Invert a beer bottle, put a few blocks on the bottom, and then use a fly to shoot one by one and pull it out horizontally, and the bottle is successfully buckled upside down on the table ... Zhang Guowei, who showed a proud expression, completed another challenge in front of the mobile phone camera.
From mat 3 blocks to pad 11 pieces of chess, on the video social platform, the topic of "pk Zhang Guowei pumping blocks" ranked third in the challenge list.
Netizens are also competing to challenge, as long as someone exceeds his record, there will be netizens rushing to remind Zhang Guowei in the comment area of Zhang Guowei's video: "Next door xx." "
"Please, if you see it, accept it, and give me a step down." The comment left by Zhang Guowei in the comments section alone received as many as 60,000 likes.
It can be seen that Zhang Guowei is very good at "playing" with netizens, and netizens are also willing to see him funny.
Influencers
On September 7, Zhang Guowei posted a commemorative trophy of 10 million for his fans, and said with the text: "Sit and wait for the 20 million achievements to commemorate." "
In fact, at that time, Zhang Guowei's number of fans had reached 24 million, and the so-called "twenty million" was a result, not a goal.
Now, in just two months, Zhang Guowei's fans have increased by more than 2 million, exceeding 26 million. On the track of "net red", Zhang Guowei quickly punched the milestone.
Keep updated every day, update 2 to 3 strips a day, and there are many tricks, basically not repetitive. There are not many Internet celebrities who can achieve this level. What's more, in theory, Zhang Guowei's identity is still a high jumper.
It seems only a matter of time before Zhang Guowei's fans exceed 30 million
However, from the perspective of athlete status, Zhang Guowei has been out of the mainstream sports circle for a long time. Only the plastic training ground in the background of the video reminds people that he is still an athlete.
The training ground was built by Zhang Guowei himself. Zhang Guowei said that he spent all his savings for this, just for the dream of 2.40 meters in his heart.
After announcing his retirement at the node preparing for the Tokyo Olympics in April last year, Zhang Guowei chose to make a comeback in August this year, a node that had just ended at the Tokyo Olympics, and said that he hired a team at his own expense.
But at the end of September, Zhang Guowei suffered a fracture, and his comeback pressed the pause button again...
Zhang Guowei announced his comeback.
separate
As a sports journalist, I wanted to interview Zhang Guowei, but after learning my idea, some reporters who were more familiar with athletics were very surprised.
"Why did you interview him?" He has nothing to do with sports, right? A funny influencer at best? One reporter expressed doubts.
"I have Zhang Guowei's WeChat, but he never replies, this person is actually quite strange, no contact with anyone, everyone also wants to interview him, but they can't interview him, he originally had an agent, and the agent didn't reply." Another reporter said.
"I've been deleted by him." A reporter replied.
"I haven't heard of any reporter in the circle who made friends with him." I think this person is a bit inexplicable, a little weird, and very crazy. "
"Extremely eccentric, very stubborn, and there is a fight with the national team."
Several reporters who have had contact with Zhang Guowei gave almost the same feelings.
Zhang Guowei at the Rio Olympics. Photo by Sheng Jiapeng, a reporter from China News Network
"Someone was helping him take care of something off the field, and now what he's doing, we don't want to pay attention to it, he's not an athlete anymore." A person on the Chinese track and field team said bluntly in a previous interview.
Another reporter who understands the inside story revealed: "In fact, Zhang Guowei completely broke off with the sports side, he seems to know a new agent, took him to participate in the variety show, but after participating in a period of time, found that his roots are still sports, sports have no results, variety shows will no longer invite you." "
After getting these relatively consistent feedback, I still decided to contact Zhang Guowei, but adding WeChat failed several times, and after comments and private messages on social platforms, it was fruitless...
When searching for Zhang Guowei's name in several media that are good at doing interviews with sports figures, the display is also blank.
Zhang Guowei's body, a kind of separation is vividly reflected - the prolific social platform and the media's "no one cares", the well-designed personality and the feedback of the sports circle, the identity of the Internet celebrity and the identity of the athlete, his choices and dreams ...
Zhang Guowei in the men's high jump qualification tournament at the Rio Olympics. Photo by Sheng Jiapeng, a reporter from China News Network
dream?
Zhang Guowei was once seen as a new hope for China's high jump. In 2011, he began to make a name for himself in domestic competitions, constantly setting new personal bests.
In 2013, Zhang Guowei broke the national indoor high jump record held by Zhu Jianhua, a national high jumper, for 27 years in the National Indoor Athletics Championships with a score of 2 meters 32. This year, Zhang Guowei was 22 years old, coinciding with the rapid rise of athletes.
Zhang Guowei began to be well known to everyone, in the 2015 Beijing Athletics World Championships, Zhang Guowei not only skipped the height of 2 meters 33 in the Bird's Nest, but also surpassed Zhu Jianhua's world championship third place and won a valuable silver medal.
Along with it, he was remembered for his classic action "White Crane Bright Wings".
Zhang Guowei's classic "White Crane Bright Wings". Image credit: osports
The Rio Olympics were an excellent stage for 25-year-old Zhang Guowei, but Zhang Guowei, who originally aimed to impact the medals, did not even make it to the final.
"I was defeated by myself, I thought about it a lot, I also wanted to compare it, but I didn't expect that like London, I fell at 2.26 meters." Zhang Guowei said in a post-match interview.
Later, it was also reported that Zhang Guowei was affected by injuries at that time.
Zhang Guowei in the game. Image credit: osports
Zhang Guowei, who missed a cycle, entered the Tokyo Olympic cycle.
Among the Chinese athletes who won gold at this year's Tokyo Olympics, there were not many athletes who folded in Rio, but these inspirational dramas did not happen to Zhang Guowei. What was staged was, on the contrary, a highly controversial "play".
After winning the silver medal at the 2015 Beijing Athletics World Championships, Zhang Guowei said in an interview: "Don't treat me as an idol, in fact, I am a comedian!" "
In this new Olympic cycle, Zhang Guowei's identity is indeed closer to the "comedian".
Since 2016, Zhang Guowei has participated in various variety shows and gradually becomes out of control.
In March 2019, a disciplinary decision of the Athletics Management Center circulated on the Internet: Zhang Guowei was verified to have fabricated reasons to go out to participate in commercial activities twice in late February and early March, "seriously violating the regulations on the management of the national athletics training team, interfering with normal preparations, and causing adverse effects." The Athletics Management Center imposed a series of penalties on Zhang Guowei, including "giving him the punishment of expulsion from the team on probation."
Although Zhang Guowei later responded through personal social media that the leaders expressed understanding and tolerance for his behavior, and he still fought in the front line of the national team, but in the later period of time, Zhang Guowei disappeared on the sports field.
Until April 25, 2019, Zhang Guowei quietly returned, he won the championship in a small division event in Italy, with a result of only 2 meters 20. Subsequently, on May 26, Zhang Guowei played for the second time, winning the championship with 2 meters 24.
On August 3, 2019, Zhang Guowei appeared at the World Championships Trials held in Shenyang, which was his first domestic competition after he was banned and returned, and it was also the first time he returned to the public eye in a real sense.
However, the 2m 20 result is obviously not the same as the state he was in at his peak, let alone participating in the World Series.
"In the back, I will slowly find the feeling of the game and find the rhythm of the game that belongs to Zhang Guowei." He said.
Later, Zhang Guowei did find the rhythm.
On November 15, 2019, Zhang Guowei in the video stood under the shower head of the bathroom, shook the Coke vigorously, opened the bottle cap, and then put his mouth on the gushing Coke and "blew on the bottle".
"Dragon Water Absorption" originated from here and became Zhang Guowei's wealth password on the video social platform. This masochistic silly video has now reached 1.118 million likes.
Zhang Guowei continued this rhythm, and endless "dragon sucking water" appeared in his account.
In the competition, Zhang Guowei also seemed to find the rhythm, in the High Jump Challenge in Siena, Italy, held in March 2020, Zhang Guowei jumped to a height of 2 meters 28 and won the second place. It was also his best indoor vault in four years.
On the evening of March 24, Beijing time, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games were confirmed to be postponed to 2021.
After 11 days, Zhang Guowei posted: "I'm sorry, I really can't jump, I decided to retire." "
On the day of his retirement, Zhang Guowei was still performing a passage: kicking the hanging sandbag hard, and then bouncing off the rebound sandbag ...
Zhang Guowei once said that 2 meters 40 was his dream, but under a retiring official announcement that was suspected of being a joke, this dream came to an abrupt end.
The legendary "dragon absorbs water".
On August 21 this year, after 573 days of retirement and just after the Tokyo Olympics came to an end, Zhang Guowei announced his comeback at his own expense.
"Next year, it is very likely that I will go abroad to compete and train, continue to complete my dream of 2.40, and promise you the podium dragon to absorb water, and you will also see me dancing in the competition."
Perhaps the Olympic athletes who returned from Tokyo have inspired Zhang Guowei's dreams, or perhaps this is just a gimmick for him to continue his career as an internet celebrity.
By the way, Zhang Guowei updated the dynamics again, this time he pulled out 30 blocks in one go, and he was more proud of completing the challenge.
Source: Sino-Singapore Sports
Edited by Zhou Huan / Edited by Li Feng / Issued by An Hui