on time without a word. Perhaps xiao Mingxia's bitterness touched the coaches of the "iron heart", and she was sent to the door of Hu Demei, a senior diving coach, where she began diving training. In the diving team, this new world attracts every cell of Fu Mingxia, and she is practicing desperately! Therefore, the technology improved quickly, becoming the little star in the team.
At the end of 1987, Yu Fen, a young coach from Hubei who had trained diving star Li Qing, found her in the Wuhan diving training base, and only had a year of formal training, and in October 1989, she was selected as a member of the National Diving Team's Jinan Junior Diving Training Class.
Coach Yu is both strict and loving to Fu Mingxia. Fu Mingxia liked her coach. Coach Yu is young and beautiful, and often accompanies her to the store to buy clothes, help her sew and mend, just like a mother cares about her like a daughter. Once in the store to buy clothes, the salesman took Coach Yu as Fu Mingxia's mother, Fu Mingxia Coke blossomed, back to the team and said to the friends: "The salesman said that the coach is my mother." ”
In May 1990, after just over two months of difficulty training, Fu Mingxia competed in the Canadian and American Diving Open. In the two competitions, in the case of the participation of strong diving players from the former Soviet Union, the United States, the former Democratic Republic of Germany and other countries, Fu Mingxia fought with illness, and the women's 10-meter platform won the second place in Canada and the first place in the United States.
In August, Fu Mingxia participated in the Friendship Games held in Seattle, USA, and the women's 10-meter platform was full of stars, including Olympic champion Xu Yanmei, World Cup and World Championship champions Wendy Wyland and Wendy Williams. In the competition, Fu Mingxia appeared calm and confident, and she jumped out of a dazzling and beautiful action with an aggressive momentum, winning the championship and showing her strong strength. Public opinion circles exclaimed: China has been born again - a new diving star!
Winning the championship at the age of 12, Fu Mingxia became the youngest diving world champion, so it also became the focus of public opinion in the sports world. Reporters interviewed one after another, autographs and souvenirs were endless, various activities, invitations, coupled with continuous praise, little Fu Mingxia did not expect: she became a diving genius!
After all, it was a little girl, and Fu Mingxia was still very young. When too much praise appeared in front of her, she seemed to be at a loss, and it was difficult for people to treat themselves correctly, especially Fu Mingxia!
The courtesy brought by society to the little star is beyond the normal ability of a 13-year-old girl to bear. On the training ground, Fu Mingxia could not be so single-minded; under the training ground, it was not so easy for the coach to find her.
The Asian Games fell hard, and Fu Mingxia also bought an understanding. She sobered up, matured, cautious, she began to understand the strict requirements for herself, and she finally understood the slogan hanging on the banner in the training hall: The price of Superman in exchange for Superman's achievements.
After the Asian Games, Fu Mingxia then faced the sixth World Swimming Championships. The Asian Games have just ended, teammates have left the team one after another, some go home to visit relatives, and some participate in celebrations and report meetings. Fu Mingxia did not have these things that were very enviable in the eyes of an athlete, she did not go anywhere, and together with coach Yu Fen, she plunged into the preparation before the competition.
In the huge diving training hall of the Training Bureau of the State Sports Commission, only the figures of Fu Mingxia and the coach were seen, which seemed empty, and only the sound of Fu Mingxia's stepping and jumping could be heard, which seemed lonely and empty. Outside the training hall, it is the golden autumn october in Beijing, the autumn leaves of Xiangshan did not attract Fu Mingxia's playful childlike heart, in Fu Mingxia's heart, only hard work, to prepare for the competition, with the shame of the defeat of the Snow Asian Games.
The World Championships are just over a month away. The diving team came to Jinan for closed training. Excluding external interference, Fu Mingxia practiced carefully and conscientiously. At this time, Fu Mingxia and her coach Yu Fen carried out a technological innovation together, in view of the characteristics of Fu Mingxia's backward churning is relatively inferior to the forward churning, Yu Fen's coach decided to change Fu Mingxia's first self-selected action 305 (reflexive churning for two and a half weeks) to 5235 (flipping backwards for one and a half weeks and a half), and changing this action can improve the difficulty of Fu Mingxia's entire set of self-selected actions.
When she started practicing, Fu Mingxia's training situation was not ideal, and in one training, she also lost 40 points to her teammates, so did she change her career? Fu Mingxia couldn't help but suspect that Coach Yu Fen was also under pressure. "Only innovation can make progress", Coach Xu Yiming encouraged their innovative spirit. Insisting on practicing for two weeks, Fu Mingxia's condition improved significantly, before going abroad to compete, Coach Yu Fen tested and observed Fu Mingxia's new movements, and found that Fu Mingxia was able to jump easily at this time, Yu Fen breathed a long sigh of relief and decided to adopt it at the World Championships.
The first event of the 6th World Swimming Championships was the women's 10m platform competition. This is a high-level competition, the world's best diving women Jay are present, the Soviet Union's Miloschena, the difficulty coefficient was once ranked first in the world; the United States' Wendy Wyran, Williams, experienced; teammate Xu Yanmei, known for stability. In the face of strong opponents, Fu Mingxia is not timid, she has her own advantages, the difficulty exceeds Miroshenna 0.1, has ranked first in the world, the quality and stability of the action have improved, and she is young and vigorous, preparing for the shame of the Snow Asian Games. The preliminary round was not ideal, trailing Xu Yanmei by nearly 30 points, but still entered the final as the second place.
In the key optional action final, Fu Mingxia's first move was 5235. I saw her jump up high, flip backwards for a thousand and a half weeks, and then turn around for two and a half weeks, the movement was clean and sharp, and the splash into the water was very small. Pretty! The referee gave 62 points, four points higher than Williams of the United States, who also moved in this round.
The success of the first self-selected action doubled Fu Mingxia's confidence. Then the two optional actions are also clean and beautiful. The last 407C, churning inward for three and a half weeks, held his knees, scoring as many as 68 points, and the total score has been ranked first.
Fu Mingxia won the first gold medal of the sixth World Swimming Championships, and in the diving hall, there was a burst of applause, and head coach Xu Yiming nodded with satisfaction to Fu Mingxia.
However, for a young girl who has just debuted, the bumpy road is far from over. In April, which is more than 90 days away from the Barcelona Olympics, head coach Xu Yiming is not even sure if Fu Mingxia will be selected for the Olympic squad. Because he has the responsibility not to let this little girl float up, otherwise, the "Waterloo" at the Asian Games may be repeated in Bacheng.
Xu Yiming's worries were not superfluous, and then he traveled to Canada and the United States, and Fu Mingxia lost to a Mexican girl at the second stop. When fu Mingxia analyzed the causes of failure, she said: "Canada is an indoor pool, the United States is an outdoor pool, and I am not suitable for jumping outdoor pools." ”
After returning from the United States in late May, the diving team went straight to Sanya City on Hainan Island for outdoor training. When she first arrived in Sanya, the scorching sun, the attack of the torrential rain, and the fatigue of training made the 14-year-old girl cry her nose again. Coach Yu Fen is worthy of the "mother", because of the snobbery, he helped Fu Mingxia survive this difficult time.
The little girl's sweat did not flow in vain, the little girl's tears did not flow in vain, in Barcelona's Montjuïc Mountain diving field, Fu Mingxia used the blue sky and white clouds as the background, and the sky above the pool was "painted" out, - a stunning work. She was praised for "smiling and facing the challenge". In the preliminaries, she was more than 30 points ahead of her opponents, and in the final, she once again topped the table with 461.43 points, 39.8 points higher than the second place, winning the second Barcelona Olympic gold medal for China, becoming the youngest champion in the history of the Olympic Games.
Standing on the podium of the Mengyinke Mountain Diving Field, Fu Mingxia's daylight may have crossed the vast Atlantic Ocean and looked out over the high platform of Atlanta.
In July 1996, at the Atlanta Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia won both the women's 10m platform and the women's 3m board, becoming the first board double champion in the history of Chinese Olympic diving.
In September 2000, at the Sydney Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia defended the gold medal in the Women's Singles 3m Board of the Olympic Games. The Chinese athlete who won the olympic championship for three consecutive times, so everyone called her the "diving queen".
After the Sydney Olympics, Fu Mingxia officially retired. In July 1998, Fu Mingxia resumed training in the Tsinghua diving team and announced her comeback. After the Ninth National Games in 2001, Fu Mingxia officially retired.
In July 2002, Fu Mingxia and Liang Jinsong held a wedding in Hawaii, USA. Fu Mingxia rarely appeared in people's field of vision after marriage, and lived a "semi-reclusive" life in Repulse Bay, only even if she appeared occasionally.