On the evening of the 28th, the 27th Badminton World Championships came to a successful conclusion. 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze, the national team once again showed their unparalleled dominance. This topic has once again appeared on the hot search, and also let the post-00s know Li Lingwei, Lin Ying, Wu Dixi and other famous badminton players.
One of the most famous is the "Queen of The Feathers" Li Lingwei, who fought all over the world in the 1980s, is she still continuing her sports career? How are you doing?
In 1964, Li Lingwei was born in an ordinary family in Jinshui, Zhejiang Province.
Different from the tall and powerful figure in the public impression, Li Lingwei, who was born, had a weak breath and extremely poor health because of premature birth, and many people thought that this little girl would not live long. But Li Lingwei's grandmother did not believe in evil and tried her best to keep her granddaughter alive.
Li Lingwei was weak, so Grandma crushed the eggs a little bit and fed them to her, and asked the physical education teacher next door to take Li Lingwei to run and jump to increase the amount of exercise.
With no running shoes and no professional track, Li Lingwei wore plastic sandals to exercise with the physical education teacher on the cinder floor. The skinny Li Lingwei did not want to play football with others, so she learned not to be too strong in badminton, and she was happy to contact and swing every day.
And the time is spent in Li Lingwei swinging the racket again and again, perhaps because of the regular running and jumping exercises, Li Lingwei has accumulated thin hair, gradually becoming taller than her peers, and her body is also strong.
The benefits of sports do not stop there, in the year of Li Lingwei's 11th year, because of her talent, she was selected to join the Zhejiang Badminton team to start training.
In the Badminton Team of Zhejiang Province, Li Lingwei had an unforgettable time. The future "Queen of Feathers" had not yet cultivated a calm and atmospheric personality, and was forced to leave home for arduous and boring training.
Injuries in sports training are common, and there is no family care in group life, but the innate self-esteem makes Li Lingwei reluctant to ask the coach for help.
Coaches also understand that young athletes of this age cannot blindly scold, but also coax, pay attention to psychological needs. Sometimes Li Lingwei secretly shed tears and did not want to train, so he personally made the meal and sent it to Li Lingwei's dormitory. When Li Lingwei's arm became red and swollen from playing for a long time, the coach found safflower oil to massage her carefully.
It can be said that the coach is both a father and a mother, and successfully let Xiao LiLingwei, who left home to train at the age of eleven, feel the warmth of home, and also planted seeds for her future to embark on the road of teachers.
The calm-minded Li Lingwei's ball skills soared by leaps and bounds, and she won the women's singles championship at the 1980 National Badminton Championships and was selected for the national team in the same year.
Li Lingwei, who has a changeable ball path, soon came to prominence in the national team, she is fast, strong, good at analyzing the motivation of the opponent's every step, and often deceives the opponent with dazzling fake actions.
Soon, Li Lingwei participated in the Badminton World Championships as the main force of the national team.
The World Championships were the first world championships for a Chinese badminton team to participate in, and until then, the Chinese Badminton Association had been unreasonably rejected by the International Badminton Federation.
Even if it has won the top spot in many international competitions before, the Chinese badminton team can only be called the "uncrowned king".
Whether we can achieve the "opening red" in this badminton world championship has become a key node for the Chinese badminton team to dominate the international football world.
From Farral in Canada to Troque in the United Kingdom, the world championship is full of famous players, and badminton players from various ball paths have all appeared.
In the semi-finals, Li Lingwei encountered the famous Troke and made a bad start.
Troque is old and skilled, can attack and defend a variety of changes, and even has a larger body than Li Lingwei.
Under the disadvantage of booing from the home audience, Li Lingwei fell behind her opponents 8-10. According to the rules, if the other party takes another point, Li Lingwei will lose this round.
Li Lingwei wiped the sweat from her palms and remembered what coach Chen Fushou had taught her: "As an excellent athlete, you should play with your brain, and it is normal to start playing badly, depending on how you deal with it." ”
Calm, self-disorder will give the other party an opportunity. Li Lingwei constantly warned herself in her heart that the other party had great strength, she would fight footwork, and the other party was good at attacking, so she used pre-net technology to deal with it.
Under Li Lingwei's calm layout, she tied the score point by point, winning the first set with dexterous steps and rare speed to win 12-10.
At the beginning of the second set, Li Lingwei did not give the opponent time to adapt, changed the tactics again, lured the other party to the Internet and quickly drew the backcourt, successfully won this set to enter the final, and finally defeated her teammates to win the World Championship.
The road to the championship is not smooth, in a competition Li Lingwei unfortunately meniscus tearing, the team doctor gave her a seal, she won the gold medal again.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg in her many injuries, when Li Lingwei retired at the age of 25, doctors calculated based on the bone quality of her cervical vertebrae that her bones were as fragile as those of a 50-year-old.
From 1983 to 1989, a total of 61 gold medals, large and small, were pocketed by Li Lingwei, and while winning countless flowers and applause, Li Lingwei looked at her diagnosis report and understood that it was time to say goodbye to the field.
In the spring of 1989, Li Lingwei went through the retirement procedures with reluctance and regret, but she did not expect that what was waiting at the door of the office was the marriage proposal of her boyfriend Yan Qingyi, who had been in love for two years.
Yan Qingyi is a native of Beijing who has loved badminton since childhood, and Li Lingwei is his badminton goddess.
The two were introduced to each other by Li Lingwei's former teammates, and they especially had a common language in badminton, and soon fell in love.
After falling in love, in order not to affect his girlfriend's training, Yan Qingyi strictly restricted the frequency of visiting Li Lingwei on the badminton team, just so that she could devote herself to training.
That summer, Li Lingwei and Yan Qingyi received their licenses in Beijing and officially married.
After retiring from the army, Li Lingwei did not want to completely leave her beloved sports career, and she chose to enter the university for further study, thinking that she could still engage in related work in the future. For his wife's plan, Yan Qingyi naturally raised his hands in approval and became a perfect "Xiannei helper".
After further study, Li Lingwei returned to the national team as a coach and returned early and late every day. Yan Qingyi, who works in the cultural unit, shouldered the responsibility of taking care of the children and did not let Li Lingwei run at both ends.
Sometimes the national team needs to go abroad to compete or train, and Yan Qingyi helps Li Lingwei pack her bags. A sentence of "Don't worry, there is me at home" made Li Lingwei's heart very solid, as if returning to the time when she was training in the national feather team.
The husband supports his wife's career, and the son does not hesitate to let go.
Once Yan Qingyi and his son had a cold at the same time, Li Lingwei was on a business trip to train outside, and the father and son could not afford to come to bed and no one wanted to move, so they lay on the bed for a day and only ate half a bowl of rice porridge.
That is to say, this big and young people love sports, and the illness comes and goes quickly, so that they can get better before Li Lingwei returns.
The father and son who had receded from the cold strictly guarded their mouths, and did not tell Li Lingwei about this matter at all, but instead regretted that her knees were not good and they had to run outside.
Until one day my son caught a cold again, in order to comfort the worried mother joked: "What is this, once I and my father could not get up from the cold, we were both urging each other to get up and cook." ”
When Li Lingwei learned of the bitterness of the father and son, she shed tears of guilt: "I am not a competent mother. ”
Upon hearing this, Yan Qingyi quickly held her hand: "You are my badminton goddess, and I am willing to reduce your burden." ”
The son next to him also showed his heart: "You are a mother who does business, and we understand that you love you more." ”
With a solid backing at home, Li Lingwei's career naturally climbed steadily, and in the past few years of her coaching, Zhang Ning, Gong Rena and a number of other mainstays of the national badminton team gradually grew up and began the journey of dominating the international badminton world.
Later, Li Lingwei mentioned in the interview that this matter was full of emotions, and without the strong support of this big and small, she could not have achieved today's achievements.
Li Lingwei's feelings are also related to the reform of the national badminton team in 1996, when she resigned collectively with several other coaches and fell into a low point in her life.
From the beginning of toddlers, Li Lingwei has formed an indissoluble relationship with sports, and later her life has been occupied by badminton, and now that she has left the national badminton team, she does not know what else she can do.
During this period of confusion, it was the husband and son who gave Li Lingwei the strength to go down.
When he was not at work, Yan Qingyi accompanied Li Lingwei to listen to music, returned to her mother's house to relax, and neatly arranged the big and small things at home. Her son, Yan Peng, looked for various topics to distract Li Lingwei.
Yan Peng likes to swim, he often shares interesting facts about the swimming pool, sharing how many meters he swam today. With the encouragement of her son, Li Lingwei is no longer decadent, and she wants to set a good example for her son.
Determined, Li Lingwei entered the English Department of Beijing Chinese University to start studying. In 2003, Beijing successfully bid for the Olympic Games, and with decades of experience in the sports world and excellent foreign language proficiency, Li Lingwei successfully entered the Work of the Olympic Organizing Committee.
Li Lingwei, who returned to the sports world, did not stop studying, and in the same year she went to Beijing Sport University to pursue a doctorate, and successfully obtained a degree two years later.
Over the years, other countries have invited Li Lingwei to teach abroad, but she has refused.
After Li Lingwei became vice president of the Chinese Olympic Committee in 2016, she was busier at work, gathering less with her husband and children on weekdays, so how could she be willing to go abroad to leave her father and son behind?
More importantly, Li Lingwei feels that she has been cultivated by the state, and naturally she must return to the country.
Last year, Li Lingwei came to Hangzhou Normal University to teach. At the welcome meeting, Li Lingwei expressed the hope to train more physical education teachers, "Without physical education teachers, there would be no Li Lingwei now." ”
With the support of her husband and son, 58-year-old Li Lingwei set sail again, this time focusing on a larger stage, to cultivate excellent sports education talents for the country and let the fire of sports pass on from her.