A few days ago, at the FINA Congress held in Doha, Zhou Jihong, the iron lady of the diving industry, was elected vice president of FINA, and she became the first female vice president in the history of FINA. Zhou Jihong is a world-renowned "jumping platform flying swallow", and at the same time is the iron lady of the diving industry, how is the "jumping platform flying swallow" refined, and what kind of legend and marriage story does the iron lady have?
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Mid-summer 1984, Los Angeles, USA.
The unknown young player Zhou Jihong, like a flying swallow, made a perfect and clean jump, pressed the crowd and won the 10-meter platform Olympic champion.
This golden shining medal is China's first Olympic diving gold medal!
This year, Zhou Jihong was only 19 years old.
Some people say that Zhou Jihong's success is purely "accidental" and "accidental", because her teammates were injured, she temporarily went to the top to compete, and the famous Player Chen Xiaoxia played abnormally, she won this gold medal.
As everyone knows, there are so many "accidents" and "accidents" in this world! Twitter founder Jack Dorsey says success is never accidental, no surprises, only plans; no luck, only strategy; no random coincidences, only perfect logic.
Zhou Jihong, a Wuhan girl with a height of 1.56 meters, has been practicing gymnastics since she was a child, Hubei is a famous gymnastics province, under the strict management of the coach, Zhou Jihong has super discipline and has refined the steel-like perseverance.
At the age of 12, Zhou Jihong re-practiced diving and entered the Hubei Provincial Team. In diving training, land training is the foundation, but also the most boring and hard, only land training to the action is skilled, pure fire, in order to carry out the next step of diving training.
"One day without practicing yourself knows, three days without practicing coach knows", pressing legs, stretching toes, bouncing, training intensity is very large, injuries are common things, after 5 years of hard work, Zhou Jihong was selected for the national team.
Sweat is a record, tears are understanding, behind the unknown thousand hammers, will be in the face of "accidents" and "accidents" calmly take over, casting successful flowers.
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World War I fame! Zhou Jihong's innocent smile and shadow quickly flew on the cover of major newspapers and magazines.
With this weighty Olympic gold medal, she has been awarded the world's best female platform diver of the year and "outstanding athlete in the 35 years since the founding of New China". In 1994, Zhou Jihong was also inducted into the International Aquatic Hall of Fame, becoming the first Chinese athlete to enter the Hall of Fame.
It is also this golden shining medal that the dream journey of the Chinese diving team began, and then Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Guo Jingjing and other generations of "diving queens" have created glory.
In 1986, at the age of 21, Zhou Jihong retired from the military and entered the English Department of Peking University.
Men should marry, and women should marry. The heroic Feiyan attracted the attention of a handsome young man like a magnet, he was Zhou Jihong's Wuhan compatriot, tian Bingyi, the partner of the famous yutan li Yongbo.
Tian Bingyi is 1.8 meters tall, and in the mid-to-late 1980s of the last century, he and Li Yongbo have repeatedly won in a series of domestic and international Open competitions.
But although the two are Fellows in Wuhan, the two families still live on the same street, but Tian Bingyi is introverted and not good at words, and his heart is magnificent but he does not dare to open his mouth to Zhou Jihong, and finally Li Yongbo broke through the window paper, and the two openly fell in love.
In 1992, Tian Bingyi retired from the Chinese badminton team and took up a coaching position. A year later, the two entered the palace of marriage hand in hand.
After marriage, Zhou Jihong gave birth to a son, and in order to take care of the children and support her husband's work, she became a housewife at home.
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In 1998, the Chinese diving team fell into a trough, and Zhou Jihong was ordered to return to the diving team as a coach, thus starting another journey of his life.
Most of the members of the diving team are very young and leave home early, Zhou Jihong not only has to guide the training of the small team members, but also manages the life and study of the small team members, and assumes the "parent" of this big family.
Zhou Jihong, who has a decisive personality and says that he is indispensable, implements "militarized management" of the diving team, "all actions are subject to command, you can't come if you want to come, you can't come if you don't want to come, you can't do whatever you want, if everyone is like this, people's hearts will be scattered." ”
Under her leadership, the Chinese diving team has regained its strength and regained its supremacy in the world diving field. At the 1999 World Championships, the Chinese diving team won 9 gold medals in 10 events; at the 2002 Busan Asian Games, it won gold medals in all 8 events; at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, it achieved 6 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. This series of achievements has given the national diving team the reputation of "Dream Team".
Zhou Jihong, the leader of the "Dream Team", is also known as the "Iron Lady".
And for these reputations, Zhou Jihong himself does not recognize, "The 'Dream Team' seems to mean that we have not woken up yet, in fact, we dare not sleep every day, we are awake, it is more appropriate to call us 'Fighting Team'." ”
Life, only spelled out of the beauty, there is no wait out of the glory!
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Acting decisively, acting vigorously, adhering to rules and discipline, Zhou Jihong led the diving team to achieve brilliant results at the same time, and the controversy surrounding her was no less.
In 2005, due to his frequent participation in commercial activities, Tian Liang was removed from the national diving team due to his frequent participation in commercial activities. In 2008, the famous diving coach Yu Fen reported zhou Jihong embezzling the prize money in real name, which became a hot spot in public opinion that year. At the 2009 National Games, the gold medal of diving project "Inner Dingmen" broke out, once again pushing Zhou Jihong to the cusp of public opinion.
"She (Zhou Jihong) is an extremely dedicated person. Until the end of 2019, she was basically in the team until 7 or 8 o'clock every night. During the epidemic last year, she was unwell, coupled with more administrative work, and she was no longer as close as before, but her main energy was still on the diving side. She is really energetic and has to be admired. Insiders commented on Zhou Jihong.
"Business is the center of my life." Zhou Jihong told the media who interviewed her. Because of this focus, the son handed over to his aunt to take, has been in boarding school, only to go home on weekends, after returning home, but often can not see his mother.
Fortunately, the son understands his mother's work and still gives his mother a full score, "Although the work is very busy, it is still very good for me." ”
"National interests above all else!" In Zhou Jihong's view, there is no absolute star on the jumping platform, and the responsibility of athletes is to compete for honor for the country.
Gold has no feet, no one is perfect. Looking forward to the Iron Lady on the international stage, and constantly enhance China's voice and influence in international sports organizations!