If you want to say which sport is the most spectacular sport at the Winter Olympics, figure skating is the way to go.
In the course of the competition, the male and female athletes can be said to have "conquered" all the spectators through tacit cooperation and beautiful dance moves, making many people think that it is a pity that such a partner does not become a husband and wife.
Among them, people like Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo, Pang Qing and Tong Jian did walk into the palace of marriage hand in hand outside the arena as the audience expected.
And with their jewels in front, many people think that Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, the two "ice couples", can continue to create a good story. But things didn't go as planned, and the two had almost no contact after retiring, and it seemed that they would not have any intersection in the future.
1. Bonding with ice
Zhang Hao and Zhang Dan are both post-80s in the last century, and their ages are almost the same. Both were born in Heilongjiang, which is known to be a famous ice and snow world, and even the ice in some places does not melt all year round, so ice skating is a very fashionable entertainment sport in Heilongjiang.
Zhang Hao's parents are ice skating enthusiasts, and after giving birth to Zhang Hao, they still choose to skate in their free time. This made four-year-old Zhang Hao very interested in skating, so his parents found a teacher to tutor Zhang Hao, hoping that he could one day become an ice skater.
Zhang Dan was six years old, by chance, she was caught by a skating coach, so she started her skating career.
In 1998, both had been learning to skate for more than a decade, and in that decade, they had beaten many competitors and were selected for the national team.
After joining the national team, Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao knew that the training intensity of the national team was so high, and they were all petty before.
The two did not want to give up because of this, but were neither humble nor arrogant, and tried to keep up with the rhythm of the national team. This spirit gave the head coach the idea of entrusting them with a heavy responsibility, so he decided to let them form a group and practice figure skating.
At this time, they are all adolescent boys and girls, and letting them suddenly cooperate with a person of the opposite sex will definitely make their hearts sprout. But fortunately, the national team has a permanent psychological counselor, which can allow them to go through this period of adolescence smoothly, not affected by these factors, and concentrate on training.
The duo soon had a chance to prove themselves, and it was the following year that they were fielded. In their first competition, they won a silver medal with a good performance, allowing them to successfully establish themselves at a young age, and the two of them have been regular competitors ever since, even competing in the 2006 Winter Olympics.
Second, the Winter Olympics lost and the two separated
At the 2006 Winter Olympics, Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao carried the hope of the people of the whole country and stepped on the competition venue in Turin, Italy. In the previous preliminaries, both of them had excellent results, and they were the favorites to win the championship at that time, and the Chinese people also thought that they would win the first gold medal in figure skating for the country.
However, in the game, the two made mistakes. During his daily training, Zhang Hao had already had a problem with his palm, and had just recovered before the Winter Olympics, but he was still in danger of recurrence. Neither of them wanted to give up this hard-won opportunity, so they decided to take a risk.
In figure skating, the quadruple jump is an essential event to achieve a high score.
Both of them were nervously waiting for the arrival of this project, and when they were doing this project, Zhang Hao's palms couldn't hold it.
When he threw Zhang Dan, because of the pain in his palm, he failed to throw Zhang Dan to the predetermined height, so that Zhang Dan could not successfully complete the action in the air, and finally fell to the side.
And Zhang Dan didn't give up, and then got up and continued to finish the game, although they both knew that they had missed the championship.
It was because of that fall that they finally won the silver medal, which is also the best figure skating result in China, but the two of them have always been dissatisfied with this result.
They continued to work hard to earn a gold medal for their country until 2010, when Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo won their first national figure skating gold, and they both knew that their dream was over.
All this happened for Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao, it was time to separate. In 2012, Zhang Dan chose to retire, and then married his lover directly and gave birth to a child. In Zhang Dan's wedding, he failed to see the figure that everyone was looking forward to, and Zhang Hao responded that he was training and did not show up in person.
Later, Zhang Hao continued to struggle in the figure skating arena for several years, but his results did not reach the silver medal in Turin, and he finally chose to retire and went to university to become a figure skating teacher.
summary
For Zhang Dan and Zhang Hao are now "old and dead", many people speculate that it is because of the "fall" in 06. That fall knocked out the champion, and both seemed to blame each other, and seemed to blame themselves, so that now they can't face their former partner.
It can only be said that they have no friendship development after retiring, but their past cooperation will always be their most unforgettable memory.