The good news of the Chinese weightlifting team at the East Olympic Games has been passed on continuously, and after Wang Zhouyu won the gold medal, teammate Li Wenwen won the championship again on the same day! With her crushing advantage, she became the champion of women's weightlifting over 87 kg!
The Chinese weightlifting team successfully won 7 gold and one silver, breaking the record.
The impressive results make everyone boil over.
Over the years, China has indeed produced many excellent female weightlifters, from Olympic athletes to national champions.
For example, Zou Chunlan, who has won the national weightlifting gold medal 6 times, not only has gratifying results, but also has a very impressive life experience after retiring.
On September 23, 2000, the 29-year-old weightlifting champion Zou Chunlan walked out of the Jilin Sports Brigade with mixed feelings, holding the one-time injury compensation and drug fee issued by the team, a total of 80,000 yuan.
From entering the sports team in 1987 to retiring in 1993, coupled with the past few years of working in the canteen, Zou Chunlan has lived in the sports team for more than ten years, and has long been familiar with everything here.
Soon the people of the whole country knew that Zou Chunlan, a former weightlifting champion with 6 gold medals, worked as a bather in the bathhouse.
Later, with the help of the Women's Federation and the Sports Bureau, Zou Chunlan opened a laundromat and ushered in a new life.
In 2015, Zou Chunlan and her husband closed their laundromat and prepared to return to their hometown to open a rural cooperative.
Looking back at Zou Chunlan's life, being an athlete has brought her honor on the one hand, but on the other hand, it has made her experience the ups and downs of life. Becoming a weightlifting champion and then opening a dry cleaning shop is like a coincidence of fate.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="12" > the champion has a hard time making a living</h1>
Zou Chunlan was born in 1971 in Meihekou, Jilin Province, she is the son of a peasant family, and she has great strength since she was a child. When the teacher suggested that the barbell be tried, the ignorant Zou Chunlan lifted 90 pounds, which made the teacher very happy.
This accidental attempt made Zou Chunlan embark on the road of athletes.
After training, she quickly came to prominence. In 1988, he won three gold medals in the 44 kg snatch, deadlift and overall results at the National Weightlifting Championships, the latter two of which also broke the world record.
Two years later, Zou Chunlan won the 48 kg weightlifting championship again, breaking the national record, and she became a hot sports star.
However, the good times were not long, and at the 1993 National Games, Zou Chunlan only won the seventh place. Seeing that the career development has come to an end, Zou Chunlan chose to retire.
But she only has a third-grade primary school culture, in addition to weightlifting, she has no skills, was arranged to go to the canteen to do miscellaneous work, and could only receive a transfer salary of 364 yuan per month, which is a drop in the bucket for Zou Chunlan, who is injured and sick.
However, even such a treatment cannot be obtained after 3 years. Zou Chunlan had to take a "buyout fee" of 80,000 yuan and make a living for herself.
She returned to her hometown of Meihekou and worked as a weightlifting team coach at an amateur sports school, but her teaching results were not satisfactory, and she left in the fall of 2002.
Zou Chunlan practiced sports, not afraid of hardship, in order to live she tried a lot of work, contract chicken farms, kebabs, and even construction sites to move bricks... Either the lack of technology or the business is not good, or the body is really overwhelmed, and every job is ultimately unsustainable.
Zou Chunlan thought about going, but under the introduction of her boyfriend Zhou Shaocheng, she went to the bathhouse to help people scrub the bath.
Rubbing can get 1.5 yuan at a time, and can rub 50 people at the peak, but in the long run, Zou Chunlan, who has a bad heart, feels uncomfortable with chest tightness, plus this bathhouse is about to be resold, the treatment of eating and wrapping is gone, how will the future days be?
Afraid of sleeping on the street, she is very eager to have a stable job.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="25" > and "lay monks" support each other</h1>
Livelihood is difficult, and her boyfriend Zhou Shaocheng, who has been accompanying him, has given Zou Chunlan great comfort.
He was a lay monk and was very close to Zou Chunlan. The two fell in love and married.
At that time, they were all working in the bathhouse, earning a total of 800 yuan a month, making a careful calculation every day, and trembling to make a living.
There are also retired athletes who have started a business and made a pretty good fortune, but Zou Chunlan does not dare to think that those are too far away from themselves.
Unexpectedly, the opportunity came quickly. She was recognized in the bathhouse, and the news was published, which ignited a national discussion.
The women in the bathhouse were bursting, and many guests wanted to see the true face of the champion, and there was no shortage of people who really wanted to help Zou Chunlan, just so that she could earn a little more.
Many enthusiastic enterprises extended an olive branch and invited Zou Chunlan to work.
One of them hired her as a sales image representative to carry out publicity activities in various places in the future, passing on the story of self-improvement to the people of the whole country, and the remuneration was one thousand yuan per month, while solving the rent for her for one year.
The couple calculated that after all, the academic knowledge did not keep up, or it was more feasible to learn a craft in a down-to-earth manner.
After the Women's Federation and the Jilin Sports Bureau learned of Zou Chunlan's idea, they provided several projects for her reference. The couple chose the dry cleaning shop project, and the Women's Federation Half Sky Laundry Engineering Office provided Zou Chunlan with a complete set of laundry equipment and sent someone to choose a site for her.
In September 2006, the "Yihao Laundromat" opened, and the couple was very happy. Zou Chunlan put all her efforts into the hard-won laundromat, washed clean, the fees were low, and the people who came to her championship fame gradually became regular customers of the store after receiving satisfactory feedback.
Because of the high rent of the shop, Zou Chunlan also let her husband learn the shoe repair technique and earn a little more.
The next year, another unexpected 'surprise' landed on Zou Chunlan.
In the early years, because of the practice of weightlifting, Zou Chunlan's appearance was somewhat masculine, and she needed to use tweezers to pluck her beard every day in front of the mirror, and after learning of her wish to become beautiful, a plastic surgery hospital in Chongqing took the initiative to contact her and provide her with free beauty plastic surgery.
The former champion, who has been "groomed", looks at the face that has been doubly delicate in the mirror and smiles.
The beauty hospital also contacted a wedding company to take wedding photos for the couple and make up the wedding. Lao Zhou held Zou Chunlan's hand and smiled happily.
The dream of "becoming more feminine" has come true, but Zou Chunlan still wants a child, but this wish has not yet been achieved.
After the doctor's diagnosis, Zou Chunlan's male hormones in the body are higher than men, and the menstrual disorder is likely to be the sequelae caused by the coach during the training of that year (the vigorous supplement is an anabolic steroid, which was legal at the time and has now become a banned drug in competitive sports competitions), and the dream of childbirth can only be temporarily shelved.
But this does not affect the couple's feelings, Zou Chunlan said, may adopt a child in the future.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > strive to give back to society</h1>
After Zou Chunlan received help, she gradually walked out of the predicament. You can't get rich by running a dry cleaner, but it's okay to make ends meet.
Once, a golf course came and filled the aisles of the store with seat covers, shirts, sheets, and cloths. I heard that this was specially designated by the owner of the stadium to send his subordinates to send the "Iho Laundry" to wash, and he came to the reputation of the champion.
Zou Chunlan listened and was very touched in her heart. Together with the store staff, she washed extra hard.
Living well, Zou Chunlan does not forget to actively return to the society.
The laundry recruits workers in a particularly biased manner for laid-off workers, and also provides free laundry training for many disabled college students; hearing that long-distance runner Ai Dongmei has difficulties in life and wants to auction gold medals, Zou Chunlan specially ran to Beijing to support her; when the Wenchuan earthquake, she donated 2 months of profit...
In 2015, Zou Chunlan and her husband decided to close the laundromat and return to their hometown to reopen the cooperative, maybe the farm, maybe the farm, everything is possible.
The former weightlifting champion who has experienced the baptism of wind and rain has long been transformed, and he cannot be the same as the confused bather many years ago. No matter which path they choose, they will have a better development.
The life of athletes after retirement is inseparable from the attention and support of all walks of life, and Sister Rice wishes those retired athletes who are engaged in unpopular projects, even if the flowers and applause are no longer there, they can still live a warm and beautiful life.
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Author: Finney
Editor-in-Charge: Seven Dreams
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