In competitive sports, results are paramount.
Some athletes not only do not apply fandel in order to train and compete, but even gain weight, completely ignoring their image.
However, everyone has a love for beauty, and some athletes begin to pay attention to their image and clothing after retirement, so many athletes obviously feel different from their athlete period after retirement.
Some can even be described as "makeovers", today let's take stock of four athletes in the Chinese sports world who have become goddesses after retiring:
One: Li Na
Born in 1982, Li Na is 42 years old.
Li Na started practicing badminton, and it was not until she was 7 years old that she was noticed by a tennis coach and started practicing tennis.
After graduating from primary school, Li Na entered the Hubei provincial team, but at this time she was only a second-tier member of the Hubei provincial team.
It is worth mentioning that Li Na's husband Jiang Shan is also a Hubei tennis player, but when Li Nan first entered the Hubei provincial team, Jiang Shan, who was two years older than her, was already the top tennis player in China and had already won the singles and mixed doubles gold medals at the National Games.
Therefore, at the beginning, in Li Na's heart, Jiang Shan was her idol, and later as Li Na grew up, she began to mix doubles with Jiang Shan.
Later, Li Na found out that she liked Jiang Shan, she chose to take the initiative, and Jiang Shan happened to be interested in Li Na, and the two established a relationship in this way.
Falling in love with Jiang Shan did not affect Li Na's usual training, and in 1999, at the age of 17, she was selected for the national team.
In 2001, Li Na won three consecutive championships in women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles at the University Games, and confirmed her position as the first sister of the national team.
In 2002, Li Na won her 13th women's singles championship in the ITF competition, and the upward trend is still very strong, but who knows that this year, the 20-year-old Li Na announced her retirement without the permission of the national team and went to Huazhong University of Science and Technology with her boyfriend Jiang Shan.
Later, with the continuous encouragement of the relevant leaders of the national team and her boyfriend Jiang Shan, Li Na announced her comeback in 2004.
After Li Na's comeback, Jiang Shan also became a tennis coach, but Jiang Shan was only a second-tier coach at the time.
As the first sister of the national team, most of the requirements of the relevant leaders for Li Na are to be met as much as possible, so Li Na was not satisfied with the four coaches before and after, and it was not until the leader mentioned that Jiang Shan would be transferred to the national team, and Li Na's head coach was finally decided.
After Jiang Shan became Li Na's head coach, Li Na has steadily improved both in terms of state and performance, after all, Jiang Shan not only helped Li Na technically, but also gave Li Na comprehensive care in psychology and life.
Li Na's temper is very short-tempered, if it weren't for Jiang Shan's company, Li Na might want to return to China after playing one or two stops abroad.
In 2009, the Network Management Center of the General Administration of Sports decided to allow Li Na to leave the national team and fly alone, and Li Nan ushered in his peak moment.
In 2011, Li Na won the French Open, one of the four major tennis tournaments, which was the first singles title of a Grand Slam tournament in China and even in Asia.
In 2014, Li Na won the Australian Open, one of the four Grand Slam tournaments, making Li Na the first Asian singles champion in the 100-year history of the Australian Open and the oldest singles champion since the Open at the age of 32.
It was also in September of this year that Li Na announced her retirement.
When Li Na was an athlete, her skin looked a little dark because of long hours of training and open-air competitions.
But after retiring, Li Na's skin gradually turned white, and with makeup, Li Na now looks like she was an athlete.
Just like the reverse growth said on the Internet, Li Na now looks younger than she felt when she was an athlete.
Two: Du Li
Born in 1982, Du Li is 42 years old.
In 1994, Du Li, who had just entered the first year of junior high school, was selected by the shooting coach of the amateur sports school by chance and started shooting training.
At the beginning, the training was very hard, because there were few amateur sports school guns, so Du Li often held bricks to practice arm strength.
But even so, Du Li's talent in shooting soon showed, and in 1996 she was selected by the Zibo Sports School.
In 2002, the 20-year-old Du Li was selected for the national team, and won the women's 10m air pistol individual runner-up and team championship at the World Shooting Championships that year, and then won the women's rifle 3x20m individual and team championships at the Busan Asian Games.
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Du Li won the women's 10m air rifle championship.
After the Olympics, Du Li took her teammate Zhang Fu back to her hometown, and in the face of her relatives, although Du Li did not admit that Zhang Fu was her boyfriend, she only said that she was a teammate, but in fact, everyone knew the relationship between the two in their hearts, and understood that Du Li was brought back for everyone to see.
Zhang Fu is two years older than Du Li and won the National Games championship in 2001, so when Du Li first entered the national team, he always regarded Zhang Fu as his idol.
Worship easily turns into admiration, and then Du Li and Zhang Fu were together, but after the Athens Olympics, Du Li's results surpassed Zhang Fu in an all-round way, after all, the best result of Zhang Fu's career was only the 2005 World Cup champion.
The mismatch in the results brings about the mismatch in the status of the national team, so in this situation of "strong women and weak men", Du Li soon broke up with Zhang Fu.
In 2005, Pang Wei, who was 4 years younger than Du Li, entered the national team and studied under Wang Yifu, who won gold again in Athens.
Not long after breaking up with Zhang Fu, Du Li and Pang Wei got together again, but at that time, the entire Chinese sports world was preparing for the Beijing Olympics, because the relationship between Du Li and Pang Wei had been going on secretly.
In 2008, Pang Wei, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, won the men's 10m air pistol championship, but as the defending champion, Du Li played abnormally in the women's 10m air rifle final, her strength, and failed to stand on the podium.
The Beijing Olympics is the Olympics at home, and as an athlete, who doesn't want to win glory for the country at home, so Du Li, who failed to win the championship, was very stressed in those days.
It wasn't until three days later, when she won the gold medal in the 50m 3 x 20, that she finally smiled.
In 2009, Du Li and Pang Wei got married, and the two became the first Olympic champion couple in Chinese sports.
In 2010, she gave birth to a son, and she did not announce her comeback until six months before the London Olympics, but due to time constraints, she stopped at qualifying.
After the London Olympics, Du Li applied to the International Shooting Federation for temporary retirement, and it was not until 2015 that her son was more than 4 years old and Du Li returned to the national team.
Du Li finally won the second place in the women's 10m air rifle by 1 ring at the Rio Olympics, and Du Li announced her retirement after the Rio Olympics.
In 2017, Du Li entered the national shooting team as a coach, and Zhang Changhong, who won the men's 50m rifle three-position championship at the Tokyo Olympics, is a member of Du Li's team.
However, Du Li, who appeared in front of everyone again, is very different from before, Du Li was always full of acne when she was an athlete, and Du Li, who appeared in front of everyone again, not only had a smooth face, but also a sharp chin.
But at the same time, there are also voices about "Du Li's plastic surgery", which is not something that the editor can judge.
Three: Guo Yue
Guo Yue, who was born in 1988, is 36 years old.
Guo Yue's father was a table tennis fanatic, so Guo Yue practiced with his father since he was a child, and when he was 6 years old, his father sent Guo Yue to practice table tennis professionally.
When he was 9 years old, Guo Yue entered the Liaoning Provincial Sports School, and at the age of 10, he entered the Liaoning Provincial Team.
When he was 11 years old, Guo Yue won the women's singles championship in the national junior competition, and Cai Zhenhua, the head coach of the Chinese table tennis team at the time, watched the game where Guo Yue won the championship, so after the game, under the special approval of Cai Zhenhua, the 11-year-old Guo Yue was selected for the national team.
Guo Yue is the youngest national player in the history of Chinese table tennis, and even if more than 20 years have passed until now, no one has been able to break Guo Yue's record.
Guo Yue had just entered the national team, and at that time, Wang Nan had just established the identity of the first sister of the women's team, and Zhang Yining had not yet become the absolute main force.
The fledgling Guo Yue is not stage frightened whether he meets Zhang Yining or Wang Nan, anyway, no one is afraid, no one can beat, but he just doesn't admit defeat, and if he loses, he has to win back, and finally these main players are afraid when they see Guo Yue.
In 2004, Guo Yue first won the women's team championship at the World Championships with the team, becoming the youngest world champion in the history of the Chinese table tennis team, and then participated in the Athens Olympics and won the bronze medal in women's doubles with Niu Jianfeng.
In 2007, 19-year-old Guo Yue first partnered Wang Liqin to win the mixed doubles championship at the World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, and then defeated Zhang Yining and Li Xiaoxia in the women's singles competition to win the women's singles championship.
In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Guo Yue lost to her sister Wang Nan in the singles semifinals and finally won the third place in women's singles, but in the team competition, she won the women's team championship with Zhang Yining and Wang Nan.
In 2009, Zhang Yining announced his retirement after participating in the World Table Tennis Championships and the National Games.
However, Shi Zhihao, the women's table tennis coach at the time, did not like Guo Yue, and directly abandoned Guo Yue in competitions such as the women's team finals of the 2010 Moscow World Table Tennis Championships, and chose to let the young Liu Shiwen serve as a single, and finally lost the women's team championship of the World Championships.
In the 2012 London Olympics, for insurance purposes, although I didn't like Guo Yue, the coaching staff still let Guo Yue participate as the third person in the team, and finally the Chinese women's table tennis team won the Olympic women's team championship.
After the London Olympics, Guo Yue has really become a marginal figure in the women's team, after all, both Li Xiaoxia and Ding Ning have grown up and can stand alone.
So in 2014, 26-year-old Guo Yue announced his retirement.
After retiring, Guo Yue first returned to the Liaoning team as a coach, but then this road still didn't work, and finally she chose to leave table tennis completely.
After leaving table tennis, Guo Yue grew long hair, changing the image of the tomboy in everyone's impression in the past, and becoming more and more feminine.
It's just that Guo Yue is now 36 years old, but he is still unmarried, which is also the most concerned issue for Guo Yue's fans today.
Four: Chen Ruolin
Born in 1992, Chen Ruolin is 32 years old.
Chen Ruolin was relatively weak when she was a child, so when she was 4 years old, in order to make her physical fitness better, her family sent her to practice swimming.
While learning to swim, the coach found that Chen Ruolin had slender limbs and a gentle personality, so he suggested that she switch from swimming to diving.
After three years of practice, Chen Ruolin entered the Jiangsu Provincial Children's Sports School.
In 2003, 11-year-old Chen Ruolin won three gold medals in the national children's diving competition and became famous.
A year later, Chen Ruolin competed with world champions and Olympic champions such as Li Ting and Lao Lishi at the National Championships, and finally won the fifth place in the women's 10-meter platform.
Chen Ruolin, who also achieved good results in the leapfrog challenge, was favored by Zhou Jihong, the leader of the Chinese diving team at the time, because the Chinese diving team implements the "team leader responsibility system", so Zhou Jihong is actually the head of the diving team.
In this way, the 12-year-old Chen Ruolin was directly transferred to the national team by Zhou Jihong, and two years later, Chen Ruolin and her partner Jia Tong won the women's double 10-meter platform World Cup championship and began to gain a firm foothold in the national team.
At the Beijing Olympics, Chen Ruolin first partnered Wang Xin to win the women's double 10m platform championship, and then stood on the top podium in the women's single 10m platform, and at the age of 16, she became a double Olympic champion.
In the 2011 World Championships, 19-year-old Chen Ruolin won the women's single 10-meter platform championship and became the first person in the Chinese diving team to become the first person in the women's Taiwan Grand Slam.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Chen Ruolin partnered with Wang Hao to win the women's double 10-meter platform championship, and then defended the women's single 10-meter platform championship.
Winning the double Olympic championship again made Chen Ruolin the first athlete to defend her title in both the women's 10-meter platform single and double events at the Olympic Games, and she is also the athlete with the most world championships in the Chinese diving team.
A few years after the London Olympics, Chen Ruolin is still a well-deserved king in the women's 10-meter platform.
In the 2016 Rio Olympics, for the sake of safety, the coaching staff did not let Chen Ruolin take the same event, but only let her participate in the women's double 10-meter platform competition, this time Chen Ruolin's partner Liu Huibian, she still defended the women's double 10-meter platform championship again.
The win also made Chen Ruolin a five-time Olympic champion, but even more importantly, Chen Ruolin was the only Chinese athlete to survive the development hurdle in the women's 10m platform.
After the Rio Olympics, Chen Ruolin announced her retirement, and since then she has joined the FINA Diving Technical Committee as a referee, and has refereed major competitions such as the World Championships and the Tokyo Olympics.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Chen Ruolin entered the national team to coach and became the head coach of Quan Hongchan, the most popular member of the diving team.
After retiring, Chen Ruolin became more and more beautiful, which has something to do with her starting to dress up and put on makeup, but the editor thinks it is more likely to be grown, after all, she was only 24 years old when she retired, and she has been struggling with physical development.
In addition to the above four athletes, do you think there are any other athletes who have become beautiful after retiring, please leave a message in the comment area to discuss!