On December 1, 1991, Sun Yang was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, his father Sun Quanhong was an athlete in the volleyball team of the Anhui Provincial Sports Team, and his mother Yang Ming was the main force of the Zhejiang women's volleyball team.
Born in such a family, Sun Yang perfectly inherited his parents' athletic talents and sports genes, far exceeded his peers in height, and was physically strong and energetic.
When he was 6 years old, Sun Yang was still in kindergarten, but his height was higher than many primary school students, and he couldn't find a suitable bed when he took a nap, so he could only curl up in a ball, not to mention how uncomfortable it was.
Swimming coach Zhu Ying heard that there was such a special child in the kindergarten, who ran to see him, which was unbelievable, only to find that his bones were amazing, his temperament was extraordinary, and he was a swimming wizard who was unique in the world.
Zhu Ying excitedly took Sun Yang to the sports school to learn to swim, but Sun Yang was too young at the time, had little interest in swimming, and was afraid of hardship, so he stayed at home for a month.
Sun Yang's parents are volleyball players, bent on letting their son take over, seeing that since he does not like swimming, he did not force it, planning to wait until he is older to pull to the volleyball court to temper.
Zhu Ying was very reluctant to sun Yang, a good seedling, and repeatedly called his parents, hoping that they would send their children to continue to learn to swim.
In order to make her words more convincing, Zhu Ying also lied a little, she said to Sun Yang's mother: "If you want to play basketball, it is best to be above 2.15 meters in height, if you play volleyball, it is best to be 2.05 meters, with your father's height, it is difficult for Sun Yang to exceed two meters in the future." Therefore, for him, learning to swim is the most suitable project. ”
Sun Yang's mother was suspicious and took him to measure the bones, and experts predicted that he would grow to 1.93 meters in the future, which is more than enough for ordinary people, but to become a professional athlete, excellent physical condition is essential.
Under zhu Ying's repeated persuasion, Sun Yang's parents finally moved their hearts and sent him to the swimming pool again in the summer vacation after the end of kindergarten.
Zhu Ying has a lot of vision, Sun Yang is indeed an unborn swimming genius, talented and hard work, his progress is very fast, and he has won various large and small competitions at a young age.
Sun Yang's success is inseparable from his mother Yang Ming, who has made a detailed training plan for him since the year he began to learn to swim, from a whole year's study and training arrangements to what meals to eat at each meal.
Sun Yang rarely eats out, and his every meal is a nutritious meal carefully matched by his mother to ensure that under high-intensity training, his body receives sufficient nutritional supplements.
For the sake of her son, Yang Ming forced herself into a nutritionist, she consulted a doctor by consulting books, and according to Sun Yang's training, she changed the pattern of soup every day, 365 days a year without interruption.
Whether it's windy or rainy, or scorching sun, Yang Ming will always spend hours at home making soup and then using a thermos bucket to take it to the swimming pool.
In addition to the daily meticulous care, when encountering a competition, Yang Ming will deliberately ask the unit for leave, and then accompany Sun Yang to participate in the competition and cheer for him on the spot.
Every bit of Sun Yang's life, his mother has arranged it properly for him, so Sun Yang's self-care ability is very poor, and he will not tie his shoelaces until the sixth grade of primary school.
Yang Ming's excessive care once caused dissatisfaction among the leaders of the swimming center, who frightened Sun Yang and said, "If your mother follows again, you will not compete." ”
Sun Yang was not frightened at all, and directly replied: "I am not a big deal not to practice, you don't let my mother go, I will not practice." ”
In June 2004, Sun Yang was favored by coach Zhu Zhigen and joined the Zhejiang Provincial Swimming Team.
In 2006, sun Yang, who was less than 15 years old, won three gold medals in the men's 400-meter medley, the men's 200-meter freestyle and the men's 1500-meter freestyle at the Zhejiang Provincial Games.
In 2007, Sun Yang officially entered the national team, and his training volume increased a lot, swimming 14 to 20 kilometers a day, soaking in the swimming pool all day, and the fingerprints on his hands were soaked.
Zhu Zhigen is the ace coach of the swimming team, with a hot temper and very strict requirements for Sun Yang.
From 2007 to 2009, Zhu Zhigen took Sun Yang to three important competitions: the Melbourne World Swimming Championships, the Beijing Olympic Games and the Rome World Swimming Championships.
Sun Yang grew and improved at a speed visible to the naked eye, was eliminated in the preliminaries in Melbourne, reached the final in Beijing and finished eighth, and won a bronze medal in Rome.
In 2010, Zhu Zhigen took Sun Yang to Australia for training. Once, the bohemian Sun Yang, without a bath towel, actually changed his swimming trunks by the pool in public.
The foreign players were very surprised when they saw it, and ran to complain to Zhu Zhigen, asking him to remind Sun Yang not to expose indecent behavior in the future.
Zhu Zhigen found Sun Yang and repeatedly confirmed to him whether there was any such thing, Sun Yang was very embarrassed, and he was afraid of being punished, so he bitten to death and never did this.
Zhu Zhigen took Sun Yang for nearly seven years, and from his tone and demeanor, he immediately judged that he was lying, and in a rage, he threw Sun Yang a loud slap.
After Yang Ming learned the news, he was very distressed and complained to the leaders of the sports center, denouncing Zhu Zhigen for not respecting Sun Yang and hurting Sun Yang's self-esteem.
Zhu Zhigen's teaching method was very severe, and he often scolded him, and even moved his hands, which made Sun Yang accumulate a lot of dissatisfaction in his heart, and this small matter laid the groundwork for the later masters and apprentices to turn against him.
Zhu Zhigen was stern, but the famous teacher was a high apprentice, and under his tutelage, Sun Yang truly realized the gorgeous transformation from an ordinary swimmer to a world champion.
In the men's 1500m freestyle final at the Guangzhou Asian Games in 2010, Sun Yang won the championship with a time of 14 minutes 35.43 seconds and broke the Asian record, raising the previous record by as many as ten seconds, less than a second away from the world record at the time.
In 2011, at the Shanghai World Aquatics Championships, Sun Yang won two gold medals in the 800m and 1500m freestyles, becoming the first Chinese athlete to win the Olympic event in men's swimming at the World Championships, and the first chinese men's swimming double at the World Championships.
In 2012, at the London Olympic Games, Sun Yang showed his might, winning two gold medals in the 400 meters and 1500 meters, and breaking the world record.
Before Sun Yang, China had never won a gold medal in the men's swimming event at the Olympic Games, and he was China's first men's swimming Olympic champion and an epoch-making leader.
In 2016, at the Rio Olympic Games, Sun Yangbao was not old and won the 200-meter freestyle championship.
Sun Yang has an incomparably glorious result, he is the only Olympic World Championships Grand Slam winner in the history of the world swimming world who has won the men's 200 meters, 400 meters and 1500 meters freestyle, the only men's 400 meters freestyle world championships in history, the only men's 800 meters freestyle world championships three consecutive championships, and the number of men's freestyle individual gold medals ranks first in the world.
Before Sun Yang came out, the middle and long distance freestyle sports have always been white, and no yellow-skinned athlete has ever been able to threaten their status, so Sun Yang should enjoy a very high status in the swimming world.
In fact, Sun Yang does not feel like a grandmaster, but like a small child, there are countless criticisms and arguments around him, such as playing big cards, falling in love with flight attendants, opposing the coach and the most fatal ban.
The claim that Sun Yang played a big card mainly stemmed from his mother Yang Ming.
After Sun Yang became a world champion, his fame became more and more famous, and he began to frequently attend commercial events, and often appeared in variety shows, and the pomp did not lose to the entertainment stars in the film and television circle.
As the work becomes more and more complicated and busy, many things of Sun Yang need to be taken care of by the company and the team, Yang Ming has taken care of his son's life in every detail, and naturally plays the role of an agent.
Because Yang Ming doted on his son too much, everything had to be interfered with, so that he and many brokerage companies were unhappy and scattered, from 2014 to 2020, Sun Yang changed five companies in six years, although each has its own reasons, but it is more or less related to the interference of his family.
Sun Yang once went to an online variety show spit conference, and the host Zhang Shaogang complained that Sun Yang created many records in the show, the first is to take parents.
In the years when Sun Yang participated in the competition, Yang Ming was almost inseparable.
During the 2012 London Olympic Games, Sun Yang wanted to live in the Olympic Village, according to the regulations, his family could not live together, which could make Yang Ming anxious, he could only live outside, and he was afraid of sun Yang's life every day.
The Olympic Games are really no way, other competitions are much easier to do, Yang Ming has insisted on living with Sun Yang many times, and if he is rejected by the organizers, he will even threaten to withdraw from the competition.
In 2012, Sun Yang, who had just won the Olympic gold medal, participated in that year's Universiade, and before the competition began, the news that he was playing a big name was first exposed.
At that time, Sun Yang was training in the swimming pool of a university in Tianjin, in order to let the athletes concentrate on training and avoid being disturbed by the outside world, the swimming pool adopted a fully enclosed system, the security was tight, and the reporter could only crouch outside the gate.
After the training, Sun Yang and his mother walked out of the swimming pool, and the reporter who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward to interview and take pictures, but was blocked by Yang Ming, who even said to the people around him very unceremoniously: "Don't shoot, annoyed to die, hate to die!" ”
Yang Ming's words gave Sun Yang a lot of black, and Sun Yang later explained on the Internet that his mother was not in a good mood at the time, and this was done to make him concentrate on training, hoping that everyone could understand and forgive.
In fact, in most cases, Yang Ming is very welcome to reporters, talking in front of the camera, hoping to improve Sun Yang's fame through the media and help him reach a higher level in his career. However, when a Brazilian journalist wanted to interview Sun Yang, he was rejected by Yang Ming, who gave the reason: "What is the benefit of your TV in Brazil?" ”
In December 2012, Sun Yang fell into a "foul mouth" again, and he had a fierce conflict with a reporter, snatching the camera, ordering the other party to delete the photo, and also exploding foul language, and behaving very rudely.
For the network revelations, Sun Yang denied it, saying that all this was a civilized language that people with ulterior motives had planted and framed and made up nonsense, and that he had been using civilized language.
This pile of black material, whether true or false, anyway, makes Sun Yang always in the whirlpool of public opinion, and is not full of positive energy like other Olympic champions.
In 2013, Sun Yang announced his relationship with flight attendant Li Yingnian on social platforms, revealing that the other party was five or six years older than himself, and the two had fallen in love before the London Olympics.
For this sister-brother relationship, Sun Yang's fans are generally not optimistic, many people think that Li Yingnian and him are not pure in purpose, and his mother Yang Ming also holds an opposing attitude, she believes that Sun Yang is still too young, the treatment of feelings is too simple, and the other party is obviously a veteran in this.
Sun Yang was deeply trapped in the love network at that time, and could not tolerate others to say half a bad word about his girlfriend, so he had a very unpleasant quarrel with his mother several times.
For others, Sun Yang's love affair is talked about, and it is good to be a melon eater, but for his coach Zhu Zhigen, this is simply a "bad fate".
Because he was busy with his girlfriend Qingqing and me, Sun Yang often did not return home at night and was absent from training, which made Zhu Zhigen, who has always been known for his strictness, greatly ignited.
When Sun Yang was absent from work for many days in a row, Zhu Zhigen couldn't bear it anymore and severely criticized him on the training ground for delaying training because of his love affair.
Zhu Zhigen was bitter and hoped to take back Sun Yang's wild horse-like uninhibited heart, but Sun Yang did not buy it at all, and confronted him in person, saying that his training method had fallen behind and did not want to practice with him anymore.
Because of the love affair, Zhu Zhigen and Sun Yang had many conflicts, and the two spoke a lot of extreme language, and even rumors had a big fight.
This farce ended with the confrontation between master and apprentice, and Sun Yang's coach was replaced by Zhang Yadong.
This incident deeply hurt Zhu Zhigen's heart, he took Sun Yang for nine years, has been cultivating him as his own son, watching him grow from an obscure teenager to a world champion, but the end of the two will be so embarrassing.
In order to love with Li Yingnian, Sun Yang almost made everyone rebel, but this love did not achieve positive results, and it was not long before the two broke up peacefully.
Perhaps years of training life is too boring, after the success of fame, Sun Yang began to fly himself, with a group of friends all day long mixed song hall, nightclub, night no home, no reason to miss work or something has become a common thing.
In November 2013, Sun Yang happily collided with a bus in central Hangzhou with his new girlfriend in a white Cayenne.
This accident is the full responsibility of the bus, the driver promised to compensate 5,000 yuan for private, but Sun Yang's girlfriend felt that the money was too small, had to call the police to deal with, the police came, but found that Sun Yang was driving without a license, directly took him back to the detention center to "entertain" for a week.
Sun Yang was not lightly pit by his girlfriend this time, not only squatting in detention for seven days, but also being punished by the team for suspension, suspension and suspension of all commercial activities.
As an Olympic champion and an epoch-making swimmer, Sun Yang was supposed to be a national idol sought after by everyone, but in three days, black materials were exposed at both ends, and even people suspected that his character was deficient, which greatly reduced his status in the jianghu.
Some media wondered why Sun Yang had become like this, so he dug deep into him, only to find that his life from childhood to adulthood was taken over by his mother, and he did not have to care about anything except swimming, so he lacked common sense of life and did not understand human feelings, so he would make so many mistakes that looked a bit bizarre.
If the previous black material is not painful or itchy, and will not have much impact on Sun Yang's career, then the "doping" storm that lasted for several years has completely pushed him into the abyss of fate.
In 2008, Sun Yang, suffering from myocarditis, began taking a drug called Wan Shuangli, which contained trimetazide.
In 2014, trimetazin was listed as a banned drug by the World Anti-Doping Agency, but the State General Administration of Sport did not issue the latest "Guidelines for the Use of Therapeutic Drugs for Athletes" in a timely manner, and Sun Yang, who was unaware of it, tested positive for the drug in the final of the 1500 meters of the National Swimming Championships that year.
Sun Yang came up with all kinds of evidence to prove that he had inadvertently taken the forbidden drug, but he was still punished by a three-month ban.
Because of taking "stimulants", Sun Yang was once again pushed to the cusp of public opinion, and all kinds of doubts and insults came to the fore.
In the past, those things were scolded, Sun Yang confessed, after all, he really did the wrong thing, but this time he felt extremely wronged, as if people all over the world had to go through with him.
Sun Yang shut himself in a room alone, did not eat or sleep, and kept watching people's evaluations of him on the Internet, and the more he looked, the more he felt panicked.
Discouraged, Sun Yang said to the coach: "I want to retire, I don't want to practice." ”
Although the official later returned Sun Yang's innocence, the public did not seem to buy it, and some people ridiculed him as the "medicine king Sun", who fell deeper and deeper into the nightmare of doping.
For many years, some Western media and athletes have always held on to Sun Yang's mistaken ingestion of banned drugs and slandered all his achievements, the most representative of which is Australian player Horton.
In the 400m final of the 2019 Swimming World Championships, Sun Yang won the championship and Horton was runner-up. In the post-match photo session, Horton refused to take a photo with Sun Yang on the podium and refused to raise his medal in protest.
In an interview after the game, Sun Yang said of Horton's rude behavior: "You can disrespect me, but you must respect China. ”
After experiencing various tribulations, Sun Yang has become much more mature, has a more correct attitude towards competition and training, and in order to prove himself, he must win again and again.
I have to say that Sun Yang is really a genius, absent from work, absent, in love, going to bars, clubs, and doing everything, but as long as he is serious, he is still the king in the pool.
In the World Championships, Asian Games, and olympic games, Sun Yang's achievements are obvious to all, and the gold medal is soft.
Someone once asked when Sun Yang planned to retire, and he replied: "I will swim until I am 31 years old, participate in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, and let the national anthem play at my doorstep." ”
Hangzhou is Sun Yang's hometown, and his career began here, and if he could end here, it should be a very perfect thing, but another fatal blow completely destroyed his beautiful vision of the future.
On September 4, 2018, three staff members of IDTM, commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), to sun Yang's residence to conduct an off-race anti-doping test.
During the inspection, Sun Yang found that only one of the three people had a certificate, and the other two did not have the qualifications for doping testing.
To make matters worse, the only inspector with a certificate had a holiday with Sun Yang, who had complained to the other party.
Sun Yang was suspicious in his heart at that time, worried that the other party was doing something in his own blood, this was not a joke, if he was not careful, he might face a lifetime ban, and he must be extremely cautious.
After collecting urine and blood, Sun Yang was not assured that they would be taken away, and asked the inspectors to provide valid documents, or send another qualified person to check, but the other party refused.
The two sides quarreled, and a fierce conflict broke out, sun Yang and his security personnel used violent means, smashed open the box where the blood sample was stored, and took the blood sample, resulting in the inspection not being completed.
Immediately, WADA took Sun Yang to FINA, saying that he violently resisted the test.
In January 2019, FINA ruled that the inspection was invalid and that Sun Yang had not violated the World Anti-Doping Regulations.
Just when Sun Yang breathed a sigh of relief, WADA was dissatisfied with such a ruling and appealed to the International Court of Arbitration for Sport again.
On February 28, 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced the arbitration result of the first instance, and from now on, Sun Yang was banned for eight years.
This year, Sun Yang is already 29 years old, and an eight-year ban is equivalent to directly announcing the end of his career.
When Sun Yang learned the news, he was still training in the pool, and he was stunned at once, climbed out of the pool in a lost soul, and silently left the training hall, unable to sleep all night, and sad and crying several times.
For such a verdict, Sun Yang of course could not accept it, and he said on the same day that he would continue to appeal.
On June 22, 2021, the Court of Arbitration for Sport announced the final arbitration result, and Sun Yang's eight-year ban was reduced to four years and three months, starting from February 28, 2020.
The suspension period has been shortened by nearly half, which is already the best result that Sun Yang can win, and it will not completely kill his career, but it also means that he will not be able to participate in the Tokyo Olympic Games and the Hangzhou Asian Games on his doorstep, which will inevitably become a huge regret in his heart.
Sun Yang, who has suffered a lot, has now truly grown into a responsible man, he has looked away from the ban, and since he has not qualified for the Tokyo Olympics, he is looking forward to the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
When Sun Yang's ban expired, there was only one month left before the opening of the Paris Olympic Games, he was 33 years old at that time, and he could not maintain his competitive status through competition in recent years, and whether he could still compete smoothly at that time was unknown.
What we know is that whether he can participate in the competition or not, Sun Yang has a heartfelt love for swimming, and he himself said that athletes will always retire one day, and hope that in the future days, they can also make some contributions to China's sports cause.
Run away for half a lifetime, return is still a teenager, bless Sun Yang, no matter what he has experienced, there is no doubt that he is the greatest swimmer in China so far, there is no one!