Author | Guan Shan Yue
Chinese diving team, yyds!
Chinese weightlifting team, yyds!
After a shot on the first day, fame in one fell swoop, and a sword in the throat,
The next day, he jumped the dragon gate again, became the king in one fell swoop, fought against the sky, and won 3 gold medals!
After the two-day Tokyo Olympics match day,
China is provisionally ranked first in the medal table with 6 gold medals!
And tearful scenes have also happened before our eyes.
This is the story of the 2 Chinese Dream Teams,
It is also an athlete from young fame to fall into the trough, and then to the top of the twenty years,
It is also the truth of life that every child should understand, learn, epiphany, and strive for.
01
My fate is up to me
At yesterday's Tokyo Olympics,
Men's Weightlifting 67 kg Competition Site,
China's Chen Lijun faces many difficulties.
The first is mental stress,
Rio 16 Olympic Games,
Because of the sudden cramps, there is no chance of a medal,
That summer,
The iron boy shed tears,
Shout three times: I'm sorry.
Sorry coach, sorry leader, sorry motherland.
And Tokyo,
Not only his comeback battle,
Battle of Vengeance,
And maybe it's his final battle,
It was this man who practiced weightlifting since childhood,
The last Olympic Games to grow from a boy to a man.
But I didn't expect it.
There was a mistake in the grasping lift,
The first 2 did not lift up,
With the first place, the difference is 6kg, 12 kg,
Big score behind.
And the referee's change of judgment,
Again,
(The 180-kilogram man who grabbed the first lift did not stand still at all.
However, it was changed to a successful sentence. ）
Under all kinds of difficulties,
Everybody thinks it's good to get a medal.
Chen Lijun did not compromise,
Didn't lose,
Did not confess,
And desperate.
The last one,
Behind 11 kg,
He added directly to 187 kg
Stand up for a success,
Miraculously killed from the fifth place back to the first place!
Set two Olympic records in the deadlift and overall results,
Finally staged a headwind reversal,
Kill to win!
Countless people who watch the game live,
The eye sockets are hot,
The raised arms shouted, and the shouting made people's hearts tremble,
A netizen said,
She finally got the beauty of weightlifting today,
The moment of lifting the freeze frame,
It is the brilliant moment of the human limit galaxy.
If you understand,
How much effort did Chen Lijun really put in,
to get to where it is today,
You may feel more general.
02
A good Bole is better than a Maxima
In 1992,
Chen Lijun was born into a rural family with a poor economy.
He helped his grandfather pull peanuts in the ground since he was a child,
I have cultivated my strength,
Coupled with the good congenital body conditions,
At the age of 12,
Was taken aback by coach Jiang Yilong,
Due to poor family conditions,
Parents have many concerns,
The coach crossed the mountains 5 times to do ideological work in the mountains.
Last time,
Sports schools have been open for a week,
The coach is in a hurry,
Afraid of parental remorse,
Pull up Chen Lijun and run on a tractor.
Chen Lijun had just entered sports school,
Grandpa died of cancer,
The father was seriously ill and had an uncle who was born with a disability,
The whole family relies on their mother to work alone in the brick factory,
Sustaining a living.
Although the school waives tuition fees,
Chen Lijun could not afford to pay the living expenses.
Plus,
My mother stumbled upon a piece of news:
After the weightlifting champion Zou Chunlan retired from the army, he was forced to go to the bathhouse to scrub the bath due to life.
Deeper into the mother's fear,
She decided that there was no future in this business,
Tearfully ask the coach to let the child withdraw from school.
Fortunately, with the help of the coach,
Otherwise this weightlifting genius,
The star of tomorrow broke into the sand early.
The coach said: He is a good seedling,
Can't be wasted,
Your family's difficulties are my difficulties,
Living expenses, you have money to give a little,
If not, I'll leave the rest.
In the fall of 2004,
My mother felt that she owed a lot to the coach and could not owe any more.
Pull the child away,
The coach stopped:
We can't delay the future of our children because of temporary difficulties.
Rest assured, with me, there will be his food to eat,
Together we carry it on our shoulders, with the top of our heads,
Let him also have a chance.
Later, Chen Lijun's father and uncle died one after another,
My mother went to Changsha alone to work three jobs.
Because she was the only one in this family, for the sake of her son
She couldn't pour.
The family house was built when Grandpa was alive.
The most expensive appliance inside is after Chen Lijun won the World Championships in the United States
Buy with a bonus.
And the family has long been in debt in order to treat patients,
The Chen's subsidies and bonuses were used to pay off debts.
It is under such conditions that
Chen Lijun walked out of the mountain little by little,
Went to the national team,
You're on top of the world!
03
The back of the genius is soaked with the blood and tears of struggle
If you look closely, you'll see:
He still has a long 15 cm scar on his arm.
It was a game last October.
Tendon rupture in the arm,
Left over from a major surgery.
Over the years,
All kinds of heartache is not easy, injury and illness tears,
I think only he knows in his heart,
How can it be for outsiders?
If you know,
In the Chinese weightlifting team,
Children like Chen Lijun are not alone,
Most of them come from less affluent areas and families.
Rural children born into poor families,
The mother who single-handedly tried to raise him,
Against all odds, he supported the coaches along the way.
There are countless wounds on the body,
In Rio 2016, because of cramps and gold medals passed by,
Tokyo in 2021, at a time when the commentary and almost all the viewers are "desperate",
He relied on a steady 187 kilograms and flipped the plate against the wind in one fell swoop,
Win this Olympic champion that should have belonged to him long ago!!
In one fell swoop, the power of China was lifted,
It also lifted up his life that was unparalleled in the world.
Three words of sorry,
Now win back "hundred million" words of thank you!
Thank you for never accepting defeat,
Thank you for sticking to this day,
Thank you for not failing to live up to the suffering you have suffered,
Thank you for finally winning your own glory.
04
Perseverance is victory
And the same heartache,
It was also staged on the Chinese Diving Dream Team.
As the oldest group in active duty,
When Shi Tingmao and Wang Han stepped onto the springboard for the last time,
The narrator choked up:
"Looking at Shi Tingmao's ankle, I feel sad."
"Wang Han, 2009,
In Rome, Italy,
I turned her game live,
It was the first time she represented her country in a world-class competition.
But the little girl who was only 18 years old at the time,
Now I'm going to stay up until I'm 30 years old.
to stand on the stage of the Olympic Games,
It's not easy. ”
Oh, yes
It's really not easy.
Athletes can still win Olympic championships at the age of 30,
especially female divers,
It's not easy.
Compared with
Shi Tingmao was much luckier than Wang Han.
In 2011,
Shi Tingmao made an exception to participate in the World Championships as a member of the local team.
And with the momentum of the newborn calf who is not afraid of the tiger,
The gold medal was torn from the hands of the national team!
This is also the first place in the history of the World Championships,
A player who wins the championship as a local team.
Since being selected for the national team in 2012,
Shi Tingmao has always been the most conspicuous one,
She was just 21 years old.
Maybe someone else is still at the age of no name,
But she has already begun her own journey.
At the beginning of 2016, the Rio Olympics,
On the partner Wu Minxia won the women's double three-meter board championship,
and the women's singles three-meter board champion.
World War I fame.
From 13 years in a row, several seasons
Even more invincible,
Shi Tingmao took what he was participating in,
World Championships, Olympic Games, World Cup,
All three-meter board races of single and double all winners,
The winning percentage is 100%.
She once became a figure who made foreign players feel frightened,
Won the FINA Diving Sport of the Year Award for 5 consecutive years,
This is something that even Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Guo Jingjing, and Wu Minxia have never achieved.
And in the championship in hand,
In front of Shi Tingmao, who was dressed in a royal robe,
Wang Han seemed a little out of place,
Even many people didn't know her name before the game.
After all, in the ace-filled Chinese diving dream team,
It's really hard to come up with a pick.
But you know,
She used to be the same door of the diving empress Guo Jingjing,
With a partner, known as the next generation of successors,
Wu Minxia used to be her teammate,
She had been near the dream platform infinitely,
He has also lost 3 Olympic cycles and lost his dream.
Maybe you can understand,
The regret, the reluctance and the longing in her heart.
In the CCTV documentary "Expedition",
There's a shot.
She is a year older than the referee Chen Ruolin, who has been retired for 5 years.
The hardship behind that,
Imagined.
It's not just physical hardship.
There is also mental energy, age, and the various stresses that come with it.
in other words
It's hard to see another one.
Can be 30 years old and still have no distractions,
Just for an Olympic gold medal diver who insists day and night.
maybe
You can understand why the narrator choked.
From the age of 18 to participating in international competitions for the first time,
At the age of 30, he finally reached the highest podium of the Olympic Games,
It was her first time competing in the Olympics.
It was also the last time.
For this day, she waited for 12 years,
For this year, she prepared for 12 years,
For this day, she spare tires for 12 years.
Even if a genius is like Shi Tingmao,
It is also after a long period of pain and injury,
For her,
"When there is no comfort,
There is only the difference between pain and very painful. ”
That's why there's such a wonderful picture.
When the players of other countries jump down with a loud splash,
Wang Han and Shi Tingmao not only had no voice,
Even the splash is pressed very small,
Even their movements, their splashes, are exactly the same,
Copy and paste.
Cheer each other up before the game,
A hug after the game is in silence,
No one knows better than they themselves:
As the oldest player in the team,
Do not use the power of the flood,
There will be no more chances.
We seem to act so easily,
But it is decades of walking, churning, jumping;
We look so short of a splash of water for ten seconds,
But it is the whole youth they dedicated to China diving;
- That's a girl, to a woman,
12 years that flew by in an instant and were incomparably long.
It turns out that success really has no flukes,
There are no shortcuts,
In the end, fighting is a perseverance, compared to a time,
Geniuses also need to look up at the stars and be down-to-earth,
And as long as you don't give up and stick to the end,
One day, the ducklings will also grow into white swans.
You see
What a blockbuster miracle,
But after night and day of hard work,
As desired, bittersweet.
05
There was such a scene after the game,
Guo Jingjing, 2000 Olympic runner-up, 2004 and 2008 Olympic champion,
and 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion Chen Ruolin,
Pick up your mobile phone to take a picture of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic champions Shi Tingmao and Wang Han on the podium.
For 21 years, this is the inheritance of the Chinese diving team.
A similar scene also occurred in the Chinese weightlifting team.
Sydney 2000 Olympic Games,
Men's Weightlifting 77 kg Final,
Zhan Xugang ranked fourth in the snatch with 160 kg,
Earth-shattering reversal, lifted 207.5 kg,
This weight that I have never lifted myself,
In the end, he won the championship,
Zhan Xugang became the first Chinese men's weightlifter to win the Olympic championship!
And today,
The same last big reversal,
The same counterattack to win the championship,
Same booming shout!
For 21 years, this is the inheritance of the Chinese weightlifting team!
Generations of Chinese athletes relay and forbearance,
Decades of long days and nights of waiting and hope,
Inheriting the mantle of the ancestors,
Get the Chinese Olympics up,
Suddenly a little bit of crying is going on...
In these 21 years,
It is 21 years of China's openness and change, progress and rise,
It is the 21 years of the counterattack and transmission of the Chinese Olympic Games,
It is also the 21 years that belong to each of us ordinary people.
Each of us will have an unusually difficult time,
the stresses of life,
Frustration at work,
academic stress,
The trepidation of love cannot last forever,
As Ms. Yang Dai said:
Survive, life will suddenly be enlightened,
Can't stand it, time will also teach you, how to shake hands with them and make peace,
So don't be afraid.
How many 21 years can there be in life?
It is nothing more than that if you work hard now, you will be much happier in the future.
Work harder now and you'll be much freer later.
So, kids, come on,
All luck is hidden in unknown efforts.
All you can do is keep moving forward.
The rest is left to time.
May your past efforts achieve a new self tomorrow;
May your next 21 years be all the better.
Only this document to the Chinese Olympic athletes,
And countless miracles of efforts for the Chinese Olympic Games!
Come on together!!
Resources:
1. Characters - "Chen Lijun, the world champion who came out of the special hardship family: the burden of life is on the shoulders, fate is not sympathetic"
2. BiliBili column - Shi Tingmao
3. People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Migu Video
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Author: Guan Shanyue, freelance writer, walking in the world, writing about the world, some of the pictures are from the Internet, the copyright belongs to the original author.