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-<Preface >-
"I let you not catch up with me in any country, so that you can't even look at the shadow of my ass."
Looking back at the history of short track speed skating in mainland China, Wang Wei is undoubtedly a talented athlete in this event.
In her athletic career, she has won 77 championships on behalf of China, broken the world record 10 times, won 4 Olympic gold medals, and was the first person to accelerate and slow down with her back hand.
However, it is such a talented athlete who has been expelled from the national team twice, why?
-< bombarded the head coach in public>-
"Li Yan didn't make any plans for me at all, the national team is not suitable for me, I want to go back to the provincial team to train!"
In 2007, Wang Wei won the short track speed skating 1500m event at the Asian Winter Games and finally lost, and her face was full of displeasure written in an interview after the race, and she complained about coach Li Yan in public.
No one expected that Wang Meng, who was known as the seeded player of the national team, had accumulated a grudge with Li Yan for a long time, and the contradiction between the two people once reached the point of irreconcilability.
And all of this started in 2000.
Despite its long history, short track speed skating was not officially included in the Olympic sport until 1992.
The national team was eager to find talent for this event, and in 2000, Wang won the bronze medal in the 1500m at the National Ninth Games and was successfully selected for the national team with excellent results.
At this time, she was only 16 years old, and she did not know that the gears of fate began to turn.
When Wang Meng first joined the national team, the head coach of the national team was still Yimin, who was also a northeasterner.
Yimin values Wang Meng very much and does everything he can to cultivate her, and Wang Wei also forms a deep friendship with Yimin.
Under Yimin's vigorous cultivation, Wang Wei has made great progress, and his results in the competition have also risen.
In 2002, Wang won the 500m short track speed skating event at the World Youth Championships on behalf of the Chinese team, making China break the record of zero championships in this event.
Wang Meng, who became a rookie in the team, was not satisfied with this, and in the second year, he won the 3000m final with the team.
In the 2004 World Cup, the unstoppable Wang won four championships at once, completely making a name for himself.
In the 2006 Winter Olympics, Wang Wei directly won the first Olympic gold medal under the leadership of Yimin.
This made her feel extremely excited and honored, and she thought that this precious medal also had half the credit of Yimin.
Wang Meng originally thought that coach Yimin would lead him to the future championship, but he did not know that the head coach of the national team was changed.
In order to make the speed skating team achieve better results, the General Administration of Sports specially invited Li Yan back to China from abroad as the head coach, and transferred Yimin back to Heilongjiang Province as a coach.
This arrangement made Wang Meng, who had a deep relationship with Yimin, unacceptable for a while, and she even thought that Li Yan had snatched Yimin's position for a while, so she was resistant to Li Yan, the new coach.
And Li Yan is an extremely rational and strict coach, and naturally ignores Wang Meng's playfulness.
In the face of all the athletes in the speed skating short track team, Li Yan treated the same, and at the same time increased the intensity of training.
The sudden increase in training made Wang Meng unbearable, and the pre-existing back injury became more serious, she applied to the coach to suspend training, but strict Li Yan rejected her request to rest.
As an Olympic champion, she already felt that Wang Meng's treatment was very different, and now Li Yan's training was not suitable for her, so she was very annoyed, and her results in the Asian Winter Games were not satisfactory.
The defeated Wang Meng did not control his emotions and bombarded Li Yan in front of the camera.
For a while, the grudge between Wang Wei and head coach Li Yan appeared on the front pages of major newspapers, setting off countless discussions among the public.
At this time, the proud Li Yan was also angry with Wang Meng's public accusations and directly expelled her from the team, and Wang Wei also returned to the provincial team directly with a package on his back.
However, just after the incident, both sides felt that they were too impulsive, and the national team also needed the cooperation of Li Yan and Wang Meng.
For this reason, Li Yan interviewed Wang Meng alone, and Wang Meng also returned to the national team after the misunderstanding was solved.
-< permanent pride >-
Wang Meng, who returned to the national team, was able to settle her feud with head coach Li Yanbing, but her hot temper did not change in the slightest.
In order to make Wang Meng give full play to his best ability, the two worked out a more reasonable training model under discussion.
Since then, Wang Wei has finally found a more suitable way of generating power and sliding trajectory in the continuous running-in with Li Yan, which makes her already talented and her skills improve again.
Since then, Wang has ushered in a golden period of his career, and then achieved great success for the Chinese team in major international competitions.
By 2010, Wang had completely ushered in the peak of his career.
At this Winter Olympics, she won the 500m, 1000m and 3000m relay championships in short track speed skating with her all-round crushing strength, becoming the "triple crown" of this event.
With three glittering medals, Wang Wei has completely become a miracle in the mainland short track speed skating event, and the Chinese people are all cheering for her, and at this time, she chose to kneel and kowtow to Li Yan to thank her.
At this moment, Wang Wei really understood Li Yan's good intentions, and his previous complaints and sweat turned into sincere gratitude.
Wang Wei won the triple crown at the Winter Olympics, which is a brilliant moment that can be recorded in the history of mainland sports.
You must know that South Korea has been guarding the champion of this project before, and does not hesitate to make small moves.
However, in the face of South Korea's black hand small actions, the hot-tempered Wang Meng did not bear it at all, and showed absolute strength to crush his opponent.
When China's Li Jianrou was hit in the abdomen with a glove by South Korea's Cui Jixuan after leaving the court, Wang immediately rushed forward and shouted at the South Korean player:
"Who are you putting this with?! Have the ability to come at me! ”
Not only did he choose to protect his teammates off the court, but Wang Meng also did not leave any chance for the Korean players who remained on the court.
In order to avoid misjudgment by the referee, Wang Meng, who was holding her breath, always took the lead and left her opponent far behind, and the Korean team wanted to catch her trip so that the black hand could not get any chance.
What's even more amazing is that Wang Meng never swings his arms when accelerating, puts his hands behind his back, and even actively slows down when rushing to the finish line.
Everyone has to admit that Wang Wei is the "god" of short track speed skating, and her contemptuous play style is indeed a bad breath for mainland team members in the arena.
-< was "please go" for the second time>-
Capable people are naturally "crazy", and Wang Meng's temper is a god in the arena, and bad things may happen in the end.
As recently as 2011, when the Chinese short track speed skating team clashed with a local patrol team in Lijiang, the grumpy Wang Wei posted several Weibo posts denouncing Lijiang.
However, in the end, through investigation, it was found that what Wang Meng said was very different from the local description in Lijiang.
In order to avoid further intensification of the conflict and to save the image of the national sports team, Wang and others were quickly recalled to Beijing and asked not to speak again in the media.
After such a turmoil, it stands to reason that Wang Wei should stop and keep a low profile for a period of time to receive training in the team.
Who knew that she had a violent temper, but she felt that she was extremely densely recalled to Beijing, and even violated the rules by taking the team members to eat and drink outside during the training, and finally arrived late during the bedtime check, and had a conflict with Wang Chunlu, who checked the bed.
In the face of Wang Chunlu's question, Wang Meng only put on a stinky face, and the reply was also angry, after all, she has always been at odds with Wang Chunlu, and at the same time, she felt angry because she was recalled before.
When neither side is angry, the conflict is on the verge of erupting, and even eventually evolves into the two sides hitting each other.
The infighting of the short track speed skating team had a very bad impact, and Wang Wei was expelled from the national team.
The reason why Wang Wei was expelled from the national team for the second time was precisely because her own temper was too hot.
Her own strength is really strong, but her style of acting is also very arrogant, and she even repeatedly violates the rules of the national team.
As early as when she joined the national team, Wang Wei violated the requirements of the national team to set up a banquet in her hometown because she was overconfident and arrogant, and the national team punished her, but she did not learn the slightest.
The two expulsion decisions of the national team were not to really deprive her of a stage to show her strength, but to hope that she could temper her temper and become calm.
After this silence, Wang Meng also gradually realized his mistake and worked hard to convert his temper into higher strength.
In 2012, Wang was approved to officially resume competition, and since then, he has won many awards in a row in two years, and continued to win glory for the mainland on the skating track, completely riding the dust in this event.
Unfortunately, just as everyone was hoping to see Wang defend her title again in 2014, she was accidentally injured during a training camp before the start of the tournament, resulting in a serious fracture of her right foot.
Under such a serious injury, Wang Meng naturally could not recover his previous combat state, so he had to bid farewell to the ice rink.
The sudden departure of the former god of speed skating is a reality that is difficult for the people of the whole country to accept.
After such hardships, Wang's popularity plummeted, but she still loves short track speed skating in her heart.
Four years after retiring, the former god of speed skating came to the ice again, but by this time Wang had changed from a player to a coach in short track speed skating.
Although she did not play on her own, she led the Chinese team to create excellent results in this event repeatedly.
In 2022, the phrase "my eyes are the ruler" once again proved Wang Meng's own super strength.
Perhaps Wang is not the hottest sports star nowadays, but it is undeniable that she is the glory of the short track speed skating event.