Text | Candy fruit
On August 18, 2021, Liu Guoliang posted a video on social platforms to confess his wife:
We are 15th anniversary, you are the joy of my youth, but also the sweetness of the rest of my life, may our future life, not only have chai rice oil and salt, but also the sea of stars.
From 1992, two 16-year-olds, who met in the national team, fell in love with long-distance running for 14 years, and entered the palace of marriage on August 18, 2006, to August 18 this year, just the 15th anniversary of marriage.
Add up, they've been together for 29 years.
In these 29 years, Wang Jin, who was also a table tennis player, gave up his dream for the future of his lover and silently waited behind Liu Guoliang, so that the love that looked like a guard was really enviable.
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Liu Guoliang was born on January 10, 1976 in Fengqiu County, Xinxiang, Henan.
He is the second oldest in the family, and there is an older brother named Liu Guodong, the names of the two brothers are given by his father Liu Zhansheng, which adds up to the meaning of the national pillar, from this point you can see Liu Zhansheng's expectations for his two sons.
Speaking of this, we have to start with Liu Guoliang's grandfather.
Liu Zhansheng was very fond of table tennis, but his father was strongly opposed to his son taking the road of sports, in that era, most children were following the arrangements of their parents, and Liu Zhansheng was no exception.
After the death of his father, Liu Zhansheng began to live for himself, and he applied to be transferred to the Xinxiang Amateur Sports School as a table tennis coach, and pinned his hopes on his two sons for the world championship.
In order to let his son know about the sport of table tennis, Liu Zhansheng can be described as well-intentioned, he ordered the magazine "Table Tennis World" and took this publication to his two sons as extracurricular reading materials.
In addition, Liu Zhansheng also specially took his son to Beijing to visit their hometown world champion Zhang Li, visit Zhang Li's various medals at home, and let the children listen to the story of Zhang Li playing table tennis.
Liu Guoliang officially participated in table tennis training from the age of 6, his father was very strict with him and his brother, almost all of the time outside of school was used to practice, and there was not a single toy at home.
Sometimes Liu Guoliang and his brother will take advantage of their father's absence to play lazily, and if they are discovered by their father, the result is a beating. Later, Liu Zhansheng thought of a trick, that is, to use the reward and punishment system to manage his two sons.
If you don't practice well, you can only run home, and the good one can take your father's bicycle back, and you can also get other material rewards, or directly reward cash.
In 1986, after his brother Liu Guodong entered the Henan Provincial Team, Liu Guoliang entered the Bayi Team, and the reason why he sent his son to the Bayi Team was because his father felt that Liu Guoliang was more naughty, and it would be better for him to go to the army to receive strict management training.
In this way, 10-year-old Liu Guoliang left his hometown for Beijing, but he was particularly happy, because he was managed by his father since he was a child, he thought that he could leave home more freely, who knew that the really hard training had just begun.
In Liaoning, there is also a girl the same age as Liu Guoliang who is training hard for the dream of a world championship, and in a few years, the two will meet in the national team and compose a touching love.
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Similar to Liu Guoliang's origins, Wang Jin's father, Wang Jixin, was also a table tennis coach, and his expectations of his daughter Wang Jin were the same as Liu Zhansheng's son Liu Guoliang, who won the world championship.
In 1991, Liu Guoliang was recruited to the national team because of his outstanding performance in various competitions, and the following year Wang Jin was also recruited into the national team, but Liu Guoliang was in the front line of the first team and Wang Jin was in the second team.
Before going to the national team, Wang Jin already knew Liu Guoliang, in Wang Jin's own words, Liu Guoliang is her idol, although the two are the same age, but Liu Guoliang is playing a higher level of competition, is the level of the god is right.
Liu Guoliang's attention to Wang Jin still began with a morning exercise, when Wang Jin and a sister from the northeast wore masks to go out of the morning exercise, which attracted everyone's attention.
When Wang Jin took off the mask, his beautiful appearance left a deep impression on Liu Guoliang.
Since then, Liu Guoliang has begun to notice this girl, and they are both the last to leave the museum during training. So I can often meet in the cafeteria, and slowly chat more.
One day, Liu Guoliang and his teammates left the training hall Daniel Zhang to prepare to eat in the canteen, and met Wang Jin again, and as a result, the canteen was out of food that day, Liu Guoliang proposed that the three of them go out to eat barbecue together, and after eating the barbecue, they went to sing karaoke together.
Liu Guoliang said that he really paid for it that day, because in 1992, singing karaoke was selling tickets, 60 yuan a ticket, the three of them were 180 yuan, but the money was also worth it, and he "exchanged" a good daughter-in-law.
After that dinner and singing, two 16-year-olds naturally came together.
But the national team has unwritten rules, forbidding players to fall in love, once found, will send the one with poor results away, so at the beginning Liu Guoliang and Wang Jin dating are sneaky.
Every time Liu Guoliang wanted to ask Wang Jin to go out, he would let other male team members go to Wang Jin to talk, and then one of the two would go for a few minutes first, and the other would go out again, so as not to let the people in the team see.
But this is not a long-term solution, in 1995, Wang Jin made a surprising decision, she gave up her dream of becoming a world champion, left the national team, and went to play at the Panasonic Electric Club in Japan.
Can their long-distance relationship stand the test of distance?
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Wang Jin spent a total of four years in Japan, during which she and Liu Guoliang could only communicate through letters and phone calls.
But Liu Guoliang did not like to write letters, and later Wang Jin told Liu Guoliang that she wrote alone, and the letter sent out did not reply, and she did not want to write. Liu Guoliang then thought of a trick, sent a greeting card to Wang Jin back, and wrote a few words after the greeting card.
The other two often made transoceanic calls, and at that time the telephone bill was very expensive, and Wang Jin still remembered that 1,000 yen could be called for seven minutes, but she had to go through the switchboard to find Liu Guoliang, and she had to wait for a few minutes each time to talk to Liu Guoliang.
Wang Jin called, Liu Guoliang also had to call her back the next day, he bought a magnetic card for 200 yuan in China, every time he went to the commissary to buy a magnetic card, a purchase is a lot of cards. Liu Guoliang said that in those years, the money of the two was basically spent on the phone.
Later, after having a mobile phone, Liu Guoliang spent more than 10,000 yuan to buy a mobile phone in order to facilitate contact with Wang Jin.
In 1996, the year after Wang Jin went to Japan to play, Liu Guoliang ushered in the peak of his career and participated in the Atlanta Olympic Games.
During the Olympic Games, Wang Jin rested at home because of chicken pox, and at that time, Japan did not broadcast the Olympic games, and she guarded the phone every day. She made an appointment with Liu Guoliang, and Liu Guoliang's brother Liu Guodong relayed Liu Guoliang's competition results to her.
It was Wang Jin's most torturous few days, and she was both eager for the phone to ring and afraid to hear bad news.
Fortunately, in the end, all the good news was that Liu Guoliang not only won the table tennis men's doubles championship with Kong Linghui, but also won the men's singles championship. In the following three years, Liu Guoliang began a crazy harvesting of gold medals, winning championships in various competitions.
He became China's first winner of the World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup and Olympic Grand Slam.
In 1999, when Wang Jin returned to China, she put down her table tennis racket, tried to start a business, opened a sporting goods company, and was able to reunite with Liu Guoliang. However, what they did not expect was that Liu Guoliang's career suffered a heavy blow from the thunderbolt of a sunny day.
On October 22 of that year, Liu Guoliang suddenly received a notice from the International Table Tennis Federation that his urine exceeded the standard and suspected that he had taken stimulants, although he returned Liu Guoliang's innocence half a year later, but Liu Guoliang's spirit had been destroyed in that half year:
He said, "At that time, I felt that this half a year was really not a day for people, because every day I had to remember how I lived on August 8th, for example, I rested late that day, Slept at three o'clock, but I had to get up at seven o'clock in the morning, this day was particularly tired, and the physical consumption was the biggest time, so I had to imitate this time every day, and then come back to do some urine tests to see if it was too much." ”
Liu Guoliang exceeded the urine test on the day of the competition on August 8, 1999, so for half a year he had to imitate the daily life and rest state of that day, repeatedly do the urine test, and see if his urine test exceeded the standard in his own body, or whether it was caused by taking drugs.
Before the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, there was finally a result, Liu Guoliang was innocent, but the impact on him did not fade, which became a watershed in Liu Guoliang's table tennis career.
In an interview, Liu Guoliang said that at that time, he wanted to prove himself by winning, but the result was terrible:
"The more I want to win, the worse the mentality, the worse the mentality, the worse the mentality, the continuous loss, the loss of many times should not lose, and finally after I lost a game in the United States, I cut my head into a bald head when I got angry." 」
Liu Guoliang, who shaved his head, hoped to go to obscurity and remind himself, starting from the beginning again.
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In 2002, everyone found that Liu Guoliang became an assistant coach of the national team, which was a new chapter in his life.
Although he ended his career as an athlete, Liu Guoliang did not want to leave the sports world, he chose to be like his father Liu Zhansheng, retired to the background as a coach, his goal is to become a gold coach, can lead more players to win the championship.
On June 23, 2003, Liu Guoliang became the head coach of the national team, and this year he was only 27 years old, becoming the youngest head coach. Such a change in identity is a new challenge for Liu Guoliang.
In order to support Liu Guoliang, Wang Jin postponed the marriage until August 18, 2006, when the 30-year-old two held a hasty wedding, and the next day Liu Guoliang took the team to play a game.
Liu Guoliang usually lives in the team, and can only meet Wang Jin when he is on vacation, he has very few vacations, so he has very little time to meet with Wang Jin, but Wang Jin has never complained about Liu Guoliang.
In May 2010, Wang Jin gave birth to twins, but Liu Guoliang was too busy to help.
Finally, Wang Jin's parents rushed to Beijing, and after taking care of Wang Jin's confinement, Wang Jin's father returned to Shenyang to take care of the business, leaving Wang Jin's mother to help with the children.
When the child was sick, Wang Jin and his mother took him to the hospital, even if Liu Guoliang was at home, Wang Jin would not call him for help, but let Liu Guoliang rest at home.
Everything Wang Jin did, Liu Guoliang remembered in his heart, he often confessed his wife on the day of his wedding anniversary, if he competed abroad that day, he would make some small gestures that his wife could understand through the TV screen.
At the age of 16, Wang Jin chose love between love and dreams, and insisted on it until now, without complaint or regret for 29 years, achieving Liu Guoliang and his ping-pong dream.
Not every woman can do this, and not every man can remember his wife who accompanied him to endure hardships and hardships after he became famous, and bless Liu Guoliang and Wang Jin.
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