In the current sports world, it is not unusual for athletes to change their nationality to play for other countries for their own future, and some countries will also support them to develop in other countries, for example, there is a famous "table tennis wolf raising program" in the mainland, using the method of "going out, please come in" to promote the development and exchange of table tennis in the world. This choice is therefore understandable at both the individual and national levels.
However, changing nationality does not mean that one has become a complete foreigner, and it is also a disgraceful act to deny the motherland's cultivation of oneself, and the fate of doing so must be extremely painful. Yao Li, a former weightlifter in the mainland, carried out such behavior to the end, and finally ended up with a ban.
At the 2012 London Olympics weightlifting competition, a female athlete with a Chinese face won the gold medal and also broke the world record. When they saw that she was a member of the Kazakhstan national team, many Malaysians applauded her and took it for granted that she was a naturalized athlete who had changed her nationality. Surprisingly, however, after the game, Yao Li ignored the Interview with Chinese reporters and denied her Chinese identity, claiming that she was born in Kyrgyzstan and had only lived in China.
In fact, Yao Li was born in a poor mountain village in Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, China, and her family was very sensible when she was a child, because her father was ill and could not shoulder the heavy responsibility of the family, Yao Li would also help her mother share the housework to reduce her mother's burden. Although the family conditions are not good, her parents attach great importance to Yao Li's education, and rely on the meager income from farm work to let Yao Li go to school.
Yao Li's grades in school are not too good, and continuing to study may not be able to get ahead. But there is no way out of the sky, Yao Li, who has been energetic since childhood, was favored by the sports school coach at a sports meeting, thinking that she was very athletically talented and wanted her to follow her to practice weightlifting. This is actually good news for Yao Li's family, on the one hand, going to sports school can reduce the financial burden of the family, on the other hand, Yao Li's way out does not have to worry.
In this way, Yao Li embarked on the road of professional athletes. Under the guidance of the coach, she entered the Liaoning Provincial Weightlifting Team, but after entering the Weightlifting Team, Yao Li experienced some ups and downs. At that time, Yao Li's coach was named Zhu Mingwu, and the weightlifting team he led was not valued, so he had no choice but to take the team members to the Hunan Provincial Weightlifting Team. A large part of the team members who were later taken away by Zhu Mingwu returned to the Liaoning provincial team, and only Yao Li and another teammate stayed with Zhu Mingwu.
Under the better treatment of the Hunan provincial team, Yao Li's weightlifting performance has also become more prominent, ranking among the best in the province. However, at that time, the athletes were full of talents, and although Yao Li was very strong in the province, she did not stand out in China. She qualified for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but lost her medal due to injury. Just when her mentality was affected, the weightlifting team had two places sent out by the public, and Yao Li's coach valued her very much, so he gave one of the places to Yao Li, hoping that after she went out to study, she could return to China to win glory.
Yao Li, who was sent to Kazakhstan, has indeed made great improvements in weightlifting, and has also returned to China to participate in competitions and achieved good results. But then she surprised everyone. Because the Team in Kazakhstan received great attention and the remuneration was much higher than in China, Yao Li finally accepted the invitation and benefits of the Kazakhstan Team, changed her nationality to Kazakh nationality, and changed her name to Mia Maneza.
What's even more outrageous is that after winning the London Olympics in 2012, Chinese reporters originally wanted to interview her, but whether they called her Yao Li or Meiya, she turned a deaf ear. Even later, she asked reporters in English not to speak Chinese, claiming that she could not understand Chinese, and that she was born in Kyrgyzstan, had never trained in China, and that her heart belonged only to Kazakhstan.
Yao Li's public remarks not only shocked the Chinese people, but also dealt a heavy blow to her coaches and parents. Zhu Mingwu never imagined that he would end up like this after giving the place of assignment to his beloved disciple, and Yao Li's parents sat in front of the TV to watch their daughter who had finally realized her dream, but they felt extremely strange and sad.
Forgetting one's past and the cultivation of one's motherland is tantamount to betrayal, and those who betray usually do not have a good ending. Naturalized in Kazakhstan, Yao Li thought that her weightlifting career could go to a higher level, but she did not think that she did not enjoy several years of preferential treatment. In 2016, the International Weightlifting Federation exposed four athletes who had illegally used doping in competitions, including Yao Li's name.
For this reason, Yao Li paid a huge price, not only the gold medal was withdrawn, the results were all invalidated, and more seriously, Yao Li was also punished with a ban. After the ban, Yao Li could only choose to retire, personally denying her identity as a Chinese, she could not return to her parents, and she once stood on the Olympic field to win the championship, and since then she has become a joke of everyone.