In a secluded corner of the Sichuan Land Sports School, a neat row of metasequoia trees separates the concrete and grass. This pasture is the training ground for the Sichuan archery team. It is said that the mosquitoes "raised" in this pasture are very powerful-they are not afraid of coil incense and mosquito repellent. "They will bite the right hand if they hold the incense coil in their left hand." Three identical posters are posted on the wall of the
archery team— -Zhang Juanjuan, the individual champion of women's archery in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This is the first time that Chinese archery defeated the Korean team in the Olympics. But in a sense, the first Chinese archery "anti-Korean" actually came from this pasture.
This Sichuan archery "big sister" is called Li Lingjuan. She defeated the Korean team in the 1984 Archery Asian Championships and became famous. What she didn't expect was that this historic victory made her lose the Olympic Games in the same year. Foreshadowing.
exercises every night. Hanging two red bricks to practice arm strength.
wears a red T-shirt and a set of denim shorts. Standing behind the team members, Li Lingjuan has an aura of no anger. And he was caught by the sports school coach because of his height. "I was still in high school that year. One day the principal called me out of the classroom. At that time, I thought to myself that I did not make any mistakes. Why did you call me? After I went, I learned that the sports school coach chose me." At that time, Li Lingjuan had no idea about archery, but she was good at many sports and was a well-known "sportsman" in Pengzhou No. 1 Middle School.
began learning archery in January 1982, and in September Li Lingjuan won the second place in the individual all-around of the National Youth Championship and reached the national master class athlete. "I had a fast performance at the time." A year later, at the Fifth National Games, Li Lingjuan won three gold medals in the women's 30m, 70m and individual double-round all-around. The 17-year-old "Triple Crown" "Shocked the sports world, and also made Li Lingjuan named "Little Li Guang".
In the eyes of others, Li Lingjuan is a genius, but the work behind it is actually simple and rude—"I heard that archery requires the stability of the arm, so I picked up two red bricks and tied it up with a piece of gauze and hung it on my arm for practice. "And Li Lingjuan's other "good habit" is not to take a nap. During the lunch break, other teammates will carry a bow to practice.
The first arrow missed the target. The Olympics broke the world record and won the silver
. In 1984, the 18-year-old Li Lingjuan went to New Zealand with the national team to participate in the Asia-Pacific Archery Championships. No one thought that these three heavy gold medals deeply stung the South Korean team, which regarded archery as a "national sport". From that day on, their archery team had only one opponent, and that was Li Lingjuan.
won the 1984 Asia Pacific Championships
six months after the Los Angeles Olympics, Li Lingjuan, who entered the Olympic Village, received a bad news. After continuous research, the South Korean team found that Li Lingjuan's clicker used was two clicks, while the South Korean team and other players almost all had one click. "This is actually a technical feature of mine." After the South Korean team negotiated with the referee, Li Lingjuan's clicker was banned. "I almost can't shoot arrows after changing the clicker." Although the leaders of the Chinese delegation also negotiated with the referee, they still couldn't use it.
"The first arrow in the official Olympic game, I missed the target. At that time, tears flowed down. The coach said, "Oh, it's nothing, you don't know if you will miss dozens of arrows throughout the game." Hearing tears disappeared immediately, because I can't stand other people's excitement. Why should I say that I have to shoot dozens of arrows in a game!" Li Lingjuan, who was so excited by the coach, chased me with one stone, and even forgot to remember A clicker that I haven't practiced.
559 ring, breaking 5 Olympic records, such an excellent report card finally let Li Lingjuan get a silver medal. It was years later that Li Lingjuan learned that there was no prohibition against two clicks in the Olympic competition rules.
1984 Olympics silver medal
sent to Doha for 14 years, she became a local "hero"
Now it seems that Li Lingjuan’s silver medal was better than a gold medal, but after the Olympics, because of the clicker and the opponent’s tricks, Li Lingjuan was somewhat affected. Her psychology started a trough. Although one year later, he still led the Sichuan team to getWon the National Games team championship, but the peak of competition seems to be slowly declining.
Li Lingjuan chose to retire to study in 1993, and was appointed by the State Sports General Administration in 2002 to teach in Qatar. "The first three months are a torment, because I am unfamiliar with the language and the place of life, but I have a belief, thinking that I can't be embarrassed by the state's assignment, so I insisted on it." This persistence lasts for 14 years. She created Qatari women's archery from scratch with one hand and one foot. "They are very amateur in training compared to us. Because most girls have better home conditions, they are also very squeamish. They don't train when the weather is hot, and they don't practice when the weather is cold. They think that the weather is 20 degrees Celsius... Under the guidance of Li Lingjuan, this group of "little princesses" also shot decently, achieving a breakthrough of zero medals for women's archery in the Asian Games. Li Lingjuan was also praised by the Qatar royal family as a "hero".
The next gold pick hopes that Sichuan archery will regain its glory.
In 2018, Li Lingjuan returned to Phoenix Mountain and returned to the place where her dream began 36 years ago. This familiar green grassland and the famous mosquitoes from far and near, "Just started coach and team leader. Now I’m the team leader." As the team leader, Li Lingjuan’s favorite key word to the children is "faith"-a sense of faith in championships and victory. "There is no champion with a drooping face and head down. They are all very confident." In Li Lingjuan's mind, her sense of belief came from the Chinese women's volleyball team. "I remember standing on my toes in front of the TV watching the women's volleyball championship on the third floor and the third floor. I was very excited at the time. Later, there was an upsurge in learning women's volleyball across the country. I put women's volleyball posters under the mosquito nets."
Inspired Li Lingjuan, Li Lingjuan inspired the group of children before him.
"I will retire next year. Before I retire, I still have a wish to revive Sichuan's archery power." In the Fifth National Games of 1983, the Sichuan delegation had 11 gold medals, and the archery team won one of them. Six of them were awarded two gold medals in Sichuan Archery at the National Games in 1987 and two gold medals in 1993. Twenty-seven years later, Sichuan women’s archery has no gold medal in the National Games.
"I hope they can regain the dominant position. I think as long as they work hard, we have this condition." When she said this, Li Lingjuan nodded and gritted her teeth slightly, just like she did in the Olympic finals more than 30 years ago. expression.
