Didn't expect the national champion to give me a bath! It's not easy for you to get into sports! As soon as this sentence is spoken, there are mixed feelings! Seeing this former weightlifting champion in front of me, he actually scrubbed in a small bathhouse for a living! Those hands that had raised the national honor, but now they could only helplessly pick up the bath cloth! Unbelievable! She is Zou Chunlan, a national weightlifting champion from Jilin who has won 9 gold medals! After retiring from the army at the age of 23 with a full body of injuries, why did he become a bathhouse scrubber? What has she been through from a weightlifting champion to a scrubber? The most important people in the world in this issue will take everyone into the sad story behind Zou Chunlan!
Zou Chunlan works in the bathhouse
Like most weightlifting champions, Zou Chunlan was born in 1971 to a poor family in meihekou, Jilin Province. Both parents are honest farmers, and they can barely eat enough to work at home all year round. At that time, there were very few people who could read, and because of the four walls of the family, Zou Chunlan basically did not have a good education. But she has been very athletically talented since she was a child, with thick limbs and amazing strength. The school's physical education teacher quickly noticed her, isn't this a good seedling for practicing sports? Sure enough, let Zou Chunlan try to lift weights, she easily lifted 90 pounds! After the teacher's recommendation, Zou Chunlan silently decided that she could not change her fate through reading, so she chose the path of sports! He started his sports career at the age of 14, but he didn't know if it was a lucky or unfortunate start.
Zou Chunlan
In 1987, Zou Chunlan entered the Jilin Provincial First Team, when she was still young and did not think too much. I feel that I have found a stable job, and my parents can feel relieved!
In the team, she trained desperately, lifted weights on her knees every day, sweated all over her body, and endured the boredom and pain that ordinary people could not bear. Under the high-intensity training of the coach, she quickly came up with a proud result! In just a few months, he won the second place in the national weightlifting competition and the first place in the deadlift. Then the following year she achieved another great result, winning 3 gold medals in national competitions and breaking the world record! In 1988, another national record was broken! You know, at that time, this achievement was quite powerful!
In an instant, Zou Chunlan became a star in the weightlifting industry at that time, and felt the infinite honor on the podium! Everyone thought that the glory had just begun, but they never expected that this was the highest moment in her life!
Zou Chunlan couldn't have imagined that she had not yet waited for the moment when she went out of the world and won glory for the country, and she ended her sports career! Why is it so short? It turned out that Zou Chunlan often challenged the limits of strength in the coach's devil training, and although he improved quickly, he had already left his body full of pain!
In 1993, Zou Chunlan was only 23 years old, only 6 years into the team, because of the pain of a body, there was no way to continue the game, can only be forced to retire! Because she had no other income, nor any work experience, and could not make a living at all, Zou Chunlan could only do chores in the canteen of the team. However, in the end, he was not resettled, and he once again faced the helpless dilemma of unemployment! When he left the sports team, Zou Chunlan, in addition to a one-time injury compensation of 75,000 yuan, could only make a living on his own.
Seeing this, some people may say that they are only 23 years old, and this flower-like age still has the opportunity to find a good person to marry! But who would have guessed that this was the beginning of the nightmare! At this time, Zou Chunlan left the training, and when he was quiet, he slowly realized that something was wrong! She saw her body as if she were looking at a man! The feminine features on the body have also become blurred, not only the appearance has become ugly, the voice has become thicker, the leg hair has become longer and longer, and even the beard has grown out! Why did Zou Chunlan become like this? Who caused all this? Soon, Zou Chunlan thought of the reason!
Zou Chunlan plucked his beard
Originally, after training in Zou Chunlan for so many years, every day the coach would give them a kind of tonic, at that time, everyone did not think much, thinking that it was just a nutritional product, thinking that eating could strengthen the body and be more conducive to weight training. But I never expected that this tonic was the culprit who made himself half a man!
Zou Chunlan (right)
No culture, no work experience, no beauty, Zou Chunlan even became half a man! Not only that, in order to treat the injuries of the young, the 75,000 yuan subsidy has long been used up! In these difficulties, Zou Chunlan spent all her luck and met a boyfriend Who loved her deeply, Zhou Shaocheng. The boyfriend is 6 years older than Zou Chunlan, although he is not a rich family, he is very honest and responsible, burning a boiler in a bathhouse. Seeing that his girlfriend was worried about his work, he decided to persuade Zou Chunlan to become a bather!
For this work, Zou Chunlan was hesitant. But when raising chickens, selling sand, selling lamb skewers have repeatedly failed, and even don't know where to find the next meal, Zou Chunlan can only smile bitterly and bow her head to life!
Once a glorious weightlifting champion, he is now really reduced to a bathhouse scrubper! Just because scrubbing doesn't require culture, it just requires strength! Zou Chunlan worked in the bathhouse and rubbed a person to get 1.45 yuan. But because there were so many injuries left in her body, even her heart was wrong, she desperately rubbed the day, and there were more than 50 customers at most. For this 75 yuan, she gasped for breath, and every time she was tired and almost collapsed!
Zou Chunlan in the bathhouse
What makes her most sad is that when she helped the female customer to scrub the bath, after the customer recognized her, the emotional words: I didn't expect the national champion to give me a bath, it is really not easy for you to engage in sports! Even the female customers were very surprised, Zou Chunlan was even more mixed feelings after listening to it, but she was embarrassed and did not know what to say!
More and more people recognized Zou Chunlan, and The Chinese weightlifting champion Zou Chunlan, who worked as a bather in the bathhouse, quickly caused a sensation in the society, and reporters also went to the bathhouse for interviews! As soon as this matter came out, the people of the whole country read it and had mixed feelings in their hearts.
Fortunately, the Jilin Sports Bureau reached out to help Zou Chunlan invest in a laundromat, giving Zou Chunlan a way to make a living. Zou Chunlan has finally gone from being a bather to a laundromat owner! The problem of livelihood was solved, but in Zou Chunlan's heart, there was always a sore spot that could not be put down.
Zou Chunlan's laundromat
That is, she will never be a mother! How painful this is for a woman! Because the medicine that the athlete took in those years, she lost the right to choose to be a mother! Not only that, after she became an athlete, she didn't even wear a skirt once, and she never lived like a normal girl! She even wrote an article titled "I Want to Be A Little Feminine", which revealed her extreme desire for "daughter body"!
After the publication of this article, more and more people saw it, and more and more people were distressed by Zou Chunlan, and finally with the help of a plastic surgery hospital in Chongqing, plastic surgery was done! Looks like a gentle woman after all! The husband is also very happy, before afraid of being said to be a husband and wife of two brothers, now finally got his wish to take a wedding photo!
Zou Chunlan and her husband
The wish to become a daughter has come true, but unfortunately, the desire to become a mother can only be completely destroyed!
From a weightlifting champion to a bathhouse bather, from infinite splendor to a variety of people. Zou Chunlan once said that she could endure the hardships of life, but whenever she returned home and saw the 9 gold medals, the tears finally flowed uncontrollably. Those are the years of her youth and infinite passion! This is all pain that ordinary people can't feel!
Zou Chunlan won the gold medal
Now she has suffered various blows, giving up her former pride and tenacious life! It all takes a lot of courage! She used her own personal experience to warn athletes like her that they can't just eat the old book, as long as they face it bravely, life can't crush themselves!
I have to say that in addition to Zou Chunlan, there are many retired athletes who have also encountered an unbearable situation, in addition to the humanistic care of the motherland, more importantly, they must also cheer up, cheer up, and live as well as possible! All the athletes who have sprinted for the motherland! Whatever you do, as long as the direction is good! Chinese people will always support you! Applause for you forever!
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