Although he is so young, the Beijing Paralympic Games is already his second Paralympic Games, and he is also an old player. However, Summer Xu is still a little shy. At the Beijing Paralympic Games, Summer Xu participated in the S6-level 50m freestyle and 50m butterfly. Among the swimming 13 in Paralympic Games, physical disability 10, of which S 1 0 is the heaviest and S 10 is the lightest. "I didn't get the ranking in the last session." He smiled and wanted to flash behind teammate Xiong Xiaoming. "If you say grades, you'd better ask him!" This is his third time to take part in the competition. He won three swimming gold medals at the Paralympic Games. "
Summer Xu's ability to become a disabled swimmer can be traced back to a tragic accident in his childhood. When talking about the accident, he paused for a few seconds and lowered his head slightly. "When I was six years old, I was sitting behind a motorcycle, and a big truck tried to overtake our motorcycle, but it rolled us under the wheel ..." He said, "The next year, my parents introduced me to a hospital in Wuhan for artificial limbs. The doctor is also a disabled athlete. She asked me,' What do you like?' I replied,' I like taking a bath and playing with water.' So I was introduced to a coach and began to practice swimming. "
From not being able to swim to learning to swim, many people must remember the courage and hardships in this process. For a physically disabled child of several years old, the difficulties are much more. "It's always scary to get into the water for the first time because you can't swim at all. A 2-meter-deep pool sounds scary because you have never been to such deep water. " Summer Xu said, "The first thing I learned was breaststroke. A healthy person paddles and breathes with his arms. Can only rely on the strength of the waist. I must swim slower than the average person and often drown, but you have to hold on and take your time. " However, this is not the most embarrassing thing for Summer Xu in the swimming pool. "The teammates who usually train are disabled like me. But you always have to swim in the open swimming pool. " He said, "People with physical disabilities like us are exposed for the first time and are under great pressure. You can imagine me showing up by the pool in my swimming trunks. I am very afraid of being looked at differently by others. "
In order to practice swimming and participate in the Paralympic Games, Summer Xu went through the formalities of dropping out of school for two years in Pingdingshan Sports School, and prepared to go back to school to continue his senior three after attending the Paralympic Games. "I haven't decided what to do in the future." Summer Xu said with a smile, "Because I'm going to participate in the next Paralympic Games in London, I'll think about it later!" Regarding swimming that he has practiced for more than ten years, Summer Xu said that the biggest gain is that when he faces difficulties, he no longer needs to be afraid. "After practicing swimming for so many years, all the difficulties have come and all the scenes have been experienced." He smiled and said, "I'm not afraid anymore. This gave me confidence. "
Because the last Paralympic Games did not achieve good results, Summer Xu set himself the goal of winning a medal in this Paralympic Games. This should be very important to him, which is why he came to buy a ticket yesterday. Because before he left, his words left a very deep impression on the reporter. "When I was just injured, I still didn't understand what this huge accident meant to my life. But my parents are very sad and painful. " Summer Xu said, "I comforted them until I won the second place in national swimming. You see, I can still be excellent. I just want them to be proud of me! "
Man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
"People can be destroyed, but they can't be defeated! This was written by Summer Xu in a private letter of QQ, and it was also Hemingway's famous saying in The Old Man and the Sea. " Qing Xu, who has been able to operate a computer skillfully with both feet, told reporters. In the life of 16, Summer Xu not only took it as a famous saying, but also practiced it with actions.
1September 1992, Summer Xu was born in Pingdingshan. At the age of six, misfortune happened: a car accident took Summer Xu's arms, and his life became gloomy. An accidental opportunity changed Summer Xu's life track again.
1999, when Summer Xu's mother and Dong Mei took Summer Xu to Wuhan to buy artificial limbs, they met a disabled table tennis world champion, and he suggested that Summer Xu take part in sports. After returning to Pingdingshan from Wuhan, Dongmei decided to let Summer Xu try swimming and give her son to the horse of Pingdingshan Sports School. Soon, Ma and his little apprentices' efforts paid off, winning gold and silver performances in the Henan Paralympic Games and the National Disabled Swimming Championships, and letting the national team coach Zhang Honghu call him into the national team. At the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games, Qing Xu, the youngest member of the China Paralympic delegation, won the ninth place. Summer Xu was not satisfied, but continued to work hard, hoping to realize his dream of gold medal at the Beijing Paralympic Games four years later.
Four years later, Summer Xu not only realized his dream of gold medal, but also won four medals, three of which were gold medals! 16 years old is still in flower season. From the whole life, Summer Xu still has a long way to go, and in the swimming pool, Summer Xu still has a lot of glory to create. We believe that for Summer Xu, the excitement has just begun.