Speaking of sister-brother love, love runs for up to 11 years, and the love of the sports legend who was urged to marry by the family before finally getting married, can you guess which couple? And the combination of this pair can really be described as the friendship between the prince and the princess since childhood. The love story of the two of them was a household name in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, I will follow the small editor to review, the gymnastics industry has a ceiling Li Ning and Chen Yongyan to get love.
Chen Yongyan is known as the princess of gymnastics, who has achieved impressive results in major competitions, and Li Ning has known each other since childhood, but she is not a green plum bamboo horse. Chen Yongyan was not favored by the coach when she was a child, because she was too thin and too weak, but she did not give up at a young age, and she was very hard and hard at practicing gymnastics, while Li Ning and she were just the opposite, and she was the most mischievous one in the team. It may be that Chen Yongyan's tireless self-motivation infected him, and the two began to supervise each other and support each other's training situation. At that time, the two of them became the hardest working and most motivated athletes in the team. The effort was also rewarded, and in 1979 Chen Yongyan's outstanding performance was selected for the national team. At the time of separation, she said to Li Ning, without my supervision, you will continue to work hard, and I will wait for you in the national team. It is this promise of two people that Li Ning's desire for the national team is even greater, and he is more serious and hardworking in the future training days. Because Chen Yongyan was still waiting for him.
In the competition shortly after that, Li Ning entered the national team with excellent results. Not only reunited with former playmates. It also opened up his unprecedented brilliance. The moment when the two stood side by side on the highest podium and was known as the gymnastics double, it was at the ninth Asian Games that Li Ning And Chen Yongyan won the men's and women's all-round gymnastics championships respectively. It is also this game that brings the hearts of the two people closer. When Li Ning complained that the sneakers were not easy to wear, Chen Yongyan personally made a pair of shoes for him, which is why Li Ning created his own brand later.
1982 was a year of li ning's brilliance, and at the Gymnastics World Cup, he won 6 gold medals in 7 competitions. Subsequently, he represented the Chinese team at the Los Angeles Olympic Games with a good result of 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze. At the moment when he belonged to his peak, Li Ning confessed to Chen Yongyan. The two formally confirmed their relationship. In the same year, Chen Yongyan announced her retirement, announced in the golden years, which also caused a sensation at the time. As for the reason, it has not been made public. Chen Yongyan went out to study, and after starting a gymnastics school in the United States, she and Li Ning became more social. When Li Ning started his business, Chen Yongyan also invested a lot of money in him. At the urging of their families, the two finally ended an 11-year long love run, when Chen Yongyan was 31 years old.
After the two got married, they supported them all the way, and while busy with their respective careers, they did not forget their own small family. Soon the two welcomed their first child, Li Xiaoning, who was born in May 1999. After marriage, Chen Yongyan sold the sports school under her name for Li Ning, because Li Ning's career focus was all in China at that time and she did not want to keep living separate from her husband, so she chose to compromise. Choose to come back and start a business with your husband.
Then, at the age of 44, he took the risk and defied the doctor's advice to give birth to a daughter for Li Ning and named li Xiaoyan. Chen Yongyan, who is now in her 60s, is more gentle and intellectual, more like a princess than she was called a gymnastics princess at that time. As the career becomes bigger and bigger, Li Ning's focus will also be on his own family, and now that they have both children, they are working hand in hand towards happiness.