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She was once the pride of the Chinese sports world, blossoming all over the field and breaking many world records in a row. She once ran at the Olympics wearing the five-star red flag and won the glory of the country's first gold medal in track and field long-distance running. However, it is this glorious "Oriental Divine Deer" who has experienced the ups and downs of life, which has made her married life questionable and controversial.
Three children and three fathers, who have moved to the United States... What is the life of this one-time sports legend today?
The Break Out of Poverty Movement breaks new ground
Poverty is not the end, as long as you have the courage to persevere, you can open up a new world in life. Wang Junxia is a living example of this. She was born into a poor rural family in Jiaohe, Jilin Province, and spent her childhood in harsh circumstances. The family's expectations for this girl are very simple, they only hope that she can grow up safely and marry a good family in the future.
Despite her poor family, Wang Junxia's father asked her to exercise every day. At first, she had little interest in running, just completing tasks step by step. However, as time went on, she fell in love with the thrill of running, and chose to trot all the way to school instead of walking.
Athletic talent requires long-term training and accumulation. At school, Wang Junxia often won honors for her class for her outstanding long-distance running ability, and was soon discovered by her physical education teacher and recommended to participate in larger events. In 1988, she stood out in the Dalian competition, and was selected by Liaoning coach Wang Shizhong and began professional training.
With the support of her family, Wang Junxia followed the plan and trained methodically, making great progress in a short period of time, laying a solid foundation for the future. In the 1991 National Urban Games, her outstanding performance once again attracted the attention of Ma Junren, a famous coach in Liaoning Province, and was recruited into her command.
From an unknown rural girl to being discovered and trained to become a rookie in track and field, Wang Junxia has written her own legendary life with tenacious struggle. She proved with practical actions that as long as she has faith and courage, her poor background is by no means a shackle that limits herself.
Olympic gold medals write sports legends
At the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, her coach advised her to choose not to participate in one of the events in order to conserve her strength. But Wang Junxia resolutely rejected the proposal, and she was determined to participate in the 5,000m and 10,000m races in one go, not wanting to waste years of hard training, but also hoping to maximize the chances of winning the championship for the country.
Due to Wang's worrying physical condition and the fact that China had never won an Olympic medal in long-distance running at the time, the coaching staff did not have much hope that she would win the gold medal, and they did not even prepare the national flag for celebration. But Wang Junxia has a firm confidence in herself, she gritted her teeth and persevered, and overcame the physical discomfort with tenacious perseverance.
At the beginning of the race, Wang Junxia tried her best to maintain the front position and calmly responded to the battle on the long track. When it came time for the final sprint, she sprinted her arms outstretched and sprinted to the finish line, eventually overtaking her opponents, including several defending champions, to cross the finish line by a narrow margin. Wang Junxia won China's first Olympic gold medal in track and field running.
At the moment of victory, the audience spontaneously threw the national flag to the field, Wang Junxia picked up the national flag and draped it on her body, and ran on the track excitedly to celebrate. This scene caused a sensation at the time, and was called a classic moment in the history of Chinese sports, and will forever be engraved in the memory of every Chinese.
The winning of this gold medal made Wang Junxia a well-known sports star in just a few years. She won almost all the long-distance running championships in the 1993 World Championships, broke world records many times, and was known as the "Oriental Divine Deer". Her legendary deeds have touched countless people, become a proud idol of the Chinese people, and inspire generations of people with lofty ideals to pursue their sports dreams.
Coaching scandal Retirement at the peak
Wang Junxia has made remarkable achievements in the world of sports, however, her coaching career has been shrouded in controversy and doubt. Since 1994, Wang Junxia has gradually distanced herself from her coach, Ma Junren. She found that Ma's training methods were too radical and lacked full respect and protection for the physical and mental health of the athletes.
As an experienced coach, Ma Junren has a keen eye for discovering and nurturing many track and field talents, including Wang Junxia.
However, in order to achieve more brilliant results on the field, Ma began to resort to extreme measures - he secretly encouraged and even forced his athletes to use banned doping to maintain a temporary state, even at the cost of athletes' health.
After discovering this dark unspoken rule, Wang Junxia resolutely chose to break with Ma Junren in order to defend her professional ethics and bottom line of principles. She also united with ten other members of Ma Junren's team to jointly report Ma Junren's illegal act of forcing them to take stimulants.
At that time, this incident caused a lot of shock and controversy in the sports world, but public opinion fell to Ma Junren's side. Some media outlets were skeptical of the accusations against Wang Junxia and other athletes, and even speculated that the infighting was caused by the distribution of prize money.
Under pressure, Wang Junxia still chose to participate in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, and finally won the gold medal, making a strong response to her integrity and strength. Soon after, Ma's violations were investigated and confirmed, and he was dismissed from his post and retired from the sports department, and his personal treatment was reduced to a minimum.
And Wang Junxia chose a surprising retirement after receiving the highest honor. It wasn't until many years later that she revealed that she had been threatened and intimidated back then, and her life was once seriously threatened, which was the fundamental reason for her retirement. Soon after retiring, Ma Junren's scandal completely surfaced.
It turns out that he has been secretly administering illegal drugs to his athletes for a long time, intending to win through abnormal means, and the health of the athletes has become a victim in his pursuit of honor. The exposure of all this has also made Wang Junxia's reporting and retirement options gain understanding and support from the entire sports community.
Marriage is troubled and love life is full of ups and downs
After retiring, Wang Junxia did not stay away from the sports circle, but set her sights on another new field - married life. However, this once famous sports star has had a lot of ups and downs on the emotional road, and has experienced three marriages before and after.
Wang Junxia's first husband was a football player named Zhan Yu. The marriage between the two can be traced back to before Wang Junxia won the Olympic championship, when they were talented and beautiful, and had a successful career, and were regarded as a perfect match by the outside world. Soon after marriage, Wang Junxia gave birth to a son Zhan Yibo for Zhan Yu, thinking that this would be the beginning of their happy life.
However, due to the particularity of the work of both parties, the long-term separation of the two places has gradually alienated the relationship. Married life will inevitably encounter all kinds of contradictions and quarrels during the run-in period, and finally when these long-standing problems cannot be resolved, Wang Junxia and Zhan Yu chose to break up and ended the marriage peacefully.
She left with her son Zhan Yibo and started a new chapter in her life. Soon after getting out of the emotional haze, Wang Junxia met her second husband Huang Tianwen. Huang Tianwen is a Chinese-American with a master's degree in music, which is very different from Wang Junxia's previous husband, with a strong artistic temperament and romantic feelings.
During the period of love, Huang Tianwen's maturity and charm made Wang Junxia fall in love, even if he already had four children. After marriage, Wang Junxia moved to the United States with Huang Tianwen, but to her surprise, this marriage was full of various quarrels and unhappiness.
Huang Tianwen was too restrained in Wang Junxia's behavior, preventing her from showing her face in public, and requiring her to serve the children at home like a nanny, restricting Wang Junxia's personal freedom and financial resources. After a long-term dispute to no avail, Wang Junxia chose to divorce again.
Although Huang Tianwen strongly opposed it, and even published a book to express his views and put pressure on Wang Junxia in the field of public opinion, in the end, in 2015, this marriage full of twists and turns ended without a problem. After the divorce, Wang Junxia didn't want to enter the palace of marriage again. However, the appearance of her third husband, Li Huiyang, changed her attitude towards love.
The two met through the Internet, and at first Wang Junxia interacted with Li Huiyang under the pseudonym "Wang Xi". After Li Huiyang learned Wang Junxia's true identity, he flew to the United States without saying a word and began a courtship journey in a foreign country.
Li Huiyang's sincere love touched Wang Junxia, and he was willing to solve problems for his wife and wholeheartedly understand the difficulties she encountered in life.
After a series of tribulations, Wang Junxia finally determined that Li Huiyang was the person she had been looking forward to in her life, and the two entered the palace of marriage. Since then, Wang Junxia has found her life and opened a new stage of married life.
Regain the cause of sports and carry forward the spirit of sportsmanship
After experiencing a period of ups and downs in her married life, Wang Junxia did not leave the sports world, but has been continuing and carrying forward the concept of sportsmanship in her own way.
Today, Wang Junxia has settled in the United States, living a happy life with her third husband Li Huiyang and three children. Although she suffered several setbacks, it did not dampen her love for sports. While enjoying family life, Wang Junxia also continues to pay attention to the development of sports.
She often shares videos of her workouts and runs on social media platforms, and interacts with netizens about her experience in running training. It can be seen from these videos that despite her age, Wang Junxia still maintains a good state of exercise. Her perseverance and love for long-distance running show the dedication of a former athlete to a career in sports.
In addition to actively promoting sports concepts online, Wang Junxia also participates in real-life sports activities. She often participates in various social welfare activities, and uses her experience and influence to inspire and motivate more people to pay attention to physical exercise and pursue a healthy life.
In anticipation of many sports fans, Wang Junxia officially returned to the sports world in 2019 as the chairman of the Dalian Athletics Association. With this new platform, she is expected to contribute her experience and strength to the revitalization of sports in her hometown.
As the first Chinese athlete to win an Olympic gold medal in long-distance running, Wang Junxia enjoys a high reputation and status in the sports world. She gave strong support and encouragement to the arrival of latecomers, and also brought new impetus to the sustainable development of China's long-distance running program.
In her first year as president of the Dalian Athletics Association, Wang Junxia set out to reform and upgrade the local youth athletics training system to ensure that there was a sufficient talent pool to continue to pour into the athletics team. At the same time, she has also created a more scientific and humane training environment for athletes to avoid repeating the mistakes of the coaching scandals of the past.
It can be said that Wang Junxia has turned her experience and training as an athlete into a deep understanding of the development of sports. She is working hard for the future of Chinese athletics in her own way, hoping to cultivate more outstanding sports talents and continue to write the glory of Chinese athletes on the world stage.
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