Zhang Jiaqi's mother who won the championship cried with joy: contentment, worth it

Seeing her daughter win the championship, Zhang Jiaqi's mother cried with joy. Beijing News reporter Zheng Xinqia photographed

In the competition for the women's double 10m platform at the Tokyo Olympics, Zhang Jiaqi / Chen Yaoxi did not give their opponents any chance and established an absolute advantage early. In a residential area far away in Yizhuang, Beijing, Zhang Jiaqi's mother, Xiao Yingjie, breathed a sigh of relief in front of the TV, and the day before the men's double 10-meter platform regretted losing gold, she did not send WeChat to her daughter. "After she went to the Olympics, I would have contacted her every day through WeChat to encourage and encourage her, but yesterday... I was afraid of putting extra pressure on her, so I didn't contact her. Xiao Yingjie said.

Xiao Yingjie is used to not letting children feel the pressure from their parents, and 2017 was Zhang Jiaqi's first participation in the National Games, and she was completely unaware that her parents were sitting in a corner of the stands staring intently at her own competition. "I was afraid that we would affect her, so I didn't tell her, I left after watching the game, and she learned about it later." Before the Tokyo Olympics, Xiao Yingjie originally made an appointment with Zhang Jiaqi's enlightenment coach, as long as the child can represent the national team, he will go to the scene to cheer her up. The epidemic has changed the plan, and there are regrets, but Xiao Yingjie said: "Contentment, it is worth it." ”

At the moment when the results of the women's doubles 10-meter platform were announced, the daughter who was at the Tokyo Aquatics Center smiled like a flower, and her mother who was far away in Beijing cried with joy. Greeting phone calls from relatives and friends poured in, and Xiao Yingjie wiped his tears, smiled and held up his mobile phone to record the moment when his daughter landed on the top podium of the Olympic Games.

The first time he stood on the Olympic field and won his first Olympic gold medal, the 17-year-old Zhang Jiaqi came all the way, and all the hardships that were not known to outsiders were Xiao Yingjie's heartache: "You can only look at the injuries on her body, you know her pain, but you can't replace her, these can only be faced by her alone." Even Zhang Jiaqi said, "Mom, I want to eat noodles... Mom, I want to eat spicy hot", Xiao Yingjie will be embarrassed - weight control is the basic requirement of divers, not to mention the "two" as a unit of control, looking at the embarrassed mother, Zhang Jiaqi will often "comfort" a sentence: "I know better how to control weight." ”

All the hard work of the past was rewarded with an Olympic gold medal. The story of the summer of the year at the age of 17 is a happy ending.

Beijing News reporter Zhou Xiao

Edited by Han Shuangming, Proofreader Li Shihui