On August 21, 1992, at the 25th Olympic Games in Barcelona, the gymnastics high and low pole event has come to an end. A petite figure from China has entered the final arena and is about to start her performance.
Her name is Lu Li , she has just turned sixteen. She started gymnastics training when she was five years old, and she has been training for eleven years.
At this time, the live media and judges are not optimistic about this young player. They are enthusiastically discussing the wonderful performance of Li Shenke, a gymnast from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
As a famous player in the gymnastics industry, Li Shenke demonstrated a very high level of professionalism at the Barcelona Games. In the gymnastics balance beam competition that just ended, he won the championship in one fell swoop and attracted the attention of the audience.
Although Lu Li performed well in the balance beam competition, scored 9.912 points , but only won the runner-up in the gymnastics balance beam competition. In the women’s gymnastics team competition at the Olympic Games, Lu Li only Reluctantly got fourth place and missed the podium.
Nowadays, when we talk about the Olympics, we will try to avoid the "champion-only" argument. Instead, we will put more emphasis on "friendship first, competition second" and "just do our best."
But for every athlete who has struggled for many years, winning the championship in the Olympic Games is a lifelong pursuit. In the case of many masters competing on the same stage, the competition is often very cruel and fierce, and any mistake may make you regret it for life.
The situation in front of Lu Li is even more so. Not long ago, Li Keshen has already won a score of ninety-nine.Close to the full score, there are only two ways before him. will either do his best to win the full score and win the crown, or regret to step back...
And gymnastics is an indirect confrontation type of spectator In the competition, it is difficult to get full marks. Prior to this, except for Romania gymnastics star. Outside of Comaneci, no one has ever scored a perfect score in an Olympic gymnastics competition.
If it scores full marks, it will become a new mountain and myth in the gymnastics world. This road is often full of cliffs and thorns. How many people want to end their lives with hatred, and how many people are exhausted The full force reached its limit when it was only a step away... The placed in front of Lu Li was a path that hardly had any possibility.
At 7:14 that night, in the magnificent stadium of Barcelona, under the gaze of hundreds of shining spotlights , Lu Li finally made her debut.
When that elegant figure flew into the air, her victory was almost doomed, just like the sentence in " Luoshen Fu": "It seems as if the moon is covered by a light cloud, and it is shaken. The wind returns to the snow."
uneven bars The match was only 30 seconds long. When Lu Li was nailed to the ground like a sword at the end, the audience cheered and thunderous, six referees from all over the world played. With a score of 10 points (full score), Lu Li swept Li Shenke with an absolute overwhelming advantage and won the uneven bars championship!
afterwards,Gao Jian, deputy director of the National Gymnastics Management Center, once commented on this. I am afraid that no one has enough gold in the gold medal. You know, all the judges for Lu Li in this Olympics are foreign referees, However, all six referees scored full marks, which is enough to prove Lu Li's perfect performance.
In addition, Lu Li's performance also greatly cheered Chinese athletes who participated in the Olympics throughout the Olympic Games. During this Barcelona journey, the Chinese team failed to enter the finals except for the men’s team runner-up. .
Lu Li's victory is like a shot in the heart. During the Olympics, the Chinese team won 16 gold medals in one fell swoop, breaking the previous record!
That year, the National Sports Commission issued to Lu Li the highest honor medal for sports in China-the Sports Honor Medal. Lu Li's name will always be recorded in the annals of Chinese sports history.
[Frustration on the road to success]
Lu Li's victory has also caused a huge sensation in China, and many people are incredible about it.
In August 1976, Lu Li was born in an ordinary worker's family in Changsha City. She was thin and thin since she was a child. At the age of five, her parents sent her to the province to make her body stronger. School gymnastics classes receive training.
According to the memories of Lu Li’s enlightenment coach Zhou Xiaolin many years later: Lu Li was five and a half years old when she came to the team. When I saw her jumping around, I felt that this kid must have come to take a gymnastics exam. I took her to the 1.3-meter high horse and wanted to try her courage.
As a result, she flew towards me like a swallow, and I caught her all at once.Zhou Xiaolin taught very strict training requirements, but Xiao Lu Li practiced very seriously every time, and never complained of bitterness.
But even so, Lu Li’s training is also facing serious practical problems, that is, Lu Li’s family is too poor. Because Lu Li’s home is far away from the sports school, she has to pay every time she picks up her parents. With a huge amount of time and energy, with the busy work, they hope that Lu Li can stop practicing.
However, at this time, Lu Li had already fallen in love with the sport, so she took a few cents from her home and drove to the Hunan Gymnastics Training Center by herself to find Zhou Xiaolin for pleading.
After learning of the situation, Zhou Xiaolin immediately contacted Lu Li’s parents and asked Lu Li to live with his daughter in order to relieve the pressure on Lu Li’s family. Finally, Lu Li’s parents no longer objected. Li will also start the road to championship.
At the age of twelve, due to years of hard training, Lu Li was formally selected for the Hunan Gymnastics Team and trained under coach Xiong Jingbin.
Coach Xiong quickly discovered the gymnastics talent of this little girl, so he specially tailored it for her, and designed a set of three-D linked high-difficulty movements for her to practice.
Thanks to this, at the second National Youth Games a year later, thirteen-year-old Lu Li won her first battle and won the National Women's Uneven Bars Championship in one fell swoop. The following year, Lu Li once again won the uneven bars of the National Junior Gymnastics Championships and became a rising star in the Chinese gymnastics field.
However, Lu Li's sports career has not been smooth sailing. During a physical examination in 1988, Lu Li was diagnosed with hereditary hepatitis. Coach Yan Nian was the only one who knew the news. people.
for this,Yan Ni murmured very sadly. Lu Li has an excellent talent in gymnastics. If she is eliminated like this, it would be too cruel. At this time, has only one way before her, and that is to continue to fight for hepatitis. Get the highest achievement in your sports career before the attack affects your performance.
In order not to affect Lu Li's mood, Yan Ning chose to keep her secret, and even took Lu Li to her home, and gave her medicine at night to relieve hepatitis.
However, the accident happened. Before the National Youth Games in 1989, Lu Li suddenly felt unwell, and the result of a hospital examination was positive for hepatitis.
Xiong Jingbin talked about the scene of the year and still has a heartache: her growth process is very tortuous, since the beginning of her illness, I have been helping her with medicine almost every day. The national team is very taboo against this disease, so she was not included in the training list. Later, the national team needed a coach and transferred me.
After the past, the province put forward a request: where is Xiong Jingbin and where is Lu Li. However, after taking it, her situation was more awkward.
As a hepatitis patient, no matter how high his athletic talent is, there is a higher or lower upper limit. Who can guarantee that Lu Li can resist the pain and complete the action in key events?
Therefore, Lu Li spent two years on the run and sparring. didn't formally enter the national team until 1991, when Barcelona was less than a year away.
At the end of 1991, Lu Li participated in the Paris Grand Prix with the team, but due to a mistake in this competition, Lu Li's first international competition failed.
Lu Li has only won two championships in national competitions before, and she was not too prominent in the national team of masters such as clouds. Therefore, at the Barcelona Olympics the following year, Lu Li still played as a candidate.
With so many substitutes in the world, how many of them can actually come on stage? If you look at the normal script, Lu Li's life's achievements seem to end here.
However, at this moment, the main athlete Shi Liying was injured in an accident and reluctantly withdrew from the Olympic Games. Lu Li took the place and actually stepped onto the field , and this time On the stage, Lu Li successfully scored a perfect score and won the gold medal.
For Lu Li's tortuous and surprising life, Gao Jian, deputy director of the National Gymnastics Management Center, once had a lingering fear: At that time, Lu Li was once faced with withdrawing from the national team after failing at the Paris World Gymnastics Championships, coupled with hepatitis. The situation.
Later, I told the coach that it doesn't matter if I don't do it well now, keep it. As a result, she did not expect that in just six months, she brought back a big golden doll at the Barcelona Olympics!
[New starting line]
This is also the perfect end of Lu Li's sports career. Two years later, at the age of 18, Lu Li retired from the national team due to worsening hepatitis. He has spent 13 years in his professional career.
As a patient with congenital genetic diseases, Lu Li is unfortunate, . However, as far as athletes are concerned, they can win the top glory at their peak moments.I have to say that Lu Li is lucky.
Since then, Lu Li entered the Beijing Sport University to study. Prior to this, Lu Li had been in the sports school and the national team, but was not so comfortable with the regular college life.
When she first entered the school, many people recognized her due to winning the championship and took the initiative to greet her. However, Lu Li was not arrogant or impetuous, and only responded with a simple smile every time.
In Lu Li’s heart, although she has achieved great success in sports, these successes are only the starting point for her next road. Standing on the new starting line, everything has to be zero. Start. due to her outstanding study, after the second year of enrollment, Lu Li entered Peking University School of International Relations again.
After graduation, Lu Li came to Las Vegas, USA. In such a completely unfamiliar country, she insisted that she never left the gymnastics career she loved. After
, she worked as a sports coach in a sports club called "Stars". Although the salary of this job is not very high, Lu Li still put all her energy into it, and several of her students have already Won the championship in several major club competitions in California.
However, there are often difficult times for a person living overseas. This day happened on December 15, 2002.
On this day, Lu Li and the owner of the "Star" club had a conflict over some issues. The two sides had a big quarrel. Lu Li angrily proposed to resign and left the club. However, on the same day, she also received a call from China that Lu Li's mother fell ill.
In retrospect,Lu Li will always regret: Sometimes I complain that God is so unfair, but there is no way, this is life. Looking back, I owe too much to my parents, and I regret not being able to accompany my mother much before. So after that time, I felt even more that I should let myself and my father have a happier life.
In fact, there are many discussions about Lu Li on the domestic Internet. Why does have to go abroad? Is it admiring foreigners?
Some people even attacked him personally. However, Lu Li didn’t care about it: "If I don’t go out, I will always live in the support of others. Because there are so many friends around, help me If there are more people, then I will have no self. And in the United States can reflect my own ability, or it is the opportunity for me to really grow up."
In addition, Lu Li also It proved with its own actions . On October 18, 2003, the Fifth City Games in China opened in Lu Li’s hometown, Changsha. Lu Li was invited to act as an ambassador for this Games. Lu Li resolutely accepted this. Traveling far and wide from the United States, he participated in the lighting ceremony of the Games.
After years of hard work and hard work, Lu Li finally has her own club in the United States. In naming the club, Lu Li, who has always been low-key, did not use her own name for this. Instead, she chose a name given by an American friend "AAC", which means "All-around Champion Club".
At the same time, Lu Li also gained her own love. In 2003, she married Jim, an American who is also an athlete, and they jointly run the club.
Today,When people discuss Lu Li's life, they always think about a question, that is, does Lu Li love the country? Why should we live overseas?
We don’t know why Lu Li went abroad. Maybe it’s for better development or for broader exchanges. But it’s worth noting that has been abroad for nearly 20 years until now, but , Her nationality is still Chinese nationality , and her identity is still the Chinese champion gymnast, this is indisputable.
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