Preface
Sport ignites life, and competition shows ambition.
The quadrennial Olympic Games are approaching, and mainland athletes have begun to gather momentum and prepare to "leave a name in history".
The country is also under the hard work of previous athletes, winning awards and getting hand cramps, but this record is always stronger and stronger, and everyone has their own opinions on who is more powerful.
Next, let's take stock of which athletes can stand out in China, which is full of talents, and is known as unprecedented and unprecedented?
1. Wang Meng: Three in and three out, short track speed skating won 77 world championships
My eyes are the rulers!
In 2022, Wang Meng's commentary made the audience's blood boil, and it also impressed everyone very deeply with this humorous and bold girl.
Speaking of Wang Meng, her career is a legend, she was expelled from the national team three times, and then relied on her own strength to fight back!
won the world championship medal on the field, became the player who won the most gold medals in the Chinese Winter Olympics, and commanded the national team to continue the glory of short track speed skating after retiring.
More importantly, Wang Meng dared to innovate and pioneered the "rabbit tactic", and a player launched a sprint at the beginning, leaving other players far behind, and even fell directly behind them in the end!
After completing the ring, he followed behind the big team to confuse his opponent, and finally made the Chinese players directly confused, so that he was crazy to be hinted by his own coach, "There is one lap left!"
Just when they were stunned, another Chinese player directly threw off everyone and won the medal of the runner-up, and finally the Chinese team was happy to win the double championship!
Not only is the tactics a must, but Wang Meng's own speed skating skills are also not far behind!
In 2002, Wang Meng participated in a world-class competition for the first time and won China's first championship gold medal, and China also ushered in the spring of short track speed skating.
Then China started the era of Wang Meng's short track speed skating, and 77 championship medals were taken away!
She also achieved a new achievement in 500-meter short track speed skating with 42.597 seconds, which can reach 11.74 per second, directly breaking the World Cup record.
Turning a sports that are not favored into a strong project in the mainland, to say that one of the most outstanding athletes in China, Wang Meng is on the list with his strength!
2. Guo Jingjing: From being afraid of water to becoming a diving queen, she won 36 gold medals
"Success is to force yourself to persevere, not to persevere when you see hope, but to persevere to see hope.
How many people are familiar with this sentence, yes, this is what Guo Jingjing said.
It can be seen from this sentence that she has also encountered many setbacks in Guo Jingjing's career, but she gritted her teeth and persevered to have today's achievements.
Can you believe it? In fact, the first setback that this "diving queen" encountered was that she was "afraid of water"!
Because of an accident when she was a child, Guo Jingjing was very afraid of water, when the 6-year-old Guo Jingjing stood on the diving platform for the first time, she was actually scared, but she still jumped strongly, and in the subsequent training career, she broke through herself again and again to overcome her fear of water!
The second setback is Guo Jingjing's own physical condition, when this "diving queen" was still young, her kneecaps were actually a little outward.
This will affect the athlete's aerial movements, but the aerial movements are very important for divers, so Guo Jingjing's father sat on her knees and forcibly "straightened" her.
How painful was it for the protruding knee to be forcibly straightened? But even though Guo Jingjing was in pain every time she pressed her leg, she still persevered!
Because Guo Jingjing firmly believes that only persistence can have the hope of success, and she did the same, and finally achieved a legend in the diving world, winning 36 championship medals for China!
But even with such a proud achievement, Guo Jingjing is never proud and complacent, and still maintains a modest style, even if she does charity and participates in public welfare activities after marriage, she is low-key and never hypes it up.
may suddenly be discovered by netizens one day, it turns out that Guo Jingjing and his wife donated so much in this disaster?
Therefore, when it comes to the most outstanding athletes, Guo Jingjing is on the list with her strength and persistence, even if she is too low-key.
3. Lin Dan: Get up where you fall and win 20 world championship titles
Whether it's strong or not depends on the record!
Lin Dan directly relied on his own strength to become a "double circle slam" player in the badminton world, and was given the title of "Super Dan", becoming a dark horse in the badminton field.
He studied at the age of 5 and entered the national team at the age of 17, and became a top player in China in just two years.
In 2008, it was even more powerful to kill the gods and kill the Buddhas!
But in fact, Lin Dan's growth road is not flowers and applause all the way, he has also experienced failures, but it is precisely because of these failures that Lin Dan has become strong!
In the 1998 Asian Youth Championships, Lin Dan was pulled onto the "battlefield", but when he faced a tough opponent, his mentality collapsed because the score was constantly pulled apart, and finally he directly "retreated without a fight" and surrendered!
Lin Dan was directly kicked out of the national youth team on behalf of the Chinese team to participate in the competition but "surrendered without a fight".
The more he thought about it, the more unwilling Lin Dan carefully analyzed and corrected his mistakes, returned to the national team in 2000, and directly brushed the world ranking to No. 1 in 2002, but this time Lin Dan only lasted for a week and was defeated again.
In 2008, Lin Dan ushered in his peak, and also ushered in the era of Lin Dan in Chinese badminton.
In 2020, Lin Dan retired, but even after retiring, Lin Dan did not relax the management of his body, at least 3 5 kilometers per week. This probably stems from Lin Dan's love for badminton.
It is probably this love that has created Lin Dan's persistence and made "Super Dan".
Fourth, Deng Yaping: was disgusted that she was too short, but turned around and won 18 world championships
It is said that the world's table tennis looks at China.
Deng Yaping, who can stand out in Chinese table tennis, is certainly not good at stubble, and has directly dominated the world champion for 8 years!
The height is not enough to make up the skills, and he was once rejected by the provincial table tennis team because of his height, and then directly entered the national team with his strength, won 18 world championships, and created a legendary life.
When Deng Yaping was very young, his father discovered his daughter's talent for table tennis, so when she was a little older, Deng Yaping's father decided to send his daughter to the provincial team for more systematic training.
But they have eaten "closed doors".
"Too short, don't".
Later, Deng Yaping was sent to the city team in Zhengzhou by his father, and it was this gift that made Deng Yaping's talent completely burst out, and it made China have the "Ping Pong Demon King".
At the age of 13, he directly defeated an athlete with the title of world champion, and entered the national team at the age of 15.
A year later, Deng Yaping was awarded the title of "Youngest World Champion"!
Since then, the entire 90s can be called the era of Deng Yaping, and Deng Yaping has been on the list of the most outstanding Chinese athletes by virtue of his strength.
5. Liu Xiang: Asia's "flying man", 36 world championships in track and field
Who says Asians can't finish in the top eight?
Liu Xiang's words are very rampant, but his record is even more rampant!
At the 2004 Athens Olympics, Liu Xiang broke the world record with a time of 12.91 seconds and was known as the Asian "flying man"!
At his peak, he not only broke through the black "monopoly" in track and field, but also made many black people fall behind, he is the glory of China and the glory of the whole of Asia.
But it is precisely because of his brilliance that Liu Xiang was approached by various business activities, and at first his coach Sun Haiping would help him refuse, but Liu Xiang's agent could not refuse these financial temptations, and Liu Xiang could only take time to train between activities.
After not training for a long time, Liu Xiang's physical functions began to gradually fail to keep up, and he needed to rely on overdrawing his body to gain more explosive power every time he competed.
But even so, Liu Xiang still stood out in the following races, and even won five consecutive championships in the Osaka Grand Prix Mountain.
But behind these achievements, Sun Haiping commented that he was simply self-harming! Liu Xiang's body did have "problems", and he eventually relapsed at the Olympic Games at his doorstep.
But after recovery and training, the strong Liu Xiang won the championship again with 13.34 in the 11th National Games, won the quadruple crown in 2011, and had 36 gold medals when he retired in 2015!
So much so that when it comes to track and field athletes, the first thing that flashes in many people's minds is the "flying man" Liu Xiang, thanks to his dazzling record.
Therefore, Liu Xiang has become one of the most outstanding Chinese athletes by virtue of his own strength.
epilogue
These athletes have not only created their own legends, but also contributed to the sports industry of the mainland.
Many athletes have chosen to continue to shine in the sports industry after retiring, some serve as coaches, and some go to discover more talented young people to inherit and carry forward their torches, and I believe that there will be more and more athletes in the mainland, and they will become stronger and stronger.
So who else do you think are the most outstanding athletes?
Sources of information in this article:
[1] Sina Sports, 2011-01-24, "Guo Jingjing's Enlightenment Coach: Career is Brilliant and Mature and Experience is Shallow".
[2] Sohu Sports, 2011-07-28, "Wang Meng's growth experience: he was domineering as a child, and was expelled from the national team three times".
[3] Sohu Sports, 2012-08-12, "Lin Dan enlisted in the army at the age of 12 and was expelled from the national youth team by mistake".
[4] Sohu Sports, 2013-11-05, "Deng Yaping Anecdote: From Ugly Duckling to World Champion Creating the Era of First Sister".
[5] Tencent Sports, 2010-04-01, "Flyer Liu Xiang's Profile: Athens Olympic Gold Medal Wins Defy Setbacks and Set Sail".