After missing the Asian Games, Fu Yuanhui responded to her retirement for the first time, saying that her body was in pain in the dead of night
The most important competitions of the Chinese swimming team this year are the Fukuoka World Championships in July and the Hangzhou Asian Games, which open at the end of September. The National Swimming Championships in early May were a tryout for both international competitions, but unfortunately, 27-year-old backstroke world champion Fu Yuanhui did not stand out and will miss the World Championships and Asian Games.
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In this swimming championship, Fu Yuanhui won the fourth place in the women's 50m backstroke final; In the women's 100m backstroke, she abstained due to high fever caused by excessive fatigue.
Fu Yuanhui expressed regret that she was unable to participate in the Asian Games, because she was originally from Hangzhou, and the Asian Games venue was only 10 minutes away from her home, but she had done her best in the championship.
Fu Yuanhui won the women's 50m backstroke and 4×100m medley relay at the 2015 World Championships, and she won bronze in the women's 100m backstroke at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In Rio, Fu Yuanhui became popular because of her optimistic and positive attitude to life and eccentric personality, and she was known as the "Girl of the Flood Wilderness".
Today, Fu Yuanhui is 27 years old, and many of her teammates have retired or faded out of the ring, but she is still persevering. Her current coach is former teammate Mao Feilian, and the two have joined the team together since childhood, and now their identities have changed.
Fu Yuanhui said that she chose to stick to it because she likes the feeling of swimming, just like going to work, she always feels that she has something undone.
Behind the athlete's glory is an injury. In a recent interview, Fu Yuanhui revealed that in the dead of night, his body often becomes very painful, but there is no way to cure it.
"Because if you keep training, [the injury] will not be good!" She said.
On the topic of retirement, Fu Yuanhui responded: "I also thought about retiring, wait two years, when I feel really too old and really can't swim anymore." ”