#暑期创作大赛#
In the late 70s and early 80s of last century, China's sports took the lead in going global. The athletes promote their national prestige externally, let the world know China, and inspire the Chinese people to forge ahead and boost morale internally. In 1979, 20 news organizations in the capital jointly began to select the top ten athletes of that year, which were sought after throughout the country. I'm a sports fan and always find like-minded friends at different ages. Everyone took the ballots in the newspaper and analyzed the achievements of Chinese sports in those years and counted the achievements of the athletes. The vote has not fallen once, although it has not been all-in, but the "top ten" brand socks have won many pairs.
The top ten of that year are deeply rooted in the minds of sports fans. Their images, like old movies, often flash in our memories ...
Who was China's first men's gymnastics world champion? Who won the first 10 points in the history of Chinese gymnastics? Who was the first Chinese athlete to be named gymnastics by the International Sports Federation? Many people will say that it is Li Ning, wrong, it is Li Yuejiu, who is 6 years older than Li Ning! With these dazzling achievements, he was twice named the top ten in 1980 and 1981.
Li Yuejiu, born in 1957 in Yingkou, Liaoning, is 1.54 meters tall. In his childhood, he was a well-known "follower king" of the school's literary and art propaganda team, and was selected for the Liaoning Provincial Gymnastics Team in 1970 and the national team in 1974. In 1980, at the National Gymnastics Competition, Li Yuejiu won the men's floor exercise championship with a full score of 10 points, which was the first time in the history of Chinese gymnastics to score 10 points! In 1981, at the 21st World Gymnastics Championships, Li Yuejiu won the men's floor exercise championship with a score of 19.775 points, which was the first time that Chinese male gymnasts won the world championship! At the same time, his floor exercise "side flip 90 degrees followed by front roll" was named "Li Yuejiu Flip" by the International Sports Federation, which is the first gymnastics move named after a Chinese athlete.
Li Yuejiu is going strong! He was short and fat, resembling the stature of a weightlifter. In order to make up for this congenital deficiency, he worked the high, difficult, and new technical movements, so he was scarred all over his body. In 1975, while practicing horizontal bars, the meniscus of the right knee joint was torn, and after the removal surgery, the muscle of the right leg atrophied. He practiced squats every day, and finally trained the quadriceps muscle of his injured right leg that was thicker than before. In 1979, Li Yuejiu fell while practicing the ring and fractured her right arm. After surgery, the right arm cannot be straightened. In order to ensure that he participated in the World Championships, he slept with his big arms raised and his forearms hanging heavy objects, so he pinned his arms straight! In 1980, at the Hartford International Gymnastics Championships in the United States, in the first horizontal bar competition, Li Yuejiu's mouth hit the iron bar, half of his front teeth were knocked out, and blood spurted nonstop. Not only did he insist on completing all the moves on the horizontal bar, but he also insisted on completing the vault and parallel bars. When jumping the horse, blood from the wound splattered into the eyes, he could not see the ground clearly, and he sprained his foot when he landed.
In 1984, after winning the Olympic team runner-up with his teammates, Li Yuejiu chose to retire and went to Canada to teach. In 1986, he married gymnastics star Wu Jiani. Wu Jiani is not only 9 years younger than him and 6 cm tall, but also has her own name-named uneven bar "Jiani Tengyue", and has also won the title of Top Ten!
After their marriage, the couple settled in the United States and worked as gymnastics coaches. They have two daughters, the eldest of whom was a substitute for the U.S. women's gymnastics team at the London Olympics and now works as a gymnastics judge.
In 2004, Li Yuejiu ushered in the highlight of his life again. At that time, the Chinese women's gymnastics team was at a low ebb, and the national team asked him to come back to coach, and he agreed without hesitation. Li Yuejiu drastically reformed the team's training model, and after that, the Chinese women's team won the 2006 World Championships women's team championship and the 2008 Olympic women's team championship, both the first in the history of Chinese women's gymnastics!
(Fun fact: When Li Yuejiu was in the provincial team, in order to lose weight and change his image, he often squatted on the edge of the big boiler and sweated, and the effect was not bad; When Gao Jian, a famous coach of the national team, came to Liaoning to inspect the team, he found Li Yuejiu, who had strong leg strength. He went up and threw Li Yuejiu into the air, Li Yuejiu followed the trend to do a flip, his feet were firmly rooted like nails, Gao Jian was stunned, the young man has good strength and balance, and must enter the national team! ）