The Paper's reporter Pu Yaolei
Xie won two Olympic diving gold medals.
Many people still remember that at the Tokyo Olympics at this time last year, the Chinese diving team stood on the highest podium again and again, Xie Sibei, who twice became the protagonist of the picture.
A year after winning two three-meter Olympic gold medals, he recalled everything to the surging reporter at that time, and he still felt a little confused, "Everything is like a movie, and I have watched my decades of hard work at once."
Xie Sibei proposed to his girlfriend.
On August 4 this year, tanabata, he proposed to his girlfriend who has been in love for more than ten years, and is about to usher in a new role in life. At present, although he is recuperating from injuries in the provincial team, the 26-year-old does not intend to leave the jump platform - continue to insist, continue to try to break through, is still his expectation for himself.
For the farther future, Xie Sibei has also made plans - even if he retires one day in the future, he will still not leave diving: "Reluctant to this project, there are still feelings." ”
After winning two gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, Xie Sipi shed tears on the sidelines.
Rivets buried in the feet
After winning two consecutive gold medals in the men's singles doubles and singles three-meter board at the Tokyo Olympics, Xie Sipi's tears have touched countless spectators.
The long and arduous preparation before the competition, the full support of the family and the team, the way I came... At that time, Xie Sibei said that he "had never cried so hard no matter what kind of game before", and behind the tears were mixed mixed feelings.
Looking back on his original experience a year later, Xie Sibei is still full of emotions, "Time passes really fast."
"Everything is like a movie, all at once I have watched my decades of hard work, all condensed in those two Olympic finals." In an exclusive interview with The Paper, he told reporters.
Afterwards, looking back on the brilliant moments of his career, Xie Sibei said that his mood was complicated, there were happy, touched, and there were many heartaches, "People who know me must know very well how I have come to this decade." ”
Xie Sibei bowed in thanks.
Yes, to be able to get to the top, he has experienced too much and too much.
For Xie, the opportunity for the Tokyo Olympics was not easy to come by. After a broken ankle in 2014, he suffered a recurrence of injuries in 2016 that led to his absence from Rio. During the preparations for the Tokyo cycle, the sudden outbreak of the epidemic and the postponement of the Olympic Games added to many difficulties.
For example, the foot injuries and waist injuries that still come out from time to time to "make trouble" have brought him a lot of worries and anxieties, but fortunately, the final result is worth paying.
Talking about the difficulties, Xie Sipi is more willing to mention the collective care from the Chinese diving team: "In the two years of the epidemic, not only athletes, coaches, staff, team leaders... Many people are very tormented, everyone has encouraged each other in the past two years, adjusted their mentality, and moved towards their dreams in order to defend the honor of the team, and I feel very fortunate and honored to be in this team. ”
But what many people don't know is that for the sake of honor, he has not left himself a way out.
To this day, he still has a rivet left over from surgery in 2014 — because it was wrapped in the ligaments of the ankle and could not be removed without cutting off some of the ligaments, and it remains to this day.
In fact, in order to treat the injury, Xie Sibei's ankle ligament had been cut off in part during the operation. Even now, if Xie Sibei walked for half an hour in a row, the discomfort in his feet would remind him of the existence of old injuries.
The Olympics are just the "midpoint"
Almost, Xie Sibei will miss the Olympic stage forever.
After a major injury in 2014, doctors once told him that he might have to give up diving afterwards.
Even he himself was prepared to change careers in frustration, and even opened an online store selling digital products at one point. Fortunately, his body recovered smoothly, so he immediately put all his energy back on the jumping platform.
After seeing a glimmer of hope, Xie Sibei buried his head in the future.
In Xie Siwei's view, the podium of the Olympic Games is to constantly "stimulate" his goal: "Do everything the same, you must have a goal, a dream." With this premise, you will go in this direction, if there is a blank space ahead. Without a goal, you'll just spin around. ”
"For me, the goal is very clear, that is, the Olympic Games, so I can keep going, if I can participate in the Olympic Games, as long as I can walk, even if there is only one leg left, I will go to the competition." He told the surging news reporter.
The two Olympic gold medals that finally arrived, in the words of Xie Sibei, can be said to be a stage ending, "finally gave themselves a youth without regrets." ”
But the "end point" of this stage, he believes, can also be just a "midpoint". After all, for the 26-year-old, there are still many possibilities in the future on the jumping stage.
Xie Sidney was on the highest Podium podium at the Olympics.
After finishing the Tokyo Olympics and the next National Games, Xie Sibei finally had time to concentrate on recuperation. At present, he is making every effort to recover from injuries in the Guangdong team, and in the case of temporary inability to carry out special training, he is also maintaining his physical condition through strength training.
"In fact, I still want to continue to insist, I don't want to say that after winning the Olympic championship and completing the Grand Slam, I will stop here, and I hope to continue to break through, but it still depends on the conditions of the body." Xie Sibei said.
At the recently concluded World Championships, the Chinese diving team completed the feat of winning all 13 golds – although in Guangdong, Xie Sibei still followed the game and cheered for the results of his teammates.
In his view, the Chinese diving team has been able to maintain its dominance for many years thanks to good internal competition: "For athletes, this state of healthy competition is the best, such as seeing that the partner is practicing well, I will train harder, and when the state is not good, the teammates will encourage each other." ”
"Everyone has the tenacity to not accept defeat and will not give up easily."
Jump down, nothing can beat you
Even if it is temporarily impossible to fight for the country's honor on the jumping stage, Xie Sibei is still using other methods to help the development of diving.
At the moment, he is participating in some diving promotion activities to contribute to this project he loves. In addition, he also had the idea of creating his own sportswear brand.
Although the Chinese diving team continues to compete for gold and silver on the international stage, it is undeniable that at the social level, the popularity of diving is not high: "Sometimes I tell others that I practice diving, and he replies, 'Oh, it's swimming', it is still quite disappointing to hear such words, because the popularity of diving is still not enough, so I hope to be able to do this." ”
"Reluctant to this project, there are still feelings." I knew I was going to retire one day, but there was a way for me to retire and still be able to contribute to diving and support diving, so that's why I did that. ”
In Xie Sipi's view, diving, as a project with certain dangers and technical requirements, may be difficult to spread like some mass projects, nor is it any institution that has the ability to open, but it is also necessary to let more people understand diving, learn how to appreciate the beauty of diving, and feel the charm of diving.
"Unlike sports such as running and jumping rope, diving will be more resistant to psychological stress. If you can jump down from the height of the three-meter platform at a young age, overcome the fear in your heart, and make a very deep impression on your children, and when they grow up, they will find that nothing is nothing. ”
For today's Xie Sibei, diving has long become an indispensable part of his life, as he told the surging news reporter, in addition to the gold medal on the field, diving has brought him a tempering of personality and calmness in the face of hardships.
Xie Sibei and his fiancée.
Now, he is about to enter a new stage of life - to marry his girlfriend who has been in love for more than ten years. The two were also related by diving and were teammates in the Guangdong Provincial Team. His fiancée retired after the 2017 National Games and continued her diving career as a coach.
To this day, Xie Sibei still remembers the scene when he was 7 years old, when he first stood on the ten-meter platform: looking at the water below ten meters, he was so scared that he didn't move, only to hear the coach's shouts wafting from below, "Do you jump or not?" Hurry down and get out of class. ”
At that time, it was an outdoor training pool in Shantou, and in front of it was the vast blue sea. As soon as Xie Si turned his head, he saw the magnificent sunset, and out of nowhere, a wave of courage surged up, and his heart jumped down.
"Suddenly I felt that I enjoyed the scenery in the heights, and when I jumped down, I found that there was nothing in the original, but I was addicted."
At that moment, he fell in love with diving, and to this day, to the future, his love will continue.
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