On the evening of July 25, Beijing time, the men's 67 kg final of the Tokyo Olympic Games came as expected.
In the end, Chen Lijun, who came out of the poverty-stricken mountainous areas of Hunan, China, won the gold medal with a total score of 332 kilograms.
This game can be described as thrilling.
In the grasping and lifting session, Chen Lijun completed 145 kilograms in the first test, and in the second test, he wanted to lift to 150 kilograms, but he lost unexpectedly.
This failure made everyone sweat.
What is even more worrying is that his strong rival Muskola has completed 151 kg at this time, and the total result is far beyond Chen Lijun, and two players are second and third with 150 kg and 147 kg.
Chen Lijun's overall score was 145 kg, ranking fourth.
In the championship battle, Chen Lijun obviously did not have an advantage, and even some distance.
Time came to the deadlift link, Chen Lijun completed 175 kilograms in the first trial, and before the audience could breathe a sigh of relief, Muskola immediately followed suit to complete 175 kilograms, and the two men met each other, and it was difficult to open the gap.
In the second attempt, Muskola challenged 180 kg and failed, and after a brief adjustment, Muskola successfully completed 180 kg in the third move.
At this time, chen li army was a full 12 kilograms behind.
At this moment, no one could help him, and all the pressure, the eyes of the whole audience, were focused on his shoulders.
If you want to impact the championship, you can only fight against the water.
For this move, he waited 1811 days.
In the second move, Chen Lijun chose to increase by 12 kg and directly challenge the 187 kg barbell!
Under the lens, he gritted his teeth deadly, his muscles bulged exaggeratedly, and the green tendons on his forehead beat.
At this moment, he is using his own body to lift up the honor that belongs to China!
With a loud roar from Chen Lijun, the 187 kg barbell lift was successful!
The time for the Chinese people to be excited arrived, and the miraculous reversal was staged at the venues of the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games, and finally Chen Lijun successfully stood on the highest podium.
However, no one knows —
The new Olympic champion, who was enjoying cheers in the spotlight, was still leaking water in his house as it rained and Grandma waited for money for surgery.
In order to make the family full, my mother had to work 3 jobs...
Today, Sister W wants to take everyone into Chen Lijun's home to see what kind of bitterness is hidden behind the supreme honor.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="50" >01 World champion from a special hardship family</h1>
In 1992, Chen Lijun was born into a peasant family in Yanglin Township, Anhua County, and his parents went out to work when he was young to subsidize the family.
Because the family was not rich, Chen Lijun knew how to help his parents take on some household chores from an early age, and although his life was poor, he could be considered warm.
Moreover, Chen Lijun's father was a well-known Hercules, he was tall and could easily pull up 500 pounds of goods.
The little Chen Lijun inherited his father's great strength, and although he was thin and weak, he was born with strength.
People say that this is God's reward for eating.
Because of the pronunciation of the dialect, the old people in the village called him "Victory Army".
Chen Lijun and his mother
When he was 12 years old, he was caught in the eye by Jiang Yilong, a teacher at Yiyang Children's Sports School, and he personally came to Chen Lijun's home to do ideological work for his parents and suggested that this gifted child be sent to the sports school for training.
However, Chen Lijun's parents were very hesitant, on the grounds that "the child is so small, the weight training will inevitably bump, plus going to the sports school is bound to delay learning."
These concerns made Chen Lijun's parents unable to make up their minds.
But Jiang Yilong did not want to miss this talented child, he crossed the mountains and mountains 5 times and ran to Yanglin Township to sincerely convince Chen Lijun's parents.
The mother looked at Chen Lijun's eager look and finally nodded.
Jiang Yilong, who was on the side, was afraid that Chen Lijun's parents would repent again, so he dragged Chen Lijun onto the tractor and "suddenly" drove away.
Just entered the sports school, Chen Lijun showed a super talent, can do 50 push-ups in one breath, physical endurance is far beyond his peers, and successfully become the key training object of the team.
The words read in blood, and ten years of hard work is unusual.
Just when Chen Lijun was training hard, misfortune came to this already poor family.
Chen Lijun's father suddenly suffered from brain cancer, although he saved a life but lost the ability to work, and there was an uncle who was born disabled in the family, and the burden of the whole family fell mercilessly on Chen Lijun's mother.
For the sake of the family's livelihood, my mother went to work in the brick factory, but she only earned 40 yuan a day.
Father's medical expenses, elderly grandmother, young brother, plus Chen Lijun, who needs a lot of nutrition every day in sports school...
The daily income of 40 yuan is far from enough to support a family, in order to live, the mother found 3 jobs in one go, and barely solved the family's food and clothing.
Chen Lijun's hard work made Chen Lijun very sad, and he decided to give up his dream and go home to help his mother.
So, he secretly ran home from the sports school, wanting to give up weightlifting to subsidize the family.
After Jiang Yilong found out, he found Chen Lijun's home again, and he told Chen Lijun's mother that she did not have to worry about the child's tuition and miscellaneous expenses.
Then Jiang Yilong pulled the mother and son together and solemnly promised:
"You can rest assured, one day I will have Chen Lijun to eat." Together, we carry it on our shoulders and the top of our heads, and let him have a chance. ”
Chen Lijun's mother showed the medal
In this way, at the insistence of the coach, Chen Lijun returned to the sports school and trained more desperately.
Finally, he did not disappoint his family and mentors.
In 2010, at the World Junior Championships, Chen Lijun won the championship in one fell swoop.
In 2013, he was crowned the twelfth National Games and the World Weightlifting Championships, and some people began to notice the unknown teenager.
In 2014, the runner-up of the Asian Games, he told himself: Next time, he will never be second.
In 2015, at the World Championships in Houston, he won the championship with a record breaking the men's 62 kg world record, which attracted the world's attention!
Champions bring not only honors, but also prize money.
Chen Lijun and the family behind him could finally take a small breath.
He said to himself, "If I can go to Rio, I am confident that I will continue to win!" ”
Who would have thought that change would happen again.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="123" >02 Rio Olympics</h1>
In the men's performance of the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Chen Lijun was called "the most stable gold medal" by the outside world.
Whether it is his stable pre-match results, his optimistic and positive attitude, or the holder of the world record at the World Championships, he is regarded as the safest gold medal winning point for the Chinese weightlifting team at the Rio Olympics.
Before the match began, news came that North Korea's strong rival Kim Eun-kook had been banned.
Everyone felt that Chen Lijun was more stable.
However, fate played a joke on him.
During the 62kg final snatch competition, Chen Lijun suddenly had cramps in his legs, "both legs hard as stones".
He did not accept defeat and wanted to try to lift again, but the stiff muscles made him unable to lift the barbell at all, and in desperation, Chen Lijun could only be forced to withdraw.
This turn took away not only the aura of the champion, but also the hope of the family.
Without a champion, there is a lot less attention, and without attention, there will be no endorsements and subsidies.
You know, Chen Lijun was already a world champion before the Tokyo Olympic champion, but the only big piece in the family was actually a double-door refrigerator.
A reporter visited Chen Lijun's hometown in Yanglin Township before the game, but he was shocked by the cramped space in the house.
Exposed cement bricks, cracked walls, no glass in the windows, wind on all sides.
It is hard to imagine that this windowless bungalow, which leaks in the rain, is the home of the Olympic champion.
The two-door refrigerator in the living room is the only appliance in the house, which Chen Lijun bought for his home after winning the World Championships in the United States.
Hearing the reporter's interview, the sick grandmother repeatedly waved her hand and refused: "Don't let your grandson know that I am in the hospital, I don't want to affect his game." ”
Grandma and mother
This is the home of a weightlifting champion, and poor families like Chen Lijun are actually very common in weightlifting.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="158" >03 Complications of weightlifting champions</h1>
Weightlifting is a high-risk project, and wealthy families rarely let their children participate in this project.
Therefore, most of the children who are willing to send their children to sports schools for training from an early age are children of poor families.
Because they can endure hardships and not shout tiredness.
In order to earn a bonus for the family and win an honor for the motherland, they need to gain a lot of weight for themselves, and the high-intensity training brings, in addition to the increase in kilograms, there are a series of complications.
Because of its own image, it is rare to get commercial endorsements.
The talent that is known as the "first Hercules in Asia", who has won more than 40 national championships and more than 20 Asian championships, was a genius who surprised the times.
However, as he grew older, his large size became a burden on his physical health.
The pressure on his lungs was increasing, he suffered from a lot of obesity syndrome, because poverty looked down on the disease, after retiring from the army, he had to go to the Liaoning Sports General Security Department to see the door.
But this salary is also a drop in the bucket, in 2003, at the age of 33, he died of sleep apnea syndrome.
Zou Chunlan, who won the national women's weightlifting gold medal in 1990 and rewrote the national women's weightlifting record, was also an epoch-making figure.
She broke the world record several times and won honors for China, but was injured at the 1993 National Games and then chose to retire.
After Zou Chunlan retired from the army, she only received a compensation of 70,000 yuan.
Due to her low level of education, many enterprises turned her away, and Zou Chunlan had to run for her livelihood.
She has sold vegetables in free markets and rice on bicycles.
Thinking of her strength, she also went to the bathhouse to work as a bather.
These are all heroes who have shed blood and tears for China!
The Chinese weightlifting team has always been the pride of the country, but for various reasons, it is always rarely seen.
Seeing them, Sister W couldn't help but think of Chen Lijun, who was standing on the podium today.
187 kilograms, this is the glory he gritted his teeth and spelled out.
The young resigned from the championship, the golden makeup sword to invite the lord.
I don't know the typhoid water of the horse bone, but I see the twilight clouds in the dragon city.
Sister W does not want the future to treat him like talent, like Zou Chunlan, when he leaves the scene, the tragedy of the fall of the former genius is staged again.
I hope that today's article can let more people see weightlifting and see the athletes represented by Chen Lijun.
As long as we pay more attention to the weightlifting project, we can also let more endorsement brands see the weightlifters behind the medals.
Today they have regained their honor for the country, and in the future, please let us be his support. Wen/Sister W