Ouch, I'm going, this Olympics has just opened, why is this happening? A 60-year-old Samoan boxing coach, Lionel, died of a cardiac arrest in the Paris Olympic Village. This old coach's love for boxing is really engraved in his bones. When he was young, he made a name for himself on the land of Samoa, and later changed to coaching, and he worked tirelessly to take apprentices at an early age, but we didn't expect that he would die so suddenly. It's only been a day since the Olympics opened, why is this happening? It's really embarrassing.
Lionel has lived in vain. Speaking of his majesty when he was young, it was really an after-dinner conversation. In that war-torn era, Lionel relied on his brute strength to expand his territory in the ring and beat all his opponents to the letter. At that time, he was a well-known boxing star, and anyone who saw him had to respectfully shout "Brother Lionel".
Later, Lionel's enthusiasm was not cold, and after retiring, he joined the coaching ranks non-stop. Under his careful tutelage, the Samoan boxing team had a second spring. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Lionel led the team to the Olympic arena, although he did not win a medal, but he was a blockbuster! You know, it was the first time that the Samoan boxing team appeared on the Olympic stage, and Lionel contributed to this historic moment!
Since then, Lionel has devoted himself to coaching even more. While others were resting, he was still pondering tactics; When others were celebrating the festival, he was still practicing boxing with his apprentices. Day after day, year after year, Lionel has brought out batch after batch of excellent fighters with this tenacity. In the 2012 London Olympics, the Samoan youngsters led by Lionel won the first gold medal in the history of boxing in one fell swoop! The small South Pacific country, which was once unknown, has stepped onto the top of the world in this way.
The successful Lionel didn't stop there. In 2021, due to the pandemic, it is still unknown whether the Olympic Games will be held as scheduled. But Lionel and his apprentices were not idle, renovating the coconut trees and fishing nets at home, practicing boxing skills, and staging a realistic version of "Rocky". This ruthlessness became popular all of a sudden, and Lionel and his apprentices once again became the focus of the world's attention.
But God is jealous of talent, and Lionel couldn't wait for the opening of the Paris Olympics after all. Just embarked on the Olympic journey, the 60-year-old Lionel died so suddenly. When the news reached Samoa, the whole country mourned. The Prime Minister sent a message of condolences, hailing Lionel as "the pride of Samoa"; The former apprentices wept silently, "Without the coach, we would not be where we are today".
In this life, Lionel can be said to have dedicated the most precious time of his life to the boxing career he loved. He is a role model, but also a microcosm of an era. In that era of material scarcity, it was already a great fortune to be able to eat with all your strength. But Lionel was unwilling to be mediocre, and relied on tenacious struggle to break through in the boxing world. As he grew old, he carefully cultivated talents and taught him what he had learned all his life. Under his inspiration, the children of the South Pacific island countries can finally stride onto the world stage with their heads held high, proving to the world that heroes do not ask where they come from!
Lionel has set an example for us with his life. What is Success? Success doesn't have to be earth-shattering. As long as you do your best to pursue your dreams and never regret even if you fall, this is success. Lionel did it, he is a fighter of our time, even though he is alive and dead.
And for us who are still alive, Lionel is a wake-up call. Life is so short and fragile, no one can say what will happen in the next second. Instead of doing nothing and stealing a living, it is better to give it a go, burn yourself, and give up your dreams. We should learn from Lionel and his indomitable and never-say-die spirit. Only by doing our best to live up to the time, when we look back on the past, we will not leave regrets.
Lionel is gone, but he lives forever in our hearts. Perhaps, in the ring of heaven, he is still sweating profusely, teaching a new batch of angel fighters. And the best memory of Lionel is to continue his legacy, so that boxing, a masculine sport, continues to inspire us to fight forward!
I wonder if there will be a rising star in the boxing arena of this Olympic Games? In any case, we should be like Lionel, with all our enthusiasm, with all our courage, in the time that God has given us, to burn and shine!
So in the end, I would like to ask: Coach Lionel who dedicated his whole life to boxing, but now he dies young, God is jealous of talent, what do you think about this?