When it comes to Lang Ping, Chinese is absolutely familiar, she not only won the Olympic women's volleyball championship for China as a volleyball player, but also shined as a coach after retiring, leading the Chinese women's volleyball team to victory again.
However, on September 1, 2021, Lang Ping stepped down as the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team for eight years, settled in the United States with her husband and daughter, and lived a leisurely retirement life.
Lang Ping often posts her life on social media, including her and her daughter sitting in front of the Christmas tree smiling, Lang Ping walking her dog on a country road, and a family going out to dinner with friends.
From these photos, we can intuitively see that Lang Ping is full of spirit, his body is also very healthy, he studies cooking in his spare time, and he is accompanied by relatives and friends, and his life is very comfortable and happy.
Seeing Lang Ping's life so peaceful and beautiful, fans are happy for her and are also curious whether Lang Ping will return to the coaching position after a while?
Lang Ping, who has struggled for the volleyball career all his life
Born in 1960, Lang Ping, 63 years old, began professional volleyball training at the age of 16, and spent most of her life touching a volleyball, and her fate and life highlights are closely related to volleyball.
When she was a child, when Lang Ping followed her father to watch the international women's volleyball competition, she planted a small seed in her heart, dreaming of one day being a women's volleyball player, and she showed her talent in sports at school, so the teachers also recommended Lang Ping to try it at a sports school.
So Lang Ping secretly signed up for the volleyball team of Beijing No. 2 Amateur Sports School and was successfully admitted, Lang Ping knew that her mother would definitely not agree to let her go to a sports school, so she didn't tell her mother when she signed up at the beginning, and later when her mother knew the truth, she had been admitted, and the teachers of the sports school were very sure of Lang Ping's talent and guaranteed that she could enter Beijing Sports Institute.
Lang Ping's mother then agreed that Lang Ping continued to train in the sports school, in order to prove himself to his mother and for his dreams, Lang Ping put in twelve points of effort in training, but he accidentally got periostitis, which took half a year to treat, and he could not train in between.
Lang Ping is very afraid that if he does not train for half a year, he will not be able to keep up with the progress of his classmates, so he sits and practices the ball, in order not to let his mother find out, she usually does not go home, always stays in the sports school, even if he occasionally returns home, Lang Ping has to practice the ball against the wall of his house, so that the wall is full of volleyball prints.
And at that time, the sound insulation of the house was relatively poor, the sound of volleyball hitting the wall "knock" could be heard throughout the building, and after being found by neighbors to protest, Lang Ping did not dare to practice at home.
After recovering from her injury, Lang Ping did not live up to her efforts in the past six months, quickly kept up with the progress of her classmates, and made very rapid progress, and two years later, she was selected for the Beijing youth team and began her career as a professional volleyball player.
Soon after Lang Ping entered the national team, she was placed in the position of the main attacker by coach Yuan Weimin, replacing the veteran Yang Xi who has experienced hundreds of battles and outstanding strength, she can feel the heavy responsibility that weighs on herself, in order not to drag the whole team back, she trains harder and adjusts herself to the best state.
Lang Ping has always had a spirit of hard work. In order to improve her all-round offensive and defensive skills, she has always been fully focused in training, falling and getting up, getting up and then pounced, as long as the coach's ball does not stop, she will not stop.
Lang Ping was never afraid of getting injured in training. She is only afraid that because she usually does not work hard, the results will be unsatisfactory, and it is her spirit of volleyball women that has brought a good head to the Chinese women's volleyball team.
When she went to Japan to participate in the third Women's Volleyball World Cup, Lang Ping met so many volleyball powerhouses in the world, and she was excited and nervous, but she never felt that she could not win, and she could walk to the national team and walk on the field of the Women's Volleyball World Cup, which person is not a strong person? But the strong does not mean that they will be the final winners.
As an athlete, it is necessary to have the ambition to be a champion, dare to challenge the strong, and strive for the top, in order to be a good athlete.
With such a mentality, even in the face of the blockade of two world-famous black players, and Krockert, who are 1.96 meters tall, Lang Ping did not flinch, but changed the practice of blindly attacking, and constantly changed the offensive position, and finally broke through the opponent's interception net and helped the Chinese women's volleyball team win.
The victory was hard-won, and Lang Ping's physical energy was huge, but when she stood on the field the next day, her emotions remained exciting. Her indomitable momentum and optimistic and cheerful attitude infected everyone in the team, leading them to victory and winning the first world championship in the history of Chinese women's volleyball.
According to statistics, in the 11 days of this competition, the Chinese team dunked a total of 1,116 balls in 7 games, and Lang Ping alone deducted 407 of them, scoring 79 points, with a shooting rate of 48.6%.
Lang Ping is a dark horse on the women's volleyball field, known as the "new weapon of the Chinese women's volleyball team", and the commentator Song Shixiong said when broadcasting the game that Lang Ping was like an iron hammer, constantly banging, volleyball was like a nail was hit into the ground, this metaphor is too graphic, so everyone called this name, all of a sudden, the name of "iron hammer" spread throughout the country.
Although Lang Ping wants to win, but she is never afraid of losing, winning can also afford to lose, she said, being a good athlete is not easy, to withstand the test of victory and honor, but also to withstand the torment of difficulties and setbacks, if you can't be energetic on the court, it is not hard thinking.
Lang Ping said that world champions can also lose, the most important thing is to put down, take it, lift your spirits in the face of setbacks, don't be dominated by frustration, technically you can have victories and losses, but mentally you must not show weakness, and you must always be strong.
It is her strong mentality of daring to fight and lose that stabilizes the hearts of the whole team, even if they lose, it will not affect them to face the opponent with full spirit in the next game.
After retiring, Lang Ping could have relied on the title of champion to naturally engage in related sports work in China or find a stable job, but Lang Ping resolutely decided to challenge himself and continue to broaden his horizons.
So after learning English, Lang Ping went to the United States to study, where no one knew her, and there were many difficulties in life, but Lang Ping was not intimidated by these difficulties, and she began to work as an assistant teacher of the school volleyball team to waive tuition, but because Lang Ping took a public study visa, he could not work in the United States to earn money, and the living expenses were difficult to maintain.
In this case, the Italian club Modena sent an invitation to Lang Ping, who earned living expenses by playing for the club, and she thought that playing in the Italian professional team was playing for the boss, so her ball must be worthy of the money paid to her by others, and playing in the United States was purely for entertainment.
And playing in China has no money, nor is it playing, that is the hope and trust of the country and the people, there is pressure and honor, but it will also make her feel that this is a sacred mission, it is this sense of mission, so that Lang Ping, who went to a foreign country, has never forgotten the motherland's cultivation of himself, and always cherishes the ideal of contributing to the Chinese volleyball cause.
At the end of 1994, Lang Ping received a call from the Chinese Volleyball Association, hoping that she could return to China to coach, and Lang Ping, who had a stable life abroad at that time, was not hesitant to invite her, her daughter was still young at that time, but after consideration, she resolutely returned to China.
Although the quality of life varies greatly, Lang Ping does not regret the decision she made, but devotes herself to the training of the women's volleyball team, in addition, she also talks to each team member, understands their ideas, and puts forward their own needs with them, Lang Ping does not smile on the training ground, but in private she cares for her disciples.
In the high-intensity work, Lang Ping caused her body to light up red several times due to excessive fatigue, but she led the team to achieve outstanding results and return to the queue of the world's top teams with her hard work to put her personal safety at risk.
In 1996, Lang Ping was named "World's Best Coach" by the FIVB, she was the first woman to receive this honor, and in 2002, Lang Ping became the first player in Asia to be inducted into the World Volleyball Hall of Fame.
On September 6, 2015, Lang Ping, who coached the Chinese national team again, led the Chinese women's volleyball team to defeat the host Japan team with a score of 3:1, winning the World Cup again after 12 years, and once again wrote history.
On September 25, 2020, the sports movie "Winning the Championship" based on Lang Ping was released in theaters, which tells the story of generations of female volleyball players fighting on the field, and the young Lang Ping in the movie is played by Lang Ping's daughter Bai Lang, like a kind of mission inheritance, looking at Bai Lang who looks similar to his mother seems to really see Lang Ping when he was young.
Bai Lang is the child born to Lang Ping and her ex-husband in the United States, because she grew up abroad, she has a hearty personality and loves to laugh, influenced by her mother Lang Ping, Bai Lang also loves sports, and played basketball in the United States junior team when she was a child.
But in the end, Bai Lang did not choose to become an athlete like his mother, but chose the financial industry, only taking sports as his hobby, Lang Ping is among them and understands that athletes are not easy, so he is also very supportive of his daughter's choice.
On September 1, 2021, Lang Ping officially stepped down from the position of Chinese women's volleyball coach and went to the United States with her husband to enjoy her retirement life with her daughter's family of three.
Lang Ping's retirement life
Lang Ping's sports career is brilliant, and her retirement life is also colorful, and we can glimpse a glimpse of her life from the photos that Lang Ping occasionally posts on social networks.
Lang Ping's current husband is called Wang Yuping, a professor of history at a university, with elegant appearance and knowledge, and has many common languages with Lang Ping, and the two are very well matched. Since retiring, Lang Ping has taken her husband to settle in the United States and reunited with his daughter Bai Lang.
This is actually to accompany his daughter, when Lang Ping came to China as a women's volleyball coach, Bai Lang was still very young, and he could only live alone in a foreign country, so Lang Ping missed many important moments in his daughter's growth, fortunately, Bai Lang was always proud that he had such a powerful mother, and there was no gap between mother and daughter.
In addition to getting along with his own family, Lang Ping often has dinner with some friends in the Chinese circle, such as with Gu Ailing's family, Lang Ping and Gu Ailing are both world champions who win glory for China, and it is not surprising that excellent people know each other, not to mention that Lang Ping's daughter Bai Lang is still Gu Ailing's ice and snow fan.
When Lang Ping was at home, in addition to cleaning up his garden and walking his dog every day, he also cultivated a small hobby for himself, that is, cooking.
And as a Chinese, for food is not only delicious, but also healthy and nutritious, although Western food tastes good, but eating too much inevitably feels a little monotonous, so she began to study how to integrate into other cuisines, make Western food healthy and delicious, for this reason created a "Lang style Western food".
Lang usually tinkers with her husband Wang Yuping in the kitchen from time to time, making it alone, tasting alone, and living a happy life, and Lang Ping also filmed the cooking process into a video and put it on the Internet, sharing her innovation with netizens, she is very happy to exchange cooking skills with netizens and make a lot of food for her daughter.
In addition to concentrating on eating, although Lang Ping has retired, he has not lost his good habits as an athlete - that is, fitness, even when the epidemic is more serious, Lang Ping has not interrupted fitness, so she will be in her sixties and have such a healthy physique, physical strength can also bring mental strength.
On October 17, 2022, Lang Ping and his two disciples visited the campus of Fujian Normal University, and told some stories between himself and volleyball with the teachers and students of the school, passing on the spirit of women's volleyball to a new generation of young people.
Many people also expect Lang Ping to continue to be the coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, although Lang Ping is indeed an indispensable soul of the Chinese women's volleyball team and the leader of the women's volleyball team, but she has made enough efforts and contributions to the women's volleyball team, what we need more is to find and train Lang Ping's successor and lead the Chinese women's volleyball team to another peak period.
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Author: Yeonjin
Editor: Murray