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Article|Henk's loneliness
Editor's | Henk's Loneliness
At the Sydney Olympics in 21, something strange happened.
A Chinese athlete won the Olympic championship, but no one celebrated her, and there was not even a national flag at the scene.
What is even more incomprehensible is that even her coach left the scene.
She could only stand on the podium alone with tears in her eyes, and the female athlete was called Wang Liping.
Why did she face such an embarrassing situation? What exactly was sent at that time?
Lone Olympic champion
In the 21st Sydney Olympics, Wang Liping was actually not favored by the coach, and the champion selected by the coach was Liu Hongyu.
According to the coach's plan, Wang Liping covered Liu Hongyu in the first 10 kilometers, and then the two were competing for medals with their own strength.
Liu Hongyu
On the eve of the game, Liu Hongyu did not rest well because of nervous insomnia, and the psychological pressure was great.
She is too eager for this gold medal, in addition to the sense of honor that she wants to win glory for the country, the "idol baggage" that the outside world has always given her is too heavy.
If you don't get a good ranking, how can you be worthy of the country's cultivation and the attention of the media?
However, the arena is brutal and full of uncertainty.
In women's race walking, if the movement is deformed, you will receive a warning from the referee until you are sent off the field.
At this moment, Liu Hongyu has been penalized with two red cards, and as long as there is the slightest mistake, it means that he will go straight down.
At this time, Wang Liping still followed closely according to the plan formulated, but everyone's eyes were focused on Liu Hongyu, completely forgetting Wang Liping behind him.
With 4 kilometers left in the race, Liu Hongyu was sent off again because of his lack of physical strength.
After watching Liu Hongyu being sent down, the coaching staff was disheartened and felt that it should be hopeless to win the trophy this year.
Then packed up his things and prepared to leave, completely forgetting Wang Liping, who was still in the arena.
At this time, Wang Liping did not know that she had been "abandoned", and she was still rushing forward.
Wang Liping's physical strength gradually became a little weak, but she still relied on one breath, steadily and firmly supported her to move forward, surpassing one opponent after another.
In the final decisive moment, among all the contestants, Wang Liping ranked second.
She calmed down and chose the tactics that worked best for her: keep the status quo, follow closely, and wait patiently for her opponent to make a mistake.
Australia's Shavili, who walked in first, was extremely uncomfortable in his heart, because Wang Liping couldn't shake off like a shadow.
The end can already be seen in front, and the distance of less than a hundred meters can already disturb Shavli's heart.
In the end, Shavili was sent off with three red cards, and Wang Liping successfully won the championship.
It was the only gold medal won by China at the Sydney Olympics.
Originally, as a champion, she could wear the national flag, walk around the field, and proudly tell the world that she is Chinese.
However, a sad scene occurred.
The coaching staff, including reporters, left the venue, and only Wang Liping's interpreter Hu Bing was in the audience.
Hu Bing said later that he did not expect her to win the championship, so he did not prepare the national flag, and the coach outside the field wanted to send the national flag after knowing the news, but it was too late.
With no way to wear the national flag, she can only wave her hands around the venue with tears in her eyes and celebrate herself.
In the end, Wang Liping stood alone on the top podium of the Olympic Games, holding the hard-won gold medal, and the tears in her eyes did not know whether they were joy or sadness.
Without cheers from coaches and spectators, and no live broadcast by reporters, not many people in the country knew that she won the championship.
Later, I knew that the award was still broadcast by TV stations in other countries, and I have to say that it is really a little aggrieved.
When Wang Liping was interviewed later, she was asked if she had any regrets, and she said that the most regrettable thing was that she did not wear the national flag around the venue after winning the award.
Wang Liping is also known as the loneliest Olympic champion.
What was even more angry was that Wang Liping's coach said in an interview after the game that the customized tactic was to rely on Liu Hongyu to drag down other players in the first half, and Wang Liping had a chance to win in the second half.
Even Liu Hongyu shamelessly said that he intended to let Wang Liping win the award.
Fortunately, the eyes of the masses are bright, and an Olympic champion has won honor for the mainland on the world stage and has been belittled by others.
Countless Chinese began to support Wang Liping and uphold justice for her.
The coaching staff also couldn't withstand the huge pressure of public opinion and began to apologize for Wang Liping's victory.
Looking back at Wang Liping's sports career, I just want to say that luck will not be on the side of lazy and cowardly people.
An Olympic champion who almost became disabled
Wang Liping, who was born in rural Fengcheng, could barely feed her parents through her parents' work.
In that era, Wang Liping's fate seemed to have been arranged.
Go to school casually, and then find a man, husband and son.
But fate seems to favor this little girl, and her athletic talent has been different from ordinary people since she was a child.
Don't look at her skinny, every time the school organizes big and small competitions, she always wins the championship, even if she competes with senior students, she can always win the first place.
The local sports school coach learned of her news and immediately decided to recruit her to study at the sports school.
Wang Liping also changed from running to race walking.
In sports schools, the intensity of daily training is unbearable for ordinary people.
At the beginning of training, high-intensity training often made Wang Liping tired to the point of dehydration.
After getting up the next day, the soreness made Wang Liping miserable, and she had to exert her whole body strength even to go up the stairs.
However, no matter how difficult her life was in the sports school, Wang Liping never thought of giving up.
Because Wang Liping knows that her family environment is not good, and if she wants to get ahead, she must achieve good results in continuous competitions.
And all this can only be done by training hard day in and day out.
In the sports school, she is the skinniest one, but also the hardest one.
The following year, the coach recommended her to Wang Kui, a famous coach in the race walking industry, and Wang Liping entered the Liaoning provincial team for training.
On the first day she entered the provincial team, Wang Kui gave her a set of sportswear and sneakers.
It was a treat she had never had.
Since that day, she has made race walking her life goal.
Perhaps because of the hunger and fullness when she was a child, when the Liaoning provincial team was training, Wang Liping's stomach began to have problems.
As soon as the intensity of training increases, Wang Liping will vomit.
But to get good results, you have to train a lot.
Therefore, you can often see Wang Liping on the training ground training to spit acid, and sometimes even Wang Kui can't stand it.
However, one day in 1996, doctors told her that she could no longer do intensive training or she would have to amputate her leg.
One day in 96, Wang Liping was in training, and her old knee injury recurred, but she was still training and did not take it seriously.
As Wang Liping's training intensity increased, even daily walking became difficult in the end.
The doctor told her that if she wanted to save her knees, she must immediately stop training and give up race walking.
So, Wang Liping gave up training and returned to her hometown to concentrate on recuperating her injuries.
Two months later, Wang Liping's body slowly recovered and returned to the track.
After everyone thought that Wang Liping would not last long when she came back this time, she "slapped everyone" in the face with her results.
At her insistence, the pain in her knee did not wear down her will, and her grades did not fall, but increased, even better than before.
Such progress makes Wang Liping very happy, and she also has new goals.
It's about getting into the national team.
In 1997, Wang Liping successfully entered the national team and began to prepare for the Asian Games.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Wang Liping was not on the list of participants, and if she wanted to enter the Olympic Games, she had to go through layers of selection.
In the first two competitions, Wang Liping won the second place.
Seeing that she was about to step on the field of the Games, Wang Liping had a recurrence of her old injury four days before the last competition.
After two days of treatment, Wang Liping's injury was controlled and finally won the third competition.
With the good results of these three trials, he successfully qualified for the Sydney Games and won the first place in the competition.
Olympic champion turned business superwoman
In 2005, Wang Liping once again won the first place in the East Asian Games.
Although Wang Liping's condition has been greatly improved, she still announced her retirement with scars all over her body.
After the East Asian Games, she chose to study in the graduate championship class of Beijing Sport University, and in 2010, she became the coach of the track and field race walking team of Beijing Sport University.
He later transitioned into an investor and set up a sports investment fund with Olympic champion Xing Aowei, which has invested in several sports projects.
In March 2016, Wang Liping founded the "Legend of Kings" club, and in June of the same year, she registered a sports company and began her entrepreneurial career.
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