Rhythmic gymnastics is a sports with strong ornamental properties and many dance elements in many sports competitions.
Because this sport has extremely high requirements for the smoothness, naturalness and aesthetics of athletes' body shape and movements, rhythmic gymnastics athletes are very standard in terms of body shape and appearance.
In the arena, whether it is rope exercise, ball exercise or belt exercise, etc., athletes can basically integrate with the equipment in their hands, especially in the belt exercise, with the streamers flying, the athletes are like the elves under the ordinary, jumping between the streamers, the movements are very beautiful.
Although there are many beautiful women in the field of rhythmic gymnastics in the mainland, everyone's body is very standard, but among them, there is also a leader.
This leader is known as the first beauty in the sports world, whether it is her appearance or figure, she can crush many female stars. But after retiring, she did not enter the entertainment industry, but stayed in the floor exercise industry she loved, and became an excellent coach.
This beautiful athlete is the protagonist we want to introduce to you today, Shu Siyao, the coach of the Sichuan Provincial Rhythmic Gymnastics Team.
"One-word horse goddess" that can be practiced everywhere
Shu Siyao is one meter seventy-two meters tall, she is not only slender and slender, but also has a delicate face, but from childhood to adulthood, she has never paid attention to her beauty, but put all her energy into training.
Shu Siyao was born in 1992 in an ordinary family in Luzhou, Sichuan. Because she has been very musical since she was a child, she was sent to a classical dance training class by Chengfeng's mother when she was 3 years old.
Once Xiao Siyao occasionally saw the big sisters who practiced rhythmic gymnastics, spinning around with the ball in their hands, and began to be interested in rhythmic gymnastics, and her mother respected her choice and sent her 6-year-old daughter to the Luzhou rhythmic gymnastics team to participate in training.
The following year, she was selected to be sent to the provincial team as a good seedling of the city team, recalling her training career as a teenager, Shu Siyao said: "My childhood memory is to press my legs every day, and then press my legs. ”
Although the training is hard, Shu Siyao's competitive spirit is very strong, and she feels that she is not the kind of person with better talent, and she can only make up for it by the efforts of the day after tomorrow.
So after entering the provincial team, she was ready to endure hardships, and on average practiced about an hour more than others every day.
The rhythmic gymnastics team members have very strict requirements for weight, even if Xiao Siyao, who was growing her body at that time, weighed less than 70 pounds, she still had to strictly control her weight, and under the weight requirements specified by the coach, she could not exceed one pound.
Her regular training is to run laps around the playground every day, dozens of laps at a time. In order to lose fat, she once dared to eat only a small piece of chocolate for three days to ensure sugar intake, and even dare not drink water, moisturizing her throat and spitting it out.
Under this almost harsh strict requirements, 17-year-old Shu Siyao was finally selected for the national team and had the opportunity to win glory for the country.
After entering the national team, Shu Siyao's performance has been very good, she switched from individual events to collective events, and successively won the third place in the individual event and the collective all-around championship in the National Games and the National Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships.
However, because Si Yao's integration into the team event was too short, she and her teammates made a mistake in cooperation with her teammates at the 2011 World Championships, resulting in the Chinese team losing the qualification to participate in the London Olympics.
During that time, Shu Siyao was under a lot of pressure, she not only blamed herself extremely much, but also doubted the direction of her choice for a while, and even had the idea of retiring.
But at this time, she received the notice to prepare for the Rio Olympics, and the hope of participating in the Olympic event made her pick up twelve points of spirit and return to training.
In 2014, at the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Hungary, through unremitting efforts, Shu Siyao and her teammates finally won a gold medal in the cooperation project, which rekindled her hope of winning the Olympic championship.
But she didn't expect that in the preparation stage of her full preparation for the Olympic Games, she actually became popular because of a photo sent to the circle of friends.
During this year's training interval, Si Yao tried a difficult move of "inverting a word horse" on the wall of the aisle.
She thought it would be difficult to do, but she didn't expect that the first time she tried it, it was actually completed in two minutes, and as soon as she was happy, she posted this photo to her circle of friends.
After the photo was sent, Si Yao quickly forgot about it and devoted all her energy to training. Unexpectedly, after being forwarded by netizens, this photo quickly became popular on the Internet, and everyone speculated that the "one-character horse goddess" who could make this difficult action was "what is sacred".
Because the photo only had a side face, plus Si Yao buried her head very low, it was difficult to recognize me.
And she has been busy training since she posted the photos, and did not notice the comments on the Internet. After a long time, a yoga studio came forward to declare that this difficult movement was done by the employees in the store.
This yoga studio also increased the number of students because of this photo, but Shu Siyao was still kept in the dark at this time.
Until one day a friend told her the reason for this incident in WeChat, she found that her photos were used by merchants. She began to come forward to refute the rumors because she didn't want others to take her photos and make false claims.
After refuting the rumors, more people found the "one-character horse" photo in her social account and expressed their love for her, and many reporters also wanted to take the opportunity to interview her, but Shu Siyao refused on the grounds of preparing for the Olympics.
Despite this, Shu Siyao, the "goddess of one-character horses", has become famous on the Internet, and many people know that in the Chinese rhythmic gymnastics national team, there is a big beauty who loves to be a "one-character horse".
In 2015, after more than a year of hard training, Shu Siyao and her teammates finally achieved good results in the World Championships and also got a ticket to participate in the Rio Olympics.
Become a coach and discover a better version of yourself
In 2016, this was a point in Shu Siyao's life, she finally came to the Olympic Games of her dreams, but it was also in this year that she ended her career as an athlete and became a coach.
In August of this year, Shu Siyao, as the captain, led her teammates to stand on the Olympic field with excitement, but her heart has also been worried, because the team performance of rhythmic gymnastics focuses on cooperation, but several people in the team are injured to participate in the battle.
Another team member had an unhealed bone crack and even dislocated in the final seconds of the game, and in the end, they finished 11th and stopped in the first round.
Although the results are not ideal, for Shu Siyao, she has no regrets, because she has come and worked hard.
After the Olympics, she chose to retire, but 8 years of athleteship made it difficult for her to give up her passion for rhythmic gymnastics, and she decided to become a coach without leaving the field of rhythmic gymnastics.
On her own terms, she has many seemingly better options. As early as after her "one-word horse" photo became famous, there were media interviews and requests for cooperation, but she rejected them one by one.
As a rhythmic gymnast, she has also shown her "one-word horse" moves in many places, such as in the snow, by the sea, or in the gym, but all because of love, not show-off.
Whenever a netizen asks her for tips on how to make her body more flexible, she will answer seriously and tell the other party to do it under the premise of safety.
Often good friends suggest that she can go to the entertainment industry to develop after retiring, after all, her figure and appearance are first-class.
But after careful consideration, Shu Siyao still chose to be a coach, because her heart is inseparable from rhythmic gymnastics, after all, this is the field she has worked hard for since childhood.
As a coach, Shu Siyao once confessed that she was more strict. When she watches the players from the sidelines, she often thinks about the scene when she first started training.
When she practiced basic skills every day, she felt that her legs were numb, and when she eased up, she felt like it was broken, which was extremely painful.
But only at the moment she stood on the field did she understand in her heart that basic training is laying the foundation, and the proficiency of players and equipment is produced in daily training.
Therefore, she feels that the strictness of the coach is the attitude of responsibility to the athletes.
As a coach, she knows she needs to have a wealth of business knowledge, and to improve herself, she carefully watches videos of rhythmic gymnastics, Latin dancing or synchronized swimming competitions every night.
Synchronized swimming is also a team effort, you can learn the expressiveness and formation changes of the team members, and in Latin dance, you can learn beautiful dance movements.
Because she has many years of experience in competition, she will repeatedly figure out the different manifestations of each movement, and she will also be very "demanding" for team members who do not practice well.
When explaining the technical movements, Si Yao will ask all the team members to "pass the level", and the team members who have not passed the level cannot eat halfway, if they arrive at the meal, they can only beat the meal back first, and practice until they pass the level before going back to eat.
On the latest day, she even practiced until about ten o'clock in the evening, and finally the team members still did not pass the level, that day, Si Yao not only became angry, but also let the team members stand and reflect on their shortcomings.
"Attitude is very important", this is a sentence that Shu Siyao has repeatedly emphasized, she believes that all athletes must have a spirit, and this spirit is attitude.
And as a coach, being able to do your duty to the trainees and bring out excellent athletes is the best attitude.
With her efforts, her team member Zhao Yue won the national championship at the 2019 National Youth Games.
Speaking of Zhao Yue, Si Yao's eyes were full of smiles, she saw the once tenacious self in this little girl, but she felt that Zhao Yue's talent was very high, and she would go further than herself on this road in the future.
In 2020, Shu Siyao returned to her hometown of Sichuan, stayed with her parents, and became the coach of the Sichuan team.
At this time, the once tenacious little girl is close to the age of standing, so many years of training, Shu Siyao gave up a lot, she has never wandered around the campus like girls of the same age, and rarely accompanies her parents.
Moreover, because she has been working in the "daughter's country", she does not know what love is when she is young, but looking back on these years of training and competitions, Si Yao does not regret it at all, she feels that her life has been integrated into the love of rhythmic gymnastics, and it is worth it.
But she didn't expect that love is a kind of fate, and after returning to her hometown, it is not only family affection that awaits her, but also the arrival of love.
Love comes at the right time
It may be that the Sichuan girl still needs the nourishment of the soil of her hometown, and after Shu Siyao returned to her hometown to work, the love she had been waiting for for a long time also naturally blossomed.
This lucky boy is called Li Jie, and Si Yao met in middle school, because he is 4 years older, so he is the older brother in Si Yao's mouth, and from 2013 to 2021, the two have also been in contact intermittently for nearly ten years.
After getting to know each other better, they finally got a marriage license in 2021, and due to the epidemic, the wedding continued until 2022.
Because Shu Siyao is already a public figure, many fans are very concerned about her love life, and after learning of her choice, some people expressed disappointment because although the man has a successful career, he is not handsome.
Even some netizens asked the "goddess" bluntly whether she was married to money, and Shu Siyao's answer was as bold as ever: "He is rich, but I am married to love." ”
In order to reassure everyone, Si Yao also described the relationship between the two in detail, she said: "In 13 years, he has changed from an older brother to a considerate and the best partner who will create romance. He has been with and encouraged me when I left the national team when I was at my lowest, and I believe he will always treat me well in the future. ”
In fact, whether it is a "goddess" or an ordinary girl, what is needed is one thing, that is, "always treat me well", these five words should be the best interpretation of love!
On June 12, 2022, Si Yao got married. On the wedding day, the bride Shu Siyao was sparkling, and in the elegantly furnished auditorium, the bride's floor-to-ceiling wedding dress and the surrounding large and small crystal lamps shone brightly.
Sina Li Jie is dressed in a blue suit with a small bow tie, which looks very handsome. When Si Yao, who was one meter seventy-two, nestled his head on the shoulder of his "brother" who was one meter eight, the scene was very harmonious, and even netizens who had been opposed before changed their concepts, praising Si Yao for indeed "married to love".
And Si Yao also issued a declaration of love on her social account, she said: "Today, I put on my brother's diamond ring, and for the rest of my life, I will cherish this fate with the promise of loving only one person in my life." ”
In the second year after marriage, Shu Siyao reaped good things in pairs, and she posted a photo of herself holding up her pregnant belly on her account, proudly announcing that she was about to become a mother.
In the picture, the husband and wife show their love, and although Si Yao is "pregnant", she still exudes a strong feminine beauty and shows her temperament and elegance.
In April 2023, Shu Siyao announced that the little baby had been born, and she was still delicate in the delivery bed, without fatigue, and was a completely happy mother.
Many netizens sighed, seeing the goddess in their hearts coming all the way, getting married and having children, they couldn't help but miss the Si Yao who made a "one-word horse" shape in the corridor, and they hoped that the goddess could return to her original state and show a better sense of strength and balance for everyone.
But the goddess is the goddess, in Shu Siyao's latest news, her baby has a full moon, and the goddess is also in excellent postpartum state, in the latest photos, the standard body with long legs is not out of shape at all.
Once, in an interview with the media, Shu Siyao said that the direction of future efforts is to contribute to China's rhythmic gymnastics, and believes that the "one-character horse goddess" who came back after giving birth will soon return to the cause she loves and shine with a more beautiful brilliance.
Resources:
"Rhythmic gymnastics into life, to be the last to fall" - West China Metropolis Daily
"The new version of the goddess of "One Word Horse" became popular, and she was a member of the national gymnastics team" - China News Network
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Author: Li Li
EDIT: As it is