In the 56 kg weightlifting final at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, China's Long Qingquan broke the world record with a total score of 307 kg and won the championship. It should be known that Long Qingquan was very depressed for a long time before this, and even lost the qualification to participate in the London Olympic Games due to the decline in performance. Therefore, many people have no hope for him, so why can he rise up and stand on the top of the world again?
Speaking of which, Long Qingquan is a post-90s person, born in 1990, and is a member of the Miao family in Xiangxi, Hunan. Both parents were hard-working farmers, and the family's economy has been very poor due to the limited harvest.
Although Long Qingquan was not tall, he had been very powerful since he was a child. When I was in elementary school, I often represented the school in sports meetings held in the city. Because he performed well in the competition, he was discovered by Gan Zhiyue, the coach of the local Xiangxi Sports School, and recommended him to the Xiangxi Sports School.
In fact, Long Qingquan's father, Long Guangwu, was also a sportsman when he was studying, and he not only broke the Xiangxi Men's 200-meter sprint record at the Athletic Games; he was also recommended to the Xiangxi Prefecture Sports School because of his infinite strength. It's just that the conditions at home are too bad to pay the living expenses, so they can't go to success.
Now, Long Guangwu saw that his son Long Qingquan also had the opportunity to go to the state sports school, thinking of his dream of dying that year, he decided that no matter how difficult it was, he must support his son to go to the sports school for professional training, and in the future, he would have the opportunity to win glory for the country.
Therefore, after Long Guangwu cobbled together 900 yuan of living expenses to hand over to the state sports school, Long Qingquan was able to enter the sports school smoothly. After that, in order to let Long Qingquan have no worries when training, Long Guangwu and his wife chose to work in Guangdong.
In sports, weight lifting is very hard, so almost all the people who go to practice weight lifting are poor children. On the one hand, people with better family conditions are reluctant to let their children suffer this suffering; on the other hand, poor children can bear hardships and be more persistent.
For example, Long Qingquan is. When he first arrived at the state sports school, because the school environment was very simple, even the barbells were not enough, so the school used bamboo poles or water pipes to tie a bag of sand at both ends, which was a simple "barbell". And a small player like him naturally does not have the opportunity to lift a real barbell.
Even so, Long Qingquan meticulously completed the tasks assigned by the coach.
At that time, Long Qingquan's greatest wish was to be able to touch the barbell. As a result, one day, he took advantage of the coach's lack of preparation and secretly raised the barbell. As a result, he did not lift steadily, and the barbell hit the ground, almost hitting his foot. The loud noise alarmed the coach, and when the coach saw it, he criticized him fiercely.
For sports players, the phrase "be famous early" also applies to them. For example, Long Qingquan, he became famous very early.
In 2000, Long Qingquan, who was only 10 years old, participated in the state games as a participant due to his outstanding performance despite his lack of weight, and won the championship in the 38 kg competition.
The results of that race gave him more confidence in weightlifting. Since then, Long Qingquan has won the provincial games many times, and he also entered the Hunan provincial team in 2006 because of his great potential.
When training for the provincial team, Long Qingquan won the championship in the national weightlifting championship not only with a total of 286 kg, but also with a 130 kg snatch. That competition made Long Qingquan not only a national champion, but also a star of hope in the weightlifting project. He was only 17 years old at the time, and it was the time when he was full of spirits.
2008 was the highlight of Long Qingquan. He not only won the 56 kg weightlifting competition at the National Men's Weightlifting Championships and Olympic Trials, but also broke the world youth record in both the snatch and the deadlift. With his good results, he was not only selected for the national team, but also successfully became a weightlifter for the Beijing Olympic Games.
After 3 months of training for the national team, Long Qingquan, who did not participate in an international competition, became the first athlete to win a gold medal in the men's weightlifting competition with his outstanding performance in the Olympic Games. And he also became famous in one fell swoop, becoming the Olympic champion of the chinese people's attention.
Since then, Long Qingquan has won several gold medals such as the 11th National Games and the World Weightlifting Championships.
It can be said that Long Qingquan is really a young teenager, and the honor he easily achieved in just 2 years is beyond the reach of many athletes in their lifetime.
It is precisely because his sports career has gone so smoothly, coupled with the fact that no matter where he goes, people will respond with the warmest applause and flowers, and even many companies will want to invite him to do endorsements and participate in business activities, which makes Long Qingquan, who has the aura of a world champion on his head, gradually lose himself and no longer train as seriously as before.
Soon, Long Qingquan's performance declined seriously, directly affecting his next competition.
In 2010, Long Qingquan only won the silver medal in the weightlifting competition of the 56th class of the World Weightlifting Championships due to frequent mistakes.
In 2011, Long Qingquan won the second place at the National Weightlifting Championships. At the same time, when participating in the World Championships, due to the serious decline in performance, he was not eligible for the competition.
To make matters worse, in 2012, Long Qingquan only finished second at the National Men's Weightlifting Championships and the London Olympic Weightlifting Trials, failing to qualify for the London Olympics.
In fact, Long Qingquan realized the seriousness of the problem as early as when he did not qualify for the World Championships. So in the process of training, he no longer dared to have the slightest slackness, but the statue of The Goddess of Luck had left him, and in the next game, he always made frequent mistakes, so the record still did not reverse.
After the news of missing the London Olympics came out, people who had held high hopes for Long Qingquan were very disappointed, so all kinds of criticism and denigration continued to sound. This made Long Qingquan extremely painful and confused, so that he was less and less confident in his own strength. Self-defeating, he gave up the daily rigorous training and often lingered at the wine table. As a result, his life of indiscipline made his body continue to gain weight, and many people saw his state and concluded that he would never have the opportunity to compete for gold and silver again.
Long Qingquan's wife was extremely angry and disappointed when she learned of his situation. He rushed from his hometown to Beijing and shouted at him, who was drinking: "If you keep mixing like this, you might as well retire early!" ”
Looking at his wife's disappointed face, Long Qingquan also froze.
retire? He was only 22 years old, the golden age of an athlete, and he suddenly remembered his parents who worked around to get him into sports school, the coaches who had encouraged him, and the eager eyes of everyone when he competed in the Beijing Olympic Games.
Long Qingquan suddenly realized that as an athlete, he must not give up lightly, after all, he still had a chance to make a comeback. He decided to get up from where he fell, and he must get a ticket to the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and once again appear to the world as a champion.
Since then, Long Qingquan has changed his sluggish style. In addition to eating and sleeping, he spends almost all of his time on training. In the uninterrupted training, Long Qingquan's palm slowly grinded out a thick layer of calluses, and the results continued to improve in the sweat flowing.
In 2014, Long Qingquan only ranked sixth in the national weightlifting competition due to abnormal performance. However, Long Qingquan was not discouraged, but trained harder, and won the bronze medal with good results when he participated in the 56 kg class of the Weightlifting World Championships in the same year.
In 2015, Long Qingquan once again participated in the National Weightlifting Championships, and finally finished second with a total weight of 298 kg.
In 2016, in the National Weightlifting Championships and rio de Janeiro Olympic Trials, Long Qingquan won the championship with a total score of 300 kilograms and got the ticket to the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games as desired. And the overall result of that race is also his best result since 2010.
At this time, Long Qingquan finally smiled again, while fighting for the country, he did not forget to shout to his wife who was far away from home, he must win another Olympic gold medal for the second treasure that was about to be born.
At the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the strong player who reached the final with Long Qingquan was North Korean athlete Yan Yun-chul. In recent years, Yan Runzhe, with his superb technology and strong strength, has become the gold medal harvester of international weightlifting competitions in recent years. Therefore, even if Long Qingquan enters the final, many people still feel that he is inferior to Yan Runzhe in terms of strength, so they think that he is unlikely to win the gold medal.
Moreover, in the previous competitions, Yan Runzhe's score exceeded Long Qingquan.com. Therefore, everyone almost all believed that It was difficult for Long Qingquan to have a chance to catch up. Who expected that in the final grasping link, Long Qingquan actually increased the weight of the barbell to 170 kilograms, which was a weight he had never lifted before. But victory or defeat is in this move, as long as he can lift this weight, he can complete the counterattack.
Only to see Long Qingquan take a deep breath, his hands tightly grasped the barbell, and then he roared and lifted it over his head with full strength.
At one point, there was thunderous applause inside and outside the arena, and people saw that the once spirited Long Qingquan had returned. At this time, Long Qingquan became a real king, he not only defeated his opponent, in fact, he also defeated himself, allowing himself to interpret well, what is the spirit of sportsmanship! What is the Olympic spirit!
Over the years, Long Qingquan's wonderful moments at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games have been talked about by people who hope that he will show his glory again at this year's Tokyo Olympic Games. Unfortunately, due to his age and injury, Long Qingquan finally announced his retirement at the age of 30, and eventually failed to appear at this year's Tokyo Olympics.
I hope that Long Qingquan's future life will be better and better.