01 Gifted, rare in a hundred years
Ye Shiwen, born on March 1, 1996 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, is 173cm tall and weighs 64kg.
When she was 6 years old, in kindergarten (her peers were in the first grade of elementary school), the teacher saw that she was outstanding, and her hands and feet were too large, and joked that the child might be swimming material.
People with big hands and feet do have a talent for swimming, look at Phelps of the 2008 American team, because of his large hands and feet and frog-shaped body when he was a child, he was ridiculed by his classmates, and it turned out that he was the "reincarnation of the golden toad", and he won 8 Olympic gold medals alone.
After listening to the teacher's joke, the parents felt that it made sense, at least in jiangnan, which was full of water, "fell into the water without drowning". In this way, Ye Shiwen was sent to the swimming pool of a self-catering school. The send-off was not tight and frightened the swimming coach of the sports school.
His name is Wei Wei. He saw Ye Shiwen for the first time, judging by his professional vision: different! Sure enough, as soon as Ye Shiwen went into the water, the coordination of his body was particularly good, and the potential was very high, and Coach Wei was immediately interested.
It seems that Maxima met Bole, Coach Wei taught for 5 years, he trained the "dry duck" Ye Shiwen into a butterfly, a pop, a frog, an all-round player who can be on the four events, especially the free swim, Ye Shiwen won the 50-meter championship in Zhejiang Province at the age of 10!
At the age of 11, Ye Shiwen successfully joined the Zhejiang Provincial Swimming Team, under the famous Shuai Lou Xia. Coach Lou not only admired Ye Shiwen's talent, but also liked her stubbornness: once the small team members bet that who dared to jump down from the 10-meter jump platform was a sister, and as a result, no one dared, only Ye Shiwen jumped without hesitation.
In 2008, Coach Lou entrusted Ye Shiwen to her husband Xu Guoyi for physical reasons. This person is more famous, the swimming coach of the Chinese national team, and there are many famous players, including Wu Peng, Luo Xuejuan, Zhou Yafei and others.
Under the guidance of Coach Xu, Ye Shiwen was like a fish in the water and made rapid progress. Two years later, she made her debut, winning a series of national titles and two runners-up at the 2010 World Championships.
02 Fame in the Olympic Games, the world's attention
The time came to 2011, this year Ye Shiwen was 15 years old, which was the age of the second year of junior high school. The world-renowned Shanghai Swimming World Championships kicked off, with Ye Shiwen signing up and winning her first world title.
In the women's 200m medley final, Ye Shiwen won the gold medal for the first time at the World Championships with a time of 2:08.90. The post-95s supernova shocked the world because she was the youngest swimming world champion since 1978 (after 33 years).
At the same time, he is also the youngest individual single long pool world champion in the history of Chinese swimming, and the first post-95 athlete in the world to win the gold medal in the individual single event of the World Championships.
Countless flowers and applause came to the face, making 15-year-old Ye Shiwen a little confused. But a year later, the London Olympics were even more uncertain because she broke the world record.
In 2012, Ye Shiwen won the gold medal in the final of the 400m medley at the London Olympic Games with a time of 4 minutes 28.43 seconds! Three days later, she won another gold medal in the women's 200m individual medley (breaking the Olympic record).
The Western media was completely dumbfounded. After repeatedly verifying the results and being convinced, he reluctantly announced: Ye Shiwen is the most surprising player and an Olympic star!
Six months later, on December 16, the 2012 Short Course World Championships were held in Turkey, and Ye Shiwen broke the Asian record and achieved his first Full Slam in Chinese swimming (olympic, long pool world championships, short course world championships and Asian Games champions).
This glory surpasses the legends of Chinese celebrities such as Le Jingyi, Qian Hong, Lin Li, Luo Xuejuan, Liu Zige, Jiao Liuyang, etc., and in the world, she is also the youngest and most promising grand slam.
At the same time, Ye Shiwen's talent is completely beyond her age, so that many European and American media can't believe that a 16-year-old girl can achieve so many incredible results. After all, Phelps, the benchmark superstar in the history of human swimming, has achieved a Grand Slam at the age of 19, and Ye Shiwen is 3 years earlier than Phelps!
In 2013, at the Liaoning National Games, she won the 200-meter medley, thus completing the gold medals of all major competitions at home and abroad, including the National Games, the Asian Games, the Swimming World Cup, the Long Pool World Championships, the Short Pool World Championships, and the Olympic Games, becoming the first Golden Slam in The Chinese swimming world!
03 Secondary development, affecting the play
Here's an explanation of the Grand Slams, Grand Slams, and Golden Slams, which are derived from the sport of tennis.
A Grand Slam is generally a winner of four major events in a year. For example, if Li Na wins the Australian Open (next to Wimbledon, French Open, and US Open), it can be called a Grand Slam, even if it is one of the four major events.
The Grand Slam refers to the champion of all open tournaments of Wimbledon, French Open, Australian Open and US Open, and the difficulty should be multiplied by 4, which can be imagined.
The Golden Slam is mostly difficult, in addition to the four Grand Slam events, but also a four-year Olympic champion. Li Na did not do it, although Li Tingsun Tiantian won the Olympic doubles, but other events did not win anything, not even a Grand Slam.
In addition, there is a small slam, which generally refers to the bridge project, which is not listed here.
So some people ask, if the Grand Slam and the Olympic Games are won in one year, what is it called? It was the big god of the tennis world, called the "Golden Slam of the Year", only 5 people in the history of a hundred years, and they were all old revolutions before 1988.
There are only 16 professionals who can get 4 Grand Slams, and the 16 who can get the Zygoyn Grand Slam (Grand Slam + Olympic Games, can not be a year) is a total of 2 men and 2 women: Agassi, Nadal, Graf, Serena, and the well-known King Federer is only a full slam.
Subsequently, this statement was also adopted in badminton, table tennis, swimming and other sports. Like Liu Guoliang, although he is the first men's table tennis Grand Slam winner in China (Olympic Games + World Cup + World Table Tennis Championships), he does not have a National Games champion, so he is not a Grand Slam; while Ma Long is a double Grand Slam winner, and Lin Dan of the badminton is a Super Grand Slam, the first person in history.
The difficulty of the golden slam in the swimming world is no less than that of tennis, and you can imagine how great Ye Shiwen is. Ye Shiwen, who won the Golden Slam, was then sent to Tsinghua University, after all, thousands of students are admitted every year, and there are only a few Olympic champions as special students.
Deng Yaping, Guo Yue, Yang Qian and other people in the table tennis arena are all dragons and phoenixes among people, and Tsinghua naturally seeks talents and thirsts for talents. Because of Ye Shiwen's beautiful facial features and proud figure, he soon gained a large number of fans in Tsinghua, and was once considered by netizens to be a veritable school flower.
In March 2014, Madame Tussauds Beijing was unveiled, and the talented young girl Ye Shiwen was listed among them, along with Yao Ming, Liu Xiang, Beckham and Kobe Bryant, which shows its status.
However, swimmers are particularly strict about the shape of the body, coupled with Ye Shiwen's secondary development (fattening), her performance is deteriorating.
In March 2021, she finished third in the 200-meter medley at the National Swimming Championships (Zhaoqing Station), and in May, at the National Swimming Championships in Qingdao, she finished third in the 400-meter medley and second in the 200-meter breaststroke.
At the most recent National Games, Ye was runner-up in the 200m breaststroke (fifth in the preliminaries) and bronze in the 4X100m relay.
【Afterword】
From the first golden slam in history to the marginal figure of the national swimming world, Ye Shiwen has only passed 9 years.
It is also amazing that from beginners to the Olympic Games, Ye Shiwen also happened to take 9 years.
We look forward to the re-emergence of this once-in-a-century genius.
In the interview of the National Games, Ye Shiwen also admitted: Wow, I haven't seen such an (interview) battle for a long time.
It seems that we the public pay too little attention to Ye Shiwen.
Bless Ye Shiwen!