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Editor/Blossom Wealth
"My eyes are rulers!"
When Wu Dajing won the championship in 2022, Wang Meng said this sentence excitedly, and Huang Jianxiang, a famous commentator around Wang Meng, was worried about being robbed of his job, which made Wang Meng out of the circle again.
Everyone knows that Wang Meng can be said to be at the top of the pyramid in the sport of short track speed skating.
During the game, he made a trademark backhand, and easily overtook his opponent and won the first place.
is such a short track speed skating genius who was expelled from the national team three times and recalled three times.
What happened to this? And what about Wang Meng, who is now retired?
"Genius Thorn"
Wang Meng has broken the world record three times, won nearly 20 championships and 11 runners-up in the World Championships in ten years, and won as many as 77 medals in foreign events. ”
If you want to say that there is such arrogance on the sports field, is it true that no one is jealous? Of course there is! But they can't help it, Wang Meng is too strong.
And China's most controversial opponent in short track speed skating is South Korea, South Korea's behavior in the competition must not be said much, but where Wang Meng is there, South Korea's "means" are difficult to use, because they can't touch Wang Meng at all, she is too fast.
In the face of absolute strength, everything is not good!
However, the talented player Wang Meng already has an unruly character, which made her expelled from the national team three times.
The first time was because he won the game, Wang Meng invited his teammates out to eat and drink, violated the rules, and was expelled from the national team and transferred from the national team.
Later, due to Wang Meng's excellence, she was mentioned to the national team.
The second time was because at the 2007 Changchun Winter Asian Games, Wang Meng did not high-five the coach to celebrate after winning the championship, but walked away with a cold face, and disdained to face the camera and said that he was not suitable for the training method of the national team, and he wanted to take the initiative to quit the national team and return to the local team to train.
At this time, Wang Meng's coach was Coach Li Yan, who had just returned from overseas, and he was also a powerful athlete, but Wang Meng was dissatisfied with Li Yan's arrival and transferred his former coach, coupled with Li Yan's usual training methods, Wang Meng was dissatisfied, and later there was a speech after the game.
Wang Meng's behavior angered coach Li Yan, and he fired Wang Meng in a fit of anger.
Later, both of them calmed down, and after thinking about it, the two opened their hearts, and finally Wang Meng returned to the national team.
After his return, Wang Meng won 7 gold medals in the 11th Winter Games in China in 2008, and was the athlete who won the most gold medals in the previous Winter Games.
At the end of the same year, Wang Meng's achievements reached the peak, and the "Meng era" belonging to Wang Meng arrived. At the same time, the contradiction between Wang Meng and coach Li Yan has disappeared.
After that, Wang Meng received countless honors.
Until 2011, Wang Meng was caught in the infighting of the Chinese short track speed skating team, and later uploaded to the online video in which Wang Meng and team leader Wang Chunlu got into a fight, and both were injured in the fight.
Due to the bad impact of the incident, the General Administration of Sports of the People's Republic of China decided to revoke Wang Meng from all positions in the national team and revoke her qualifications as a member of the national team.
Since then, Wang Meng has been banned for 13 months.
And how did Wang Meng, who is so arrogant, love short track speed skating step by step?
love
In fact, it can be seen from Wang Meng's personality that he has been stubborn since he was a child, and he attaches great importance to righteousness.
Lively and mischievous, jumping up and down, it is this kind of character that makes Wang Meng stand out when he selects skating seedlings, Coach Ma Qingzhong sees Wang Meng as a good material for skating, so he plans to take her under his command.
In 1995, at the age of 10, Wang Meng began to come into contact with skating, which she was about to love for a lifetime. Wang Meng's feet are smaller than other children, so it is difficult to find suitable ice blades for her on the market, and the coach finally found a pair of ice blades suitable for Wang Meng.
After three years of hard training, Wang Meng has become the leader among the players of the same age.
In 2000, 16-year-old Wang Meng won the third place in the selection and successfully entered the national team.
Two years later, Wang Meng won the women's 500m championship in her first World Youth Championships.
In the World Cup two years later, he won the championship of 4 cities.
After Wang Meng later experienced two recalls, he reined in some of his sharpness and greeted the game wholeheartedly.
At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, Wang Meng completed two consecutive 500m championships and broke three world records in one day.
In fact, a large part of Wang Meng's success comes from coach Li Yan, Li Yan's careful guidance for each team member has made the Chinese team's results to a higher level, so that the girls in short track speed skating can stand on the podium of the championship, and the straightforward Wang Meng is directly kneeling down after winning the championship to thank him.
From 2006 to 2010, Wang Meng won four individual gold medals in short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics, which broke the Guinness World Record at the time.
But the good times didn't last long, Wang Meng was banned for 411 days for fighting with the team leader, and Wang Meng said: "No matter how it has a negative impact on society, I think I want to apologize to the people of the whole country, so many ice and snow lovers who like me and support me, I feel that what I did was wrong." ”
In September 2012, Wang Meng made a comeback, and Wang Meng's strength has not weakened, and he still won the championship one after another.
In the 2013-2014 short track speed skating World Cup, Wang Meng created another miracle after his comeback.
On January 16, 2014, Wang Meng accidentally collided with a teammate during a training session, resulting in an injury to his right foot, thus missing the Winter Olympics that year.
Because of the injury, Wang Meng gradually went in the direction of the coach. Wang Meng said in a later interview that he did not participate in the Winter Olympics for 14 years, and there were more or less regrets.
Later, short track speed skating also won many championships under the guidance of Wang Meng.
Until May 2020, Wang Meng decided to leave the position of head of the coaching staff.
Subsequent
With the passage of time, Wang Meng's personality is not as reckless and impulsive as before, and he is slowly becoming more like a big sister and more sensible.
She is a legend on the field, and after leaving the arena, she chose to come to the screen, appearing in variety shows, receiving endorsements, singing, doing public welfare, etc.
Today, Wang Meng is still paying attention to short track speed skating, is the founder of a sports culture company that provides some help to retired athletes, and she hopes to use her strength to pass on the Olympic spirit.