In the 2012 London Olympics, Zhou Yafei, known as the "Asian Butterfly Queen", commented on the swimming event as a special guest commentator on CCTV, and her wonderful, professional and interesting commentary has been impressive so far, especially after Ye Shiwen won two gold medals in a row and was questioned by the Western media about the use of doping, Zhou Yafei's scene of coming out for Ye Shiwen is even more amazing.
"A well-cultivated country and individual should have the mentality of daring to win and the temperament of daring to lose. Western players can win the championship because they have excellent results, while we win the gold medal is cheating, which is not the work of a big country. ”
Zhou Yafei, Mo Ke
Zhou Yafei is a military athlete, with tenacious willpower, dare to fight in the case of congenital anemia, faint in the arena at the expense of 97 medals, is a model of Chinese athletes, after retiring, Zhou Yafei married the former men's basketball player Mo Ke, the two gave birth to a son and a daughter, and also took care of Mo Ke's early death of the ex-wife's parents together, becoming a great story in the sports world.
Hello everyone, I'm Kong Yiji, who doesn't like to steal books, and today let's walk into Zhou Yafei's story.
01 From a doll in a honey pot to a model of hardship
Zhou Yafei was born in 1984, a native of Qingdao, Shandong, who has been weak since she was a child and does not like to communicate with the outside world, so her parents began to let her learn to Xi swim since she was four and a half years old, in order to exercise her body and cultivate communication skills.
But what Zhou Yafei's parents didn't expect was that Zhou Yafei was very talented in swimming, and when she was 6 years old, she had already made small achievements, and won three gold medals in the East China Doll Cup swimming competition in Shanghai, which was a blockbuster, and was called a "little yellow hat" from Qingdao by "Xinmin Evening News".
Since then, there has been an endless stream of swimming teams that came to find Zhou Yafei's parents, among the many teams, Zhou Yafei's parents helped her choose the most demanding Qingdao Military Sports School, hoping to let the child endure some hardships and grow up, because Zhou Yafei has been a child who grew up in a honey pot since she was a child, has never suffered hardships, and has almost no ability to live independently, even Zhou Yafei herself recalled and said: "How old are you, I don't know how to eat by myself, I have to be fed by my mother." ”
After entering the Qingdao Military Sports Academy, Zhou Yafei gradually wore off the squeamishness of her body in the militarized management, began to train hard, took care of her own life, and was selected into the Shandong Provincial Team after just two years, taking swimming as a lifelong career.
Zhou Yafei's swimming road is not smooth, after entering the professional team, she specializes in backstroke, although she is a model worker in the team, but has not been able to make a breakthrough, always hovering in 2-3, during which she also suffered from the erosion of injuries, she already suffered from congenital anemia, she would faint if she exerted too much force, and fell into a serious lumbar disc herniation when practicing Xi her special ability in 1996......
During that time, Zhou Yafei was almost desperate and wanted to retire and go back to study, but fortunately she met Coach Yao Ying.
Yao Ying is the wife of weightlifting celebrity Ma Wenguang, who has been the coach of the swimming national team since 1993, she thinks that Zhou Yafei has a good talent, and it is a pity to retire, so she took great pains to help her get back into shape, Yao Ying considered that Zhou Yafei had a back injury, and it was unrealistic to continue to practice backstroke, so she helped her turn to butterfly stroke, which requires lower waist strength.
Yao Ying, Zhou Yafei
After changing to butterfly swimming, Zhou Yafei has been training selflessly, but she has been unable to break the bottleneck, gradually lost confidence in herself, and dropped the chain every time she came to the competition.
Two months before the 2001 National Games, Zhou Yafei suffered from acute appendicitis, and she had been infused for two months, and it was not completely inflammatory until two days before the competition, but the inflammation in her body was eliminated, and the "inflammation" in her heart has been shrouded in Zhou Yafei's heart, and finally she only finished 16th in the 400-meter preliminaries.
The next day, Zhou Yafei found Yao Ying with her head drooping and said: The inflammation has not been eliminated, and the 100-meter butterfly may not be able to swim well, so I can only try it
Yao Ying was angry when she heard this, because the doctor had already told her that Zhou Yafei's inflammation had long been eliminated, and the bad grades were completely because the demons in her heart had not come out, Yao Ying didn't want to demolish her, but when she heard Zhou Yafei's quibble, she couldn't help it, she shouted: "If it doesn't work, then don't try, just give up! Don't make excuses for yourself because you're afraid of losing." I can forgive you if you lose, but can a stopwatch forgive you?"
After Zhou Yafei was exposed, he secretly hid back in the dormitory and cried for noon, without eating, Yao Ying was very distressed when she heard about it, so she pushed open the door of the dormitory and said to Zhou Yafei: "If you don't be strong, you will never succeed!" Your opponents want you to lose, you have no confidence, and no one else can help you. ”
The coach's words woke up Zhou Yafei, she understood that difficulties will always only bully the weak, the more afraid you are, the more it will bully you, with the help of Yao Ying, Zhou Yafei overcame her demons, became more and more confident in herself, and opened the "second pulse of Ren Du".
02 "Asian Butterfly Queen"
After the Ninth National Games in 2001, Zhou Yafei finally knocked on the door of the national team and met with her mentor Yao Ying in the national team.
In 2002, Yao Ying, who had just entered the national team, made a splash at the Busan Asian Games, winning the gold medal in the women's 100m butterfly and the gold medal in the 4*100 medley relay without being favored, and also won one silver and one bronze in the individual medley.
In the 2003 Barcelona Swimming World Championships, Zhou Yafei swam 14 games in 8 days, and the bronze medal in the 200-meter medley, the bronze medal in the 4*100-meter freestyle, and the 50-meter butterfly did not win a medal but set a new national record......
In the last item 4* Before the 100 medley relay, Zhou Yafei, who suffered from congenital anemia, had been physically exhausted, but as the best butterfly swimmer in China, Zhou Yafei did not flinch, tried her best when swimming the third stick, stabilized the lead, and successfully handed the last stick to Yang Yu's hands, when watching Yang Yu take the lead in reaching the finish line, when the Chinese team won the second gold medal of the World Championships, Zhou Yafei fell down violently, fainted directly under the field, and after the emergency treatment of the team doctor, he and his teammates reached the podium.
Since the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Zhou Yafei has suffered frequent injuries, from the beginning of the cold to the collarbone injury, shoulder injury, back injury, leg injury, when the injury was the most serious, her neck could not turn, she could not breathe under the water, and she grinned in pain every time, but she never complained about suffering, nor did she cry tired, nor even complained to her parents, but she silently went to massage, acupuncture, cupping, and then continued to train and compete.
Zhou Yafei's quality of not being afraid of injuries and facing difficulties made Yao Ying appreciate it very much, and she said to her teammates: You don't have to learn this and that every day, Sister Yafei is your role model. Whoever can endure hardships like she does will be able to practice.
In the 2005 World Swimming Championships, Zhou Yafei had symptoms of dyspnea before the expedition and was sent to the hospital for rescue, but Zhou Yafei did not choose to take a break and participated in a number of competitions, although she performed poorly in the butterfly, but in the 4*200m freestyle, Zhou Yafei refreshed her personal best despite injury, helping the Chinese team to keep a bronze medal with difficulty, and the coaches praised her: "Yafei has a tenacious will, hard work, and can withstand pressure, if it weren't for her, this bronze medal may not be kept." ”
After the World Championships, Zhou Yafei took a break for nearly a year due to injury, and after his comeback, he participated in the Doha Asian Games, winning the gold medals in the 50-meter butterfly and 100-meter butterfly in a row, and the results of both events broke the Asian record.
With the spirit of being able to endure hardships and dare to fight, Zhou Yafei has since refreshed the Asian records in the 50-meter butterfly and 100-meter butterfly held by himself many times, the most impressive of which is the 2009 World Swimming Championships, Zhou Yafei appeared three times in the 50-meter butterfly, broke the Asian record three times, and won a silver medal.
After the 2009 Shandong National Games, Zhou Yafei chose to retire because of long-term injuries and physical conditions that could not continue to support the competition, and in her more than 20 years of swimming career, she won a total of 97 medals for the country, and more than ten times refreshed the Asian record of 50 meters and 100 meters butterfly.
03 The "ceiling" of the commentary world
Xi In 2010, because the former swimming Olympic champion Qian Hong took a leave of absence, Zhou Yafei was invited by CCTV to "top class", and since then she has embarked on the road of swimming commentary.
For this hard-won opportunity, Zhou Yafei cherished it very much, and began to prepare half a year before her first appearance, pondering other excellent commentary videos every day, and at the same time collecting information from everywhere, Chinese team members, foreign team members, butterfly swimming events, non-butterfly swimming events, no details, no omission.
Because of the full preparation, Zhou Yafei shined in the commentary of the Guangzhou Asian Games, and was well received by the audience, she was easy to analyze the strength of the swimming teams of China, Japan and South Korea, she can share with the audience the story of the Japanese players training with mineral water bottles, and can also accurately analyze the personality characteristics and technical characteristics of each coach and player of the Chinese team...... This shows that Zhou Yafei has made a lot of preparations behind the scenes.
In addition to professionalism, Zhou Yafei's live broadcast room is humorous and evocative, in a live broadcast, Zhou Yafei's golden partner Han Qiaosheng asked Zhou Yafei: "The Chinese team is now a ghost, and the back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, so, where are the front waves?"
Zhou Yafei replied casually: "I was photographed on the comment seat!"
In the 2011 World Swimming Championships, the Chinese team ranked fourth in the 4*100m medley relay and missed the medal. When others were regretting, Zhou Yafei encouraged the members of the swimming team.
2012 London Olympic Games, this is Zhou Yafei's third guest commentator trip, her commentary has added a lot of passion to the Olympic swimming competition, when Ye Shiwen was questioned about the use of doping, she replied domineeringly, with sharp words, without losing the demeanor of a great country; When Jiao Liu Yang reached the finish line first and won the 200-meter butterfly championship, Zhou Yafei, who was ill, shouted Jiao Liuyang's name six times in a row, and was so excited that she burst into tears in the live broadcast room.
Zhou Yafei's commentary has been highly recognized by all coaches and swimmers, they call Zhou Yafei the best swimming competition commentator ever, her beauty, humor, humor, passion and fast reaction ability, recognized by the audience, many netizens called her "the most beautiful female commentator".
After the London Olympics, Zhou Yafei commented on the 2013 Military Games, the 2014 Asian Games, and the 2015 Kazan World Championships.
These scenes are impressive, and sometimes when you look back, you can't help but cry, which is really exciting!
But it's a pity that Zhou Yafei suddenly retreated into the background soon after, and almost didn't explain the swimming competition, which is really regrettable, since the CCTV commentary was replaced, the swimming competition has lost a lot of passion, and even many viewers have forgotten the names of the athletes, and now these "professional" commentaries seem to be far less than Zhou Yafei's "top class" players.
04 Happiness was found
There are many reasons why Zhou Yafei quit the commentary field, one of which is because she found her happiness and chose to spend more time with her family.
On May 12, 2012, Zhou Yafei was invited to participate in the wedding of Zhang Qingpeng, a member of the Chinese men's basketball team, she specially wore a pair of earrings in the shape of "Xi", which was meant to congratulate her friends, but what she didn't expect was that her boyfriend Mo Ke (former men's basketball player, Bayi men's basketball player) proposed to her in public, at that moment the emotional Zhou Yafei cried with joy, she said: "It was very unexpected to be proposed, I know that this is not easy for Moko, who is not good at words, I am really touched, thank you Moko for giving me a moment that I will never forget." ”
The relationship between Zhou Yafei and Moko can be traced back to 2007 at the earliest, when Yao Ying, who was in love with Zhou Yafei's mother and daughter, was a good-looking man, and the young Moko was the most handsome player in the men's basketball team, so Yao Ying held the red line for Moko and Zhou Yafei, but at that time, Moko was already in love with Wang Fan, a member of the Bayi women's basketball team, and the red line was not involved, but Zhou Yafei still became friends with Moko.
On September 9, 2009, Mo Ke and Wang Fan officially registered their marriage, Zhou Yafei and Yao Ying both sent their blessings, but what people did not expect was that on February 15, 2010, Wang Fan suddenly fainted during the warm-up before the game, and was confirmed as "pulmonary infarction" after being sent to the hospital.
Mo holds Ke Wangfan's posthumous photo
Although Mo Ke is not good at words, but very emotional, after the death of his wife, he was very sad, on the night of the funeral for his wife with tears, his hair turned white by one-third, and then fell into depression, and even once had the idea of suicide, and Zhou Yafei has been comforting and encouraging Mo Ke, helping him get out of the predicament and find hope in life.
In the process of this accompaniment, Zhou Yafei and Mo Ke gradually developed feelings, but Mo Ke has never been able to break his demons and be with Zhou Yafei, because he feels that he is sorry for Zhou Yafei and Wang Fan, at a critical moment, it was Wang Fan's parents who came out to encourage him and Zhou Yafei to start a new relationship, which made Mo Ke break his demons and make up his mind to be with Zhou Yafei.
On October 7, 2012, Zhou Yafei and Mo Ke held a wedding in Changchun, taking the "Mo" in Moko's name and the "Fei" in Zhou Yafei's name, the two set the theme of the wedding as "Fei You Belong", at the wedding, Mo Ke and Zhou Yafei invited Wang Fan's parents to the scene, let them sit in the high hall with Mo Ke's parents, and the two said that they would treat them like their biological parents and give them sons and daughters-in-law.
When the two got married, Mo Ke had not yet retired, and Zhou Yafei's commentary career was also in full swing, so the two had been getting together less and leaving more, but Zhou Yafei didn't care, she said: I feel more sorry for him, because he is the most tired. They're all athletes, I understand him, and I won't ask him to stay with me 24 hours a day, that's not realistic. When choosing him, I took everything into account.
As we all know, Mo Ke has been pampered by his parents and sister since he was a child, and his personality is a little perverse and strong, so he is called "Young Master Mo", but after being with Zhou Yafei, he has changed a lot, and he is respectful and considerate to Zhou Yafei, and many of Mo Ke's teammates said: Young Master Mo has become like this, it is really unbelievable.
In fact, Zhou Yafei used to be a child who grew up in a honey pot, and was also called "Miss Zhou" when she was a child, but since she became an athlete, she has become gentle and tolerant, and she can understand each other with Moko, in her opinion: husband and wife have grown up in different environments, it is impossible to have no contradictions, don't lose your temper when you encounter problems, communicate slowly and solve them, in order to last a long time.
After getting married, Zhou Yafei and Mo Ke fulfilled their promise to Wang Fan's parents, and would go to Tangshan, Hebei Province to visit Wang Fan's parents every once in a while, take the old man to go shopping, buy things, cook and eat, and leave a sum of money for the old man as living expenses every time.
In 2014, the crystallization of love between Zhou Yafei and Mo Ke was born, it was a daughter, Mo Ke and Zhou Yafei took their daughter and said to Wang Fan's parents: Parents, this will be your second granddaughter from now on.
After giving birth to her daughter, Zhou Yafei decided to return to the family, so after the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, we rarely saw Zhou Yafei, which made many viewers uneasy.
In 2017, Zhou Yafei and Mo Ke gave birth to another son, both children and daughters, the family was written as a "good" word, and the family lived a happy life.
After retiring, Moko first served as the head coach of the Bayi men's basketball youth team, and then became the head coach of the Sichuan men's basketball team in 2022, but his first coaching career was not perfect, with a 12-30 record last season, missing the playoffs, and after the start of this season, he used the all-Chinese class to participate in the game, and did not seek a win in the first ten games, and ended his first head coaching career on November 7, 2023.
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