At the beginning of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the Chinese national team won many good results in traditional advantageous sports such as shooting, diving, and weightlifting and became the first place in the gold medal list, but with the deepening of the Olympic Games, the beginning of the United States' dominant projects, the United States gradually caught up with China and surpassed in the number of gold medals, jumping to the first place.
Recently, the new youngster Zhang Yufei won the second place in the women's 100m butterfly at the Tokyo Olympic Games, adding a silver medal to the country.
Looking at the history of swimming in China, it can be seen that it is China's weakness and an area that the Chinese people have always wanted to break through. After watching the latest competition, the editor reviewed china's swimming achievements in the previous Olympic Games, and one person attracted my attention.
Zhuang Yong, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she represented the Chinese team in the women's 100m freestyle event and won the silver medal, which was her first Olympic games.
In 1992, Zhuang Yong stood on the Olympic field for the second time at the Barcelona Olympic Games, and that competition made her the first gold medalist in the history of the Chinese swimming national swimming team in the Olympic swimming competition, and the Chinese national team finally achieved a breakthrough of zero gold medals in the swimming competition.
Today, many years later, where is zhuang yong, the world champion who won the supreme glory for China? How's it going?
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In 1972, zhuang yong, an ordinary family in Shanghai, was born, at that time she was still called Zhuang Rong, because her parents were ordinary workers who needed to work hard every day to earn money, so Zhuang Yong did not have any sports when he was a child.
It is precisely because Zhuang Yong's parents are busy with work that Zhuang Yong has the opportunity to contact swimming.
Zhuang Yong's parents, who could not distract her from caring for Zhuang Yong, entrusted her to Zhuang Yong's aunt when she was a child. Shanghai is hot in July and August, so Zhuang Yong's aunt often drags Zhuang Yong to the pool to swim together.
At first, Zhuang Yong was forced by the "pressure" of her aunt to swim with her aunt, in the process of swimming Zhuang Yong saw freestyle for the first time, at that time she did not know how to swim, but she was attracted by the unique and beautiful swimming posture, and aroused her interest in learning to swim.
Soon Zhuang Yong begged his aunt to guide himself to swim, the more deeply he studied Zhuang Yong, the more he liked this sport, and the aunt wanted to "leave" for a day of rest and rest Zhuang Yong did not agree, he must pull his aunt to swim with her, and changed his name to "Zhuang Yong" and set a "contract" with swimming.
Zhuang Yong, who mastered the basics, was discovered by her aunt to swim potential, so she suggested that Zhuang Yong's parents send Zhuang Yong into a professional team for systematic learning.
Therefore, in 1979, the 7-year-old Zhuang Yong was sent to swimming school by his parents for training, and Xu Renhui was Zhuang Yong's enlightenment coach.
Under the careful tutelage of Xu Renhui, Zhuang Yong's progress was rapid, and at this time, zhuang Yong, who was only 8 years old, was able to shake off the distance of his peers in terms of swimming speed. Solid basic skills, amazing growth rate, Zhuang Yong was solemnly favored by the coach of the Shanghai team.
At the age of 12, Zhuang Yong entered the Shanghai team. In the Shanghai team, Zhuang Yong received more rigorous training, and was regarded as a "pearl" by the coach, and Zhuang Yong, who was trained solidly, had played for the Shanghai team many times at this time and won numerous awards.
At the first National Youth Games held in 1985, Zhuang Yong won 3 gold medals and 3 silver medals, becoming a hot rising star in the Chinese swimming world at that time. Gold will always shine, and genius will not be buried. Zhuang Yong has achieved results at a young age that is enough to make people look at, and the national team will naturally not miss it.
In 1986, Zhuang Yong was unsurprisingly included in the national team and officially selected for the national swimming training team.
Zhuang Yong, who is 1 meter 7 tall, does not lose the tall and strong European and American players, and Zhuang Yong, who is born with mature and stable psychological qualities, trains hard and seriously, has a strong will, and has a high degree of tacit understanding with the coach, and every training can have surprising progress.
With a strong desire to win or lose, she is a "competitive" athlete, and the more intense the competition, the better she plays and the more courageous she fights. In 1987, Zhuang Yong performed well at the Asian Games and qualified for the Olympic Games the following year.
In 1998, Zhuang Yong, who was standing on the field, had only one belief in his heart: "Never retreat!" ”
Struggling in the water, she won a silver medal for her country, which was the first medal in swimming at the Olympic Games. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, she surpassed world record holder Tapson to win the gold medal in the women's 100m freestyle and became famous in one game.
Recalling that honor, Zhuang Yong said proudly:
"Before the race I had a hunch that I was going to win the gold medal, I believed in my feelings and destiny, I should get that gold medal."
But it is regrettable that Zhuang Yong, who is in a brilliant moment and at the peak of his career, suddenly announced his retirement. After retiring from the army, she did not become a swimming coach like others but chose to enter the show business circle
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The 1990s coincided with the peak of Hong Kong's showbiz. In the show business circle, Zhuang Yong has worked as a host for the music program of Hong Kong Phoenix SATELLITE TV and an actor in Hong Kong movies.
In his work, he met the reporter Liu Yong, it is reported that Liu Yong was a former basketball player in Hong Kong, acquaintance, acquaintance, love they soon entered the palace of marriage after marriage after the two jointly decided to go to Singapore under the advice of Zhuang Yong.
The two people who thought they could get a great harvest in Singapore suffered a tragic career "Waterloo", and the two people who did not develop smoothly accumulated contradictions day by day, and finally ended in divorce.
Subsequently, Zhuang Yong chose to return to the motherland for development. For his sudden retirement that year, Zhuang Yong explained: "In my sports career, I have won all the gold medals I should have won. ”
In the interview, Zhuang Yong looked at ease and expressed no regrets: "Unlike other athletes, I retired early and went to Hong Kong to enter the entertainment industry, and my profession has nothing to do with the direction, many people ask me why I left and why I got married early, my idea at that time was that when I was at the highest point of life, people would be afraid and afraid of failure." I was no exception, and I was afraid to see myself "fall off the altar" and therefore empty inside. At this time I need a dependence, maybe my approach is wrong in the eyes of most people, but it does make me feel at ease, I can think, and only when I am comforted can I calmly judge how to go in the future. ”
In China, Zhuang Yong created the "second spring" of his career with his status as an Olympic champion.
Zhuang Yong, who had just returned to China, felt infinitely confused, and she was once attracted by the bustling and busy Hong Kong, and she resolutely entered the show business circle, but after all these years of hard work, she slowly stopped being satisfied, and a whole sense of emptiness swept through Zhuang Yong's whole body.
She chose to quit again, quitting the showbiz circle that could only bring good rewards but could not show her greater value. Later, Zhuang Yong founded his own outdoor advertising company "Tulip Media" at the suggestion of his former friend Wang Min.
In 2008, Zhuang Yong became the Olympic torchbearer to pass the sacred flame.
Career-oriented, Zhuang Yong is like a day in the sky;
In love, she came together with her former teammate Shen Jianqiang.
In 2004, Zhuang Yong went to the United Kingdom before giving birth, and finally got his wish to give birth to a British son in the United Kingdom. There is also a lot of discussion about this practice, but Zhuang Yong ignores it, she is still the person who is determined that one thing will not change, and she has nothing to blame for this practice.
How is Zhuang Yong doing today?
After founding the media company, Zhuang Yong kept the company in good order, the company was successfully listed, and the former world champion has now become a female president worth more than 100 million.
On April 2, 2021, Zhuang Yong posted a selfie on Weibo, had a son and a daughter, and had a double harvest of family and career, which was enviable, and she was full of happy smiles in the photo.
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On July 26, the Tokyo Olympic sports swimming competition officially began.
This day was also the day when Zhuang Yong won the championship, although she was in the United Kingdom and faded out of the sports circle, but across the ocean, she still cared about the development of China's sports industry, and on July 24, she praised the picture of the Chinese team at the opening ceremony.
After her, China "blossomed everywhere" in swimming sports, and many swimming stars appeared, such as Sun Yang, Ning Zetao, Liu Xiang, Fu Yuanhui, Ye Shiwen and other representative figures. Compared with the women's team, the men's team has slightly poor performance, basically showing the phenomenon of "no successor" except for Sun Yang.
It is a pity that this year's competition will never see the figure of "Big Poplar" Sun Yang again, and Fu Yuanhui, who won China's first medal in the backstroke competition at the Rio Olympic Games and broke the national record, also failed to meet us at the Tokyo Olympic Games "as promised".
It is reported that the lovely Fu Yuanhui, who became popular because of the "power of the flood", can only regret being absent because of the decline in her grades. "There are talented people in the country, each leading the way for hundreds of years", this year's competition has not seen many old people.
But the wheel of history is still rolling forward, and I believe that we will eventually achieve "perfect and beautiful reflexiveness" in swimming competitions, breaking the myth that Europeans and Americans cannot surpass.
Arnold Schwarzenegger once said:
"Thinking about winning a game doesn't give you strength, it grows when you struggle in a workout, and when you overcome a difficulty and don't want to give up, that's strength."
And we Chinese the most important thing is this "strength", we will eventually overcome ourselves, once Zhuang Yong proved to the world that we can Chinese beyond our own limits and achieve the impossible.
In the future, we will have such athletes, "after a thousand sails, return, still the first"
We thank Zhuang Yong for her contribution to the Chinese swimming scene, she did not become a coach as the public expected, but we should respect her choice.
Because everyone will have their own pursuits, if there is a chance, Xiaobian still hopes that Zhuang Yong can enter the swimming world again to lead the Chinese swimming team to develop "better".
Finally, I wish Zhuang Yong and the Chinese swimming world smooth sailing and shine!