Text/Yangcheng Evening News special shaanxi reporter Su Jing Zhao Liangchen
Photo: Yangcheng Evening News special Shaanxi reporter Liang Yu
In the men's double rowing 1000m event of the 14th National Games on September 23, Guangdong famous athlete and Tokyo Olympic silver medalist Zheng Pengfei and partner Liu Hao staged a strong combination to win gold with a time of 3 minutes 35 seconds 185 seconds!
After the game, Zheng Pengfei held his 1-year-old and 3-month-old daughter on the podium, realizing his small wish to share honors with his daughter on the podium, and Xiao Mengwa also attracted the attention of the audience. Zheng Pengfei's wife Zhou Minyan accepted an exclusive interview with a reporter from Yangcheng Evening News after the game, revealing the story of the two falling in love at first sight and knowing each other.
Exotic acquaintances fell in love at first sight
"The two of us met in Milan, Italy, in 2015." Zhou Minyan generously revealed the details of the two acquaintances, it turned out that Zhou Minyan was studying in Italy at the time, Zheng Pengfei just happened to participate in the World Championships in Milan, the two met by chance, and then fell in love at first sight.
"He is quite in line with my ideal type, has the most attractive qualities - sunshine, tenacity, I think the heavens sent such a person to me, at that time I was hesitating whether to return to China or find a job in the local area, his appearance strengthened my idea of returning to China, and since then I have a good feeling, and I have slowly walked down." 」
According to Zhou Minyan's description, the two were originally two people who could not fight together with eight rods, Zhou Minyan was engaged in the financial industry, and Zheng Pengfei was training and competing day after day, but the two collided with unexpected sparks in a short time together.
"Our background is completely different, I am an ordinary person, following the road of reading and going to work, the people around me are similar to me, and he is a professional athlete, and there are some characteristics that ordinary people do not have, such as special sunshine, will continue to surpass and iterate on their careers and lives, these are traits that ordinary people do not have."
When the two first got along, Zheng Pengfei would tell Zhou Minyan about some of the ups and downs he encountered, including the small story of being hit on the head by a paddle in training as a child and being admitted to the hospital, but still loving kayaking.
When the two were separated, Zhou Minyan would also search the Internet for some news about Zheng Pengfei, "I think he is so young, experienced such a big thing, can overcome it, not depressed, but insist on walking, and later can reach such a state of mind, the World Championships to achieve such a good result, it is not easy, very tenacious." ”
Know each other in version 3.0
Zhou Minyan is a Jiangsu girl, after returning to China to find a job in Shanghai, and Zheng Pengfei continued to run in the south of the sea, either in closed training, or to compete in various places, the two gathered less and more, the longest separation reached 8 months. How to preserve such love, Zhou Minyan revealed, the two have gone through three stages in the past six years.
Stage 1.0: The two often quarrel over the matter of getting together, out of selfishness, Zhou Minyan of course hopes to be able to be with his lover every day, but for a professional athlete, it is impossible to achieve.
Later, as Zhou Minyan had a deep understanding of his lover's profession, the two entered the 2.0 stage, "Later, after I learned what competitive sports are all about, I knew that they needed a closed environment and a relatively large pressure to burst out of the limit level." And he began to practice sports at the age of 13, not very familiar with the outside world, and later he gradually understood me, learned that normal wage earners will work overtime, and everyone slowly found a balance between the two sides. ”
After knowing each other for six years, Zhou Minyan and Zheng Pengfei have now advanced to version 3.0, "Now no matter where he is, he can feel the strength of his family, and I will try to go as far as I can when I have the opportunity to see him." He spent most of his time in closed training, and when he didn't have the opportunity to meet, we also video every day, watching TV to cheer him on and give him strength. When he encounters a rough time, give him some psychological massage. We encounter difficulties in life, he will also encourage us, we have reached the stage of encouraging each other, supporting each other, supporting each other and moving forward. ”
This process is now easy to say, but it is actually very difficult, for example, on the morning of the wedding of the two, Zhou Minyan also accompanied her husband to the gym to complete the ten kilometers of training on the day. On the day he received his marriage license, Zheng Pengfei stayed in Shanghai for less than 24 hours before returning to the team for training. Including prenatal, Zhou Minyan will also help her husband find a suitable gym.
Zhou Minyan has a cheerful personality and a knowledgeable dalit, and the Guangdong team likes her very much, and everyone thinks that Zheng Pengfei has found a good daughter-in-law. Seeing Zhou Minyan being interviewed, the coach also took off the Guangdong team uniform on his body and let Zhou Minyan put it on for the interview, in their hearts, they had already regarded Zhou Minyan as a member of the team.
Supporting her husband's paris dream come true
Previously in the Tokyo Olympics, Zheng Pengfei and the gold medal difference of a millimeter, Zhou Minyan has also been paying attention to the game in the office, she was once nervous to dare not look, but colleagues are very positive, open the big screen of the conference room, pull her to see together, she has the courage to look down, "In fact, the heart has been very nervous! ”
Winning gold at the National Games, Zheng Pengfei also made up for the small regrets of the Tokyo Olympic Games, and after the game, he also said that he wanted to win gold at the Paris Olympic Games three years later, which Zhou Minyan supported.
In her opinion, the husband is challenging himself a little bit, and it is also a very artistic process in the process of self-iteration. "He usually likes photography and painting, and is a person who can calm down and look back on himself and reflect on himself. In my opinion, art and sports are connected, and anything that reaches the extreme is an artistic expression, which is no longer just a technical presentation. ”
In the next few days, Zhou Minyan will still watch the game at the Yangling Aquatic Center, taking her daughter to accompany her husband to complete the National Games. After the interview, Zhou Minyan also asked the reporter to make up such a sentence: "In the next few days, I hope that the Guangdong team will harvest full and achieve a grand slam!" (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
Source | Yangcheng Evening News • Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Liu Yi