Many people know the "diving queen" Guo Jingjing, but few people know Wu Minxia.
Wu Minxia has been fighting in diving for 25 years and is the only diver in mainland China to win olympic gold medals five times.
She is not only professional, but also enviable.
At the wedding of her friend Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia, as a bridesmaid, was once photographed by Huo Qishan, the second son of Hong Kong's richest man, Fok Ying Tung, and Guo Jingjing's younger uncle.
When Guo Jingjing conveyed this good news to Wu Minxia with great joy, she was rejected by Wu Minxia.
Why did Wu Minxia give up the opportunity to be a "broad wife"? How is she doing after retiring from the army?
Wu Minxia, born in Shanghai in 1985, was 6 years old, and in the two hobbies of dancing and diving, her parents chose diving for her because the swimming pool was relatively close to home.
When she first learned to dive, Wu Minxia was often injured, and her body was always a piece of blue and purple, and her parents were very distressed and regretted choosing diving for their daughter.
They also persuaded Wu Minxia to give up, but they did not know that she already had her own goal in mind at a young age.
In 1992, Wu Minxia saw 14-year-old Fu Mingxia compete in the Barcelona Olympic Games, and in this competition, the young Fu Mingxia won the gold medal in the women's 10-meter platform, becoming the youngest Olympic champion at the time.
This gold medal has also become a dream chased by Wu Mingxia in her heart, which has strengthened her confidence in continuing on the road of diving.
While the other children were playing, Wu Minxia was jumping into the water again and again, training hard for her goals.
He flipped his head hundreds of times, repeated the action of entering the water thousands of times, and the improvement of a few tenths of a second was the result of Wu Minxia's night and day struggle.
At the age of 9, she was selected for the Shanghai Diving Team with her outstanding results; At the age of 13, he entered the national team training.
She was getting closer and closer to her dream.
The national team is as good as a cloud, Wu Minxia has not slackened off at all, in training, she is always the first to come and the last to leave.
Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared, her hard work and professionalism, the coach sees the eyes, puts her and the competition experienced Guo Jingjing together to form a partner, to set the goal of a double Olympic champion for the two of them.
Wu Minxia was excited, but there was also a lot of pressure.
The two trained hard day and night, and finally exchanged the joy of success in 2001.
At the World Championships, Wu Minxia participated in the international competition for the first time, and her and Guo Jingjing's superb skills conquered the judges and the audience, and won the championship in the women's double 3-meter springboard.
Since then, Wu Minxia has been out of control on the road to winning the championship.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, the two won the 3m board championship again. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the two once again conveyed the joy of winning the championship to the north and south of the motherland.
The name of the young general Wu Minxia frequently appears in the major media, but her ranking is always after Guo Jingjing.
Some people say that Wu Minxia is the "second oldest of the millennium", as long as there is Guo Jingjing's single competition, she will never be able to win the championship.
Wu Minxia did not care about these gossip, she regarded Guo Jingjing as the eternal goddess in her heart.
In 2008, Guo Jingjing retired, and Wu Minxia raised the flag of the national diving team.
After four years, Wu Minxia and her new partner He Zi stood on the diving platform of the London Olympic Games, and the two worked together perfectly to win the women's doubles 3m board championship.
The 27-year-old Wu Minxia defeated her teammate He Zi with excellent performance and won her first single gold medal in her life!
On the podium, Wu Minxia left tears of excitement, she proved her strength with her achievements, and her dream finally came true!
Wu Minxia stood at the peak of her life, and everyone thought that she would retire and chase the life of marrying into the "rich" like Guo Jingjing and Fu Mingxia.
However, this "veteran" gave everyone an unexpected result.
She will do her best to participate in the last Olympic Games in her life.
After four years of training, Wu Minxia went all out, the pain was extreme, the pain made her want to give up again and again, and this stubborn girl stood on the diving platform again and again.
When she won the Rio Olympics double 3m board title, everyone was touched by her persistence.
Wu Minxia, who has won five consecutive Olympic Games, became China's first "hardware" champion.
With her own efforts, she got rid of Guo Jingjing's aura and stood on the same historical stage with her idols Fu Mingxia and Guo Jingjing with actions.
In 2016, after the Rio Olympics, at the award ceremony of CCTV's "Sports Figures", Wu Minxia announced her retirement.
Faced with the need to quit her lifelong diving career, Wu Minxia burst into tears:
"I'm afraid it's coming, but my body doesn't allow me to train anymore..."
She began practicing diving at the age of 6, and Wu Minxia's diving career has gone through 25 years of thorny years. To complete her career dreams, she wants to complete another big thing in her life.
In the 2016 Tanabata Festival, she posted a message on the online platform:
"Thank you for the handsome guy who has been silently supporting me behind my back, you have worked hard!"
It was also accompanied by a photo of her and her boyfriend Zhang Xiaocheng, in which Wu Minxia was full of smiles and was happy.
As soon as the news came out, it was blessed by the whole network.
The two met in 2008, when Wu Minxia and Guo Jingjing won the championship, Zhang Xiaocheng was the commentator at the time.
Zhang Xiaocheng is a loyal fan of Wu Minxia, has been silently following all her events, facing the Olympic champion Wu Minxia, Zhang Xiaocheng has not dared to say his good feelings for her.
Until a game in 2010, Wu Minxia accidentally lost and scratched her foot. Losing her medals and physical injuries made her feel sad.
Zhang Xiaocheng was worried about Wu Minxia's injury, but he did not dare to ask, and the text message in his hand was edited over and over again, and finally sent out four words "Are you okay?"?
Since then, Wu Minxia has remembered this warm-hearted boy, and the two slowly became acquainted, and soon became lovers in love.
The relationship between the two did not go as smoothly as imagined, and Zhang Xiaocheng was far inferior to Wu Minxia in terms of fame and economic conditions.
At that time, the people who pursued Wu Minxia were either well-known stars or businessmen with successful careers, the most powerful of which was Guo Jingjing's younger uncle Huo Qishan.
When Guo Jingjing got married, he invited his girlfriend Wu Minxia to be a bridesmaid, and at the wedding, Huo Qigang's younger brother Huo Qishan fell in love with her at first sight, and he asked Guo Jingjing to express his admiration for Wu Minxia.
Of course, Guo Jingjing can't ask for it, and the relationship between girlfriends and concubines is not better.
Unexpectedly, Huo Qishan's enthusiasm was poured cold water by Wu Minxia.
She is not willing to marry into the "rich family" to be a broad wife, because Wu Minxia has long been as if she belonged.
Zhang Xiaocheng is the worst of Wu Minxia's suitors, and their relationship is opposed by Wu Minxia's parents.
In the face of hot love, Wu Minxia went against her parents' wishes for the first time, and she wanted to be with Zhang Xiaocheng.
In the face of the trust of his lover, Zhang Xiaocheng became more and more energetic in his career, and he also plucked up enough courage to visit Wu Minxia's parents and ask the second elder to believe in himself, he would definitely be good to Wu Minxia for a lifetime.
Zhang Xiaocheng's sincerity touched Wu Minxia's parents, and the second elder finally agreed to be together.
Originally, they had an open relationship in 2012, but in order to support Wu Minxia's career, the two postponed their relationship for four years.
In 2017, the year after Wu Minxia retired from the military, the two entered the palace of marriage.
After marriage, the successive births of daughters and sons made Wu Minxia extremely satisfied in her happy days.
Fading the aura of an Olympic champion and returning to the life of an ordinary person, Wu Minxia still has a wonderful life.
After graduating from graduate school at the Shanghai Institute of Sport, she also frequently appeared in variety shows, and her free performance in front of the camera made it impossible for her to associate her with the Olympic champion.
In "Crossover Singer King", she took the stage, and a song "Hello Tomorrow" touched countless audiences.
The lyrics contain all the difficulties of Wu Minxia's 25-year diving career, netizens have left messages, shouting "Wu Minxia cheers", "You are the best"...
Wu Minxia said: "The childhood time I missed when I was a child was found back in the show... ”
She is confident, generous and beautiful in the show, like starting the second spring of her life, and her state is so good that people are envious.
In her career, she also created a Chinese swimwear brand with her husband and found a suitable entrepreneurial direction for herself.
At the 70th National Day celebration, Wu Minxia and the representatives of the Olympic champions appeared on the Olympic theme float together to witness the prosperity of the country with the people of the whole country.
Some people say that with Wu Minxia's capital, he can obviously marry into a rich family, but he chose Zhang Xiaocheng, who is penniless, which is really a loss.
However, every time Wu Minxia appeared in front of the media, she smiled like a flower and told people in a good state: She is really happy to marry love.
Even if she once stood on the top of the world, Wu Minxia never lost herself, she always knew what she wanted in her heart.
Happiness is not the achievement of fame, but the lover is by the side, the children are around the knees, and it is a calmness that emanates from the bottom of the heart.
Wu Minxia, 37 years old this year, has a successful career and a happy family, from an ordinary girl to an Olympic champion, to a full life now, all of which she has insisted on her dreams and goals in exchange.
Everyone's life path, there will be countless forks in the road, to choose their most suitable for the best at the one, firmly go on, will definitely harvest like Wu Minxia's blossoms.
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Author: Su Moxiang
EDIT: Grass
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