"The photo behind me shows the moment when the Chinese women's volleyball team won the championship at the Athens Olympic Games and stood on the highest podium. In that game, China defeated Russia 3:2 and achieved a stunning reversal..."
"Zhang Na, if you talk a little more about the Athens Olympics, you are also the protagonist of that game!"
"Athens Olympics, Zhang Na, you have made a great contribution."
"Zhang Na, don't move, I'll take a picture of you and this photo."
In that big group photo, the women's volleyball girls lined up in a row, winning glory for the country is their constant belief, and the national flag in their hands is the eternal backing of the girls. "I found it, is this person on the far right you?" A little girl tiptoed up and pointed to the photo and asked. Zhang Na smiled and touched the little girl's head and made an affirmative expression. On the far right of the big group photo, the player Zhang Na wore an olive branch and smiled like a flower, and outside the big group photo, the docent Zhang Na looked at her former self and was silent for a moment, which is a volleyball player who has a dialogue with himself after 16 years.
Player Zhang Na
Although Zhang Na is 1.80 meters tall, her flexible running position gives her a large defensive area, and the first pass rate is as high as 90%. In addition, Zhang Na is comprehensive in technology, very good at high-difficulty rescue, and has been given the title of "immortal bird" by fans. He contributed numerous fish leaps at the Athens Olympic Games and was named the best pass in this tournament.
After the Athens Olympics, a new Olympic cycle followed – the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Stepping onto the Olympic stage in one's own country is the lifelong pursuit of every professional athlete. The footsteps of the Beijing Olympics are coming day by day, but fate is joking with Zhang Na at this time.
In a training class in April 2007, Zhang Na suddenly felt pain in her neck and left shoulder, but she insisted on completing the morning training session. In the afternoon, the aggravation of the illness made Zhang Na's left arm in a semi-numb state, and she could not complete the training, so she went to the hospital under the guidance of the coach, and the doctor immediately put on a neck cover for Zhang Na. "When I got to the hospital, the doctor told me you couldn't leave, you had to stay in the hospital, and you couldn't continue training, and I thought, 'It's over.'"
At that time, less than a year and a half before the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, in order to be able to enter the Olympic arena, Zhang Na chose conservative treatment. Half a year had passed, and Zhang Na on the hospital bed was anxious, but the treatment effect was not satisfactory. According to the diagnosis of the condition, Zhang Na had a shoulder disc herniation in the fourth and fifth segments of the cervical intervertebral disc at that time, compressing the nerves, and the situation was very urgent, and there was also a risk of high paraplegia consequences when she did surgery.
In October 2007, Zhang Na underwent artificial cervical disc replacement surgery, "In fact, what I thought was very simple, that is, I wanted to accompany my teammates to the Beijing Olympic Games. After a hard struggle, Zhang Na returned to the national team on February 1, 2008, when Zhang Na had been away from the team for 10 months of treatment, and only half a year before the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.
One section of the exhibition also tells the story of Zhang Na who was injured until she returned to the team after recovering from injury, in an old photo, Zhang Na wearing a hospital gown, gauze around her neck, but a volleyball in her hand is doing a cushion ball action. "That picture was my third day after surgery, but I hadn't been trained for more than half a year, so I found a volleyball and did some simple training moves by myself after the operation."
"Your wish has finally come true."
"Yes! Done! Not only did I come to the Beijing Olympics with my teammates, I also played in the competition. The Chinese women's volleyball team won the bronze medal in that tournament, and I also won the best defensive award. ”
Explainer Zhang Na
"In fact, in this explanation and a lot of interviews, I don't really want to talk about myself. The Chinese women's volleyball team is a whole, and there are a lot of stories in our exhibition hall, from the women's volleyball predecessors in the five consecutive championships to the re-emergence of the 2003 World Cup and the Athens Olympic Games until now, some of which are widely known, and some are revealed to the outside world for the first time. ”
Zhang Na's work as a volunteer docent in this exhibition is not only responsible for her own interpretation part, but also needs to guide the rest of the docents on the spot. After completing the morning's explanation work, Zhang Na's voice was already hoarse.
"Although Coach Zhang Rongfang is pregnant, as the head coach of the Chinese women's volleyball team, she still wears on the team to lead the team to win the 1986 World Championship; in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, my sister (Lai Yawen) came to Athens with us as an assistant coach, and when everyone rushed to the field when the final champion was won, the sister stood on the sidelines and cried, we ran over to hug her, she told us that she was pregnant, and after the birth of the child, the sister gave the child a nickname Dian Dian My teammate Zhao Ruirui fractured her calf on the eve of the Athens Olympics, the team lacked her high point defense, which will suddenly increase the defensive pressure on our back row players, and she also came to Athens with us after experiencing a painful recovery cycle, and now Zhao Ruirui still has a steel plate in her calf bone..."
When explaining that the Athens Olympic Games were watched and grouped together, Zhang Na was a little shy, and when recalling her neck injury, Zhang Na was slightly hesitant. But when talking about seniors, coaches and teammates, Zhang Na talked about it, deep in love, and her eyes were moist. In the explanation work, Zhang Na was emotional and her voice was loud, and she was eager to let the people who watched the exhibition experience what they knew, saw and felt. The continuous applause at the scene and the long queue at the signing party have long proved the success of Zhang Na's one-day volunteer docent.
Volleyball player Zhang Na
After retiring in 2008, Zhang Na devoted herself to education and in 2019 came to the China Volleyball Academy (the Chinese Volleyball Association and Tianjin Sports University cooperated to build the Volleyball Academy of the Chinese Volleyball Association) as the vice president. The China Volleyball Academy is also one of the organizers of the "National Glory - Chinese Women's Volleyball Spirit Exhibition".
Zhang Na has made great contributions to the theme design, scene layout and collection of exhibits in this exhibition, and many of Zhang Na's own personal items and medals can be seen in the venue. In the "Motherland First" section of the exhibition hall, there is a section that mainly introduces the small story of the Chinese women's volleyball team's five consecutive championship period, and when standing in front of the introduction exhibition board that won the championship for the first time in 1981, you will hear the live commentary of Song Shixiong's game that sounded above the venue, which instantly brings people's feelings back to 30 years ago, which is an immersive experience. "Is it creative, this is my design." Zhang Na said with some pride and some pride.
The overhead recording is just one of the small details, in fact, every exhibit, every photo, and every passage in the exhibition area, Zhang Na has looked at them one by one. Zhang Na and other staff members even stayed up in the exhibition hall many days before the launch, picking up lights and fighting at night. And Zhang Na's work attitude and personal charm also let her gain a lot of fans, "I now especially admire our Dean Zhang Na, after these days of contact with the exhibition, I found that Zhang Nayuan Dean is really a very good person, her organizational ability, the seriousness of the work is worth learning, and the treatment of our students is also very meticulous, very patient." After the volunteer work was over, the first thing I did when I returned to school was to watch all the videos of Dean Zhang Na's previous competitions. Volunteer Xu Xiaohan said.
In the past 40 years, the face of the Chinese women's volleyball team has changed, and the spirit of the women's volleyball team has lasted for a long time and has been passed down from generation to generation. The spirit of the women's volleyball team is the spirit of struggle, which is integrated into the five-star red flag and into the blood of the Chinese women's volleyball team. In the process of explaining, Zhang Na constantly conveyed the spiritual core of the Chinese women's volleyball team to the audience, and she herself is the best epitome of the spirit of the Chinese women's volleyball team.