preface:
With the rapid development of the process of global integration, Chinese civilization has also been integrated into the world's multicultural family with an unprecedented trend, along with the IncreasingLy Chinese elements moving towards the center of the world sports arena, more and more Chinese athletes with overseas backgrounds have begun to shine and shine in the international sports arena, becoming a striking landscape on the world sports stage. Similar to the excellent domestic athletes in the past, many foreign Chinese with Chinese ancestry are mostly from ordinary families with poor families, do not belong to rich and wealthy families, some families are still extremely poor, most of their parents have crossed the ocean in the early years to immigrate overseas, although these Chinese athletes have received Western education and lifestyle since childhood, but they still have the blood of Chinese, which is still an inseparable part of Chinese civilization and the pride of all yanhuang descendants. In order to better let the old irons understand the performance of Chinese athletes in the world sports arena in recent years, the author has selected eight sports stars in the Chinese world who have become talents in adversity and have excellent achievements in chronological order.
1: Wang Zhenzhi (Japanese baseball player, ancestral home of Qingtian, Zhejiang)
Wang Zhenzhi was a legendary star in the world professional baseball industry in the 1960s and 1970s, a baseball totem worshipped by all the Japanese people, and one of the three giants of world sports that can be named on a par with the boxing king Ali and the ball king Pele. Although he was born in Tokyo, Japan, he has retained his Taiwanese citizenship to this day. His father was a Zhejiang farmer who had left his hometown to make a living in Japan, and his mother was also a Japanese woman from a poor local family, inheriting the hard-working and tenacious qualities of her parents from an early age. After entering the professional baseball world, he became famous for his unique "scarecrow playing style", and the world record of 868 home runs created by him has remained unbroken for more than 40 years, and he is also the first sports figure in Japan to be awarded the "National Honor Award", in July 2000, the International Astronomical Society will find asteroid 61189 discovered by Japanese scientists after him.
2: Zhang Depei (American tennis player, ancestral home of Chaoshan in Guangdong)
Zhang Depei belongs to the second generation of American immigrants, in 1966 the family moved from Taiwan to New Jersey, in order to train Zhang Depei to become a professional tennis player, Wangzi Jackie Chan's father poured everything he had, more than a decade has spent nearly 1 million US dollars for him to enter the professional tennis world, this investment is not in vain, 15 years old he became the youngest player in the history of the US Open to enter the main tournament. At the French Open in 1989, he beat Edburgh at the age of 17 years and 3 months to win the Musketeers Cup, becoming the youngest men's singles champion in the history of the French Open. During his career, he won a total of 34 singles titles, including seven Masters trophies, with a total professional prize pool of $19 million. His success in the field of tennis has completely broken the thesis that yellow people are not suitable for playing tennis, and has also fully explained to the world the fighting spirit of the descendants of Yanhuang who are self-reliant and never give up.
3: Li Donghua (Swiss gymnast, born in Chengdu, Sichuan)
Li Donghua, who created the history of Swiss gymnastics, was originally a member of the Chinese national gymnastics team, once forced to leave the national team due to three major injuries to the body, and later because he met a beautiful and amorous Swiss girl and "married" a foreign country, in the five years he did not obtain Swiss citizenship, he has not given up the dream of winning the world championship, in addition to training, he has worked as a porter, car washer, construction worker and other heavy physical work to earn living allowance, in 1996 at the Atlanta Olympic Games, At the age of 29, Li Donghua won the men's Kurama championship, thus becoming the first athlete in Switzerland to win the Olympic gymnastics championship in more than eighty years, and when he returned home by special plane, tens of thousands of Swiss citizens welcomed the hero's return, and this year, his deeds were made into a film by the International Olympic Committee and collected in the Olympic Centennial Figures series.
4: Guan Yingshan (American female figure skater, ancestral home of Zhongshan, Guangdong)
Guan Yingshan was born in California, usa, a poor Hong Kong immigrant family, her parents are chinatown Chinese restaurant migrant boys, in order to provide for Guan Yingshan training, they save money, but also sold the only house, fortunately, Guan Yingshan showed extraordinary talent from childhood, after years of hard training, she finally became the greatest female single skater in the history of Figure Skating in the United States, in her 10-year career a total of 5 world championships, 45 medals in international competitions, won 57 full points, Selected as the Best Female Figure Skater of the Year 7 times, she conquered the world ice world with her beautiful appearance and charming smile, creating a unique "Kwan Ying Shan era", she was not only the darling of the business media, but also served as the ambassador of U.S. public relations diplomacy, realizing the dream of American hero from Cinderella to the ice princess, and it should not be an exaggeration to call her the most successful female athlete in the history of world figure skating.
5: Jeremy Lin (American basketball player, ancestral home of Zhangpu, Fujian)
In the NBA league in 2010, there was an unprecedented "Lin Storm", "Lin Crazy", a Taiwanese Christian immigrant Lin Jeremy who was only 1.91 meters in size shocked the world sports world, he was a substitute guard for the New York Knicks that turned the NBA upside down, in the list of the people of the year, he actually surpassed the black ManBaKoby who was in the limelight, and was selected by time magazine as the best person in the sports world of the year, not only that, He also became the first college student in the history of Harvard University to enter the NBA arena, and he also became the first yellow-skinned basketball player in history to land on the NBA, which can be called a model for a generation of Chinese to achieve a counterattack and great success in life in the United States.
Virgil. Van Dijk (Dutch footballer, originally from Guangdong)
There is an oriental face of the Dutch star Van Dijk is one of the hottest players in the world football world today, in 2017 has set a maximum value of 75 million pounds in transfer fees, he is not only the best player in the Premier League 2018~2019 season, but also the Dutch national football captain and Dinghai Shen Needle, his life has always been a topic of discussion among fans, according to dutch media, his mother and grandfather are the descendants of the Chen family of Our Guangdong Hakka, and later crossed the ocean to the island country of Suriname in South America as a laborer. Decades ago, the family moved to Breda, the Netherlands. Before becoming a professional player, Van Dijk worked as a dishwasher in a small restaurant for more than two years, with a daily salary of only a few pounds, and after entering professional football, this humble Chinese player quickly stood out and achieved a life counterattack from a bowl sweeper to a football superstar, and now with a weekly salary of 180,000 pounds, he has become one of the best candidates for The World Footballer of the Year.
7: Chan Wai Qun (Canadian figure skater with ancestral home in Hong Kong, China)
Before the birth of the famous Japanese general Yu Yusuke, Chen Weiqun, the Chinese-Canadian ice prince, was the absolute ruler of men's figure skating. He was born in Ottawa a Hong Kong immigrant family, his father is a table tennis coach, in order to cultivate his son into a talent, he poured everything he had, for which he also owed a lot of foreign debts, fortunately Chen Weiqun is also very competitive, and soon showed his outstanding talent to the world, since 2011, he has won the world championships three times in a row, won the world grand prix finals twice, and has been sitting firmly in the top position of the Canadian domestic champion for six years. Thus becoming one of the greatest figures in the history of Canadian sports. It is commendable that Chen Weiqun is also a foreigner who loves his motherland very much, and as a native Canadian, a sentence he said in the media has caused an uproar at home and abroad: I hope to represent Canada and China at the same time in the competition, which is my greatest ideal. It can be seen that this overseas wanderer still has a sincere patriotic heart.
VIII: Nathan. Adrian (American male swimmer)
The 1.98-meter-tall swimmer Adrian, the new idol of today's American swimming world after Phelps, has an untold story behind his handsome oriental face: his mother is an ordinary nurse from Hong Kong, immigrated to Seattle, met a white engineer and gave birth to Adrian, and gave him a Chinese name Ni Jiajun, which means that he hopes to become a horse that gallops around the world when he grows up. Adrian did not live up to his parents' expectations, he not only became a senior student in public health at the University of California, Berkeley, but also represented the American swimming team in three Olympic Games, winning a total of 5 gold medals, 1 silver medal, 2 bronze medals, of which the 100-meter freestyle gold medal won at the 2012 London Olympics won him the title of "the world's first flying fish", he is the most successful male swimmer of foreign Chinese ancestry.
Conclusion:
People who work hard may not succeed, but people who don't work hard will certainly not succeed. The growth experience of the above eight famous Chinese athletes fully illustrates this argument, although objective factors such as money, materiality, and origin are very important, but a person's success depends on their own subjective efforts, the fate of life ultimately depends on their own control, without hard work and sweat to pay, how can there be a full harvest of life? Old irons with great ambitions and in the face of adversity, shake their spirits! Believe in yourself and everything in the future is in your own hands!
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