Since 1984, 20 Olympic champions have emigrated overseas (1 of them to Taiwan). As for the reasons for immigration, some people are because of love, some people are because of family, some people are for work life, and what we call Luan Jujie today is a member of the immigration army.
In 1958, Luan Ju was born in Nanjing to a working-class family. 15 years later, when Luan Jujie entered the Nanjing Amateur Sports School, he trained in badminton, and later changed to fencing. In 1974, at the age of 16, she competed in the National Fencing Competition and won the individual runner-up of women's foil, when she had just been studying fencing for 4 months. With his outstanding performance in the amateur sports school, Luan Jujie completed the double jump in two years, and successively entered the Jiangsu team and the Chinese national fencing team, creating a legend.
In 1978, Luan Jujie finished second at the World Junior Fencing Championships, becoming the first Asian player to enter the tournament since 1901. He then reached the pinnacle at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, winning the gold medal in the women's foil individual competition, becoming the first Asian to win a gold medal in Olympic fencing, and winning the World Cup in the same year.
After the 1988 Seoul Olympics, Luan Jujie, who suffered from acute nephritis, officially retired. After that, Luan Jujie studied with her husband at the University of Alberta, Canada, and also worked as a coach at a fencing club, and then served as the head coach of the Canadian national team women's foil.
In 2000, Luan Jujie returned to represent Canada at the age of 42 in the fencing competition at the Sydney Olympic Games. In 2008, at the age of 50, Luan Jujie represented the Canadian delegation in the foil competition at the Beijing Olympic Games, and reached the round of 32, and then retired again.
In the Canadian fencing world, Luan Jujie has become a well-known figure, more than 60% of the medals are also won by her disciples every year, she is rated as an excellent coach by the Canadian Fencing Association every year, and she has specially named a domestic competition after her. To this she said: "I have not embarrassed Chinese. ”
Some people may ask, why did Luan Jujie, who made great achievements for the motherland, stay in China, but chose to go to Canada in the 90s. When she left China, she was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and a deputy to the Jiangsu Provincial People's Congress, and as long as she stayed, she was a cadre at the level of deputy department.
It turned out that Luan Jujie and her husband Gu Dajin's eldest daughter was born in 1991, but after the daughter was born, she was sent to the special care ward and was told that the child had a bad heart and may have intelligence problems in the future and could not speak like a normal child. Because the Canadian government has a particularly perfect funding policy for the upbringing of children with disabilities: before the age of 18, whether it is raised by biological parents or asked for support, the government has a monthly subsidy; after the age of 18, the government is fully responsible for their living. In this case, Luan Jujie finally made the decision to immigrate.
The eldest daughter was very beautiful, nothing unusual before the age of two, but at the age of 5 she underwent two surgeries and still has a pacemaker hanging from her body. Later, Luan Jujie gave birth to a second daughter and a younger son, but her most love was still in the eldest daughter.
The most touching scene occurred in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, farewell to the 20-year-long Luan Jujie, representing the Canadian team as an athlete in the women's foil individual competition, although not representing the motherland, but Luan Ju's outstanding moment still attracted thunderous applause from the audience. After the first game, the audience stood up to cheer for her, and Luan Jujie frequently thanked the audience. Then, she took out a red banner from inside her backpack with three eye-catching characters of "Good Motherland." The banner was so big that in order to hold it high, Luan Jujie's upper body was almost covered. After showing a lap, she exited satisfactorily. This scene made the audience boil, and many viewers shouted with tears: "Luan Jujie, I love you!" ”。 And Luan Jujie's eyes also flashed with crystal tears.
Luan Jujie prepared for 15 months to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games, and even participated in nearly ten points races at his own expense, spending nearly 100,000 yuan, "If it were not for the Olympic Games held in Beijing, I would never have participated, after all, I have been retired for 20 years." My starting point is that the motherland sent a team to participate in the Olympic Games for the first time, I participated, this is the first time the motherland has held the Olympic Games, I also want to take this opportunity to show the young people, the reason why I can stand in the Olympic arena is through years of hard training and accumulation. ”
"I used to live in four words: humility and pride. People in our time could only go up and down, and could only win and not lose. Now, there are four words in my life: enjoy happiness. Today, Luan Jujie still works as a coach at the Fencing Club in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The position hasn't changed in 27 years. The second daughter and son also became fencers and were both young
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