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Bear Ni
Xiong Ni has participated in 4 Olympic Games in Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta and Sydney, winning a total of 3 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, enjoying the reputation of "Diving Prince".
In 2001, Xiong Ni officially retired after winning the men's single 3m springboard championship at the 9th National Games. Xiong Ni won a total of 16 world championships in his athletic career, including 3 Olympic gold medals.
In 2008, Xiong Ni and his girlfriend Li Jingman, who had been in love for 10 years, held a wedding in Changsha and had a son after marriage.
In 2015, Xiong Ni's father died unexpectedly after he disappeared, pushing Xiong Ni into great grief...
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Xiong Ni was born in 1974 in Changsha, Hunan Province, his father made a living by repairing clocks and watches, and his mother worked in auto parts at the unit. Xiong Ni has an older brother named Xiong Hui, who used to play football in an amateur sports school.
Xiong Ni and his brother as a child
In 1981, 7-year-old Xiong Ni was in the first grade of Triangle Pond Primary School in Changsha, and the diving and gymnastics coaches of the provincial amateur sports school successively selected seedlings from the school.
Xiong Ni fluttered a pair of big eyes, very spirited, was selected by both diving and gymnastics coaches, both coaches wanted him. Xiong Ni didn't know which project to choose, so he went home and asked his parents.
The work that parents are engaged in has nothing to do with sports, and they don't know which project their son chooses to choose, so they casually tell their son: Whoever chooses you first, you practice with whom.
It was Xiong Ni, the diving coach Ma Yanping, who chose Xiong Ni first, so Xiong Ni chose to dive.
Xiong Ni learned the movement very quickly, and after practicing for several months, he learned the movement of the 3-meter springboard. Immediately after Xiong Ni practiced the 10-meter jumping platform, but standing on the high 10-meter jumping platform, he was dizzy and his legs were shaking, and he did not dare to jump down.
Xiong Ni as a child
When Coach Ma first taught him the movements, he should have put his head into the water first, but xiong Ni was the first to enter the water with his feet. This is so dangerous that the coach is so scared that his face turns white.
Xiong Ni was afraid of diving, and secretly escaped from the training hall several times to go to the farmer's market to watch the old man play chess. After the father knew, a slap slapped past, and Xiong Ni covered his fiery face, tears rolling in his eyes.
The next day, the parents sent Xiong Ni to the diving hall. Worried that Xiong Ni would skip class again, his father took Xiong Ni to the training gym every day by bicycle.
In December 1983, the provincial diving team came to the sports school to select the team members, and only Xiong Ni and two other team members were selected among the 50 children.
However, after entering the provincial team, Xiong Ni did not train hard and was afraid of practicing 10 meters to jump the stage. Coach Ma Yanping followed Xiong Ni to the provincial diving team, when Ma Yanping was still an unmarried girl and very patient.
The leader of the diving team wanted to return Xiong Ni several times, and it was Coach Ma who argued and kept him. She felt that Xiong Ni had good understanding and potential, and as long as she trained hard, she would make a difference in the future.
In 1984, the crew of the old version of "Journey to the West" moved to Changsha to shoot, and Xiong Ni and the children of the diving team were invited to the crew to play the little monkeys of Huaguoshan.
During the shooting, Xiong Ni's head accidentally hit the stalactite, and his head broke and bled. After he was taken to the hospital, the doctor did not give him anesthesia and stitched more than 20 stitches on his head.
Xiong Ni did not shed a single tear, and rarely cried out in pain, which showed that he was a stubborn child.
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In October of the following year, Xiong Ni participated in the first National Youth Games and won the 16th place in the men's 10m platform. Teammate Chen Qing was selected for the national team because of his excellent results, and coach Ma Yanping was transferred to the national team with Chen Qing.
Early years of Bear Ni
Ma Yanping is optimistic about Xiong Ni and takes him to Beijing, hoping to be favored by the national team and stay.
Because Xiong Ni is an out-of-staff athlete, he cannot live in the national diving team's dormitory, renting a basement near the national diving team. He also couldn't train on the diving team, so he could only stand outside and watch.
The strong Xiong Ni was deeply touched in his heart, and he gritted his teeth and warned himself: I must rely on my own strength to jump into the national diving team.
After returning to Changsha, Xiong Ni seemed to have changed into a person, and his training was particularly hard and self-conscious. In 1986, Xiong Ni participated in the National Championship Diving Competition and won four championships such as single and team jumping in the men's 10 meters. After the game, Xiong Ni was successfully selected for the national team.
In the talented national diving team, Xiong Ni gradually became the main layer. In 1988, Xiong Ni, who had just turned 14, went with the team to the Seoul Olympics and competed with the diving prince Of the United States, Loganis.
Xiong Ni at the Seoul Olympics (left)
Loganis is 14 years older than Xiong Ni, who is significantly better than the other side. Before the final jump, Xiong Ni's overall score was more than 3 points ahead of Loganis and ranked first.
Xiong Ni's last jump was flawless, and When Loganis entered the water, the water splash was very large, and it was reasonable to say that Xiong Ni had a chance to win.
However, due to Loganis' long-term fame, the referee was deeply impressed with him, plus in the final he hit the jumping platform on his head and shed a lot of blood, and the referee sympathized with him in his heart.
In the end, the referee gave the gold medal to Loganis, and Xiong Ni was the runner-up by a fraction of a centimeter. Even so, this is the first Olympic medal in the history of Hunan sports.
At the end of the game, many people were upset for Xiong Ni, and American diving star Mitchell shook Xiong Ni's hand and said: You are the real champion. There was also a foreign referee who also apologized to Xiong Ni.
The Seoul Olympics bear Ni jumped to fame, and the media hailed him as the "uncrowned king".
Young Bear Ni
In 1989, Xiong Ni won the Men's Platform Championship of the World Cup, and the American "Swimming" magazine named him "the world's best diver".
In 1990, Xiong Ni began to prepare for the Barcelona Olympic Games. For 4 years, he did not return to Changsha for the Spring Festival, and his parents brought their eldest son to Beijing to celebrate the New Year with Xiong Ni in the athletes' apartment.
A family of four slept in a single bed in a dormitory, Chinese New Year's Eve meal and only cooked three or four dishes. On the third day of the first lunar month, after his parents and brother returned to Changsha, Xiong Ni began training again.
In the summer of 1992, in order to adapt to the coastal climate of Barcelona, Xiong Ni went to Hainan Island with the team for closed training.
Due to the incompatibility of water and soil, Xiong Ni's back skin ulcer, can only sleep on his stomach at night, and the pain is unbearable. But he didn't dare to slack off at all.
Bear Ni
On July 25, 1992, the Barcelona Olympic Games kicked off, and Xiong Ni finished first in the 10-meter platform preliminaries. However, in the final, Xiong Ni actually lost his hand in the simple action of 207C, and finally won only the bronze medal.
Xiong Ni had difficulty accepting this cruel reality, and he cried alone in the locker room for a long time. 18-year-old Xiong Ni has just come of age and truly feels the cruelty of the Olympic games.
After returning to Beijing, Xiong Ni's mood fell to the bottom, and he, who never smoked, was choked to tears by cigarettes. Under the guidance of the coach and parents, Xiong Ni only came out of the haze of Olympic defeat a year later.
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In the 1993 World Cup diving competition, Xiong Ni still participated in the competition with an arm strain, and as a result, he won three championships such as team and individual 10-meter jumping platform, and the media praised him as "tough guy Xiong Ni" and "hero with bandages around his arms".
In 1995, the team arranged for Xiong Ni to be retrained from a 10-meter platform to a 3-meter springboard according to needs. Because the men's 3m springboard is a blank spot for the continental diving team, no athlete has ever won a gold medal.
Since then, Xiong Ni has taken the 3-meter springboard as the main offensive event.
On July 29, 1996, Xiong Ni won the gold medal in the men's 3m board diving at the 26th Atlanta Olympic Games.
At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, diving did not add a double event. Xiong Ni won the championship with an excellent score of 701.46 points in the final of the 3-meter board. It was also the first 3-meter springboard championship for men on the mainland.
The Olympic gold medal came too late, and Xiong Ni burst into tears.
Xiong Ni achieved excellent results on both the jumping platform and the springboard, and became a legend. There are very few well-rounded male athletes like him in the world.
In 1997, Xiong Ni retired after winning gold on the men's 3m springboard at the 8 games. At this time, Xiong Ni was only 23 years old, entered Hunan University to study industrial foreign trade, and served as the deputy captain of the Hunan Provincial Sports Brigade.
In 1998, China's diving hit a trough. Fu Guoliang, director of the Provincial Sports Bureau, talked to Xiong Ni and hoped that he would make a comeback, and Xiong Ni agreed.
Sauddin
At this time, Xiong Ni had not received formal training for more than 1 year, his body shape had changed, he had extra flesh on his belly, and he had no 8 abdominal muscles. Parents, relatives and friends are not in favor of Xiong Ni's comeback.
But Xiong Ni felt that he was cultivated by the country, and as long as the country needed it, he should come forward.
At that time, the famous Russian Saudin dominated the world in the 3-meter springboard event, and Xiong Ni vowed to defeat Saudin.
After the Spring Festival in 1999, Xiong Ni followed Coach Ma Yanping into the provincial diving team training. In order to practice the new movement 5154D with a technical difficulty of 3.4, Xiong Ni fell more than 10 times a day, and his whole body was scarred.
He had surgery on his right ankle, but now the old injury had recurred, and the bone spurs in the joint cavity suddenly stuck from time to time, causing the joint to swell. Xiong Ni's old injury to his waist also recurred.
Bear Ni
For more than a month, Xiong Ni actually lost 13 pounds and fainted in the swimming pool several times due to physical exhaustion.
His parents came to visit Xiong Ni at the training hall and were in tears of pain. The scene of his son's training was too cruel, and his parents did not dare to come back to the team to watch him train.
A few months later, Xiong Ni was preparing to compete in the World Cup. When he was about to leave, the relevant departments informed him to give up the 3-meter single board and participate in the double 3-meter board competition.
At that time, the double 3-meter board did not enter the Olympic competition, which made Xiong Ni's mood dim to the extreme. At one point, he had the idea of retiring.
After doing all kinds of work, Xiong Ni returned to the national team.
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From left to right: Platas, Xiong Ni, Sauddin
In addition to participating in the single 3-meter board event, Xiong Ni also partnered with Xiao Hailiang to participate in the men's double 3 meter board competition.
In order to qualify for the Olympic Games, Xiong Ni made considerable efforts. In the five trials, Xiong Ni's single and double 3m boards won the first place five times and the second place once, and entered the Sydney Olympic Games without controversy.
The Chinese diving team is known as the "Dream Team", but shortly after the Sydney Olympic Games began, the three most stable gold medals were lost, and the team leader Zhou Jihong was entangled all night insomnia.
On September 26, the men's 3m springboard final began, and Xiong Ni and Russia's Sauddin had a pinnacle duel.
The score of Xiong Ni has been lagging behind in the first few jumps, Xiong Ni's parents watched live TV at their home in Changsha, and relatives, friends and relevant leaders of the Sports Bureau crowded the living room. Xiong Ni's mother was too nervous to look at it and hid in the kitchen.
Xiong Ni had outstanding mental qualities, stable technical performance, and a perfect jump, and finally defeated Sauddin with a high score of 708.72 and won the gold medal.
After Xiong Ni won the championship, team leader Zhou Jihong hugged him excitedly
Xiong Ni (right) and Xiao Hailiang took the stage to receive the award
Team leader Zhou Jihong hugged Xiong Ni and cried with joy, and this picture was deeply retained in the audience's memory. When the good news came, Xiong Ni's parents hugged and cried.
On September 28, Xiong Ni cooperated with Xiao Hailiang to win the men's 3m springboard double championship. At the Sydney Olympics, Xiong Ni won two gold medals.
In 2001, Xiong Ni officially retired after winning the gold medal in the men's single 3m springboard at the 9 games. Xiong Ni, the "Olympic Elder of the Four Dynasties", has drawn a successful end to his diving career.
After the Spring Festival in 2002, Xiong Ni was assigned to Chaoyang District, Yiyang City, Hunan Province, as deputy district chief.
Two years later, Xiong Ni returned to Changsha after hanging up his post and served as the dean of Hunan Sports Vocational College, becoming one of the youngest departmental-level cadres in Hunan.
Xiong Ni delivered the flame for the 10 games
In 2005, at the 10th National Games, Xiong Ni was in charge of swimming, wrestling and diving, and all of them had gold medals.
Due to his outstanding performance, Xiong Ni was promoted to deputy director of the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau in January 2007.
At this time, Xiong Ni was 33 years old, and marriage was imminent. In fact, Xiong Ni fell in love as early as 1998, and his girlfriend's name was Li Jingman. She is two years younger than Xiong Ni, a returnee and a native of Changsha, Hunan.
For the sake of Xiong Ni's career, Li Jingman postponed the wedding again and again. Because Xiong Ni is low-key and has never exposed a relationship, as early as 2004, it was rumored on the Internet that Xiong Ni and actor Ye Xuan were a couple of lovers.
At that time, the Internet was full of rumors, but Li Jingman trusted his boyfriend and did not care.
Xiong Ni wedding photos
Xiong Ni and his wife
In 2007, Xiong Ni and Li Jingman were licensed to marry in Changsha. On January 12, 2008, the two held a low-key wedding in Changsha.
Li Jingman, the general manager of Hunan Xiangtao Football Club, and Xiong Ni are very busy at work, and the couple has not conceived a baby.
In 2013, when Xiong Ni was 39 years old, his wife gave birth to a lovely son for him. After becoming a mother, Li Jingman resigned from Xiangtao Football Club to take care of the family, take care of his son, and fully assist Xiong Ni in his work.
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Xiong Ni is a great filial piety, and he arranges his parents' old age properly. He renovated his parents' house and added a full set of furniture and appliances.
Xiong Ni's father had had Parkinson's, worried that his mother would have difficulty in taking care of her, and Xiong Ni hired a nanny for his parents.
Bear Ni
Although living separately from her parents, Xiong Ni often visits her parents. If there is something going on in his parents' house, he and his wife will rush over in time to deal with it.
In August 2015, Xiong Ni also held a 70th birthday for his father, and the old man was very happy.
Who knew that on the afternoon of September 21, Xiong Ni's father suddenly went missing in a community in Yuelu District, Changsha. When the nanny and his wife went out to buy vegetables, Father Bear put the key and wallet on the table and went out.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, Father Xiong had not yet returned, and the family rushed to call Xiong Ni. At that time, Xiong Ni was watching the game with the leaders of the Chinese Football Association in Chenzhou, and he took the high-speed train back to Changsha overnight.
After arriving home, Xiong Ni mobilized his relatives and friends to look around for his father, but he never found him, and he was anxious. On the morning of September 23, a fisherman found a male corpse in the Xianjia Lake section of the Xiangjiang River and quickly called the police.
Xiong Ni poses with his family
The police in Yuelu, Changsha, rushed to the scene of the incident and confirmed that the old man was Xiong Ni's father. After investigation, the police ruled out that he had killed him, and the bear's father had drowned.
Father Xiong is low-key, never considering himself Xiong Ni's father outside, and has no sense of superiority in front of his neighbors.
To combat Parkinson's after-effects, Father Bear often plays mahjong with his neighbors or goes for a walk by the river. After the tragedy, neighbors and old friends were sad.
The unexpected death of his father pushed Xiong Ni into great grief. After taking care of his father's affairs, Xiong Ni did not come out of the shadow of losing his father until 2017.
After the death of her wife, the mother bear has not come out of the shadows, regretting that she did not take care of her wife. Xiong Ni often enlightens her mother: This is an accident, you don't blame yourself, no one blames you. Only if you are well, Daddy will be at ease over there.
Xiong Ni's wife, Li Jingman
In order to let her mother get better care, Xiong Ni let the nanny live in her mother's house and accompany her day and night. Xiong Ni would often take his wife and son with him to visit his mother.
Every New Year's Festival, the nanny came home, and Xiong Ni took her mother to the family to reunite.
Li Jingman is also filial to his mother-in-law, and thinks thoughtfully about all aspects of eating and wearing. Although her mother has a retirement salary, Xiong Ni and his wife Li Jingman often give her pocket money.
Nourished by the filial piety of her son and daughter-in-law, in 2020, the bear mother gradually returned to normal after losing her wife for 5 years.
In 2022, Xiong Ni's mother is more than 70 years old, and Xiong Ni gives her double love. Although her wife is gone, the bear mother has a filial son and daughter-in-law, a lively and lovely grandson, and a stable and happy life in her later years.
Xiong Ni with his wife and son
Now Xiong Ni's son is 9 years old, Xiong Ni has no special requirements for his son, nor does he force him to practice diving, everything goes naturally, and his son's childhood life is very happy.
In the athlete era, Xiong Ni was brilliant, and his career and life were still very successful after retiring. Xiong Ni plays each role perfectly, and is an excellent man with responsibility!
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