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Wen | Xiaoyan
In the Chinese swimming world, the male athlete who can be the number one in the international volleyball, in addition to the well-known swimming champion Sun Yang, is probably "Ning Zetao" who was once removed from the national team!
As a talented teenager who once amazed the entire Chinese swimming scene, relying on his stunning appearance, Ning Zetao won the hearts of countless fans as soon as he appeared in the swimming competition.
Originally, he could be very popular in the entertainment industry by relying on his appearance, but he relied on his strength to break out of his own world in the swimming world.
He has won four consecutive gold medals at the Asian Games and won the 100m championship of the World Swimming Championships, and has been greatly expected by the Chinese people in future competitions.
But when his career was developing rapidly, he was removed from the national team.
What is hidden behind his retirement? Is it because of their own work or a victim of the operation of capital forces?
Gifted, swimming myth
Born in a military family in 1993, Ning Zetao has an unusual athletic ability since he was a child, and Zetao's parents and grandfather are all from military backgrounds.
Perhaps it is the relationship of family genes, no matter what sport Ning Zetao has participated in since primary school, as long as it is a competition related to sports, Ning Zetao's name will appear in the top three.
Because his father was busy with work and had very little time to accompany Ning Zetao, Ning Zetao could almost be said to have been taken care of by his mother since he was a child.
Ning Zetao has always been very afraid of water, in order to make him have a better development, his mother sent him to the swimming pool.
Unexpectedly, this sending actually sent Ning Zetao's future directly to the country.
After entering the swimming pool to learn to swim, Ning Zetao began to slowly stop being afraid of water, and even showed super high swimming talent in the water, he was like a flying fish born to live in the water, showing super high swimming talent.
The coach of the swimming pool also saw the pearls, discovered Ning Zetao's talent, and carried out professional swimming training for Ning Zetao.
Under the careful teaching of the coach, Ning Zetao's swimming ability continued to improve and achieved extraordinary results, and Ning Zetao gradually fell in love with the sport of swimming.
Ning Zetao seems to have been born for swimming, whether it is himself or his name, it seems that it is inseparable from water.
After four years of professional training, Ning Zetao, who was only 11 years old, successfully entered the national provincial team and had greater platforms and development prospects.
Parents were also very supportive after learning about their son's swimming talent, and in the second year after entering the provincial team, in order to make him have a better development, Ning Zetao's mother took him to Ye Jin, the more famous swimming team coach at that time.
Ye Jin can be said to be a highly respected mentor who has influenced Ning Zetao's swimming career.
For students, Ye Jin is known for being strict, but because of the so-called strict master and high apprentice, many of the students brought out by Ye Jin have broken world records countless times.
With such an excellent coach, it is difficult for Ning Zetao to not improve.
And Ye Jin probably didn't think or think that the apprentice she accepted would be a myth in the international swimming world in the future.
Ye Jin officially began to train Ning Zetao, after participating in the Olympic Games, because at the time of the Olympic Games, Ye Jin's mind was still spread on the national team, and he had no intention of training Ning Zetao.
After returning to the naval army, Ye Jin began to train Ning Zetao's devil, because the training was too hard, Ning Zetao would also want to be lazy.
But Ye Jin is not allowed here, so Ning Zetao, who is a little rebellious, will also talk back to the coach.
But Ning Tao knows that if he wants to become an excellent professional athlete, these hardships must be eaten, out of his love for swimming and the ideal of winning glory for the country, even if Ning Zetao is tired, he has never thought of giving up.
Under the strict training and Ning Zetao's extraordinary talent, at only 14 years old, he was already unrivaled in the provincial team.
The heavens will descend on the people of Sri Lanka, and they will first work hard for their hearts and bones.
After two years of retreat training, Ning Zetao participated in the National Games for the first time but suffered a knee injury and failed to achieve the desired results.
This was undoubtedly a huge blow to Ning Zetao, but with the encouragement of coach Ye Jin, Ning Zetao regained confidence and switched from the original project to short-distance freestyle.
Lose in hake, but gain in herring. This transformation turned out to be a turning point in the history of Ning Zetao's swimming.
In 2011, Ning Zetao participated in the swimming championship competition for the first time, just when everyone had high hopes that he could win the championship, Ning Zetao was tested for doping because he ate the wrong thing and was disqualified.
The road to success is always bumpy and tortuous, but this may also be a reminder from God to Ning Zetao, and since then, Ning Zetao has paid special attention to what he eats in terms of diet.
Things are unpredictable and plummeting
After this incident, Ning Zetao was attacked by public opinion, but even in the face of everyone's doubts and misunderstandings, Ning Zetao never thought of giving up, he has been waiting, waiting for an opportunity to prove himself.
Finally, in 2013, he got this opportunity and won the national swimming championship with a time of 48.60 seconds, breaking the domestic record.
And this was just the beginning of his success, and then in the later competitions, he won the second consecutive championship. At one point, he broke Lui Zhiwu's innovative Asian record, winning four consecutive gold medals.
In this way, Ning Zetao entered the audience's field of vision with excellent results and excellent appearance, and was given the title of "Asian flying fish".
In 2015, Ning Zetao also ushered in the peak of his career, not only won the award for the best male athlete, but also won the gold medal at the World Championships in the final of the 16th World Swimming Championships with a time of 47.84 seconds.
Because of Ning Zetao's excellent swimming performance, Ning Zetao's value in the business circle is getting higher and higher, and countless cooperative brands have approached Ning Zetao, hoping that he can endorse their brand.
After all, he not only has excellent swimming performance, but also has excellent appearance, and many netizens said that if Ning Zetao did not rely on strength, he could become popular in the entertainment industry by relying on this face alone.
Although the flow is high, but Ning Zetao has always maintained his heart, a media once said that Ning Zetao's attitude towards money is very shocking, no matter how much interest is placed in front of him, he is not moved, he only has the love of swimming, and the original intention to win glory for the country
Such Ning Zetao, just when everyone thought that he would continue to create historical miracles for the country, was removed from the country at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
The reason was that Ning Zetao illegally took the advertisement and refused to relay, resulting in the loss of the national Rio Olympic relay competition.
From popularity to loneliness, what is the hidden secret of Ning Zetao's retirement?
In the final analysis, it is actually a battle between two brands, and Yili Milk, as a Chinese sponsor, Ning Zetao signed a contract with it early in the morning.
As a popular athlete, it was a normal thing to accept endorsements and cooperation, but this matter has changed with the arrival of the new director Wang Lusheng.
Before entering the national team, Wang Lusheng has been cooperating with Mengniu for many years, and Mengniu also wanted to sign Ning Zetao as a popular athlete after signing the national team, but at that time, Ning Zetao had already signed an endorsement with Yili, so naturally it was impossible to break the contract.
Since cooperation cannot negotiate Wang Lusheng, he can only use some means to make him submit, after all, Ning Zetao is a person under him, and he has the final say on how to get it.
In this way, without Ning Zetao's knowledge, Mengniu cooperation was signed, and the relationship between the two brands was originally competitive, and this operation undoubtedly put Ning Zetao in a very unfavorable situation.
When the most infuriating thing was that Wang Lusheng not only signed the contract behind Ning Zetao's back, but also took special care of Ning Zetao in normal times, demagnetized his meal card, forced him to move out of the dormitory, and forbade him to enter the swimming team training, which led to a sharp decline in his performance in later competitions.
Even using various means in order to prevent him from successfully participating in the competition, this series of tricks made Ning Zetao lose eight pounds of muscle.
Eight-pound muscle, this is equivalent to taking away his weapon for a professional swimmer, plus Ning Zetao is already thin, dropping eight pounds of muscle is undoubtedly completely nullifying his last explosive power in the competition.
During the preparation for the Olympics, there were cramps, vomiting after high-intensity training, no wonder Ning Zetao said that his performance in the competition was normal performance, such a physical condition, can still maintain a time of 48 seconds 37, Ning Zetao can be said to have done his best.
As an athlete, all the grievances before the competition can only be told after the competition by the pressure of the public opinion, although the director of the center, Wang Lusheng, has been removed.
But the myth of the former swimming world can never go back, all regrets stop at the Rio Olympics that was removed, and Ning Zetao's sports career was completely ruined.
The reversal of events, what is the truth?
As the investigation progressed, various details about its Rio Olympics competition and Ning Zetao's endorsement were gradually revealed.
According to the media, Ning Zetao signed several endorsements in order to confront the director of the center, Wang Lusheng, one of which is a pyramid scheme brand that athletes are not allowed to accept, and public opinion that is biased towards Ning Zetao for a while has begun to accuse Ning Zetao.
And according to Ning Zetao's team members, because Sun Yang was injured and could not participate in the Rio Olympics, there was one less main player in the relay race.
At that time, Ning Zetao's 100-meter race just clashed with the relay race, and in order to take care of the overall situation, the swimming team coach wanted Ning Zetao to give up the 100-meter race for the country and the team to participate in the relay race.
But the 100-meter race has always been the goal of Na Ning Zetao's efforts and struggles, and he was naturally unwilling to give up like this, so he refused, but at that time, he ignored that his physical condition had reached the point of being unable to do so.
So he failed to participate in the relay competition, in the freestyle field he has always been proud of, physical condition, performance faux pas, just such a red-headed document Ning Zetao was completely removed from the national team.
Through this matter of Ning Zetao, it can be seen how deep the water is in the national team? Just because he violated the interests of capital, he was treated like this, and Ning Zetao, who applied to leave the team in 2016 to cultivate, has suffered from depression due to external public opinion and internal suppression.
Fans once complained about it, but what about the unfairness of the national team, even if the bad guys have been punished, Ning Zetao's original glory moment can never come back.
A paragraph posted on it shows Ning Zetao's bitterness, the water in the pool is really deep, it can be deep enough to drown a champion's dream, and the water in the pool can also be very shallow, so shallow that it can't hold a teenager's dream.
The bane buried by this capital finally made the spirited teenager the one who paid the bill, and Ning Zetao forever became an uneasy person in the history of swimming.
After retiring, Ning Zetao received olive branches thrown by countless countries, but they were rejected by Ning Zetao, because even if he could not win glory for the country, he was not willing to become China's opponent in the arena.
Judging from the recent recent photos posted by Ning Zetao, it can be seen that he has come out of the darkness of the year, holding a golf club, his confident appearance is not inferior to the performance in the pool field that year, go another way, he is still the sunny and confident teenager.
The ups and downs of life are actually like a race in themselves. The road to chasing dreams is full of unknowns and challenges.
As dreamers, the only thing we can do is to work hard to overcome difficulties and setbacks, maintain our original intention, strengthen our beliefs, and know that all the tribulations and hardships are for us to meet a better self, the road is under our feet, which direction to go, only we have the final say.