"Do you have the confidence to get runner-up?" Because the champion is already Liu Xiang's. In an interview, CCTV reporter Dong Ri na directly asked Shi Dongpeng. Shi Dongpeng on the side looked a little embarrassed. The relationship between the two is not "both Shengyu and He Shengliang", Shi Dongpeng has always been the catcher, and Liu Xiang, who is more than half a year old, has almost suppressed his entire career.
In a project to achieve China's second, in fact, Shi Dongpeng needs to pay no less effort than Liu Xiang, his best result of 13 seconds 19, in 2016 Rio he can get a bronze medal, but his era Liu Xiang, Robles, Oliver, Merritt, Alain Johnson and other people together to support a piece of 110 Milan brilliant starry sky, Shi Dongpeng is just a flash of stars in that era.
Shi Dongpeng, born in 1984 in Baoding, Hebei Province, is a local ordinary worker, and their greatest wish for their son is to "study well and enter a good university in the future." ”
In the fourth grade of primary school, Shi Dongpeng participated in the sports meeting organized by the school, and as a result, he won the first place in running, long jump, and high jump, and it happened that a teacher from a sports school came to watch the game, at that time, Shi Dongpeng was obviously taller than other children, and his hands and feet were a material for practicing athletics, so he practiced with this coach, finished class during the day, and went to receive amateur training at 6 o'clock in the afternoon.
At that time, he practiced high jumping, and later changed to triple jumping, entering the Hebei Provincial Sports Team before he began to practice hurdles, in 2001 he won the first national top three at the National Athletics Championships, and the champion of that year was called Liu Xiang.
The name became a topic he couldn't avoid throughout his career.
He said that Liu Xiang's first impression was that he was lonely and arrogant, "In 2001, liu xiang dreamed at night, always thinking about how to win him in the game. ”
Since then, he has chased Liu Xiang for 10 years.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, 20-year-old Shi Dongpeng appeared on the 110-meter hurdles, and in the preliminaries he was in the same group as Alain Johnson. Before the race, Liu Xiang also specially ran over to tell this disciple: "Dashi, the starting must be suppressed, otherwise the rhythm is not easy to control!" As a result, he started too hard, and the mid-range was eliminated by the opponent in the first round.
"I witnessed Liu Xiang's moment from the preliminaries to the finals and then to the championship." But a few days later, he and everyone witnessed the miracle created by a yellow race, and he was more determined to his goal, and he could do what Liu Xiang could do.
Since 2005, coach Sun Haiping has brought Shi Dongpeng and Liu Xiang together every time he goes abroad to play, and guides them to train before the game. In the 2007 National Athletics Grand Prix, Liu Xiang abandoned the competition before the final, in which Shi Dongpeng won the championship with a distance of three or four meters beyond his opponents, but he was not satisfied with the results.
He understood that the reason for his continuous progress from beginning to end was that he had an opponent, Liu Xiang, who once said to him: "Dashi, do you know? The 110-meter hurdles of Chinese sports are brilliant, which you and I created together! ”
His appearance made Liu Xiang no longer alone in the international arena, and the two eventually became the twin stars of China's hurdles, although Shi Dongpeng was always the role of catching up, they were not called double pride, but they also once shone with each other.
"Shi Dongpeng likes to eat meat, and his mother remembers to buy more meat when the time comes!" Before the 2008 Olympics, Shi Dongpeng went to Shanghai for training, and Liu Xiang invited him to his home as a guest and asked his mother to buy more meat. "There are actually other rooms in the house, but these two guys have to squeeze into a big bed at night, saying they want to chat." Liu Xiang's father said.
Liu Xiang took out his collection of foreign player video materials, the two studied together, he would still point out to the master and disciple, "You see, if your lower column action here can be faster, the results will definitely go up a lot!" ”
On August 18, 2008, the entire Bird's Nest Stadium was packed, and most people aimed only one goal – to watch the first battle of the defending 110m hurdles champion Liu Xiang. People who have watched that game must remember when the host announced that Liu Xiang had withdrawn from the game due to injury, and the booing that seemed to be about to overturn the roof was just a few seconds after Liu Xiang changed from a "proud son" who was widely watched into a "liar" who was spurned by everyone.
Shi Dongpeng became the only expectation of all the Chinese audiences that night, and the interview ambassador after the game shed tears, he knew that Liu Xiang suffered for the crimes and hardships of this Olympic Games, and he said that he wanted to fight for a breath, for Liu Xiang and for himself, "entering the final and taking a breath." ”
On August 20, the men's 110m hurdles semi-finals, he was divided into the second group, as long as he entered the top four of the group can enter the final, a year ago in Osaka he created his career best, he has the strength to advance to the final, when the host announced the name of the eighth Shi Dongpeng, the audience gave him the applause that was originally going to be given to Liu Xiang.
Cut a round inch of Shi Dongpeng's face is obviously written "nervous", after going to the starter, in the case of other runners are ready, Shi Dongpeng suddenly got up and adjusted a little, the starting gun sounded he started well, but as Liu Xiang said, the lower column was not fast enough, and in the end he was only fifth in 0.02 seconds and did not qualify for the final. After hitting the line, he was tripped by the athletes around him and fell to the ground, sitting on the ground and not getting up for a long time.
One of his Olympic Games, the Olympic Games without Liu Xiang was over, at the door he watched too many people usher in their peak in cheers, while Shi Dongpeng was in the bird's nest, he sat on the ground, the only hope was that after four years, he could return again.
In the 2010 Shanghai Diamond League, Shi Dongpeng pressed Liu Xiang to win the second place, which was his long-cherished wish for many years, and finally he won Liu Xiang in the official competition, "You finally won Liu Xiang, how do you feel?" In the interview with Dong Ri na after the game, Shi Dongpeng only squeezed out two words "thank you".
In the eyes of many people, Shi Dongpeng is still the catch-up, the 2011 Spring Festival Gala sketch "New House", one of the lines is like this, Cai Ming's daughter said: "Mom, you don't run so fast, you think you are Liu Xiang?" Cai Ming shook his baggage: "You can't catch up with me, are you Shi Dongpeng?" ”
Although this line was deleted, Shi Dongpeng's personality was established.
"Liu Xiang is really, very difficult, but he hurts the Achilles tendon, which is the part that hurdles athletes use every day, and he really can't bear it." In London in 2012, Liu Xiang jumped over the finish line on one leg in the 110-meter hurdles preliminary round, and Shi Dongpeng watched the scene on the TV in the rest area, but this time he also failed to qualify.
The only one to reach the semi-finals is youngster Xie Wenjun, and China's 110-meter hurdles seems to have reached the moment of dynastic change.
In the 2013 National Games, this was Shi Dongpeng's fourth National Games, and he won one silver and two bronzes in the previous three times, and as for the champion, it was Liu Xiang's three consecutive championships. Liu Xiang's retirement from this competition was originally Shi Dongpeng's best opportunity.
"I was very motivated a month ago and didn't expect to retire today. My fourth National Games did not expect to end with a withdrawal, and there were too many unwillingness for me to accept. Shi Dongpeng said, "But this is only a part of life, there are more things for me to do, and now I am really too tired to rest." ”
Due to injury, he eventually retired from the competition, and that was the last time 29-year-old Shi Dongpeng participated in the competition. Two years later, Liu Xiang, who had struggled with injuries for nearly 7 years, also bid farewell to the field, and the pair of Twin Stars left a string of imprints across the sky, which was the footprint of their shining in the 110-meter hurdles.
"Called the second oldest of the millennium, depressed?" Shi Dongpeng smiled calmly: "There is more than enough than the upper than the lower, it is not bad." ”
Whether it is family, coaches, teammates, friends the first word to describe him is often "simple", even almost mu ne thick, he speaks a little stuttering, if it is not because of Liu Xiang's influence in this project, then he probably will not have the popularity he has today.
In the year of retirement, he married his girlfriend of 9 years, High Jumper Qiao Yanrui, and the two are still sweet today, and they have two daughters after marriage. Since then, Shi Dongpeng has often participated in some marathons, and once he met Dong Ri Na again, he joked: "I was afraid that I would not see you after I retired, so I went to the marathon." ”
And Liu Xiang's life after retirement is still a chicken feather, twice due to injury retirement he was scolded to be unfinished, and the marriage with his first wife Ge Tian ended in divorce less than a year, and then fell in love with pole vaulter Wu Sha and married in a low profile, Shi Dongpeng finally completed the "curve overtaking" for Liu Xiang after retiring.
In 2019, he was elected as the first chairman of the Xiong'an New District Sports Federation and devoted himself to the sports construction of the new district. He also focuses on the achievements of Chinese sports today, social media is full of likes for Chinese athletes, and in 2022 he participated in the Beijing Winter Olympic Torch Relay as a torchbearer.
One day after retiring, he received a photo from Liu Xiang, a group photo of the two during the 2004 Olympic Games. In that photo, the two stood shoulder to shoulder with their eyes full of infinite imagination of the future, Shi Dongpeng asked Liu Xiang why he sent this photo to him, Liu Xiang replied that he saw things at home, and he still missed the days when the two were training.
Now the two have a low-key life, one towards the career, belongs to China's 110-meter hurdles golden age has also passed nearly 10 years, belongs to Shi Dongpeng's story into the next chapter, as an athlete he is unfortunate, the peak met Liu Xiang, all the light is covered up, as a 110-meter hurdles athlete he is lucky, because Liu Xiang he is known by more people.
Someone once asked Shi Dongpeng, "If there is no Liu Xiang, what will happen to you?" Shi Dongpeng replied, "I haven't thought about it, why should I not have him?" He is my role model and my good friend. And Liu Xiang commented on Shi Dongpeng: "Dashi is the driving force for me to move forward, we are good brothers!" ”