"Mutual understanding, long-term friendship, solidarity and fair competition".
This is the Olympic spirit that is well known. In peacetime, sports competition has become an excellent platform to highlight the strength of the country and inherit the Olympic spirit.
Under this platform, many excellent athletes were born. They have all done their best to win glory for the country and have created one sports miracle after another.
Because of the Olympics, we also know a lot of sports stars who make the Chinese people proud, such as Liu Xiang and Yao Ming, and there are also a new generation of Olympic champions such as Yang Qian, Quan Hongchan, Guan Chenchen and so on. While they won glory for the country, they also let their names be known.
But there are also some athletes who are forced to retire due to physical injuries and end their sports careers. People may remember the glorious moments when they sweated like rain on the field, but paid little attention to how they lived after retiring.
Most athletes do not have a satisfactory life after retirement, even to the point of hardship.
For example, Zou Chunlan, who once won the national women's weightlifting championship, is now reduced to a "bather"! What exactly did she go through?
Zou Chunlan's family is not very good, and her academic performance from childhood is not outstanding. At that time, the sports academy was enrolling students, and there were subsidies for eating and living.
Her parents thought that if Zou Chunlan entered the sports team, it would reduce some burden on the family, so they signed up for her.
In 1987, Zou Chunlan entered the Jilin Provincial First Sports Team, and she successfully entered the weightlifting team with the advantages of strong body and strength. Soon after, she trained on a professional team and continued her athletic career until 1993.
In these six years, Zou Chunlan won 20 gold medals in the national weightlifting competition and broke the world record. At that time, she was a bright sports star.
However, years of overload training have allowed Zou Chunlan's body to reach the limit of endurance. The pain in her body began to erupt, and she had no way to train normally, so she had no choice but to announce her retirement.
Zou Chunlan did not go to school, and the best learning time in her life was contributed to sports. After retiring from the army, she suddenly lost the focus of her life and did not have other suitable jobs.
In desperation, she had to eat in the canteen of the sports training team, but in the end she was dismissed. In 2000, she received an injury allowance of 80,000 yuan and left the work team.
Tonight's feast finally ended, the achievements were accomplished, full of absurdity, talking about Zou Chunlan's situation.
After leaving the work team, Zou Chunlan worked as a small worker and opened a shop. After several tossing and turning, life still has not improved, and even more bitter than before.
It was then that she met a man who was important in her life, who was working as a boilermaker in the bathhouse. Seeing that Zou Chunlan's life was hard, he recommended him to go to the bathhouse to scrub people.
I thought that life would go on like this, but once she was recognized as a former champion when she was scrubbing people, which suddenly attracted the attention of society.
The media began to rush to report, and the authorities began to provide her with entrepreneurial projects to help her solve her life difficulties. Later, she opened a laundromat with the help of various nobles, and due to inexperience and fierce competition, the operation was not very smooth.
In order to retain customers, she has attracted many repeat customers with her sincere service attitude and preferential prices. Gradually, business in the store began to get on track.
Now Zou Chunlan is living a good life, with her husband Qinse and Ming, she is very content, the only regret is that she can no longer have children.
Because at that time, she was tricked by the coach and took the forbidden drug, so that she lost the opportunity to become a mother forever.
What is the way out for athletes after retirement has always been a concern of the public. In fact, the state has certain subsidies and support projects for retired athletes, but because of each person's situation, their choices are also different.
For example, those with excellent results will be hired by the state to become coaches, such as Liu Guoliang, a "fat man who does not understand the ball", and Lang Ping, an "iron hammer", to continue to train the next batch of outstanding athletes for the country.
Those with higher appearance may turn to the entertainment industry, like Tao Hong and Niu Li, and now they have also had a double harvest of career love. However, some athletes have corrupted their audience after entering the entertainment industry.
For example, Hui Ruoqi, she looks very beautiful, so she is very popular after she retired. After Signing a contract with her, Yang Tianzhen began to market her previous athletes, originally her story was very inspirational, but even the best inspirational stories would be tired of listening to more.
Moreover, she is always on the hot search for some inexplicable things, which causes the public to resent, and such a good card is played thinly.
In addition, there are people like Guo Jingjing who, after 10 years of retirement, still maintain a high popularity because of the sentence "He is a giant, I am a champion". But such people are even rarer.
Most people are like Zou Chunlan, who return to the life of ordinary people after retiring from the army and continue to move forward.
They once had the heart of a child to win glory for the country and dedicate their own strength, but after retiring from the army, their lives were lost, which inevitably made people sigh.
In addition to this, phenomena such as athletes being forced to take banned drugs were common in the previous sports world. Although it achieved a temporary success, it ruined the health of athletes for a lifetime.
It also makes us have to start reflecting on whether in the past we were too focused on results and neglected the health of athletes. Fortunately, our country is getting stronger and stronger, the times are progressing, and society is developing.
Each generation of athletes is in a different environment, and retired athletes have more and more options for their way out. The improvement of the state system has also made their lives more secure.
And the situation like Zou Chunlan will gradually become less, and we will no longer only focus on the performance of athletes, but more concerned about their health.
Especially for this year's Tokyo Olympics, for athletes who lost the competition. We are more than insults but encouragement, and look forward to their early and safe return, which is a good virtuous circle.
For athletes, it is understandable to plan for their future in advance, as long as they find their own goals, life after retirement is still bright.
But no matter what you do in the future, hard work, pragmatism, pragmatism, and simplicity, these beautiful qualities honed in the days of fighting for the competition are important magic weapons for retired athletes to have a better life in the future.
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