The touching moments of the Olympic Games: the 46-year-old gymnastics goddess stopped the final, regrettably retired, hugged the coach and cried - introduction.
【The main author of this article: Xu Xu】
On July 25, a touching scene was staged on the gymnastics competition of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and the 46-year-old "gymnastics goddess" Chusovkina announced her official retirement and bid farewell to the sports world.
Netizens who pay attention to the Olympic Games and gymnastics competitions must be familiar with the name Chusovkina. Her career spanned 33 years, during which she competed in 8 Olympic Games.
This year's Olympics was the last she participated in, because she was ranked 14th in vaulting with 14.166 points, and she missed the single final, and her last jump in the qualification tournament became the end of her career.
At that moment, Chusovkina cried, but the whole audience applauded her.
Chusovkina is a native of Uzbekistan, but because of the special background of the times, her first World Championships and the first Olympic Games represented the CIS.
She later represented Uzbekistan at three Olympic Games (1996 at Atlanta, 2000 in Sydney, and Athens in 2004).
Originally, she had already retired at the age of 21, but because in 2002, her 3-year-old son was diagnosed with leukemia and urgently needed a lot of treatment, and she sold her property.
In order to earn money to treat her son, she returned to sports at the age of 27. Gymnasts generally do not live longer than 25 years old, with an average age of around 16 years. She was 27 years old when she came back, which was an advanced age for professional gymnasts.
Since then, she has been desperately competing, a world championship gold medal, which can be rewarded for 3,000 euros, and the Olympic gold medal is even more gold.
In order to get a higher income, and in order for her son to have better medical conditions, she moved her family to Germany, changed to German nationality, and represented Germany.
We also saw her at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when she represented the German team and finished 9th in the individual all-around competition, which is the best record of the German team in 20 years.
Later, she won a silver medal for germany in the vault competition she was good at. Germany helped her, and she repaid Germany with her results.
Happily, her son recovered. After repaying Germany's kindness, she returned to her hometown of Uzbekistan.
She did not give up her gymnastics career, but after that, she represented her country and competed in the Rio and Tokyo Olympic Games.
Once, his son was his motivation. After her son recovered, the driving force that supported her to fight was her love for gymnastics.
"There are no secrets. I just love gymnastics and no one ever forced me to compete. I've been listening to my heart for so many years, sticking to sports, I love sports, I know what it is, and I want to be a happy person. Chusovkina said.
At the Rio Olympics, she was 41 years old. She was 46 years old at the Tokyo Olympics. He is not yet more than half a hundred years old, but he already has the title of "gymnastics grandmother". Just because of the line of gymnastics, it is really a bowl of youth rice, and it cannot withstand the terrier of the years.
Even she herself has teased that some of the little athletes who play together on the field can call her "grandma".
In the tokyo olympic qualifying round, she did not achieve the desired result in both jumps.
The first jump, when landing, stepped out of bounds with his right foot and scored 14.500 points.
In the second jump, it was still a mistake on the ground, scoring 13.833 points.
In the end, it ranked 14th and could not reach the final. When the big screen showed her ranking, she turned lonely and walked back, the coach hugged her, and she cried very sadly because her career had to end with a regretful ending.
But she is still the pride of the Olympic arena, and many of the young girls who played with her were not yet born in her peak.
The 46-year-old gymnast, at her age, can get such results, really try her best.
She said that this time she really retired, and the 46-year-old will not have a second chance to come back. After her son recovered, she was very angry and admitted to college, and she wanted to spend the rest of her time with her son. She said there is still a lot to do in life and it's time to make up for it.
In the International Gymnastics Federation, there are 2 vaulting movements and 1 high and low bar movement, all named after her. She is an immortal legend in the history of world sports and gymnastics, and even if she leaves the stage, the world will remember her.
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