46-year-old Uzbekistan gymnastics veteran Chusovykina has won the championship again!
In gymnastics, 20 years old is a veteran, and Chusovkina has been racing on the field for 30 years since winning her first world championship gold medal at the age of 16!
In the recently concluded International Gymnastics Federation Equipment World Cup Baku station competition, she won the women's vaulting championship by a slight advantage, and her love for sports touched netizens around the world.
Some netizens said: When she first participated in the Olympic Games, I was still a little fart, I had a little fart, and people were still competing.
The two words that people praise Chusovkina the most are "legend" and "greatness."
The "legend" is that she has participated in 8 Olympic Games, and now the athletes who stand on the podium with her are 30 years younger than her, and she has spanned several eras and is known as the "gymnastics living fossil".
"Great" is that after she won the Barceló Olympic Championship in 1992, she had already retired, married and had children, but in order to treat her son with leukemia, Chusovkina could only put on a German robe and participate in various competitions in order to raise the cost of treatment, "You are not cured, how dare I grow old."
She was a legendary athlete and a great mother.
After her son's recovery, Chusovkina, although she is already the oldest player in gymnastics, she still has to fight for her motherland, fight for love, and transfer her nationality back to Uzbekistan.
At the 2021 Tokyo Olympics last year, Chusovykina stopped qualifying, after which she announced her retirement. But just two months later, she announced a comeback with the goal of winning a medal for her country at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Age brings her lack of physical fitness and state, she can be replenished by a lot of training, and the experience and courage accumulated by the years are not available to young athletes.
Age was just a number for her.
Chusovkina said:
"I don't feel like I'm old, I always feel like I'm still eighteen, I really love the sport."
Sometimes we doubt ourselves, people in their thirties and forties, can they still change careers? Can I learn new skills? Do you still have to fight? Or just maintain the status quo, and it's good to be safe and secure.
But only "love" was forgotten.
If it's really something you love, just do it, no matter what age you start, it's never too late.
Without trying it, how do you know how much potential you have?
If you don't fight once, how can you afford to come to this world for a while!
As Chusovkina said:
"I don't know how much I have any potential, I just love the sport. I love bringing joy to the audience and I enjoy every performance I have on the field. ”
Fighting for love and enjoying every game is the power that sportsmanship brings to us.
"Evergreen trees in the sports world" like Chusovkina are not isolated cases, and there are many at home and abroad.
Wang Yifu is China's oldest Olympic gold medalist. At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, his teammate Xu Haifeng won the gold medal in the 50-meter pistol slow-fire event, the first Olympic gold medal in Chinese history, and he won the bronze medal. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Wang Yifu, who played for the sixth time at the Olympic Games, won the gold medal. After his honorable retirement in 2005, he served as head coach of the National Shooting Team and Coach of the Pistols Team.
Waldner, a table tennis legend and the first Grand Slam winner, has been competing with generations of Chinese players for more than 20 years, and Chinese audiences affectionately call him "Lao Wa". At the 2004 Athens Olympics, the 39-year-old was able to beat Marlene in singles to reach the final four, and finally retired at the age of 40.
Lu Xiaojun, the "Chinese military god" who made the European and American fitness circles kneel down and sing conquest, was 37 years old when the 2021 Tokyo Olympics broke the record.
But on the extranet, Lu Xiaojun's charm is not only the Olympic aura, but he can lift three times the strength of his own weight, explosive power and textbook technical movements, and his strict requirements for himself when training are "god" like a "god" for fitness enthusiasts.
An American video blogger exaggeratedly described Lu Xiaojun's training videos, like the Terminator, as art, "it was Michelangelo who was the perfect dream of Da Vinci's brush and carving knife!" ”
In life, I often hear people say: "I don't have any talent, I am just an ordinary person, so I am not good at mixing." ”
But even if the world's top athletes with full talent points, if there is no day-to-day training, no dedication to the goal, no reverence for sportsmanship, empty talent is useless.
And the reality is often that our efforts are far from the time when we fight with people for talent.
Don't use "being content with the ordinary" and "contentment" as excuses for being lazy.
Let us forget the limitations of age, the shackles of the world, and fight for the love in our hearts!