In the gymnastics individual men's all-around final at the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese athlete Xiao Ruoteng won the second place. Although Xiao Ruoteng failed to realize his dream of winning the championship, such achievements are still worthy of pride.
It's just that the arena is changing rapidly, and some people are happy and some are sad.
Sun Wei, a player from Jiangsu, China, because of a wrist injury, seriously affected the play, and finally relegated to fourth, behind the regret of not being able to win the podium, people can't help but think of the athletes who retired from the race due to injury and did not get the podium due to injury in those years.
As we all know, sports have certain dangers, and the chance of injury and illness of athletes is higher than that of ordinary people.
For example, in basketball games, injuries occur from time to time; boxing matches, even more light noses and blue faces, heavy ones faint on the ground...
Injuries have a very big impact on the performance of the game, and many athletes have to leave the game as a result. In the gymnastics world, there is such a goddess, who once shone in the gymnastics world and was named "Vault queen".
But unfortunately, an accident made this girl, who was not yet 18 years old, leave her beloved vaulting horse and spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
This girl is Sunland.
In 1981, a family in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, added a daughter. Her parents named her "Sunland" and wanted her to be as elegant and pure as an orchid.
Since childhood, Sunland has been like a "girl like the wind", energetic and fond of sports.
At the age of 6, Sunland entered the sports school.
For young Sunland, all kinds of strange equipment are much more interesting than kindergarten toys. The older siblings who can flash around are also more powerful than the children who only cry their noses in kindergarten.
So after entering the Zhejiang Junior Sports School, she developed a strong interest in gymnastics, trained hard, and her grades have been very good, and she is the goddess in the sports school.
She has also won the first place in gymnastics, vaulting, individual all-around and other competitions several times.
From the provincial team to the national team, it took only 3 years for her to become a rising gymnastics star for the national team.
After entering the national team, she trained very hard, and her results were very stable, and everyone thought that she had a bright future.
She has won many honors for herself and her country, and she is also very famous in the international sports world. Her dream is to stand on the highest podium in gymnastics, win a gold medal for her country and win a championship for herself.
At that time, she was full of vigor and spirit, often the focus of everyone's eyes, a smile, an action are full of beauty, can cause the audience to shout warmly.
Who would have thought that fate was so fond of joking, one second it was still the "queen" of the arena, and the next second it was like an angel falling into hell.
In July 1998, Sunland, who was not yet 18 years old, participated in the friendship competition of the Fourth Friendship Games with the theme of "Benefiting Children".
The competition was held in New York, where the superstars of the sports world gathered at that time, and Sunland was full of confidence in himself and wanted to win the championship in one fell swoop.
However, she accidentally fell while practicing vaulting before the race.
Sunland did the "hand flip body" action at that time, and did this action twice in a row. But because there were many masters on the field, she felt that the warm-up was not enough, the grasp was not enough, and she came again.
I didn't expect that this action that was already "familiar to the heart" for world-class athletes had an accident.
Sunland landed on the mat with his head on the ground, and he was unconscious. Accompanying ambulance crews and sideline workers rushed her to the hospital for emergency treatment.
However, a height that flips to the ground has become a distance from hope to despair.
After the doctor's rescue diagnosis, she fractured her cervical vertebrae and was paraplegic from the chest down to the top. In this life, she was afraid that she would have to spend it in a wheelchair.
The day after Sunland fell, the organizing committee of the Friendship Games sent someone to hold a press conference, which was attended by 8 authoritative figures.
They announced Sunland's treatment and diagnosis to the media, and explained that all the equipment and protective measures before the game were normal, which was an absolute accident.
USA Gymnastics President Ms. Casey Canlan also assured the media and audience that this was definitely not a safety incident.
They believe that Sunland was supposed to do the action of getting off the horse and turning his head over, but when he turned his head in the air, he should have landed on the ground first, and finally the head landed first.
It was entirely her personal mistake.
Tu Mingde, head of the Chinese delegation at the time, also admitted at the press conference that this was an accident caused by a mistake.
However, Sunland himself did not think so.
When she woke up from a fall, the first thing she asked was how the game was going.
A young girl who has just learned that she will spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair wakes up not to care about herself, but to care about the progress of the game, so strong and optimistic, how difficult it is.
The crowd was touched by her spirit, praised her greatness, and wept for her great love.
Subsequently, in the face of the reporter's interview, she said that the fall was not her mistake at all, but the coach took the cushion.
She alleges that she had already taken off and was making movements in the air only to find that the cushion had been removed.
She was panicked and her movements became hesitant, so she made a mistake when she fell. The removal of the soft pads was the main reason for this injury.
On the one hand, there are strong, optimistic, and great tragic tricks, and on the other hand, there are coaches who try to defend, prove innocence, and may "harbor conspiracies".
The trend of public opinion has become one-sided, and the truth of the matter has not yet come out, but the balance in the audience's heart has long been biased towards the "weak woman" Sunland.
Sunland approached a lawyer and demanded compensation.
In the 17 years since the accident, Sunland has not forgotten to make a claim, not to forget to accuse the Romanian gymnastics coach who removed the mat when she took off.
She and her husband and agent Huang Jian once appeared on "Very Quiet Distance" together, and she also said herself in the show: "At that time, the situation was to fall down while doing the second difficult move." ”
Many people, she said, didn't know what was going on at the time. She was already running and jumping, and when she was about to step on the pedal, a Romanian coach ran over and pulled the cushion, causing her to fall.
She also shouted, "Don't withdraw, don't withdraw," but the coach may not have realized the danger.
After the show was broadcast, the audience was full of sighs.
Just when everyone was complaining about Sunland and hoping that the law would give a fair ruling, new evidence was made public.
In the latest survey results released by Xinhua Net, Sunland's fall injury was caused by his own mistakes.
At that time, she got off the horse and estimated the wrong position of the pedal, and stepped forward about 20cm more than usual when practicing, which was the main reason for her injury.
Public evidence shows that her fall had nothing to do with the cushion, nor was it the Romanian gymnastics coach who removed the mat.
Instead, the coach was the first person to run to her side to help her after she fell. The truth has been revealed, and everyone can't help but feel sorry for the two protagonists of this matter.
Later, Sunland reached a settlement with a number of institutions related to the accident, and received a huge compensation, and will receive a certain amount of compensation on a regular basis in the future.
The public opinion of this matter has a great influence, and it can be said that Sunland has been put on the cusp of the storm.
Before that, Sunland's husband Huang Jian, as her agent, thought that such Sunland had more social value. Because a controversial public figure with her own topic can better reflect her commercial value.
Therefore, in that interview, Sunland deliberately announced the truth of "other hidden feelings" behind the fall of the arena, whether it is related to her husband's marketing, it is unknown.
Fortunately, after Sunland fell into the whirlpool of public opinion, Huang Jian also deeply regretted it!
Many well-known people said that no matter who is right and who is wrong, please let Sunland live quietly.
Years have passed, time will erase the trauma caused by this incident to Sunland, and although her body cannot recover, she has ushered in a new life.
I have to admit that Sunland is an inspirational, strong, optimistic girl.
The doctor who treated her after she fell said it was the strongest and most optimistic girl he had ever seen.
More than once in those years, Sunland asked questions like "When can I retrain?" But she also knew in her heart that maybe in this life, she would never be able to return to the field.
So in 1999, after her physical condition was stable, she returned to China to continue her treatment and was admitted to Peking University without examination.
In the same year, he also joined Star TV and became the host of "Sunland 2008". It also means that she is truly heading for another life.
Kazuo Inamori once said that the path of life is drawn with heart.
No matter how harsh the situation you are in, your mind should not be surrounded by pessimism.
Sunland did just that. She is always optimistic and positive, and she always blooms the brightest smile in front of people. After experiencing the thunderbolt of a sunny day, it finally ushered in a rainbow.
She met Huang Jian, who also retired from sports.
At that time, Huang Jian was touched by her strong optimism and was deeply attracted to her, first becoming her agent and then taking care of her closely for several years.
Because of the high paraplegia, Sunland can't be separated from people. Huang Jian is not too hard and takes the initiative to take care of her diet and living.
Even if it is not easy, there is not a single complaint.
Finally, the two men finally came together.
It can be said that Huang Jian gave Sunland a new life.
While Worrying about Sunland's diet and living, Huang Jian also has to run his own business, and at the same time, as Sunland's agent, he also contacts her for various public welfare speeches and inspirational programs.
And Sunland has never lost confidence and hope in life, although she has limited mobility, she still uses her clever brain to run a business with her husband.
She has also always loved to read, enrich her heart at the same time, but also to bring more people the spark of hope.
On the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Sunland also served as an olympic bid ambassador and passed on the Olympic torch.
Over the years, she has always shown the public a positive, optimistic, and active side of treatment.
She once tweeted that after 20 years, she should get up from where she fell. She wanders between her career and family, and she is very busy.
In her career, she became a public welfare ambassador, an inspirational role model for people with disabilities, and a strong and winner in life.
In the family, she and her husband Huang Jian also have a lovely son, and the family lives happily.
The nightmare is far away, the road of life is still very long, and her future deserves more excitement.
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