Zhejiang News Client Reporter Yu Xinyi Wang Zhijie Correspondent Zhu Xiaoyan Huang Junwen
In the just-concluded Tokyo Olympic Badminton Mixed Doubles Final, Jiaxing boy Wang Yilu and partner Huang Dongping won the Olympic Championship and won another gold for the Chinese delegation. This gold medal is also the first gold medal won by Jiaxing athletes in this Olympic Games, achieving a "breakthrough of zero" for Jiaxing Olympic gold medals.
This is the second Olympic medal in the history of Jiaxing.
In 1996, Cao Mianying won a silver medal in the women's rowing double sculls competition at the Atlanta Olympic Games. She was also the first Jiaxing athlete to win an Olympic medal.
In 1996, Cao Mianying (right) won a silver medal in the women's rowing double sculls at the Atlanta Olympics.
Wang Yilu won the first Olympic gold medal for Jiaxing! His parents said so...
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Wang Yilu's parents, Wang Kuanyong and Fu Huihong, who were watching the live broadcast of their son's game at Jiaxing Major Sports School, were excited and embraced together. Mother Fu Huihong moistened her eyes even more, "It is not easy for the child to go this way!" Finally got the Olympic medal. ”
He plays badminton because he plays basketball well
Wang Yilu's contact with the sport of badminton is a coincidence. At the age of 8, he was selected to work on the elementary school badminton team because he learned basketball quickly.
"I watched him teach himself three steps to go to the basket, and after a few times the action was quite standard, I thought he was a good seedling." I recommended him to the badminton team that had just been formed in our school. Zhang Jianzhong, former director of moral education at the Friendship Primary School in Xiuzhou District, Jiaxing City, said.
Group photo of Zhang Jianzhong (left) and Wang Yilu (right) in 2019
At that time, he asked Wang Yilu, a second-grader, to ask his family's opinion first, after all, the badminton team had to train every day, and many parents were afraid of affecting the results of cultural classes. Wang Yilu's parents agreed.
However, when Wang Yilu began to pick up the badminton racket, everything did not go so smoothly.
"The child has been very 'wild' since he was a child, he loves to move, and playing badminton is to allow him to exercise. Later, I also worried about affecting his studies. Wang Yilu's mother attaches great importance to her child's studies and has thought of letting him give up badminton training.
Fortunately, Wang Yilu has a father who supports him, and the "two votes to one vote" mother finally compromised. Whether it is a weekend or a holiday, the thunderous training is two hours a day, and the parents personally pick up and drop off. Wang Yilu's love for badminton began here.
Wang Yilu's father, Wang Kuanyong
"Wang Yilu has good physical fitness, is very good at playing ball, and his mentality is also very calm and calm." Xu Chong, the enlightenment coach of Wang Yilu's friendship primary school in Xiuzhou District, a training point of Jiaxing City Junior Sports School, said that playing small balls depends on the brain, and Wang Yilu has such a talent.
Wang Yilu and Xu Chong in 2005 (data map)
After a year of training, his performance in the badminton team has been very top-notch, often winning the top three in the youth badminton competition in Jiaxing City.
In 2003, the provincial team came to select, and Wang Yilu was the only male player in the team to be selected.
In 2011, Wang Yilu won the National Youth Badminton Championships Group A Men's Doubles Championship and Team Championship. In 2012, he won the Doubles and Team Doubles championships at the National Youth Badminton Championships. With such excellent results, he successfully entered the national team.
He came out of his trough in this way
In the past 18 years, Wang Yilu has gone from Jiaxing City to Zhejiang Province, step by step to the whole country and the world. Today, in Wang Yilu's home, medals of all kinds of competitions fill the entire window. Once awarded, he will send it back to his parents as soon as possible.
Medals and trophies won by Wang Yilu
The hardships behind so many medals are known only to his parents.
What impressed Fu Huihong deeply was that during the training of the provincial team, Wang Yilu was once injured in the eye, so anxious that she borrowed a car from her relatives and rushed to Hangzhou overnight. Seeing his mother coming, Wang Yilu, who was only eleven or twelve years old, sensibly said that he was fine.
Wang Yilu's mother, Fu Huihong
"Another time, when we were watching the game, we noticed that the technique was suspended, and it turned out that he was injured by the overstepped ball while playing the game and had several stitches. He didn't say it until we asked him. Wang Yilu was so sensible that Fu Huihong was distressed, "He is like this, he doesn't talk much, but he has a sense of responsibility." ”
In addition to being physically injured, athletes will also be mentally tired.
Wang Yilu, who has just entered the national team, is very confused, the environment is strange, and he has no clear goal. During that time, he once called his mother and said that he was confused, his grades were not as good as expected, and he did not know what to do.
"Hearing that my son was not in a good condition, his father and I quickly took the high-speed train to Beijing to see him and do ideological work for him." Fu Huihong let her son boldly move forward, and his parents will always be his backers.
Wang Yilu's trough period is a stage that most national team members need to go through. At this stage, as long as you hold on and don't give up, you can overcome it. Wang Yilu promised his mother, "I will definitely insist!" "He really did.
Wang Yilu, who completed his psychological breakthrough, showed stronger combat effectiveness, and in April 2018, Wang Yilu and Huang Dongping won the Mixed Doubles Championships of the Asian Championships, and the duo gradually attracted public attention.
He strives to be his idol
Wang Yilu once told his mother that his idol was Fu Haifeng. The Olympic champion is like a big brother, taking good care of him in both training and life, allowing him to grow in his skills and mentality.
However, unconsciously, Wang Yilu, who was once ignorant of badminton, is already an idol of many Jiaxing children.
Badminton has gained wider popularity in Jiaxing. Among the youth group alone, the number of people in the training of the municipal badminton team has remained at about 60 all year round, and the total number of people in training in ordinary primary and secondary schools and social institutions has reached thousands.
The Friendship Elementary Badminton Team is training
On the morning of July 30, the badminton team of Friendship Primary School, a group of children training sweating, heard that "idol" Wang Yilu was fighting in the Olympic Games, they were more motivated. "I want to be like Brother Wang Yilu in the future and win glory for China at the Olympic Games!" Fang Jiayu, a second-grade team member, said he still remembered that when Wang Yilu returned to his alma mater in 2019, he signed his name and took a photo with him.
In February 2019, Wang Yilu took advantage of a short vacation, accompanied by his parents, to return to his primary school alma mater, Friendship Primary School, to visit his enlightenment coaches and teachers and students of Friendship Primary School.
In 2019, Wang Yilu returned to his alma mater, Friendship Primary School (data map)
Wang Yilu's sudden appearance surprised the children who were training in the gymnasium of Friendship Primary School. Everyone gathered around the champion's brother for a group photo. The kid handed the book to sign, the player held up the badminton racket and asked for it, and several of the team members simply pulled up their jerseys to sign. Their champion brother is very good, and they all meet the wishes of the young players, and they also take photos with the 2 groups of young players of different ages who are training. On the school's signature book, Wang Yilu seriously wrote down "I wish my alma mater is getting better and better!" Those few words.
The growing Wang Yilu has also become an idol in the eyes of his parents. At Wang Yilu's home, Fu Huihong took out the tickets for each time she watched her son's game, and she and her husband would not miss any of their son's matches in China. Wuhan, Guangzhou, Tianjin... Wherever Wang Yilu hit, they chased after him, and this time his son participated in the Tokyo Olympics, and the time of each competition was recorded in detail on the annual calendar. In order not to affect Wang Yilu's training and rest, Fu Huihong collected all the words he wanted to say into a letter and sent it to him in advance, telling him to pay attention to sleep and adjust his mentality.
"Yesterday, they defeated the Japanese players, and after reaching the final, the stone in my heart was already put down. Because he has worked hard to complete his task. Fu Huihong said that he hopes that his son's badminton road is getting better and better, and his family will always support him!