Life gives me pain, I want to repay Wang Rui with Utagawa: the "blade warrior" who stood up from the ruins of Wenchuan

"After experiencing the Wenchuan earthquake, I was once very inferior, but in the end it was ping-pong that gave me the light of life again." On the morning of October 25, in the TT6-TT7 women's team competition of the table tennis competition at the Shaanxi Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium, Wang Rui, the "blade warrior" who stood up from the ruins of the Wenchuan earthquake, won the championship of this level together with his teammates.

After the Wenchuan earthquake, table tennis sent the light of life

Wang Rui, who was born in Deyang, Sichuan, was rescued at the age of 15 ten hours after the Wenchuan earthquake. Of the 24 people in her class, Wang Rui was the most seriously injured of the 16 surviving classmates. She got up from the rubble, fell into a deep inferiority complex because she lost her right leg forever, and was unable to integrate into her new life after returning to school.

Later, she remembered that when she was hospitalized, the coach of the paralympic table tennis team came to visit everyone, and in 2009, with the encouragement of her family, she dialed the phone of the table tennis team, and then entered the Chengdu paralympic table tennis team and began to learn to play table tennis.

Wang Rui said that before the earthquake, she did not show much talent in sports, but it was her study and life in the table tennis team after amputation that made her find the direction of her life again, and she also saw another light that life gave her.

"Life pushed me to the bottom, and I had to climb out"

Because he started learning table tennis from scratch, Wang Rui, who started too late, knew that he had to practice more and harder than others to make progress. In addition to completing cultural studies every day, she spends almost the rest of her time in training.

Table tennis is a sport with a lot of training volume and intensity, and at first she wore a life prosthesis to train, and the front end of the stump was often worn by the prosthesis. Each training session is an infinite cycle of blood, sweat, abrasion, scabs, and rebranding. But even if it was so bitter, Wang Rui never fought back, she said: "Since you have made a choice, you must persist, life has pushed me to the bottom, I have to climb out." Grasping the glimmer brought by the ping-pong ball, Wang Rui's day-to-day training, and the rapid improvement of the record, let her gradually get out of anxiety and inferiority.

"Table tennis changed my life"

After more than a year of professional training, Wang Rui won a medal in the provincial table tennis team competition with her teammates, and the honor that seemed formal to her strengthened her confidence and made her completely fall in love with table tennis.

Later, the national champion, the Asian Championship champion, the international open champion, and the Tokyo Paralympic Champion all made her see the meaning of hard work and the excitement of controlling her own destiny.

Life hurts me, and I want to sing in return. Wang Rui said: "After becoming a professional athlete, every time I go abroad to compete, the moment I raise the national flag and play the national anthem after winning the championship, I can always feel a strong sense of pride. All the hardships and tribulations of the past are just tests. ”

Nowadays, Wang Rui wears a specific sports prosthesis when competing, although she will often wear out her skin, but the prosthesis that resembles a "machete" not only allows her to play better in the game, but also makes her image of a "blade warrior" more prominent. "Table tennis changed my life. The government and the Disabled Persons' Federation have given me a new stage, and I have overcome the shadow of the earthquake. At the Paralympic Games in Paris, I hope to continue to win glory for my country in the singles event, and I also hope that more disabled friends can live the excitement of life. Wang Rui said.

Xi'an Newspaper All-Media Reporter Zhang Jia