Recently, Uzbekistan gymnast and 45-year-old gymnastics legend Chusovkina announced that she will represent the country in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, which quickly triggered heated discussions in the international community. She has represented the former Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Uzbekistan, Germany, Uzbekistan and Uzbekistan in the Olympic Games, plus this time has been a full 8 Olympic Games experience, which is unprecedented. And the story of her taking a huge risk to stand on the field again and again to save her children with leukemia has touched countless people.
At the recently concluded 2019 World Gymnastics Championships, the Chinese team performed well and continued to lead the first echelon of gymnastics. In addition to the Chinese team, there is one person whose performance has attracted the attention of the international media, and she is Chusovkina. It has to be mentioned that in order to get more points, she signed up for four small items, but in addition to the poor performance on the jumping horse, she scored 14.083 points, and the other three were all wrong, the balance beam fell directly, and the impact of age on her can be seen.
Chusovkina, born in Uzbekistan in 1975, began training in gymnastics at the age of seven with outstanding achievements. In 1991, at the age of 16, Chusovykina competed in her first international competition, where she won a long round of applause from the audience and her first world title with her excellent physical control. In 1992, Chusovkina represented the CIS in the Olympic Games and came out on top, helping the team win the team gold medal.
In addition, she also participated in the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, the 2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, and then the London Olympic Games and the Rio Olympic Games she was not absent, plus this year's Tokyo Olympic Games spanned 28 years, so that she insisted on not only the love of gymnastics, or because of her white blood need to pay high medical expenses of her son, "a world championship gold equal to 3000 euros in prize money, this is my only way." Chusovkina said.
Chusovykina's family was originally very happy, and her husband, Bakder Kpanov, was a brilliant wrestler, and the two of them represented Uzbekistan in the Olympic Games. After the two were married, they gave birth to a son named Arish, and the family of three was happy and harmonious. Unfortunately, the good times were not long, Alishi was diagnosed with leukemia when she was three years old, and she had no choice but to return to the competition when she had retired, and a sentence of "You are not good, how dare I be old" poked the tears of countless people.
In order to take care of the children, the husband also gave up his beloved wrestling career and single-mindedly took care of the children, and the two supported each other along the way and insisted on treating the children, spending 18 years in the ups and downs. She was just an ordinary mother, but with her 1.53 meters and 44 kilograms of thin body, she exploded with great energy. "For me, my son is my life. As long as his body is not good, I will continue to persevere, he is my motivation."
Now 45 years old, her health is no longer as good as those young and strong young players, but her belief in persevering to the end has moved everyone. I sincerely wish Arish an early recovery of health, and she can also win glory for the country and achieve good results.