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She was selected for the national team at the age of 16 and won four international championships and 14 silver medals in the next 8 years of her career, winning many honors and awards for the Korean gymnastics team. She single-handedly supported half of the Korean gymnastics team, and her outstanding performance and outstanding results, as well as her beautiful appearance and elegant temperament, won the love of the Korean people and was known as the "gymnastics princess".
Although Xu Zhaoying has achieved remarkable achievements in the gymnastics world, she is also like ordinary people, it is difficult to escape the curse of love. "I must go to China, my lover is there!" Xu Zhaoying firmly stated his choice. Immediately after that, despite her parents' objections, she dropped out of Seoul National University to study in China.
Xu Zhaoying's behavior caused a lot of commotion in South Korea, and netizens criticized her, and in an instant she changed from a princess that everyone admired to a traitor referred to by thousands of husbands. So who is this Chinese who can make Xu Zhaoying release his bold words and not marry?
What kind of charm does the other party have that can make her give up everything in Korea and come to a foreign country alone? And how are the two doing now?
01.
Heo Chao-young was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1977, because her parents were engaged in the sports industry, so she received good gymnastics training in elementary school and showed extraordinary talent.
However, during the training process, Zhaoying experienced many difficulties and challenges. Her body developed earlier and was more mature than the rest of the team, which made it necessary for her to put in more effort to stay in shape.
When other children were playing and frolicking outside, Xu Zhaoying could only stay in the practice room to sweat. It was a very long and painful process, and Xu Zhaoying often cried because of the difficulty of the training, but she never had the idea of giving up.
At the age of 16, Xu Zhaoying appeared in the competition of the national team trials, his well-proportioned body and light and smooth movements won the appreciation of the coaches, and Xu Zhaoying was immediately listed as the key seedling cultivated in the team.
Decades of unremitting hard work have finally paid off. Xu Zhaoying's days of training with the national team have experienced unprecedented grinding and challenges.
Maintain more than ten hours of intense training every day, always accompanied by pain and sweat. Because of this, her body is covered with calluses, large and small, which are testimony to her tenacity. Basic training movements such as stretching and pressing legs are commonplace for Xu Zhaoying, but these are far from enough for her.
In order to pursue a higher level of gymnastics, she continues to increase the difficulty and intensity of training, striving to achieve the ultimate in every movement. With his talent and hard work, Xu Zhaoying quickly became the best in the team.
Before Heo Chao-young joined the national team, the Korean gymnastics team had been unknown on the international stage, with no gold medals and few bronze medals.
However, Xu Zhaoying's joining is undoubtedly a shot in the arm for the gymnastics team. At the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima, Heo won the bronze medal in gymnastics for the South Korean team. Perhaps for others, this achievement is not worth bragging about, but for the South Korean team, it is a breakthrough.
This bronze medal not only brought hope to the Korean team, but also strengthened Heo Chao-young's faith. Instead of being complacent about her results, she put more energy into training. Carefully ponder each movement, constantly practice, adjust and optimize, hoping to improve their professionalism and technical difficulty through more brutal training.
Later in his career, Heo won four gold medals, as well as several silver and bronze medals, becoming the pride of the Korean gymnastics community.
Her achievements not only made the Korean people proud, but also made her a leader in the world gymnastics, with fame and status. In Korea in the 90s, Heo Chao-young's popularity was comparable to that of movie stars.
Her every move on the field attracted the attention of countless people, and in private, Xu Zhaoying's love life has also become a talking point after everyone's tea. Everyone wondered who would win the favor of the perfect goddess in the end.
02.
In 2002, the news of Xu Zhaoying's marriage to Chinese athlete Huang Liping directly exploded the Korean sports scene.
The Korean people can't accept that their gymnastics lord marries a Chinese, saying that the good fertile water does not flow into the fields of outsiders? As a result, overwhelming abuse swept in, and even radical netizens angrily denounced her as a "traitor".
Even Xu Zhaoying's parents and friends were not optimistic about this exotic relationship, but the opposition from the outside world not only failed to break up the little couple, but tied the two closer together. Speaking of the fate of the two, it goes back to 1993.
At that time, Xu Zhaoying had not officially appeared in international competitions, but followed his predecessors to meet the world. Her outstanding appearance and tall figure hit Huang Liping's boyish heart at once, in order to attract the attention of beauty, Huang Liping found a Korean athlete friend as a "matchmaker" and met Xu Zhaoying under his lead.
Since then, Huang Liping has been unable to take his eyes off her body, but due to the language barrier between the two parties at that time, Huang Liping did not rush to pursue each other.
After returning, Huang Liping began to search for various Korean books, hoping to make Xu Zhaoying impress him the next time they met.
Fast forward to the 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games, this competition Huang Liping made full preparations, won the men's gymnastics all-around, horizontal bar 2 runner-up and parallel bars championship, the Chinese team won the men's gymnastics team championship main force, and Xu Zhaoying also lived up to expectations and won a bronze medal.
After the game, Huang Liping took the initiative to find Xu Zhaoying and show her his intentions, but the other party politely refused Huang Liping's show of love on the grounds that he was young and did not want to develop with foreigners for the time being. But Huang Liping did not give up because of her refusal, but would ask his friends to bring Xu Zhaoying various small gifts whenever he had the opportunity, but Xu Zhaoying just regarded this man 6 years older than him as a respectable senior.
I thought that this relationship would end with Huang Liping's unrequited love, and He Cheng thought that the relationship between the two would usher in a turning point in four years.
03.
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Huang Liping was the last to appear as a gymnast. It was also this game that allowed Huang Liping to see the sinister nature of human nature and strengthened his determination to break the unfair situation.
At that time, Li Xiaoshuang, a gymnast from China, won full applause for his set of moving movements, thinking that the championship was stable this time, but He Chengxiang was unfairly treated. The deliberate targeting of foreign referees made this Chinese athlete with a perfect performance miss out on the gold medal.
Huang Liping witnessed all this, and his heart was full of dissatisfaction and anger. He knows that this is not only an injustice to Li Xiaoshuang, but also an injustice to the Chinese gymnastics team. He decided to actively adjust his mentality, hoping to strive for more honors for the team through his own efforts.
Ironically, in the men's gymnastics team competition, Huang Liping suffered the same injustice. Despite his excellent performance, the foreign judges' scores were still on the low side, resulting in him winning only silver.
This incident made Huang Liping thoroughly recognize the true face of Western countries. He understood that if he wanted to be treated fairly, he had to have more say, and in order to change the status quo, Huang Liping decided to retire and return to the field as a referee.
After returning from Atlanta, Huang Liping plunged into his studies, and in only three months he successfully obtained the qualification of international gymnastics judge, becoming the youngest judge of international gymnastics competitions in the mainland, and since then he has started his coaching career.
Here Huang Liping is adapting to his new identity, and Xu Zhaoying is not idle, participating in competitions and receiving endorsements are busy, and many suitors have appeared around her, but Xu Zhaoying did not agree to a single one. In this way, the gears of fate turned again, and the two reunited at the 1998 Asian Games in Thailand.
However, the identities of the two have changed, one is an objective and impartial international referee, and the other is a famous "gymnastic princess".
Four years of time not only did not wear away Huang Liping's love, but made this relationship stronger and stronger with the precipitation of time, and he has never been able to forget the wanton girl on the field.
Although he was always rejected, Huang Liping wanted to try it again, and he found Xu Zhaoying with a small gift prepared.
Huang Liping, who was in the arena, blushed shyly when facing Xu Zhaoying, and stumbled to show his intentions in self-taught Korean. Before coming, Huang Liping did a good job of psychological construction, and if he was rejected, he would continue to work hard, love is like a competition, even if there is a 1 in 10,000 chance, he must do his best.
However, what he didn't expect was that this time Xu Zhaoying actually accepted the gift, and even left Huang Liping his contact information.
Huang Liping saw that there was a drama in this matter, so in the next few days, as long as he had time, he stayed by Xu Zhaoying's side and asked for warmth, completely looking like a twenty-four filial boyfriend.
After returning home after the game, the two began a long-distance relationship. Although they are separated by thousands of miles and have language barriers, they are completely unable to extinguish the two hearts that want to be close to each other, and the two always have endless conversations.
Not long after, Xu Zhaoying made a bold decision, and also made Huang Liping understand that this relationship was not hot by shaving his head, and Xu Zhaoying told him that he was going to study in China.
04.
However, Xu Zhaoying's decision was strongly opposed by the whole family. After all, the impression of China at that time was still in the stage of dirt and poverty.
They did not understand why their daughter gave up everything in Korea and ran to China to ask for her own suffering, and a fierce quarrel broke out between the two hairs. But even so, Xu Zhaoying did not compromise, and simply completed the procedures for studying at Sun Yat-sen University.
The two-year graduate school career not only made their relationship grow by leaps and bounds, but also gave Xu Zhaoying a deeper understanding of China.
China's free and inclusive atmosphere, and her boyfriend's gentle and considerate and meticulous care made Xu Zhaoying understand that she had taken root in this land and that China was her second hometown.
In 2002, when the two had known each other for 8 years and dated for 4 years, Huang Liping proposed to Xu Zhaoying, hoping to stay with his lover for the rest of his life. Xu Zhaoying was moved to tears and agreed to his marriage proposal. After this news was exposed, it caused a lot of public opinion storm.
The parents' incomprehension and the abuse from the outside world were all isolated, and the two were dedicated to living their little lives. In May 2002, accompanied by the best man group of the gymnastics boy group, Huang Liping came to Seoul to marry the girl who gave him a glance for 10,000 years.
With the beautiful melody and white wedding dress, Huang Liping took the hand of his beloved woman, exchanged vows, exchanged rings, and their love was witnessed most beautifully at this moment.
After marriage, Huang Liping took care of the family's affairs, encouraged his wife to do what she wanted, and often took his wife to visit his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and over time, his father-in-law and mother-in-law also accepted this kind and honest Chinese son-in-law.
Today, the two have been together for 21 spring and autumn years, but their relationship has always been the same. Heo Chao Ying's story is a story of perseverance, courage and love. Despite family opposition and social pressure, she insisted on marrying Huang Liping and achieved brilliant career achievements.
Their union is not only a beautiful love story, but also an inspiring struggle. Her story teaches us that everyone has the right to choose their own lifestyle and partner, and should firmly pursue their dreams and happiness no matter how difficult and hindered they face.
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