Jiao Liuyang, a former Olympic champion in swimming, recently returned to CCTV Sports Channel and once again became the focus of heated discussions. What kind of image is the former queen of the pool sweeping the public eye today? What are the little-known stories of her career and life after retirement? In 1991, Jiao Liuyang was born in a sports family and is a native of Heilongjiang. Her instinctive body coordination led her to dance at first, but her father's vision eventually turned to swimming.
The swimming class of Heilongjiang Traffic School, Harbin Sports School, and then to the troops of Guangzhou Military Region, the transformation along the way has witnessed Jiao Liuyang's gorgeous transformation from a dancer to a swimmer. In 2005, the silver medalist of the 10th Games joined the national team, and the trajectory of his life has been rewritten ever since. In the 2006 Asian Championships and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Jiao Liuyang rose rapidly like a shining star.
Having stood on the podium countless times in her career, she lived up to her name as the queen of butterfly. At the peak of his career, at the 2012 London Olympics, Jiao Liuyang won the gold medal in the 200-meter butterfly, breaking the Olympic record, and reached the top of the world at the age of 21. However, after the peak, she encountered a physical test. Jiao Liuyang, who has given too much for the Olympics and has been riddled with injuries, chose to retire before the 2016 Rio Olympics, when she was 24 years old.
After retiring, Jiao Liuyang's life opened a new chapter. She has a warm family life, marries a Chinese-Canadian interior designer, and the two have two children, full of happiness. Not only that, she also served as an associate professor at Sun Yat-sen University, and continued to form an indissoluble bond with swimming, and the commentary work of CCTV Sports Channel has also become her new stage.
In the field of business, Jiao Liuyang has shown extraordinary talent, she has created children's swimming training institutions all over the country, and has become a successful female entrepreneur, with a wealth of more than 100 million. 32-year-old Jiao Liu Yang is no longer a fighter in the pool, but a double harvest of family and career, and under his beautiful appearance, he is a portrayal of a winner in life. Behind this seemingly perfect life, what enlightenment does Jiao Liuyang's story bring us?
How to find your place at different stages of life, and how to continue to write after the top, these questions can't help but make people think deeply. Does Jiao Liuyang's story also inspire everyone to re-examine their own life trajectory? Welcome to share your thoughts in the comment area.