The 6 Olympic champions who have successfully changed careers: some people become writers, some people become mayors, some people have assets of more than 100 million table tennis Olympic champion Kong Linghui: Selling purple sand pot women's volleyball Olympic champion Zhao Ruirui: Writers freestyle champion Zhuang Yong: Chairman of the media company, assets of hundreds of millions of diving champion Lau Lishi: e-commerce boss gymnastics champion Li Xiaoshuang: bumpy entrepreneurship, hundreds of millions of kayak champion Meng Guanliang: political counterattack into vice mayor

Every Olympic Games produces a lot of champions, but the difference between champions and champions is still very large, some people just won the championship and got millions of real estate, and some people didn't have much discussion. Athletes are eating youth meals, and many people retire early because of age and injury. Of course, it is best for Olympic champions to turn into the entertainment industry, but only a few people can take this road, and there are many people, although they do not enter the entertainment circle, they still break out of their own world.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > table tennis Olympic champion Kong Linghui: Selling purple clay pots</h1>

In table tennis, Kong Linghui's achievements are no less than Liu Guoliang's, and he has won numerous awards and is the Olympic champion of the 1996 and 2000 classes. After Kong Linghui retired, he also became the head coach of the national team women's table tennis.

Unfortunately, Kong Linghui did not restrain in his private life, and went out of several situations, and in 2017, he was sued by a casino in Singapore for 2 million Hong Kong dollars. The impact of the incident was bad, and Kong Linghui was suspended from coaching work.

As a sports star, Kong Linghui's choice is still quite a lot, in 2018 he also sold a purple sand pot, the price is thousands of yuan to start, should make a lot of profits.

Many people think that selling purple sand pots has become Kong Linghui's career, but in fact, it is only a crowdfunding project launched by Kong Linghui 3 years ago, which is in cooperation with enterprises, more like a joint fund, and finally the crowdfunding is successful.

In the past few years, Kong Linghui has kept a lot of low profiles, rarely appeared in public, and did not even play social media.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > women's volleyball Olympic champion Zhao Ruirui: Writer</h1>

Every competition of the women's volleyball team is full of blood, but as a group sport, there are not many athletes who can shine. Zhao Ruirui was once the deputy attacker of the women's volleyball team, and once had the reputation of "the highest Chinese women's volleyball team" and "the world's first vice attacker", and in 2004, she helped the women's volleyball team win the Olympic championship.

Zhao Ruirui was once famous, ranking 87th in the 2004 Forbes China Celebrity List.

In 2004, Zhao Ruirui was seriously injured twice before and after the Olympic Games, with severe fractures, and later recovered well, and after participating in the Beijing Olympic Games, she retired.

After retiring from the army, Zhao Ruirui turned to writing, and successively published the anime novel "Awakening in the End of the World", the fantasy novel "Cai Yu Xia", the long anime novel "Hanging Dream Trail", the autobiography "The Darker the Night, the Brighter the Stars Shine", of which "Cai Yu Xia" also won the "Global Chinese Science Fiction Nebula Award for Best Novel Silver Award".

Zhao Ruirui turned into a writer, which is unique among all retired athletes.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > freestyle champion Zhuang Yong: Chairman of a media company with hundreds of millions of assets</h1>

Zhuang Yong's fame is not small, but her retirement has been a matter of the last century. Zhuang Yong's most brilliant achievement was to beat the American Thompson to win the freestyle championship at the 1992 Olympic Games, which was China's first swimming Olympic gold medal.

In 1993, only 21 years old Zhuang Yong retired, at the beginning, she first entered the entertainment industry, became a music program host, also married, moved to Singapore with her husband, and then the marriage broke down, began to return to China to develop, and founded a media company with her partners as vice chairman.

The company is still very successful, in 2008 also became the designated LED operating company for the Olympic Games, the company has been brewing to go public, but tried for many years without success. Until 2014, the company terminated the IPO and was acquired, Zhuang Yong finally realized the dream of getting rich overnight, with assets of hundreds of millions.

Doing business to this extent is very successful.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="37" > diving champion Lauris: E-commerce boss</h1>

There are still many Olympic champions who have turned into business, such as Diver Laurel, who has been on a par with Tian Liang, Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia, etc., she is the 2004 Olympic Women's 10m Platform Double Champion, and has won many awards in major international competitions.

At the 2008 Olympic Trials, Laurie missed the final because of a shoulder strain; in 2010, at the age of 23, she officially retired.

Many athletes choose to go to university after retiring, and then enter politics, Laurie was like this at first, but then she felt that office work was too boring, and in 2014 she resigned decisively, began to start a business to open an online store, and sold jewelry and jade.

Laurie's online store is still very successful, with an annual profit of more than one million, and when Ali went public in 2014, she was one of the 8 bell ringers, taking photos with Jack Ma.

It is not easy to open an online store, and It is still very powerful that Lauris can have such achievements.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="38" > gymnastics champion Li Xiaoshuang: bumpy entrepreneurship, worth hundreds of millions</h1>

Gymnastics is China's dominant sport, and myths like Li Ning appeared, and later Li Xiaoshuang was also very powerful. Li Xiaoshuang's experience is very inspiring, he was twice retired by the national team, and later became the Olympic champion of the 1992 and 1996 classes, and at the Atlanta Olympics, he turned defeat into victory in the all-around competition, which is a classic.

In 1997, Li Xiaoshuang, who was only 24 years old, retired from the army due to injury and began to start a business.

Li Xiaoshuang's business was not as smooth as Li Ning's, he first opened a company with his brother Li Dashuang, the performance was indifferent, and then he tried to sign a contract with a record company and recorded a record. In 2000, he decided to emulate Li Ning and partnered with his brother to open a sporting goods company, which has been running ever since. At the beginning, the company lost a lot of money, and the brothers spent 8 years before they finally turned a profit.

Later, the big and small pairs also opened gymnastics schools and teahouses together, and the career territory expanded step by step. Although Li Xiaoshuang's brand is not as well-known as Li Ning's, he is also a big boss, his net worth has exceeded 100 million, and he also knows how to be content and lives a relatively leisurely life.

<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="39" > kayak champion Meng Guanliang: political counterattack into vice mayor</h1>

Meng Guanliang's Olympic results are also very brilliant, winning the double rowing 500 meters championship at the Athens Olympic Games in 2004, which is China's first gold medal in rowing events. At that time, Meng Guanliang was 27 years old and decided to retire, but he soon returned, defending his Olympic champion in 2008.

After the Beijing Olympics, Meng Guanliang officially retired from the military and began to work in politics as the director of the Zhejiang Aquatics Management Center. Many Olympic champions are engaged in politics, but it is difficult to make a big difference, Meng Guanliang is an exception, he has worked quietly, successively served as deputy director, director, kayak head coach, and in 2017, he was promoted to Changde Standing Committee and vice mayor.

After the promotion, Meng Guanliang is still very busy, and he has not completely bid farewell to the sports world, and the 44-year-old also served as a kayak coach and led the team to the Tokyo Olympics.

In general, now the Olympic champions have more and more choices after retirement, and their development is getting better and better, they have won glory for the country on the field, and after the rapids have retreated, they have achieved personal career success, whether on the field or off the field, their fighting spirit encourages us to always move forward.