A tortuous childhood
She was born in China, but after winning the championship, she said she represented Kazakhstan.
Not only that, but when the reporter called out her name, she even ignored the other party. Later, during the interview, she also claimed that she could not understand Chinese and threatened that her gold medal did not have a half-cent relationship with China.
Yao Li
She's Yao Li, to be precise, and should now be called Maia Maneza.
Yao Li was originally a Chinese, and the weightlifting competitions she participated in have also been winning glory for China. However, in 2008, after Yao Li was sent to Kazakhstan for further study, she changed her nationality.
What's going on here? Why did Yao Li change her Chinese nationality?
It all started in 1985, when Yao Li was born in Fuxin, Liaoning Province, in the winter. Regarding her place of birth, Yao Li later insisted that it was Kyrgyzstan.
But the real location is still a humble village in Liaoning. In this generally impoverished village, the villagers all make a living from farming, and Yao Li's parents are no exception.
But even if it is bitter, it cannot be bitter to the child. Although their parents worked all day, they also wanted to give Yao Li a good life.
Therefore, reading became Yao Li's only way out. However, contrary to her wishes, Yao Li does not seem to be a good material for reading, no matter how the teacher explains, how to make up after class, her grades can never go up.
Yao Li as a child
In the eyes of parents, a rural female doll, if she wants to get ahead, she must read. Born poor and uneducated, it is likely that he will marry casually in the future, so that he will not be able to walk out of this village for the rest of his life.
Although her parents were in a hurry, Yao Li herself did not panic at all. She seems to prefer to help her parents work than to study. Needless to say, that little girl has a lot of strength in her.
Don't look at her small, many things that can't be moved by people, she can move them away just by gritting her teeth.
However, such talents are still drowned in backward villages. Those villagers, at best, thought that this little girl was strong, and her parents did not have the idea of cultivating Yao Li.
Until Yao Li was in high school, she met a person. His name is Sun Zhenqi and he is a teacher at the Liaoning Provincial Sports School.
He found that Yao Li was a good seedling for weightlifting, so he suggested that she abandon the cultural school and enter the sports school instead.
At that time, Yao Li did not understand the difference between a cultural school and a sports school, she only felt that entering the sports school was very beautiful, and there were already many people entering the sports school to study.
In addition, Yao Li's grades were not particularly good, so she conveyed to her parents the idea of going to sports school. Traditional parents have not heard much about sports school, and this term seems to them to be a rare thing.
Is it that when my daughter enters here, she can become famous? When the parents thought of this, they felt that their faces were doubled, so they also agreed with Yao Li's idea.
After entering the sports school, Yao Li was quickly favored by the coach of the weightlifting team. Under the leadership of the coach, Yao Li entered the provincial team.
This is a big deal, Yao Li doesn't mention how happy she is. In order to add glory to the provincial team, Yao Li was more diligent.
However, the good times did not last long, due to the contradiction between the coach and the provincial team, even Yao Li was implicated.
The coach was angry, but directly withdrew from the provincial team with the trainees. However, in the end, under the obstruction of the school, 9 students were replaced again, leaving only Yao Li and another student to follow the coach.
This was not a big deal, but the bad thing was that the students who were exchanged back were all top-notch. What was left with Yao Li was a student with the lowest grades.
Yao Li thought to herself, isn't this just looking down on herself, so she doesn't let herself return to the team. The arrogant Yao Li couldn't stand it at all, in order to punch the provincial team in the face, she got up early every day and was greedy, in addition to eating and sleeping, the rest of the time was basically spent on training.
The coach also paid special attention to Yao Li in order to fight for anger. But there are too many geniuses in this world, not only Yao Li is working hard, but other more talented people are also working hard.
Although Yao Li is diligent and earnest, her achievements are always inferior to those who stand at the top of the pyramid. On the one hand, she was in a hurry to achieve success, and on the other hand, she was hit by the results, and Yao Li began to be anxious.
She believes that it must be the coach's method that is wrong, so she can't get the real pass.
However, complaining and complaining, the training still has to continue. After all, Yao Li was desperate for a chance so that she could make a name for herself.
Yao Li
Sure enough, in 2008, Yao Li really waited for the opportunity. But of course, she didn't know how big the hope was, and the blow would be even greater.
Ii The Champion of The Rebellion
This athlete, with a Chinese face, claimed that his heart was abroad and pretended not to understand Chinese.
In 2008, Yao Li's opportunity came. This year, Beijing just held the Olympic Games, which is a good time for Yao Li and the coach to get ahead!
Naturally, they couldn't give up this opportunity, everything was ready, just waiting for Yao Li to win the glory. But at this juncture, Yao Li's body went wrong.
When it came to the game, Yao Li's arm was injured. And Yao Li's project must be used with her arms. Because of this, Yao Li failed to complete the game, and her dream of winning glory was shattered.
After being hit, Yao Li was devastated, and until the time she returned home to recuperate, she was always depressed.
Training in progress
Yao Li's mother described her this way:
Yao Li went home and lived for a while, and suddenly lost more than a dozen pounds. This doll holds everything in her heart and does not tell me. ”
The coach also knew that the loss of the game was a big blow to Yao Li, and in order to cultivate Yao Li, he recommended Yao Li to Kazakhstan for training.
Despite being a foreign aid from Kazakhstan, they also expressed great respect for Yao Li. Whether it is food, clothing, shelter and transportation, or training and training, they are very attentive to Yao Li.
And Yao Li herself looked at all these in her eyes, she finally understood the coach's painstaking heart, in order to prove that she can do it, she trained harder.
Finally, in 2009, Yao Li became famous in one fell swoop!
She finished runners-up at the 2009 Asian Championships and then at the World Championships.
In 2010, Yao Li participated in the World Championships in Antalya, and her overall result also ranked first.
At the Guangzhou Asian Games in the same year, Yao Li also won the championship in one fell swoop.
Yao Li
In 2012, Yao Li participated in the London Olympic Games, and in this Olympic Games, Yao Li broke the record and became a star in the weightlifting world.
That year, Yao Li's total weightlifting score was 245kg, which was unprecedented in the weightlifting record. Yao Li also
Yao Li at the London Olympics
Naturally, he became a weightlifting champion.
Yao Li, who was standing on the podium, was so excited that she shed tears. However, this time, the championship was won by her for Kazakhstan.
After the game, a Chinese reporter interviewed her, but she ignored the reporter as if she hadn't heard anything.
This kind of behavior has left many reporters scratching their heads. Later, when reading the information, the reporter learned that yao li had long changed her nationality, and now she is a Kazakh with a name of Maneza.
Moreover, the official information is also very strange:
Maneza was born in Kyrgyzstan and lived with his parents in China until 2007.
The reporter took a lot of effort to find out that this Maneza was Yao Li. Why did Yao Li pretend to be a Kazakh?
Not only journalists, but also many Chinese people want to know the answer. After determining that Maneza was Yao Li, a reporter called out Yao Li's name, but Yao Li just turned back, looked at her, and then ran off the stage.
Yao Li (middle)
Later, at the time of the press conference, a Chinese reporter finally interviewed her. But in the face of Chinese questions, Yao Li shook her head in protest, and she proposed to the organizers that she could not understand the Chinese, and asked the other party to ask questions in Russian.
Curiously, such a request was passed. Of course, this is not the most bizarre, and Yao Li's next speech can be regarded as a flat ground explosion.
Only to see Yao Li face the camera and say with a fluent Chinese:
"I tell you, I was born in Kyrgyzstan and I am a Kazakh."
The reporter is not willing, Yao Liming was born in China, why did he have to say that he was a foreigner? The reporter asked Yao Li whether she had conducted weightlifting training in China, but unexpectedly, Yao Li also completely denied this.
Ms. Yao insists she is not Chinese and has not trained in China. As for the years she spent in China, it was all because her parents lived in China that she followed her to China.
With the reporter's report, Yao Li's speech was also published in China. For a time, Yao Li was pushed to the cusp of the storm.
Yao Li
Many Chinese people are angrily scolding Yao Li as a white-eyed wolf, obviously trained by Chinese coaches, but she insists that her gold medal has nothing to do with China.
Such words completely chilled the hearts of their compatriots, and they unanimously believed that Yao Li was a rebel in the individual arena!
However, no matter how insults netizens are, Yao Li still goes her own way.
Why did Yao Li rebel? Why did Yao Li completely change herself after going to Kazakhstan?
Three Championship scandals
After winning the championship for Kazakhstan, the Chinese player insisted that he had not trained in China!
Such remarks make people angry, but insulting Yao Li is not a solution. If you want to evaluate Yao Li as a person, you also need to figure out the real reason for her rebellion.
On this point, Yao Li herself was hesitant to come forward to explain, and finally the reporter visited Yao Li's mother, and gradually learned the truth.
It turned out that one of the reasons why Yao Li rebelled was poverty.
Yao Li
As mentioned earlier, Yao Li was born in the countryside, and her life was already very poor. According to Yao Li's mother, the Yao family is tired and tired for a year, and the total income is only 20,000 yuan.
This money, apart from food and drink for the whole family, has nothing left. But the disaster is not alone, Yao Li's father suffered from diabetes again.
This is a disease that is difficult to cure and requires long-term drug treatment. For the Already poor Yao family, Yao's father's illness was not a small problem.
In order to treat Yao Li's father, the family's food and clothing could only shrink and shrink. The mother was old and could not earn any money, so the burden fell on Yao Li.
At that time, Yao Li had just entered the provincial team, and she could not rush out of part-time work. Yao Li thought very simply, as long as she made her own achievements, she could exchange them for a large amount of money and use them to treat her father's illness.
Imagination is always beautiful, Yao Li has not yet made a result, because of injury but could not participate in the competition. The game was lost, her father was seriously ill, and Yao Li was beaten to the point of exhaustion.
Yao Li
Fortunately, in 2008, she was introduced to Kazakhstan, and after coming here, Yao Li regained her life. Kazakhstan's weightlifting team is very optimistic about Yao Li, and they provide Yao Li with favorable conditions.
In addition, for Yao Li's salary, Kazakhstan is also very generous. Training here, Yao Li can earn 1,000 US dollars per month, which is more than 7,000 yuan.
More than 7,000 pieces in zero years, is not a small amount. This money can just be used to save his father. Therefore, Yao Li is very grateful to Kazakhstan.
Because of Yao Li's outstanding talent, the weightlifting team in Kazakhstan appreciates Yao Li even more. In order to keep Yao Li, they offered better conditions, the purpose is to let Yao Li change her nationality, in the weightlifting project, for Kazakhstan's glory.
After Thinking about it, Yao Li thought it was a good opportunity. If Kazakhstan could not only get ahead, but also earn a lot of money. No matter how you look at it, it's a good deal.
Therefore, Yao Li changed her Chinese nationality and became a Kazakh ever since.
Yao Li
As for her attitude after the interview, it is likely that she is retaliating against the domestic weightlifting team, and she expresses the misfortune of her childhood and the lack of attention.
The reason for Yao Li's rebellion was clarified, but the online rebuke of Yao Li still did not stop.
In order to save her father to make money, there is nothing wrong with it, but Yao Li should not be so determined, she can say that she is a foreigner, but she should not deny the cultivation of him by the state.
However, some people believe that Yao Li has no choice. On the one hand, her seriously ill father, on the other hand, the domestic nationality is unknown, Yao Li will definitely choose to change her nationality.
Netizens' views on Yao Li have not been clearly determined. While they were discussing aloud, one statement was not sent out, which caused another uproar.
In 2016, the International Weightlifting Federation released a list of athletes' doping tests for athletes at the London Olympics.
Surprisingly, Yao Li's name was impressively listed.
Excited Yao Li
That is to say, Yao Li's gold medal was injected with water, and the reason why she improved rapidly during that time was entirely because she took stimulants.
Taking stimulants is a big scandal in the sports world. Under the iron evidence of Rushan, Yao Li was also successfully sanctioned. She was stripped of her medals at the London Olympics and herself temporarily suspended.
On the one hand, there was a rebel general, and on the other side was a scandal, and Yao Li could not wash it away by jumping into the Yellow River. The two things added together, and the netizens scolded Yao Li even louder.
However, Yao Li herself does not seem to be affected, and now she has married in Kazakhstan, and her husband is an authentic Kazakh.
Yao Li and her husband
Perhaps it was the scandal, or perhaps the decline in ability, and the later Yao Li gradually disappeared.
In any case, the glory of an athlete is not only that medal, but more importantly, to have a patriotic heart.