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In the passionate 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the intense women's race walking 20km final is unfolding like a hot battlefield. The roar of the starting gun suddenly sounded, and Wang Liping instantly released all her strength and fighting spirit, quickly accelerated her pace, and quickly integrated into the leading group.
She deeply recalled how many years of hard sweat and unremitting efforts she had put into this day, and her heart was filled with endless desire for the championship trophy, which symbolized honor and victory.
The game has entered a white-hot stage, as one of the biggest favorites to win the championship, the senior sister Liu Hongyu was judged by the referee to leave the court because of violating the rules. This unexpected event made Wang Liping firm in her belief, and she decided to use her strength to win this precious gold medal for the motherland.
Her pace grew faster and her breathing became rapid, her eyes fixed on the finish line, and she was preoccupied with making her final assault on the finish line.
At the critical moment of the last kilometer, Wang Liping did her best, and her vigorous posture was like a galloping horse. Finally, she crossed the finish line first with an astonishing speed, and the coveted gold medal finally became her bag! At this moment, Wang Liping was so excited that she couldn't help herself, waving her arms and cheering, her face full of the pride and pride of a winner.
However, at what should have been the most glorious moment, a shocking scene appeared - the entire arena fell into a dead silence, no one cheered for Wang Liping, and no one presented her with the national flag she deserved.
All this made Wang Liping's joy of winning the championship come to naught in an instant, and after celebrating alone, she could only leave the arena in embarrassment.
Wang Liping was born in 1976 and grew up in an extremely poor family. Her mother was a simple rural woman, and her father did heavy manual labor in the factory. Although the life of the family is hard, they always maintain an optimistic attitude.
Wang Liping, who has cherished the dream of changing her fate since she was a child, knows that only by studying hard can she jump out of the quagmire of poverty and realize the value of her life. Luckily, she has a pair of gifted "potato legs", which has allowed her to achieve great results in various athletics competitions on campus.
After years of hard work and struggle, Wang Liping's outstanding performance has attracted wide attention from the local sports community. Although she did not receive professional training, she was still favored by the coach of the Liaoning provincial team, and began a new chapter in her life.
After joining the provincial sports team, Wang Liping really felt what it means to be a difficult training process. Whenever she witnessed the perseverance of her peers who worked hard every day and never stopped, she was deeply moved and deeply realized that she must abandon her ego and devote herself to training.
Since then, Wang Liping has embarked on a lonely and long competitive journey, making unremitting efforts and working hard for the dream in her heart. Despite the twists and turns of the road, she never wavered and always had an indomitable fighting spirit.
After entering the national sports team, Wang Liping truly appreciated what it means to be difficult and difficult. Training in the harsh winter climate of Liaoning is like a torture of purgatory. The outdoor temperature hovers around minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius all year round, and the exhaled heat will instantly condense into a white mist.
The snow was falling, and the view was blocked, as if in a cage with only a glimmer of life left.
However, even in the face of such a hostile environment, the coaches remained unrelenting and insisted on carrying out high-intensity training without any pause. Sweating in the cold, ice and snow has become a daily challenge for Wang Liping and her companions.
What's more serious is that Wang Liping's knee joint was seriously damaged after a long period of high-intensity training. The pain was so severe that she wondered if her competitive career was over.
Seeing that her dream was about to be shattered, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
Fortunately, after a period of recuperation and adjustment, Wang Liping's injury was miraculously healed, and she immediately regained her spirits and devoted herself to training. For this rare opportunity, she cherishes it and resolutely does not let success be missed.
Since then, she has overcome the double test of body and mind, perseverance, and watering the seeds of her ideals with sweat bit by bit. Despite her scars, she never complained about the tough training environment, but instead did her best to push her limits time and time again.
In the 1999 World Cup qualifiers, Wang Liping achieved excellent results in major competitions for the first time and won the eye-catching runner-up honor. At that time, she was already a 29-year-old mature athlete, and this result was undoubtedly a shot in the arm, which made the coaching team confident in her strength again.
However, for Wang Liping herself, the glory of finishing second is far from satisfying her dreams, and she is eagerly awaiting the Olympic gold medal that makes her fascinated. In order to achieve this ambitious goal, she resolutely threw herself into a new round of more rigorous training.
Every dawn, Wang Liping's perseverance can always be seen on the playground. While others were still asleep, she had already taken tireless steps to chase her dreams. When her body was exhausted, her lofty ideals inspired her to keep going, and when she was scarred and bleeding, she always gritted her teeth and endured all kinds of pain, never stopping.
Wind, frost, snow and rain, pain and torture, loneliness and loneliness...... Although all kinds of difficulties hindered her steps, she told herself categorically - no one can stop her determination! At the moment when everyone thought that she had reached her personal limit, she chose not to be arrogant or impatient, and her steps became more and more steady and powerful.
However, at this moment, a sudden dark cloud full of doubts and questions silently hung around her. Many people questioned that Wang Liping had entered middle age, her strength had declined compared to her youth, and the possibility of winning the championship was slim, and some people even maliciously speculated that her real purpose in this competition was only to sweep away competitors for her senior sister Liu Hongyu.
When Wang Liping waved her arms passionately to celebrate the victory, the arena fell into a suffocating silence. There was an indescribable tension throughout the venue, and all the audience were stunned by the unexpected result before their eyes, as if time had stood still.
As an athlete with the reputation of "dark horse" in China, Wang Liping is naturally not favored by the public to win the crown. In everyone's minds, senior sister Liu Hongyu is undoubtedly the most competitive gold medal contender in this competition.
Therefore, when Liu Hongyu and others were punished for violating the rules one after another, the coaching team on the scene obviously failed to foresee that Wang Liping would counterattack all the way and finally successfully reach the top of the championship.
They had already decided in their hearts that the Chinese team would miss the medal, so they left the field early. When I learned the good news of Wang Liping's championship later, it was too late, and I couldn't cheer for her at the first time, let alone give her the highest honor of wearing the national flag and surrounding the field like other champions.
When Wang Liping waved her arms passionately and celebrated the victory unwillingly, there was a stunned scene on the field - death-like silence. Everyone present was shocked by the incredible ending in front of them, and none of them could have predicted that the little-known "dark horse" in this game would burst out with such powerful energy and win the championship in one fell swoop!
What's even more dramatic is that the commentator at the scene did not come back to his senses for a while, and he mistakenly thought that it was the host Australia's player who won the victory. The spectators were similarly misled into believing that the gold medal had been won and began cheering for the winner.