The strong earthquake in Turkey touches our hearts.
Krypton also contacted Li Jiayue, a Chinese female football player in Turkey, and listened to her talk about the terrifying moments after the earthquake from the perspective of witnesses.
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Two consecutive 7.8 magnitude earthquakes in less than 10 hours hit Turkey catastrophically and made people all over the world feel sorry for the people living on that land.
According to many media reports at home and abroad, up to now, the strong earthquake that occurred in southern Turkey near the Syrian border has caused more than 4,000 deaths and nearly 20,000 injuries in the two countries. Turkey's Anadolu News Agency quoted the Turkish Disaster and Emergency Management Agency on the 7th as reporting that the earthquake has caused 2,921 deaths and 15,834 injuries in Turkey.
After the earthquake, Li Jiayue, the Chinese athlete closest to the epicenter, recorded the whole process after the earthquake on social media - "There was a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in Turkey just now, because we played away from Adana, very, very close to the epicenter. At 4 o'clock in the morning, I was awakened in my sleep by the shaking of the house about to collapse, and I escaped with the whole team."
At the beginning of this year, Li Jiayue just transferred to the Turkish Galatasaray women's football team and began her overseas career. Kahramanmaraş province, the epicenter of the earthquake, is just 200 kilometers away from Adana, where Li Jiayue and the team are located. For an earthquake of such magnitude, this distance is far less distant than in the physical sense.
After releasing the first video to report that it was safe, Li Jiayue updated the second video again on the way to Ankara with the team, and revealed that due to bad weather, the whole team temporarily stopped at the highway rest stop.
"Now the whole highway is full of bad and extreme weather, heavy snow, strong wind. Come on, I don't know what can happen next, I hope everyone is safe."
Earlier today, Krypton got in touch with Li Jiayue, and according to herself, she has safely evacuated the Adana area with the team and returned to the team station. Istanbul, where the team is based, is 1,000 kilometers from the epicenter and has not been affected too much by the earthquake.
"Istanbul is very safe at the moment, and the Chinese embassy and the football association have been communicating with me. During the process of returning, my teammates and coaches have gradually stabilized, but because of the impact of the disaster, everyone's mood is relatively low."
In the immediate aftermath of the earthquake, Li Jiayue also got in touch with several other Chinese athletes who played in Turkey, including Chinese women's volleyball player Ren Kaiyi, who played for the Turkish Besiktas club, and Chinese women's football players Lu Yueyun and Yang Shuhui, who trained with Lokomotiv Moscow in Antalya, Turkey, all of whom are currently in safe areas.
In addition to these athletes, Chinese male football player Wu Shaocong, who also plays in Turkey, also posted on social media after the earthquake to report safety, "The middle of the earthquake is far away from me, so there is no impact, thank you for your concern."
Wu Shaocong updated Weibo to report safety
According to the current situation in Turkey, Li Jiayue said that Turkey has released the news of the postponement of sports events, and the team will temporarily rest in the future. According to her, after the team returned to Istanbul, most of the players and staff returned to their respective homes to relieve psychological fatigue after the earthquake. As for further specific arrangements, there is no news from the team at present.
Li Jiayue herself also told Krypton that if there will be a long break in future events, she herself considers returning to China for a while, "Personally experiencing such a moment of life and death has caused certain problems for me emotionally and psychologically, if the event will be postponed for a while, I want to return to China to recuperate, but the specific situation depends on the arrangement of the league and the team."
At present, the embassy, the Chinese Football Association, the Shanghai Football Association, etc. have all contacted Li Jiayue and actively communicated her situation and future ideas.
Li Jiayue's life overseas
After joining Turkey's Galatasaray women's football team at the beginning of the year, Li Jiayue also became the 13th member of the Chinese women's football team to stay in the ocean. Since joining the team, she has not only secured her position as the main player of the team, but also maintained a winning record.
In the communication with Krypton, Li Jiayue said that his current situation in all aspects is stable, and he is very grateful to the domestic fans for their concern, and his personal follow-up situation and arrangements will also be updated on his social media.
Looking back, the difficulties and tests of sport in the course of human history have never been absent.
When the Roman Emperor Theodosius I abolished the ancient Olympic Games for political reasons, sports fell into a long darkness until nearly 1500 years later, with the emergence of the contemporary "Coubertins", that the Olympic Games were revived. At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, human beings who have withstood the test of the epidemic have come together to officially write "more unity" into the Olympic spirit.
In the face of Turkey, which is currently experiencing suffering, the three words "more united" are precisely the spirit that everyone living in this world needs to practice.
Suffering does not become the master of life. We pray that more and more people in that land will be rescued, and that sport will revitalize lives in the aftermath of the disaster, as it has always done.