Liao Qiuyun often tied two huge ice packs on his knees, bulging and ice-pricked skin, but it was very effective for reducing swelling and relieving pain. She can't remember when her knees started to fight herself, but she only remembers the sound of barbell pieces hitting the floor on weekdays, and her knees are "good and bad", "if it hurts, you can still train, if it is swollen, you can only rest."
Two days before the Shaanxi National Games, the knee was unwell at an inopportune time, and Liao Qiuyun took painkillers and prepared for the worst. As a fresh silver runner at the Tokyo Olympics, she was the biggest favorite to win the women's weightlifting 55 kg competition at the National Games, but at the beginning of the competition, she performed mediocrely, revealing early signs of quitting the gold medal competition. In the deadlift stage, the name of "Liao Qiuyun" flashed "128 kg" on the screen but no one played, which made her only 94 kg in the snatch, 120 kg in the deadlift, and the total score of 214 kg.
When everyone used "upset" to regret for her "failure to make up for the Olympic regret with the national sports gold medal", she confessed to the reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network: "This is the best level I can play recently, not a pity." ”
In front of the stage, the audience whispered, unclear. Behind the stage, Liao Qiuyun straightened her legs, a familiar ice pack appeared on her knees, and groups of volunteers came to her for autographs and photos, and her smile could not catch the slightest reluctance. She posted the photo to the social platform, with the caption "The ending does not have to be satisfactory, life is perfect with regrets." Life is still there. It is also good to have a wave of small fans on this trip. When she posted the picture, she deliberately blocked the knee wrapped in the ice pack with a pink love sticker.
Perhaps accustomed to getting along with injuries and illnesses, Liao Qiuyun always felt that there was no need to show the vulnerable parts. On the contrary, when others seemed unnecessary, she made a steep choice. "Do you still want to participate in the National Games?" If you want to, you have to be prepared that you won't even get the top eight. After the Tokyo Olympics, the coach asked her seriously. Liao Qiuyun is well aware of the practical difficulties behind this preventive injection, after all, the rehabilitation means of the provincial team are not as good as the national team, and the knee injury may come out at any time, but the "unwillingness" who failed to win the gold medal at the Olympic Games is encouraging her, "The result is natural, but no matter what, we must try our best to fight."
Unlike the beautiful facial features, Liao Qiuyun never has much sentimentality, but also prides herself on being a bit "two", in the eyes of people around her, as a post-95 athlete, this young girl is "very forgetful", especially injuries, failures, setbacks can not let her fall into the emotions of being unable to extricate herself, but the evaluation of "big grin" also contains a hint of "lack of desire" view. "Every athlete has a desire to win, and I want to, but I don't act very outrageously." Liao Qiuyun seems to be not afraid of losing, but will show a rare "care" because he is not happy enough to lose.
"I felt that I had reached that step, in fact, I also had the ability, so I missed it, and I still think about it." The Tokyo Olympics are one of the few obstacles that Liao Qiuyun "took the initiative not to think" - Liao Qiuyun, who went to the Olympic Games for the first time, lost 1 kg to the Philippine veteran Diaz in the weightlifting women's 55 kg competition and won a silver medal. In other sports, it is not easy to win a silver medal, but in the Chinese weightlifting team, which is called the "Dream Team", she is the only player among the 8 team members who has not won the gold medal, and the pressure can be imagined. But what really makes Liao Qiuyun care is not this "only", but that she was sure to win, but she regretted in vain because her opponent was a little "fiercer" than herself at the last moment.
After the game, public opinion sent "sadness" to Liao Qiuyun, pointing the spearhead at coach Zhang Guozheng, believing that the coach's tactics were too conservative and gave the other side the opportunity to reverse. But Liao Qiuyun admitted that before the game, although his knee injury did not affect normal training, he never dared to increase the intensity of training, so from the perspective of protecting himself, the coach chose a relatively safe way in training and competition, and the 126 kg finally lifted was indeed the best result at that stage, and what was even more unexpected was that the veteran Diaz could play beyond the level and lift the winning 127 kg.
His own decisions are reasonable, but the opponent's play is unexpected. In the end, the thought that blocked Liao Qiuyun's chest was: "I should be in better shape that day."
Historicly lifting 127 kilograms, Liao Qiuyun is not unimplemented. At the last National Games, she was not a popular player in the spotlight, when the coach set a goal for her to "save four and compete for three", but the opportunity appeared in the deadlift stage she was good at, and the players who ranked before her made mistakes, and she had become a lift of 120 kg, and the championship was possible, and the coaching team wanted to fight for her "challenge 127 kg".
"Strangely, that game, I was deaf and blind." Liao Qiuyun remembered that the live broadcast of the test lift weight, the screen also wrote 127 kg, but she inexplicably determined that the barbell in front of her was 122 kg, until she stepped on the stage, holding the barbell with both hands, and a trace of "wrong" came from the palm. "Why is it so heavy?" But she didn't allow her to think, she didn't worry too much, she lifted a "somewhat heavy 122 kilograms", until she finally won the championship and was interviewed, she suddenly learned that she had challenged the limit.
Since then, Liao Qiuyun, who has a big heart, has become a competition player, she has become more and more courageous, and won the championship again in the 2019 Weightlifting World Cup and Tokyo Olympic Games Qualification Tournament, and in September of the same year, she not only successfully won the championship in the 55 kg category, but also successfully broke the world record. The Olympic arena, which had never been extravagant before, was within easy reach.
It's just that the distance between her and the Olympic gold medal has also become dramatically within a short distance. A kilogram difference, even if Liao Qiuyun's "heart is big", it is difficult not to be grumpy, at the beginning, she always thought, "I would rather fight, no results will be more comfortable than this result." But soon, she hinted to herself, "It's not easy to come to the Olympics, I'm super optimistic, I want to look ahead." She used details to prove her "big grin", "I went to the urine test after I finished, others also comforted me to chat with me, after the conversation, people found that you don't seem to need me to comfort, it belongs to such a mentality." ”
"It's all over, what's the use of thinking about it?" Increase your troubles. From the age of 12 in order to go out of the house to choose weightlifting, Liao Qiuyun learned to talk to herself, she often talked to herself unconsciously in the dormitory and training ground, like a blindfolded horse, running wild in the thorns, but hinting to herself, taking this step, one step away from the thorn bush.
After the Tokyo Olympics, Liao Qiuyun's Weibo fans rose rapidly from 4,000 to 90,000, and in the face of rising numbers, she once thought that "it may be a fake fan", because "there are not many people who pay attention to weightlifting, and I still take the second place." ”
For Liao Qiuyun, being noticed is a difficult course to learn. She is afraid to stand on a high place to receive encouragement and praise, "not very useful to me", but in the voice of doubt, with the attitude of the impactor can burst out the hidden ability, therefore, she likes the atmosphere of the national team, "taking more championships, breaking more records is a very normal thing, no one will think you are particularly remarkable." 」 For her, standing on the field, the person to answer is always herself, "I want to win the championship or break the record, not to want others to pay attention to me, but to prove to myself, I am OK." 」 In Liao Qiuyun's dictionary, "regret" has nothing to do with whether or not to win the championship, and it has to do with whether or not to exhaust all efforts.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Liang Xuan Source: China Youth Daily ( October 12, 2021 04 edition)
Source: China Youth Daily
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