"Youlan is in the valley, and no one knows it, only because of the heavy fragrance, and the seekers are all over the mountains." - "Youlan"
There are hundreds of millions of pedestrians in the world, but opportunities and efforts are like big waves, only a few people can stick to the original intention, always march towards the goal, and finally 'turn into a dragon in the face of wind and rain'. The small one shines in its own field, and the big wins glory for the country.
As Marshal Chen Yi's poem at the beginning said: Only if you are good enough, you can naturally attract more excellent people.
Today we are going to talk about such a person, born ordinary, with many times more efforts than others finally grew into an Olympic champion. Because of his excellent appearance, he was chased by Bai Fumei for three years before he succeeded.
After retiring from the army and successfully transforming, he is now a businessman with a net worth of over 100 million, and his family is enviable with happiness and happiness. Who is this perfect counterattack?
Yes, it is the continental men's gymnast, the gold medal of the men's gymnastics team at the 2012 London Olympics: Zhang Chenglong!
Accidentally embarked on the gymnastics road
In 1989, in a family of ordinary workers in Zibo, Shandong Province, a little boy was born.
In line with the simple wish of Jackie Chan, his parents named him Zhang Chenglong. The already extraordinary name also gave this child an imminent extraordinary fate.
Because the factory where my parents worked was in the countryside, they still went to the fields to farm when they were not busy on weekdays. As a result, Zhang's parents and mothers did not have so much time to take care of their children. As a result, the vast world of the countryside has become a playground for Zhang Chenglong's stocking.
Such a child who grows up unrestrained, at a young age, is full of hard work, and the quality of learning is not seen for the time being, but the motor nerves are really developed.
In 1995, Zhang Chenglong, who was only six years old, was still in preschool. One day, someone from the school came, claiming to be a coach from Zibo City, Shandong Province, planning to train a group of gymnasts who could win glory for the country in the future.
After a few simple gymnastics movement tests, the coach picked Zhang Chenglong at a glance. Because only he has the best control and the highest degree of completion.
After consulting with his parents, coach Shen Pigao officially embarked on the road of gymnastics with Xiao Jackie Chan.
There are many twists and turns on the training road
On the podium of the 2008 National Gymnastics Championships, looking at the horizontal bar champion medal on his chest, Zhang Chenglong can be described as a mixture of tastes.
You can hardly imagine that at the National Games three years ago, he still had no grain, and he almost wanted to give up at one point in frustration. You can't imagine that he had only been training for two months before this competition.
Zhang Chenglong, who was only 6 years old at the time, joined the municipal gymnastics training team with ignorance, and everything was new and fun at a young age.
But he soon learned that trying to practice gymnastics was not fun to think. Hundreds of movement exercises every day, countless repetitions of falls, soreness after the pulling of muscles and ligaments throughout the body, bruises left on the body...
All of this made this young child who left home often cry uncontrollably in the middle of the night.
But with the gradual increase in the smile on the coach's face, and his own visible physique became stronger, and the sense of accomplishment brought about by each difficult action.
Jackie Chan also slowly got used to this kind of life in the training day after day, and completely fell in love with this sport full of strength and beauty.
Three years of training seemed to be fleeting in the gap between the white colts, but then an accident occurred. It turned out that Zhang Chenglong was favored by a diving coach because his basic training skills were quite solid, and Zhang Chenglong's body lines were quite symmetrical.
Because gymnastics training and diving training at that time were somewhat similar, the coach said bluntly: This must be a good seedling for diving.
So under the coach's soft and hard bubble, Zhang Chenglong came to the diving training gym.
After practicing for a month, he was still not very interested in diving, so there was no progress in training, so Zhang Chenglong returned to the gymnastics team.
But this different attempt left a deep memory for the nine-year-old child, because it made him more clear that what he really loved and wanted to stick to was gymnastics!
Returning to the gymnastics team this time, Zhang Chenglong silently set himself a "small goal" of becoming a world champion.
But gymnastics is full of talents, how can it be achieved? In the days that followed, he would exceed his quota in addition to completing the training tasks set every day.
The future champion silently enriches his wings, accumulates his own strength little by little, and waits for the wind to rise one day and take off in the era that belongs to him.
Bitter people, the sky does not bear, three thousand Yue Jia can swallow Wu. When a talented person starts to work hard and give more than ordinary people, he is already half successful.
In 2002, 13-year-old Zhang Chenglong was selected for the national training team.
The national training team, a place where good seedlings from all over the country gather, have excellent talent for picking out any one.
Here, as long as you have a heart that is not willing to be lost in the hearts of others, the only thing you can do is to work harder and harder than others.
For the dream of world champion, Zhang Chenglong persevered and worked hard.
But sometimes God often jokes that even if you put in double your efforts, you may not be able to get the rewards you deserve.
Three years later, at the National Games, 16-year-old Zhang Chenglong made his debut on the stage on behalf of the Shandong gymnastics team, and the spirited teenager still lost to his own mentality.
Because of the tension before the game, he did not know how to alleviate his emotions, so that he frequently made low-level mistakes in the case of obvious technical strength advantages, and finally did not receive any results.
Ten years of training and acceptance results have achieved nothing, and Zhang Chenglong is inevitably a little discouraged.
Thinking of his parents and grandfather who had supported him all the way, as well as the coach who had painstakingly cultivated himself, he was suddenly full of guilt and felt that he had no face to see them.
Fortunately, his family has been with him to cheer him up, and in the end, he still believed in his dream and started again with the encouragement of his family and coaches.
Zhang Chenglong watched the slow-motion replay of the arena over and over again, looked at those low-level mistakes that should not appear, recalled his mood during the game, and slowly realized that the psychological quality of athletes can directly affect the outcome of the game.
To find a problem is to overcome it. Zhang Chenglong began to look for a state of impromptu competition that suited him.
At the end of the year, the national team coach Chen Xiong came to Shandong to inspect local athletes, and his appearance changed Zhang Chenglong's life.
After careful observation, coach Chen, who had a unique insight, took a look at Zhang Chenglong. Bluntly speaking, this is a good material for practicing gymnastics, the previous training method is not suitable for him, I want to take him to the national team for training.
Who is Chen Xiong? Speaking of which, many people may not know. Speaking of him, he has to mention another person: the athlete who has won the most championships in the history of Chinese gymnastics - Li Xiaopeng. And Chen Xiong is the ace coach who has cultivated Li Xiaopeng.
Zhang Chenglong, who found a suitable training style for himself, made rapid progress under the guidance of Coach Chen Xiong. But the problem that followed quickly appeared, that is, Zhang Chenglong was too tall! It has exceeded the selection conditions of gymnasts by a large margin!
In the era of increasing emphasis on appearance, a pair of long legs that have nowhere to be placed is undoubtedly the dream of many people, but it has become the biggest obstacle to his sports career.
Because the legs are too long, it will greatly affect the coordination and completion of his body.
In free exercise, kurama and vaulting events, people with long legs often have to pay more sweat in order to make their legs flexible, lightly take off, and land steadily.
Blowing away the wild sand begins to reach gold
Two months later, Zhang Chenglong, who was not optimistic about everyone, once again appeared on the field of the National Games, although he finally lost to Guo Weiyang, he finally proved himself and won the runner-up and entered the national first team.
Then, at the 42nd World Gymnastics Championships in 2010, the 21-year-old stood up as an "older" athlete and finally shined in the gymnastics world with a brilliant score of 16.166 points, and also won his first individual world championship medal.
Although it is hard work, blowing out the wild sand begins to reach gold. This child, who was born with the wish of "hoping to become a dragon" by his parents, did not live up to their expectations, and finally turned into a dragon in the face of wind and rain.
Since then, Zhang Chenglong seems to have embarked on a smooth road and gone straight.
2010 Guangzhou Asian Games Men's Gymnastics Horizontal Bar Event Champion, Men's Team Champion.
At the 2011 Tokyo Gymnastics World Championships, men's horizontal and parallel bars won two runners-up medals.
In the last world gymnastics tournament before the London Olympics in April 2012, he was even more invincible and won the championship with high-quality and high-completion actions before rushing into the Olympic Games.
In the gymnastics men's team final, the Chinese team composed of Chen Yibing, Feng Zhe, Guo Weiyang and Zou Kai won the team championship with zero mistakes in six events.
However, in the parallel bars event on August 7, Zhang Chenglong made a mistake and won the fourth place medal. But as long as he has worked hard, there are no regrets, after all, he is already good enough.
However, bad luck is like a fart worm, in the 12th National Games Gymnastics Team Competition in 2013, Zhang Chenglong scored a difficult set of actions with a D score of 7.2, and obtained the highest score of 16.000 points on the horizontal bar, making Shandong team win the gold medal with a total score of 352.707 points;
However, in the men's individual all-around final on September 5, he fell on his strong free gymnastics. There was a serious mistake, ranking 14th, missing the medal.
In the 2014 tournament, Zhang Chenglong caught up with the situation that the Chinese team was behind in the score, pulling back the advantage zone on the horizontal bar to implement a perfect reversal, defeating the opponent with an overall score of 0.1 points higher than the Japanese team, and achieving the sixth consecutive world championship in the mainland.
Unfortunately, when it came to the individual horizontal bar final, the palm of his right hand suddenly broke, causing him to fall off the instrument again, causing a mistake. Missed the medal again!
Until the 13th National Games in 2017, God finally did not forget this, has always insisted on working hard for his favorite gymnastics cause, he finally stood on the podium again and won the men's horizontal bar championship.
If you bloom the breeze, you will come
Unexpectedly, while he focused on his dreams, love quietly came.
In the fall of 2012, when Zhang Chenglong was attending an event, he suddenly felt that a girl at the next table had been staring at him.
This 23-year-old boy, the hero of men's gymnastics, has never been afraid of world-class competitions, but he has lost in the straightforward eyes of this beautiful girl. I was looked at helplessly, and my face was red!
The girl was Zhao Ziyan, and after the event that day, Zhao Ziyan took the initiative to chat with him and asked for contact information.
In addition to her family is a typical rich second generation Bai Fumei, she is also very outstanding, not only beautiful but also a super bully, has completed the design of a well-known university in the United Kingdom, and entered the workplace.
After getting acquainted, Zhang Chenglong knew that the girls were impressed by their focus on gymnastics and became their fans.
Seeing that the other party is so excellent, it is simply a goddess-level girl, and zhang Chenglong, who is shy and shy, did not think much about it, and the two exchanged like friends.
Unaware that people fell in love with him at first sight, conquered by his personality charm, and were quietly pursuing him.
But as the two became more and more familiar, he finally realized Zhao Ziyan's feelings.
However, at this moment, Zhang Chenglong is still full of gymnastics, plus he wants to train and prepare for the game before the game, and he has no heart to fall in love.
In the face of such a girl who has a princess life and does not have a princess disease, and who attaches equal importance to appearance and talent, she chose to hide. So the winking eyes were thrown to the "iron man" who had not opened the love sinus!
Fortunately, Zhao Ziyan was not intimidated by his avoidance, but was touched by his love for gymnastics, expressing respect for Zhang Chenglong's wishes and accompanying him all the way in the gymnastics career.
In the trough period after Zhang Chenglong, he did not give up, patiently accompanied and carefully comforted, became his solid backing, and even gave up the opportunity to go abroad to study for graduate school.
Finally, in 2015, Zhao Ziyan, who had been chasing for three years, got a response from the other party.
Zhang Chenglong, who is not good at words, took the salary of his athlete, chartered the LED display screen of a shopping mall, and in the blessings of the crowd, romantically held flowers and took the diamond ring, and knelt down on one knee to propose to Zhao Ziyan successfully.
And emotionally said: Thank God for letting me meet you!
In 2017, the two ushered in the crystallization of love, a family of two into three, and a lively and lovely daughter.
The happiness of the family and the support of relatives have given Zhang Chenglong more motivation to devote himself to gymnastics. However, in the following years, although Zhang Chenglong was still active in various competitions, his results were not ideal.
When he arrived at the Rio Olympics, he was even more fruitless, and the sequelae left by these years of training were gradually revealed, so that he had to say goodbye to the gymnastics he loved.
At this time, Zhao Ziyan had taken over her father's business and became a strong woman in the mall.
Because of the intense pre-game training in preparation for Rio, the two did not have a wedding after receiving their licenses. But the less than ideal results after the game made Zhang Chenglong also a little discouraged and had no time to organize the wedding.
In 2018, after sorting out his own state, with the help of relatives and friends, he made up a special wedding for Zhao Ziyan. In the presence of their children, the two made a promise of a lifetime.
Subsequently, driven by his wife, Zhang Chenglong also began to try to work hard in the mall.
The two of them joined hands to start a business together, as if no matter how big the difficulties became, they became easy to overcome. The couple also quickly accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars.
Compared with many transformed athletes, the transition is very smooth.
Today, Zhang Chenglong's family life is happy, and his career is also thriving.
He also went from an ordinary rural boy to a perfect counterattack through his own continuous efforts. It's not so much luck as it is inevitable! Because people who are willing to fight for their dreams and pay sweat for them will definitely change their destiny.
Only when you become more excellent, you will have more and better choices.