On August 15, 2019, Qiu Bo chose to withdraw from the national team and bid farewell to the Olympic selection once and for all. That day was just 346 days away from the opening of the Diving Competition at the Tokyo Olympics.
After retiring from the team, in order to complete the undergraduate course of Beijing Sport University, from October, he began to live a "twin-city life". Due to the low density of class schedules, Qiu Bo had to travel between Chengdu and Beijing. Each week is divided into two parts – classes are held in Beijing from Thursday to Sunday, and the rest of the time is trained in the Chengdu provincial team.
In order to facilitate transportation during classes in Beijing, Qiu Bo stayed at the hotel temporarily. As promised, he came to his room and conducted an interview. Qiu Bo is still that Qiu Bo, but after everything has quietly changed, Qiu Bo may no longer be that Qiu Bo.
When Qiu Bo was in Beijing, he stayed at the hotel temporarily
In order to resist the constantly falling temperature of Beijing, he wore a newly purchased white pullover, a freshly cut clothing logo, hanging on the edge of the garbage can, dangling. Inside the bucket is to eat the leftover takeaway. The bed was neatly covered with quilts, stacks of notebooks of different sizes were placed on the table, and the handheld game console that was still charging next to it was also quite conspicuous.
Sitting in a chair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window of the room, Qiu Bo began to talk about himself and diving.
The winter sun in Beijing shines from the side and reverses, creating a three-dimensional and tough light and shadow on his face.
"I still want to say sorry to my friends who have been following me, sorry to make you look forward to it for so long."
"When I was 16 years old, I said goodbye in Tokyo. Now it seems that it should be no more. . Someone asked in a private message: 'Why didn't I see you at the World Championships?' I had to say next time, but there was no next time. ”
The atmosphere was a little depressed, and he raised his head and smiled at us: "It's normal, there is no feast in the world." I thought a lot about making this decision, and I thought about it very clearly. ”
"I want to take this opportunity to say that I'm sorry."
<h1>"Life is a torture"</h1>
For Qiu Bo, the past few years have indeed been too torturous.
In early April, he finished his morning training and rode back to the athletes' apartment to rest. A three-wheeled motorcycle that did not slow down hit Qiu Bo, who was normally going straight.
The car fell and the man was knocked off. Out of the athlete's instinct, Qiu Bo rolled around as a buffer after touching the ground, and finally fell on the road three meters away, and his head almost hit the road teeth.
"I don't usually look at my phone when I ride a bicycle. But that day, there happened to be a courier calling, and I answered, and not long after the call, I crashed. That's fate! ”
When Qiu Bo got up, he found that his pants were somewhat worn and the car crashed.
The man who drove the third round was an old man who was in a hurry to pick up his grandson from school. "There was no obvious feeling at the time and I couldn't do anything about it. Let uncle go. ”
As a result, when I returned to the apartment, my left foot began to feel uncomfortable. By the next day, the ankle was "swollen like a bun" and couldn't touch the ground at all. Two weeks later, it was the Chongqing National Diving Championships.
Taking closures and taking painkillers can hardly relieve the pain and swelling of your left foot
That was the second selection of the World Championships, and if he abandoned the tournament, Qiu Bo would basically have no chance of winning the World Championships. It will also drift away from the Olympic lineup.
At that time, I felt that it was over, and I must have broken my bones As a result, after a series of complicated examinations, no fractures were found, but two free bone pieces were found in the left foot. "Blocking and continuously taking strong painkillers, Qiu Bo carried off the side effects of conservative treatment, but the pain in his feet still made him unbearable."
"As long as I can jump this game, it shows that I am still determined to face difficulties." For Qiu Bo at that time, the need to help the jump on the jumping platform was the most deadly, because at the moment of jumping, the feet had to bear all the weight of the body. After completing these actions, Qiu Bo usually needs the support of his partner Yang Jian to limp out.
With this hard work, in the national diving championship ten-meter platform doubles competition, the "fatal" running and jumping action got a high score of nearly 100, and finally won the gold medal with Yang Jian.
Yun was interviewed lightly to win the championship, and no one could appreciate the price he paid
Until now, those two pieces of "broken bone slag" were still floating in the ankle of Qiu Bo's left foot. As long as you continue to train, you can't operate and you can't treat it thoroughly.
Foot injuries not only affect diving training, but also bring trouble to Qiu Bo in daily life. "When you get off the plane, your feet will be so swollen that you can't wear shoes. Life is a torture Diving is only a small part of my life, but this small part is enough for me to know what setbacks are. ”
<h1>A car with hidden dangers</h1>
What kind of setback or blow made Qiu Bo disappear from the list of the Gwangju World Championships; and when he finished most of the road to the Tokyo Olympics and was about to sprint, he chose to turn around decisively.
The contradiction appeared during the closed training camp in Jinan before the World Championships.
The Jinan training camp became a turning point in Qiu Bo's diving career
The lineup of the World Championships was announced in the team in mid-June, and Qiu Bo failed to qualify for the Olympic project, and was arranged to team up with young player Lin Shan to participate in the mixed team competition. Until July 1, CCTV Sports Channel announced the big list, it was still the same.
However, in the final stage of the training, Qiu Bo's state was a little wrong again, "the six sets of arm force movements have a rhythm problem. If there is a deviation, the degree of completion will be much worse At that time, I had not been able to adjust well, and considering the overall situation, the team arranged for teammate Yang Jian to play instead of me. This is the explanation given by Qiu Bo, and his answer is simple and neat, and it sounds reasonable.
Such problems do occur from time to time among athletes, but I don't know if it is purely coincidental, Qiu Bo's situation is always before the competition.
Unable to adjust his movements, Qiu Bo was disqualified from the World Championships
In fact, in order to stay at the World Championships, he once proposed the solution of "changing the action".
Out of the trough, overcome the fear, experienced a car accident, endured the pain, these four years are almost to the end, how can you not strive for it? How is it possible to let go of the last chance so easily?
However, in a mixed group project, switching actions not only affects the difficulty of the entire set of actions, but also implicates partners. The 6 sets of actions you don't want to do need Lin Shan to complete. All the actions of the two people must be adjusted, which means that all the preparations in the early stage must be overturned and restarted.
But Qiu Bo's reasoning is not unreasonable: "Diving action often has hidden dangers, and if you don't completely solve the problem, the degree of danger is no less than driving a car on the highway that will break down at any time." ”
At that time, he was like a car with hidden dangers, but it could not be repaired in time, and everything on the road was unpredictable.
However, the team cannot face more difficulties because of the difficulty of taking care of Qiu Bo alone, and even more likely, the risk of "losing" the gold medal.
Less than a week before the team left Gwangju, Qiu Bo's request for a change of action was not only rejected, but ultimately made the manager lose patience. With "the quality of will is not good, psychological problems are greater than technical problems." The conclusion canceled Qiu Bo's qualification for the World Championships and temporarily returned to the provincial team.
The men's stage jumper triple crown winner of the World Championships became an audience in front of the TV set
Qiu Bo said that he calmly watched the Gwangju World Championships in front of the TV. "To be honest it's really not a lot of feeling. . It's really too much to watch, and it's too familiar with them. ”
He said that he was sincerely happy for the national team's achievements at the World Championships, "There is a reason why the Chinese team can win so many gold medals." "Although this is the first time he has been in the national team, he has become a spectator completely.
After the changeover storm, Qiu Bo is still on the list of national training teams, and he still holds the last hope for the Olympic Games.
On July 22, the team returned to Beijing from Gwangju to start training, and he also returned to the team as scheduled and resumed training. However, he found that his supervisor coach did not quit.
Perhaps, this became the last straw to defeat Qiu Bo.
However, during the interview, he denied that the coach's early departure had affected him. "Making a decision is a deliberate choice. The eventual exit is knowing that the odds of going to the Olympics are slim and there's no point in staying. ”
Perhaps such a description is not the truest portrayal of Qiu Bo's heart, but he did "let himself go". Quitting was not because of evasion, nor was it halfway abandoned, but the wisest, or rather the most decent choice, he could have made at the time.
Such a picture will be frozen in memory forever
<h1>Set a small goal</h1>
In fact, if there is a reason to "get out of the sea of suffering" earlier, it is more than enough to pay the "training fee".
In 2000, when Qiu Bo was seven years old, his parents took him to chengdu amateur sports school to register for training, and the 1,000 yuan tuition fee was stolen as soon as he got on the bus, and then he was able to continue.
"At that time, my parents' monthly income did not add up to more than 500 yuan, but I clearly remember that all the costs of the school combined were 768 yuan." At that time, the tuition fees also needed the support of grandparents and grandmothers. After that, the factory where Qiu Bo's parents worked closed down one after another, and the family once had no financial resources.
In order to practice diving, the whole family has paid a lot
Before Qiu Bo entered the professional team, his mother would come to Chengdu from Neijiang every month to bring him some pocket money. In order to save money, my mother would buy a station ticket, take the cheapest green-skinned train at the time, and after a hasty meeting with Qiu Bo, she would find a ten-dollar movie theater nearby that night to solve the accommodation.
Qiu Bo usually does not ask for pocket money, and sometimes he can subsidize his family for about thirty yuan. "Help other children wash a pair of socks and collect two pieces, and washing a pair of shoes can earn five or six pieces." There is no heating in the winter in the south, and the domestic water is "cold and panicked", and Qiu Bo can no longer remember how he survived at the age of seven or eight.
This kind of understanding and strength that does not match his age has made Qiu Bo develop the habit of carrying everything by himself since he was a child.
He has been holding back a lot of energy, wanting to enter the provincial team as soon as possible, get subsidies to improve the family as soon as possible, and buy a new house for his parents as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, these seemingly out-of-reach and difficult goals were achieved in a short time.
Qiu Bo and his parents are reunited in their new home
"After participating in the Olympics in 2012, I finally bought a house for my dad and mom. So, isn't the desire set to be small? If the wish is that I want to win five Olympic gold medals, maybe it will be fulfilled. Qiu Bo accidentally amused himself.
These initial "small goals" not only supported him through 2012, withstanding the pain of shoulder impact to win the Silver Medal at the London Olympics, but also became the first world championship triple winner in history in 2015. It was the mighty "Mr. Full Score" in the game.
But from another point of view, after achieving these small goals, since the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Qiu Bo's diving career has been met with the jokes of fate and him.
[The story about Qiu Bo is not over, and the next article will continue to bring you a moving story about him and the Olympic Games.] 】
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