The heights are cold, and the talents who have been at the top in the field of excellence have experienced controversy throughout the ages.
The same is true in the sports world, Liu Xiang, Yao Ming, Tian Liang, Sun Yang... These talented athletes who have been rare for decades have faced controversy in their respective careers.
The difference is that the first few athletes have won back respect by strength and character after thousands of sails.
Only Sun Yang, from the original national idol, to now fall on the altar and "disappear", makes people feel doubly sad.
Many people believe that his overturning car was due to doping.
In fact, when he first became famous, Sun Yang was exposed to a lot of negative news.
How did he "die" himself step by step over the years?
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Sun Yang, born in 1991 in Zhejiang, his father was a volleyball player of the Anhui Sports Team, and his mother was the main player of the Zhejiang women's volleyball team.
Tiger father has no dogs, when he was a child, he perfectly inherited the genetic advantage in height, and he was much higher than his peers at a young age.
When he was in kindergarten, his parents took him out to play, and he was often mistaken for a primary school student.
In 1997, Sun Yang began to form an indissoluble relationship with swimming.
That year, his enlightenment coach Zhu Ying was preparing to go to the kindergarten to select seedlings.
They intend to select 120 key students out of thousands of children.
When she asked around where there were good seedlings, someone told her: "There is a child in the kindergarten nearby, and she can't sleep in bed!" ”
Hearing this sentence, Zhu Ying rushed to the kindergarten and saw 6-year-old Sun Yang for the first time.
When practicing swimming, talent and physical condition are important, especially height is the foundation.
At the first sight of Sun Yang, she decided that the child in front of her was exactly the person she was looking for.
At that time, the bed in the kindergarten was only one meter and four meters, but Sun Yang could only curl up and sleep, which was enough to show that his height at that time was close to one meter and five.
Soon, Zhu Ying contacted Sun Yang's parents through the kindergarten, and after obtaining consent, took him away.
Because he was too young, Sun Yang wanted to go home after coming to the sports school, and he ran back in only a month.
Looking at his small face, Yang Ming was very distressed and suspended the plan to cultivate his son.
But coach Zhu Ying did not give up and kept calling and lobbying them.
Under her persuasion, Yang Ming began to do ideological work on the child, and finally persuaded Sun Yang.
Life at the gymnasium was hard, and the coach and his mother were very demanding of him.
At that time, they set a rule for Sun Yang: "A good coach who swims well takes him home by car, and a bad swim that runs back by himself." ”
Yang Ming looked forward to his son's success, even if the scorching sun reached 42 ° C, the penalty was still punished.
The training was hard, but after really getting exposed to the charm of swimming, Sun Yang fell in love with the sport.
Although he had to swim at least 20,000 meters a day, he never cried tired.
Gradually, his talent in swimming was also revealed.
In 2004, Sun Yang, who performed well, was selected by the Zhejiang provincial team and quickly achieved good results in the competition.
In 2005, he won three gold medals in the men's 400m medley, 200m freestyle and 1500m freestyle at the Provincial Games, shocking the industry.
Debut is the champion, but at that time, Sun Yang was completely a child and was very naughty in private.
Outside of training, he would often play pranks, such as sneaking the staff who helped the team into the water.
He would make a "small report" to the coach about who had done less backflips.
He will also spit on his mother: "My mother is a tigress at home..."
After three years in the provincial team, Sun Yang was selected to enter the national team, when he was only 16 years old.
From this moment on, his career skyrocketed and quickly entered people's sights.
After several world events, Sun Yang won the gold medal in the men's 800m freestyle at the 2011 Shanghai World Swimming Championships.
After winning the first world championship, Sun Yang seemed to be hanging on, and shined at the London Olympic Games, breaking the world's highest record in the 400-meter freestyle.
His appearance can be said to have changed the history of the Chinese men's swimming team and created a new myth.
Overnight, Sun Yang became a "national idol".
Off the field, his commercial value was maximally reflected.
Various advertising endorsements and publicity activities followed, and Sun Yang's value doubled, becoming a fragrant feast in the eyes of merchants and TELEVISION stations.
Everything has two sides, and suddenly wrapped in great fame and fortune, the swimming star's private life began to be concerned.
Everyone found that Sun Yang in life was far less beautiful than everyone imagined.
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From childhood to adulthood, Sun Yang has always grown up under the protection of his mother and coaches, and his life is a game in addition to training.
Entering the national team for the first taste of success, his mentality began to change subtly.
Perhaps in order to get rid of his mother's discipline, Sun Yang, who is emotionally blank, once talked about an "online love" before winning the championship.
At that time, the girl claimed to be the second generation of the rich, and the two were in agreement, and they quickly talked hotly.
At that time, Sun Yang, even if he was training abroad, had always maintained close contact with this girl.
Soon after, the girl told her that something had happened to her family and needed urgent money and wanted to borrow 20,000 yuan from him.
Sun Yang, who is not familiar with the world, is very anxious, but because his money is managed by his mother, he can't get it out for a while, so he can only borrow it with his friends.
Who knew that the "rich second-generation girlfriend" completely disappeared with this money, and his first love ended in a state of insanity.
This failed relationship did not make Sun Yang wake up, and it was not long before he fell in love with a flight attendant.
In 2010, Sun Yang flew to Australia for training on Air China, and on the plane, he met Li Yingnian, who was 6 years older than himself.
Li Yingnian was tall, beautiful in appearance, and gentle in temperament, which deeply impressed Sun Yang.
Coincidentally, Yang Ming, the mother who went out for training that time, did not follow the past, so the two people who fell in love at first sight quickly frowned on the plane and left contact information for each other.
After arriving in Australia, Sun Yang contacted Li Yingnian while training, privately created opportunities to meet, quickly determined the relationship, and also opened the relationship through social platforms.
At that time, Sun Yang was in the ascendancy period of his career, and the coach and mother reacted greatly to this matter.
Coach Zhu Zhigen believes that falling in love will affect the performance of athletes and directly proposes to let them break up.
Yang Ming started from many angles, one was to dislike the woman's old age, and the other was worried that the other party was dragging down his son's career, and immediately issued a breakup ultimatum to them.
Due to the strong opposition of his family, Sun Yang's love affair with this space was over.
Until 2016, this matter had another eyebrow, and some gossip media filmed Li Yingnian appearing with a five- or six-year-old boy.
Subsequently, people familiar with the matter revealed that the boy was the child of Sun Yang and Li Yingnian, and when the man's mother objected, the girl was pregnant.
It was mentioned in the breaking news that Sun Yang's parents were extremely disdainful of girls, and used a villa and a sky-high breakup fee to break up the two.
After the rumors were exposed, Sun Yang's supervisor coach responded: "I have not heard of this matter. ”
His agency directly denied it, and Yang Ming, who has always been active in front of the media, rarely spoke out this time.
Subsequently, Sun Yang's deletion of a dynamic seems to explain everything.
"People who care about me, please don't hurt people I care about."
Up to now, it is impossible to verify whether Sun Yangyu's rumors about this flight attendant are true, but the reputation of the world champion has begun to decline from this moment on.
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Vanity Fair is like a mirror, and when huge interests are pouring in, the contradiction between Sun Yang and the coach also appears.
The cause of the matter is still because of love, when Sun Yang and the flight attendant fell in love, Zhu Zhigen resolutely opposed.
He criticized his beloved disciple with great fierceness and asked him to cut off contact with the flight attendant.
At that time, Sun Yang first tasted love, his personality was very rebellious, and he was very unconvinced after being lectured, and he was angry and unwilling to practice with Zhu Zhigen.
In the face of the apprentice's confrontation, Zhu Zhigen was sad in his heart, watching Sun Yang, who had been with him for 9 years, lose his mind, and he finally left with disappointment.
After changing coaches, Sun Yang's state did not improve, coupled with his mother's opposition to his love affair, he was always depressed for a while.
After being forced to break up, his state was visibly declining with the naked eye, and he often took advantage of the rest days to play around, soak in the night show, and live a night and a song.
The most bizarre thing is that he had another flight attendant girlfriend during this period.
This new girlfriend is also very unreliable, and Sun Yang is constantly dragging him down.
During the love affair, he drove an off-road vehicle with his new girlfriend out for a ride, and accidentally got into a collision with the bus.
After the incident, the bus driver took the initiative to take responsibility and was willing to compensate 5,000.
According to common sense, celebrities going out and causing traffic accidents should be big things and small things.
But Sun Yang's girlfriend did not think so, she felt that the compensation was too little, so she called the police.
Who knew that after the police arrived at the scene, they found that Sun Yang did not have a driver's license, so they took him back to the detention center.
After the incident was exposed, he had to apologize publicly, and his image was greatly damaged.
Due to the continuous decline in status and the incident of unlicensed driving, Sun Yang was ordered by the national team to stop all training and commercial activities.
In fact, in recent years, in addition to his private life, Sun Yang's performance in many public occasions has also been unsatisfactory.
For example, after the 2013 National Games, the sponsor of the national team, Anta, wanted him to wear corporate clothing on stage for a group photo.
This proposal was firmly opposed by his mother Yang Ming, who made a big fuss on the spot, on the grounds that :"ANTA sponsors the entire national team, not Sun Yang." ”
Finally, under the consultation between the team and the merchant, Yang Ming promised to let his son wear the corporate sportswear.
However, in the field, Sun Yang always blocked the logo with the national flag, which completely angered the merchants.
This incident made Sun Yang's mother and son and Anta completely turn against each other, and they made a lot of unpleasant trouble with each other.
In many occasions after that, such as when taking the stage to receive the award, Sun Yang would deliberately cover the logo whenever he wore Anta's clothing.
The intervention of the mother not only affected Sun Yang's life, but also disrupted the business rules.
After all kinds of events fermented, he became the "mother treasure man" in the population. ”
At that time, the leader of the General Administration of Sports appealed: "Sun Yang should be let go, and do not interfere too much in his son's private life."
And the initiator of the tragedy of his life after that was his mother.
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As an athlete, Sun Yang's private life is worse, as long as the results on the field are bright, he can still restore his reputation.
After public opinion questioned, he trained hard and performed well in various competitions.
But the drug test storm in 2014 plunged him into the darkest moment of his life.
During the May 2014 National Games, a news that Sun Yang was banned from the Chinese Swimming Association for three months caused concern.
Reports show that Sun Yang was found to have taken the banned drug trimetazidin during the drug test, which was listed as a banned drug in early 2014.
After the incident, netizens attacked him in groups, complaining that his gold medal had moisture.
Looking at the various words on the Internet, Sun Yang locked himself in his room for three days without eating or drinking.
After a long period of public opinion, he responded through the authorities.
At that time, Sun Yang's team explained that he had had palpitations since 2008, and after the examination, the doctor prescribed the drug for him, and he did not know that the drug was included in the contraband.
At that time, the doubts about drug tests quickly passed, and Sun Yang resumed training.
Although the misunderstanding has been lifted, netizens still have doubts about him, and some people even gave him a nickname "Medicine King Sun.". ”
That time was painful for him, in order to prove himself, he trained hard, the form returned to the peak, and then achieved great results in many major events.
Coming out of the crisis of illegal drugs, Sun Yang seems to have forgotten the public opinion questioning that has always accompanied him.
At the Olympics, he had a lot of unpleasant encounters with Horton.
At that time, there were many people who supported him, and Sun Yang, with strong support, quickly forgot about it. He participated in many shows after the competition, but his performance was not satisfactory.
At the Spit Conference, he mentioned Horton again, and his words were full of arrogance.
"People like Horton obviously lack the discipline of their mothers."
"Train well, Horton Guy, swim a little faster and you'll be able to drink my delicious foot-washing water!"
This kind of practice of quick tongue for a while has fully exposed Sun Yang's small family temperament.
In those years, he was proud of his career, and seeing that his career was about to enter the second peak, who knew that the accident had appeared again.
On September 4, 2018, Sun Yang chose "violent resistance" when facing the staff who went to the door to carry out doping inspections.
This kind of behavior, which is considered to be three hundred and two silver in this area, has aroused great concern in the sports community.
At this time, Sun Yang questioned the identity and documents of the staff in many ways and spoke out through the media, but the company to which the other party belonged, WADA, still sued him in court.
Before the hearing, Sun Yang's mother, in the name of "collecting relevant information and seeking help", had private contact with two of the 3 inspectors, hoping to impress each other with the "emotional card".
This act is undoubtedly that there is no silver thirty thousand taels here.
Before the trial, Sun Yang's mother also played a hand to change the general, replacing Liu Chi, a top lawyer in the sports world, with Zhang Qihuai.
In 2020, in response to Sun Yang's violent resistance to the prosecution, the International Court of Arbitration for Sport announced the result: "Banned for 8 years! ”
This result, for professional athletes, is undoubtedly a death sentence.
After multiple appeals, Sun Yang won a better result for himself: "Banned for 4 years and 3 months. ”
Time has shortened a lot, but for him, who is nearly thirty years old, there is still no hope.
Afterwards, he vowed that he would continue to set sail in the future!
In the face of the media, he also stated that he would continue to devote himself to training until the 2024 Paris Games.
Unfortunately, Sun Yang said to set sail, but did not focus on training and the field, but threw himself into the live broadcast room.
Beginning in early 2022, he joined the ranks of the army with goods.
Although many netizens expressed understanding: "Athletes also have to eat." ”
But then Sun Yang's live broadcast mode shocked many people's jaws.
In front of the lively background board, he sat quietly dressed in exquisite dress, holding a sign in his hand that read: "The number of people to 30,000 to take sunglasses"
"50,000 people laughed, 80,000 people kept smiling, 100,000 people spoke..."
The immersive live broadcast method looks novel, but combined with the title of Sun Yang's Olympic champion, many netizens have also called out: "Good LOW!" ”
Although the public's reaction is unanimously not optimistic, Sun Yang seems to be very determined.
In the subsequent live broadcast, he personally explained the product, tried the bargaining service one-stop, looked familiar with the road, and seemed to have an iron heart to go down this road.
Looking at a generation of swimming superstars, from the rise to the fall, and finally the end of a live broadcast with goods, it is still very regrettable!
People have their own aspirations, and I hope that in the future, Sun Yang can correct his attitude and serve fans and consumers well!