"On August 13, 2008, 18,000 spectators in National Stadium cheered and applauded thunderously. A 20-year-old girl started to cheer after performing free exercises. The Chinese team won the gold medal in the women's gymnastics team for the first time in the Olympics. The finale was Cheng Fei ."
When it comes to Cheng Fei, what did you think of first? Is it her amazing titles of "Cheng Fei Jump" and "Vault Queen", or the rumored online that no one married after becoming fat, or the paid training class was opened after retirement. Next, let's review the experience of this former Chinese women's gymnastics captain Cheng Fei.
Cheng Fei was born on May 29, 1988 in Huangshi Port District, Huangshi City, Hubei Province. Although she has retired for 9 years, she is actually only 33 years old this year. This is the common situation of gymnasts . She was very young when she achieved results and was already a veteran after she was in her 20s. Cheng Fei has devoted her 18 years of youth to the gymnastics career she loves from accidentally embarking on the road to becoming an Olympic champion and her regretful retirement.
From table tennis to gymnastics;
Cheng Fei’s physical exercise mainly comes from her father. As a "school child" who has practiced martial arts, Cheng Fei arranged a series of sports paths for her when she was a child, which not only strengthens her body, but also has the opportunity to stand out.
At first, her father chose a sport for Xiao Chengfei to be table tennis. When Cheng Fei was 3 years old, she started practicing table tennis under her father's arrangement.
Xiao Chengfei has not been in the table tennis event for a long time, and the turning point occurs 3 years later. At that time, the coach of the sports school called Cheng Fei's father and said that Cheng Fei was not suitable for playing table tennis, but because Cheng Fei's body flexibility and balance were very good, he recommended his daughter to develop in gymnastics.
The span from table tennis to gymnastics is very large. After asking about her daughter who was only 6 years old at the time, Cheng's father decided to let her try it.
995, 7-year-old Cheng Fei officially transferred from table tennis to gymnastics and studied under Coach Ke Jin.
years to jump into the national team;
Cheng Fei, who transferred to gymnastics, trained hard and hard, and also showed his full talent.
995-1997 after his career as amateur sports school in Wuhan, Cheng Fei entered Wuhan Sports College and met his mentor and coach Zhao Hanhua.
It is precisely because Zhao Hanhua discovered Cheng Fei's talent and tapped Cheng Fei's potential that she became a formal sports student at the age of 9.
Of course, after the platform was improved, Cheng Fei's athletic talent completely exploded. Under the training of coach Zhao Hanhua, he joined the Hubei Provincial Team in 1999 and the national team in 2001. It took less than two years for Cheng Fei to go from the provincial team to the national team.
China's first women's vaulting horse world champion + Cheng Fei jump;
After entering the national team, Cheng Fei studied under the guidance of Lu Shanzhen . Director Lu is known as a meritorious coach of Chinese women's gymnastics. He has served as the head coach of Chinese gymnastics women's team for a long time, and has trained eight world champions for Chinese women's gymnastics.
Under the guidance of Lu Shanzhen, Cheng Fei's progress is obvious to all.
At the 2003 Asian Championships, 15-year-old Cheng Fei got a chance to play. His years of training accumulation was revealed at this moment. In this championship, Cheng Fei, who was not yet adult, won two gold medals: vaulting horse and women freely played . Such good results as
gave her the chance to participate in the Athens Olympics a year later. In this Olympics, Cheng Fei did not win a medal in the Free Gymnastics event. Since then, the coaching staff decided to let her specialize in vaulting horses, which also started the "Voust Queen"'s crazy gold-winning road.
The world-famous " Cheng Fei Jump "
You may not have imagined that "Cheng Fei Jump" named after Cheng Fei started with failure.
At that time, she made a mistake in the 2005 East Asian Games women's vault final and won the silver medal. However, soon, at the 38th World Gymnastics Championships held in the same year, Cheng Fei perfectly performed the "Star Back Hand Flip 180º-Straight Body Front Flip Rotary 540º". This action allowed Cheng Fei to win the World Championships and become China's first female vaulting world champion. He was also named after her, which is "Cheng Fei Jump", which amazed the world.
007, when she was the captain of the Chinese women's gymnastics team, during which she achieved the great achievement of three consecutive vaulting horses in the World Championships. The highly anticipated 008 Beijing Olympics , Cheng Fei and Deng Linlin and others defeated the US team with 188.900 points on behalf of the Chinese team, winning the first women's team Olympic gold medal in the history of Chinese gymnastics, creating history.
Unfortunately, in the finals of the vaulting horse and balance beam of the Beijing Olympics, Cheng Fei made mistakes and won 2 bronze medals in the individual competition. The Beijing Olympics ended with 1 gold and 2 bronze. However, at the end of the year, Cheng Fei won the vaulting champion and proved himself.
retired due to injury;
After 2009, Cheng Fei was affected by injuries and his condition declined. Although he often participated in the competition and had good results, his peak period was no longer there.
Finally, before London Olympics started, Cheng Fei was undergoing a free exercise movement training, and suffered a major injury. Under the advice of Lu Shanzhen, the 25-year-old Cheng Fei chose to end her glorious career and announced her official retirement.
Practicing gymnastics hard for 18 years. For Cheng Fei, changing his identity is not that easy, but officially leaving the arena, Cheng Fei also started a new life.
Obesity after retirement caused controversy;
After retiring in 2012, Cheng Fei began to serve as an assistant coach of the national team. During this period, she continued to study. In 2013, Cheng Fei graduated from her alma mater, Wuhan Sports University, and chose to stay at school to teach and became a teacher.
Cheng Fei often appeared in the news in the later period and topics such as "obesity", "no one dares to marry", "Olympic champion becomes an aunt". In 2015, Cheng Fei and his mentor Lu Shanzhen appeared on the program " Lu Yu has a date " at the time. Cheng Fei, who was only 27 years old, had already gained weight.
At that time, there were many attacks on her appearance and figure, which once attracted the attention of many people. Cheng Fei, who was accused of being very young, was a "fat aunt". Everyone thought more about the negative things such as undisciplined after the athletes retired.
Cheng Fei later spoke out, saying that she regretted participating in this program because after the broadcast of this program, the voices and doubts from the outside world brought huge interference to her life, and she even once had self-doubt.
The reason for gaining weight is sad;
It should be noted that obesity after retirement is not because of Cheng Fei's lack of self-discipline, but because he was injured when he was young. Because he was an athlete, many drugs cannot be used because there are prohibited ingredients in it, so it is maintained by hormone drugs. Hormone drugs will cause weight gain. This can be referred to Ronaldo of football. After retirement, he changed from Daluo to fatty.
So Cheng Fei's weight gain has a certain relationship with not being as self-disciplined as athletes after retirement, but it is more because athletes treat injuries and use hormones, etc.
Love life;
In fact, Cheng Fei has lost a lot now. She once said in an interview that she can swim frequently, which is also very helpful for weight loss.
However, from the current point of view, Cheng Fei is still unwilling to talk too much about her love life. As for the outside world, Cheng Fei is still single in her 30s, this has not been confirmed by her. They are all remarks in the interview with "Lu Yu You Appointment" many years ago. Cheng Fei is now very different from the girl who has not had enough social experience after retirement.
"Happy Gymnastics" class was opened;
In 2018, Cheng Fei opened a paid training class and was reported by many media. Unlike many star training classes with sky-high tuition fees, Cheng Fei, as the champion of the World Championships and Olympics, she opened a paid training class, and the fee for one class was 88 yuan.
In fact, after deciding to retire, Cheng Fei has many choices. He can go abroad to be a coach, or stay in the national team to coach or work in the Sports Bureau. Bo Cheng Fei finally chose to return to her alma mater and start her "Happy Gymnastics" program.
Cheng Fei admitted in an interview that this idea was not a whim, because in the competitions over the years, he could always feel a clear difference, that is, foreign players are mostly active choices for gymnastics. Although they will cry due to pressure or failure in the game, they can immediately adjust themselves and devote themselves to new practice after crying.
Cheng Fei said: "We have a heavy burden, we know what failure means. Gymnastics and even all sports should be happy, and can make all ordinary people participate and empathize. She doesn't want her to see only technology in the future."
So, after Cheng Fei retired, she decided to launch "Happy Gymnastics"
Teammates have a place to display their talents;
launches "Happy Gymnastics", which requires professional teachers, but Cheng Fei alone cannot complete it. For this reason, Cheng Fei thought of some of his teammates in his gymnastics career. The classmates who trained in the sports academy at the same time as her, and only a few of them are still engaged in gymnastics career. Due to the system, discomfort and other reasons, they changed their careers.
Cheng Fei communicated with these former teammates, allowing them to regain their unique skills and apply them to "happy gymnastics", which also gives these retired gymnasts, some graduates from amateur sports schools, and college students majoring in gymnastics.
"Happy Gymnastics" is very popular;
Cheng Fei's "Happy Gymnastics" training class is expected to recruit 9 children in the initial experience class. In more than a year, more than 100 children have come one after another. The children like Cheng Fei's "happy gymnastics" very much, and the scale gradually expanded in the later period.
In order to make children fall in love with gymnastics, Cheng Fei went to the United States and Canada to study, and then combined it with our domestic environment and children, teach students according to their aptitude, and applied "happy gymnastics".
When interviewed, Cheng Fei said that it was not easy at the beginning, because in people's deep-rooted thoughts, they believed that gymnastics was not learned by ordinary people, and they even worried that too much exercise would affect the child's health and growth. But in fact, it is not possible at all. Ordinary children's learning cannot reach a fraction of the professional exercise volume. As sports training becomes more and more scientific, it will emphasize that training in a more scientific and correct way, the impact on the body has gradually decreased.
Later, Cheng Fei also invited many parents to participate, because ordinary people practice gymnastics are helpful for rapid response ability, physical coordination, and nerve sensitivity, and can also improve the lumbar muscles. Cheng Fei also admitted that he would also consider opening an adult class in the future.
Cherish the present and enjoy the present;
Cheng Fei loves her career very much. She said: "For me, it is more meaningful to train 1,000 children to like gymnastics than to cultivate a champion."
"Now I feel that there is not enough time every day. I come to the sports school to teach in the morning, go to Hankou for physical recovery in the afternoon, and go to to take a shower and sleep when I get home."
"Everything has just begun."
This is Cheng Fei. She is a landmark athlete in China's gymnastics. Her career has peaks and troughs. She was questioned and criticized after retiring. But she lives out and gives everything for the career she loves. I wish Cheng Fei all the best in the future.
