Chinese sports have always been a non-traditional strong sport in athletics, but there have also been world champions such as Wang Junxia and Liu Xiang. Wang Junxia won the gold medal in the women's 5,000 meters at the Atlanta Olympics, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win the Olympic long-distance running championship.
Today we are talking about another long-distance runner in the Chinese sports world, Sun Yingjie, who was one of the masters of the Chinese women's long-distance running project. She won the 5,000m and 10,000m titles at the 2002 Asian Games, ranking second and fourth in the world that year, respectively, and at the 2003 World Championships, she and Liu Xiang won only two medals for China.
Born in a poor rural family in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, Sun Yingxing's father borrowed money to provide her with monthly food and accommodation in order to allow her to receive vocational training. In 1995, Sun Yingjie was taken away by coach Wang Xiande and began her 11 years of training with Wang Xiande, under the coach's intensive and extensive training, Sun Yingjie began to emerge in large-scale events in 1998, and in 2002, he performed bravely at the Asian Games, and spent a short and brilliant peak period in the following 4 years.
However, after participating in the 10,000-meter race in Nanjing in 2005, Sun Yingjie's urine test was positive, the results were canceled and he was banned for two years, the sudden blow made Sun Yingjie feel overwhelmed for a while, she insisted that she did not take the banned drug, asked to review the B bottle, the result was still positive, in the face of the punishment result of the two-year ban, Sun Yingjie had no choice but to retire.
After the investigation, it turned out that Yu Haijiang, an athlete of the Qinghai Provincial Sports Team, put stimulants in the drink she drank before the game without Sun Yingjie's knowledge. Yu Haijiang's coach is Wang Xiande's younger brother, there are also online revelations, it is Wang Xiande's instructions, want to let Sun Yingjie run a good result, Sun Yingjie became a scapegoat without knowing it, Yu Haijiang was also punished by the law.
Sun Yingjie was also exposed to the news that Sun Yingjie's prize money for many World Championships was detained by coach Wang Xiande, Sun Yingjie's father was seriously ill and had no money to seek medical treatment, asked Wang Xiande for bonuses, was ruthlessly rejected and was severely beaten, in desperation, Sun Yingjie asked for help from media reports, Wang Xiande was worried that things would be big, and paid Sun Yingjie 600,000 yuan in one lump sum, so that the unpaid salary storm came to an end.
After retiring from the army, Sun Yingjie served as the image ambassador for promoting long-distance running sports, she seized the business opportunity of running to become a fashion, set up a running club, after years of operation, now there are many branches across the country, the former athletes successfully transformed into bosses, I wish her good luck.