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Cover news reporter Zhong Yuheng
Plunging into the turquoise pool water is like pouring into the long-separated embrace, and every flow soothes the nervous mood of the two sisters. The familiar melody of "Swan" haunted the entire arena, Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting perfectly completed the last two strings of difficult legs, with a high score of 94.10, the Japanese combination won the championship of the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta Flower Tour Double Free Choice Competition.......
At the Jakarta Asian Games, the Wenting sisters pressed the Japanese team to win gold
It was Jiang Wenwen Jiang Tingting's sixth Asian Games gold medal, and it had been exactly fourteen years since they won the gold medal for the first time at the 2006 Doha Asian Games. During these fourteen years, they experienced fame, retirement, birth of daughters, and comeback.
On the stage of China Flower Tour, the Wenting sisters are undoubtedly a benchmark. In them, we can see the unremitting efforts of athletes year after year; we can also see that after becoming mothers, they use their strong strength to interpret their love and strength under the flow of water waves.
The "Mermaid" born for flower swimming
"Morning swim and afternoon tour, I have become a black sister!" The happiest thing is in the water, just like Mom! One day at the end of August, Jiang Wenwen recorded a scene of his five-and-a-half-year-old daughter practicing swimming with video. In the picture, the daughter wearing a nose frame and swimming goggles jumps on both feet, "pounces" from the springboard and falls into the water, and then makes a cheerful dance movement towards the underwater camera. The champion mother off-camera posted a "sneaky smile" expression on Weibo, writing: "Is there a little shadow of a flower swimmer?" ”
The ripples of the turquoise pool water are like the reincarnation of the circle between this sport and the two sisters.
When she was 7 years old, Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting were also sent to the swimming pool by their mothers. "When I was a child, I was too thin to eat, my mother hoped that the two of us could exercise through swimming", in memory, the two sisters were afraid of water at first, and did not dare to go down to the pool, "the coach threw us into the water, let us flutter ourselves, did not expect to flutter and flutter ourselves to learn", Jiang Wenwen Jiang Tingting said, that is, since then the two have fallen in love with the feeling of being in the water, "can no longer be separated."
At one opportunity, the two sisters were recommended to the Sichuan Provincial Sports Technology Institute to train in flower swimming, and the talent they showed soon made the two official members of the Sichuan Provincial Synchronized Swimming Team at that time.
Because of their excellent body proportions and good flexibility, the sister flowers seem to be destined for flower swimming. The innate tacit understanding as twins gives them an absolute advantage in the double project, just like two agile "mermaids" in the water.
At the Asian Games in Doha, Jiang Wenwen Jiang Tingting broke the monopoly of the Japanese team for more than two decades
Break the monopoly of the Japanese team for more than 20 years
Behind the talent, there is more hard training day after day. Since the age of 7, the sisters have been stuck in a pool almost every day, and the 8 hours of training intensity per day is "standard". Relying on unremitting efforts, Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting ushered in the opportunity to rewrite history.
Before 2006, the Japanese team had been the Asian "hegemon" of Huayou, monopolizing the project for more than 20 years, and the Chinese team could only rank second for a long time.
At the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, 20-year-old Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting had just won the national championship and made their first appearance in an important international arena. "The situation that year was somewhat abrupt, more than a month before the game we knew that we wanted to compete in the double event at the Asian Games", in the eyes of Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting at that time, it was an impossible task to surpass the Japanese team.
In the morning preliminaries, the results of the two sisters were "not surprising" behind the Japanese team. In the afternoon final, they made their debut in front of the Athens Olympics runner-up in the event, the Japanese duo of Emiko Suzuki and Hayaho Harada. With a relaxed mentality, Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting played perfectly, but for the gold medal, no one was sure.
Just when the two had already accepted the "ending" of the runner-up in advance, a cheer in the stadium pulled Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting back to reality - on the big screen, the Chinese flag flashed in the first place.
After many years, 6 Asian Games gold medals are in hand. But this scene at the Doha Asian Games is still deeply engraved in the hearts of the two sisters, "Of all the gold medals, this one is the most memorable for us." ”
In 2010, the two won the World Cup double event, and the Chinese synchronized swimming event stepped onto the world's highest podium for the first time.
For love comeback six Asian Games gold medals
In 2013, Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting announced their retirement. After retiring, the two sisters each had a cute baby daughter. But when life began to enter a new track, they made an unexpected decision together - a comeback. For this choice, the two told reporters almost in unison: "We love the feeling of being in the water too much, and we feel that we can fight again."
Returning to the pool in 2015, the first and biggest difficulty faced by Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting was "weight loss". Before them, there was no pair of mother-level players in the history of China Flower Tour, and every step of the training of the two was carried out in constant collision and exploration with the coach. In order to quickly recover their body shape, the sisters, under the targeted guidance of coach Zheng Jia, opened the "devil" training, and the two recalled: "At that time, they were so tired that they could fall asleep in the water." In just over a month, Jiang Wenwen/Jiang Tingting lost about 40 pounds.
In addition to physical fatigue, the greater challenge the two encountered was to give up the thoughts of their young daughters, "when they are not around, the daughters often cry to find their mothers", which makes the two new mothers both distressed and guilty. They said that their families have always been the most helpful behind their backs, and their daughter is also one of the motivations for them to return to the field.
At the 2017 National Games, the two sisters after the comeback took the podium with their daughters
At the 2017 National Games, 31-year-old Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting won a championship after their comeback with perfect play. At the award ceremony, the sisters with gold medals hanging around their necks carried their daughters to the stage, and the two little babies held out their thumbs to praise their mothers, which was the most touching moment in the sports world in 2017.
With the passage of time, Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting, who grew from little girls to mothers, burst out more powerful competitive energy. A year later, at the Asian Games in Jakarta, they beat the Japanese team with a huge advantage of four points to win the gold medal in the flower tour doubles free selection competition, which was also the sixth Asian Games gold medal of the sister flower.
In May this year, Jiang Wenwen and Jiang Tingting transformed into coaches. Standing by the pool that they have loved for 27 years, one of the most common words of the sisters is, "Choosing flower tourism is fate." It is like melting into our blood, the most correct and best choice in our lives. ”
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