preface
For a professional sports, the biggest problem affecting their careers is age and injury, most of the athletes because of long-term high-intensity sports lead to their late career menstruation often because of injuries and diseases, and finally can only choose to retire, and some athletes, because of the sports they are engaged in scientific training, itself is not too much of an injury problem, but with the increase in age, they have not been allowed to continue to compete in the field, So there is a critical line among athletes, and that is 30 years old.
Race walking champion Liu Hong
Before the age of 30, athletes can play out all the strength of their careers, but after the age of 30, the physical condition of athletes changes, one year is not as good as a year, and this is also the norm of athletes, there will always be some special existence among these athletes, such as Liu Hong, the first person in the Chinese women's race walk, is a unique existence in athletes, throughout Liu Hong's career, she is very different from others, she won a Grand Slam at her peak, basically all the champions are that over and over, And broke the world record one time at a time, becoming an outstanding athlete in China's race walking event.
However, it is such an athlete, when she broke the record, should pay more attention to training, create more brilliant results, but let all no one think that this person chose to quit the game at the peak of the game, go home to have children, and she also enjoyed such a life, in the field of race walking, Liu Hong did not have too high talent, so she did not stand out at the beginning, she is a hard-working player, she can walk into the peak of the world, It is completely by relying on oneself to step by step.
After entering the national team in 2005, she was not optimistic about many people at that time, but her coach had expectations for her, thinking that her future would be an excellent athlete, so in the world championships, Liu Hong sensationalized the domestic sports circle after winning the championship in the race walking project, only because Liu Hong was only 19 years old at the time, and the athletics project was the short board of the mainland, and it can be won a championship in the world event, which shows how much gold content this gold medal is? In the subsequent 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, many people also had very high expectations for Liu Hong.
Achieved Grand Slam at a young age
However, due to Liu Hong's young age at that time, coupled with the competition held at her doorstep, the pressure on her was relatively large, so whether it was experience or pressure, it eventually led to her losing the medal, and finally only got the 4th place, and then in the London Olympic Games, she was full of energy and vowed to get the Olympic gold medal, but this time although she entered the final, she lost the gold medal again, and the two defeats made her understand the strength of the world athletes, and also became the driving force for Liu Hong's training after the same. In the subsequent training, she also worked harder and harder, just to be able to stand at the forefront of the world's race walkers.
And after the London Olympics, she has a qualitative change, she not only in the technical further but also in the psychological has made great progress, the increase in age makes her more and more mature, in the face of large competitions, there is not much pressure, training is also very hard, at the same time the continuous rise of young athletes also gave her a lot of pressure, under the scientific training, she chooses to practice every day, and her efforts have also been rewarded, in the 2015 race walking competition, Not only did she win the final title, but she also set a new world record for race walking.
This achievement alone is a huge progress for the Chinese sports industry, it not only pushed China's race walk to the forefront of the world once again, but also raised the world record by as many as three seconds, but at this time for Liu Hong, there is still a slight regret in her heart, because she did not have an Olympic gold medal, so she set her sights on the Rio Olympic Games for 16 years, at this moment her state is the best, but also the peak of her career, and the final result is also worthy of expectations. She also won the race walking gold medal at the Rio Olympics by an absolute advantage, realizing her long-cherished grand slam wish.
After giving birth, it is back to the top
At this moment is her peak period, she originally had better development prospects, but also can achieve higher achievements, but what everyone did not expect is that this race walker who was pinned high hopes, in the two years from 16 to 18 years, he was never able to participate in any competition, and also faded out of the vision of many people, the reason is that she chose to go home to have children, until 19 years, she chose to comeback race walking project again, but her efforts made many people at that time not very optimistic about her, After all, she hadn't been able to compete in any competitions for two years.
At the same time, after giving birth to a child, her physical fitness has obviously not reached the requirements of the past, her age has been 32 years old, in this age group many athletes have chosen to retire, it is in this voice, Liu Hong did not choose to compromise, but after a period of hard training, her figure once again returned to the appearance of 16 years, and the sweat and effort she paid behind her back is unimaginable to ordinary people, and in order to prove herself, she turned from 20 km to 50 km, And in the World Championships Trials, she once again set a new world record.
When this achievement came out, she once again became the focus of the media, she is also one of the few female athletes who can break the world record in two events, more importantly, everyone did not expect that the athlete who broke the world record is still a mother, for some people, the effort may not be rewarded, but at the same time, for some people, they are more convinced that if they do not work hard, they will not get anything in return.
brief summary
In the face of many rumors from the outside world, Liu Hong did not choose to avoid or compromise, she firmly believes that her ability is not only because she will disappear after giving birth, for which she has made all her efforts to quickly retrieve her state, and she has thus become a legendary figure in the track and field race, and even become a lot of role models for backup learning.