When Zhang Guowei is mentioned, many people's first reaction will be to think of his "dragon sucking water".
Many people have known him because of his funny videos.
Cola Gamantos has been played by Zhang Guowei with countless tricks.
What "dragonfly dot water" and other fantastic ideas, has won countless netizens likes and comments.
Some netizens commented that Zhang Guowei, who is such a "sand sculpture", where can people think that he was once a top high jumper?
Today's Zhang Guowei has tens of millions of fans and more than a billion video likes.
Once upon a time, he was the top high jumper with high hopes.
However, zhang Guowei retired after the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games and ended his sports career.
This decision has made Zhang Guowei controversial.
Some people think that he is addicted to business activities and addicted to gold; some people think that he is scarred and overwhelmed.
What was the reason for his retirement?
Why has it become a "sand sculpture Internet celebrity" again?
Gifted and amazing
All this has to start from Zhang Guowei when he was a child.
When he was young, he liked to run outdoors.
Like other naughty boys, he couldn't sit still and didn't like to be at home.
Therefore, when it comes to physical education class or after-school time, he will pull his classmates to play football, table tennis, and try various sports.
In this way, in the midst of the fight, he spent his childhood.
After graduating from primary school, Zhang Guowei was "small in the mountains" in height, unique among his classmates, and grew to one meter eight.
Even if he was a teacher at the school, he had to look up at Zhang Guowei.
Zhang Guowei, whose physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people, was favored by the school sports team.
So, under the guidance of the teacher, he began to carry out systematic training and began to learn football.
After training in the team, Zhang Guowei worked harder and trained with his teammates very seriously.
Zhang Guowei, who was running on the football field, did not think of his every move, and was noticed by track and field coach Xu Jianling.
Xu Jianling found that the football players on the field were only different from Zhang Guowei.
He noticed that when Zhang Guowei ran, he always touched the ground with his feet and rarely used his heels.
Xu Jianling saw that Zhang Guowei's ankle joint was very strong, and he had long legs, which was a good seedling for practicing athletics.
Therefore, Xu Jianling went to the football stadium for several days to watch Zhang Guowei train.
After that, Coach Xu Jianling personally visited Zhang Guowei's parents and expressed his intention to let Zhang Guowei join the track and field team.
At that time, Zhang Guowei's parents did not agree, because they did not think of making their son an athlete.
But zhang Guowei was excited when he heard that he did not need to study sports.
After all, he loves sports, where can he bear to sit in the classroom for a long time to study?
Zhang Guowei's parents, after all, could not refuse their son, so they agreed to the coach's invitation.
In this way, Zhang Guowei joined the track and field team of Penglai Sports School and began to learn long jump and triple jump.
After arriving at the sports school, he underwent more professional and systematic training.
Unlike his small fights in school, the training is more and more arduous.
After a month of training, Zhang Guowei was taken by the coach to participate in the Penglai City Games, signing up for the long jump and triple jump competitions.
Although I signed up for two projects, not all of them achieved excellent results.
In the long jump event, Zhang Guowei's performance was not good, and he failed to get the ranking.
But in the triple jump competition, he directly dumped other athletes and won the first place in one fell swoop.
Zhang Guowei's performance also surprised Xu Jianling.
Originally, he did not have hope for Zhang Guowei, after all, he had only been practicing for a month, and he just wanted to take him to feel the competition venue.
But no one expected to win the triple jump championship in this way.
After that, Xu Jianling took Zhang Guowei to the high jump competition venue and asked him to try.
But this attempt shocked Xu Jianling.
Only to see Zhang Guowei jump easily, only with the previous training and talent, he jumped out of the 1.71 meter good result.
At that year's Games, the athletes who won the high jump only jumped 1.75 meters.
Zhang Guowei, who had never been exposed to high jump training, showed such amazing talent.
At this time, Xu Jianling was not calm, and directly let Zhang Guowei turn to the high jump.
After the first class, Zhang Guowei jumped out of the good result of 1.75 meters and directly crushed the champion athletes who had been training for a long time.
In the second lesson, he broke his own record and jumped 1.8 meters.
The third lesson is even more amazing, Zhang Guowei, who has been improving, jumped 1.85 meters.
Many high jumpers, after a year or two of hard work, have been unable to break through themselves.
But Zhang Guowei just began to contact the high jump, he continued to improve and improve, which also made him feel very proud.
Zhang Guowei, who focuses on the high jump, gradually broke through himself in the years of training, and his performance slowly improved, breaking through the two-meter mark.
In the 2007 Shandong Provincial Games, Zhang Guowei played his own level, jumped a good result of 2 meters, and won the championship.
The performance on the field of competition quickly attracted the attention of the provincial team.
Not long after, Zhang Guowei was selected into the provincial team and trained in the provincial team.
The management of the provincial team is more stringent, which is different from what he has been exposed to in the past.
Compared with Zhang Guowei, who was a fledgling at the beginning, the coach is also more inclined to mature and experienced players.
He was not taken seriously, and had to practice in the footsteps of others.
Zhang Guowei has paid more sweat than ever, but his achievements have not been improved for a long time.
Entering the bottleneck, his performance has been floating between 1.9 meters and 2 meters.
But fortunately, the kung fu paid off, and in 2009, Zhang Guowei broke through himself again and jumped out of the excellent result of 2.2 meters.
Such good results, even in the whole country, are few.
By 2010, he finally got the chance to compete in the National Youth Championships.
In the high jump event, Zhang Guowei successfully reached the final and finally won the second place with a good result of 2.15 meters.
Although he received the honor, Zhang Guowei was not happy.
After all, his best result was 2.2 meters, but this race did not play out.
But this performance was also seen by the coach of the national team, and Zhang Guowei successfully entered the national team with excellent results.
Train hard and play with injuries
After entering the national team, he met more talented and experienced high jumpers.
It also made him work harder and harder.
At the 2011 National Athletics Championships, he played at a high level, jumping 2.28 meters to win the championship in one fell swoop.
In the same year, at the Asian Athletics Grand Prix, he jumped ahead of 2.24 meters and won the championship.
The following year, he broke through again and jumped to a good time of 2.31 meters at the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul.
Zhang Guowei jumped out of the same results as idol Zhu Jianhua.
This also made Zhang Guowei very excited.
In 2013, he jumped 2.32 meters, directly breaking Zhu Jianhua's record and winning the national indoor prospect championship.
And Zhu Jianhua's record has not been surpassed for 27 years, until the emergence of Zhang Guowei.
In 2015, Zhang Guowei ushered in his own highlight moment.
In the IAAF Diamond League Eugene high jump, he finished second with 2.38 meters on the outdoor field.
He has always set a new record and is a well-deserved top high jumper.
In 2016, Zhang Guowei finally embarked on the journey of the Olympic Games.
He set off months early for training abroad.
But at the beginning of the year, he accidentally sprained his foot during the game.
With an injury, he jumped a good time of 2.29 meters.
After the treatment, he scored 2.33 meters and 2.32 meters in the competition in May and June.
At the time, no one noticed the problem.
But a month before the rio Olympics, he had a thigh strain and was unable to exert his strength at its worst.
The time was too late, but Zhang Guowei did not want to give up the opportunity to play, and after hitting two stitches to close, he resolutely embarked on the journey.
But when he got to the field, like the London Olympics he participated in for the first time, he failed to play his original strength.
In the first two high jumps, Zhang Guowei crossed 2.22 meters with ease.
But by the third time at 2.26 meters, the first attempt to jump failed.
Even if he hit the blockade, he could not exert his original strength.
He then tried to jump twice, both of which ended in failure.
2.26 meters, such a height in the usual time, Zhang Guowei can easily cross.
But when it comes to such an important game, the performance is far less than usual training.
This made Zhang Guowei feel regretful.
The controversy over retirement is lamentable
For Zhang Guowei's performance, the coach believes that Zhang Guowei is sometimes too impetuous.
Part of the reason is that he was unstable in the first place.
Another part of the reason is the injury caused by training.
These two factors made Zhang Guowei fail to exert his original strength.
Although the talent is extremely high, it cannot play steadily.
I don't know if it was because of the pain, or the blow on the Olympic field, which made Zhang Guowei only win the bronze medal in the 2019 National Indoor Athletics Championships.
Such an achievement was beyond everyone's expectations.
In the eyes of coaches and players, Zhang Guowei has the strength to win gold medals in world competitions, how can he only win bronze medals?
Immediately afterward, the State General Administration of Sport gave sanctions and expelled Zhang Guowei from probation.
The reason for punishing him was that he made up reasons to go out to participate in business activities without permission.
The news has come out, and netizens are stunned.
After all, for athletes, it is not a rare thing to appear in variety shows and business activities.
But few would have given such a harsh punishment.
Some people think that as an athlete, you should train well, why should you go to variety shows to make money?
Some people also think that who does not have too much money? Besides, athletes' incomes are not high, even if they want to make money, what is wrong?
Zhang Guowei, on the other hand, has always been serious about training, and once insisted on participating in the competition with an injury.
In the face of failure, he can quickly adjust and admit his mistakes instead of looking for excuses.
It's good to be able to face these things calmly.
Decided to retire, sucking countless fans
Zhang Guowei participated in variety show activities and never paid attention to the doubts of netizens about making money.
He quickly adjusted to his form and continued to train.
The State General Administration of Sport also placed high hopes on Zhang Guowei, but only expelled the national team from probation.
In August of the year of punishment, Zhang Guowei's qualification was quickly restored.
Since his injury in 2016, Zhang Guowei's status has plummeted.
Because of his illness, he had to stop participating in domestic competitions.
At the end of each training session, Zhang Guowei needs to relax for 5-6 hours.
His body could no longer support the heavy lifting of training and needed a massage from the team doctor.
In addition to massage and long rest, it is also necessary to soak the feet with hot water and Chinese medicine to relieve the pain.
Such a process, Zhang Guowei repeats every day.
The coach also looked at Zhang Guowei's situation in his eyes, sighed for this, and also persuaded Zhang Guowei.
But Zhang Guowei still refused to give up, or wanted to seize the opportunity to try various ways to alleviate and treat his own pain.
The athletes who once trained with Zhang Guowei have gradually retired, disappearing one after another in the sports world.
Because the income is too low, because they can't see the reward for their efforts, they end their careers for a variety of reasons.
Only Zhang Guowei never gave up.
In 2020, Zhang Guowei won the championship with a score of 2.27 meters in the International High Jump Invitational.
Later, he finished second in the High Jump Challenge in Siena, Italy, with a time of 2.28 meters.
Just when everyone thinks that he has returned to his previous state.
But a piece of news shocked all the far-flung mobilizers preparing for the Olympic Games.
The Tokyo Olympics were postponed for one year.
Zhang Guowei also released the news of retirement on social platforms.
He said: I'm sorry, I really can't jump, I decided to retire.
The year he announced his retirement, Zhang Guowei's age was not big for high jumpers.
But for athletes, every day is precious.
Not to mention, the postponement of the Olympic Games for one year is too long.
Under the retired blog post, netizens were relieved: Zhang Guowei can finally let go of play!
Before Zhang Guowei retired, he often sent out short videos, the content was extremely funny, causing everyone to laugh.
What to install an elevator on Mount Everest, to tile the Great Wall...
All kinds of fantastic ideas, let netizens call out unexpectedly.
He also used to fry screws in an iron pot to make so-called snail powder.
All kinds of unexpected things can be found in the video taken by Zhang Guowei.
In the face of Zhang Guowei's account of averaging three videos a day, netizens marveled: There is really no creative bottleneck at all!
Even if it is issued every day and every month, Zhang Guowei can bring joy to people.
After retiring from the army, Zhang Guowei did the same.
Today, Zhang Guowei's account has countless fans, and the number of video likes has reached more than one billion.
Even if he does not develop in the sports world, Zhang Guowei, who has become an Internet celebrity, is equally dazzling.
After retiring from the army, he used all his savings to build a personal training gym and find someone to continue training.
Some netizens have questions, is it to continue to participate in the competition?
Zhang Guowei said that he just wanted to break through 2.4 meters and realize his dream.
And it is not easy to summon up the courage to re-pursue the dream.
But there are still some bad sounds.
Some people think that he is sensationalizing, only because there is no heat, he continues to jump high.
Some people say that it is very simple to realize your dreams, so why should you be criticized?
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