At the 2012 London Olympics, a yellow race from Kazakhstan, Meia Maneza, won the women's weightlifting championship, the gold medalist is no stranger to everyone, she was originally a Chinese weightlifter, originally named Yao Li, and later became a Kazakh citizen for personal reasons.
Although Meia Maneza has now won the gold medal as a foreigner, Chinese audiences will still congratulate her.
But in an interview with a Chinese reporter, she pretended she didn't understand Chinese and asked the reporter to ask questions in English or Russian, a remark that stunned everyone present.
Not only that, she also said that in her sports career, she had never received any cultivation from China, and her eagerness to clear up relations with China caused strong anger among Chinese people.
The voice of the online crusade against Yao Li also followed, negating China's cultivation of her, proper white-eyed wolf behavior.
Yao Li was also scolded as a traitor to the Chinese sports scene.
So for what reason did Yao Li become a Kazakh citizen? What happened to her later?
Acquire Kazakh citizenship and change name
In 2008, Yao Li was undergoing weightlifting training in the Hunan provincial team, just in time for China's "talent exchange" program with other countries, and the Chinese sports team would arrange some outstanding athletes to exchange and learn from other countries.
Among them, Yao Li's Hunan provincial team had two places, and the outstanding athletes in the team at that time included Yao Li. Yao Li has also represented the Hunan provincial team in weightlifting competitions before, won championships, and has also become a key training object in the team.
But recently Yao Li's training has become more and more inadequate, and there is no breakthrough in her usual results, as a coach, Zhu Mingwu is also worried when he looks at her, and he feels that it should be the bottleneck period of Yao Li's training.
At this time, there happened to be two places to go abroad to communicate with athletes from other countries, and the coach wanted Yao Li to go abroad to see and get familiar with how athletes from other countries received training.
So Yao Li and another member of the team, Zhao Changling, went to Kazakhstan for training, who could have imagined that Yao Li would get rid of the identity of Chinese.
Yao Li, who came to Kazakhstan, with professional training in China and her own solid basic skills, quickly achieved top results in Kazakhstan.
The Kazakh state attaches great importance to these Chinese foreign aides, and its own talented athletes are very scarce, so when it saw Yao Li's amazing weightlifting results, it came up with the idea of poaching Yao Li.
They investigated Yao Li's family situation behind her back and found that Yao Li's family was poor. Taking this reason as a breakthrough, Kazakhstan offered Yao Li generous conditions. They promised Yao Li that as long as she won the gold medal for Hakistan, the Kazakh side would give her 1,000 US dollars a month.
It will also provide Yao Li with the top training configuration in Kazakhstan, and in other aspects, the Kazakh side has also opened up rich conditions for Yao Li, and in the face of these "temptations", Yao Li is actually unable to refuse.
She even has a lot of pressure on herself now, and if she relaxes a little, her hard-working achievements will be compared, and the conditions offered by the Ha side here are really tempting.
After a fierce ideological struggle, Yao Li decided to become a citizen of Kazakhstan.
Represented the National Weightlifting Team of Kazakhstan in the competition. But Coach Zhu Mingwu, who was far away in China, did not think that the weightlifting genius he had worked so hard to cultivate was so easily poached by others.
Soon after, Yao Li represented the Kazakh state in the Guangzhou Asian Games, this time Yao Li is no longer Yao Li, she is from the Kazakh state of Maia Maneza.
During the competition, Meia Maneza lived up to expectations and won the Asian Games with her amazing weightlifting performance, winning the gold medal, which was the second gold medal won by Mia Maneza for the Country of Kazakhstan.
Kazakh reporters also began interviewing the Asian-looking national champion, but Maia Maneza could not understand the Kazakh reporter's Russian and did not know how to answer.
It was her translator who began to save her life, translating the reporter's Russian into Chinese, and she understood the reporter's questions, so she delivered her acceptance speech in fluent Northeastern dialect.
When confronted with questions from Chinese journalists, Meiya Maneza also answered their questions with Chinese very naturally.
After the whole interview, the conversation between the two sides was also very pleasant.
Chinese denied his training in China
But as Maia Maneza's achievements grew larger and higher in Kazakhstan, Meya Maneza seemed to forget the place where she had just been discovered, and the next series of operations were labeled "traitors to Chinese sports".
At the 2012 London Olympics, Meia Maneza won the gold medal in women's weightlifting, when she became the world champion, holding the gold medal in her hand, she received congratulations from the audience.
During the interview, the Chinese reporter called out her Chinese name, but she pretended not to hear it and repeatedly avoided the Chinese reporter's questions about her.
It wasn't until the reporter called out her name that Maia Maneza responded and told the reporter that she didn't understand Chinese, and asked questions in English or Russian.
And in an interview with reporters, he also introduced himself as a Kazakh, and all the achievements he has made in his career are inseparable from the training and training of Kazakhstan over the years.
He also claimed that he had only lived in China for a few years.
This remark stunned all the reporters present, who all knew that Yao Li later became a citizen of Kazakhstan, but now she has forgotten her roots, but Yao Li has only been away from China for a few years.
During this period, Yao Li also did not have any contact with her former Weightlifting teammates in China.
As soon as this incident was reported, it caused an uproar in China, because of personal reasons to join the foreign nationality, Chinese people did not say anything, but they made a forgetful act, denied everything they had in China, and could not be forgiven.
Netizens have accused Maia Maneza of being a white-eyed wolf cultivated by the Chinese weightlifting team.
In the face of the crusade of Chinese netizens, Meiya Maneza did not show a trace of guilt, but still declared:
"I told you that I didn't do weightlifting in China. I only lived with my family in China for a few years, and my heart always represented Kazakhstan. ”
Meiya Maneza then returned to Kazakhstan with a medal and continued her training, but the condemnation of her at home did not stop.
Mia Maneza's parents still live in China, and although Mia Maneza tried several times to take her parents to the Kazakh state for retirement, her parents refused.
Maia Maneza's parents are also proud of their daughter's victory at the London Olympics, but the old couple is reluctant to live where they have lived for most of their lives.
In the face of online bad comments about her daughter, Maia Maneza's mother also explained why she wanted to become a Kazakh citizen, because at that time, Maia Maneza's father was seriously ill, coupled with the poor living conditions at home, and could not pay expensive medical expenses.
Mia Maneza became a Kazakh citizen to ease the burden on her family.
But this explanation seems a little pale, after all, Ms. Yao denies her training in China.
A turning point in Yao Li's life
Yao Li was born in 1985 in a rural family next to Fuxin City, Liaoning Province, Yao Li's family is poor, her parents are farmers, and children who grow up in such an environment will one day get ahead in the future, and the best way out is to study.
Yao Li's parents also think so, they all hope that their daughters can study hard and change their fate by relying on knowledge.
But Yao Li's grades from an early age are not good, the only advantage is that she has great strength, coupled with often helping her parents to do farm work, Yao Li has been much stronger than her peers since she was a child.
When Yao Li was in junior high school, her grades were still a mess, and her parents wanted her to stop after junior high school, send her to a technical school, and let her learn the technology in the future to rely on her own craftsmanship to eat.
But by chance, Yao Li was discovered by the physical education teacher in physical education class, and felt that this little girl was not ordinary, so she held the mentality of trying to let her lift weights, and as a result, Yao Li easily lifted up.
So she began to train her one-on-one, and let her sign up for several weightlifting competitions, all of which won the first place, when the physical education teacher felt that she was a malleable talent in weightlifting.
At that time, because of Yao Li's dazzling weightlifting results, it attracted the attention of the sports school coach, and he wanted Yao Li to enter the sports school for training, maybe he could go to the national team, and then participate in the Olympic Games in the future to win a world championship for the glory of the country.
The sports school coach also paid a special visit to Yao Li's parents, hoping to let Yao Li enter the sports school training, participate in the competition in the future, and maybe even enter the national team.
At the beginning, I wanted to leave my parents and think that a girl practiced weightlifting, made herself like a man, and would not be able to marry in the future, so she rejected the coach's opinion.
But seeing that Yao Li is indeed a good seedling for practicing weightlifting, she did not want to give up, so she found Yao Li's parents many times, and after the coach's unremitting efforts, she finally persuaded her parents to agree to her daughter's study at sports school.
After entering the sports school, the coach was very concerned about Yao Li's training, and under the professional training of the sports school coach, Yao Li's weightlifting performance began to improve by leaps and bounds, and soon won the championship in the city.
Coaches also often buy some supplements for Yao Li out of their own pockets to ensure that Yao Li can keep up with nutrition while training.
Yao Li, who had just begun to emerge in her athletic career, soon ushered in her second turnaround in her life.
In 2003, Coach Zhu Mingwu came to Fuxin on a business trip, and heard that there was a weightlifting genius named Yao Li, so he came to Yao Li's sports school to see this weightlifting genius.
Yao Li's outstanding performance won the affirmation of Zhu Mingwu, who wanted Yao Li to go to the provincial team for training, so he took Yao Li from the sports school and trained in the provincial team, the equipment will be more complete, and there will be more opportunities to play.
What impresses Yao Li's parents even more is that there will be additional subsidies every month.
At first, Yao Li went with confidence, but soon Yao Li became lost, because the provincial team had many weightlifters who were better than her, and their strength was above Yao Li.
This made Yao Li feel frustrated, plus the coaches in the provincial team all felt that Yao Li was not good, and the daily training did not care about Yao Li, only Zhu Mingwu appreciated Yao Li very much.
Later, Zhu Mingwu took Yao Li to the Hunan provincial team for the better development of Yao Li, in Hunan Province, Yao Li began to show her fists, in order to prove that she began to strengthen training, she also represented the Hunan team in weightlifting competitions many times and won the championship.
At this time, Yao Li was not yet 18 years old, but she had already made some achievements in weightlifting, but after everything reached a certain height, it was difficult to have a breakthrough.
Yao Li is no exception, after she won many championships, she encountered a bottleneck in her sports career, which is a necessary process for every athlete.
In order to let her better improve herself, the coach gave her the quota of foreign aid, originally wanted her to get out of the current training environment first, and then come back to continue training, who knows Yao Li went to kazakhstan and never came back, which is undoubtedly painful for the coach who has been cultivating her.
Her subsequent series of actions hurt the hearts of the Chinese people even more.
In 2016, the International Olympic Committee found out that Yao Li used doping during the competition, and the medals in the London Olympic Games were withdrawn, the results were invalidated, and the competition was banned for life.
epilogue
Looking back at Yao Li's sports career, she can win the world championship and become an athlete admired by thousands of people in Kazakhstan, in the final analysis, it is inseparable from the training and a large number of training resources provided to her by the motherland when she was in China.
But she denied the help that China had brought her, and she had been the focus of weightlifting in Chinese sports, and after winning the world championship, she pretended not to understand Chinese, and she was disassociating herself from China in every word and deed.
In the face of netizens' insults against her, she has no remorse, and her parents are even more self-conscious in front of countless Chinese people because of what she has done.
Although there are no borders with sports, in order to get better opportunities for themselves, no matter in which country, as long as they fight to win the championship, the audience will also congratulate them.
But once you break the rules of sports and pollute the spirit of sportsmanship, you have to pay a price.
Meia Maneza was exposed to doping in 2016 in order to win the championship, which is even more despicable and will be spurned by the entire sports world.
Although we are taught to have lofty ideals from an early age, although some people give up because their ideals are too far away in the process of growing up.
But there will be countless people who will fight for their ideals, but whatever the outcome, we must not forget those who have helped us on the road to the pursuit of ideals.
We must not forget the favorable conditions that the motherland has provided to us, and we must not forget where we are in the future.
It is even more impossible to take the sword and take the side in order to realize the ideal earlier, and use some improper means to achieve their own goals.