#头条创作挑战赛#
In the eyes of many, every athlete who has represented China in the Olympic Games is worthy of respect. Because of this, Chinese people are extremely concerned about the treatment of Olympic champions after retirement, and hope that they can live a happy and peaceful life.
The mainland has been doing well in this regard, and most of the Olympic champions have found stable and high-quality jobs under the arrangement of relevant departments. But over the years, it is inevitable that some athletes will encounter misfortune, and their poor lives will quickly attract public attention.
In 2003, for example, Sydney Olympic champion Chen Xiaomin resolutely auctioned off all the medals he had won, including Olympic gold.
As soon as this news came out, it caused an uproar in public opinion, and many people thought that Chen Xiaomin must have encountered difficulties, otherwise it would be impossible to be so decisive.
What happened to the Olympic champion? Why did she firmly choose the auction gold medal?
Chen Xiaomin
Talented and successfully selected for the national team
To understand the ins and outs of this matter, you first need to have a general understanding of Chen Xiaomin's sports career.
The name is unfamiliar to most people, as her victory dates back to the 2000 Sydney Olympics, more than 20 years ago.
On February 7, 1977, Chen Xiaomin was born in a peasant family in Heshan, Guangdong. She has been very sensible since she was a child, and she has been helping her parents with farm work from an early age. In fact, Chen Xiaomin can always finish his work faster than his peers.
In this process, Chen Xiaomin's parents found that their daughter had a very outstanding advantage, that is, innate divine power, and the agricultural tools that the little girl could not lift were easy for her. Even some of the boys in the senior grades are not as strong as Chen Xiaomin.
Chen Xiaomin
However, Chen Xiaomin's parents did not think much about it, but they thought that their daughter would be a good hand when she did farm work in the future.
But gold always shines, and when Chen Xiaomin was 11 years old, he was picked up by the coach of the county sports school, and since then he has formed an indissoluble bond with weightlifting.
After entering the county sports school, Chen Xiaomin quickly realized his talent, quickly made progress, and became a good seedling valued by coaches. Just two years later, Chen Xiaomin's weightlifting level has stood out in the county and successfully entered the provincial sports school.
Here, she received professional training, improved her weightlifting level by leaps and bounds, and less than a year later, she successfully entered the Guangdong sports team.
Cai Juncheng, the meritorious coach of the team, has cultivated multiple weightlifting champions, and he accurately judged the girl's excellent talent just by meeting Chen Xiaomin, and did not hesitate to recruit good seedlings under his command.
Chen Xiaomin
In order to make Chen Xiaomin train faster and better, coach Cai Juncheng developed a perfect and strict training plan according to her physical condition. Chen Xiaomin not only accepted all the orders, but also chose to practice more many times, which made Coach Cai Juncheng extremely satisfied and more attentive to her.
What makes people laugh and cry is that the guidance effect of coach Cai Juncheng is really good, and just one year later, Chen Xiaomin's achievements have soared and he has performed extremely well among young athletes. After successive good results, 15-year-old Chen Xiaomin successfully entered the national team.
Less than a year after joining the national team, Chen Xiaomin won the 1993 World Championships as a dark horse, winning three championships in the 54kg snatch, jerk and overall score, and broke the world record, attracting domestic media coverage.
The next day, the news of Chen Xiaomin becoming world champion spread throughout the village, and villagers came to her home to send congratulations. And Chen Xiaomin's parents also cried with excitement several times, seeing that their daughter's hard work and hard work finally achieved results, they were happier than anyone.
Chen Xiaomin
Overcoming setbacks, Sydney to the top
After successfully winning the World Championship, Chen Xiaomin maintained his excellent form in the following years, winning consecutive competitions in many competitions.
There are even many media high-profile claims that wherever she participates in the competition, the ownership of the gold medal has long been out of suspense.
For example, at the 1996 World Championships in Warsaw, Chen Xiaomin won two championships in the women's 59kg category with a snatch of 97.5kg and a total of 207.5kg, and broke the world record again. In the subsequent Asian Championships, the national team adjusted Chen Xiaomin to 64 kg, and she still won the championship without suspense.
It is a pity that although Chen Xiaomin was in good shape in 1996, women's weightlifting had not yet entered the Olympic Games, and it would not be officially possible until the Sydney Olympics four years later.
Chen Xiaomin
Fortunately, Chen Xiaomin was mentally prepared for this, and by 2000, Chen Xiaomin was only 23 years old, which was when an athlete was most likely to produce results.
She believes that as long as she trains step by step and maintains her form, she has a good chance of winning the Olympic championship.
In 1997, Chen Xiaomin was found in post-match monitoring because of an accident that he mistakenly took banned drugs. She was subsequently sentenced to a two-year ban for alleged drug use violations and had to withdraw from the national team.
This result was a great blow to Chen Xiaomin, on the one hand, leaving the national team meant that her training content and training equipment were not guaranteed; On the other hand, the athlete's condition needs to be maintained by constantly participating in competition, and the damage of a two-year ban is extremely huge.
Chen Xiaomin
According to the reply given by the Olympic organizing committee, Chen Xiaomin will not officially return until the end of 1999, when the Sydney Olympics are very close.
If Chen Xiaomin's form is slightly inadequate, the national team is likely to send others to play.
Not only that, after Chen Xiaomin's punishment was released, a large number of media reports, including some harsh criticism. This is also a big hurt for her, under huge psychological pressure, it is difficult for this 20-year-old girl to find a way to break the game.
Fortunately, Chen Xiaomin's parents did not blame her for this, but comforted their daughter at the first time and encouraged her to continue to persevere. And Chen Xiaomin's own character is also very tough, and he was only depressed for a while in the face of the blow, and he quickly walked out.
Chen Xiaomin
In the following two years, Chen Xiaomin solved the problem of training equipment and venues through various methods. After each major competition, she records the results of the competitors one by one, and trains strictly according to the results of the champions.
Sweat does not deceive people, and under strict training, Chen Xiaomin's state not only did not decline, but steadily increased, which made her regain her confidence. After his comeback at the end of 1999, Chen Xiaomin won three consecutive Olympic selections and successfully got a ticket to Sydney.
On September 19, 2000, the women's weightlifting 63 kg competition officially started, and Chen Xiaomin was surprised to find that she was not nervous and her heart was very calm. In the ensuing competition, she contributed a near-perfect performance, and with two proud results that broke world records, she won this precious Olympic gold medal without suspense.
After a heavy blow, she came out of the haze and stood on top of the world again.
Chen Xiaomin
Auction gold medals for public welfare
After winning the Olympic gold medal, Chen Xiaomin has no desire for a weightlifting career, and her only thought is to win a gold medal for her hometown of Guangdong.
However, after the end of the Olympics, Chen Xiaomin's injury completely broke out, and his condition plummeted, and he finally lost to his teammates in the national team at the Guangzhou National Games. After the National Games, Chen Xiaomin chose to retire and ended his sports career.
Like many athletes, Chen Xiaomin was once confused and didn't know what to do after he retired from the national team. Fortunately, there is one thing that you can't go wrong with, and that is to go to university for further study.
So Chen Xiaomin first completed his law studies at Guangzhou Business School, and then obtained a part-time graduate student majoring in administration and management at Sun Yat-sen University.
Chen Xiaomin
In this process, Chen Xiaomin also did a vigorous thing, which caused extensive discussion in the media. And this is the auction mentioned at the beginning of the article of all the medals he won in the competition, including the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics.
There is a simple view in the hearts of the Chinese people, and they generally feel that honor is more important than money. Therefore, when they heard that Chen Xiaomin wanted to auction the Olympic gold medal, they subconsciously felt that she must have encountered an unsolvable problem to make such a counterintuitive decision.
In fact, Chen Xiaomin did not encounter problems at this time, and she entered the Yangcheng Evening News under the arrangement of the organization and served as the secretary of the Youth League Committee of this newspaper. Moreover, the local government also rewarded her with a house, and she encountered almost no difficulties in life.
Chen Xiaomin
Chen Xiaomin made this decision because when she once returned to her hometown to worship her ancestors, she found that the primary school in the village was very dilapidated, and the environment for the children to go to school was very bad. It reminded her of her school journey and the idea of wanting to help.
But Chen Xiaomin's income and savings can support his family at most, and they are completely unable to provide for the construction of Hope Primary School. After much deliberation, she decided to auction off all the medals she won to raise all the money needed to build the primary school.
After this news came out, the media rushed to report, and Chen Xiaomin fell into the whirlpool of public opinion for a while.
Many people expressed understanding for her behavior and thought that the idea of doing public welfare was worth encouraging; Some people also questioned that Chen Xiaomin's approach was "grandstanding".
Chen Xiaomin
These skeptical voices from the outside world did not have an impact on Chen Xiaomin, and after experiencing the turmoil of banning, Chen Xiaomin has grown into a firm person at heart.
After careful preparation for a period of time, Chen Xiaomin's medal auction was successfully held, and she took out the souvenirs of the competition in the first session, and the last auction totaled 1.18 million yuan. The success of this auction made Chen Xiaomin put down his hanging heart and quickly prepare for the second auction.
In order to increase the appeal, Chen Xiaomin took out the gold medal at the Sydney Olympics at the second auction, which was eventually auctioned off by a hotel for 1.28 million yuan, and finally the second auction won a total of 2.81 million yuan, and the cumulative income of the two auctions was 3.99 million yuan.
After the auction, Chen Xiaomin immediately donated the money to a public welfare organization in his hometown, and soon built several hope primary schools in his hometown. The villagers praised Chen Xiaomin's righteous deeds, saying that it was admirable that she still thought of her hometown father after winning the championship.
Chen Xiaomin
Bravely transform and migrate to Australia
After ending this nationally watched auction, Chen Xiaomin's life returned to calm, and she continued to serve as the secretary of the Youth League Committee at the Yangcheng Evening News. In the years that followed, she organized many highly acclaimed events and won the unanimous recognition of her colleagues in the newspaper.
In 2005, Chen Xiaomin also held a major event, she planned and executed a grand group wedding, which was held as a rule, and then held annually. In order to enhance the persuasiveness of the event, Chen Xiaomin also led by example and personally participated in this group wedding.
In fact, a long time ago, Chen Xiaomin had a boyfriend, his name is Wu Dan, a doctor who studied orthopedics and worked as a masseur for a period of time in the Guangzhou athletics team.
It was in this process that he and Chen Xiaomin met each other.
Chen Xiaomin
Wu Dan fell in love with Chen Xiaomin at first sight, and soon began a passionate pursuit after getting acquainted, but Chen Xiaomin at that time only wanted to focus on the arena and rejected the other party's pursuit. Wu Dan did not give up because of this, but silently converged his thoughts.
After Chen Xiaomin fell into the turmoil of banning, it was he who has always been by his side, providing Chen Xiaomin with the encouragement and care that he needs most.
In this way, the two slowly came together and talked about a full 8 years of love. Wu Dan originally wanted to give his girlfriend a grand wedding, but when Chen Xiaomin proposed to participate in a group wedding, he hesitated again and again and finally agreed to his girlfriend's request.
After Chen Xiaomin and Wu Dan got married, they lived very happily, and a year later, their son fell to the ground and officially upgraded to a happy family of three.
Chen Xiaomin
Later, Chen Xiaomin quit her job at the Yangcheng Evening News because she wanted to live a completely different life and provide better living conditions for her family. Prior to this, Chen Xiaomin accumulated a lot of contacts by constantly participating in real estate opening activities.
So she first took advantage of the opportunity to cut the ribbon for the opening of the real estate, obtained the developer's internal price, and took out a loan to buy a lot of houses. And these houses later appreciated in value, providing Chen Xiaomin with a considerable income. After a certain accumulation, Chen Xiaomin set her sights on the stock market, and under the leadership of her friends, she also made a lot of money in the stock market.
In this process, Chen Xiaomin also participated in the 10th China Chest Model Competition held in Guangzhou and successfully entered the top ten.
In an interview with the media, Chen Xiaomin was very happy and said that this was an interesting attempt.
Chen Xiaomin
Although he made a lot of money, Chen Xiaomin's body was also dragged down in the fiercely competitive business sea, and the injuries accumulated before also broke out again. In desperation, at the suggestion of her husband, she chose to go to a professional physiotherapy institution in Australia to recuperate.
After letting go of complicated affairs, Chen Xiaomin's body and mind were relaxed, and coupled with the quality services provided by professional institutions, her body slowly recovered to health. In this process, Chen Xiaomin gradually liked this blessed place that made her an Olympic champion.
After obtaining the consent of the whole family, Chen Xiaomin and Wu Dan chose the family to move to Australia in 2017 and start a new life.
Today, she and her husband Wu Dan have opened a company in Australia, working in immigration, real estate and finance. The Olympic champion made a magnificent turn and became a high-profile shopping mall elite.
Chen Xiaomin
epilogue
To this day, some people on the Internet still use the Olympic champion auction gold medal to accuse the relevant departments of poor protection of athletes.
It can be seen that they just want to use Chen Xiaomin as an attack weapon, and they have no idea what contribution the Olympic champion made after auctioning the gold medal.
However, these disturbing rumors have little impact on Chen Xiaomin, she has long trained a big heart, which can block the noise of the outside world and move forward firmly.
From an Olympic champion to a strong woman in business, Chen Xiaomin's transformation is very stable. It can be seen that people who can become world champions must have excellent qualities, and they can still shine on a different track.
Resources
"China's Chen Xiaomin wins women's 63kg gold medal in weightlifting" – China News Agency
"Chen Xiaomin Auction Gold Medal Donated to Public Welfare" - Xinhua News Agency