Unconsciously, the Tokyo Olympics schedule is halfway through.
In these few days of competition, our anti-Japanese spirit and national pride are infinitely high.
There are always some sports, there are always some athletes who make the Chinese people feel very worried.
For example, table tennis, such as the dragon team.
Another example is the "Diving Dream Team", which has a monopoly position in major international competitions.
In this year's women's doubles 10m platform final, Zhang Jiaqi and Chen Yaoxi won the second gold medal of the Olympic Games for the Chinese diving team with impeccable zero mistakes.
Seriously speaking, these two little girls faced Guo Jingjing and Fu Mingxia and wanted to shout at the eldest sister.
And Guo Jingjing and Fu Mingxia faced Gao Min, and they also had to call her a big sister.
Perhaps many people have not heard of Gao Min's name.
She is China's first Olympic springboard diving gold medalist.
It is said that there are no winning generals on the field, but Gao Min seems to be an accident.
From 1986 to 1992, she monopolized the championships of all international diving competitions she participated in, winning more than 70 gold medals.
And for 7 consecutive years, she was named the best female springboard athlete by swimming world magazine in the United States, a record that no one has broken so far.
So much so that some foreign players sighed: "It is a sadness to be in the same era as Gao Minsheng." ”
At that time, many people did not know that the sports career of the victorious general was not so smooth.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="206" > twists and turns to win the championship</h1>
Gao Min was born in 1970 in Zigong, Sichuan Province, to his father, who won the Chongqing Junior Swimming Championship.
When he was 4 years old, Gao's father threw Gao Min into the small river next to his hometown, and no one could think of it, and this throwing threw out a first generation of "diving queens".
Young Gao Min saw the adults swimming freely in the river, and secretly set himself the first goal in his life: to swim from one end of the river to the other.
"My first dive was from a two- or three-meter-high rock into the river, jumping out of the clouds and driving the fog, with an indescribable sense of panic and comfort."
When he was 6 years old, his father let Gao Min enter the gymnastics school to learn gymnastics.
The boring physical flexibility training was not attractive to the "brave" Gao Min, and one day three years later, she was swimming and was taken in by a teacher next to her.
The teacher asked her, "Do you want to learn to dive?" ”
"At first, these two sports were no different, they had to press their legs. But when I was selected for the diving team, I jumped for the first time, and everyone applauded as soon as I went. I looked up from the surface of the water, well, that's her! ”
Perhaps it was affirmed, or perhaps it was due to nature, anyway, diving satisfied Gao Min's competitive vanity, and from here on, she officially started her diving career.
When she was 12 years old, Gao Min participated in the national diving competition for the first time, and her heart was not too high at that time, so she set herself a small goal: to squeeze into the top 25, so that she could participate in the second half of the National Games.
I don't know if the opponent is too weak, or if she plays too well on the field, she accidentally took the first gold medal in her life.
But then, Gao Min experienced a nightmare period.
In 1982, Gao Min had a fractured elbow joint.
Two years later, due to improper training, she was seriously injured after falling on the water and continued to vomit blood for a month.
In 1985, her eardrums were perforated and she was injured one after another, making her serious doubts about herself.
"I consider myself a very good athlete, don't I? Few athletes can win a national championship at the age of 12 and win two world age-sharing titles... But, so what? Hurt, hurt again! Is God hinting that it's time for me to retire? ”
At the critical moment, Liu Director talked to her, because of her outstanding performance in the international arena, foreign experts thought that she could become the 1988 Olympic champion, but if she gave up now, all the previous efforts would be in vain.
So she set herself a goal again: to join the national team.
However, at this year's Youth Games, the three-meter springboard Gao Min won the seventh place, the ten-meter jump took the penultimate first, and the referee gave 0 points for 3 and a half weeks inward and 3.1% in the back.
In the face of this achievement, Gao Min still smiled and faced it, some people praised her mentality is really good, and she can laugh out of 0 points, but in fact, this achievement has caused her self-confidence to suffer an unprecedented blow.
I think it is also, originally a genius girl who was optimistic about everyone, was injured one after another, and was already physically and mentally exhausted, and God suddenly gave such a bad news of 0 points.
Perhaps because the luck of the laughing girl is not too bad, a month later, Gao Min received a notice from the national team to go to Beijing for training.
15-year-old Gao Min is considered to be "advanced age" in the training group, and her age, low starting point, poor basic skills, and brainless training are Xu Yiming's evaluation of her.
In fact, this can not all blame Gao Min, most of the small team members have been training here a year ago, and at that time she was still in the provincial team because of the pain of the trough.
She comforted herself, "Anyway, just try, it really can't work, the mixed national team uniform back, even if it is not a trip to Beijing in vain." ”
Of course, her attempt is not just a play.
"Go to the training ground 10 minutes early every day and reduce the time to prepare for the activity by 10 minutes, so that I can practice 20 minutes more than others every day, and I can practice more than 7,000 minutes more than others in a year."
Although her algorithm is slightly illogical, we all understand that this is her going to start working.
<H1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="222" > peak retirement</h1>
In August 1986, the FINA World Championships were held in Madrid, Spain, and because of the previous series victories, Gao Min had gone from an unknown dark horse a few months ago to a favorite to win the World Championships.
Sure enough, the youngest of the participants, she won the women's springboard championship with a record score of 582.42 points, and won the first gold medal of the Chinese athlete at the FINA World Championships, when Gao Min was 16 years old and only 10 months into the national team.
It was also from here that Gao Min began her path to becoming a god.
Graceful posture, light movements, excellent stability, this is the comprehensive evaluation of her by all those who have seen her diving competition.
In 1987, she won the fifth World Cup diving competition in the Netherlands, and at the 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, Gao Min achieved an Olympic gold medal breakthrough in the springboard event for Chinese diving.
She became the first Grand Slam winner in China to combine world championships, World Cup and Olympic champions.
After that, as long as she participates in the diving competition, others can only compete for second and third place.
During his competitive career, Gao Min won more than 70 gold medals, including 6 World Cup gold medals, 3 World Championship gold medals and two Olympic champions.
In 1990, in the diving competition of the 11th Asian Games in Beijing, she scored 630 points in the 3-meter springboard diving event, becoming the world's first female diver to break the 600 mark.
On the eve of the 1992 Olympic Games, almost everyone felt that Gao Min's gold medal was not suspenseful.
In fact, at that time, she had a shoulder injury, and she could only train with an injury before the game, because the shoulder injury and the arm were not lifted in place, she had to play closed to the field, and the preliminary round was only third.
In the final, the CIS Rushko ranked first in the first six rounds, Gao Min was six points behind, and in the 7th round, Rashko made a significant mistake, Gao Min achieved a counter-overtake, and then she did not give her opponent the opportunity to turn the tables.
Powerful jumping, beautiful turns, and iconic water stunts, Gao Min won two consecutive Olympic women's springboard gold medals with a near-perfect final jump.
When everyone cheered for her to win the two-time Olympic springboard championship, Gao Min, who always smiled brightly at the camera, was in tears this time.
The aura and responsibility on her body made her dare not even die.
Before the game, she used injury as an excuse to save a lot of pills, "if it is found and sent to the stomach, it will be humiliated; if it is really dead, it will implicate many people", so those pills were held in her hand all night, and finally did not eat.
After that Olympic Games, with the extraordinary achievement of undefeated in 7 years of international competitions, the 22-year-old Gao Min quietly retired.
"The top of the world is too small to accommodate only one person; the top of the world is too high to be vigilant at all times... When I feel the most glorious, my heart is also full of fear. The more gold medals I won, the more I was afraid of the game, the more I was afraid of pressure, afraid of losing. ”
Years later, a host asked her in an interview, "If you could start again, would you still choose such a professional athlete path?" ”
Gao Min immediately affirmed, "Of course, because not everyone has the opportunity to represent your country." ”
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="164" > conclusion</h1>
After retiring from the army, she originally wanted to live a quiet retirement life, but frequent socializing and activities made her breathless.
So she chose to go to the United States to start over.
"In China, my food, clothing, and housing are spent in the evaluation of others, and when I am an athlete, people expect to win the championship, and fight in people's expectations, this life is very tired." In foreign countries, almost no one cares about me, I am very free to do what I do and what not to do, which has always been my dream life. ”
In such a dream life, Gao Min was married twice, had two sons, and worked as the head coach of the Canadian KINSMAN Diving Club, planting flowers, painting, raising fish, and writing books in his spare time.
However, with the friendly cooperation between China and Canada, Gao Min made the decision to return to China for development.
She is enthusiastic about public welfare, auctioning gold medals at the World Championships and spending all the money to help China bid for the Olympic Games.
Set up scholarships in colleges and universities, and serve as the consul of the Champion Athlete Fund of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation dedicated to sportsmanship into the campus.
He even focused on his former colleagues to help retired athletes re-employ.
Today, her own life is simple.
The house is very plain,
Grow vegetables at home when you have free time,
Flowers
Traveling occasionally.
There are posts on the Internet comparing the previous "diving queens", as the first generation of Gao Min is often forgotten because of his early retirement and a certain bias.
But if you have the chance to watch her swim or watch her video while playing, you will be impressed by her beautiful figure.
Author: Lina
Editor-in-charge: Zeria
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