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There is a saying that goes: "Don't look at who toasts when you are brilliant, but only at the hand of who takes you when you are down." ”
Such a sentence can not be more appropriate for the former gymnastics world champion Li Donghua, who has experienced a long low point from China to Switzerland, but as an athlete, he chose to continue to persevere, and still shine elsewhere.
As a professional athlete, it is a dream to win the world championship after experiencing a serious injury, but it is a pity that he has not been able to stand on the highest podium for his country.
Today, I will tell you about Li Donghua's ups and downs in his career, a sweet but not very complete love story, and how is Li Donghua living now?
01
Li Donghua, born on December 10, 1967 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, grew up in an ordinary working family and did not live too richly.
From an early age, he loved to play the sports of horizontal and parallel bars, and his body was also very flexible, and he was very talented for the sport of gymnastics.
The parents discovered their son's gymnastics talent, and in order not to delay their son, the two of them discussed sending their 7-year-old son to the local gymnastics school for gymnastics professional training.
What the parents never expected was that the son not only did not have any resistance, but was very excited, as if a fish had entered the sea.
After entering the sports school, although Li Donghua was young, he never stole laziness, and he was always rebellious like other children.
The tasks arranged by the coach, he can always complete in advance, and even sometimes can exceed the quota, which also makes the coach very happy and feels that he is a good seedling.
After a long period of professional training, Li Donghua's gymnastics foundation has become more and more solid, and the movements are very light and graceful.
When Li Donghua was 11 years old, he won the championship in the local youth group, which made many well-known coaches fall in love with him, thinking that he was a rare talented teenager.
After that, I went to the Gymnastics Department of Sichuan Sports Technology College for training, because it not only ensured daily physical training, but also participated in cultural classes.
In the next five years, Li Donghua not only gained a lot of gymnastics skills here, but also learned a lot of cultural knowledge.
02
In 1983, the 16-year-old Li Donghua was invited to the national team, which made him excited and scared.
Excitedly, the national team is the highest hall that every athlete aspires to, with the best coaching staff and the best sports facilities.
The fear is that he will not get much attention and performance here, because everyone on the national team is very good, gathering the best gymnastics geniuses in the country.
Li Donghua also found the gap between himself and others, and without an advantage in talent, he could only work hard.
So he made it more difficult for himself in his usual training process, hoping to surpass others in this way.
But things must be reversed, and high-intensity training did not make him a golden phoenix, but brought him injury troubles early.
One day in 1984, after doing a warm-up exercise, he went on a vaulting horse for training, but suddenly slipped and fell to the ground, and after a hospital examination, he found that he had a heavy bleeding in his body.
After the doctor's diagnosis, it is necessary to remove the kidney and spleen in time, otherwise it will be life-threatening.
This injury can be said to be a heavy blow to the athletes, not only need a long repair time, it is likely to directly ruin the career.
However, Li Donghua did not choose to give up, but faced the difficulties and chose to continue to insist.
He was injured again during training, this time with a ruptured Achilles tendon, and it can be said that each injury was enough to make him say goodbye to his career as an athlete.
Everyone thought he would choose to retire this time, but he once again made a decision that surprised everyone, that is, to continue training.
Sometimes you feel that god is really unfair, why does it bring so much pain to a very hard-working and extremely talented person.
As the saying goes, one more and two cannot be three again, but Li Donghua encountered this repeatedly.
When Li Donghua was practicing parallel bars, he flew out of the parallel bars again, and his head landed on the ground first, and he fainted on the spot and lost consciousness.
When he woke up, the doctor told him that his cervical spine had been misaligned and needed to be cultivated for a long time, which directly made him disqualified from the Olympic Games.
Li Donghua, who was not going well, was also very broken, and he felt that his point was too back.
03
It was during his recuperation that Li Donghua met a foreign girl who turned out to be a gymnastics enthusiast, and the two had a lot of common topics.
After a period of contact, the two people had feelings, so they decided to start a relationship, which can also be regarded as a blessing for Li Donghua.
This foreign girl is from Switzerland, in order to pursue love, she traveled thousands of miles to find Li Donghua, which also made Li Donghua very moved.
The feelings of the two people have also become deeper, but the leaders of the national team are very opposed to this matter and give Li Donghua a chance to choose one or the other.
Either quit the national team or give up your exotic love.
This time, Li Donghua did not choose to continue to insist, but chose to marry his foreign girlfriend and quit the national team.
After getting married, Li Donghua chose to return to Switzerland with his lover, and the language and various living habits were different, which made him suffer a lot.
He still has his gymnastics dreams, and although he says that he is doing exhausting work, he still maintains the habit of daily training in his spare time.
The news was quickly made known to the Swiss national team and was very surprised by his current state.
With the support of his lover, Li Donghua decided to try again and officially joined the Swiss national team, representing their country in the competition.
In fact, since 1994, Li Donghua has created a lot of history for Switzerland, not only winning the bronze medal in the competition, but also winning the world championship, which is also his first time to touch the world championship
In the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, Li Donghua won the Olympic gold medal with his extraordinary willpower and excellent results.
For a time, Li Donghua became a hero of the country, and was admired and admired by many people.
Later, he also established a gymnastics club in Switzerland, training a large number of outstanding gymnasts for Switzerland.
After achieving success in his career, but bending his back in love, he chose to divorce the foreign lover he had accompanied for many years, and a few years ago, he re-entered the marriage hall with a woman in China.
Character Evaluation:
Li Donghua, who was seriously injured three times, did not choose to give up, and after going through hardships, he chose to persevere, although he realized his gold medal dream in a foreign country, but it can also be regarded as a successful end to his career.
Li Donghua used his own practical actions to prove that as long as you choose to persevere and work hard, all the pains and setbacks will be the scenery in life, and the moment of success, you will find that you are the hero.
Although there is no fulfillment in married life, life is like this, composed of many good and bad things, and optimism is the only good medicine in life.
I hope that everyone in front of the screen will not easily shrink back and give up when facing difficulties, and persist until the end, and will eventually get what they want.
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