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On the evening of August 4, 2024, the men's rings final of the Paris Olympics kicked off at the Bercy Gymnasium in Paris, and mainland players Liu Yang and Zou Jingyuan competed against six other foreign players.
Liu Yang on the ring is elegantly turned back, hovering like a needle standing still in mid-air, rotating smoothly and landing steadily. In the end, he successfully defended his title with a high score of 15.300 and won the event.
Liu Yang was born in a humble background, his father was laid off at an early age, and his mother also went through the internal retirement procedures in advance due to the poor efficiency of the unit. Liu Yang became an Olympic champion and suffered more and shed more tears than others.
After winning the Paris Olympics, Liu Yang and his father had a warm and tear-jerking wish for each other.
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(Liu Yang's parents)
The glory of a champion is not accidental, it is the accumulation of countless pains, setbacks and trials. This sentence is the best interpretation of Liu Yang's defending Olympic champion.
Liu Yang was born on September 10, 1994 in Tiexi District, Anshan City, Liaoning Province.
Liu Yang's mother's name is Yang Xiaoli, and the efficiency of the unit is not good, so she went through the internal withdrawal procedures in advance, and the life at home is tight.
Liu Yang lives with his parents and elderly grandmother, and the family lives in a small house of only 49 square meters.
Although no one in the family is engaged in sports, Liu Yang's arms and calves are strong and powerful since he was a child, and his body is very flexible.
(Liu Yang when he was a child)
In kindergarten, Liu Yang often holds his hands up and leans against the wall for handstands. And he has a good sense of balance, a group of children practice "Golden Rooster Independence", and it is very good to be able to maintain it for 7 or 8 seconds, while Liu Yang can reach 30 seconds.
The teacher said to Liu Zhonghua: Liu Yang is a good seedling for gymnastics, don't delay him.
Liu Zhonghua experienced the hardships of part-time work, and wanted his son to have a different life, so he followed the other party's advice.
Soon Liu Zhonghua found Coach Kong Fanqi of Anshan Sports School and wanted his son to follow him to practice gymnastics.
At this time, Liu Yang was not yet 5 years old, and because he was too young, Kong Fanqi planned to politely refuse.
(Liu Yang (front row, middle) and enlightenment coach Kong Fanqi (back))
Maybe his father communicated with Coach Kong for too long and he was left out in the cold, or maybe Xiao Liu Yang wanted to "show his hand", so he practiced one-legged jumping in front of Kong Fanqi. Every jump is steady and rhythmic.
Kong Fanqi has been engaged in gymnastics teaching for many years, and when he saw that the little guy had a play, he didn't agree on the spot: The child has training value, but not now, I will accept him after he is 5 years old.
After receiving such an answer, Liu Zhonghua felt down-to-earth.
Three months later, Liu Yang turned 5 years old and officially became a student in the gymnastics class of Anshan Sports School.
Liu Zhonghua and his wife saved money to order milk for their son, and specially cooked chicken thighs and sauced beef for him.
(Liu Yang who practiced rings in his early years)
Although he was only 5 years old, Liu Yang was very sensible, and when he saw that his parents kept the best things on the table for himself, he choked up and said: My parents don't eat it, and I don't eat it either.
Liu Zhonghua and his wife had mixed feelings, and they had to eat a little symbolically. Later, Liu's parents invented the "staggered peak meal": every day at noon and evening, they ate in advance, took their son home, and let Liu Yang eat alone.
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In the gymnastics team, Liu Yang is never lazy. When doing physical exercises, the coach is not the same, he completes the training tasks with quality and quantity, and is the little star of the gymnastics team.
Two years have passed in a blink of an eye, and it is time for Liu Yang to go to elementary school. Will my son stay in the sports school and continue to practice gymnastics, or will he continue to study in primary school, middle school, and university? Liu Zhonghua and his wife hesitated.
A few days later, Liu Zhonghua found Kong Fanqi and expressed his confusion. The other party told him: I don't have selfish intentions to keep Liu Yang by my side. With careful training, he can become a world champion in the future.
Liu Zhonghua and his wife brightened their hearts, and they asked Liu Yang to take cultural classes at Anshan Sports School in the morning and practice gymnastics in the gymnastics team in the afternoon.
With outstanding talent and Kong Fanqi's scientific guidance, Liu Yang has made very rapid progress, and at the age of 8, he can do standard ring squats and ring cross supports, and he is the leader of the class.
Liu Yang knows that as long as he enters the professional gymnastics team, his parents will not have to pay high tuition, and he will have a certain monthly allowance.
In order to reduce the burden on his parents as soon as possible, he is the hardest working child in Anshan Sports School. At the end of training every day, he either chased the coach and asked this and that, or consciously practiced in the training hall.
(Liu Yang when he was a child (front left))
Children who know how to be grateful are more likely to succeed. At the age of 10, Liu Yang developed a unique stunt: in 10 minutes, he could do 1,300 handstand jumps.
Liu Zhonghua was so excited that he decided to apply for the Guinness World Records for his son, so that more people could know Liu Yang and strive to enter the professional gymnastics team as soon as possible.
However, the procedures for applying for the Guinness World Records are quite cumbersome, and after completing dozens of procedures, there is a certain fee to pay. Liu Zhonghua is not wealthy, which makes him embarrassed.
In August 2006, Liu Yang participated in the local gymnastics competition and won the gold medal in one fell swoop due to his outstanding performance.
(Gymnastics coach Kim Weiguo)
Liu Yang's excellence attracted the attention of Jin Weiguo, the coach of the gymnastics team of the Bayi Industrial Brigade, who loved and cherished talents and recruited Liu Yang into the Bayi team.
Intentionally planting flowers does not bloom, and unintentionally planting willows and willows into the shade. Liu Zhonghua applied for Guinness World Records for his son in order to let his son enter the professional gymnastics team.
In this way, Liu Zhonghua no longer has to spend money to declare Guinness, and the day his son received the order of the Bayi Exercise Team, it became a festival for Liu Zhonghua's family.
Yang Xiaoli deliberately fried a few dishes, and Liu Zhonghua also made an exception and drank two glasses of liquor. 12-year-old Liu Yang said to his parents: I will be a soldier in the future, and I will be strict with myself as a soldier, practice gymnastics seriously, and not let my parents down.
Liu Zhonghua and his wife both smiled, full of beautiful hopes for their son's future.
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(Liu Yang and mentor Jin Weiguo)
Liu Yang's head coach in the Bayi gymnastics team is Jin Weiguo, who was a gymnastics star in his early years and won many gold medals in domestic competitions. After retiring, Jin Weiguo has been engaged in gymnastics teaching for a long time, and Olympic champion Xiao Qin came from his disciple.
Under the guidance of coach Jin Weiguo, Liu Yang has made rapid progress. Due to the outstanding strength of the upper limbs and strong explosiveness, many difficult movements coach him will be able to do a little.
Liu Yang attracted the attention of the weightlifting team of the Bayi Industrial Team, and the weightlifting coach talked to him several times and mobilized him to change his practice of weightlifting.
Liu Yang hesitated and called his parents to ask for their opinions. In the end, it was the enlightenment coach Kong Fanqi who reassured them: Liu Yang's air balance ability and physical stability are not possessed by ordinary gymnasts, and it would be a pity to abandon gymnastics and practice weightlifting.
(Liu Yang and his parents)
Kong Fanqi was worried that Liu Yang would change the project, so he called him specifically. In the end, Liu Yang followed his teacher's advice and continued to stay in the gymnastics team of the Bayi Labor Brigade.
The Bayi Labor Brigade forged Liu Yang into a good piece of steel, he not only has a tough personality and walks with a tiger's style, but also his ring skills are becoming more and more proficient, and he has won one difficult action after another.
Every time he went home to visit relatives, Liu Yang took the initiative to help his parents with housework, shared the pressure for his parents, and handed over the accumulated allowances and bonuses to his parents.
The son has grown taller, become handsome, and is so sensible and filial, Liu Zhonghua and his wife are warm in their hearts.
In order to repay the hard work of the coach and the kindness of his parents, Liu Yang dug deep into his potential in the Bayi Gymnastics Team, studied hard, and won medals one after another.
(Liu Yang on the field)
In September 2011, the 7th City Games was held in Nanchang, Jiangxi, and Liu Yang defeated the crowd and won the gold medal in the gymnastics rings event.
Liu Yang, who was selected for the national gymnastics team in 2012, went to Kunming with the team to participate in the National Gymnastics Championships. After rounds of competition, Liu Yang defeated a number of gymnastics celebrities and won the gold medal in the men's rings.
In October 2014, at the 45th World Gymnastics Championships, Liu Yang won the gold medal with a total score of 15.933 points in the final of the rings event.
It was Liu Yang's first World Championship, and standing on the podium, he shed tears of mixed feelings.
(Liu Yang on the podium)
After winning the championship, Liu Yang received a congratulatory call from his parents, in which he told his parents: Success is a thing of the past, and my next goal is to participate in the Rio Olympics in two years and strive to win an Olympic medal.
After returning to China, Liu Yang did not dare to slack off in the slightest, and went all out to sprint to the Rio Olympics.
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However, there are many things in the world that cannot be rushed, otherwise we will not be able to achieve them quickly. In August 2016, Liu Yang participated in the Rio Olympics with the team.
Gymnastics was originally the dominant event of the mainland sports delegation, but at the Rio Olympics, the Chinese gymnastics team suffered a "Waterloo", and did not win a gold medal in several battles.
(Liu Yang at the Rio Olympics)
On August 16, 2016, in the men's gymnastics rings final of the Rio Olympic Games, Liu Yang, who ranked No. 1 in the world, had the first few movement standards in place and won bursts of applause.
At the end of the prescribed action, Liu Yang was nervous, and an "inverted cross" angle was not in place, resulting in unsteady standing when landing. As a result, Liu Yang won the fourth place and missed the medal.
Walking off the field, Liu Yang shed tears of regret. His parents comforted him on the phone: It is a success to be on the Olympic stage, and we see that you have done your best, so don't be too sad. But Liu Yang's tears couldn't be stopped.
A few days later, Liu Yang took a flight back to China, and after the plane arrived in Beijing, he was reluctant to leave the cabin door, feeling that he had failed his leaders, coaches and relatives, and his inner pain and self-blame were beyond words.
(Liu Yang shows the medals of the Military Games)
In order to prove himself, in order to give an explanation to those who care about him, Liu Yang then started a new round of sprints.
Shame and courage! In the 13th National Games in September 2017, Liu Yang won the men's rings championship with 15.300 points.
In October 2019, Liu Yang participated in the 7th Military World Games in Wuhan, and he won two gold medals in the men's gymnastics team and individual rings one after another.
In November 2019, in the final of the Gymnastics World Cup in Otbus, Germany, Liu Yang won the championship with 15.133 points.
Due to the pandemic, the Tokyo Olympics have been postponed to July 2021. Although the competition date was postponed, Liu Yang and his teammates did not dare to slack off, and were determined to wash away the shame of "not winning a single gold" in the Rio Olympics.
(Liu Yang's signature move)
At the Tokyo Olympics in August 2021, Liu Yang made steady progress in the rings event and reached the finals all the way.
On August 2, the Tokyo Olympics rings final began, and Liu Yang's series of action standards were in place, like flowing water, and the audience applauded continuously.
Before landing, Liu Yang also performed a somewhat cute "crooked head kill" to the referee and the audience.
In the end, Liu Yang won the Tokyo Olympics rings championship with 15.500 points.
(Liu Yang on the podium of the Tokyo Olympics)
Walking on the podium, Liu Yang cried again. Liu Zhonghua and Yang Xiaoli, who were far away in Anshan's hometown, also cried, and this time their tears were joy, excitement and happiness!
Due to the perennial campaign, Liu Yang has many old knee injuries. After the Olympics, he was admitted to the hospital for surgery, where the surgeon removed eight broken bones from his knee.
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Throughout 2022, Liu Yang barely participated in any of the competitions. During the period of recuperation, he was in a very low mood, Liu Zhonghua rushed to Beijing, clenched his fists and enlightened his son: curl up his wings in order to take off more vigorously next time.
Under the guidance of the doctor, he also assisted Liu Yang in rehabilitation training, and under the care of his family, Liu Yang's mood improved day by day.
(Liu Yang's life photo)
At the beginning of 2023, Liu Yang was "resurrected with full blood", and in March of that year, he won the men's rings championship at the FIG World Cup in Doha.
On October 8, 2023, Liu Yang won the men's rings championship at the World Gymnastics Championships with a score of 15.233.
In 2024, Liu Yang was lucky to be selected for the Paris Olympic team. In July of this year, as a "veteran of the three dynasties", he went to France with the Chinese sports delegation to participate in the Paris Olympics.
On August 4, the men's rings final of the Paris Olympics started at the Bercy Stadium in Paris, and Liu Yang joined his teammate Zou Jingyuan and six other foreign players to compete at the peak.
At this time, Liu Yang has matured both psychologically and technically, and he made his second appearance, and Liu Yang's "front cross", "front cross", "back and forth" and "inverted cross" on the ring are perfect.
(Liu Yang in the final of the Paris Olympics)
(From left) Zou Jingyuan, Liu Yang and Petronias at the award ceremony. ）
The audience applauded one after another, and finally Liu Yang won the championship with 15.300 points, and his teammate Zou Jingyuan won the silver medal.
On the day of the competition, Liu Zhonghua and his wife were invited to Anshan Military Sports School to watch the live broadcast of the event with the leaders of the local sports bureau, teachers and students of the school.
The moment Liu Yang won the championship, his alma mater, Anshan Military Sports School, was boiling, and Anshan City was boiling. Liu Zhonghua and his wife shed tears of joy and excitement again.
After the game, the reporter asked Liu Yang how he planned to spend the next vacation. Liu Yang's eyes were red: What I want to do most is to take my father to the hospital.
(Liu Yang's mother)
(Liu Yang's parents took a group photo with teachers and students at the sports school)
It turned out that due to perennial hard work and mental anxiety, Liu Zhonghua suffered from skin melanin deficiency and white spots on his neck and behind his ears.
Liu Yang believes that the best way to give back to his parents is to make his parents healthy and comfortable. He wanted to accompany his father to the hospital to control his condition to a certain extent so that he could enjoy a quality life.
Liu Zhonghua and his wife also have a wish, that is, their son will be 30 years old in more than a month, and his personal problems have not been solved because he has been busy training and competing all year round. They hope that their son can find his beloved girlfriend as soon as possible and solve lifelong problems.
It's really touching that two generations think of each other for each other. "Taste the celebrities" I wish Liu Yang and Liu Zhonghua all their wishes come true and realize their wishes!
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