At the Tokyo Olympics, China achieved very good results. Chinese people all over the world cheer for it and are happy for it. And just 20 or 30 years ago, my country's sports road was still so difficult.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympics, after winning the championship, a Chinese athlete could only cry in silence. No one cheered for her, and no one gave him a national flag.
She is known as one of the loneliest Olympic champions. She is Wang Liping
What kind of story is behind her?
Accumulate and develop
In 1976, Wang Liping was born in the countryside of Fengcheng City. Her family life is very poor. My mother was just a pristine farmer, while my father made money in a factory. The family can barely make ends meet.
In that era, in that family, Wang Liping's fate seemed to have been arranged. Go to school casually, and then find a man to marry, have a child, and teach each other.
But fate gave this girl a different talent. Since childhood, Wang Liping's athletic talent has been different from ordinary people. In the big and small competitions organized by the school, Wang Liping is always the first place.
Gradually, her edge is already a mediocre background that cannot be concealed. The sports school in Fengcheng City has a big eye for this girl among many athletes.
Since then, this girl has changed her life.
In the beginning, Wang Liping learned to run, because in the race walking project, our country was very weak at that time.
Wang Liping switched to walking. Because of the outstanding talent in sports school and the ability to endure hardship. Soon it was recognized by the coaches of the sports school.
In the second year after entering the sports school, the coach of the sports school recommended her to Wang Kui, a famous coach in the Chinese race walking industry.
Wang Kui looked at this thin and thin girl and was also murmured in his heart.I don't know if this girl can do it.
However, Wang Liping was eager to win the eyes and moved Wang Kui. Wang Kui decided to keep her, and Wang Liping was immediately transferred to the Liaoning team.
Wang Liping looked at the sportswear and sneakers the coach gave him. He secretly vowed to succeed, become the pride of coaches, become the pride of the motherland, and become the pride of the family.
After arriving in the provincial team, the amount of training has been greatly increased. It's a pity that Wang Liping has a poor stomach since she was little. After a lot of training, she would vomit.
When she vomited the yellow bile, the coach felt sorry for him and let her rest. But Wang Liping looked at the hard-working sisters Chen Yueling , Wang Yan, Liu Hongyu, etc., panicked, afraid that she would be behind.
Wang Liping refused to rest, so she vomited and vomited. The body remembered this amount of training, and gradually stopped vomiting.
As we all know, race walking can hurt your knees. Wang Liping could not escape this fate. At the beginning, I could barely train, but my condition got worse and worse. In the end, it was very difficult to even get out of bed and walk.
Doctor said that Wang Liping must give up walking immediately, otherwise he may suffer from disability.
In desperation, Wang Liping can only return to her hometown and start her own path of treatment.
Wang Liping, who is resting at home, often wonders, is this way over for her race walking? Do you want to bow your head to fate? After finally getting through to today, if you give up willingly?
The more you think like this, the more Wang Liping can't sit still. After only two months of rest, Wang Liping decided to return to the game.
Even if opposed by doctors and parents, it can't stop Wang Liping's determination to pursue her dream.
Wang Liping stood on the training ground again.
Kung fu pays off, Wang Liping defeated the disease and miraculously improved her race walking performance.
In 1997,Wang Liping was selected into the national team to prepare for the Asian Games. The national team can be said to be the ceiling of our country’s athletes. Naturally, it is full of talents.
Although Wang Liping said that the talent is good, how many poor talents can get in?
In addition, her knee has always been a hidden danger, so Wang Liping has been mediocre in the national team, not prominent at all.
But she didn't give up, still training hard.
Although I can't get the first place result, it won't be much worse.
In 1998, Wang Liping won third place. In 1999, when he played against his senior sisters and younger sisters, he still won the second place.
There are still many competitions during the period, and Wang Liping's results are very good.
And her highlight moment was at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Olympic selection
In order to be eligible to participate in the Olympics, Wang Liping worked very hard during the selection period and won the first place.
It's a pity that her knee suffered another illness due to overtraining. For this reason, the coach specially drove Wang Liping's specialist doctor from Harbin to treat her.
After several days of treatment, Wang Liping's knees have miraculously improved a lot.
Although Wang Liping's performance during the selection period was good, but because of a knee injury, the performance of her senior sister Liu Hongyu was still quite different.
Actually, Liu Hongyu's results have always been the first place in the team, and he can get rid of Wang Liping.
Although they have all won tickets to the Olympics, more people place their hopes on Liu Hongyu.
Wang Liping For the coaches in the team, it is good to be able to win medals.But it doesn't matter if you don't take a medal.
But no one thought that Wang Liping, who was unknown, won the championship.
Olympic venue
Soon it came to the day of the race walking competition.
The gunfire at the start of the game has started. Liu Hongyu lived up to expectations and succeeded in seizing the front position.
Wang Liping followed closely behind Liu Hongyu. The two have been walking in the first echelon, and the coaches and players are very nervous at the moment.
Race walking has always been a relatively easy project to foul. A little carelessness will result in a foul. In the Olympics, when athletes show signs of violating race walking technique, they will be given a yellow card.
If the athlete shows a naked eye or knee bends, the referee will give a red card to the referee
When the referee receives three red cards from different referees from a certain athlete, then The athlete was disqualified from the competition.
Because Liu Hongyu has been rushing in front, the referee's eyes are naturally staring at her.
In addition, there are too many people expecting Liu Hongyu to be crowned. She wants to win too much and has been rushing forward. It is inevitable that there will be violations during the period.
At this moment, Liu Hongyu has been punished with two red cards, as long as there is a little mistake, it means that he will end directly.
Wang Liping still followed closely, everyone focused on Liu Hongyu, and they had forgotten Wang Liping.
is not only the coach, the spectators, other players and referees, so although Wang Liping has been in the first echelon, she was not penalized.
Liu Hongyu was sent off when he was 4 kilometers away from the finish line.
The loneliest Olympic champion
After seeing Liu Hongyu being sent off,The coaching staff was discouraged and felt that it should be hopeless to win the trophy this year.
packed up things early and prepared to leave, and Wang Liping, who was on the field at this moment, has been forgotten by everyone, and it can be said that there is no hope.
Because track and field has not been a game that Chinese people love to watch, and the reporter friends saw that the coaching staff had left, so they stopped waiting for the result and left the field.
Wang Liping in the game does not know that she has been "gone up". Still covering his head, running towards the finish line, running towards the medal.
Because Liu Hongyu has been sent off, the only Chinese player in front is Wang Liping. In addition, her mentality has changed a bit, so Wang Liping's actions are a bit deformed, and she was fined two yellow cards in a row.
In order to be able to insist on walking down, Wang Liping decided to fall behind a little bit so that she would not be stared at by the referee.
In this way, when it was about to end, Wang Liping decided to sprint. Because I deliberately slowed down in front of me, I accumulated strength.
soon caught up.
The more you have to stabilize your mentality at the last moment, there are two race walkers ahead of Wang Liping.
Because one of the Italian athletes had a broken mentality, her movements were slightly deformed. The sharp-eyed referee immediately noticed the clue and was sent off.
At this time, only Russian player Shalivi and our country’s Wang Liping are ahead. Both of them hung their hearts.
Both of them have two yellow cards, which means that there may be a small mistake, and the medals in front of them will be lost.
The Russian players clearly have an advantage over Wang Liping and have been suppressing Wang Liping.
Wang Liping looks a little weak,I thought it was over like this, but when approaching the finish line, the Russian player was sent off with a red card.
In this way, Wang Liping became the champion.
When she waved to the audience happily, Wang Liping realized that the coaching staff and our reporters had left.
She wanted to, like other champions, wearing a national flag, going around the field, proudly telling the world that she is Chinese.
It's a pity that no one handed her the national flag. She could only wave her hands around the field and watch the tears in her eyes, which was more or less heartbreaking.
At that time, more than 20 gold medals had been awarded in track and field events. Wang Liping was the only champion without a national flag after winning the championship!
The only Chinese translator outside the field rushed into the field, embraced the just-victorious Wang Liping, and sent his own blessings.
When I am successful and want to tell, but I find that no one can listen to the kind of loneliness, it must be a big blow to an athlete.
When the coaching staff heard the news and hurried back to the game, they had already missed the most glorious moment of Wang Liping.
Later, when facing an interview, I asked if there were any regrets.
Wang Liping said that her biggest regret was not being able to go around the stadium in a national flag.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Wang Liping's gold medal in the race walking was the only track and field team gold medal at that games.
Not being able to witness this moment in person is also a great regret for the coaching staff and reporters.
She is known as the loneliest Olympic champion. But in Wang Liping's eyes, it's not lonely, it's just a pity, after all, so many spectators in front of the TV witnessed the game.
this gold medal,It has always been controversial, because many people feel that if they are unlucky and those who compete with her for the gold medal are sent off, how can it be her turn?
But what I want to say is that luck never comes to the side of lazy and cowardly people.
Because Wang Liping worked hard enough to understand what is meant by keeping a low profile, Goddess of Luck came to her side.
Ashamed of her daughter
After that, Wang Liping got married and had children. When the 2004 Athens Olympics came, her child was only more than three months old. After careful consideration, Wang Liping decided to leave the child with her parents and husband to participate in this sports meeting by herself.
Wang Liping said in the interview: The decision to come back was made at that time, and the child was only three months old. But for the sake of my beloved race walking career and to win glory for the country, I decided to come back.
Due to production reasons, Wang Liping only got the 8th place in the Athens Olympics.
is far from enough for Wang Liping. In order to win the 2005 East Asian Games medal, she started crazy training.
Fortunately, this time I was preparing for the battle in Liaoning, so I could see my daughter and play with her for an hour every day. This is already very satisfying for Wang Liping.
For her own ideals, she can only wrong her daughter.
According to Wang Liping, her daughter never called her mother when she was young, but only called her grandma. In the daughter's mind, grandma is the closest person, and Wang Liping is like a stranger.
However, the final result can be worthy of the Wang Liping's family.
At the 2005 East Asian Games, Wang Liping won the gold medal, and her competitive state once again reached its peak.
I have only seen two sides of my daughter for two full years. Facing the immature voice on the phone on the phone,Wang Liping felt very guilty. Think she is not a qualified mother.
So the idea of retirement is getting stronger and stronger.
Retired life
Many people think that Wang Liping will continue to make her mark on the field in 2008, but Wang Liping suddenly chose to retire.
Because of long-term and high-intensity training, Wang Liping’s knees have reached the limit.
plus I have achieved my goal.
In the beginning, Wang Liping found a stable job in her hometown, but unfortunately she has been training for sports since she was a child. She lacks a lot of knowledge and ability. When facing work, she always feels more than enough but not enough.
So I decided to go to school for further study. At this time, I received an invitation from Beijing Sport University .
She decided to embark on the road to school.
My daughter was still entrusted to her parents and husband in Dalian to take care of her, but she came to Beijing alone and studied at Beijing Sport University to study sports education.
After finishing her studies, she chose to stay in school as a full-time coach for race walking events and also trained world champions such as Liang Rui.
Because she is an athlete, Wang Liping knows that the sports industry is ushering in a new wave of development. In addition, she has seen too many athletes failing to find a suitable job after graduation.
So she decided to open a sports company to provide a platform for athletes' employment.
Wang Liping is not only talented in sports, she is also very good in business.
Now she is an investor. She has established a sports investment fund with Olympic champion Xing Aowei and two other partners.Since then stepped into the sports capital world.
Now this investment involves multiple sports entrepreneurship projects.
During her career as an athlete, Wang Liping has cultivated the spirit of not being afraid of hardships, so she can face any difficulties she encounters in her work bravely.
The current Wang Liping can be said to be the winner of life.
Summary
Wang Liping is the epitome of countless athletes. He has paid too much for the sports industry in our country.
We should pay tribute to every athlete
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