Speaking of weightlifting, one person who has to be mentioned is Long Qingquan, who won the Olympic championship at a young age, with strong muscles and a small height like Nezha.
Long Qingquan's success was not simply achieved. Behind his growth there is an endless story.
In 1990, Long Qingquan was born in a small county town in western Hunan Province, and when he was a child, Long Qingquan was very lively, sneaking up and down every day. Not surprisingly, he loved sports and was indeed selected to study at the sports school in Longshan County.
This life did not last for several years, and in 1999 he was caught by coach Gan Zhiyue of the state sports school and entered the state sports school to start learning weightlifting.
At that time, the training conditions were very hard, and there were no decent training tools in the school, so they used wooden bamboo tubes and water pipes as barbells, and added soil and sand to them if they did not weigh enough.
Even so, Long Qingquan was still the most serious teacher of training, and every time he could end his studies in advance to carry out his own training.
Fortunately, the main purpose of the training at that time was only to exercise physical fitness and basic movements, and the harsh conditions did not have much impact on the road after Long Qingquan.
In his third year of study, he shined at the Provincial Games and won the 38 kg title, and in 2006 he won the Provincial Games for the second time, when he was only 16 years old.
Judging from the biography alone, we can't know how many difficulties long Qingquan has experienced behind its success, Long Qingquan's family is very poor, and his parents have been working abroad for many years to subsidize the family, and they can't make much money in a year.
Long Qingquan, who lacks the love of his father and mother, does not give up on himself but is very sensible, and at the same time, the master and brother have been helping Long Qingquan in terms of finances, which allows him to persist all the time.
Because his family was too poor to do so economically, Long Qingquan's small stature made him almost unable to participate in the provincial games when he first participated in the provincial games in 2000 because he could not reach the minimum weight class.
Fortunately, the leader of the competition at the time made an exception to let Qingquan participate in the test. In the end, Long Qingquan shined in the competition and won the championship.
Long Qingquan also doubled his confidence in the good results of this competition to lay a good foundation for winning the Olympic Championship in the future, after which Long Qingquan began a four-year training life, thanks to Long Qingquan's efforts, in the 2004 Provincial Games, Long Qingquan once again broke out a strong ability to win three competitions.
Since 2000, the family business in the countryside has been going on for a year, and in 2002, the parents have had to give up their family business and go to other cities to do odd jobs to make ends meet.
A month of only more than 1,000 yuan of income is obviously unable to support the expenses of a large family, in order to reduce the expenditure of Long Qingquan after each training will collect the remaining mineral water bottles that other team members drink to sell, and point to parents for 250 yuan a month for living expenses.
However, the poverty of the family did not make Long Qingquan retreat, but he trained harder than before, and was often the last to leave the training hall.
Long Qingquan insisted on training for the provincial team in 2006, but the monthly training fee of 900 yuan was simply astronomical for Long Qingquan's family, which they could not afford.
Until the situation in their family reached the ears of the sports bureau personnel, in order to alleviate the pressure on Long Qingquan's family, the sports bureau decided to fund Long Qingquan to avoid Long Qingquan from having to drop out of school because of his family's poverty, so that Long Qingquan could continue training with only 300 yuan a month.
Long Qingquan cherished this training opportunity, and he knew that there might not be a next time after missing it. Since then he has been training even more lifelessly.
But God always likes to make a joke about a person when he is having a smooth ride, and at the 2007 City Games, Long Qingquan failed to grab three times for various reasons and quit the game early.
After the game, he called his mother, and although he didn't say a word about his loss, his mother heard from Long Qingquan's tone that he had lost the game.
But he did not blame Long Qingquan, but only comforted him and encouraged him: "We still have many opportunities to win the championship, and we can't deny that we can't think we can't do it because of a defeat." His mother's words gave Long Qingquan great encouragement.
In just a few days, Long Qingquan came out of the shadow of defeat and won two championship gold medals in the national competition in Chongqing a week later.
After the game, he called his parents to announce his happiness and warned him: "You can't be complacent because of a success, your goal is a broader stage, you should sink your heart into the Olympic sprint and win the Olympic championship." ”
Time flies soon Long Qingquan ushered in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, as the youngest of more than 200 competitors, Long Qingquan did not have the slightest fear of the stage.
Living up to expectations, Long Qingquan, as the only Chinese player in the 56 kg category, won the championship by crossing the barriers.
But at that time, Long Qingquan was always a child, after the 2008 Olympic Games, he won the National Games and the World Championships, and won the championship at a young age, which made Long Qingquan lose himself a little, and he gradually became addicted to alcohol and games.
It wasn't until the defeat of the 2012 London Olympic Trials that Long Qingquan realized that he could not continue like this, and his lover's company to him also stopped him on the verge of collapse, and slowly Long Qingquan began to cheer up and prepare for the Rio Olympics.
This is also the last chance for Long Qingquan, because by the time of the 2020 Olympic Games, long Qingquan is 30 years old and it is impossible to participate again.
In 2015, his coach took him back to training, until that year's championship, Long Qingquan's results had returned to 298 kg.
In the blink of an eye, in 2016, Long Qingquan returned to the Olympic stage of his dreams, and broke the world record with excellent results to stand on the podium of the Olympic champion and return to the throne.
Long Qingquan was only a teenager when he won the Olympic championship for the first time, and then fell into a trough, people were afraid that he would become the "Fang Zhongyong" of the weightlifting world, fortunately, he stopped falling in time to stop the fall in time and regained his footing in the world eight years later.
We all know that it is difficult to become a champion, but what is even more difficult is to return to the altar after becoming a champion and falling off the altar, at this time, you have to face not only the pressure of ability but also the pressure of public opinion from the outside world, Long Qingquan persevered and was not defeated.
After the baptism of time, he has long said goodbye to the ignorant teenager and become a real champion, not only in the competition, but also in life.