As the first athlete in Chinese swimming to win a gold slam, Ye Shiwen's name can be replaced by "genius girl". As a teenager, she won several gold medals in the Olympic Games, Asian Games, National Games, World Championships and World Cups, and her extraordinary performance amazed audiences around the world. However, when she became famous at a young age, she gradually disappeared, and only legends about her remained in the Chinese swimming scene. What happened to Ye Shiwen?
Ye Shiwen's parents once lamented that if time could be repeated, they did not want their daughter to become famous at such a young age. Indeed, Ye Shiwen can be called a swimming genius. She was recommended by her teacher to learn to swim when she was in kindergarten, and since then she has formed a deep bond with the pool. Ye Shiwen seems to have been born in the pool, and she has also become an all-round swimmer under the guidance of the sports school coach.
Learning to swim at the age of 6, entering the provincial team at the age of 11, and coming to the national team three years later, Ye Shiwen grew up very fast, and she also made unimaginable efforts for it. She is a key training object in the eyes of coaches and a talented girl in the hearts of fans, Ye Shiwen won several gold medals in a series of domestic competitions in the year she entered the national team, and at the Guangzhou Asian Games held in the same year, she also won two championships in the 200-meter individual medley and the 400-meter individual medley. In 2011, at the age of 15, Ye Shiwen won the women's 200m medley title in her first World Championships, making her the youngest world swimming champion since 1978.
People who like Ye Shiwen affectionately call her "Little Leaf", but everyone knows that under Ye Shiwen's gentle and quiet appearance, there is a tenacious heart that will never admit defeat. At the 2012 London Olympics, Ye Shiwen, as the absolute main force of the Chinese swimming team, participated in the women's 200m and women's 400m individual medley events. At that Olympics, she not only broke the world record in the women's 400-meter medley and won the championship, but also won gold and broke the Olympic record in the 200-meter individual medley. Ye Shiwen was undoubtedly the most eye-catching athlete in that Olympic Games, she stood on top of the world at the age of 16, and countless people were proud and proud of her.
Ye Shiwen holds many titles, she is the youngest Asian Games double champion in Chinese swimming history, and the youngest Olympic double in the history of world swimming. As a female athlete, she also far surpassed the men's Olympic champions in the same event in the sprint stage of the Olympic competition. Countless people thought that she could continue her glory at the 2016 Rio Olympics, but she was seriously affected by the development period and only ranked eighth at the Rio Olympics.
The discussions of the outside world will naturally be heard by Ye Shiwen, but the huge pressure in her heart cannot be resolved. She is indeed a genius in the eyes of others, but she is also an ordinary little girl. Competitive sports are cruel, there are losses and wins, and there are successes and failures. Ye Shiwen tasted the joy of reaching the top, and finally accepted the pain of falling to the bottom. In 2017, Ye Shiwen won the National Games championship, and since then she has disappeared from everyone's view and came to study at Tsinghua University. In her spare time, Ye Shiwen also goes swimming, and without the burden of winning or losing, she begins to enjoy the happiness brought to her by the pool even more.
In 2018, the unwilling Ye Shiwen decided to fight for the Tokyo Olympics, so she suspended her studies to concentrate on preparing for the Olympics. However, the final result was not satisfactory, and Ye Shiwen passed the Tokyo Olympics place by a narrow point difference. However, in Ye Shiwen's heart, as long as she has worked hard, it is not a pity, she calmly accepted this result, and she was able to face her failure.
Now 26-year-old Ye Shiwen once again missed the national team's training, but she still has not let go of her love for many years, nor has she made commercial gold like some other athletes. She maintains the purest affection for sports, so she became the promotion ambassador of the Hangzhou Asian Games, personally participating in various activities of the Asian Games, and encouraging more people to participate in national fitness.
Ye Shiwen's move also made many fans give her a thumbs up, because she will not be paid for this as a promotion ambassador, she just wants to contribute to the development of China's sports industry. I wish Ye Shiwen a smoother road in the future, and I wish her a brilliant future!