With everyone's enthusiasm for watching the Olympic Games, today we will talk about the classic scene of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
In the women's Foil individual quarter-32 final, 50-year-old Canada's Luan Jujie defeated her opponent 13-9 to win her first victory at the Beijing Olympics. After the game, Luan Jujie held aloft a banner with the words "The Motherland is Good", which touched countless Chinese people.
In the interview, she made it clear that she came to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games, the goal is not to win the championship, but to enjoy the joy of hosting the Olympic Games in the motherland.
What is the origin of your Canadian player Luan Jujie, who has such a strong affection for the motherland? Friends who do not know much about fencing may not know that this Luan Jujie is the number one person in the history of Chinese fencing that must be mentioned.
In 1958, Luan Ju was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. Luan Jujie's father was Luan Youshan, who participated in the Southwest Campaign in 1949, and from 1950 to 1954, he was awarded the Special Class Meritorious Service, the Third Class Meritorious Service and the Meritorious Service Award. In 1973, when Luan Jujie entered the Nanjing Amateur Sports School, he trained in badminton, which was later changed to fencing. In May 1974, she competed in the National Fencing Competition in Beijing and won the individual runner-up of women's foil fencing, when she had just been studying fencing for four months. He joined the Jiangsu team in 1975 and the Chinese national fencing team in 1976.
Her career was short and dazzling. In 1978, at the 29th World Youth Championships, Luan Jujie was pierced by his opponent's sword in the left arm in the final, but he insisted on playing 5 matches with amazing will and won the runner-up. From the establishment of fencing in the first Olympic Games in 1896 to 1978, no one in the international sword world in Asia has been able to enter the final of the World Series, so Luan Jujie has attracted national attention, and on June 11 of the same year, the People's Daily published an article "Raising eyebrows and sheathing the sword" to tell luan Jujie's deeds.
In 1984, she represented China in the women's individual foil competition at the Los Angeles Olympics, becoming the first Chinese to win a fencing championship at the Olympic Games.
In 1988, Luan Jujie was diagnosed with acute nephritis, and she had to tearfully leave the fencing arena she loved.
After retiring in 1989, Luan Jujie studied at the University of Alberta in Canada and also worked as a coach at a fencing club. He has served as the coach of the City of Emington Fencing Club, the director of the technical department of the Alberta Fencing Association, and the head coach of the Canadian national team women's foil.
Luan Jujie and her husband Gu Dajin's eldest daughter were born in 1991, but after the daughter was born, she was sent to the special care ward and was told that the child had a bad heart and may have intelligence problems in the future and could not speak like a normal child. Because the Canadian government has a particularly perfect funding policy for the upbringing of disabled children, Luan Jujie finally made the decision to immigrate.
In 2004, in order to thank Luan Jujie for his outstanding contribution to the fencing project, the Canadian state specially named a domestic competition "Luan Jujie Fencing Open" after Luan Jujie.
In 2001, when Luan Jujie saw the success of the motherland's Olympic bid on TV, she was so excited that she burst into tears, she said, I have a strong desire, I want to return to the Olympic Games held by the motherland.
But the real problem is in front of her, her age is a bit too big for a professional athlete. The female swordsman said: "My dream is to participate in the Olympics in my own country, of course I think it is unlikely in me, because the Olympics are every four years, I think the professional lifespan of athletes is too short." Sometimes I feel as if I am dreaming, but I also feel that my dream has come true, but I didn't expect to wait for so long, and I didn't think that 50 years old still has this possibility. But when she saw russia's GorkiKhomirov, 45, win the bronze medal at the World Championships, her conviction grew stronger.
Since the world ranking is outside the 400th place, Luan Jujie can only go to the world to play the Olympic points race, the first three stops from Seoul to Shanghai to Tokyo, each stop is zero points, although the start is unfavorable, but Luan Jujie feels that he is not bad, and said that he began to enter the role. The age of 50 has brought many difficulties to Luan Jujie, she recalled: "The first stop when I played down really couldn't stand it, I took off my shoes for others to see, my toenails are all purple." In order to save money, I took the train at night, I was thinking about what to do, carrying this shoulder bag at such an old age, sitting on the train and thinking, when it comes to the game, I can't think about anything, I must play, I must qualify. It doesn't matter if I can't get anything, I can enter the Beijing Olympic Games to prove that I am successful, and I have not paid in vain. ”
Within 11 months, Luan Jujie moved to the world's stadiums to get points for Olympic tickets. Finally, in April 2008, 36 points competitions, with the first place in the Canadian women's flower, entered the Beijing Olympic Games and hitched the last train of the Olympic Games. At the age of 50, she also set a new age record for the Olympic women's foil competition.
After beating Ina, the Tunisian champion of the African Championship, 30 years younger than herself, in her first match, she unfurled the prepared "Good motherland" banner. She said, "This is a kind of reveal of my trueness, so as soon as the game is over, i have to open it whether I win or lose, I write about the motherland, this is the only way I can express my heart to the motherland, after such a long road, 20 years later in the Olympic Games, I feel that I have gone home, returned to the motherland." ”
After losing the 1/16 final and not qualifying, the semi-centenarian said affectionately: "I have fulfilled my dream, where to start and where to end." ”
From Los Angeles to Beijing, from China to Canada, after decades of separation, the return is still a hero. What has changed is the flag branded on the competition uniform, and what will never change is the tearful patriotism.