"53-year-old Zheng Haixia was childless for ten years after marriage, her legs were bent and deformed, and her husband disappeared"
Zheng Haixia, 53, was inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame. Become the second person in China"
Around 2021, the Internet has broken out such two hot news of ice and fire. Who is Zheng Haixia? To put it simply, Zheng Haixia's position in the history of The Chinese women's basketball team is equivalent to Yao Ming's position in the history of the Chinese men's basketball team.
In 1982, he entered the Bayi team, and then entered the national team in 1983, when he was only 16 years old, this young, tall Zheng Haixia, since then began a career playing for the country. No, it should be said that it opened the history of Chinese basketball, known as the more than ten years of glory of the Zheng Haixia era. In the past ten years, Zheng Haixia's most commendable achievement is to lead the Chinese women's basketball team, twice stand on the Olympic podium, and then won the runner-up of the World Championships, today's new generation may not know that the Chinese women's basketball team thirty years ago can be called the strongest national team in history, and the overall strength is in the world's top three levels.
The first glory of the Chinese women's basketball team in the Zheng Haixia era was at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, after this period of joyful highlight moments, on August 6, 1992, barcelona Olympic women's basketball semifinals, the Chinese women's basketball team defeated the then world powerhouse Cuba team with a 109:70 disparity score, and broke into the final championship and runner-up final.
Zheng Haixia, known as the female version of O'Neal, in the basket as if into no man's land, under her absolute dominance, the Chinese team has always firmly controlled the situation on the field, the cuban girls with outstanding physical fitness, played obediently, although the final August 8 night championship and runner-up finals, facing the old hot former Soviet team, the Chinese women's basketball team lost with a slight gap of 66 to 76, just one step away from the top of the honor, but this Olympic runner-up trophy, once again created history.
In the 1994 World Championships, Zheng Haixia, who was injured in different parts of the body, still put the shooting and free throw shooting rate to more than 80%, although in the end the Chinese team lost to Brazil by two points, and the champion passed by, but this world championship runner-up trophy is a brilliant achievement that is still difficult to surpass.
Such achievements, can be said to be the Chinese women's basketball team, and even Chinese basketball, the highest peak of development so far, in its heyday, the basketball industry has such a saying, as long as Deng Haixia receives the ball under the basket, it is equivalent to declaring that the opponent has lost two points, and Zheng Haixia, who is 2 meters 06 tall, is the chief offensive and defensive core of the Chinese women's basketball team in the 80s, and she ruled an era.
Zheng Haixia, who played a dominant performance in asian level competitions, attracted the attention of the WNBA in the United States. In 1996, Zheng Haixia, who wanted to see if she could do it at this age, joined the Los Angeles Sparks and became the first Chinese player in China and even in Asia to play in the WNBA.
Here is an interesting thing that sounds very broken the dimensional wall, when the Los Angeles Lakers O'Neal, very much admired Zheng Haixia, when O'Neill free throws are not very good, his coach let O'Neill go to Zheng Haixia, ask her how to free throw, until 1998, 31-year-old Zheng Haixia in the knee, waist injury leg injury, many injuries, and finally chose to retire, belongs to her Zheng Haixia era, only slowly ended.
The height of 2 meters 06 is promising on the basketball court, but in real life, especially in the marriage market, it is not necessarily the case. Coupled with a more masculine voice, Zheng Haixia's personal feelings do not seem to be smooth, Zheng Haixia's first love, height 2 meters 10, is a center of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology varsity team, this relationship lasted for more than a year, and finally ended with Zheng Haixia being broken up.
The outside world generally speculated that the reason for the breakup was that Zheng Haixia at that time was already the super main force and absolute core of the Chinese women's basketball team, regardless of the status and future income and fame, it was much higher than the man, although the first love was not explicitly stated, but in the breakup letter drew a picture, painting a moment of big tree, there is a small grass under the big tree. Zheng Haixia understands this ex very well, and still maintains a good relationship with the other party, and sends two pairs of shoes to the ex every year.
In 2010, Zheng Haixia finally found happiness in life, and Xu Qinghua, who was three years older than himself, married, standing next to Zheng Haixia may not be able to see it, but Xu Qinghua, the height is actually one meter nine one, as a fan of Zheng Haixia, Xu Qinghua has a crush on Zheng Haixia for many years, waited for her for many years, and finally waited to cultivate the right results with his idol.
Therefore, many media in the report of Zheng Haixia's big wedding, have used the next marriage fan such a saying, after the marriage of the couple to participate in a TV show, the host asked Xu Qinghua, and Zheng Haixia together what feelings, Xu Qinghua said want to give her a surprise, kiss her from behind is not OK, she is too high, can not reach, can not reach three words, meaningful, from 2016, netizens found that the husband Xu Qinghua seems to disappear, every time Zheng Haixia goes out alone, it is suspected, is there a problem with feelings, or Xu Qinghua wants to be low-key, Deliberately keep a distance from the media.
In addition to marriage, Zheng Haixia's health has also become another problem, in order to be more dominant on the field, Zheng Haixia has gained weight during the athlete period, but this has led to excessive pressure on the legs, resulting in injuries, with the increase of age, 54-year-old Zheng Haixia, her legs have been bent and deformed, unable to run, nor can she walk for a long time, but she still believes that it is worth paying health and youth for the basketball cause
Then again, every athlete is worthy of respect, competitive sports are always cruel, and those who can get cards are always a very small minority, but the sweat and tears they each pay are unimaginable to us.