Whenever we mention "national athletes", our minds will appear a person who sweats on the field and desperately strives for glory for the country, when they stand in the center of the podium and the national anthem is played on the field, at that moment, all the people of China are boiling!
His name is Caili, is a well-known weightlifter in China, when he won more than 60 championships in just 8 years, and even broke the Asian record, is a veritable "Asian first Lux", but people at this time do not know that less than 10 years after his retirement, Caili died young, only 33 years old, and before his death, he lived an extremely embarrassing life, and even on the day of his death, his family was only 300 yuan, not enough for him to be hospitalized. What really happened back then?
On June 30, 1970, a healthy baby boy fell to the ground in an ordinary family in Changtu County, Liaoning Province, because he was born twice as big as other children, his father named him "Caili", I don't know if it was affected by this name, Caili's size grew bigger and bigger, and the strength became greater, corresponding to the large amount of food.
However, for the poor talent family, this is not a good news, and seeing that the talent has reached the school age, there are old people, and there are small talents at the bottom who can't come up with money for him to study, and in desperation, they can only choose to let the talent stay at home and help work, and the days will pass like this day by day.
It wasn't until the appearance of a man that the fate of Caili was completely changed - a weightlifting coach. It turned out that in the early days of the founding of New China, in order to promote the development of sports, the state let coaches go to various places to find talents, and the talents who were working in the fields entered the eyes of weightlifting coaches.
Under the leadership of Caili, the coach came to Caili's home and formally proposed to Caili's parents that he wanted Caili to join the national team and win glory for the country in the future. To tell the truth, the parents of the talent wanted to refuse, because they did not want to lose a labor force at home, but they heard that they could get prizes and bonuses for participating in the competition, so they agreed to the coach's invitation.
Facts have proved that the coach did not look away, after a series of professional training, only 15 years old talent, in the first national Youth Games, won the 110 kg weightlifting championship! Talent became famous in one battle, won the attention of countless people, and the state also focused on the cultivation of this child.
In the next 8 years, Caili won more than 40 national championships and more than 20 Asian championships. These include the weightlifting champion at the 11th Asian Games (and breaking The Asian record) and more than 40 consecutive national championships between 1985 and 1992. Talent is the well-deserved "Asia's first force".
However, behind the glory, it is unimaginable pain and torture for ordinary people - due to the perennial weightlifting exercises, Caili's palms and neck back have been operated on, and as he grows older, the pain is increasing day by day, often causing him to sweat; at the same time, Caili's body also has various leg injuries and waist injuries; coupled with body obesity and irregular diet, Caili suffers from serious respiratory diseases.
In this case, Caili had to choose to retire, and in 1993, Caili represented Liaoning in the Seventh Games, winning the last championship of his career.
Although china's sports system at that time was not very perfect, but such an excellent athlete as Caili, the state will help to assign work, when the state arranged for him to work in the Shenyang Municipal Public Security Bureau, which was a very good job at the time, but unfortunately, when Caili went to report, he actually fell asleep chatting and chatting (later diagnosed with sleep apnea syndrome), the director saw the situation, thinking that Caili was not suitable for being a policeman, and Caili lost a good job.
Later, Caili found several jobs, such as being a janitor in the sports hospital, but because he often "dozed off" when working, so in the end he could not avoid the fate of being dismissed, as mentioned above, Caili's family was already poor, and now Caili has no competition bonus, and there is no job, and he is sick all year round and needs to see a doctor to buy medicine, and the family's life is getting more and more bitter.
In order to reduce the pressure on his family, Caili silently endured countless pains, and he did not even dare to wear socks, because he was afraid that if he bent down, he would never get up again... However, Caili did not defeat the disease after all, on May 31, 2003, Caili fell again, and his parents rushed him to the hospital, but at this time, Caili's family only had more than 300 yuan, which was simply not enough for Caili to be hospitalized, let alone treated, and the family urgently got to borrow money. It was hard to borrow more than 800 yuan, but Caili had already closed his eyes in the hospital in pain, at the age of 33.
No one dares to imagine that the champion who once had unlimited scenery finally died of poverty, which is really emotional.