1. A new chapter opens after Yang Yang's retirement
After winning a valuable bronze medal at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Yang decided to leave the professional arena and end his illustrious career as an athlete. However, the 59-time World Championship winner is not far from his beloved world sport.
On the contrary, with his endless enthusiasm and dedication to ice and snow sports, Yang Yang decided to pass on his rich experience and professional knowledge to promote the prosperity and development of China's ice and snow industry.
After retiring, Yang Yang chose to enter a higher education institution to continue his studies, specializing in ice and snow sports management. During her time at the university, she had a big dream in her heart - to create a foundation and do her best to discover and nurture more outstanding new stars in ice and snow sports.
Yang Yang was full of expectations for this and devoted himself to the preparatory work. After several years of hard work, Yang Yang's dream has finally come true. In 2010, the "Yang Yang Champion Fund" was officially established.
The purpose of the fund is to support young people who are talented in ice and snow sports, and provide them with the opportunity to receive professional training, so that more talented children can bravely pursue their own ice and snow dreams.
Yang Yang is convinced that as long as systematic and scientific training is given, more ice and snow athletes will emerge in China.
In addition, Yang Yang also founded his own "Feiyang Ice Sports Center". This is a modern ice and snow sports base integrating training, teaching and scientific research. Yang Yang personally served as a coach and passed on his years of accumulated skills and experience to the students without reservation.
The center not only provides a top-notch training environment for professional athletes, but also opens its doors to the general public, so that more people have the opportunity to contact and love this fascinating ice and snow sport.
Yang Yang hopes to contribute to the promotion and development of ice and snow sports in the mainland in this way.
In 2008, when Beijing successfully won the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, Yang Yang, as the presenter of the Chinese Olympic bid delegation, added a strong touch to this historic moment with his sincere emotions and moving words.
She is well aware that a successful Winter Olympics can not only bring great glory to the motherland, but also showcase the outstanding achievements of China's ice and snow sports to a global audience, and inspire more people to participate in it and share the beauty of ice and snow.
Over the years, Yang Yang has always paid attention to and devoted himself to the preparation process of the Beijing Winter Olympics, providing advice and suggestions for it. "When I was a child, sports were always chosen by talented children, but nowadays, everyone has the right to choose the sport they love," she said.
She hopes that with the help of the Winter Olympics, a global event, more people can have a deep understanding of and love ice and snow sports, and then promote the all-round development of China's entire ice and snow industry.
After retiring, Yang Yang was not satisfied with the past honors, but paid more attention to the future of the national ice and snow cause, and unswervingly dedicated all his strength to it. Whether it's creating a fund to nurture new talents, or actively preparing for the Winter Olympics, she is inheriting that deep love for ice and snow in a unique way.
2. Review Yang Yang's dazzling career
When Yang Yang is mentioned, people will naturally think of her brilliant career. As China's first Winter Olympic champion, she has set a proud record of 59 world championships in her 23-year career and is known as the "Ice Trapeze".
Along the way, Yang Yang has written a legendary story with his indomitable fighting spirit.
In 1995, at the age of 20, Yang Yang was successfully selected for the national team, and in the same year, he won the team championship of the 3,000-meter relay for China at the World University Winter Games. Although he suffered a setback in his individual event, Yang was not discouraged.
Instead, she quickly adjusted her form, and just a month later, she won three gold medals at the World Championships, showing incredible perseverance and strength.
The 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics undoubtedly became a key turning point in Yang Yang's career. She excelled in the women's 500m to win her first Olympic gold medal and become China's first Olympic gold medallist in speed skating.
After the game, Yang Yang was excited, tears rippled, and it was difficult to calm down. After years of hard work, she finally achieved her Olympic dream.
This gold medal is not only a full recognition of Yang Yang's personal strength, but also a shot in the arm, which greatly boosts the morale of the entire Chinese speed skating community. In the years that followed, Yang Yang opened the door to victory and won many international awards.
At the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the 31-year-old Yang Yang had already stepped into the ranks of "veterans", but this outstanding athlete still won a shining bronze medal in the long-awaited 1000m race! This wonderful and exciting event once again showed her tenacious determination to "not be afraid of hardship and tiredness".
What is amazing is that Yang Yang has won a total of 59 world championships in her illustrious career, and has been the all-around champion of the World Championships for six consecutive years.
Yang Yang has always maintained a very high standard of self-training, and she adheres to the belief of "one more time", striving to achieve impeccable specifications and perfection in every movement.
It is this fighting spirit that has allowed her to reach new heights and create countless brilliant chapters in her long career.
Looking back at the sonorous and powerful words written by Yang Yang when he was young: "If you are afraid of hardship and tiredness, even geniuses will be eliminated." These few lines contain her unwavering pursuit of her dreams, and also indicate the tenacity and perseverance she will show on the road of sports in the future.
3. Pursue the source of Yang Yang's skating dream
Yang Yang's love for ice skating can be traced back to an unforgettable experience in her childhood.
In that innocent era, Yang Yang studied in a primary school in Jiamusi City, Heilongjiang Province. On her way to and from school every day, she would pass by a bustling ice rink. Whenever she saw those children gliding, spinning, and jumping freely on the ice, her heart was filled with endless yearning and longing.
How she longed to be like them, to be able to unleash the vitality of youth on the ice.
Perhaps it was the favor of fate that in 1984, the coach of the sports school came to Yang Yang's school to select talents, and her outstanding talent made her stand out from many students and became the best among more than 40 candidates.
Despite her slightly thin stature, her love for skating is so hot and determined.
At first, Yang's mother did not support her in devoting herself to this "hard" field of sports. However, seeing her daughter's enthusiasm and dedication to skating, her mother finally chose to compromise, but at the same time, she also solemnly told Yang Yang that skating must not affect her studies.
In order to respond to his mother's expectations, Yang Yang has paid hard sweat beyond ordinary people's imagination and always insisted on strict requirements for himself. She skillfully balances hard training with excellent academic performance, and lives up to her promise to her mother.
There is an interesting and meaningful story here, that is, Yang Yang's mother gave him a unique milk name - "Bing Xin". The name not only embodies her parents' expectations for her ice-pure, immaculate, determined and tenacious qualities, but also indicates the inseparable friendship between her and ice and snow sports.
From these trivial but precious details, it is not difficult to find that Yang Yang's love for ice skating seems to be innate, and it has been deeply rooted in her soul since she was a child.
Her persistent pursuit of her dreams and the hard work she has made to realize them have long been integrated into her thoughts and daily actions.
It is this perseverance in her dreams that has helped her write a glorious and magnificent legend.
Fourth, Yang Yang's love life is magnificent and transformative and reborn
Yang Yang's road to love was not smooth sailing, but experienced several ups and downs. Her first boyfriend was a brave and fearless police officer, perhaps influenced by her father, who was a police officer, and Yang Yang developed a unique sense of trust and dependence on this profession.
However, due to the special nature of her career, Yang Yang and her first boyfriend have been in a long-distance state for a long time, and their relationship has gradually faded, and they can only end up breaking up. Although after the breakup, Yang Yang still has a trace of regret and reluctance in her heart, but as a dedicated professional athlete, she still invests most of her energy in her career.
After stepping out of the shadow of first love, Yang Yang did not close the door to love because of this. While studying in the United States, she met a young American and fell into a passionate love affair with him.
However, when Yang Yang returned to China, this transnational relationship failed to withstand the test of reality after all, and the two finally chose to break up peacefully, drawing a successful end to this relationship.
Perhaps because of a certain degree of confusion and tiredness in love, Yang Yang poured all his energy into his career development for a period of time after the breakup. However, the arrangement of fate is always so wonderful, and a sudden love of wealth quietly descends on her life.
His name is Zhang Zhen, a Chinese-American businessman from the United States, graduated from a well-known American university, and is now the CEO of a large company with assets of tens of billions of dollars, five years older than Yang Yang.
The two fell in love because of fate, and finally entered the palace of marriage with joy and happiness.
At the sacred wedding hall, Zhang Zhen solemnly declared to Yang Yang: "Please follow my steps, I may not have all the wealth and honor, but I am willing to create a deep sense of security for you."
This affectionate oath vividly shows Zhang Zhen's endless affection and care for Yang Yang.
Yang Yang's love road from the initial stage of deep dependence on the family, through the face of various hardships and challenges in life alone, until she met the person who was connected to her fate, the period was magnificent but full of twists and turns.
However, just like her fighting spirit on the field, she has always relied on her perseverance and fearless courage to walk step by step towards her own happy end.
Today, Yang Yang has become the mother of two lovely babies, spending a good time with her husband Zhang Zhen and living a happy life. After her family life stabilized, she still devoted herself to the great cause of promoting ice and snow sports, passing on her dreams and ideals.
As Zhang Zhen once affectionately confessed, he could not give Yang Yang all the material wealth in the world, but he was able to provide her with the most precious sense of security. With this financially powerful husband as a strong backing, Yang Yang can finally devote herself to pursuing her ideals and career without any worries.