Text: Northern Autumn
Edited by Beiqiu
There is such a strong woman in continental volleyball.
As the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, she is Lang Ping, who has the nickname of "Iron Hammer".
But although she has enjoyed countless cheers in her career, she has hit a wall everywhere emotionally.
After experiencing her first relationship failure, the 56-year-old thought she had met true love, but she didn't expect to meet a "treasure expert".
originally thought that her second-married husband could have two brushes, but she didn't expect it to be a "fake expert".
Could it be that Lang Ping met someone unladylike again this time and married the wrong person again?
The birth of the "Iron Hammer".
Lang Ping was born in Tianjin in 1960, in the middle of a cold winter, because the overall conditions in China were not very good.
In addition, the family is not very wealthy, and Lang's mother, who is short of milk, can only use millet porridge to supplement the nutrition of Lang Ping, who has not been born for a long time.
For this memory, Lang Ping's mother didn't feel anything wrong, and it was not surprising that she could even starve to death at that time.
This kind of thinking also took root in Lang Ping's heart, and in the process of growing up in the future, she always kept in mind the ideas that her mother instilled in her since she was a child.
That is, when encountering anything, you must treat it with a normal heart and don't give up easily.
Lang Ping's age soon came to seven years old, and he reached the age of elementary school, but because Lang Ping's father was from the north and his mother was from the south.
Influenced by heredity, she has both the boldness of the north and the tranquility of the south.
When exercising, he is like a rabbit, and when he is reading quietly, he is like a docile kitten.
At that time, there were not so many film and television dramas, video games, etc., so people's usual hobbies were sports or chess.
Since there is a gymnasium near Lang Ping's house, her father loves sports very much, so he often takes Lang Ping to the gymnasium to watch games.
Lang Ping looked at their sports posture in the gymnasium and longed for it, and the best impression on her was volleyball.
As he grew older, Lang Ping's height became taller and taller, and standing in the team of girls of the same age, he felt like he stood out from the crowd.
Because Langping has had a strong interest in volleyball since he was a child, he entered the volleyball class of the junior sports school at the age of 13 to learn volleyball.
Due to his outstanding performance in the class, he was able to enter the Beijing Amateur Sports School and be selected for the municipal volleyball team.
After entering the city team, she was only 16 years old, and she showed amazing talent, so she was successfully selected for the national team and became a member of the national training team.
Lang Ping first participated in the women's volleyball competition in 1978, when Lang Ping participated in the 8th Asian Games with the Chinese team.
Due to the first time to participate in a competition of this scale, coupled with the lack of qualifications, he did not win the championship and only won the silver medal in the competition.
But in the second year after going back to train hard and regroup, she emerged and won the championship in the second Asian Women's Volleyball Championship.
In 1981, she participated in the International Volleyball Invitational Tournament, won the championship and won the "Best Attacker Award", which is enough to see that although she is a girl, the ball she shoots is very aggressive, and she participated in the World Cup women's volleyball competition in the same year.
still won the championship, and after winning so many championships, she almost became a well-known figure in the Chinese women's volleyball team.
Since then, she has won several volleyball championships, and her fame has grown, not only has a smooth career, but she also obtained a graduate degree in sports management.
However, such a volleyball star was labeled "ungrateful" in 2008.
Pushed to the cusp
The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games were successfully held on the mainland, and the whole country celebrated.
As a women's volleyball player, Lang Ping naturally appeared on the field, but no one expected that she would not represent China this time.
Instead, he led the United States to defeat the Chinese women's volleyball team and won the silver medal.
This made it unacceptable to the Chinese people and fans at all, and they began to abuse her, saying that she was ungrateful.
For a while, Lang Ping's public opinion became louder and louder, and he was pushed to the forefront.
But what is the truth? Did Lang Ping really betray his country?
She claimed that she had to go to the United States to teach because she was for her daughter and to support her family.
Because he went to study in the United States with his ex-husband Bai Fan, due to his low economic level, he couldn't afford to pay the high fees locally.
Although Lang Ping is also playing around to earn money, these funds alone cannot support a normal life.
With the birth of her daughter, Lang Ping's financial pressure is also increasing, and it just so happened that the American women's volleyball team handed her a "pillow" at this time.
was about to be crushed by life, Lang Ping, who couldn't hold on, fell up all of a sudden, and with a high salary, Lang Ping also taught him his experience in playing.
That's why the Chinese team finished third and the United States team finished second.
But netizens don't buy it, if you want to make money, you can go back to China, you have so much experience, and it's not that you don't give him a salary in China.
In order to save his image in the hearts of the Chinese people, Lang Ping resigned from his job as an American coach in 2009, returned to China to coach, and once again brought the Chinese women's volleyball team to the top of the world.
The women's volleyball team, which has not won the championship and runner-up for many years, has been brought to a new height.
From these, it is enough to see how deeply Lang Ping understands the sport of volleyball.
But although her volleyball career has been going well, everyone can't always have a smooth ride, and Lang Ping also ushered in something she is not good at, that is, feelings.
The two marriages have bitter and sweet
Lang Ping's first husband was Bai Fan, a former Bayi men's volleyball player, who married Bai Fan at the Beijing Hotel in 1987 before going to the United States to study.
The two gradually fell in love during their daily training, because they are both volleyball players and have the same hobbies.
Then the two went to the United States to study, and their daughter Bai Lang was also born at this time.
But studying abroad at that time was not a small amount, and daily life was very difficult for both of them, let alone adding a child.
Because the domestic coach had been inviting Lang Ping to return to China at that time, Lang Ping could not balance his career and family, so he went back and forth between China and the United States.
After a long time, Bai Fan couldn't stand such a life of gathering less and leaving more, and the two finally divorced in 1995.
After the divorce, according to the local law, the two of them each bear half of the custody, and the two have not been strange, and have been taking care of their daughter together.
Until her daughter was admitted to university, Lang Ping felt that her daughter would leave him after all, so she wanted to find a wife, and she met Wang Yucheng, a tutor at the Academy of Social Sciences, by accident.
As a historian, Wang Yucheng is very knowledgeable and self-contained, which is very in line with Lang Ping's standard for being able to stay with him for a lifetime.
So the two soon held a wedding in Beijing, but Wang Yucheng also has another identity, that is, a treasure expert, but this expert is controversial.
Because he once identified a rare treasure as a fake because of his eyes, which made many people question his identity.
But this kind of thing is actually understandable, after all, although history is studied, everyone can look away, after all, all treasures cannot be exactly the same as what is written in the book.
Regardless of her husband's reputation, Lang Ping didn't care about it, what she needed was someone who could accompany her for the rest of her life.
The relationship between the two has been very good since they got married, and since Lang Ping retired as a coach in 2021, he bought a house in the United States and lived a retired life.
As a coach who led the Chinese women's volleyball team to win many championships, the pressure she was carrying was unimaginable to ordinary people, so when she retired, she really aged a lot.
Although she doesn't appear in people's eyes much now, she still posts her news on social platforms.
Recently, she posted a photo of herself and her husband Wang Yucheng with friends in the United States.
Both of them are smiling, and since his retirement, Lang Ping's mentality has also changed.
The whole person also looks much younger, and now she should just want to live a good old age with her husband.
However, whenever the Chinese women's volleyball team has problems about volleyball, Lang Ping still puts forward his own suggestions to help the women's volleyball team develop better.
Epilogue:
No one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes sometimes, as long as they can be corrected in time, it's not too late.
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Information sources:
Lang Ping Baidu Encyclopedia
Interview with Lu Jian" Lang Ping talks about the difference between two coaches and yearning for retirement life Sina Sports 2020-1-28
Lang Ping: Inheriting the "Women's Volleyball Spirit" with Digital Technology