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Li Xiaoxia
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In the spring of 2004, the national table tennis men's team came to a handsome young man named Zhai Yiming. He is Li Xiaoxia's Liaoning compatriot, 1 year older than her. Although the two lived in the same dormitory building, and the training hall was only separated by a wall, they did not intersect with each other. Occasionally meeting at dinner in the canteen, Li Xiaoxia only politely greeted Zhai Yiming.
Li Xiaoxia was born in 1988 in Anshan, Liaoning Province, to parents who were ordinary workers in the local chemical textile factory. She began practicing table tennis at the age of 5, and her technical movements were masculine, and she was the focus of the national table tennis women's team. Li Xiaoxia's life is only ping-pong, repeating the monotonous life of the dormitory, training hall and canteen every day. Fast forward a year, and she and Zhai Yiming did not speak more than 5 sentences.
Childhood Li Xiaoxia
The ice-breaking relationship between the two appeared in February 2005. This year's Spring Festival, Li Xiaoxia and Zhai Yiming took the train back to their hometown. After a long journey of more than 10 hours, they were the only people they knew each other, and Zhai Yiming took the initiative to talk to Li Xiaoxia. At 10 p.m., when the train lights went out, he pulled a chain lock from his suitcase and locked himself with Li Xiaoxia's luggage string at the head of the sleeper bed. Li Xiaoxia asked him, "What are you doing here?" Zhai Yiming grinned: "You and I have brought rackets, for us, they are like guns in the hands of warriors, once lost is the greatest dereliction of duty." Li Xiaoxia replied to him with a smile of approval.
Five days later, the two returned to Beijing together, and Zhai Yiming enthusiastically acted as a messenger to protect the flowers. This family visit has built a bridge between the friendship of the young boys and girls. On weekends, Li Xiaoxia often practiced in the training hall, and she asked Zhai Yiming: "Can you accompany me to practice?" Zhai Yiming replied, "0K." After the holidays, other team members were busy watching movies and partying with friends, and only Zhai Yiming would accompany Li Xiaoxia to practice in the training hall. At noon, when she went to the canteen to eat, Li Xiaoxia frowned and said: "I don't want to eat, I have no appetite, I really want refreshing northeast sauerkraut." Li Xiaoxia has been weak since childhood, seriously partial to picky eating, Zhai Yiming advised her: "The intensity of training is so great, if nutrition can't keep up, the body will collapse." "He put seafood, fish balls, and braised pork into Li Xiaoxia's bowl and forced her to eat it...
A week later, Zhai Yiming placed an authentic altar of Northeast sauerkraut in front of Li Xiaoxia. She picked it up and sniffed it: "Wow, this is the smell, hometown sauerkraut!" She smiled and asked, "Where did you get it from?" "Don't you want to eat Northeast sauerkraut?" I asked a friend to send it from Shenyang. I inadvertently said a word, I didn't expect Zhai Yiming to remember it in my heart, and Li Xiaoxia's heart was warm.
Li Xiaoxia and Zhai Yiming
Li Xiaoxia hid the sauerkraut in the dormitory, and ate some lunch every day, which opened her appetite. Half a month later, a pot of sauerkraut was almost finished, and Zhai Yiming gave her another altar. For more than half a year, he gave Li Xiaoxia a total of 9 altars of sauerkraut. It is this altar sour and refreshing hometown dish that brings two hearts closer. Thinking back to Zhai Yiming's care for herself, Li Xiaoxia realized that this was a rare intimate warm man. In April 2006, Li Xiaoxia asked Zhai Yiming: "I don't have a brother, can I call you a brother?" Zhai Yiming cheerfully promised. Since then, the two have been called brothers and sisters, and agreed to fight together and become world champions together.
In 2008, Li Xiaoxia won the women's singles championship of the Table Tennis World Cup; in the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, she won three gold medals in women's singles, women's doubles and women's team; in the 2012 London Olympic Games, she won two gold medals in women's singles and women's teams; in 2013, Li Xiaoxia won the women's singles championship of the 52nd World Table Tennis Championships and became a Grand Slam winner.
However, Zhai Yiming has never been able to enter the main layer of the national table tennis men's team, let alone have the opportunity to participate in the World Series. Li Xiaoxia saw the loss in his heart and encouraged: "Success is endured, and greatness is endured." Hold on and you'll have the day when you're at the top of the world. ”
However, Lady Luck failed to favor Zhai Yiming, and in December 2013, he was about to retire from the national team with regrets. Li Xiaoxia's heart was filled with loneliness and sadness...
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The day before leaving the team, Zhai Yiming plucked up enough courage to invite Li Xiaoxia to the Temple of Heaven Park, which is separated from the Wall from the State General Administration of Sports, and said nervously: "There is a sentence that has been buried in my heart for a long time, and if I don't say it, I may never have a chance." Li Xiaoxia seemed to realize something, and said shyly: "We have been brothers and sisters for nearly 10 years, if you have anything to say, just say it." "Actually, I'm not just friendship with you, it's more about love." On the eve of parting, I realized that I loved you so much. ”
To be fair, Li Xiaoxia has long been psychologically and emotionally attached to Zhai Yiming, and she looked into Zhai Yiming's eyes: "In fact, in my eyes, you are not only a brother, but also a boyfriend." "The two are in love. The next day, Li Xiaoxia sent Zhai Yiming to the train station, holding back tears and promising: "No matter what height my career reaches in the future, my feelings for you will never change." Zhai Yiming blushed and said, "You are the goddess in my heart, and I will take care of you for the rest of my life." ”
After retiring from the army, Zhai Yiming faced a variety of choices: table tennis clubs in Germany, Japan and other countries, invited him to play in the past with high salaries; he could enter public institutions as a civil servant; he could also go to prestigious universities for further study... However, these are not Zhai Yiming's life goals. He consulted with Li Xiaoxia on the phone: "As an athlete, I have not won the world championship, I want to be a coach, train the team members to become world champions, and realize my unfulfilled dream." Li Xiaoxia understood her boyfriend's regretful and lost heart, and made it clear: "No matter what choice you make, I will support it." In January 2014, Zhai Yiming was appointed as the head coach of the Liaoning men's table tennis team through fair competition.
Since then, a pair of lovers have been separated from each other. The love of athletes is destined to be more difficult than ordinary people. Li Xiaoxia and her boyfriend rarely see each other once in half a year, but they talk on the phone with Zhai Yiming once or twice a week, and they also talk about table tennis. In March 2014, Li Xiaoxia went to Shenyang with the national table tennis team to compete, and Zhai Yiming came to the scene to cheer for his girlfriend. At the end of the game, he sent flowers to Li Xiaoxia, and the two embraced intimately. As a result, this love of the city spread among acquaintances and friends.
Many people are not optimistic about this love, and well-meaning people advise Zhai Yiming: "Xiaoxia is the winner of the grand slam, you are just an ordinary coach, and the gap between you is a bit large." Someone simply said: "Li Xiaoxia's sisters Wang Nan and Zhang Yining are all married to giants, and she also has the capital to marry giants." Zhai Yiming's love affair with Li Xiaoxia couldn't go far. ”
Zhai Yiming knows that his girlfriend's feelings are supreme and indifferent to fame and fortune, but the outside world still brings him pressure: love needs to be kept together, it needs warm and fertile soil, and long-term separation, even if the most mellow feelings, will be diluted by time. Since April 2014, zhai Yiming has taken a train to Beijing to visit Li Xiaoxia every month. In order not to disturb his girlfriend's life, he took the train at 9 p.m. on Friday and arrived in Beijing at 6 p.m. the next day. Then Zhai Yiming asked Li Xiaoxia out, the two talked together, watched a movie and had a meal, and then he returned to Shenyang. In the following year, Zhai Yiming accumulated a thick stack of train tickets. Li Xiaoxia referred to the train her boyfriend was riding on as the "Love Ship."
In June 2015, Zhai Yiming tentatively said to Li Xiaoxia: "I am an ordinary person, if there is a 'rich second generation' chasing you, I will bear to let go." "It turns out that the boyfriend's real intention of frequently coming to Beijing is here! Li Xiaoxia said sincerely: "Every girl's pursuit of love is different, and the giants are not attractive to me." My parents are very affectionate, although they are ordinary people, but they are very happy. I longed for their kind of long-lasting love. "Zhai Yiming's heart knot has been dissolved...
Li Xiaoxia has a soft personality, and every time her boyfriend leaves Beijing, tears well in her eyes. However, as soon as she picked up the ping-pong racket and walked into the training hall, she became the "Iron Maiden" with all the might! It was love that made Li Xiaoxia a two-faced girl.
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In February 2016, the national table tennis team began to select the Rio Olympic team. As a Grand Slam winner, Li Xiaoxia is one of the 5 candidates. She had more than a dozen old injuries on her waist, back, knees, legs and other parts, and she had fought all the way from injuries over the years. At this time, Li Xiaoxia is 28 years old, and as she increases her age, the training intensity is great, and her reaction to her body is particularly obvious.
In mid-March, Li Xiaoxia submitted a report to the team and prepared to retire. At that time, Liu Guoliang, the head coach of the national table tennis team, sincerely retained: "You are the only grand slam winner of the women's team, and you are the dinghai god needle in the team." I want you to stay and bring some young players with you at the crucial moment. Liu Guoliang has always been Li Xiaoxia's respected leader and mentor, and she has dispelled the idea of retiring.
Since then, Li Xiaoxia has struggled with injuries every day: a low back injury attack, she is in pain and can't stand up straight, and the team members carry her into the training hall; the knee joint is painful, she takes two injections a day to close, and bites her teeth to insist on training. His girlfriend's injury stung Zhai Yiming's heart, and he couldn't help Li Xiaoxia, so he had to come to Beijing frequently to send her special ointment. In this way, Li Xiaoxia's love spread in the national table tennis team. Although the leader and coach did not intervene, Li Xiaoxia, who has strong self-discipline, has a sense of guilt.
At the beginning of April, the team held an Olympic simulation competition, due to psychological pressure and the impact of injuries, Li Xiaoxia lost consecutively. As the number one main force of the women's team, her state has worried the whole team up and down. He persevered with an injury, and his only goal was to participate in the Rio Olympics. If she loses the election, not only will it make the people who care about her sad, but she will not forgive herself. Li Xiaoxia became irritable and irritable, and Zhai Yiming came to Beijing to see her, and she lost her temper inexplicably, blaming love for distracting her.
In this love, Zhai Yiming also invested a lot, and Li Xiaoxia could not push the responsibility to herself. He asked, "If you think I'm affecting your career, I'm willing to leave, and I don't blame you." "Yes, at the critical moment of preparing for the Olympic Games, I can't be distracted in the slightest, I must go all out. Li Xiaoxia told Zhai Yiming: "Or let's break up temporarily, if there is really a fate, we will definitely be able to come together in the future." Zhai Yiming thought that Li Xiaoxia was looking for an excuse to break up with himself, and tearfully agreed: "I respect your choice and will wait forever until you are married, and then I will consider personal issues." After saying that, he endured his heartache and returned to Shenyang. Li Xiaoxia stood in the wind and burst into tears...
After that, Li Xiaoxia endured the injury, went all out to prepare for the Olympic Games, and stepped onto the Rio field as she wished. On August 17, the final of the table tennis women's team kicked off, and Li Xiaoxia cooperated with teammates Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen to defeat the Japanese team to win the gold medal with a 3-0 score. Two days later, Li Xiaoxia won the silver medal in women's singles. As a result, she won a total of three gold and one silver in the two Olympic Games, and the number of world champions reached 21, which entered the history of table tennis.
Triumphantly returning to China, Li Xiaoxia sent a text message to Zhai Yiming: "Forgive me, I proposed to break up under special circumstances at that time, I don't know if you have a girlfriend now?" Zhai Yiming replied in seconds: "Fool, I am not old if you do not come, I will always wait for you in the same place." "The loss and recovery of love makes this couple in distress feel very happy."
On January 1, 2017, Li Xiaoxia officially retired from the national team. Subsequently, she exposed her love affair on Weibo, and the official Weibo of the International Table Tennis Federation reprinted it for the first time and sent her blessings: "Congratulations to Sister Xia, always happy." ”
After more than 20 years of hard work on the court, Li Xiaoxia was physically and mentally exhausted, and after retiring, she gave herself a long vacation, and Zhai Yiming accompanied her girlfriend to travel to Huangshan, Jiuzhaigou, Wuyishan and other national scenic spots. Li Xiaoxia wears a sun hat and a long floral dress, with a beautiful ladylike appearance. Zhai Yiming beside her is handsome and handsome, heroic, and a pair of Bi people have won a super high return rate.
On August 22, 2017, Li Xiaoxia and Zhai Yiming received their marriage licenses in Shenyang. On the same day, she posted good news on Weibo: "Today we have received the certificate, my life has one more Ben, and my life has one more him." In the past twenty years, he has been accompanied by table tennis, and the next few decades have been accompanied by his wind and rain. I am happy and we will always be happy!"
On September 10, the two held a grand wedding in Shenyang, the famous CCTV host Zhang Bin presided over the wedding, and Liu Guoliang, Ding Ning, Ma Long and other heavyweights in the table tennis arena attended in full costume. Zhai Yiming publicly promised: "Since then, my role in life has changed, and I will love Xiaoxia for the rest of my life and make her happy!" A sweet smile appeared on Li Xiaoxia's face...
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