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Liu Xiang, born on September 1, 1996 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is 28 years old this year.
Liu Xiang was born into a family of sportsmen, and her father and mother were both professional basketball players when they were young.
Although Liu Xiang was born in Guangzhou, her father and mother are not from Guangdong, her father is from Yunnan, and her mother is from Qingdao, Shandong, and the reason why she is in Guangzhou is because her father was assigned to work in Guangzhou after retiring from the army, so the family settled in Guangzhou.
After Liu Xiang was born, their parents never thought about letting their daughter become a professional swimmer in the future, after all, only athletes can experience how much effort an athlete needs to put in to reach the top.
Liu Xiang's parents just started planning for their daughter, hoping that she could become a lady who was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so when Liu Xiang was a child, her parents enrolled her in calligraphy, piano and other interest classes.
When Liu Xiang was 5 years old, her mother also enrolled her in a swimming interest class, of course, the reason why Liu Xiang's mother let her daughter learn to swim was purely to improve her daughter's physical fitness.
What Liu Xiang's mother didn't expect was that Liu Xiang's talent in swimming was very high, and he learned four swimming styles (crawling, butterfly, breaststroke, and backstroke) after only practicing swimming for three months.
The most important thing is that Liu Xiang didn't pay attention at all when she was learning to swim, only she was practicing when the coach was there, but even so, Liu Xiang was still the most outstanding team member among the team members who studied together.
This discovery made Liu Xiang's parents understand that their daughter may have a high talent in swimming, and as professional athletes, they understand how important talent is to an athlete.
As a result, Liu Xiang's parents' idea of not wanting their daughter to become a professional athlete began to become unfirm, after all, this is related to their daughter's future future, and a casual decision of theirs may affect the child's life.
In the end, Liu Xiang's parents still didn't make up their minds, this problem was too difficult, so Liu Xiang's parents let their daughter continue to study cultural classes while swimming.
At that time, both Liu Xiang's parents and coaches felt that Liu Xiang had a high talent in swimming, but Liu Xiang herself did not feel this way, on the contrary, she still hated swimming a little.
The main reason is that children at this age have a lot of fun, especially when other children go to play after school, and Liu Xiang also got the gymnasium to learn to swim, which makes her hate swimming from the bottom of her heart.
For this reason, after practicing swimming for a while, Liu Xiang proposed to his parents that he didn't want to practice swimming anymore.
After all, Liu Xiang's parents just started to let their daughter practice swimming to strengthen her body, and now Liu Xiang feels that this goal has been achieved.
At the same time, Liu Xiang also made it clear to her mother that she felt that swimming took up her own time to play, and other children had time to play after studying, but she had no time to play at all.
When Liu Xiang said this, the parents also felt that their daughter was too tired, and reflected on whether they had put too much pressure on their daughter, so they agreed to Liu Xiang's request that he didn't want to practice swimming.
At that time, Liu Xiang's parents thought that they didn't expect their daughter to be rich and wealthy in the future, they just hoped that she could live a healthy and happy life.
However, Liu Xiang's enlightenment coach disagreed with Liu Xiang's parents' idea, he believed that Liu Xiang's talent in swimming was very high, and as long as he kept practicing, he would definitely be able to achieve very dazzling results in the future.
Not only that, in order to let Liu Xiang continue to practice swimming, the enlightenment coach first came to Liu Xiang's parents many times to explain how talented Liu Xiang was in swimming.
After that, he tried to cultivate Liu Xiang's interest in swimming, after all, a top athlete must have both talent and interest, and both are indispensable.
In this way, the enlightenment coach began to report Liu Xiang for many competitions, and through these competitions, Liu Xiang's strength improved rapidly, and later he was able to stand on the podium almost every time he participated in the competition.
When Liu Xiang was in the second grade, she represented the school in the Tianhe District Games in Guangzhou, and at the age of 7, she won two gold medals in the 50-meter backstroke and 50-meter freestyle.
With the steady improvement of his grades, especially after winning the championship, Liu Xiang became more and more confident and had a sense of achievement, and all this was brought by swimming, and Liu Xiang gradually fell in love with swimming because of this, and no longer proposed to his parents to give up swimming.
After Liu Xiang became interested in swimming, he became more assiduous in training, Liu Xiang's enlightenment coach is called He Guohong, and He Guohong has always been in charge of Liu Xiang's training.
When training, Liu Xiang has always held a board with one hand and paddled with one hand, or a splint with both feet and paddled with both hands, and trained in full accordance with the coach's requirements.
When Liu Xiang was training, He Guohong stood aside and pinched the stopwatch, asking Liu Xiang to train back and forth in the pool in an orderly manner, and he couldn't stop halfway, because he had to train strength and speed.
Liu Xiang goes to the sports school every day after school to train, and each training session lasts about an hour and a half, whether it is winter or summer.
As Liu Xiang's interest in swimming grew, she won almost all the championships in the backstroke, freestyle, butterfly and other events in the Tianhe District swimming competition she participated in.
In addition to having a high talent in swimming, Liu Xiang also perfectly inherited his parents' height genes, and has always been about a head taller than girls of the same age.
When her swimming performance was steadily improving, Liu Xiang's cultural class grades have not fallen, whether it is listening to lectures in class or completing her homework after class, Liu Xiang has done a good job, and she doesn't need the teacher to worry about her at all.
In fact, since elementary school, Liu Xiang has always been the highest in the class, and the teacher always asked her to be her little assistant, so Liu Xiang always demanded herself with high standards.
Liu Xiang's mother also attaches great importance to her daughter's grades, and often talks to the teacher about Liu Xiang's performance in school, and timely stifles some of Liu Xiang's bad signs in the cradle.
After graduating from primary school, when he was promoted to junior high school, Liu Xiang entered Tianhe Middle School in Tianhe District, Guangzhou City as a sports student.
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There was also a small episode in Liu Xiang's life in elementary school, that is, when she was about 10 years old, she was taken by her mother to her mother's hometown of Qingdao to live for about a year.
Here Liu Xiang still insisted on swimming training, and the place where she trained was at the Qingdao Military Sports School, and her coach was called Ji Qing.
In Coach Ji Qing's view, Liu Xiang's sense of water is very good, and his explosiveness is also strong, which can be called an infinite talent, but what makes Coach Ji Qing a pity is that Liu Xiang only trained in Qingdao for one year before returning to Guangzhou.
In 2010, 14-year-old Liu Xiang was selected for the Guangdong Provincial Swimming Team because he won the championship in the Guangdong Provincial Trials, and the head coach was He Xinzhong.
Two years after joining the Guangdong Provincial Swimming Team, 16-year-old Liu Xiang won the women's 50m backstroke final at the 2012 National Swimming Championships and National Games Trials.
In 2013, Liu Xiang won the championship in the women's 50-meter freestyle final of the National Youth Swimming Championships, and by this time, Liu Xiang's name had also begun to be known to some domestic sports fans who like to follow swimming.
He has achieved good results at a young age, especially after seeing his peer Ye Shiwen win two gold medals at the London Olympics, the arrogant Liu Xiang also wants to show his ambitions at the 2013 National Games.
But who knew that in the National Games, Liu Xiang only finished fourth in the end and didn't even get on the podium, which made her a little unacceptable for a while.
After the defeat in the National Games, coaches, relatives and teammates comforted Liu Xiang and comforted her that she was young and had opportunities.
But Liu Xiang didn't think so, she felt that she had worked very hard, why did she only win the fourth place, she was a little skeptical about herself, and felt that she was on the wrong path.
After the end of the National Games, Liu Xiang, who still couldn't figure it out, angrily proposed the idea of retirement to coach He Xinzhong, and the experienced He Xinzhong naturally saw at a glance that Liu Xiang was gambling, and he was actually very reluctant to this pool.
But he also understands that an excellent athlete must go through the process of failure in order to grow better.
Liu Xiang usually gives people the impression of being gentle and generous, and looks soft and weak, but He Xinzhong understands that Liu Xiang is very competitive and will not admit defeat easily, so she doesn't think Liu Xiang will give up swimming easily.
During that time, Liu Xiang locked himself in his room alone, neither training nor going out to play, except for meal time, which frightened his parents.
Liu Xiang's parents were very worried about their daughter's mental state, and persuaded her more than once that she would give up swimming, and they would support Liu Xiang's decision.
This life lasted for three months, and Liu Xiang figured it out that she returned to the swimming team again to continue the tour.
The first competition Liu Xiang participated in after returning to the swimming team was the National Swimming Championships and Incheon Asian Games Trials held in Qingdao, and this time Liu Xiang won a fourth place.
However, this time Liu Xiang did not propose to the coach to retire, but trained harder, even if the coach did not stare at it, Liu Xiang was not lazy, and he was the hardest training player in He Xinzhong's coaching staff at that time.
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In 2014, at the National Swimming Championships, Liu Xiang, who was only 18 years old, finally won the women's backstroke 50-meter championship again, and the following year, at the age of 19, she was awarded the title of "International Athlete" by the General Administration of Sports of China.
Also this year, Liu Xiang won the women's 50 freestyle championship with a time of 25.00 seconds at the National Swimming Championships and World Swimming Championships Trials, and most importantly, he qualified for the World Championships.
At the World Championships in Kazan this year, Liu Xiang won the bronze medal in the women's 50-meter backstroke with a time of 27.58 seconds.
At this year's World Swimming Championships, many members of the Chinese swimming team have successfully come out of the circle, such as Ning Zetao, Fu Yuanhui, and of course, Liu Xiang, who is called "the goddess of swimming" and "the first beauty in swimming" by netizens because of her outstanding appearance.
It can be said that through the Kazan World Championships, many girls fell in love with Ning Zetao, while many boys fell in love with Liu Xiang.
However, Liu Xiang, who was only 19 years old at that time, didn't care much about these false names, after all, her career was still on the rise at that time, and she was more concerned about how she could achieve better results in the competition.
After the World Championships, Liu Xiang first won the second place in the 50-meter backstroke at the National Championships with a time of 28.12 seconds, and then won the second place in the 50-meter freestyle at the National Championships with a time of 25.30 seconds.
This year, for Liu Xiang, in addition to becoming popular because of his appearance, the most important thing is to prepare for the Olympic Games.
Because there is no 50-meter backstroke in the Olympics, Liu Xiang changed his main event from backstroke to freestyle in order to be able to participate in the Olympic Games.
In 2016, when Liu Xiang successfully won the ticket to the Rio Olympics, she was diagnosed with scoliosis, and the doctor told Liu Xiang that she should stop training immediately, but Liu Xiang chose to continue to fight for her dream.
But who knows, Liu Xiang did not even enter the semifinals of the 50-meter freestyle at the Rio Olympics, and this time Liu Xiang was not disappointed, because she knew her level.
After the Olympics, Liu Xiang trained hard, and finally in the 2017 National Games, Liu Xiang ranked first in the 50-meter freestyle preliminaries with a time of 24.32 seconds, and also broke the national record that had been in the dust for 23 years.
In the semi-finals, Liu Xiang swam a time of 24.04 seconds, once again setting a new record, if this result is placed in the Rio Olympics, he can win the championship, and finally in the final, Liu Xiang successfully won the championship with a time of 24.07 seconds.
In 2018, Liu Xiang first won the 50-meter freestyle championship at the National Swimming Championships, and then won the 50-meter backstroke championship at the Jakarta Asian Games with a world record-breaking time.
At the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, Liu Xiang did not receive any grains, which inevitably made people a little puzzled.
However, after the game, Liu Xiang had an affair with Wang Shun, the handsome guy of the swimming team, and the two denied it, but because the two were handsome and beautiful, it also caused heated discussions at the time.
Liu Xiang failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics because she fell behind Zhang Yufei and Wu Qingfeng in the previous National Swimming Championships and Tokyo Olympic Trials.
But at the Shaanxi National Games after the Olympics, Liu Xiang defeated the new Olympic champion Zhang Yufei in the 50-meter freestyle by a narrow margin and successfully won the championship.
After the National Games, Liu Xiang basically faded out of the national team, after all, the national team has a large number of newcomers, Liu Xiang at that time was not only a veteran, but also a serious decline in state, of course, the most important thing is that Liu Xiang suffers from scoliosis and should not exercise too often.
After retiring, Liu Xiang began to enter the field of short videos, and gained a large number of fans because of this.
In fact, with Liu Xiang's appearance, even if he is not engaged in swimming, he should be able to achieve good results in any industry.
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