Most people pay attention to an athlete when they only focus on whether the athlete has won a medal for the country and whether he has broken through his limits again, while few people will pay attention to how much damage the athlete's body has been caused by the repeated extreme challenges, and the future life of the athlete injured due to training competitions.
Whenever I report the news that the life of a former sports champion is not as good as that of an ordinary person, it makes people feel sad and desolate.
Today I would like to talk to you about this athlete named Zou Chunlan.
In Zou Chunlan's life, she experienced two moments of great attention.
Once in the autumn of 1988, only 17-year-old Zou Chunlan won 3 gold medals in the 44 kg snatch, deadlift and total results, of which the deadlift and total results also broke the world record, and this year Zou Chunlan won countless flowers and applause.
The other time was when he was reported by the media many years after retiring from the army, he was plagued by injuries and fell to the point of hardship.
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Zou Chunlan was born in 1971 in a small town in Jilin in the northeast, and his family conditions were very difficult since he was a child.
And Zou Chunlan and sports are related because the family can not afford to provide Zou Chunlan with education, just at this time encountered the sports school in the enrollment, and the sports school management eats and lives every month There are subsidies to receive.
Zou Chunlan has been stronger than ordinary girls since she was a child, and has always been her strength in sports, and in order to reduce the burden on her family, Zou Chunlan naturally enrolled in sports school.
Zou Chunlan, who has just entered the sports school, does not know what kind of sports competition she will engage in in in the future, and she does not even know what weightlifting is. At the age of 14, when she met a coach who asked her to try to lift weights, Zou Chunlan, who was not fully developed, easily lifted a 90-pound bar, and the coach immediately decided to let her join the weightlifting team.
At this time, Zou Chunlan did not know that this move would change the fate of her life.
After only a few months of training to join the weightlifting team, the coach took Zou Chunlan to participate in the National Weightlifting Championships.
But no one expected that 14-year-old Zou Chunlan unexpectedly won a heavy championship, won a gold medal, and also achieved a good result of second place in the snatch.
Having such an achievement at the beginning of the entrance has brought great encouragement and confidence to Zou Chunlan. In order to achieve more honors, Zou Chunlan disregarded her physical pain and cultural classes and threw herself into weight training.
Later, in the 1988 and 1990 national weightlifting championships, Zou Chunlan broke the world record twice. In recent years, it has been almost Zou Chunlan's height and light time. As long as Zou Chunlan participates in the competition, he can win the medal.
At the 7th National Games in 1993, Zou Chunlan lost this game due to injury and did not win the ranking and medal. This failure made Zou Chunlan understand that the weightlifting era that belonged to her because of the injury had passed, so she chose to retire in this year.
Zou Chunlan's weightlifting career is only a short six years, but in these six years she has won a total of 6 medals, and I think if it were not for injuries, she would have performed better in the weightlifting world.
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Weightlifting brought honor to Zou Chunlan, but because of weightlifting, Zou Chunlan suffered from serious injuries, lifelong infertility, and even lived a long period of poverty.
Zou Chunlan, who has just retired, is only 22 years old, because Zou Chunlan has no culture, and many years of training in the sports team have only allowed Zou Chunlan to master the skill of weightlifting, and Zou Chunlan has not waited for the unit to reassign the work.
At this time, the unit canteen just lacked miscellaneous manpower, and the miscellaneous did not need any skills, so the unit let Zou Chunlan go to the canteen to work as a handyman and receive a meager salary.
In 2009, Zou Chunlan left the unit, and before she left, the unit issued Zou Chunlan a one-time injury compensation of 75,000 yuan. However, the 75,000 yuan to treat the injury and illness was soon spent on little left.
After leaving the unit, Zou Chunlan, whose education level was too low and she was sick, could not find a good job.
During this period, she did many things, raised chickens, went to the construction site to move bricks, and sold lamb kebabs on the street, and these work did not make Zou Chunlan's life better, and Zou Chunlan has been in a state of economic difficulty for many years.
Zou Chunlan's life was gray, and she felt at a loss as to where to go in the future.
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But fortunately, Zou Chunlan met her lover, Zhou Shaocheng, when she was at the poorest in her life.
Zhou Shaocheng was 6 years older than Zou Chunlan, originally a monk, and later he met Zou Chunlan, and the two people who were kind and simple in heart attracted each other and came together.
Zhou Shao became loyal and honest, was very good to Zou Chunlan, and took care of Zou Chunlan like a big brother. It has brought a touch of warmth and comfort to the life of Zou Chunlan, who has endured illness and poverty for many years.
Zou Chunlan and Zhou Shaocheng support each other in life, warm each other, never had a conflict, the relationship between the two has always been very good, Zhou Shaocheng can be said to be a gift of Zou Chunlan's fate, so that she has someone to take care of someone who hurts. This relationship Zou Chunlan harvested full of happiness.
Once Zou Chunlan was worried about not being able to find a job, Zhou Shaocheng, who burned the boiler in the boiler room of a bathhouse, introduced Zou Chunlan to the bathhouse to do the work of scrubbing, so Zou Chunlan started the work of scrubbing again.
Although the work of scrubbing does not require culture, it consumes a lot of physical strength every day, and the salary is very small, and Zou Chunlan can only get an average salary of about 500 yuan per month.
At the hardest time, Zou Chunlan bathed more than 50 customers in one day, and one customer could only earn 1.5 yuan, which can be said that Zou Chunlan's life has been very difficult.
And this time the work of the bather also brought a turnaround to Zou Chunlan's life by chance.
One day, when Zou Chunlan was taking a bath for a customer, she was recognized by a customer who was a weightlifting enthusiast, and in the conversation, the customer learned of Zou Chunlan's miserable experience over the years.
The customer sighed and sympathized with Zou Chunlan's situation at the same time, and the customer told his friends around him about Zou Chunlan. Ten passes, ten passes a hundred, everyone spread by word of mouth, the local media also know about this matter.
The media found Zou Chunlan and interviewed and reported her encounters and deeds. As soon as it was reported, the public knew about this former weightlifting champion, and all walks of life extended a helping hand to Zou Chunlan.
In order to borrow Zou Chunlan's exposure, some companies offered Zou Chunlan a high price and invited her to work in the enterprise, but she was rejected by Zou Chunlan, and she showed in a responsible attitude that she had no culture and was not competent for the corresponding work.
In 2006, the Beijing Women's Federation and the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau decided to join forces to help Zou Chunlan open a dry cleaning shop.
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Zou Chunlan's life, who was helped after the media exposure, gradually improved.
After Zou Chunlan had a dry cleaning shop, she knew that life was difficult, she never slackened, got up early every day and worked hard to run a dry cleaner.
Although it is also very busy, it is not as hard as before, and the economic aspect is slowly getting better. After a long and difficult time, Zou Chunlan finally realized the beauty of life.
In 2008, Zou Chunlan was also named "Influential Figure of The Chinese Women's Era at Home and Abroad" by the All-China Women's Federation, and in 2009, she was also named a model of female entrepreneurship in Jilin Province.
However, with relatively good economic conditions and a lover who has been with her for many years, there is one thing that makes Zou Chunlan regret for life and cannot be relieved for a long time, that is, because Zou Chunlan, who is weightlifting infertile, cannot have her own child.
In a later interview, Zou Chunlan mentioned the reason for not being able to have children.
Since entering the weight training team at the age of 14, Zou Chunlan's coach has ordered the members of the sports training team to take a pill called "vigorous supplement" every month, only half a month before the game, and never interrupt at other times.
The Pills contain drug steroids, which are derivatives of male hormones. The role is to accelerate muscle growth and enhance the strength and stamina of the body.
Taking this drug will affect the normal secretion of female estrogen, although the physical strength of female team members will be improved, but there will also be male characteristics, such as a low voice, growing a beard, and even infertility.
But at that time, everyone did not have this understanding, and the coach also told them that there was no impact, which hurt many female athletes!
It also made Zou Chunlan married for 19 years and could not have children, and for many years, Zou Chunlan was troubled by the masculine characteristics of her body.
But when these sad past events were mentioned in front of the media, Zou Chunlan's face did not have a sad look, some were smiling and indifferent, as if he was saying a normal thing.
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Although Zou Chunlan has survived an extremely difficult time, she has become more determined and still kind.
After running a laundromat, Zou Chunlan also used the profits of the laundromat to do good deeds.
Zou Chunlan once donated to children in orphan schools in Jilin Province, and in 2008, the Wenchuan earthquake occurred, and Zou Chunlan donated money to the disaster area. After receiving attention, Zou Chunlan also received an advertisement, but she donated half of the cost of advertising endorsements.
After many media reported Zou Chunlan's deeds, the problems that had plagued Zou Chunlan for many years with obvious male characteristics were also helped by a beauty salon in Chongqing, and they invited Zou Chunlan to do plastic surgery before, and after the operation, Zou Chunlan could finally wear a skirt like a normal woman.
Zou Chunlan, who previously had inferiority because of her masculine appearance, took a wedding photo with her husband after surgery.
After experiencing so much suffering in life, beauty came to Zou Chunlan's life one after another.
Zou Chunlan personally told us that we work hard to manage life, always have a beautiful and kind heart, no matter what situation we are in, we can finally keep the clouds open and see the moon, and have a good way to meet the good.
Now Zou Chunlan, in addition to having no children, but has a husband who does not abandon her, has a good business, can be said to have found happiness in life, and also wishes her better and better in life.
Finally, I would like to say how much pain and heartache have been experienced behind the success of each athlete, these athletes sacrificed their bodies to win glory for the country, burned themselves to dedicate themselves to the cause of sports, after retiring from injury and illness, they deserve to be respected, they deserve the help and care of society and the country, and they should also be praised by the public.
I sincerely hope that these athletes will not be forgotten by the public, and their lives will be well guaranteed after retirement.