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Liu Xiang Born on September 1, 1996 in a sports family in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Liu Xiang's parents were basketball players when they were young.
Although Liu Xiang was born in Guangzhou, her parents were both native to Guangzhou, her father was from Yunnan, and her mother was from Qingdao, Shandong. Because Liu Xiang's father was assigned to work in Guangzhou after retiring, the family settled in Guangzhou.
When Liu Xiang was born, it was the era when Hong Kong dramas were popular. Guangdong lives next to Hong Kong and also speaks the same dialect, Cantonese, so Liu Xiang's parents like to watch Hong Kong dramas very much.
For the bigger "jade girl" in Hong Kong dramas, I also liked it very much for the "jade girl" who amazed an era in Hong Kong dramas. Rosamund Kwan , Chiu Shuzhen , Athena Chu , etc., but Liu Xiang's parents' favorite Hong Kong drama star is Kareem Reis . After all, at that time, Kareem Reis was called "the number one beauty in Hong Kong films" by many people.
So, when Liu Xiang was just born, her parents named Liu Jiaxin. This name was not officially changed to Liu Xiang until the second grade.
As Liu's father and mother, who are professional athletes, did not think about letting their daughter become a professional athlete in the future.
As the audience, we see the athletes' glory on the field, but as professional athletes, Liu's father and mother, they know more clearly how difficult it is for an athlete to stand on the highest podium. It can be said that most athletes are unknown.
Their plan for women is to hope that their daughter can become a lady who is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, because when Liu Xiang was young, she was sent by her parents to learn dance, painting, calligraphy, etc.
Not only that, Liu Xiang was sent by her mother to practice swimming when she was 5 years old. Her parents did this purely to exercise Liu Xiang's physical fitness.
But what my mother Wang Huiying didn't expect was that Liu Xiang, who was only 5 years old, learned four swimming postures (breaststroke, backstroke , butterfly stroke , crawling ) after practicing swimming for only 3 months.
It is worth mentioning that Liu Xiang did not take care of herself when practicing swimming. She only worked hard when the coach was staring at her. But that's it, her grades were among the best among the same group of players.
This made the mother Wang Huiying understand that her daughter Liu Xiang has a talent that ordinary people do not have in swimming. As a professional athlete, she understands very well how important talent is for an athlete. In summary, it is "God is rewarding food."
But it is difficult for Wang Huiying and her husband to decide whether to let their daughter take the path of professional athletes because of this. After all, this is related to their daughter's life in the future.
In the end, Liu Xiang's parents decided to take a step by step, letting Liu Xiang practice swimming, but at the same time they could not let her lose her studies.
Both parents and coaches think that Liu Xiang has a high talent in swimming, but Liu Xiang herself doesn’t feel anything. On the contrary, she hated swimming at that time because other children could go to play after school, but she still had to go to the swimming pool to practice swimming.
So, after practicing for a while, Liu Xiang told her parents that she didn't want to practice swimming anymore, because she felt that her parents asked her to practice swimming to strengthen her body. Now that this purpose has been achieved, she no longer needs to practice.
At the same time, she also explained to her mother that she thought swimming took up too much time and other children had time to go out to play. In addition to studying, she also had swimming, and she had no time to play.
It is normal for children to have this idea. Liu Xiang's mother also felt that it was too much pressure on her daughter. She thought that if she couldn't do it, she would not let her daughter practice swimming.
Liu Xiang's mother thought at the time that as long as her daughter could be safe and healthy in the future, they did not expect her to be successful in the future.
However, when Liu Xiang's mother consulted with Liu Xiang's enlightenment coach, Liu Xiang's enlightenment coach rejected Liu Xiang's mother's idea, because in his opinion, if Liu Xiang continues to swim, he will definitely achieve good results in the future.
In the end, Liu Xiang's mother and enlightenment coach decided to stabilize Liu Xiang first, because the reason was that when the tuition for swimming for the semester had been paid and could not be refunded, so the remaining courses must be completed.
On the other hand, the enlightenment coach began to sign up for Liu Xiang in many competitions, from the fact that Liu Xiang's strength gradually improved, from the beginning that he could not reach the finals, and finally he was able to win medals.
When Liu Xiang was in the second grade, she represented the school in the Tianhe District Sports Games in Guangzhou. At this sports game, Liu Xiang won two gold medals: 50m backstroke and 50m freestyle .
As the results improved, especially after winning the championship, Liu Xiang gradually felt a sense of accomplishment, and thus truly fell in love with this sport and no longer asked her to give up swimming with her mother.
After falling in love with Liu Xiang, she trained even harder. Her enlightenment coach is He Guohong, and He Guohong has always been training with Liu Xiang.
When Liu Xiang was training, he always held a board in one hand and paddled with the other hand, or paddled with both feet and paddled with both hands, and trained meticulously according to the coach's requirements.
At the same time, He Guohong was pinching the stopwatch next to him, allowing Liu Xiang to train back and forth in an orderly manner in the swimming pool. He could not stop halfway and had to train strength and speed.
Liu Xiang goes to the sports school to train after school every day. Each training time is about an hour and a half, whether it is winter or summer. Before each competition, Liu Xiang has to wear thick clothes for training.
As Liu Xiang became interested in swimming, in the various swimming competitions of Tianhe District , Liu Xiang almost won all the championships in backstroke, freestyle, butterfly stroke, etc.
In addition to having excellent talent in swimming, Liu Xiang has also inherited the excellent genes of her parents in terms of height, and has always been one head taller than girls of the same age.
While the physical education scores have steadily improved, Liu Xiang's cultural course scores have not fallen. He listened carefully in class, spoke actively, and completed his homework on time, so the teacher didn't have to worry about her at all.
Because Liu Xiang was always the highest in the class when she was in elementary school, the teacher often asked her to be her own little assistant, such as helping to organize the team after school, etc.
Liu Xiang's mother also attaches great importance to her daughter's grades. She can often be seen pulling the teacher to ask about Liu Xiang's performance in school, class, etc. when she is out of school.
That's it. When he graduated from elementary school, Liu Xiang entered Tianhe Middle School in Tianhe District, Guangzhou as a student with special sports.
It is worth mentioning that when Liu Xiang was about 10 years old, he lived with his mother in his mother's hometown Qingdao for about a year.
Here Liu Xiang studied at Qingdao Military Sports School at No. 126 Tailiu Road, Qingdao to receive swimming training from the professional system. Her coach is Ji Qing.
In Ji Qing's opinion, Liu Xiang has a good sense of water and strong explosive power. He is a talent with unlimited future. However, Liu Xiang only stayed in Qingdao for a short year before returning to Guangzhou.
In 2010, 14-year-old Liu Xiang joined the Guangdong Provincial Swimming Team because he won the championship in the Guangdong Provincial Swimming Team, and studied under the He Xinzhong coach.
After two years of hard training in Guangdong Province Swimming Team Liu Xiang successfully won the women's 50m backstroke final in the 2012 National Swimming Championships and National Games Trials Women's 50m Backstroke Finals.
In 2013, in the women's 50m freestyle final of the National Youth Swimming Championships, Liu Xiang won the championship with a time of 25.47 seconds. It was at this time that Liu Xiang's name began to become well-known in the domestic swimming world.
Just when Liu Xiang wanted to achieve better results, she suffered the first setback in her career, that is, at the 2013 National Games, she was arrogant and only won fourth place in the end, which made her unable to accept it for a while.
After the failure, relatives, friends and coaches comforted Liu Xiang, believing that she has a good talent and is still very young, and she will have opportunities in the future, but the young and energetic Liu Xiang doesn't think so.
She felt that she had worked so hard to train and swim so hard, but in the end she only won the fourth place. She began to doubt her ability. Not only that, Liu Xiang even suspected that she had taken the wrong path.
Therefore, after the National Games, Liu Xiang, who was a little depressed, proposed to retire to his coach He Xinzhong. He Xinzhong knew that Liu Xiang was just angry and still couldn't bear to leave the swimming pool.
As a coach with a lot of experience, He Xinzhong understands that this is a process that every outstanding athlete must go through, and the most important thing is that he must be able to get out.
Liu Xiang usually gives people the feeling that he is very strong, he is easily unwilling to give up, and will not give up easily, so He Xinzhong believes that Liu Xiang will never really give up swimming.
During that time, Liu Xiang locked herself in the room alone, and did not go out to train or play. She would only come out during meals, which scared her mother Wang Huiying.
Wang Huiying was very worried about her daughter's body, so she advised Liu Xiang more than once that if she didn't work, she would give up. She supported all the decisions her daughter made, as long as the once lively and cheerful daughter could come back.
After staying at home for three months, Liu Xiang finally figured it out, so she told her mother that she would continue to go back to the swimming team to train, which made Wang Huiying both happy and worried.
What is happy is that her daughter has not been defeated by failure, and she is worried about whether she can bear it if her daughter fails next time. After all, competitive sports have always lost more and won less.
The first competition that Liu Xiang participated in after returning to the swimming team was the Qingdao National Championship and the Incheon Asian Games Trials. This time Liu Xiang won another fourth place.
This time, Liu Xiang did not retire easily, but instead trained harder. Even if the coach was not around, Liu Xiang was not lazy and was always the last player to walk out of the training ground.
At the 2014 National Swimming Championships, Liu Xiang, who was only 18 years old, won the 50-meter backstroke championship. The next year, she was 19 years old and was awarded the title of "International Sports Athletic" by General Administration of Sports .
In the same year, at the National Swimming Championship and World Swimming Championship selection competition held in Baoji, Shaanxi, Liu Xiang won the women's 50m freestyle championship with a time of 25.00 seconds in the final, and therefore got the ticket to the World Championship.
At the Kazan World Championships this year, Liu Xiang won the bronze medal in the women's 50m backstroke with a time of 27.58 seconds.
In this World Swimming Championships, many members of the Chinese swimming team have successfully emerged, such as Fu Yuanhui, Ning Zetao , etc. Liu Xiang has also succeeded in emergence. Netizens call her "Goddess of the Songtan", "No. 1 Beauty in the Swimming World", etc.
If the Kazan World Championships make many girls fall in love with Ning Zetao, then many boys fall in love with Liu Xiang because of the Kazan World Championships.
Although Liu Xiang became famous for her "appearance" in the Kazan World Championships, Liu Xiang cared more about his achievements than these false names at that time.
So after the World Championships ended, Liu Xiang first won the runner-up in the 50-meter backstroke in the National Championships with a time of 28.12 seconds, and then won the runner-up in the 50-meter freestyle in the National Championships with a time of 25.30 seconds.
This year, in addition to becoming popular because of her "appearance", the most important thing for Liu Xiang is to prepare for the Rio Olympics . She changed her main event from backstroke to freestyle (because there is no 50-meter backstroke in the Olympics).
In 2016, after successfully obtaining the Rio Olympic ticket, Liu Xiang was diagnosed with scoliosis. At that time, the doctor suggested that Liu Xiang stop training immediately, but Liu Xiang chose to continue training and prepare for the game.
But who knew that in the Rio Olympics, Liu Xiang did not even enter the semi-finals of the 50-meter freestyle, but this time Liu Xiang was not even disappointed because she knew her level.
So in the following days, Liu Xiang trained harder and finally ranked first in the 50m freestyle preliminary round with a time of 24.32 seconds, breaking the national record for 23 years. In the semi-finals after
, Liu Xiang once again set a record and swam a 24.04 second. This result can be successfully won the championship in the Rio Olympics. In the final, Liu Xiang successfully won the championship with a 24.07 second.
In 2018, Liu Xiang first won the 50m freestyle championship in the National Swimming Championships, and then Liu Xiang successfully won the 50m backstroke championship with a world record at the Asian Games in Jakarta.
2019 Gwangju World Championships, Liu Xiang lost no results, but after the game, she had an affair with the handsome guy of the swimming team Wang Shun . Although the two repeatedly denied it, the scandal between the two was still rumored because of the handsome man and the beautiful woman.
Tokyo Olympics, Liu Xiang was eventually missed because she fell behind Zhang Yufei and Wu Qingfeng in the National Swimming Championships and Tokyo Olympic Trials.
However, at the subsequent Shaanxi National Games, Liu Xiang defeated the new Olympic champion Zhang Yufei with a slight advantage in the 50-meter freestyle and successfully won the championship. However, after winning the championship, Liu Xiang was raped because he said this: "There is Brother Tian in Guangdong track and field, and Sister Xiang in Guangdong swimming."
After the National Games, Liu Xiang basically faded out of the national team because on the one hand, her strength has declined year by year, and there are many new players in the national team. On the other hand, she suffers from scoliosis and her competitiveness has declined very quickly.
Now, Liu Xiang has been deeply engaged in the field of short videos. Even if she is not an athlete, she can still make a fortune with her appearance. What everyone is most worried about is that she is now 26 years old and is still not married yet!
