Family and career can't have it both ways, really? Wrong. On July 27, pang Wei, a 35-year-old "old gun" of the Chinese team, and Jiang Ranxin, a little girl after 00, played well in the Tokyo Olympic shooting men's and women's 10-meter air pistol mixed team finals, defeating the Russian Olympic team 16:14 and winning the 7th gold for the Chinese delegation.
Before the Tokyo Olympics, Pang Wei was already a coach, because the Chinese shooting team needed to fix the sea god needle, and Pang Wei changed from coaching to athlete status. Pang Wei, as the big brother in the team, led a group of fledgling young people to the Tokyo Olympics, and the pressure can be imagined. On the first and second day of the Tokyo Olympics, the Chinese team won consecutive bronze medals in the men's and women's 10m air pistol individual competitions, and it was Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin who won the bronze medals. The men's and women's 10m air pistol mixed team competition is the original creation of the Tokyo Olympics, and it is also the first time in the Olympic Games, Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin have created history, and Pang Wei has realized his long-cherished wish. 35-year-old "old gun" Pang Wei can finally return to the family with "mixed gold"!
Pang Wei and Du Li, who is also a "sharpshooter", are known as the "Divine Eagle Woman" on the shooting range. As the first Olympic champion couple in the history of new Chinese sports, Pang Wei and Du Li want both career success and family happiness.
Du Li's career is successful. As early as the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Du Li won the first gold medal for the Chinese team, which was the most glorious moment of Du Li's sports career. After the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Du Li chose to retire as a rifle coach of the national shooting team, and Yang Qian, who won the first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games, is Du Li's proud disciple, which is Du Li's highlight moment as a coach. Whether as an athlete or a coach, Du Li is very successful.
Pang Wei's career was also successful. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the 22-year-old Pang Wei won the championship, making a good start for his sports career; in the 2020 (2021) Tokyo Olympic Games, the 35-year-old Pang Wei joined hands with Jiang Ranxin, a post-00s generation, to win the championship in history, drawing a successful end to his sports career. If Pang Wei continues his coaching career, I believe that Pang Wei will be able to succeed. Isn't this gold medal of Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin also the success of Pang Wei as a coach, as a big brother leading disciples and leading newcomers?
"We're not just athletes, coaches, fathers and mothers, so we still need to measure something." When it comes to plans after the Tokyo Olympics, Pang Wei's language is very straightforward. Pang Wei should be a good father and Du Li a good mother, which should be the common choice of Pang Wei and Du Li. No matter what work Pang Wei and Du Li do in the future, we believe that their families are very happy, and we all believe that they can achieve a double harvest of career and family. Who says loyalty and filial piety can't have both? Pang Wei and Du Li have, are and continue to set an example for the world. (Mao Kaiyun)