The protagonist of today's story is a talented weightlifter whose original name is Yao Li, but now she has "betrayed" her motherland and changed her name to Meiya Maneza, and has gone to other countries and joined the Kazakh nationality.
In the Olympic arena, she broke out of super strength and won a gold medal for her current home country, Kazakhstan. As former compatriots, we are naturally happy for her, but her next operation has broken the hearts of the Chinese people.
After winning the gold medal in the Olympic games, she deliberately pretended that she did not understand Chinese, refused to be interviewed by Chinese reporters, and resolutely broke off relations with China.
This move of hers has attracted countless scoldings from Chinese, what exactly made her "betray" her motherland, and why did she let an athlete with good development prospects in China leave other countries?
Mia Maneza, whose original name is Yao Li, was born on November 1, 1985 in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, China, her family is not like the average athlete family is a sports family, Yao Li's parents are ordinary farmers, busy with farm work every day, sunrise and sunset, and the days are stable.
Like the children in the village, Yao Li helps her parents with farm work, shares the pressure on their parents' shoulders, and goes to the field every day after school to help. Because of the deviation of the quality of education in rural areas and the fact that Yao Li's learning ability is not good, the grades are also very average.
But the first turning point in her life came in her junior high school career, the junior high school physical education teacher was like a "Bole", seeing this "Maxima" directly "loved", Yao Li far exceeded the junior high school students of the same age in terms of strength.
In a sports meeting when Yao Li was 15 years old, the physical education teacher found that Yao Li's talent in sports took a look at her, and under later observation, found that Yao Li's strength and outbreak were quite outstanding, so the physical education teacher went to Yao Li's home to persuade her parents to let Yao Li enter the school team to train weightlifting, at first because the rural parents' thinking was still too conservative and did not approve of it, but seeing Yao Li's talent in weightlifting and the teacher's persistence, she finally agreed.
Of course, the school's sports equipment is also quite old, and the training places are also very limited, but it can't resist Yao Li's persistence and the careful guidance of the coach, so Yao Li's weightlifting ability in the day-to-day training is more and more skillful and more stable, and then won large and small awards in the province, and her fame is getting bigger and bigger.
In 2003, Yao Li brought about a second turning point in her life, that is, Zhu Mingwu, the coach of the Liaoning provincial team, when Zhu Mingwu was looking for sports seedlings in major schools, he heard that there was a weightlifting genius here when he passed through Fuxin City, and then came to Yao Li's home.
Zhu Mingwu, who entered the house, saw at first sight that Yao Li was practicing weightlifting skills, this tenacious spirit impressed Zhu Mingwu, coupled with asking Yao Li's terrible weightlifting data, Zhu Mingwu did not hesitate to invite Yao Li, Yao Li thought that after a while, not only could she receive top training but also have a salary and follow Zhu Mingwu happily.
After arriving at the Liaoning Provincial Team, Yao Li's talent is the real shine, no one in the provincial team can reach, so a large number of resources in the provincial team also emerged to Yao Li's body, and then Zhu Mingwu took Yao Li to visit various weightlifting top events, honed for a year to start his career, Yao Li, who is less than 18 years old, appeared in the public's vision. The weight of 90,92.5 kg is an exaggerated performance for women, but they are all lifted by Yao Li, and for a time Yao Li's light in the Chinese women's weightlifting circle is getting more and more prosperous.
Two years later, Zhu Mingwu was sent to the Provincial Team of Hunan Province, and it was not surprising that Yao Li was brought with him, but in Hunan Province, Yao Li did not have the original treatment, and the players here were more experienced and powerful than Yao Li, and all of a sudden Yao Li fell from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley.
The young Yao Li felt this unfair treatment for the first time, and then because of the inability to make a breakthrough with her teammate Zhao Changling, she was sent to Kazakhstan for training. It is also in this way that Yao Li's desire to win has been aroused, and a large number of sports resources have been provided to Yao Li in Kazakhstan, coupled with her unremitting efforts, the strength of weightlifting can be described as a leap forward.
At the 2009 World Championships, it shined, finishing sixth in the snatch, first in the deadlift, and first in the overall strength.
He won the 2010 Asian Games, and in 2011 he finished third, first in the deadlift, and second in overall results.
In this way, everyone on the international weightlifting schedule is familiar with a girl from China, Yao Li, who spoke a pure Northeast dialect, was also very kind, and never shy away from the reporter's interview.
But the surprising thing happened, that is, when the London Olympics in 2012, 27-year-old Yao Li stepped on the world's highest weightlifting event and won the championship in one fell swoop, lifting 245 kilograms, which is her perennial accumulation and efforts, the breaking of the world record made countless Chinese people shout for it, but when Yao Li said in an interview with reporters: I can't speak Chinese, I am Maia Maneza from Kazakhstan.
As soon as this remark came out, the scene was silent, many people were suddenly blinded, who could have imagined that Yao Li, who had just broken the Olympic record to win glory for the country, actually changed her appearance, but Yao Li was indifferent, her face was not red and her heart did not beat.
Yao Li followed up: "Although my family and I have lived in China for more than 10 years, Kazakhstan is my home, I am Kazakh. Not surprisingly, Yao Li "betrayed" China and the country that had nurtured her for more than a decade.
According to the official reports later, Yao Li and her teammate Zhao Changling were tempted by the superior conditions of the Kazakh side when they came to Kazakhstan, and a large number of resources and generous salary conditions made them change their nationality and run to the "embrace" of Kazakhstan, and at that time, because the family was a rural father and had to need a lot of money to treat, Yao Li joined Kazakhstan repeatedly.
The Kazakh side will give Yao Li 7,000 yuan every month, which allows Yao Li to provide rescue to her father, but Yao Li's parents know that Yao Li gave up her nationality because of her illness, which is very painful, and the child has now given up her nationality for her illness and has been scolded by countless people, and then Yao Li has also invited her parents to live in Kazakhstan and has been politely rejected.
It is true that the beginning of the story is extremely gentle, but the result is not satisfactory. Yao Li's "rebellion" made us feel that China's sports system problems, let some outstanding athletes lose to foreign countries to serve other countries, and the Yao Li incident also faded out of people's vision.
But at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Yao Li and teammate Zhao Changling were detected to be doping during a pre-match check, which invalidated the world record she had set at the London Olympics.
This makes Chinese people feel that this is deserved, most people said: It turns out that China you can't get results to Go to Kazakhstan to take stimulants, and the coach Alexander, who coaches Yao Li and Zhao Changling, is a well-known "medicine god" in the international arena, and often uses drugs to make his athletes get good results in international competitions, which is really inferior.
At that time, when Yao Li won the Olympic gold medal in 2012, many unscrupulous media rushed to report: "China has abandoned these two sports geniuses, China's sports system is not perfect, and the team and coaches do not know how to observe the name." ”
Indeed, we acknowledge that there are indeed certain problems in China's sports system, and over the years many athletes have lost overseas to win glory for other countries, some have fled to Japan, the United States, germany because of treatment and wages, and some have left other countries because of too much competitive pressure and cannot get reasonable training resources.
But there is no perfect sports system in the world, let us learn from it, what we can do is to help every athlete in difficult times, teach her the most reasonable way to train.
In fact, China's sports system can already be regarded as very humane, and every athlete will have a reasonable salary and a corresponding sports venue. Look at athletes from other countries, who not only have to work part-time but also train every day to subsidize their families, some don't even have training grounds, they train on some land. Yao Li's story is indeed emotional, everyone has their own life, and every athlete has his own career history.
Maybe Yao Li took medicine at the London Olympics, maybe Yao Li didn't take medicine and relied on her own athletic talent. But now it doesn't matter anymore, we just need to remember every athlete who served his country, forget these betrayals, forget these unhappiness.
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, we must cheer for these athletes, because behind them is not Chinese sports, but 1.3 billion Chinese people, the faith of the people, and the strength of the people to break through these athletes and go to a higher height. Come on, Chinese athletes, rush, win every Olympic medal of your own!