She has won 19 gold medals for our country, is a marathon runner, and she should have unlimited scenery, but now she is holding her children to buy vegetables on the street to make a living, and even sells the gold medals online at a low price
What made Ai Dongmei fall into such a situation? It all stems from an unscrupulous coach
Ai Dongmei is a native of Heilongjiang, born in an ordinary family whose parents are farmers, Ai Dongmei, who was born with athletic talent, joined the school track and field team when she was in the third grade and trained intensively every day
Ai Dongmei, who is extremely talented, is regarded as a key training object by teachers, and every time the school holds a competition, Ai Dongmei will be on the field and has won many awards
Ai Dongmei got up at four o'clock every day, went to school at half past four, ran three or four kilometers every day for training, at the school sports meeting, Ai Dongmei ran a full lap past other students, the referee could not believe it, and even suspected that she ran one lap less, and asked Ai Dongmei to re-race the next day, even if the running broke her toes, Ai Dongmei still had to endure the pain, and the next day won the championship with a one-minute result, and the referee recognized her
A sports school in Qiqihar noticed Ai Dongmei, so it found her home and discussed with Ai Dongmei's parents to let her enter the sports school for training, and the parents hoped that their daughter would get ahead, because they would be assigned jobs after graduation from the sports school, and they quickly agreed
Ai Dongmei received the most professional training in the sports school, but also cut off all practice with the outside world, just to be able to concentrate on training, a year later, Ai Dongmei was like a dark horse, won the championship in a marathon, the reward was a bicycle
Before the 14-year-old Ai Dongmei entered the locomotive sports team, Ai Dongmei heard other classmates say that the coach there, Wang Dexian, was very strict, and corporal punishment of students was commonplace
Ai Dongmei was afraid of being selected by Wang Dexian, afraid of being his student, terrible what came, and finally her coach was Wang Dexian, Wang Dexian was particularly domineering, and the way of education could be said to be brutal
In order to prevent the students from escaping if they could not stand it, Wang Dexian locked the gate and let the big wolf dog guard the door, and usually did not allow students to have any entertainment activities, nor could they write letters and read books
The Heilongjiang sports team also trained with Ai Dongmei, and Wang Dexian did not allow athletes to contact others, and once he found out, he waited to accept criticism and punishment
In order to prevent athletes from telling others what happened during training, Wang Dexian did not allow athletes to go home, and Ai Dongmei stayed in the sports team for eight years, but only returned home twice, because she knew that Wang Dexian would not let her go home
Once a father missed his daughter and specially rushed to the training ground to visit his daughter, but Wang Dexian directly took the female athlete away, leaving only his father outside the training ground
The food there was very poor, the better ones were only beef ball soup, eight pounds of beef stuffing, more than 20 athletes to eat, the day before the competition, still eat cabbage, there is no oil and water at all
Ai Dongmei began to compete from the age of fifteen, the average athlete can participate in the competition at the age of eighteen, high-intensity training, Ai Dongmei's thumb valgus can not walk, Wang Dexian is not allowed to rest treatment, the next day still on the field
Once Ai Dongmei sprained his waist, even if the injury was serious, but Wang Dexian did not let him rest, he could only support the training, but Ai Dongmei could not run up in pain, Wang Dexian immediately whipped over, smoked dozens of times before stopping
Over the years, Ai Dongmei won 19 gold medals, retired due to injury in 2003, retired athletes will enjoy national welfare, according to the number of gold medals, Ai Dongmei's prize money is at least 200,000, but was held by Wang Dexian
Wang Dexian said that he would keep the athletes' prize money to his name several times on the grounds that the athletes were young, and when Ai Dongmei went to get back the hard money, Wang Dexian did not give it
At that time, Ai Dongmei's monthly salary of 300 yuan was simply not enough to live, so she and several other athletes who were deducted from Wang Dexian's prize money sued him in court, but they could not wait for the news of the trial
The good distribution work was not fulfilled, and Ai Dongmei was injured due to training, resulting in severe deformities in her feet, and she could not work but to hold her children and buy vegetables at street stalls
In 2007, the news of Ai Dongmei's low-priced sale of gold medals attracted people's attention, the former champion fell to this point, there will definitely be someone to investigate, after the investigation found that after Ai Dongmei retired, the monthly training fees issued by the sports team were issued for five years, Ai Dongmei did not receive a point, all swallowed by Wang Dexian, with the help of the relevant departments, these expenses finally came back
Olympic champion Huang Naihai donated 20,000 yuan to Ai Dongmei, asking her not to sell these gold medals, which is her honor, a company in Nanjing learned about Ai Dongmei's experience, proposed to let her endorse, and gave 100,000 start-up funds, and also provided free education for Ai Dongmei's daughter
At the same time, a hospital went to find Ai Dongmei and said that she would do surgical corrections, everything was free, after surgery, Ai Dongmei's feet were corrected, and the problem of not being able to walk was solved
Under the care of the society, Ai Dongmei took back the 200,000 bonus deducted by Wang Dexian, and now Ai Dongmei's difficulties have been solved and she has bought a house
In the interview, Ai Dongmei said that she did not regret being an athlete, but she did not want her daughter to also take the path of an athlete, because it was too bitter
Ai Dongmei came from an ordinary background, but dedicated the best youth to the competition, behind the 19 gold medals, there are countless sweat tears and injuries, her experience after retiring is heart-wrenching, she should have retired honorably and lived a good life, only hope that such a thing will not happen again, because athletes are worthy of the respect of all of us