In recent years, with the gradual improvement of people's living standards, people in peacetime also have enough time to do some of their favorite sports, because of this, the sports industry is strong, more and more countries have begun to improve their sports career, select outstanding athletes to participate in the Olympic Games, and win glory for the country.
To this day, the living allowance of athletes is also more and more generous, but in the early years, many retired athletes had to choose to give up the road of sports after receiving honors for the country due to physical functions.
However, due to the imperfection of the relevant policies at that time, some athletes did not get good treatment after retirement, and because of the accumulation of fatigue during training, their life after retirement was not satisfactory.
As the 1990 national weightlifting champion, Zou Chunlan did not get the help of the corresponding policies after retiring, resulting in her still running for her life after winning the honor of national championship.
Zou Chunlan was born in 1971, at that time, many families were not rich, and many children were forced to live, so that Zou Chunlan, who was only 14 years old, began to drop out of school at home like most children at that time.
In order to subsidize the family and help the family reduce the burden, 14-year-old Zou Chunlan began to work.
Because of no knowledge and no craftsmanship that he is good at, 14-year-old Zou Chunlan could not find a suitable job, so Zou Chunlan, who went out for many days, did not find a suitable job for himself, but fortunately, there was no invincible road, and he finally entered the weightlifting team in Jilin Province.
When Zou Chunlan entered the weightlifting team, she did not want to win glory for the country and achieve honors, the reason why she signed up was simply to no longer have to sleep on the street, to be able to fill her stomach, and there was a certain training subsidy every month.
But fortunately, Zou Chunlan was born in a rural family in the northeast, and from an early age, he followed his parents to the field to do farm work, and his physical strength was still very good, and he successfully passed the selection of the team at that time, became a member of the weightlifting team in Jilin Province, and began a long and boring training.
Zou Chunlan, who has the heart to plant flowers and flowers, has no intention of planting willows and willows, and enters the weightlifting team by mistake, showing her talent from the beginning of training, and because she has lived a hard life since she was a child, for a long time, Zou Chunlan is very able to bear hardships, and the grievances and hardships she suffered in training have been borne.
After waiting for two years, Zou Chunlan had become the main member of the weightlifting team at that time, and began to follow the weightlifting team to participate in weightlifting competitions, and since 1987, Zou Chunlan has participated in competitions organized by various organizations.
Since the first weightlifting competition, Zou Chunlan has shown her talent and won countless medals.
The most famous was the 1990 National Weightlifting Competition, in which Zou Chunlan stood out and won the National Weightlifting Championship that year and broke the world record at the time.
Until 1993, Zou Chunlan participated in many competitions before and after, and won a total of 9 medals of his own, but due to the accumulation of labor and illness for many years, the golden period belonging to Zou Chunlan finally ended, and he was finally defeated in the 1993 competition and did not win medals, which was also the first time zou Chunlan did not have a medal.
It was also from this game that Zou Chunlan finally bid farewell to his weightlifting career due to injury, and the weightlifting team also found that Zou Chunlan's body was no longer suitable for the game, so in the same year, Zou Chunlan announced his retirement and ended his weightlifting career.
After retiring from the army, Zou Chunlan also had many injuries in her body due to years of training, resulting in her inability to do physical work for a long time, but because she had no knowledge, so many years of time were spent on weightlifting, which eventually led to Zou Chunlan not being able to find a job and no financial resources.
But fortunately, with the help of colleagues, Zou Chunlan finally got a miscellaneous job in the canteen of the sports team, although the income was very small, but she no longer had to worry about life, and the former national champion fell to the point of doing miscellaneous work in the canteen.
And this job is done for seven years, seven years Zou Chunlan has been working in the canteen of the sports team, during which the relevant departments have not issued any relevant policies to help her, but she has never thought of fighting for a due return for herself.
For the past seven years, Zou Chunlan has been like this every day, working in the canteen every day, which is the place she wants to come to most after training.
Now it has become a place where she works, and the cheers and cheers that once played on the field have all turned into dishes and rags.
In 2000, she began to implement competition for posts, and she wanted to participate in the competition if she wanted to get the corresponding position, but zou Chunlan had no culture at that time, and because of the heavy training that caused her to be exhausted, the competition eventually failed, and Zou Chunlan also lost the only job that she had contact with the sports team.
When she left the sports team, Zou Chunlan received a living allowance of 75,000 yuan at that time, which was a one-time subsidy, that is to say, Zou Chunlan's time spent so many years in the sports team training and working in the canteen was finally changed to 75,000 yuan.
Similarly, the many honors won by Zou Chunlan can only be placed at home as memories, and these honors can only be left behind and begin to meet the hardships of life.
After being unemployed again, Zou Chunlan fell into a dilemma, and she also found herself as if she had derailed from society for a long time, with a subsidy of 75,000 yuan, Zou Chunlan tried a variety of industries, whether it was stalls or selling fruits, etc. As long as it was a business that could make money, Zou Chunlan had tried.
But the opposite happened, Zou Chunlan, who had no business acumen, ended in failure, and the subsidies in his hands were gradually exhausted, but fortunately, Zou Chunlan was already married at that time, and her husband was a boiler burner in a local bathhouse, and under his introduction, Zou Chunlan became a bather in the women's bathhouse.
The pressure of life over the years has long exhausted Zou Chunlan's pride in becoming a world champion, and every late night in her dreams, there will no longer be applause on the field, and all that remains is the bitterness of life and the helplessness of facing the injustice of fate.
Therefore, after her husband introduced herself to this job, Zou Chunlan did not resist, on the contrary, after entering the bathhouse, she rarely talked to the guests, most of the time was silent, and only wanted to receive a few more guests every day, trying to earn as much money as possible, so that she could improve her life with her husband.
But fortunately, fate has not been teasing her, although Zou Chunlan rarely chats with guests and never tells others about her identity, but in the end she was recognized by a guest and was very sympathetic to Zou Chunlan's living conditions today, and finally decided to help her after learning about Zou Chunlan's experience.
Soon, Zou Chunlan's deeds spread in the society, Zou Chunlan's life experience also made many people sigh, more and more people began to call on the relevant departments to give Zou Chunlan the subsidies she deserves, and the former national champion should never be what it is now.
The power of the people is strong, and after learning of Zou Chunlan's deeds, the relevant work departments quickly contacted her, and after determining her identity, they began to apply for corresponding subsidies.
It is precisely because of the sensation caused by Zou Chunlan's incident in the society at that time that some retired athletes who had similar experiences with Zou Chunlan also began to submit information to the relevant departments and seek help.
Finally, with the help of the Beijing Women's Federation, in order to help Zou Chunlan completely change the status quo of life, after some discussion, decided to help her open a laundromat, and finally under the attention of social personnel, Zou Chunlan finally quit her profession as a bather and started running her own laundry.
Shortly after the opening of the laundromat, many people went to consume after learning the location of Zou Chunlan's storefront, and she knew that this opportunity was not easy to come by, and she also did her best to serve as much as possible, and over time, with excellent reputation and the care of surrounding residents, Zou Chunlan's laundry business was also becoming more and more prosperous.
And after receiving help from the community, Zou Chunlan also knows that she can have today, all by relying on everyone's help, so although Zou Chunlan has no knowledge, she knows the grace of dripping water, and when the spring repays the disaster in the country, she has done her part.
As the business of the laundromat is getting better and better, Zou Chunlan's life is finally guaranteed, and she no longer has to bow her head for life, although Zou Chunlan did not soar because of this opportunity, but she was very satisfied to have this treatment, and for Zou Chunlan, the only regret is that she does not have her own flesh and bones.
Zou Chunlan's husband has always been called "Lao Zhou" by her, before he met Zou Chunlan, Lao Zhou was still a monk in the temple, after recognizing Zou Chunlan, Lao Zhou finally chose to return to the vulgar because he was moved.
Soon after the old Zhou was still vulgar, the two finally walked into the palace of marriage hand in hand, for many years, even if life was hard, the two people never wanted to be separated, in Zou Chunlan's heart, her husband was deeply in love with himself, although his body was not good, his husband still never abandoned himself.
But Zou Chunlan has always felt guilty about her husband, the reason is because she has not been able to give birth to a son and a half daughter for her husband for more than ten years.
When he went to the hospital for examination, the doctor told Zou Chunlan that he had taken too much cholesterol when he had trained, resulting in too high male hormones in his body, and it turned out that when he was training in the physical team, due to the poor living standard at that time, the athletes could not get sufficient nutritional supplements, and could only rely on taking drugs to increase muscle content.
Over time, it led to too much male hormone in Zou Chunlan's body, and the male characteristics of the body developed more obviously, and eventually she could not get pregnant due to side effects.
Recently, the movie "Beyond" starring Zheng Kai has also been released on the screen, and the theme of the movie is based on retired athletes as the background, sweating on the track every day, and dare not eat their favorite food for their own body fat rate.
In the end, due to age problems, the protagonist's physical function declined, he lost the ability to participate in competitions, and he also fell from an Asian champion to a shoe seller, and eventually because of his poor management, he lost his family, from having everything in the past to finally having nothing.
But fortunately, the ending of the movie is beautiful, in order to help the young generation of athletes regain their confidence in the arena, for the dream in their hearts, the protagonist finally regained the enthusiasm of life and put the honor in his heart.
With the progress of the country, the living standards of athletes are getting better and better, in order to make athletes not worry about life, in the face of the problem of athlete retirement, the relevant policies are becoming more and more perfect, in order to solve the worries of these athletes, the relevant departments are also doing their best to ensure the retirement life of athletes.
Zou Chunlan's life is full of twists and turns, she is also one of the many athlete representatives of that era like her, and they finally have to bow to life when they are not born at the right time, but it is not that they should have that kind of life, but the sadness of that era, the sadness of being an athlete at that time.
But the life of the past has become a thing of the past, a better tomorrow is coming step by step, and the development of the sports industry is becoming more and more rapid.
Just recently, the Olympic Games held in Tokyo, Japan, are in full swing, and we must believe that Chinese athletes will achieve excellent results.