At the women's 10m air rifle final of the Tokyo Olympic Games that ended today, Yang Qian, a post-"00" athlete, won the first gold medal for China, and China became the first country in the Tokyo Olympic Games to play the national anthem in Japan.
The whole country celebrates it, it is worth noting that Yang Qian's coach is Du Li, as a former world champion, she served as the coach of the national team after retiring, teaching by example, even if she is not on the field, she can still play her residual heat for the country.
Here's the movie little love letter, today let's talk about the story of the shooting queen, Du Li.
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Du Li was born in Zibo, Shandong Province in 1982, and what is less known is that she has had a tragic childhood experience now with proud achievements.
Du Li's original name was Shi Fangfang, her biological father was extremely grumpy, often committed domestic violence against Du Li's mother, and the young Du Li could only hide in the corner and cry when her father was angry, because her father hated that she was a girl and divorced her mother.
In the unfortunate, Wan Xing's mother wanted to have custody of Du Li, and Du Li, who lived with her mother, changed her name to Qi Fangfang and followed her mother's surname.
A year after the divorce, her mother met Du Zhaoxiang, who worked at the county public security bureau, which was later Du Li's father, but Du Li, who witnessed domestic violence, was extremely repulsive to this "father" and feared that she and her mother would return to the original way.
As a policeman, Du Zhaoxiang often tells Du Li interesting stories about the arrest process, and Du Li first gets along like good friends, And Du Li also slowly accepts this "new father", and Du Li officially changed her name to Du Li after her mother married the "new father".
Because of her original family, Du Li learned to be stoic and persevering from an early age.
At the same time, Du Li, who was born in a small county town in Shandong, said that she was a child who grew up in the mountains, because the peers around her were almost all boys, so Du Li was mixed in the pile of boys from childhood, she and the boys went up the mountain, down the river, climbed trees, and even half a point, and gradually the little friends also treated him as a boy.
Du Li said that it is precisely because of these experiences when she was a child that she has cultivated such a tough character since she was a child, and it has also had a great impact on later growth.
Her parents have always known that she is a stubborn child, and what she believes must be done and will be done well.
Du Li, who was still in school, once had a strong interest in embroidery and begged her parents to try it, because Du Li's grades had always been at the top of the class, plus her parents really couldn't help but agree to her repeated requests, and Du Li, who did not think that there was no foundation, won the embroidery award issued by the school after hard work.
Du Li, who has had extraordinary perseverance since childhood, also shows that she will not be ordinary in the future.
When Du Li was 13 years old, the Yiyuan County Sports School wanted to select shooters, and Zhou Bing coach let the students participating in the selection hold a wooden gun with a stone hanging, in order to check the stability of the students, only Du Li insisted until the end.
Unexpectedly, Du Li was selected by the sports school, but Du Li, who entered the sports school training, found that the training ground not only did not have a real gun, but even the shooting room was extremely simple, which made people dare not compliment.
Boring training, strict requirements, Du Li has the idea of retreating.
In 1996, Du Li, who had been shooting for two years but had not participated in official competitions, began to be lazy under the influence of the team members, and finally simply went home, as if quitting the shooting team.
In the training, it can be seen that Du Li has shooting talent, coach Zhou Bing, in order for her to return to the team can be described as painstaking, after several persuasions Du Li finally returned to the team, since then Du Li has no "escape" experience, take every training seriously, and make rapid progress, which also makes Du Li full of hope for the future.
With super perseverance, Du Li went all the way from the county team to the city team after experiencing setbacks, and in 1998 and 1999, Du Li won the women's 10m rifle championship and runner-up at the provincial games, and successfully entered the provincial shooting team training.
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During the training of the provincial team, China's shooting elder Wang Dewen personally led the team to participate in the 2001 National Games, Du Li won the eighth place in the 10-meter rifle in the competition, although he did not enter the top three, but the talented Du Li was still seen by the coach, so after the game Wang Dewen recommended Du Li to the national team.
In 2002, Du Li, who was selected by Coach Xu Haifeng, successfully entered the national team for systematic training as a substitute, and in the national team, Du Li saw the idol Xu Haifeng and was excited, but she also couldn't help but worry about how long her skills could stay in the national team.
In private, she kept encouraging herself: "If you do a good job, you have to do a good job." ”
After entering the national team, Du Li participated in the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, where Du Li won three gold medals in the women's shooting team and individual events, and broke the world record for the 10-meter women's air rifle with her teammates.
To this honor, Duli received a ticket to the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Therefore, Du Li's pressure has doubled, the hope of the whole country is in herself, and Du Li, who is under great mental pressure, lost to the unknown youngster at the 2003 National City Games.
Du Li suddenly felt that her scalp was tingling, and such a failure ignited the fire in Du Li's heart, and she began to abandon the "insignificant" troubles and train hard without sleeping or eating.
Opportunities are left to those who are prepared, and at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Du Li won the first gold medal for China in that Olympic Games, and became famous in one battle.
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Dare to love and dare to hate Du Li boldly opened her love affair when the national team and rifle athlete Zhang Fu exchanged feelings, and wrote a letter of guarantee to ensure that the results would not be affected by the relationship.
Whenever Du Li returned to her hometown in Yiyuan, she was accompanied by Zhang Fu, a couple who was envied by everyone at the time, but when outsiders were optimistic and their parents were satisfied, they broke up in a low-key manner on the eve of the Beijing Olympic Games, and the reason was not revealed to the outside world.
After the breakup, Du Li became acquainted with her brother Pang Wei
In 2008, Du Li and Pang Wei behaved intimately at a restaurant in Jinan, and after eating, Du Li took Pang Wei's hand, and the two drove away together, and the media filmed and exposed it.
As a result of this scandal, the love affair between the two was immediately exposed, and Pang Wei and Du Li also admitted their love affair on different platforms.
In 2009, under the stability of feelings, Du Li, who won numerous awards, held a wedding with Pang Wei in Baoding, Hebei Province, and Pang Wei's hometown, becoming the first Olympic champion couple in the history of new Chinese sports.
Soon after their marriage, Du Li gave birth to a son, Mao Mao.
The reason for the original family, Du Li attaches special importance to the family, every time the game has to call the mother to stick to the mother, after becoming a mother, she also wants to accompany her son at all times.
Since the Athens Olympics, Douli has competed several times in the Olympic Games, but has failed to win the women's 10m rifle competition for her own strength.
2016 Rio Olympic Games Du Li once again invited to participate, the arena is her battlefield, she must not abandon the position, in the shooting range for the glory of the country is the meaning of her life, she wants to draw a perfect end to her sports career.
In the highly anticipated women's 10m rifle final, she lost to the fledgling but spirited junior Taraschel, and as a retirement event in rio, Du Li only finished runner-up and regrettably withdrew.
At this point, Du Li's athlete career was all over.
After retiring, Du Li still played her residual heat to become a national team shooting coach, and one of the first team members she brought with her was Yang Qian.
In the women's 10-meter air rifle event held on the morning of July 24, 2021, Yang Qian, a post-00 athlete in China, won the Olympic championship of the competition, which is a gold medal of great significance from any point of view.
This is the first gold generated in this Olympic Games, and it is also China's first gold in this Olympic Games, and many people say that Yang Qian made up for Du Li's regrets in this event at the Olympic Games.
Du Li, who has now a double harvest of career love, believes that with her tenacious character, she can walk out of her own broader path.