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After racing against time and running hard to win nineteen gold medals for his country, track and field champion Ai Dongmei left the arena.
I thought that she would return to normal life with the bonus like other retired players, even if she can't be rich, she can have food and clothing.
But Ai Dongmei sat on the side of the road with her child, or sold vegetables, or sold her previous medals, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she was the worst athlete.
01 Your support
Slightly dark-skinned and shy, Ai Dongmei, who was born in Qiqihar, is like other rural children.
The only thing that stands out is standing in the crowd and always being one head above the others, playing games that can always easily outperform and grab everyone.
At first, the parents did not feel that they had any good genes, but only that their daughter was in good health.
Until the physical education teacher discovered the difference in Ai Dongmei and recruited people into the school's track and field team with a wave of his hand.
Since then, systematic training has been the starting point of her dream path.
And for a student with middle and lower grades, it is also good to have a specialty, at least you can enter a good school and fight for a good future with your sports expertise.
Hopeful, Ai Dongmei finally found self-confidence in three kilometers and became the best in the school.
The real blockbuster that let everyone see Ai Dongmei's long-distance running talent was a county-level sports meeting in the sixth grade.
She continued to compete despite a toe injury and bleeding, and won the championship with an amazing result, but just as she cheered, the referee declared the result null and void.
"One less lap is invalid"
The reason was that she ran too fast, a full lap ahead of the other runners, so everyone agreed that Ai Dongmei ran less.
The breath held in her heart made her agree to make up for the next day without hesitation.
Although he proved his strength to win the championship, and the injury on his foot became more and more serious, he felt that everything was worth it when he saw the referee's expression like a treasure.
However, what Ai Dongmei didn't expect was that it was this little dew that brought her one step closer to her goal.
After being recommended by the referee to a more professional sports school, his grades improved dramatically.
Perhaps to test her training results, or perhaps to see a great reward, Ai Dongmei signed up for the marathon, won the race with persistence and mentality, and won the bike.
It is precisely because of his youth, good physical fitness and talent that he was fortunate to meet the noble man in the first half of his life - Wang Dexian.
He has been the head coach of the national long-distance running training team and has trained several marathon world champions.
Although he has seen too many talented children, Ai Dongmei's talent still impressed him and directly sent out an invitation.
It is also the support of noble people that has made 14-year-old Ai Dongmei from an ordinary rural child with no future to a national professional athlete.
02 Dreams become reality
Wang Dexian's locomotive sports team, founded in the fifties, is a branch of the old sports association.
Gymnastics, hockey, basketball, wrestling, long-distance running and other competitive sports are the targets of their training.
Although it is different from the provincial team and the municipal team, it can also get results, and although it is located in Beijing, the location is very remote.
The training base is surrounded by fruits and vegetables, and if you think this is a paradise, you are very wrong.
There is no one in a radius of several miles, and the only place where you can consume is the small shop at the door.
However, for Ai Dongmei, this environment is just moving from one village to another, and what has changed is only the pressure of training day by day.
Even if the conditions are hard, there is no psychological comfort.
In eight years, she has only returned home twice, and Ai Dongmei has never stepped out of the door of the physical engineering team except for participating in the competition, and even has to ask the coach to send a letter.
As the name suggests: frequent contact with home can be distracting and affect children's training attitude.
During that time, Wang Dexian was Ai Dongmei's only trusted relative in Beijing, but unfortunately he was not very good-tempered, and once the fire team members were inevitably beaten.
But the track and field team are all girls from poor families who regard sports as the only way out, and they know very well that no one will pave the way for themselves, so they can only run hard after the light point.
For Ai Dongmei, swallowing her anger is not just to win the gold medal and win a bright future for herself, but also to be assigned to work after retirement.
At this stage, all she can do is run out of results and be seen by everyone, and opportunities quietly come to her.
At the 1999 Beijing International Marathon, 18-year-old Ai Dongmei lived up to expectations and won 19 medals.
I thought that becoming a champion was only the first step on my road to success, but unfortunately there were unforeseen circumstances.
In the year of her victory, Ai Dongmei suffered a back injury due to overtraining and failed to complete the prescribed training plan the next day.
Wang Dexian, who did not know why, thought that the team members were lazy, and whether they hit or scolded her, there was no rebuttal.
For a girl like her who has no culture, staying up until retirement, getting competition bonuses, and getting that stable job is the biggest motivation to persevere.
With the decline of physical fitness and age, Ai Dongmei's performance also plummeted, and she had no choice but to retire.
That year, she was 22 years old.
For ordinary people, it is the age of youth, and for Ai Dongmei, eight years of long-distance running has overdrawn her body.
And she also got a stable job as she wished, with a salary of several hundred yuan a month.
The situation of not being able to make ends meet made her really unable to live in the city, so she could only return to her hometown in the northeast.
Ai Dongmei has thought about the way out of farming more than once, but her feet have been bent and deformed due to training, and it is impossible to do heavy work.
Married to her husband, who is also a retired track and field athlete and stable for hundreds of dollars a month, and gave birth to a child.
All she had to do every day was to do laundry, cook, and bring her baby, and Ai Dongmei's figure swelled rapidly after finishing high-intensity training.
The tedious housework and endless rush made her have no time to manage herself, and her weight rose from eighty or ninety pounds to one hundred and fifteen.
Listless, where there is still the heroic shadow on the field, and with it disappears the prize money during the game.
03 Vanishing bonuses
It stands to reason that Ai Dongmei has won 19 medals in her career, including 10 medals in international competitions.
The prize money of various events should add up to 200,000 yuan, but when she went to the bank to withdraw this money with joy, she found that there was no one in it.
"You are still young, I will keep this money first"
Only then did she remember that coach Wang Dexian had naturally saved the prize money on the grounds that their athletes were under 18 years old.
But now that they have retired, why haven't they seen the money yet?
Looking at the embarrassing life and full of doubts, Ai Dongmei contacted her former teammate to find Wang Dexian and asked him to refund the corresponding match bonus.
But the other party put on a rotten posture, saying that he was unwilling to take out the money, and in desperation, several people took their former mentor to court for the crime of "embezzlement of property".
At the same time, Ai Dongmei and her party also identified Wang Dexian for insulting and beating athletes during his teaching period.
Even due to improper training methods, their feet have suffered permanent injuries of varying degrees.
In March 2007, Ai Dongmei and her family of three arrived in Beijing to wait for the trial of the lawsuit.
The increase in living consumption, the need for nutrition for children, the need for three mouths to eat, and the endless waiting have made Ai Dongmei's already poor life worse.
I had no choice but to borrow some money, buy clothes, and hold my children to set up a stall.
But what she didn't expect was that even setting up a stall was difficult.
At the opening, she received a fake hundred-dollar bill, not only did not earn back the money for clothes, but also posted a hundred upside down, and she could only take out the honor she had once had.
With the words "I want to sell medals for a living", the price of 1,000 yuan is put on the Internet.
The once high-profile world champion has now been reduced to selling medals for a living?
With the exposure of Ai Dongmei's life, all walks of life continued to help, and Huang Naihai, a former gymnast, also donated 20,000 yuan, and the only request was not to sell medals.
Beijing's "Wanyi Department Store" also opened the door for her convenience, not only providing a counter, but also rent-free for two years, and some enterprises provided her with goods worth 30,000 yuan.
With the help of many well-wishers, Ai Dongmei's foot injury was treated for free, and the property dispute with Wang De was also resolved, not only bought a house in Yanjiao, but also had a salary of about 2,000 a month, she was already very content.
With the end of the "Ai Dongmei Incident", Wang Dexian's story has just begun.
Once the defendant went to court, exposing everything he had done in the past to the audience.
After Ai Dongmei, Shunde County also trained a world champion - Sun Yingjie, but unfortunately, although he participated in the Athens Olympics, he did not win the championship.
Until 2006, she was suspended for two years for taking illegal drugs.
Sun Yingjie's explanation for this is: picked up and mistakenly taken in the public toilet, but such a statement is simply not enough to convince the public.
Because she, like Ai Dongmei, is training in a fully enclosed locomotive physical engineering team, and usually has no chance to contact outsiders except the coach, where does the medicine come from?
When Ai Dongmei was begging for wages, Sun Yingjie, who was hurt physically, mentally, and professionally, also followed.
In the end, the two parties reached a settlement in court, and Wang Dexian also returned the bonus of 600,000 yuan and a property outside Beijing's fifth ring road.
It was Ai Dongmei and Sun Yingjie's "coming forward" that allowed more and more people to see the tragic situation of athletes during training and the living conditions after retirement.
The relevant departments have also carried out a profound reflection on the issue of "how to settle retired athletes".
In just a few years, the mainland has also introduced relevant policies and regulations, providing a guarantee for the livelihood of retired athletes, and there is no need to worry about livelihood.
I believe that in the future athletics field, without these unfair treatment, there may be more good seedlings who will fight and work hard to become a better version of themselves.