Recently, Yang Hao, the main attacker of the Chinese women's volleyball team when it won the 2004 Olympic Championship, participated in a program and introduced some unforgettable stories in his volleyball career.
Yang Hao said that her mother is an athlete, but she does not approve of her practicing volleyball, because she thinks that this road is too hard and it is too difficult to produce results. She practiced the piano at the request of her parents, "but I have no interest, I can't sit still, I can't experience the joy of music." ”
Later, Yang Hao's hand was accidentally cut by glass, so he discussed with his parents not to practice the piano and practiced volleyball instead. Her father saw that her training was too hard, and once advised her that if she couldn't stand it, she wouldn't practice, but she always said that she would insist on it.
When the Chinese women's volleyball team was re-formed in 2001, Yang Hao was selected for Chen Zhonghe's national team, which was not optimistic at first. "Except for Zhao Ruirui, who is 1 meter 97 tall, the other team members are a little more than 1 meter 8, and their figure is not outstanding." At that time, the fans even criticized her figure, "I and another main attacker, Wang Lina, were relatively tall and strong, but the fans said that our waist was too thick." ”
Yang Hao said that she did not care too much about the outside world's opinion and was struggling to prove herself. As a result, in the 2001 Grand Champions Cup, she won the world championship in her first appearance in the World Championship, and she won the MVP of the Grand Champions Cup. The nickname given to her by the Japanese media is "Chinese Iron", which can't help but remind people of lang Ping, the "iron hammer" of that year. Yang Hao said that the significance of this championship is very different, and the team has proved itself for the first time.
In the final of the Athens Olympic Games, the Chinese women's volleyball team struggled to turn the tables in the case of falling behind 0-2. Yang Hao recalled, "I didn't know we were behind in the fourth inning, and my attention was focused on every ball. After winning the fourth set, in the fifth set we were full of confidence, we felt that we could definitely win, and indeed we went all the way to the lead. ”
After Zhang Yuehong scored the last point, Yang Hao said that he was standing in the same place at that time, "Later, when I watched the replay, I found that Zhang Yuehong was lying on the ground and hammering the floor. Zhou Suhong rushed to the outside of the field and pushed Chen Dao away halfway. ”
Today's Yang Hao, who works as a volleyball coach at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, now deeply feels the hard work of Chen Dao and Lang Dao as coaches. "The pressure on the coach is a thousand times, ten thousand times greater than the players. Players can do their own thing, coaches have to take into account everyone in the team, every opponent, every score change, it is really not easy. ”