In order not to affect the training, she dared to expel the champion Tian Liang from the national team directly despite public opinion!
In order to allow the Chinese diving team to have a fair and just judgment, we strongly supported Guo Jingjing to sit in the referee's seat, and boldly used Quan Hongchan, a newcomer who has just entered the national team for only 3 months, in the game!
The Chinese diving team has the title of dream team and has achieved great results in major competitions, thanks to the hard work of every diver.
However, behind all these achievements, there is an inseparable relationship with her, she is Zhou Jihong, who is known as the "Iron Lady"!
So, what kind of person is she and what strength does she have?
Why did you insist on expelling Olympic champion Tian Liang and supporting newcomer Quan Hongchan?
The first person in Chinese diving
In 1998, it can be called the most "dark" year for the mainland diving team, competing in major international competitions, our diving team almost "nothing".
But in fact, in the past two years, our national diving team has been in a situation of lack of success, because before that, although it could not dominate diving, it was still possible to win at least a few gold medals.
This also made the national diving team, which had once fallen into passivity, look at Zhou Jihong, who was "husband and child" at home! She is not an ordinary person, she is a legendary figure in the mainland diving team.
In 1984, at the diving competition site of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, due to the injury of her teammates, Zhou Jihong was ordered to come off the bench and stood on the 10-meter diving platform, and she also won the gold medal in the 10-meter diving platform with absolute strength!
This gold medal is the first Olympic gold medal in the continental diving event, which can be described as far-reaching!
After that, it was this gold medal that gave hope to the Chinese diving team, and the country began to vigorously train divers!
After that, he shined in major competitions, but unfortunately, Zhou Jihong announced his retirement two years later, which shocked many people at the time, after all, it was at the peak of strength, which is undoubtedly a big loss for the mainland diving team.
In fact, the real reason is that Zhou Jihong has a family and is pregnant with a baby, and after thinking about it again and again, he had to leave the Chinese diving team for the sake of his family, and since leaving, the national diving team has always been tepid, and it fell to the bottom in 1998!
This time, the national team invited Zhou Jihong out again, gave her absolute trust, and appointed her as the coach of the national diving team, hoping to lead the diving team out of the current "embarrassing status quo"!
Zhou Jihong was once again ordered to "turn the tide"
It was Zhou Jihong's return that led the national diving team to get out of the difficulties step by step, achieved one brilliant record after another, and reached the peak!
After Zhou Jihong took over the banner of the diving team, she began to reform, strict discipline, she focused on digging talented players and cultivating newcomers, and also emerged in the same period, Guo Jingjing, Tian Liang, Xiong Ni and other powerful players!
She trains each athlete in a targeted manner, learning from each other's strengths and weaknesses to bring out the best possible in each athlete.
But at that time, the outside world has always been controversial about Zhou Jihong's coaching ability, after all, he has withdrawn from the national team for many years!
For her, if she wants to be recognized by everyone, she should talk about her achievements.
In the 1999 World Championships, the national diving team won the excellent results of "9 golds and 1 silver" in one fell swoop, and no one questioned Zhou Jihong's coaching ability since then!
However, in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the Chinese diving team suffered another heavy blow and lost the gold medal one after another.
After the game, Zhou Jihong had a deep reflection, the main reason for the defeat was the psychological quality of the athletes, who only cared about training and neglected the psychology of the players.
Since then, Zhou Jihong began to focus on finding out the psychological quality of personnel one by one, and guiding and dredging them correctly and scientifically.
Since then, the Chinese diving team has had a new transformation, that is, from this time, the national diving team began to counterattack all the way, and won almost all the gold medals in major international competitions, which has continued to this day!
The title of the Chinese diving dream team is "known to the world"!
The origin of the name "Iron Lady".
Speaking of Tian Liang, everyone must be very familiar with it, he won the 10-meter high platform diving championship at the Athens Olympics, and he is a well-deserved first in the men's diving world!
At that time, as long as Tian Liang stood on the field of the 10-meter high platform, the champion must be him, and he used his strong strength and talent to stage one "splash disappearing technique" after another.
And Tian Liang is not only outstanding, but also very delicate, with a white and clean face and perfect body proportions, he has gained a lot of female fans, and he is also affectionately known as the "little prince of diving".
However, Tian Liang also kept up with the popularity, and during his time in the national team, he often took on commercial performance advertisements and mixed in the entertainment industry.
It is not shy to say that Tian Liang has obviously been carried away by interests, and even made a movie, which caused the diving team to be unable to organize training normally.
At this time, Zhou Jihong, as the coach of the diving team, finally couldn't bear Tian Liang's behavior and directly expelled him from the national team!
As an outstanding diving Olympic champion, Tian Liang has won many honors for the national team. However, he was expelled for violating the rules of the national team, causing a huge controversy. Many of Tian Liang's female fans have jointly asked Zhou Jihong to revoke this punishment so that Tian Liang can return to the national team.
In the face of public opinion outside, Zhou Jihong was not afraid at all, and officially announced that Tian Liang would be officially expelled on the grounds of disobedience to the management of the national team!
Zhou Jihong's fortitude and courage let the world see her iron-faced and selfless side, and the title of "Iron Lady" also comes from this!
"Jumping Water Queen's Upper Trial Seat"
In a competition in 2009, mainland athletes were targeted by the referee, resulting in missing the championship, and the angry Zhou Jihong directly approached the referee to ask for an explanation, but in the end did not change the result.
At this time, Zhou Jihong realized that if he wants to ensure the fairness of the game, then his country must have the right to speak on the referee's bench, and if this is the case for a long time, he may suffer a big loss in the future!
So he found Guo Jingjing, who was about to retire, and wanted her to get the referee qualification certificate after retiring.
It is precisely because of Zhou Jihong that many Chinese referees can be seen on the referee's bench today!
"Push Quan Hongchan"
With Tian Liang being expelled, Guo Jingjing and many other veterans have retired one after another, many people are worried that the diving team is unavailable, but it is obvious that Zhou Jihong's ability has been low.
Quan Hongchan is a good example, and she is just a 05-year-old player who has only been training for a few months after entering the national team, and everyone was not optimistic about her at first!
But at the Tokyo Olympics, Quan Hongchan created a record for the highest score in the women's 10-meter platform with an excellent score of five jumps and three jumps, and won the gold medal in the women's single 10-meter platform at the Tokyo Olympics!
Quan Hongchan proved herself with her excellent results, and also proved Zhou Jihong's vision!
epilogue
Today's "Iron Lady" Zhou Jihong is 58 years old, still leading the national diving team, she has dedicated her life to diving, she has also won countless honors for the country, and finally hopes that Zhou Jihong can lead the Chinese dream team to get better and better, and create brilliance!
The information in this article is from:
Phoenix.com "Zhou Jihong faced sensitive topics for the first time and had no choice but to "block" Tian Liang back then"
http://phtv.ifeng.com/program/xs2008/detail_2008_09/24/1069133_0.shtml
and other official media news, but in order to improve the readability of the article, the details may be polished, please read sensibly, for reference only!