The 27-year-old Liu Zige married his 50-year-old coach, which has aroused great attention in the industry. In fact, before Liu Zige, there was also an Olympic champion who married her own coach and was 21 years older than herself, she was Chen Yanqing, the Olympic champion in weightlifting.
Chen Yanqing, the women's 58 kg champion at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games and the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, has a legendary career, retiring four times, making three comebacks and winning two Olympic titles. After the 2008 Olympic Games, she chose to retire for the fourth time and served as the deputy director of the Suzhou Municipal Sports Bureau.
In June 2010, Chen Yanqing's coach Cao Xinmin was disqualified from coaching due to the doping incident of the Suzhou women's weightlifting team, and his career fell to the bottom. It was at this point that Chen Yanqing made an unexpected decision: to marry her 21-year-old coach and quickly conceive a child. At that time, her parents did not understand Chen Yanqing's decision.
For Chen Yanqing, who has a straight personality, in addition to marrying the coach, she has also done a lot of surprising things. At the 2007 Party Congress, she single-handedly broke through the alert and asked General Secretary Hu Jintao to cheer for her inscription. Today, General Secretary Hu's four-character inscription "Cheer for You" has been made into a mahogany carved plaque and placed in the middle of the hall of Chen Yanqing's mansion.
Chen Yanqing is also a person with quite an opinion. As early as 2006, she used all her savings to buy a residential villa in a deserted industrial park at that time, with two floors of more than 270 square meters, with a front and rear garden, laundry room and basement, with a market value of more than 2 million yuan. So far, her property has multiplied an unknown number of times.