Recently, CCTV's Olympic special program "People in the Olympic Year" interviewed Chinese taekwondo athlete Guo Qing, with the theme of "The Little Dragon Girl in the Mountains, Bravely Reaching the End of the World with Taekwondo", revealing the unknown family story of this female athlete who is about to participate in the Olympic Games.
Guo Qing was born on May 16, 2000 in a rural family in Yongning Town, Yangchun City, Yangjiang City, Guangdong Province, began practicing taekwondo at the age of 12 and was selected for the national team at the end of 2018. In the 2022 Taekwondo Asian Championships, Guo Qing won the women's -49kg championship. At the 2022 Taekwondo World Championships, Guo Qing won the silver medal in the women's -49 kg class.
This World Championships runner-up allowed Guo Qing to gain quite a lot of Olympic points. She suddenly found that the qualification for the Paris Olympics, which she had felt out of reach, seemed to be getting closer and closer, and her self-confidence had improved a lot.
Last year's Asian Games final in Hangzhou was full of twists and turns, and in the end, Guo Qing lost to Olympic champion and Thailand's Panipa Ongpatanaji in the midst of controversy and finished second.
In January this year, Guo Qing qualified for the Paris Olympics through the Olympic points ranking, and the Chinese team won four tickets to the women's taekwondo at the Paris Olympics, achieving full participation.
Guo Qing is a child from the mountains, and taekwondo has allowed her to go out of the countryside, out of the mountains, and into a broader world. Guo Qing said frankly that the initial feeling of practicing sports may be to make his life better.
Not long ago, CCTV reporters visited Guo Qing's home. Her home is a rough house, with pristine concrete and brick walls and plastic stools. In the words of the reporter, "the four walls of the family" are nothing more than that. And this house, their family has been living in for ten years.
Guo Qing's father, Guo Quanfu, revealed that he could not do heavy physical work, and the family's financial resources mainly depended on Guo Qing's salary and the government's subsistence allowance. Guo Qing's parents are not in good health, and his five younger brothers have to study, and 24-year-old Guo Qing is the breadwinner of the family.
Talking about family, Guo Qing said: "There is an invisible pressure, I have tried to avoid it, let the pressure become the motivation, and concentrate on my training, because they will be better only if I am better." ”
The show also revealed that in recent years, Guo Qing has used the prize money won in various competitions to add two floors to his family's original two-story house.
Guo Qing said: "My father has always wanted to add a floor to the house, because I have five younger brothers." On our side, the younger brothers must have a room, whether you live there in the future or not, they must have a house, so these two floors must be added. ”
(Michau Sports)