Wang Liping once represented the Chinese team and won the gold medal in the women's 
0km walking competition at the Sydney Olympic Games ! Although it is small, the weight of this gold medal is not lower than any one, because this is the only track and field gold medal of the Chinese team in the Sydney Olympic Games!
Race walking is not a popular sport in the world, but there are also countless people fighting for it every year.
In 1976, Wang Liping was born in a rural area in , Fengcheng, , Liaoning Province. Due to her outstanding athletic talent since childhood, Wang Liping was always the proudest one every time the school held a sports meeting, because she always won the first place. In 1989, Wang Liping, who was only 13 years old, was elected by the sports school and started her racing career.
After joining the national team in 1997 and starting to compete in the World Series, Wang Liping has never been able to show the side of the world's top players. Before the 2000 Olympic Games, Wang Liping was not even in the main selection list. She had to pass the trials to qualify. Then in the three competitions, Wang Liping lived up to expectations and achieved the first place, and she also obtained the Olympic qualification as desired. !
But even so, before the game, she was not optimistic, because the absolute main force of the national team at this time was the 1999 World Cup and World Championship double champion Liu Hongyu.
However, the result of the race surprised many people. At the 14th kilometer, Liu Hongyu was sent off for being warned three times. Wang Liping, who was not showing off in the first half, accelerated and , and came to the third place. Location. Shortly after
, Italian player Palong also accelerated his pace under the pressure brought by Wang Liping and ushered in the third red card warning.Faced with the life and death judgment of referee , the Italian players were not convinced and insisted on challenging the rules to continue the game, but were finally persuaded to leave the venue by the staff.
At this time, Wang Liping has come to the second position. She tried to speed up and surpassed, but was unsuccessful, and received a second yellow card warning. The first host, Sydney player, also had two yellow cards. At this time, it became a stalemate between the two of them. Wang Liping did not dare to accelerate any more, and could only follow steadily behind her opponent.
The Sydney players looked at the approaching main stadium, and with their home field advantage, they celebrated early. At this time, many viewers found that her actions had been seriously violated, and she seemed to have won the gold medal. However, the referee ruthlessly showed her a third red card, and she had to withdraw from the game before entering the main arena.
Therefore, the first place of big screen big screen broadcast is not the same as the first place that came in. When the audience saw the Chinese contestants who came in, there was no response. Even after Wang Liping crossed the finish line first, she was not the one who was waiting for the champion 's camera to aim at her. No one cheered at the scene, and there was no Chinese team staff. There were no reporters, only one translator excitedly ran to the fence to hug her.
Wang Liping asked the translator if she had a national flag, but the translator told her that she did not. At this time, the coaches of the Chinese team were all outside the court, so it was too late to send her the national flag. So she could only go around the field with her bare hands. Because there was no national flag in hand, the atmosphere at the scene was not warm at all, and Wang Liping's tears after her victory seemed a little sour at this time.
More importantly, at that time, more than 20 gold medals had been awarded in track and field events, and Wang Liping was the only champion who did not have the national flag on her body after winning the championship.After many years, when Wang Liping mentioned the moment of winning the Olympic Games, she also bluntly said that it was her biggest regret that she did not find the national flag after winning the gold medal.
This 24-year-old girl, with her stable performance, won the only Olympic gold medal in track and field for the Chinese team in this Olympic Games! She also used this gold medal to prove her strength and the strength of the Chinese people in the event of race walking. She will always be the champion in our hearts!
