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In the 1500m final of the 2013 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, South Korea's Choi Ji-hyun failed to win a medal after losing to China's Lee Kin-rou.
In a fit of rage, she openly punched and vented her dissatisfaction with Li Jianrou's abdomen, and her mouth was still not dry and dirty with dirty words such as "crawling cloth".
Faced with the provocation of many members of the South Korean team, Li Jianrou was a little overwhelmed.
Suddenly, a heavenly voice saved her——
"Who are you scolding?" With whom? ”
It was Chinese player Wang Meng who stepped forward and did not hesitate to meet the South Korean team. It directly made the Korean players gray and dirty, and finally walked away under the referee's adjustment.
As we all know, Wang Meng has a nickname on the Internet, called "Social My Sister".
The reason why there is such a nickname is because Wang Meng has a fiery personality, dares to love and dare to hate, and is a typical northeast big girl.
During her time in the national team, Wang Meng broke the women's 500-meter speed skating record and won 4 Olympic gold medals for the country, making her a well-deserved queen on the ice rink.
While the other contestants were chasing her, she slowed down with her hands behind her back, as if the place was not an ice rink where every second counted, but a bustling wet market.
Even the South Korean team, which has always liked to play the black hand, has nothing to do with Wang Meng - people can't catch up, how to get the black hand?
However, Wang Meng, who created an ice miracle, was expelled from the national team twice, and even rumors of fighting with the leader of the team, and the enmity and resentment between him and coach Li Yan, can write a TV series.
So, what kind of person is "social my sister"?
Today I want to talk about the story of the "Queen of Ice" Wang Meng.
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Wang Meng, born in 1984, is a native of Qitaihe, Heilongjiang.
Wang Meng's childhood was very happy and carefree like other post-80s children. Because of her big grin, she always plays the role of "big sister" in her friends.
Before the age of 10, Wang Meng had never been formally exposed to short track speed skating, until 1994, when the horse coach of the municipal amateur sports school discovered her, which made her indissoluble with the ice rink.
At that time, the coaches of Qitaihe Amateur Sports School were tasked with selecting a group of talented and worthy of training short track speed skating team members.
Originally, their group was not ready to go to the new city on the mountain to pick people, but the young coach Ma Qingzhong was not willing to give up any talented child.
So they came to the Mining Bureau Primary School in the New Town, where Wang Meng happened to be studying.
Among the many primary school students, Ma Qingzhong immediately fell in love with Wang Meng. The coach felt that her pace was flexible and extremely fast, and from the perspective of body shape and movement, she was a good seedling for practicing short track speed skating.
In this way, 10-year-old Wang Meng began her speed skating career.
At that time, because Wang Meng's feet were too small, it was difficult to find a pair of skate shoes that suited her. But coach Ma Qingzhong is very attentive, and he has gone all over the world to find ice knives for Wang Meng.
Therefore, when holding the brand new skate shoes, the young Wang Meng was very touched, and she made up her mind to practice speed skating well and fight for the coach and her parents.
Practicing speed skating is a very hard thing, because the foundation is weak, and Wang Meng's speed is much worse than other team members.
But Wang Meng was too strong, and she actually took advantage of the coach's lack of attention to learn from other team members to practice barbells.
At just 10 years old, she didn't know how much the seemingly small barbell piece weighed. As a result, it is conceivable that when Wang Meng exerted all his strength to lift the barbell piece, he was suddenly flashed by the weight of the barbell piece, and her hand was too late to withdraw, and she was squeezed by the two barbells to the nails and fell off.
After the coach found out, he hurriedly sent Xiao WangMeng to the hospital for treatment of the wound. Looking at Wang Meng, whose hands were full of blood, the coach was very remorseful, but Wang Meng wiped away his tears and comforted the coach:
"It's okay coach, it's going to get better soon."
After resting in the hospital for three days, Wang Meng returned to the team, although she had bandages on her hands, she practiced her leg strength with the other team members every day, and she looked hard and serious, not like a 10-year-old child at all.
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Wang Meng is one of the few players who is both willing to work hard and is talented.
Other squad members often complained that their feet hurt, but Wang Meng never said it.
Is her foot not hurting? The opposite is true.
Wang's tender feet were often worn by hard skates to bleed, and sometimes the freshly scabbed wounds were repeatedly worn.
But she doesn't complain, because she's full of eyes on how to increase speed and improve movements.
Wang Meng's bitterness was not eaten in vain.
After 3 years of training in an amateur sports school, Wang Meng was almost invincible in Qitaihe City. At just 13 years old, she has a speed skating time of 57 seconds in the 500 meters, ranking first among the players of her age.
In 1998, Wang Meng was recommended to enter the provincial sports school and truly became an athlete.
In 2000, the 16-year-old Wang Meng won the bronze medal in the 1500-meter short track speed skating competition at the Ninth Games.
In the same year, she entered the national team.
In 2002, she competed in her first World Junior Championships and won the women's 500m short track speed skating championship.
In 2003, Wang Meng participated in the World Championships for the first time, and she was originally the favorite to win the 500 meters, but she accidentally fell down at the start and lost the championship.
But then she won the championship in the 3,000-meter final with veteran players Wang Chunlu, Yang Yang and Fu Tianyu.
Yi Min, who was the coach of the national team at the time, commented on Wang Meng:
"Among the first-team players, Wang Meng is the youngest, but in the future, she definitely has the strength to compete with the world's strong hands!"
However, when Wang Meng emerged in the world, she was less than 20 years old, but she encountered the peak of Korean short track speed skating.
At that time, the South Korean team Ofo Ki-hyun, Chen Shanyou, Choi Eun-kyung and others were strong, but the Chinese team was "green and yellow" in the short track speed skating field. Wang Meng often went to the meeting single-handedly and struggled with the Korean team.
The South Korean team has always been known internationally for its small moves.
At that time, Wang Meng often faced a situation of more than a dozen, but also always pay attention to the "care" of the Korean team on the field, pressing her knees, pushing shoes, two-person bag clips... Wang Meng has seen the "advanced tactics" of the South Korean team.
But it is also in such a harsh environment that Wang Meng held his breath and vowed to use the first place to "repay" the "kindness" of the Korean team.
Gradually, the South Korean team found that the formulated tactics could not be used at all, and people dumped them half a circle, where did the black hand go?
"Ice Queen" Wang Meng defeated the Korean team in the most honorable way, creating miracles again and again, and letting the world see what is called Chinese energy!
She is also recognized as the leader of the Chinese team and is unbeaten in the 500m speed skating.
In 2006, Wang Meng finally got the opportunity to participate in the Olympic Games.
However, this year, the Chinese team lost one after another on the field. First, figure skating Shen Xue Zhao Hongbo failed to rush gold, and then skating star Wang Manli also returned to win the silver medal.
At that time, Wang Meng was also facing tremendous pressure. Competing with her is world record holder Radanova, and if Wang Meng can't win the gold this time, it means that China has failed again to hit the first gold.
The game began, Wang Meng directly surpassed Ladanova in the first three knives, and Ladanova's always proud explosive power was vulnerable in front of Wang Meng.
Devastated, Radanova never grabbed the opportunity again, and watched as Wang Meng broke through the finish line and won the gold medal.
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However, just when Wang Mengzhi was satisfied, the news came that she had been expelled from the national team.
Originally, since 2006, the national team coach has been replaced by newcomer Li Yan.
Li Yan adopted a new training method, which led to a great increase in the training intensity of the speed skating team, which attracted Wang Meng's doubts.
At the 2007 Changchun Asian Winter Games, she publicly accused head coach Li Yan, and the scene was once very embarrassing.
Li Yan expelled Wang Meng from the national team in a fit of rage.
But after the two sides calmed down, they both realized that no matter how noisy, their goal was the same, that is, to win the championship for the glory of the country.
In the end, the two shook hands and came together again.
It was also from this time that Wang Meng corrected his attitude, and the era of "Ice Queen" belonging to Wang Meng really arrived.
In the years that followed, the name "Wang Meng" became a nightmare for short-track speed skaters in other countries. As long as Wang Meng appears, the champion is basically hopeless.
At the 2008 World Championships, South Korea was the home team. They thought they could give Wang Meng a "dismount" on their own turf, but Wang Meng won the 500 meters, 1000 meters, and 1500 meters three championships, and directly punched him in the face.
At the 2009 World Championships, Wang Meng became the champion of the 500 meters and 1000 meters.
At the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, she first set a new world record in the 500 meters, followed by the 500 meters, 1000 meters and 3000 meters relay championships, becoming the first short track speed skating triple crown in the history of the Chinese Olympic Games!
Also at the Vancouver Competition, Wang Meng knelt down to thank Li Yan in the coach's seat. Wang Meng, who dared to love and dare to hate, attracted thunderous applause on the spot, and this scene also became a classic.
Later, Li Yan also sighed: "Wang Meng has grown up and has connotations. ”
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Wang Meng seems to have been born to create history, but while creating history, the controversy surrounding her has not stopped, mainly because this northeastern big girl is too hot.
In 2011, Wang Meng was again embroiled in controversy.
In the early morning hours of June 7, Chinese short-track speed skating teams clashed with suspected security guards in Lijiang, injuring at least 10 others.
Originally, this matter ended in accordance with the principle of "big things become small, small things", and both sides also admitted their mistakes. Unexpectedly, a few days later, there was news that "Wang Meng led the team members to beat up".
In fact, Wang Meng was not present at the time, but the hat of this "group fight" was fastened on her head, just because she was the captain.
Just when the outside world was talking about it and the wind direction was unclear, on July 24, Wang Meng and 6 other team members had a verbal altercation with the leader Wang Chunlu because they did not return to bed at the specified time, even to the point of fists and feet.
In this conflict, Wang Meng was injured in the hand. In the end, Wang Meng was expelled from the national team, and Wang Chunlu was also transferred from the team leadership position.
Due to the successive incidents, Wang Meng's reputation was greatly affected, and she was also banned.
Fortunately, on September 16, 2012, Wang Meng was allowed to make a comeback.
In 2014, 22 days counting down to the Sochi Winter Olympics, Wang Meng was unfortunately injured during training and missed the Olympic Games.
But Wang Meng did not leave his beloved ice rink, and in 2018, Wang Meng became the head coach of the national speed skating team and continued to lead Chinese athletes to win gold and silver internationally.
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Genius is always individual, and Wang Meng is no exception.
Her fiery personality makes her a well-deserved big sister in the team, and when she sees her teammates being bullied, she always does not hesitate to stand up for justice.
But this temper also makes her irritable and irritable, often caught in the whirlpool of public opinion.
However, no matter how the wind of public opinion blows, wang Meng's gold medals and honors won for the Chinese team are real.
It was also she who led the Chinese speed skating team to a peak!
From being young and stubborn, to being spirited, to being calm and introverted, Wang Meng grew up on the ice rink and constantly precipitated himself.
Regardless of whether the owner is still on the ice rink in the future, we wish her to spread her wings and fly high, because the way she fights for her dreams is really beautiful!