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Zhou Jihong
At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Zhou Jihong won the gold medal in the women's 10 meters of the platform, becoming the first olympic champion of diving in the mainland.
In 1998, Zhou Jihong, who had retired for many years, served as the leader of the national diving team and became the head of the national diving team. She led the Chinese diving team to 38 gold medals from the 2000 Sydney Olympics to the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
Under the creation of Zhou Jihong, the Chinese diving team has become a "dream team" that shocked the world sports world.
Zhou Jihong's husband Tian Bingyi was a former world badminton champion, and after retiring as the women's doubles coach of the national badminton team, he trained women's doubles Olympic champions such as Ge Fei and Gu Jun, Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen, and is a veritable gold medal coach.
Behind the brilliance of a gold medal leader and a gold medal coach, Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi, there is guilt and tears hidden...
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Zhou Jihong's first birthday photo
Zhou Jihong (back row, second from right) family portrait
Zhou Jihong was born in 1965 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, the son of Zhou Haiqing, a dispatcher for a transportation company in Hankou, and a worker in a transportation company.
Zhou Jihong has 6 brothers and sisters, she ranks fifth in the family, and the eldest sister Zhou Jinyu is 17 years older than Zhou Jihong. When Zhou Jihong was a few years old, the eldest sister got married and had children.
In elementary school, Zhou Jihong was selected by the teachers of the amateur sports school to join the gymnastics team, and at the age of 12, he changed to diving. Although he grew up on the Yangtze River, Zhou Jihong could not swim.
From learning to swim to winning the national diving championship, Zhou Jihong only took 4 years.
In 1982, at the age of 17, Zhou Jihong was selected for the national diving team. Two years later, at the Los Angeles Olympics, Zhou Jihong was lucky to replace the injured Lu Wei, and as a result, she pressed her teammate Chen Xiaoxia to win the gold medal in the women's 10m platform at the Los Angeles Olympics.
Zhou Jihong won the Olympic Games in Los Angeles
Zhou Jihong thus became the mainland's first diving Olympic champion, when she was only 19 years old.
Zhou Ji's red round face, lively and cheerful, a fast and fast look. She has a stubborn personality, and her teammates call her "Little Pepper.".
After winning the gold medal at the Olympics, Swimming World magazine made a large report on Zhou Jihong, and her confidence and charm infected many foreign sports fans.
In 1986, the 21-year-old Zhou Jihong retired from the national diving team and was arranged by the relevant departments to study in the English Department of Peking University.
Zhou Jihong, who was born as an athlete, has a weak cultural foundation and cannot go to work, and teachers often criticize her in public, which brings great pressure and annoyance to Zhou Jihong. Later, Zhou Jihong gave up her studies and graduated from Peking University.
Tian Bingyi
At this time, Zhou Jihong was walking on the road of love, and her boyfriend was named Tian Bingyi, a male doubles player of the national badminton team, partnered with Li Yongbo.
Tian Bingyi was born in 1963 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, two years older than Zhou Jihong. The two families are more than ten minutes apart by car, but they don't know each other before entering the national team.
Tian Bingyi was selected for the Hubei Provincial Badminton Team at the age of 15 and entered the national badminton team in 1981, pairing with Li Yongbo in doubles.
Zhou Jihong came to the national diving team a year later than Tian Bingyi, when the athletes lived in the same building of the State General Administration of Sports, the diving team lived upstairs, and the badminton team lived downstairs.
Tian Bingyi often met Zhou Jihong in the corridor, and every time Zhou Jihong would smile sweetly at him. Her confident and sunny smile made Tian Bingyi's heart throbb inexplicably.
Tian Bingyi (right) Li Yongbo
Tian Bingyi knew that he was in love with Zhou Jihong, but he was introverted and did not have the courage to confess.
Tian Bingyi and Li Yongbo live in a dormitory, and the two are brothers. Li Yongbo knew his thoughts and invited the two out for dinner.
During the banquet, Li Yongbo took Tian Bingyi to the bathroom, expressed Tian Bingyi's admiration for Zhou Jihong, and asked her what her attitude was towards Tian Bingyi.
In fact, Zhou Jihong also likes the calm and handsome Tian Bingyi, and under the mediation of Li Yongbo, Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi fell in love.
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The love in the eighties was very simple, and Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi did not even dare to pull hands. After Zhou Jihong retired, Tian Bingyi still played on the national badminton team.
Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi wedding photos
When Zhou Jihong was studying at Peking University, she happened to see a beer that Tian Bingyi liked to drink, so she bought 6 bottles and gave them to Tian Bingyi to drink.
In 1990, Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi registered their marriage in Beijing. Just as Zhou Jihong was preparing for the wedding, the national diving team arranged for her to join the team as an assistant coach.
As a result, she and Tian Bingyi had to postpone the wedding. In 1992, Tian Bingyi retired from the national badminton team, and Zhou Jihong and her husband had a make-up wedding in Wuhan.
In 1994, Zhou Jihong gave birth to a son, Tian Yu, in Beijing. After becoming a mother, Zhou Jihong returned to the family as a full-time housewife.
Tian Bingyi entered the national badminton team to coach as a women's doubles coach.
Zhou Jihong and his son
After returning to the family, Zhou Jihong circled around her son and the stove, thinking about her son all day long. In the evening, she made dinner and sat at the table with her son in her arms, waiting for Tian Bingyi to come home.
The Olympic champion returned to the family, half a year, 1 year can still accept, by 1996 when her son was two years old, Zhou Jihong was tired of this life.
Because of her bad mood, she would stumble with her husband at home. Sometimes Tian Bingyi came back late, Zhou Jihong was not happy, the introverted Tian Bingyi did not know how to coax his wife, and the atmosphere at home became dull.
Zhou Jihong is eager to go out and work, but suffers from not having the right opportunity. After the Atlanta Olympics, China's diving fell into a trough, and relevant leaders approached Zhou Jihong, hoping that she would lead the formation of a new national training team.
Zhou Jihong agreed, and Tian Bingyi also supported his wife to go out to work. In 1997, Tian Bingyi's parents came to Beijing to help take care of their grandson.
Zhou Jihong
Zhou Jihong served as the leader of the national diving team, and the national diving team implemented the "team leader responsibility system". Deeply aware of the heavy responsibility on her shoulders, she went out early every day and was busy until 10 p.m.
Diving and badminton team sports characteristics are different, training arrangements are also different, Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi often do not see each other at home. Moreover, the couple often leads the team to training competitions in other places or abroad, and it is common to be separated for more than a month.
Tian Bingyi serves as a women's doubles coach, he does not understand the minds of girls, and it is more difficult to manage. The contradiction between the doubles players is a common disease, and sometimes Tian Bingyi is anxious.
Zhou Jihong gave her husband an idea to find a way to glue the female doubles team members together.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Zhou Jihong led the team to compete for the first time as a team leader. Who knows the disadvantages of the division, the most confident Players of the Chinese team, such as Guo Jingjing and Fu Mingxia, Tian Liang and Hu Jia, have lost their hands one after another, and the 3 most stable gold medals have been lost.
Zhou Jihong and Xiong Ni
Zhou Jihong was so sad that she couldn't eat, couldn't sleep, and she had to pretend to be calm in front of the team members. But when she was alone, she cried several times.
When Tian Bingyi rushed over to dismiss his wife, Zhou Jihong cried very sadly: After paying so much, how could it be such an ending?
Tian Bingyi patiently enlightened his wife: You must not mess around, otherwise the pressure on the team members will be greater, and there will be many projects behind it.
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Two days later, when Xiong Ni narrowly defeated Russia's Sauddin in the men's 3m board single final to win the gold medal, Zhou Jihong hugged Xiong Ni and cried. This scene has become the most classic picture in the history of the Olympic Games.
The next few gold medals, the Chinese diving team did not fall. At this Olympic Games, the Chinese team won a total of 5 gold medals.
Zhou Jihong
At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Zhou Jihong led the Chinese diving team to win 6 gold medals, and she led the team to win 7 gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Led by Tian Bingyi, Ge Fei and Gu Jun won the Women's Doubles Championships at the Atlanta Olympic Games and the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
He led Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen to win the women's doubles gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games, and Tian Bingyi also became a veritable "gold coach".
Later, he was promoted to deputy head coach of the national badminton team, making greater contributions to the prosperity and development of the mainland badminton industry.
As the Chinese diving team became the "Dream Team" and the "Wang Bomb Combination", everyone found that Zhou Jihong was becoming more and more serious, smiling in front of the team members, and looking like a full "Iron Lady".
Zhou Jihong and Tian Liang
So some people talked about it, saying that Zhou Jihong's grades were good, and he began to put up a shelf that was not easy to approach.
In fact, this is a complete misunderstanding, in an interview, Zhou Jihong said his own bitterness: the national diving team has so many big names, if there is no strict management measures, there is no way to manage. Once relaxed, the cohesion and combat effectiveness of the team will quickly collapse, and I cannot bear this responsibility.
Tian Liang violated the rules of the diving team and took advertisements privately, and as a result, he was expelled from the national diving team by Zhou Jihong. And Tian Liang was discovered and cultivated by Zhou Jihong.
At the 2005 Tenth Games, a referee broke the news that no matter how perfect Tian Liang danced, no matter how perfectly Tian Liang danced, only one referee gave 9.5 points, and other referees could only give 8.5 points. The referee was later forced to resign because he had offended the leadership.
At that time, the "Chengdu Business Daily" published an article saying that the leader of the diving team who greeted him was Zhou Jihong, the leader of the national diving team.
Yu Fen and Guo Jingjing
In 2008, Yu Fen, head coach of the Tsinghua diving team, submitted reporting materials to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Bureau of Letters and Visits, saying that Zhou Jihong had embezzled her millions of dollars.
In 2009, another referee at the 11th National Games unveiled the curtain and pointed the finger at Zhou Jihong.
These ups and downs have brought great troubles to Zhou Jihong. She is single-minded, she only wants the diving team to produce results, but she did not expect to attract so many right and wrong, she has no shame, and she can sit upright and withstand the test.
Yes, if Zhou Jihong has a problem, she can't still be the leader of the national diving team.
Every time the wind and rain came, Zhou Jihong was too entangled to sleep. Tian Bingyi always patiently enlightened his wife and accompanied her through one difficult time after another.
Zhou Jihong relayed the Olympic flame
No matter how much trouble there is, only by walking into the training gym, Zhou Jihong's eyes will only diving.
On the training ground, she does not smile, is an "iron lady", in fact, in life, she has a kind personality, cares about the team members like her mother, and has been respected and recognized by the team members.
Every time the competition came, in order to help the female team members decompress, Zhou Jihong also taught them embroidery, and she used embroidery to help herself decompress.
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Zhou Jihong is also a good daughter-in-law who is filial piety, and her in-laws help take care of her son in Beijing, and she is grateful. Every morning when she went out, she had to greet her in-laws, and when she came back in the evening, she had to go into the room to greet her in-laws.
The in-laws have a pension, but Zhou Jihong often gives them pocket money. Leading the team to compete abroad, she had to buy gifts for her in-laws every time.
Zhou Jihong and his son
The old man celebrates his birthday in Beijing, and Zhou Jihong buys cakes, books hotels, and celebrates the birthday of his in-laws and mother-in-law.
Once the father-in-law was ill, Tian Bingyi could not leave, it was Zhou Jihong who drove the old man to the hospital.
Zhou Ji infrared to cheerful, temperament is somewhat urgent, Tian Bingyi introverted and silent, less words, the couple personality difference is relatively large.
Sometimes Zhou Jihong and her husband have a little awkwardness at home, and the in-laws always favor Zhou Jihong, saying that the son's is not, which makes Zhou Jihong very embarrassed.
Gradually, she began to change her temper and no longer stumbled with her husband.
In 2015, Zhou Jihong turned 50 years old and is still busy on the front line. Their son went to a golf school in Shenzhen at the age of 12 to learn to play, and after a few years of study, he did not become a golfer.
Zhou Jihong
Zhou Jihong and her husband had no harsh requirements for their son and let him go back to school. After graduating from college, my son also worked in other places.
Because her son did not often return home, Zhou Jihong and her husband often traveled on business, and sometimes there was no one living at home for more than a month.
When Tian Bingyi was on a business trip, if Zhou Jihong was at home alone, she did not have the heart to cook, and ate three meals a day in the athletes' canteen.
Tian Bingyi returned from a business trip, and Zhou Jihong tried to save trouble, and also went home from the canteen to eat with her husband.
In 2017, Zhou Jihong's sister Zhou Lihong came to Beijing as a guest. Seeing that my sister's family has not lived for a long time, the home is full of dust, and the dishes and chopsticks are moldy, I feel very uncomfortable.
Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi
After that, every once in a while, Zhou Lihong took a train from Wuhan to Beijing to help her sister clean up, get her home in order, and then take the train back to Wuhan.
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The postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to the epidemic has brought great difficulties to the preparation of the national diving team. At the worst of the epidemic, Zhou Jihong and her husband were isolated at home, and the team members went back on vacation.
She was worried that the team members would relax their requirements, eat without moderation, and gain weight rapidly; she was worried that the team members were not in good health and were infected by the virus. Because the training plan was disrupted, Zhou Jihong was very entangled.
All kinds of pressure intertwined, Zhou Jihong was on fire, the left half of her face was swollen high, she couldn't eat anything, and she only drank half a bowl of white rice porridge at each meal. In just half a month, she lost several pounds.
The audience always thought that it was easy for the Chinese diving team to win gold, but in fact, behind the gold medals, there was a lot of blood and sweat from the players and coaches, all of which were fought.
On August 7, 2021, after the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese diving team took a group photo
In an interview, Zhou Jihong said with a smile: Everyone calls the Chinese diving team "Dream Team", and I think it should be called "Fighting Team".
At the Tokyo Olympics in July 2021, Zhou Jihong once again served as the team leader, leading the Chinese diving team to win seven gold medals.
Also in this year, Zhou Jihong was also elected vice president of FINA, the first female vice president in the history of FINA.
In December 2021, Zhou Jihong was listed in the "2021 Top 500 Chinese Brand Figures" list, ranking 455th.
On January 5, 2022, Zhou Jihong was also awarded the first prize of the "Outstanding Contribution Award of the 2021 Olympic Games and National Games".
From the Sydney Olympics to the Tokyo Olympics, Zhou Jihong led the Chinese diving team to win a total of 38 gold medals, a dazzling report card that shocked the world.
Zhou Jihong and Lang Ping
Behind the glory, Zhou Jihong also has tears and guilt. Since serving as the leader of the diving team, Zhou Jihong has not cooked a meal for her son.
Sometimes her son came home and she didn't have time to cook and went to the cafeteria to feed her son. She didn't give her son a parent-teacher conference, he went to school, and she didn't visit him.
For the elderly on both sides, Zhou Jihong also has guilt: she is difficult to return to Wuhan once a year to see her parents, her parents are sick and hospitalized, and Zhou Jihong is not around, all of which are taken care of by brothers and sisters.
But the son and the parents on both sides understand Zhou Jihong, and they feel that Zhou Jihong not only belongs to the family, but also belongs to the country, and belongs to the national diving team.
Zhou Jihong
In two years, the Paris Olympic Games are coming, and Zhou Jihong is confident to lead the national diving team to create glory again.
In May 2022, Zhou Jihong and Tian Bingyi have been married for 32 years. For a long time, they spent most of their time in separation. Compared with ordinary couples, their marriage is more tragic and full of anger!
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