Mu Xiangxiong, the well-deserved Chinese frog king, once shocked the international referees by relying on the deeds of only three breaths in the 100-meter diving swim, and the swimming federation changed the rules because the gap was too large. However, why did such a strong swimmer not win an Olympic medal for his country himself?
Mu Xiangxiong, the chinese frog king in the 1950s, changed the rules of international competitions only because he was required not to use threatening movements during the competition, but it is undeniable that his performance in the competition shocked the world, and he chose to contribute to the cause of swimming education in China after retiring many years later.
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Mu Xiangxiong, who was born in Tianjin Beichen, was able to take the swimming road and has a huge relationship with his father, who is his guide in the swimming career. His father, Mu Chengkuan, was a strong swimmer when he was young, and he won a rare first place in tianjin's big and small swimming competitions.
The urge for fathers to train their sons to become swimmers comes from two things, one is to inadvertently see foreigners say that Chinese is the sick man of East Asia, and the other is the talent of his son in swimming. The former makes Mu Chengkuan's fighting spirit also the opening for Mu Xiangxiong to focus on swimming, and the latter is his talent to cater to this opening.
Under the cultivation of his father, Mu Xiangxiong's progress has grown by leaps and bounds, so that he has won the national swimming championship at the age of 18, and Mu Xiangxiong, who successfully entered the national team, is regarded as a killer, but the international situation in China at that time affected the sports industry.
The first international appearance was made in Moscow, when Mu Xiangxiong, who broke the national record with a good result of 2'25''4, attracted domestic attention. When excited, there are also media began to understand how this swimmer achieved such results, and Mu Xiangxiong who understood that such achievements were indeed exchanged for hard work, and talent was just a stepping stone for him to enter the swimming industry.
The swimmer who was able to achieve today's achievements is to look back at the energy he put into swimming, when he was young, he also couldn't practice breaststroke, because the posture was not standard enough to receive countless training, but the situation did not improve, which made him start to figure out how to change.
Thinking of the word breaststroke, he suddenly grabbed a few frogs, and when others were eager to train, he crouched down on the edge of the pool to observe the frog's posture, and the more carefully he observed, the more he understood where his problems appeared, and the ability to comprehend played a role at this time, and he quickly mastered the essentials of the action.
On the way to training, he went all the way through the barriers, and finally when it was time to represent the country in the international arena, he also suffered a blow. Sometimes the reason for not getting the first place is not related to strength, or it may be the opportunity for strength under the environment to not be shown.
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The 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games were in full swing, Mu Xiangxiong spent a lot of time training for this competition, a group of sports athletes to Melbourne on the road to the scrappy, they are very much looking forward to their results in Melbourne, of which Mu Xiangxiong is the most excited.
When they arrived in Guangzhou and prepared to fly to Melbourne, they received a thunderbolt of news on a sunny day - the flag of Taiwan had been raised on the Melbourne arena at that time. An international tournament ended in this group of athletes, and their depression can be imagined.
It is not only them who are disappointed, but many coaches who have witnessed Mu Xiangxiong's strength are even more unfortunate, just in the exercise competition prepared for this international competition in Melbourne, Mu Xiangxiong's performance is two seconds faster than the first place given by Melbourne this time, which means that the first place had the opportunity to come to China 28 years in advance.
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This time, the missing arm slowly turned into a kind of motivation to give Mu Xiangxiong to continue to forge ahead, and he was destined to bring better results when he appeared in front of the international community again. The opportunity did not take long, and at the Syrian competition in the same year, Mu Xiangxiong completed an amazing match.
When the other runners swam to the position of ten meters to start breathing, Mu Xiangxiong did not appear from under the water, and Mu Xiangxiong, who appeared at a distance of 5 times, only began his first ventilation, and Mu Xiangxiong only used 3 times in total in this 100-meter track. There is no doubt that he is a champion or a champion who shocked the world. After the end of the competition, the rules of the international swimming competition were changed, and diving was not allowed in the competition.
According to the statements they give, one of the reasons is that there are too few people who can do diving, and there is also the harm of diving to the human body, that is to say, after this rule comes out, Mu Xiangxiong can no longer use the way of diving to win the championship, he wants to change the swimming method.
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To use the current words to describe Mu Xiangxiong's swimming career is difficult to ping, after the change of rules, Mu Xiangxiong tried his best to adapt, and created another way of swimming circle, but what makes people feel uncomfortable is that for many years, Mu Xiangxiong still failed to become an Olympic champion with his own personal strength.
This made too many people who paid attention to Mu Xiangxiong feel uneasy, obviously they had the strength to absolutely overcome others, but for various reasons, they failed to achieve matching results. How many people have fantasized that the person who won the gold medal in the swimming competition at the Olympic Games is Mu Xiangxiong, but unfortunately all this can only be a fantasy.
After retiring, Mu Xiangxiong continued his career, perhaps he could not stand on the competition field to win glory for the country, but he had too much say in swimming, and in the face of absolute strength, giving full play to his ability to swim education is also a way to pass on the light.
Mu Xiangxiong seems to have become his father, and he has given too much expectation and dedication in the position of coach, teaching his apprentices by example. The gold medal that time owes to Mu Xiangxiong has finally come! In 1992, Mu Xiangxiong's personal disciple won the 100-meter butterfly competition in the Olympic competition. Years of regret at this time can finally get a little comfort in the heart, I believe that when Mu Xiangxiong watched his disciple stand on the podium, he also saw the young self.
This gold medal means too much to the M Moser fathers and sons, it is the perseverance of two generations, and it also gives the people of our country the strength to speak straight in sports. National strength has never been the business of a few people, and every member of us in it has the obligation to contribute to it.