Some netizens commented on her as "the most beautiful diver".
She, at the age of 14, won the Diving World Cup and achieved her own highlight moment.
The 16-year-old London Olympics returned home and turned decisively to leave the plunge pool.
At the age of 22, she graduated from college and became a true sports journalist.
She is Hu Yadan.
Hu Yadan has grown into a big girl
Casual dress, short shoulder-length hair, light makeup, Hu Yadan walked over lightly and sat down in front of me generously. The female eldest eighteen changed, and the original little girl did grow up. It's just that the scar on her forehead because of practicing diving is still looming, which is a knot that she and diving can't peel off.
Along the way, Hu Yadan's choice has puzzled many people, but this assertive little girl, according to her own rhythm, has been pursuing the "glimmer" in her own world.
In times of loneliness
Wherever you fly
I will bloom too
Give you infinite shimmer
After 6 years, when Hu Yadan stood on the international stage again, he was already human. This time she was no longer an athlete, but a journalist, a sports journalist through and through.
In October this year, she entered the PP Sports Comprehensive Sports Department through recruitment, and this month's FINA Short Pool Swimming World Cup (Beijing Station) held at the Water Cube was the first report she completed when she returned to the arena in a new capacity.
From inside and outside the field, from players to reporters, the role change makes Hu Yadan have a completely different feeling, "It is really not easy to be a journalist! ”
Holding up his first journalist's ID, Hu Yadan has started a new career
Originally wanted to conduct an exclusive interview with Xu Jiayu, although she had some friendship with the other party, but when she held up a voice recorder to face her "old friend", she was politely rejected. This made Hu Yadan, who was much older than Xu Jiayu in the compound of the training bureau, feel disgraced, "as if their coach said the rules and did not allow casual interviews." ”
When she was an athlete in the past, Hu Yadan felt that refusing to be interviewed was a very small thing, and she had also refused many media invitations. Now when the role has changed, Hu Yadan is very frustrated, "This made me re-examine the journalistic industry, I didn't expect that journalists are so hard and have no status to speak of." ”
In Hu Yadan's current understanding, "journalists are like representatives of fans", conveying the situation of each athlete to the public, including fans. Obviously, such a recognition is still a long way from a truly mature journalist.
Hitting a wall is actually a compulsory course for every journalist. Not every time you hold up your interview tool, you'll get a smile on your face. Even after their victory, you long to celebrate with them. Man is such a complex creature that too often we are wrapped in shells and hard against each other.
Hu Yadan, who is still a rookie, still issued a stubborn declaration in the face of the glimmer of the road ahead: "I want to be the top reporter of comprehensive sports, and be an all-round reporter of comprehensive sports." ”
Becoming a sports journalist, Hu Yadan's face revealed happiness
This immature peer in front of him had an unusually firm expression on his face, with longing and a little confusion. In my mind, I can't help but think of the big tears rolling down her cheeks after her competition at the London Aquatic Centre 6 years ago.
People really don't grow up in a day. In 6 years, this little girl has changed her appearance, changed her makeup, changed her mind, and even in her heart, the glimmer is gradually becoming brilliant.
In my world
There's a corner
It's a faraway place you don't understand
Maybe I'm a glimmer
But I want to give you a brilliant light
The 2012 London Olympics was a turning point in Hu Yadan's life. The women's 10-meter platform, the 9th place, almost set the worst record of the Chinese diving Olympics at that time. She was quickly returned to the provincial team and returned to Sichuan in a disgraced role as a loser.
"I've never had the height and weight issues that other female jumpers worry about in terms of physical development, and all the results are based on mentality."
Before the Olympics, the relationship between Hu Yadan and the coach in charge was almost frozen to the extreme. The master-apprentice duo at that stage, to paraphrase the popular TV series "Adolescence Meets Menopause" at that time, could not be more appropriate. Two women in a special physiological stage, a doomed fierce struggle.
There has never been a positive quarrel between the master and the disciple, but they are secretly competing and fighting in action. In early 2012, when the team was in Jinan to prepare for the Olympic Games, the war without gun smoke developed to a fever pitch.
Hu Yadan in training
Hu Yadan felt that the coach was eccentric, and the amount of training arranged for himself was "the largest", which produced a strong reverse psychology and began to resist. When the coach explains the action, his mind is empty, his eyes are empty, and he does not reply at all. To the extreme, when Hu Yadan stood on the jumping stage, as long as there was his own supervisor coach below, his mind would be blank.
"I had a meltdown in Jinan, I knew that going to the Olympics might end my diving career, and I didn't have any confidence at all." Hu Yadan's tone was very low, deeply immersed in the memory, "But I can't say, said, maybe the Olympic Games have not yet begun, it is already over." ”
Even the scorching heat of the london aquatic center spotlight did not awaken her numb nerves, and she had no discomfort standing in the eyes of millions of people; but under the gaze of her own coach, she was too timid to do so.
The first two movements, Hu Yadan completed a mess, the person is almost horizontal into the water. Ranked first from the bottom of all 12 players in the final. The honor and disgrace became a "glimmer" that illuminated her, making her wake up like a dream, and she performed amazingly in the next three actions. It was only too late, struggling to catch up, and the final ranking was fixed at 9th place.
Hu Yadan, who cried bitterly after the London match, may have foreseen such an ending
Hu Yadan's decline did not stop after returning to the provincial team. The head coach of the provincial team left the team for various reasons, coupled with the poor results of the Olympic Games, which led to her being in an incredible "sheep herding" state in the Sichuan team: come when you want, go when you want, and completely grasp it yourself.
A year later, at the Shenyang National Games, Olympic-level athletes did not even qualify for the competition.
Originally, he was holding back and planning to make a name for himself in Li, but the reality of the situation made 17-year-old Hu Yadan have to make a difficult decision - retire.
Hu Yadan thought very clearly, although there are salaries and allowances in the team, this is not her goal, let alone the life she wants, "Instead of wasting youth and life here, it is better to go to college early, I have a longer time to choose my path." ”
However, her parents were adamantly opposed to her sudden decision. After many confrontations and several struggles, the parents still can't understand the reason why their daughter gave up. After all, with more than ten years of hard work in exchange for a body of skills, can not be wasted because of a twist and turn. The sports team of the national system is undoubtedly equivalent to an iron rice bowl.
Hu Yadan's stubbornness came up, and the ten cows could not be pulled back. In the face of her parents' bitter mouths and cold words, she even thought for a moment, jumping from the dormitory building, but she did not expect to shrink back.
Time flies, and it has been five years since the retirement. Hu Yadan, who graduated from college and had a new career plan, looked back on the past and only felt lucky: "I am glad that I retired at that time, and life should be decisive." ”
No fireworks, no starlight
Just ask what's on your mind
Although not understood by his parents, Hu Yadan, who retired early, has a pure college time that many athletes have no chance to experience. She eventually chose Beijing Sport University to study sports training.
Although she went to college, her athletic training major didn't keep her away from sports
Because of the title of "World Champion", Hu Yadan is quite famous among his classmates. Many people see Hu Yadan for the first time and say "You are not a world champion", wherever Hu Yadan goes, classmates will also call "world champion is coming".
She especially dislikes such roles and titles, and the words "world champion" act as a barrier to her communication with the outside world. "I especially want to keep a low profile, I want to make friends with them as ordinary people."
So Hu Yadan made a bold and crazy move - plastic surgery. Make yourself different from your original self, you can become more beautiful, why not enjoy it!
She cut her double eyelids, raised the bridge of her nose and fitted her chin with a prosthesis, leaving only the shallow scar on her forehead, as if it were a memorial to her past diving career.
When he saw the photos posted on the Internet, Hu Yadan felt that the plastic surgery marks were too obvious, and the second operation took out the chin prosthesis again. Like all girls, youth is always used to burn away, and it can never be tossed.
When faced with the topic of plastic surgery, which girls avoided, Hu Yadan said very frankly and did not dodge. However, for the title of "the most beautiful diver" circulating on the Internet, she did not have the excitement she imagined, and she was very dismissive.
She has no feelings about the phrase "the most beautiful diver."
College is a stage of growth, but it can also make people wander and confused. Hu Yadan was in the middle of it and had the same experience.
Before entering the media industry, Hu Yadan also tried to enter the show business circle. In her junior year, by chance, she worked as a stand-in and diving director in the crew of the TV series "The Covenant of Vacating" (which has not yet been released), and she developed unlimited curiosity and interest in filming. Subsequently, he signed a contract with a brokerage company.
In a year's time, Hu Yadan only attended 3 events under the company's arrangement, and did not receive an invitation to a play. I didn't make much money, but I put a lot of time into it. Consider your own professional skills and educational background. Hu Yadan once again swung the knife to cut off her feelings, decisively ended her acting career, a year of time to let her undergo tempering, but also another life growth.
Hu Yadan spent half a year studying in the Film and Television Acting Refresher Course of the Beijing Film Academy
I'm in the dark
Turn into a tinder
Want to be for you
Light up the entire starry sky
Follow the breeze
Stayed in a dream
"After retiring, I understood a truth, coaching in the arena is the athlete's dependence, is the athlete's pillar." Hu Yadan said, "I don't hate my coach, and I don't hate diving. If I hadn't dived, I wouldn't be where I am now. If I don't practice diving, I won't enter The University of North Sports, and I probably won't be a sports journalist without going to the University of North Sports. ”
Looking back on the past, Hu Yadan did not regret it, some just let go, "In the past, if I had made a little change and less stubbornness, the result would definitely be different." But those things were figured out, but it made me feel deeper for the coach and more grateful for diving. ”
At the end of the interview, she said goodbye to me: "Next March, we can be in the Water Cube side by side, covering the World Diving Series, see you when the time comes, take more care of me!" ”
I replied to her very seriously: "Little colleague, the actual person who does the media looks down and does not look up, and there is certainly no need to wait so long." Just hope you grow up to be the 'top card' you want as soon as possible. ”
She laughed out loud, her smile was sweet, her laughter was crisp...
[Some of the text in this article quotes the lyrics of Brilliance Chenyu's song "Shimmer"]