A picture begins.
This man begging on the subway with a basin, can you imagine that he was a former world gymnastics champion?
From the pride of heaven to the two prisons, street selling and begging, what has this young man experienced? How do you play a good hand of cards?
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Zhang Shangwu was born in 1983 in Baoding, Hebei Province.
When he was 6 years old, his father, Zhang Zhiyong, was sentenced to 20 years for fighting, and his mother chose to divorce his father, and since then there has been little news.
Zhang Shangwu can only live with her grandparents, and the main income is dependent on her grandmother, she works in the chemical fiber factory, works for 8 hours and works for 8 hours, earning two wages, which is very hard.
In order to save money, his family sent him to practice sports, and he trained very hard every day.
He also showed a talent for gymnastics, entering the provincial team at the age of 10 and the national team in Beijing at the age of 12.
When he first entered Beijing, he did not have a good life:
Other children are dressed up beautifully, have parents come to visit, they are out of town, and they are still very poor.
The relationship with the team members is not good, often excluded, 1 meter 54 height, so that the female team members do not look at him.
Zhang Shangwu secretly made up his mind that he must win the championship! Only in this way can the dilemma be changed.
Fortunately, he was angry, in 2001, at the World University Games, Zhang Shangwu won the ring and team gold medals in one fell swoop.
After the game, the Hebei provincial team took him back to the celebration meeting, and he got a prize of 40,000 yuan.
It is said that the team members who looked down on him before also came to talk to him, and a girl gave him a mobile phone, and at that time, his style was infinite.
On the field, he is heroic and handsome.
At that time, he was seen as a rising star in the Chinese gymnastics world, the hope of the poor family.
Zhang Shangwu has more than once shown his ambition: "I will definitely win the Olympic championship." ”
However, what everyone did not expect was that Zhang Shangwu was soon "teased" by fate and fell to the bottom...
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After getting the gold medal, Zhang Shangwu was indeed "floating", spending the prize money in violation of discipline, and sneaked back to Baoding after being reported.
He won the world championship quota, originally the oldest he was, but before the competition, he violated discipline, and the competition did not get a medal.
Later, he did not have the opportunity to participate in the Athens Olympic Games and was returned to the Hebei provincial team. In the provincial team, he also gave up on himself and violated discipline many times because of fights.
Later, he broke his Achilles tendon again during training... In desperation, Zhang Shangwu chose to retire in 2003.
When he retired, his entire savings were only 38,000 yuan, which was very pitiful.
He graduated from junior high school, and without a degree, he could not be a coach or find a serious job.
After returning to Baoding, he could only do some physical work, help deliver box lunches, and go to the nursing home as a nurse, because of physical reasons, he did not work for long.
"I have a relatively big reaction after working for a long time. For example, washing dishes, squatting and bending over for an hour or two, you will have foot pain, waist pain, and dizziness. ”
He also went to apply for a security guard, but because he was only 1.54 meters tall, no one accepted him.
Later, he had to sell his medals, the gold medal of the World University Games that brought him the highest honor, and was sold for 100 yuan.
When he was cornered, Zhang Shangwu moved his crooked mind.
In early 2007, he stole in the Tianjin area and was later detained by the Tianjin police for two months.
After coming out, he still didn't have a long memory and wanted to do a big vote.
He also ran to the Beijing Xiannongtan Sports School and stole tens of thousands of yuan of belongings such as notebooks and mobile phones, and he also carried out similar thefts in Fengtai Guangcai Gymnasium, Xicheng Shichahai Sports School, The Eight-Piece Workers Brigade, and other places.
After being caught by the police, Zhang Shangwu was sentenced to 4 years and 8 months, which was later reduced to 3 years and 10 months.
He was just 24 years old! It is a pity that a champion with unlimited future has become a "prisoner of the order"!
Where should he go after eating prison food?
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In April 2011, Zhang Shangwu was released after completing his sentence.
Originally, his body was injured, he could not do physical work, and there were stains on his resume, which made him hit a wall everywhere.
The provincial sports authority gave him a job, and he felt he couldn't do it either.
In desperation, he came to the Wangfujing subway station in Beijing, where a small basin was placed in front of him, next to which was a printed name plate and a photo of the Universiade receiving the prize.
Then he did Thomas's maneuvers, handstands and other gymnastics and became a grounded "selling artist".
At this time, he is 28 years old, and these actions have long been less smooth and graceful than when he was young, and he can only barely make Bobo eyeballs, and he will earn up to 50 yuan a day.
At that time, he was often driven away by the city management and security guards, and could only sleep under the overpass, or spend 10 yuan to spend the night in an Internet café.
Zhang Shangwu was also lucky, when a netizen named "Langfeng" posted a photo of his art sale on the Internet, and the former world champion begged for art on the street, which quickly attracted everyone's attention.
Overnight, Zhang Shangwu actually became popular and became an Internet celebrity.
This also attracted the attention of philanthropist Chen Guangbiao, who offered Zhang Shangwu a decent job.
In Chen Guangbiao Company, Zhang Shangwu mainly served as the "deputy director of the public welfare charity department" and the "public welfare love image ambassador", with a monthly salary of more than 10,000 yuan, plus a meeting gift, and Zhang Shangwu earned 100,000 yuan in 3 months of employment.
Of course, the job didn't last long.
At that time, a Shanghai TV station invited Zhang Shangwu to participate in a program, in which guests shelled and attacked him, questioning his personal ability, "Do you really think you are a dish?" "It's enough to take at most fourteen hundred pieces."
This kind of "public execution" made Zhang Shangwu look embarrassed, suffered "humiliation", and was very painful.
Later, Zhang Shangwu offered chen Guangbiao his resignation and prepared to seek another career.
In November 2011, he returned to Beijing and started a small company selling a patented pillow and preparing to do a big job.
But within half a year, before the company's performance was done, he announced his withdrawal from the company and did not say the specific reason.
From selling art to Internet celebrities to company executives, Zhang Shangwu got one opportunity after another, but unfortunately he did not grasp it.
Soon after, fate once again made a joke with him...
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In April 2012, Zhang Shangwu posted his bank card number on Weibo, saying that he hoped to get financial support from netizens, which was naked online begging!
You have big guys with arms and legs, why don't you go out and work by yourself? This caused anger among netizens, and many people denounced his behavior.
Zhang Shangwu quickly apologized and asked everyone to forgive himself, which was very dramatic.
At this time, he was really desperate again, and he started his old business again - street art.
He wandered the streets and alleys of Beijing, Shanghai and other big cities, standing upside down, singing, selling bracelets, selling magazines, begging on the subway...
In addition, he did not hesitate to "jump" on the Internet, and from time to time he made some noise.
In 18 years, he claimed that he was mentally inferior and schizophrenic, including stealing, because of the onset of illness and could not control himself.
In 19 years, he took someone else's bag and sold it, committed theft, and spent another 7 months in prison.
Today, he has tried to live stream goods and become an Internet celebrity.
Weibo posted a few shooting paragraphs, the data is still very bleak.
At the age of 38, he has many vicissitudes on his face and has not reported getting married and having children.
The former champion, who has fallen to this point, is so sad!
Former teammate Xing Aowei commented that Zhang Shangwu was more talented than himself in gymnastics.
There are also Yang Wei and Chen Yibing, both former teammates of Zhang Shangwu.
But they all won the world and Olympic championships, but Zhang Shangwu was imprisoned twice and was very depressed.
Zhang Shangwu once had a good chance, but he had a low eye, opportunistic again and again, and finally, he played a good hand of cards.
Sometimes, fate really can't be blamed.
Finally, what do you think of Zhang Shangwu's experience? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section!
#张尚武 #