There are also many inspirational stories in the Olympic Games, let’s take a look. The following is what I compiled for your reference!
: Gymnastics champion Li Xiaoshuang
Li Xiaoshuang was born in an ordinary worker family in Xiantao, Hubei in 1973. In 1983, he joined the provincial team and entered the The national team, in 1983, because his physical condition was not outstanding, he was in and out of the national team three times. At the 11th Asian Games in Beijing in 1990, Li Xiaoshuang won the team and floor exercise gold medals in one fell swoop, and he became famous ever since. At the 25th Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, he won the floor exercise competition and became the leader of the Chinese men's gymnastics team; in the two world championships in 1994 and 1995, he was the main member of the team champion Chinese team and won the gold medal. He won the individual all-around championship at the 1995 World Championships and became the first Chinese athlete to win the individual all-around gold medal at the World Gymnastics Championships; in 1996, he won the individual all-around gold medal again at the 26th Olympic Games in Atlanta. In 1997, Li Xiaoshuang left the competition early due to an ankle injury, but his fighting spirit still inspired the members of the Chinese gymnastics team. His motto is: Confidence is victory. Li Xiaoshuang and his twin brother Li Dashuang were born in a family that was not wealthy. When they were 6 years old, their family asked them to choose gymnastics just to reduce the financial burden.
When they were 10 years old, their grandfather carried a load to send the two of them to the provincial team. Xiao Shuang trained very hard. In order to pull the ligaments, the coach pressed on his delicate legs, but he did not shed tears until he passed the test. In order to practice the horizontal bar, he scraped his hands and the blood stained the horizontal bar red.
But fate has been playing tricks on this young man. Twice rejected by the national team. After entering, he was not taken seriously. For this reason, Xiao Shuang thought that he must let the coach see his skills in the 11th Asian Games, and finally won the individual gold medal in floor exercise as he wished.
Starting in 1991, fate played tricks on him again. He suffered multiple physical injuries, and suffered a minor concussion after falling while testing new moves for three weeks. Then, he performed abnormally at the World Championships and was squeezed out of the finals. But he did not back down. When his teammates suffered consecutive defeats at the Barcelona Olympics, he lived up to expectations and boldly used a "triple backflip" to win the only gymnastics gold medal for the Chinese gymnastics team at the Barcelona Olympics.
: Diving champion Hu Jia
Hu Jia, some people call him "Desperate Saburo", others call him "God of War". But no matter how you think about it, these words should not be associated with a 21-year-old boy. However, for the dream of Olympic championship that he has been waiting for for 4 years, Hu Jia said that he can only fight and there is no retreat!
In the 2000 Sydney Olympic Diving Team Trials, the team's ranking was Tian Liang first and Huang Qiang second. Hu Jia was third. At that time, there were only two places to participate in the Olympic men's platform event, and Hu Jia was a substitute.
One month before the competition, Huang Qiang broke his wrist during training. Originally, Huang Qiang and Tian Liang had been playing a double team, but one day the team suddenly informed Hu Jia that it was decided that he and Tian Liang would play a double team. Everyone understood at once that Hu Jia became the first choice from the substitute.
Hu Jia also didn’t expect that he would be going to the Olympics before he won a single national championship or even participated in a world competition. Suddenly, public opinion was in an uproar. "Are you very happy and nervous after hearing this news?" Almost every reporter asked Hu Jia this question at that time. "I'm definitely happy, but I'm not nervous at all." Hu Jia analyzed the situation at the time: "First of all, the only foreign player I had ever played against was Saudin. We competed three times before the Olympics, and I beat him both times. I had no psychological burden. In June 2000, in Tian Liang’s hometown of Xi’an, I beat Tian Liang once. No one else had ever competed with him, so I didn’t have any fear. At that time, I had a feeling in my heart that I was not afraid of tigers. Opponent!"
The 17-year-old Hu Jia traveled to Sydney lightly. For him, he was a blank sheet of paper, and any result of the game was normal to him.
In the Sydney competition, Hu Jia danced very well in the first three movements. In the third movement, six of the seven judges even gave him 10 points. This fledgling kid was 30 points ahead of Tian Liang after the third move.
In the fourth move, 626B, Hu Jia kept telling himself: "Dance better, better, better..." He got on the platform, took off and flipped in the air, everything was perfect. The moment he entered the water, Hu Jia's body fell backwards. After a moment of tilting, a large splash of water followed, and the audience booed! Undoubtedly, this move of 626B was a smash. Because of this move, Tian Liang came from behind and was 50 points higher than Hu Jia, and ranked first with a total score 21 points higher than Hu Jia. Hu Jia performed steadily in the next two actions and won back 10 points. But he still lost, lost to Tian Liang, and lost to his own immaturity. After winning two silver medals in synchronized platform and single platform, Hu Jia returned to China. Flowers and applause were still waiting for him, but he was particularly unwilling: "If I can control it better when entering the water, the championship will be mine!" Hu Jia began to believe in himself: "If I have enough experience, I have Have the strength to become an Olympic champion!"
After 2000, Hu Jia set a goal for himself: to defeat Tian Liang, and that was before Tian Liang retired. "Hu Jia took the initiative to make a request to the team to increase the difficulty for himself. So Hu Jia began to practice 5255B, the most difficult movement at the time. In the following World Diving Championships, Hu Jia debuted this movement internationally for the first time, although he only won the third place. 4. But some people began to say that Hu Jia was "the most difficult diving person in China". Not long after, Hu Jia began to practice 407B. This is a movement of facing the stage and flipping into the stage. As long as the athlete is not careful, he may hit the stage, which is dangerous. It's very sexy. Some people have skipped it before, but no one has dared to use it in the World Series.
Hu Jia has lost count of how many times he has practiced them well. Injury. During training, the coach asked him to jump 5 times. If Hu Jia was not satisfied, he would add 5 more times until he was satisfied. Hu Jia firmly believed that as long as he worked hard, he would succeed one day.
Athens, New Zealand. The reincarnation of the Athens Olympics, Hu Jia told himself that he must seize this opportunity, but things often don’t go as he wants. Three months before the Athens Olympics, Hu Jia’s ankle ligament was in training. It was strained. "My foot was very swollen at the time. I thought, it's over, it's not a ligament break! Don't become the second Huang Qiang." "Fortunately, the team doctor's diagnosis was just a strain. In the next two weeks, Hu Jia stayed in bed under the doctor's instructions. The four major training sessions before the Olympics, namely the 2004 World Diving Grand Prix, also occurred while Hu Jia was in bed. Expand. “The Olympics are just around the corner. Others are seizing the opportunity of the competition to exercise more, but I..." Hu Jia felt like a laggard goose, confused. There was still one week left before the last stop of the Grand Prix - Shanghai Station, and Hu Jia finally recovered. It’s time to participate in some team training. Hu Jia told herself that this is the only time I can train for the competition before the Athens Olympics. Even if I jump on one leg, I have to go. It's better not to go. "Both the team leader and coach gave Hu Jia such advice. Hu Jia did not change his mind.
A week before the game, Hu Jia said that he used one minute of training time as two minutes. Hu Jia was like a madman. He increased his dosage and finally took two injections to block it. Hu Jia felt terrible pain in his ankle throughout the game, but Hu Jia still won. It was the most difficult time for him to win the Shanghai Grand Prix. At the end, the war drums in Athens slowly beat.
Hu Jia began to secretly increase his strength. The coach was afraid that he had not practiced enough, so he often criticized him. Hu Jia had his own ideas: "Which movement did not work well?" As far as I am satisfied, I will definitely find a way to conquer it. Moreover, I feel that my strength is not enough and I need to practice more. "
Besides training time, Hu Jia drags his parents to play badminton with him every day. He plays one-on-one, and the old couple take turns, but they still can't stand it.
"Athens Olympics The mood before was very complicated. I have failed so many times before, but I have never given up because my belief has not broken. Even though sometimes I feel like throwing up after practicing, I still encourage myself to keep going.
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In the early morning of August 29, Beijing time, the day Hu Jia had been looking forward to finally came. He stood where he wanted to stand most—the springboard of the men’s 10-meter single platform at the Athens Olympics. And Sydney Similarly, Hu Jia performed normally in the first three moves and ranked fourth. The fourth move was 407B. This move was the first one Hu Jia used in the competition. In previous competitions, the success rate of this move was over 90. He firmly believed that he could not do it. He will make the same mistake as in the Sydney Olympics again. With a beautiful takeoff and an almost perfect flip, Hu Jia succeeded, and he chased the score to second place.
Hu Jia successfully completed the last two moves, 307C and 5253B. In the last jump, Hu Jia scored the highest score of 100.98! Hu Jia finally won the first Olympic gold medal in his diving career!
: Table tennis champion Deng Yaping
There have been a lot of reports and news about her, and her story and experience are familiar to many people. We will only briefly describe it as follows: Born in Zhengzhou, Henan on February 6, 1973, she is 1.50 meters tall. My father learned to play basketball and joined the national team in 1988. He won the national championship at the age of 13 and the Asian championship at the age of 15. At the age of 16, he became the double champion of the women's team and women's doubles at the World Championships. Sports career*** won 18 years. She has 23 world championships, second only to Wang Nan, and has won four consecutive Olympic championships in women's singles and doubles in Barcelona in 1992 and women's singles and doubles in Atlanta in 1996. She has maintained the first place in the table tennis world rankings for eight consecutive years, and is the longest time to rank first in the world.
Table tennis was officially listed as an Olympic event in 1988. Table tennis accounted for 2 of the 5 Olympic gold medals won by the Chinese Legion that year. In 1992, the Chinese table tennis team became more dominant, and Deng Yaping also created an era of her own.
Deng Yaping's achievements are unmatched by others. She has become one of the synonyms of Chinese sports and a former International Olympic Games. Committee Chairman Juan Antonio Samaranch liked to watch her compete the most. He would pat her cheek affectionately when giving her awards, and also invited her to visit the National Olympic Committee headquarters in Lausanne.
After 1997. , retired Deng Yaping went to Tsinghua University, the University of Cambridge and the University of Nottingham to study, and received a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in contemporary Chinese studies. In 2002, Deng Yaping served on both the Ethics Committee and the Sports and Environment Committee of the International Olympic Committee. In 2003, Deng Yaping became a staff member of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee’s Market Development Department. Currently, Deng Yaping serves as the deputy director of the Olympic Village Department of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee.
After the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan. As a representative of the sports world, Deng Yaping rushed to the disaster area together with Yang Yang, Gao Min and other Olympic champions to participate in post-disaster psychological rescue. In fact, Deng Yaping's own experience is an inspirational example. She was blocked from the gym when she first started practicing because of her height. Outside the school gate, she loved table tennis and did not give up prematurely. Under the guidance of her father, she practiced hard, tied sandbags, and played more than 10,000 balls every day. More than ten years of hard training enabled her to overcome her height disadvantage and changed the traditional concept in the table tennis world of only selecting athletes among tall people. This spirit also influenced her path after retirement. She still did not shrink from her studies. From having 26 English letters to being an official of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee, Deng Yaping has proven her strength outside of table tennis.
She has also become a model for athletes’ personal development.
There are many more stories about Deng Yaping. She is a two-time Beijing Olympic bid representative, four-time Olympic torchbearer and now an official of the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee. Every sprint outside the field will remind people of her energy when playing basketball. Son: Fearless, tenacious and highly confident.