In 2000, at the Sydney Olympic Games, Liu Xuan won the championship in the women's gymnastics balance beam competition.
Prior to this, the Chinese women's gymnastics balance beam project had never won a championship at the Olympic Games.
After returning to China, Liu Xuan had the title of "Gymnastics Queen".
Liu Xuan's career reached its peak, but the next year, because of the physical pain caused by years of training, Liu Xuan handed over the captain position and retired.
After retiring from the army, Liu Xuan entered school to study, acted in the entertainment industry, entered the business world, and never let himself stop.
Liu Xuan was born in 1979 in Changsha, Hunan.
When she was a child, Liu Xuan's health was not very good, and her parents wanted her to practice some sports to exercise in order to make Liu Xuan's body better.
It just so happened that her mother was a retired gymnast, so 5-year-old Liu Xuan began to practice gymnastics.
At the beginning of the bodybuilding class, because Liu Xuan's height was not high, he was ranked at the end of the line.
The coach of the bodybuilding class did not pay much attention to Liu Xuan at first, but she did not get lazy because of it.
Probably influenced by her mother since childhood, Liu Xuan is very interested in gymnastics, and she is very serious in every class and does very well in her movements.
The coach began to pay attention to Liu Xuan, felt that she was talented and serious, and began to strengthen her training.
From the beginning of practicing gymnastics, Liu Xuan's daily schedule was fully arranged. Classes are held at school in the morning, training in the afternoon, and going home to write homework after training at 7 p.m.
She was training when other children were playing, she was training when other children were watching TV, other children were sleeping, and Liu Xuan was writing homework.
Liu Xuan has always known that her childhood is different from other children.
After 3 years of training, Liu Xuan entered the Hunan Provincial Gymnastics Team at the age of 8.
The training of the provincial team is more stringent, and there is no shortage of excellent team members in the team, Liu Xuan feels the pressure and trains more seriously.
The repeated training day after day left Liu Xuan injured all the time, injuring every part of her body except her hair.
Her palms have grown cocoons due to long-term friction, and when the cocoons are too thick, they must be cut with blades, so as not to affect the grip of high and low bars.
Cut and long, cut and long, But Liu Xuan never cried, and the pain never told her parents, but just endured it herself.
Every time Grandma saw her granddaughter, she couldn't help but shed tears when she saw her full of injuries, and finally couldn't help but tell her parents to stop practicing and stop suffering from these sins.
Parents also hurt their daughters, at that time Liu Xuan was about to enter junior high school, the career of gymnasts was very short, and the younger the age, the easier it was to produce results.
Her parents had asked the coach how Liu Xuan was doing, and if she couldn't, she would go home and study.
The coach told them the truth about Liu Xuan's true situation, the results are only middle and upper, and whether the future results can be made cannot be determined now.
Parents give their daughters the right to make decisions. After some deliberation, Liu Xuan decided to continue practicing gymnastics.
With a love for gymnastics and a yearning for the future, Liu Xuan practiced more diligently.
In 1992, 13-year-old Liu Xuan won the high and low bar championships at the National Gymnastics Championships, and she was also the youngest gymnastics champion in the country.
The efforts of the whole year were finally not in vain, and Liu Xuan was not proud because he won a championship.
The following year, Liu Xuan participated in the National Games, won the women's team championship, and then entered the national team. After entering the national team, Liu Xuan knew that the previous hard work was nothing.
The national team got up at 6 o'clock every morning to train, practiced badly and could not eat lunch, and practiced until 7 pm to return to the dormitory to rest, even if injured, it could not rest.
Entering the national team, Liu Xuan is training every day except for sleep, has not gone home for 8 consecutive years, and when she is homesick, she hides in the quilt and cries, but most of the time, she is so tired that she does not even have the strength to cry.
In 1996, at the Atlanta Olympics, Liu Xuan was pinned high hopes.
The day of the final Liu Xuan will never forget, this is her first time to participate in the Olympic Games, she lost her hand, that action is Liu Xuan practiced countless times, and she can do a good job when she falls asleep.
After that day, Liu Xuan began to think about whether to retire, she was 17 years old, reaching the upper limit of the best age for gymnasts.
Liu Xuan returned to the provincial team, but was sent back to the national team, and the provincial team hoped that she could go to the National Games.
In 1997, Liu Xuan won the individual all-around and balance beam championships. In the same year, she became the captain of the women's gymnastics team.
In 2000, at the Sydney Olympics, Liu Xuan won the balance beam championship with a high score of 9.825, when she was 21 years old, which was Liu Xuan's first time and The first time in China.
After that, Liu Xuan had the reputation of "gymnastics queen".
In 2001, 22-year-old Liu Xuan retired. From then on, life belonged only to herself, and she could finally take her fate into her own hands.
Before retiring, Liu Xuan had already thought about what he was going to do next.
In September 2001, Liu Xuan entered the School of Journalism and Communication of Peking University, and those obscure knowledge was much more difficult for her than to win the Olympic championship, but Liu Xuan was not afraid of difficulties and successfully completed her studies.
When she was studying at Peking University, Liu Xuan acted in many TV dramas, at that time she did not have plans for the future, just read the major and film and television has a relationship, she took advantage of the leisure time to act in several works.
The little sister in "My Beautiful Homesickness", Gao Wenjun in "My Father and Me", etc., are all heroines, but they have not caused any repercussions.
Everyone is not interested in her work, her acting skills, but very interested in her scandals, when participating in a variety show, because of the need for performance, Liu Xuan and the male companion have some physical contact.
Suddenly, the scandal between the two spread widely, at that time, Liu Xuan and Wang Tao had been in contact for many years, and had not been made public, and the male protagonist of the scandal was also married.
In order to make the scandal no longer ferment, Liu Xuan officially announced his love affair, and the male protagonist of the scandal also showed love with his wife.
This gossip farce has finally come to an end.
In 2008, Liu Xuan was favored by TVB executives when hosting the program and officially signed a contract with TVB.
For the working environment in Hong Kong, Liu Xuan likes it very much, because the pressure here is very high, and this pressure prompts Liu Xuan to devote all her energy to work, so that she can grow faster.
In order to develop in Hong Kong, Liu Xuan learned Cantonese for 3 months, and in "Female Fist", she acted in a kung fu film for the first time, although the TV series was mixed, Liu Xuan was still happy to get more attention.
For the matter of entering the entertainment industry, although there are many voices of opposition and doubt in the outside world, Liu Xuan does not feel anything, she does not want to become famous, she does not want to be a star, she just wants to be a role model, and she wants to let those retired athletes see that being an artist is also a way out.
In 2013, Liu Xuan and Wang Tao held a wedding.
In 2016, on Liu Xuan's birthday, he announced the establishment of a self-created brand to enter the business world, determined to create a sports brand that coexists with sports and fashion.
Liu Xuan said that he had two lives, from the age of 5 to 21, he belonged to the state, and his life after the age of 21 belonged to Liu Xuan.
She chose to study, chose to enter the entertainment industry, chose to act, and chose to engage in business, all of which she decided by herself, and she was always running for her dreams.
Cold meals, outsiders' denigration, external doubts, etc., she has survived, and the future belongs to herself.
Author: Cold Crisp