As long as it is a person or a thing related to the "champion", it seems to be definitely a "happy event", which can always make people cheer, but in fact, retired champions are not so eye-catching, such as mentioning table tennis champions, some people think of Deng Yaping and Kong Linghui, but few people know Qiao Hong.
It wasn't until this champion faded out of the public eye, as if no one remembered her anymore, that the news that she was married at the age of 50 made her "hot" again.
"Good children" who only work hard for the face of their parents
"Hello Qiao Hong's mother, please stay for a while, I have something to say to you."
At a parent-teacher meeting, Qiao Hong's mother was suddenly stopped by the head teacher, and at this time she was quite drumming in her heart: My daughter has good academic performance, and people are suffering, shouldn't she run into trouble?
"Hello Qiao Hong's mother, I want to discuss with you about Qiao Hong, her foreign language scores are very good, but I am afraid that if she continues to train, it will affect her learning, if you and her father do not have to train her in the direction of sports, you might as well stop her table tennis training---
"Ah--- well, thank you, teacher."
Listening to what the teacher said, Qiao Hong's mother hesitated all the way on the way back, because her daughter suffered every day and night because of the hardships of training, but her daughter's studies are still a big thing after all, and where to go when other people's children are also exercising and their daughters are studying.
Qiao Hong has always been a well-behaved and obedient girl since she was a child, so Qiao Hong's champion sounds radiant, but in fact, table tennis is not Qiao Hong's favorite thing at all.
"But the teacher said that she has a good foundation, if she can last for a long time once she practices!"
"But this is your opinion, you are willing, not for your face, you haven't asked the child!"
Since Qiao Hong's mother came back from school, she has been discussing this matter with Qiao Hong's father.
"You don't have to entangle, I will continue to practice!"
At night, Qiao Hong returned home soaked with sweat as usual.
"Otherwise, you have to ensure that the score of each subject in the future cannot be lower than 85 points, otherwise this ball will not be able to practice!"
"I see! Keep it up! ”
After coping with a few words, Qiao Hong hurried back to the house, although his father never scolded himself, but once he was educated, it was half an hour, an hour, and he always had to instill his thoughts into himself, Qiao Hong couldn't stand his father's nagging.
To put it bluntly, even the other two friends in the same village are also very strong, and she and Chen Jing and Hu Xiaoxin at that time were called the "Three Musketeers of Hubei", and everyone knew that they were excellent.
If he suddenly terminates at this time, the face of the parents at home will definitely not be passed, because they are all people who may enter the national team in the future, and they really want to enter, but it is a matter of "Guangzong Yaozu".
In 1968, Qiao Hong was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, and was infected by the fashionable "table tennis style" when she was 7 years old, when the physical education teachers of Nanfang Primary School where she was obsessed with table tennis were forming a team, and Qiao Hong, who had good qualifications, was selected at this time.
And Qiao Hong, who has always been well-behaved and obedient, is indeed very hard, she doesn't know where to come from tenacity, after her father and herself "about three chapters", she worked harder, obviously just a primary school student, everyone regards table tennis as a hobby, only she as an academic.
The school lights out at nine o'clock every night, Qiao Hong practiced in the school practice room until eleven o'clock in the middle of the night before climbing over the wall to go home, although this girl is only eight or nine years old, but she has shown amazing perseverance early.
This little girl herself knows better than her parents and teachers, with her current grades can already be guaranteed to a good middle school, if she does not practice table tennis but just goes all out to study, it will be even more promising, but she just can't let go of this energy in her heart, and she doesn't want her parents to "lose face".
This is Qiao Hong's child's persistence.
From soaring champion to helpless "second old"
Perseverance will definitely win, with the passage of time, Qiao Hong who grew up neither delayed her results nor affected table tennis, her physical fitness was getting better day by day, with her performance, Qiao Hong became a professional table tennis player, in 1980, she entered the provincial table tennis team.
Before that, she had already shone because she won the second place in the national amateur sports school table tennis singles competition, attracting the attention of countless coaches, and the provincial team also decided to increase its efforts to cultivate this young man.
But being paid attention does not mean that she flew up the branch and became the attention of everyone, and Qiao Hong, who entered the provincial team, worked harder than usual, remembering the experience of secretly training until eleven o'clock when she was a child, she just laughed, because that day was too happy.
In the team, she is still as assertive as before, listening to her parents at home, listening to the coach when she arrives in the team, in addition to practicing her skills and skills, she also has to hone resilience, mentality and resilience, because she has always been strong, and her personality would rather not bend.
"Why! Why do competitions have so many unspoken rules? ”
Once, Qiao Hong's coach found her to deliberately lose an opponent who competed with her in a district competition, and after listening to it, Qiao Hong's eyes instantly turned red and tears soaked her eyes.
"Don't ask--- be obedient!"
In the face of Qiao Hong's questioning, the coach was speechless, but due to the coach, Qiao Hong finally obediently did so, but she not only lost the opportunity to enter the final, but also had no intention of responding to the game because of her bad mentality, and directly won the fourth place.
Since that time, Qiao Hong is like a changed person, she always lies on the bed silent when she rests, looking outside when she is fine, maybe she knows the price of growth, maybe she realizes that she should not continue to "obey orders", she decided to strive for anything in the future.
Later, because of the long-term training of the body more and more overwhelmed, Qiao Hong became easily stage frightened and depressed, resulting in her being nervous and unconfident in the face of the game at every turn, and she has never been able to enter the national team, and the three words "national team" have since become her level.
It stands to reason that Qiao Hong's results are enough to add glory to her parents, but when others ask about Qiao Hong's condition, her parents just laugh and say nothing, and when Qiao Hong returns home on the weekend, she will inevitably be taught by her father.
But the strong ones don't stay where they are forever.
In 1987, when the country held the National Games, Qiao Hong naturally wanted to participate, perhaps with sufficient preparation, and the 19-year-old Qiao Hong successfully won the runner-up in the women's singles and successfully entered the national team.
The next year, in 1988, Qiao Hong won the national championship championship, the table tennis association team competition, and the open singles championship at the same time, with a total of four championships before and after.
In the face of achievements, Qiao Hong has always been calm, she feels that this is a natural progression for herself, but at this time the industry has exploded: Where did the little girl come out of such a powerful way? Who is this fierce general?
"Dad, I won the championship, don't talk about it in the future!"
After winning the championship, Qiao Hong just calmly called her parents.
The world only knows the sigh, but they don't know Qiao Hong's seven years of precipitation and tempering.
In 1989, Qiao Hong won three more championships, and Qiao Hong at that time directly became synonymous with "champion", but it was also this year that she met the strongest opponent in her life--- Deng Yaping.
The situation at that time can be said to be whether Qiao Hong is the champion or Deng Yaping is the champion, the two of them have always been "fairy fights", and in the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the two also worked together to win the doubles championship.
In the following time, Qiao Hong suddenly lost to Deng Yaping for some reason, and has been sitting on the chair of the "second oldest", although she and Deng Yaping won the gold medal in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, but later won only a bronze medal in her own competition.
Until this year, Qiao Hong has won dozens of championships.
Perhaps tired of years of exhaustion, or tired of the goal of "winning the first" every day, the 28-year-old Qiao Hong decided to retire.
He didn't get married until he was 50 years old
After retiring from the army, Qiao Hong first found a casual job at Panasonic Electric, but later returned to South China Normal University in China to teach special students because she was too leisurely, and lived happily with students every day.
"Teacher Qiao Hong is very welcoming, humorous and very good, as long as one of us says that we are tired, she will let us all rest---
At school, students evaluate Qiao Hong diametrically opposed to her as a child, she is cheerful, sunny, and even gives them vegetables when eating with students, and then tells them not to waste food.
The students also liked this attentive "Coach Joe", and after knowing that she was a former champion, they sometimes competed with her for an autograph, and later it was the director of education and the principal who persuaded the students together.
Qiao Hong retired at the age of 28, and she took table tennis seriously all her life, but she never took her marriage seriously.
Because Qiao Hong's body has long been not as good as before, she has been concentrating on accompanying rookie national team members, such as Wang Nan. At the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris, Wang Nan won three gold medals in one breath because of Qiao Hong's comfort.
"I didn't do anything, all I could do was accompany her, encourage her when she needed it, and now I just want to enjoy the time with my parents, feel the college time in college more, and make up for the regrets left by the previous training."
People who know Qiao Hong at school are very concerned about her, and when she was in her 40s, she even surrounded her because she knew that she was single and wanted to take care of her together.
Until 2018, Qiao Hong was found by reporters to have married in a low-key manner, and Qiao Hong was exactly 50 years old at this time.
Maybe it's the lover who has been silently by her side, maybe it's her soulmate in middle age, no matter what, we should all be happy for this Olympic champion.
Now 54 years old, Qiao Hong still likes to wear her favorite sweatshirt and sweatpants, full of youth, light atmosphere to work in school, such an elegant, intellectual and successful champion sister, I think the person who accompanies her must also be a particularly warm person.
There are many ways to live in life, but the most correct one is the one you believe in your heart. Qiao Hong has had a peak and won honor for the country and the people, and with this, countless heroes like her deserve to be remembered.
Reference source: Sanhe Sports Network "The Brilliant Avenue Paved by Genius and Perseverance - Qiao Hong's Table Tennis Road"
Oriental Sports Network "Olympic champion rare appearance, married at 50 years old and childless"