On the afternoon of July 30, China's Liu Lingling and Zhu Xueying joined forces to storm the Tokyo Olympic Trampoline Women's Individual Online Final. In the end, Liu Lingling, the "trampoline goddess" from Fuzhou, was relegated to the second place, and her teammate Zhu Xueying won the gold medal.
Liu Lingling is regarded as a new generation of "trampoline goddess" after He Wenna, winning 2 championships and 3 runners-up in 5 Olympic trials. She "harvested" countless gold medals on the trampoline field, and she was only one Olympic gold medal away from the "Grand Slam". This beautiful girl who "wants to be a hero, not a goddess" on the field, although she missed the champion, she has left her most beautiful moments on the field of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
On July 30, Liu Lingling participated in the Women's Trampoline Qualification Tournament for the Tokyo Olympic Games according to Visual China
【Entry】
Started practicing trampolines at the age of 4
The coach said she could suffer since she was a child and rarely cried
Liu Lingling, born in 1994, is from Fuzhou. In 1998, Zhong Precious, who was the coach of the trampoline team of Fuzhou Sports School at the time, selected the small team members and picked Liu Lingling, who had bright eyes at a glance at the Small Flower Kindergarten in Cangshan District.
"She was only 4 years old at the time, but there was a sense of determination between her eyebrows." When Liu Lingling's enlightenment coach Zhong Precious asked her if she was interested in trampolines, the little girl replied firmly: "I like trampolines!" Since then, Liu Lingling, who has liked to "fly" on the Internet since she was a child, began her trampoline career in the form of walking training. In 1999, the Fuzhou Trampoline Team was established, and she not only became the first trampoline team member, but also the first trampoline team member selected by Zhong Precious.
"Trampoline Goddess" Liu Lingling was a child
Known as the "ballet in the air", the trampoline is particularly demanding for athletes. In order to create the perfect shape of the young athletes, trampoline athletes need to perform basic skills such as pressing the knees and standing insteps of the feet every day. For trampoline athletes, these basic skills training is not only boring but also painful, and there are often small team members who cry and practice because they can't stand the pain. Coach Zhong rarely saw Liu Lingling shouting bitterly, "This child can suffer from childhood and rarely cries." Zhong Precious talked about Liu Lingling's praise.
Liu Lingling trains for nearly 3 hours a day and completes nearly 20 sets of self-selected movements. Zhong Precious was distressed about this little girl, but Xiao Lingling always consciously completed all the tasks assigned by Coach Zhong before she was willing to rest. "Perseverance, hardship, flexibility, and high understanding." Coach Zhong praised Liu Lingling for showing talent in the field of trampolines since she was a child. After her, Zhong Precious also selected several small team members of the same age, but they were not as prominent as her, "Ling Ling has a high level of understanding, and she often looks at it when learning movements, and when she says it again, she will." ”
"Trampoline goddess" Liu Lingling
【Injuries】
There have been problems with both the lumbar and hip joints
He left the field in a wheelchair injured while falling at the World Championships
Because Liu Lingling's academic performance was also excellent during the Fuzhou Sports School, her parents once worried that Xiao Lingling could not produce competition results and delayed her academic performance, and also considered letting her children give up practicing trampolines, but because of Xiao Lingling's love for trampolines, she finally insisted on practicing.
In 2009, Liu Lingling was selected for the national team and became teammates with her idols Huang Shanshan and He Wenna. In the same year's Shandong National Games, Liu Lingling first appeared sharp and won the team championship with her teammates; in the 2013 Liaoning National Games, Liu Lingling won a personal silver medal; in the 30th Trampoline World Championships in 2014, Liu Lingling, who stood on the world stage for the first time, defeated London Olympic champion McLenan to win an individual gold medal, and at the same time cooperated with her teammates to win a double gold medal and climbed the world championship honor wall.
"Like her sister Huang Shanshan and He Wenna, we must win gold and silver in the Olympic arena." This is Liu Lingling's dream, for this dream, Liu Lingling has worked hard, polishing the action over and over again, increasing the difficulty again and again, and putting all her thoughts and energy into the trampoline she loves. However, when it seems to be smooth sailing, there are many hardships and difficulties hidden.
Year after year, non-stop training and injury coexisted, and Liu Lingling had problems with her waist and hip joints. First regrettably rubbing shoulders with Rio Olympic qualification, and then at the World Championships, she was also injured by a mistake during the fall, and she was originally a candidate for the championship, and finally left in a wheelchair.
On December 1, 2019, Tokyo, Japan, the women's individual semifinals of the Trampoline World Championships, Liu Lingling was accidentally injured and left the stadium in a wheelchair According to IC photo
Many people are worried that her sports career will end, but Liu Lingling, who has been able to endure hardships since childhood, finally survived. "I don't want to talk about the sad past, I think everything has come over, and I need to work harder to go through each stage." This Tokyo Olympics is her best chance to complete the "Grand Slam".
【Personality】
I don't like the title "trampoline goddess"
"Be a hero on the field, don't be a goddess"
The slender figure of 1 meter 67 makes Liu Lingling look particularly ethereal when completing the action on the trampoline. And in the 2018 Asian Games women's trampoline competition, because the appearance is too sweet, it was followed by foreign media, once stunning the Asian Games field, and was called "trampoline goddess" by netizens.
The Red Star News reporter flipped through Liu Lingling's personal Weibo, and she also likes to take selfies like ordinary girls. For this beautiful trampoline athlete, netizens have expressed that they resemble Ma Sichun, and there is xu Dongdong who bumps his face. Even Xu Dongdong replied on Weibo, "Honor, she is much more beautiful than me!" Looking forward to her Olympic performance, come on!! ”
However, Liu Lingling herself does not like the title of "trampoline goddess", as she herself said: "Be a hero on the field, don't be a goddess." ”
In the eyes of her parents, Liu Lingling is still a sensible girl, and his father, Liu Daojian, said: "Whatever pain she has is digested by herself, she is unwilling to tell others." "Every time there is a major festival, Liu Lingling will order a cake for her mother who likes to eat sweets. Liu Lingling once revealed that her mother's eyes were not good, and she had promised her mother that she would stand on the highest podium of the Olympic Games before her mother could not see her completely.
Although it is a step away from fulfilling her promise, Liu Lingling, who won the silver medal, has left her most beautiful moments on the Olympic field and engraved in her mother's mind.
Red Star News reporter Ren Hongwei intern Wang Zuxi
Edit Bao Chengli
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