Jimu news reporter Xu Ping
Intern Wan Sisi
On the morning of July 28, Beijing time, in the men's double oars event of the Tokyo Olympic Rowing, Hubei athlete Liu Zhiyu and Hunan athlete Zhang Liang joined hands to win a bronze medal in 6 minutes 03.63 seconds, which was the best result achieved by Hubei and even Chinese male rowers in the Olympic Games, and the first medal won by Hubei athletes at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Liu Zhiyu and Zhang Liang
Liang Yu combination, brave forward
As the "Liangyu combination" of the Chinese rowing team, Zhang Liang, 34 years old this year, is participating in the Olympic Games for the third time, and Liu Zhiyu, 28, is the first time to step on the Olympic field. One has experienced hundreds of battles, the other is sharp, and together the two have created a new history for Chinese rowing.
Liu Zhiyu and Zhang Liang only came together in early 2019, and although the team did not last long, they quickly developed a chemical reaction and achieved good results one after another. They won the gold medal at the 2019 World Cup in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, and at the World Championships in the same year, the two won the championship and locked up the qualification for the Tokyo Olympics. Liu Zhiyu mentioned in an interview at the time that since the two were paired, they have always wanted to make a breakthrough. As it turns out, they really did, and it was the first time that The Chinese men's rowing had won the World Championships.
At the Tokyo Olympics, facing a stronger opponent, the two worked together to advance to the second place in the group with a time of 6:11.55. In the semi-finals, they reached the final with the second place in the group and finally won a bronze medal, which also created the best record in the history of Chinese men's rowing.
Love like brothers, in the same boat
"Brothers work together, and their profits are broken." As a two-person cooperation project, in order to achieve good results in rowing double oars, in addition to everyone's certain strength, the degree of tacit understanding between the two is also crucial.
Zhang Liang is extroverted and Liu Zhiyu is introverted, and when asked how the two became partners, both said that this is a "two-way choice" between them. As early as 2017, Liu Zhiyu and Zhang Liang had some cooperation. After trying to match, the two felt very tacit and compatible. More importantly, both people have a common goal, that is, to raise the national flag and play the national anthem at the World Championships and show the style of Chinese rowers.
Although the two complement each other in personality, there will also be some "friction". Liu Haoyu said: "Because of the difference in age and personality, brother Liang and I will have a little collision in training and life, but both people can understand each other and tolerate each other. This may also be the charm of rowing, even if two people with very different personalities, as long as they get on a boat, they will work together for a common goal. ”
Because of these years of "soaking together, the two have similar interests and hobbies, walking, reading, listening to music, in addition to training, the two also laugh at each other for fun."
Behind the glory, the pay is amazing
Dante once said: "The road to honor is not paved with flowers." "Behind the supreme glory, there will inevitably be unimaginable efforts." From precarious namelessness to champion plus body, Liu Zhiyu and Zhang Liang have also made efforts beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
Liu Zhiyu began to learn to train rowing since he was selected by the Shenzhen Sports Brigade in 2009, and was later transported to the Guangdong team for more systematic training. In 2018, he came to the Hubei team. Yin Jinbo, director of the Water Sports Management Center of the Hubei Provincial Sports Bureau, told reporters that Liu Zhiyu seems to have been born for rowing, and his personal comprehensive quality is extremely high, coupled with training consciousness, he is constantly improving every day. Liu Zhiyu said that he is not so talented, and to have such results as today is to practice and spell out little by little, and the training is up to 6 to 7 hours a day.
Before the Olympic Games, Liu Zhiyu accompanied the Chinese rowing team to the Honglian Lake Water Base in Ezhou, Hubei Province, for closed training. During this period of retreat preparation, Liu Zhiyu got up at about 5 o'clock every day for morning training, after rowing a single boat training, ate breakfast, rested for an hour, and then continued with land training, and in the afternoon there was a long distance of 16 kilometers on the water. Despite the full load of training every day, Liu Zhiyu will still carry out additional training to further strengthen physical training in view of his own shortcomings. It can be said that this precious medal was exchanged for time + sweat.
Iron man in the sky, tender as water
Who would have thought that liu zhiyu, who is in a big body, will also have a tender and watery side. Because of the long years of training and competition outside, For his wife and family, Liu Zhiyu often misses his feelings, and expresses his strong love through different ways such as telephone calls and gifts.
Liu Zhiyu's Weibo
On social platforms, Liu Zhiyu posted the most not about his training and competitions, but about his wife and daughter. On September 1, 2019, after winning the World Championships, Liu Zhiyu specially sent a Weibo, he wrote: "Today is a breakthrough in Chinese men's rowing, and it is also the day of my daughter's birth 100 days, allow me to raise my profile." Really thank you to the leadership of the national team..." In the text, he expressed his gratitude to the national team leaders, coaches, logistics staff and his family, and also encouraged himself to continue to work hard.
Looking at his Weibo, it is not difficult to find that nearly half of the few 24 Weibo posts are his wife and children. There is no shortage of "confessions" of wives, and there is no shortage of recorded daughters' voices, smiles and growth. From couples to couples to parents, every role change, Liu Zhiyu has sent a Weibo, which is really a man with love.
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)
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