She joined the Chinese gymnastics national team since she was a child, and won three medals in gold, silver and bronze in her first international competition.
She is the first gymnastics player on the Chinese gymnastics team to participate in two Olympic games and win gold medals, and even if she is ordered to play for her teammates in danger, she still lands as steady as Taishan.
However, when she became famous, she suddenly chose to retire and continue her studies. What kind of wonderful moments did she have on the field? What is she doing now?
Tell the story of the characters and feel the wonderful life. In this issue, the childlike character Ji will approach everyone together, the sports life dream of gymnastics champion Deng Linlin.
At the age of 16, he appeared at the Beijing Olympic Games and became famous in one fell swoop
In 1992, Deng Linlin was born in a peasant family in Haozhou City, Anhui Province, and her father Deng Jiegu also had a dream of gymnastics, but for various reasons it could not be realized, so she very much hoped that the children in the family could embark on the path of athletes.
In 1998, Deng Jiegu's family moved to Fuyang City, Deng Linlin's brother was selected by gymnastics coach Guo Shaohua to practice gymnastics, and under the influence of her brother, Deng Linlin also began to train in gymnastics at Anhui Fuyang Sports School.
Perhaps because of her extraordinary talent, coupled with the unremitting efforts of the day after tomorrow, Deng Linlin's progress was much faster than her brother, and she was successfully selected for the national team in 2003.
But because she was only 11 years old in 2003, she was so young that she never participated in the big national competition.
Not being able to play does not mean that she will be discouraged and relaxed, and the daily hard training can always be exchanged for returns. Five years of sharpening a sword, 16-year-old Deng Linlin made her debut in 2008.
In the Gymnastics World Cup qatar sub-station, the young player did not panic to bring back to the country with three medals of one gold, one silver and one bronze, and then won two championships in the Russian stage of rhythmic gymnastics.
The girl who surprised everyone as soon as she set out conquered all the judges with her excellent performance, and in July of the same year, she was selected to participate in the women's gymnastics list of the Beijing Olympic Games and played for the country.
The 2008 Olympic Games can be said to be a lively and jubilant year for the Chinese people. And Deng Linlin, who debuted in the Olympic Games, was still in danger in the vaulting event and replaced her teammate Jiang Yuyuan.
The impeccable vaulting difficulty of 5.8 followed, and after a stunning jump, the Chinese gymnastics women's team won the first Olympic team gold medal with 188.9 points.
And Deng Linlin's brilliant performance also made her second in the team in the score of gymnastics after captain Cheng Fei.
Athletes choose to retire at their peak
Since then, Deng Linlin, who has become more and more courageous, won the all-around championship in the women's individual all-around final of the 11th National Games in 2009.
He then moved to the London Gymnastics Championships, winning the balance beam event with a high score of 15 points.
Just when people thought she would run on the championship road, at the 2010 World Championships, she was highly anticipated and trailed the American athletes by a small margin, and finally finished second.
It's not a big deal for young people to be frustrated, and After comforting herself like this, Deng Linlin threw herself into training even harder.
Later, at the Asian Games in Guangzhou, she led the team to win the women's team championship with her outstanding performance, and was far ahead of the Japanese team by 10 points.
In the 2011 Hong Kong National Gymnastics Championships, after winning the women's all-around championship, she won the gold medal in free gymnastics in the national gymnastics championships, becoming the only "double champion" in the competition.
Time came to 2012, when Deng Linlin was 20 years old. After winning the women's all-around title at the National Championships, she once again qualified for the Olympic Games and served as captain.
At the London Olympics, Deng Linlin, who won the balance beam competition with a score of 15.6, became a female gymnast in the country who would win the gold medal as long as she participated in the Olympic Games. This moment should be regarded as the upward journey of the career.
But at this time, Deng Linlin chose to retire. In the 10 years that have passed from 2003 to 2013, gymnastics has become a breath-related presence in her life, and the decision to retire was also announced after her careful consideration.
This brilliant girl in her sports career wants to go to school, which also means that she will break away from the simple and simple environment at the beginning, and slowly integrate into the variety of life and complex society, and everything has to start over.
Do not accept defeat and are not afraid of suffering, and bravely choose a different life
Perhaps athletes have a hard steel spirit of not accepting defeat and not being afraid of suffering. Like Deng Yaping, a sister of national table tennis, after retiring from the army and entering the school, she found that she was deficient in English, and she immersed herself in hard reading.
He eventually obtained a bachelor's degree in English from the Department of Foreign Languages at Tsinghua University, followed by a postgraduate study at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom and a phD in economics at the University of Cambridge.
Deng Linlin is not bad either. The outstanding performance of the athlete moment led her to be escorted to the School of International Relations of Peking University. Because she wanted to continue her career in sports after graduation, she chose this major with the goal of international sports federations.
The career of sports school is so ingrained in this young girl's heart that she has just entered the university campus and is a little confused, not knowing how to take courses online.
Faced with the large number of teaching buildings on the campus, she couldn't even find out which direction the classroom she was going to. Not to mention the knowledge points that the teacher directly taught without much introduction at the beginning of the course. Everything made Deng Linlin a little overwhelmed.
Champions who can kill all sides on the field will be scared off by this obstacle in life? In the consciousness of athletes, there is never the concept of retreating without fighting.
So the small book I carried with me slowly recorded the whole picture of the campus, the characteristics of the students, their names, the daily class schedule, as well as the books borrowed from the library and the time to return.
Deng Linlin, who is adapting to campus life a little bit, lives a very full life every day.
Once in an interview with reporters, this beautiful girl said that the days in the national team were the most simple time in her life, the three points and one line every day, single-mindedly dancing higher, fighting for the face of the country, not needing and unwilling to think too much chores.
But now every step of her life needs to rely on her own exploration and decision, both of which are to achieve a better self, but there are some differences.
But what she can be sure of is that if you want to climb to the top in both lives, you have to work hard beyond the limits and don't give yourself the opportunity to fail.
She gets up at 5:30 every morning to exercise, then starts memorizing English words or articles, goes to the library every day after class to make up for her deficiencies, and occasionally practices her favorite gymnastics in the open space where no one is.
She slowly blended into the rich learning atmosphere. After her undergraduate studies, she chose to continue her upward climb, and after getting her graduate degree, she went to the United States for a year of further study. This was the perfect end to his academic career.
Become your own leader in another way
After graduation, Deng Linlin, as she expected at the time, engaged in the sports career she loved. She served as the referee of the 14th Youth Gymnastics National Games and became the chairman of the Anhui Provincial Sports Development Foundation.
A year of study abroad made her give up the original goal of entering the International Sports Federation, strong homesickness and the idea of contributing to the cause of Chinese sports, so that she chose to return to her hometown of Anhui, in the direction of sports public welfare, to find and help China's teenagers to complete their sports dreams.
Now Deng Linlin is more mature and stable than before.
Recalling the first time she stepped into the sports arena, she relived the highlight of her game, this girl who was once full of honors, after leaving the arena, stepped into the sports circle again in another capacity, and her love for sports and her love for athlete status can be seen.
Now that the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games are underway, our women's gymnastics team only won the seventh place in the team final, and did not have the opportunity to compete for the gold medal, but then in the single competition, I hope to strive for the upstream and strive for better results.
Choosing to restart her studies at the peak of her career, Deng Linlin is brave, she chose a new path, and worked tirelessly for it, which is also worthy of everyone's praise.
In life, when she is about to reach the end of her existing life, she follows her heart and bravely pursues a different life, dares to jump out of a comfortable life, and plans for a more long-term future, then in the days to come, she is the leader of life.
Summer is warm and passionate, young people, do you have the heart to learn to run, increase your knowledge, temper your will, and make your life more fulfilling?
There are not a few athletes who choose to retire in the glory period, complete the first half of their glorious lives, try to stop and rest, and experience the unknown world, perhaps we can also find another mystery of life.
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