With the end of the Tokyo Olympic Games, Lang Ping said that it was time to return to life.

As the head coach of China women's volleyball team, when she appeared on the court, she always radiated a majestic aura, leaning forward, slightly locking her brow, staring straight ahead and pursed her lips. That's her trademark expression, like a wild animal hunting.

In 213, it was with such calm and brave momentum that Lang Ping returned to China and coached China women's volleyball team for the second time.

Reorganize the women's volleyball team that has been distracted after the London Olympic Games cycle. In the past nine years, Lang Ping has discovered and trained Zhu Ting, Yuan Xinyue and Zhang Changning, and led the women's volleyball team to win several championships including the World Cup and the Olympic Games and return to the top.

In 221, another ending point of the Olympic cycle, this heroic figure will be 61 years old, and people will discover that she is really old. The muscles of her face drooped obviously, and her eyes were more tired. With injuries all over her body, she finally decided to say goodbye after nine years of high-pressure coaching.

this is not a perfect curtain call performance, but it is very heroic.

At the Tokyo Olympic Games, China women's volleyball team missed the quarterfinals, setting the worst record since the women's volleyball team participated in the Olympic Games. The epidemic disrupted the pace of preparing for the Olympic Games, star player Zhu Ting suffered a serious wrist injury, and various factors formed a joint force, which hit the former champion team hard.

Before all the dust settled, on July 29th, China women's volleyball team lost to Russia, and the qualifying situation was already very critical. However, after the match, Lang Ping still asked the women's volleyball players to "look up" when they left.

This once again reflects the most admirable quality of Lang Ping in her 4 years of appearance in volleyball-no matter how many winning or losing moments she has experienced on the court, she has always been like this and maintained a high-spirited attitude. From the "five consecutive championships" period, the education she received and the world she saw made her understand better than anyone that the spirit of China women's volleyball team is not about success or failure.

the connecting flight came a little late.

In the women's volleyball group match of Tokyo Olympic Games, Zhu Ting, the main attacker with recurrent wrist injury, scored only 4 points in the first match. Against the Turkish, American and Russian Olympic teams, the China women's volleyball team suffered three consecutive defeats and could not open.

But after the match on July 29th, Lang Ping still asked the girls to "raise their heads". She seemed to realize that Zhu Ting, the main attacker, was seriously injured, so it was difficult to mobilize the initiative of other players on the field, so she simply let Li Yingying, a 21-year-old teenager, substitute for Zhu Ting and set up a new "heavy artillery" platform.

Li Yingying's performance verified Lang Ping's judgment. In the next two games, the China women's volleyball team won the match against the Italian team that did not lose in the group match and the Argentine team with a slightly weaker strength, with a record of 3-.

In the face of successive failures before, they have understood that there is no hope of qualifying, but they still revived their spirits and continued to pursue those seemingly meaningless victories in the remaining competitions.

This inevitably reminds people of the 218 Women's Volleyball World Championships. China and Italy competed for the final qualification in the semi-finals, but they lost 2-3 in the end, and China's women's volleyball team lost the possibility of winning the championship. When all the players were depressed, Lang Ping encouraged everyone to prepare for the next match with Holland and compete for the bronze medal.

At the team meeting that night, Lang Ping said something that impressed everyone present. She said: "We can't play the national anthem, but we should try our best to raise the national flag."

She was born in Tianjin in 196. She did well in school since childhood, and her mother was bent on training her to go to Tsinghua. But in those days, Lang Ping found that although she was physically weak, she pushed the shot further than anyone else, and she played everything related to sports better than others.

At the age of 14, she secretly went to Beijing No.2 Amateur Sports School without telling her mother, and was discovered. The teacher of the sports school promised to walk her to Beijing Institute of Physical Education, and her mother agreed that Lang Ping would take the path of being an athlete. Since then, her sports path has been out of control.

Lang Ping was selected to the China Women's Volleyball Team at the age of 18. Under the training of coach Yuan Weimin, at the age of 21, China Women's Volleyball Team, with her as the main attacker, won the third World Cup, thus opening the era of "five consecutive championships" for China Women's Volleyball Team. In the 1982 World Championships, the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the 1985 World Cup and the 1986 World Championships, China women's volleyball team won the championship in succession.

In 1986, Lang Ping retired and soon went to study in the United States. The fate of China women's volleyball team has also been ups and downs in the long river of time.

In the 199s, the performance of China women's volleyball team has been declining again and again, falling to the eighth place in the world. In 1994, Lai Yawen, Cui Yongmei and other veteran players even wrote a resignation report and wanted to leave the women's volleyball team. In November of that year, Yuan Weimin, the former head coach, talked to Lang Ping about the current situation of women's volleyball, hoping that she could return to China to coach.

Yuan Weimin said to Lang Ping: "What women's volleyball team lacks most is a kind of spirit, which is the cohesion of the coach. It is necessary to use a kind of personality to mobilize the athletes."

On February 15th, 1995, Lang Ping ended his first marriage and bid farewell to the established life in the United States, and returned to China with bare hands. The next afternoon, she announced her goal of leading the women's volleyball team back to the top of Asia at the press conference.

At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, it was recognized that the world-class teams were Cuba, Brazil, Russia and the United States in turn, and no experts were optimistic about China. However, with such a team without a star, Lang Ping won five games in the group stage, and successively defeated the German team and the Russian team. Although she finally lost to the Cuban women's volleyball team, she won the silver medal unexpectedly.

On August 13th, 22, Wang Lina won the silver medal in the Atlanta Olympic Games in Weibo. Some fans commented: "Medal can rust, but glory and spirit don't rust!"

In that year, because of the sudden emergence of China women's volleyball team, FIVB even made an exception and elected Lang Ping as "the best coach in the world". Prior to this, only gold medal team coaches could win this honor.

During the London Olympic cycle, the China women's volleyball team changed coaches three times in four years, and was once again in trouble. At this critical moment, on March 27th, 213, the new leader of Paiguan Center invited Lang Ping to be the head coach of China women's volleyball team for the second time. A few days later, Chen Zhaodi, a former teammate, passed away, which brought a heavy blow to Lang Ping. Therefore, she agreed to take over the command seal and decided to pass on the spirit of the women's volleyball team again.

In the following nine years, Lang Ping led a brand-new women's volleyball team, won several major championships including the World Cup and the Olympic Games, and returned to the world-class echelon. Especially in the Rio Olympic Games, Lang Ping used Liu Xiaotong, an "Indiana Jones", flexibly, and staged a shocking reversal against the host Brazil, which opened the door to winning the championship.

When Lang Ping lost the Tokyo Olympic Games, she choked up in an interview, saying that she was mainly responsible and sorry for the fans who cared about the women's volleyball team.

But there are few voices of blame on the Internet. People seem to believe without hesitation that no matter how many failures they have experienced, the China women's volleyball team with Lang Ping as its spiritual idol will definitely come back again.

Lang Ping knows that women's volleyball players enter the national team and compete with other countries in the world on behalf of China. This is a "world-leading" business, and her concept is that "when sports reach the world-leading level, IQ and EQ should be very high."

once, as an athlete, Lang Ping, Hyman of the United States and Luis of Cuba were called the "three main attackers" of the world women's volleyball team in 198s. Later, she became the only female head coach in international volleyball. In the game where she was present, the coaches and athletes of the enemy were inevitably flustered.

Lang Ping relies on her profound understanding of this sphere and its laws.

In 213, Lang Ping took over as the head coach of the China women's volleyball team for the second time. First, she put forward the concept of "big national team". She combed the women's volleyball school-age talents across the country, recruited athletes in batches, and conducted multi-period training to investigate. Of the women's volleyball players in the London Olympic cycle, she only left six of them and turned to pull out a series of new forces.

In the first year, she transferred the girl with outstanding jumping ability from Henan to the national team, that is, Zhu Ting. When the national team list was announced that year, many people asked, "Who is Zhu Ting?" However, the later story shows that Zhu Ting is a talented player in China volleyball. Next, Lang Ping excavated talents such as Zhang Changning and Li Yingying, which strongly supported the diagonal of Zhu Ting.

Lang Ping will not let go of those players who are a little older but strong.

In 214, when she selected Yan Ni, born in 1987, to the national team, the girl herself did not believe in the future development. However, seven years later, her name is still in the national team. The veteran is tall and long-armed, and with lightning-fast blocking, she was twice awarded the "best vice attack" and was praised as the "North Great Wall" of China women's volleyball team.

In addition to players, "big national team" has a broader connotation.

With the trend of younger women's volleyball team, Lang Ping has used young coaches such as An Jiajie, Wu Xiaolei, Yu Fei and Tong Li. She also invited Sherwin S.W, a famous surgeon from the University of Chicago School of Medicine, as a team doctor to reduce injuries for women volleyball players. There is also Elizabeth Darling, a physiotherapist with a certificate of sports coach and a certificate of clinical specialist in bone trauma, who provides special sports medical services for the women's volleyball team. < P > The "Great National Team" scheme has solved the previous difficulties of China women's volleyball team for many years. Once upon a time, the national women's volleyball team "dominated the world with one lineup", and the main players were overloaded in large and small events, and the substitutes were not given the opportunity to play, which was obviously different from the main players.

But in Lang Ping's team, there is only the difference between starting players and non-starting players. The main players rotate in a large area, and different teams can be diverted to face different games.

Under this mechanism, in 219, the youngest second team of women's volleyball team led by coach An Jiajie will be able to beat the proud Italian women's volleyball team led by famous player Eganu with a record of 3-. At the Tokyo Olympic Games, Li Yingying, who replaced Zhu Ting, was able to turn the tide of the war in an instant.

Lang Ping put forward the requirement of "reading" for himself and his players. We are not required to "study", but to reach an understanding of the internal logic of things.

When she took over the China Women's Volleyball Team twice, the first thing she did was always to "read the players".

Before the meeting, she asked the team members to fill out a questionnaire, which was all about the individual players: your personality characteristics, technical characteristics, what you want the coach to help you with, and so on. In this way, Lang Ping can quickly get to know the players.

In 213, Shen Jingsi, the setter, saw Lang Ping for the first time in the arena. When Lang Ping looked up and saw her, he unexpectedly called out Shen Jingsi's nickname: "Xiao Kui, run forward!"

In the process of heart-to-heart closeness, Lang Ping can easily distinguish how to communicate with girls with different personalities. She knows when to be dignified and when to be kind.

In the usual training and competition, she gradually taught the team members to "read the competition", to understand the opponent's offensive and defensive intentions, and to understand the causal relationship between the scores.

Lang Ping's elder sister, Qi Hong, once told people about this idea of "reading". For example, people can't defend against slashes, so we should see that she can only buckle slashes when she is near the net. If the ball is far from the net, she can't play this effect. Therefore, Lang Ping trains everyone to judge the ball in advance according to the changes on the field.

At the same time, with the help of more scientific analysis means, she introduced Italian technical analysis software, calculated the opponent's spike route, and made defense and adjusted the attack strategy according to the analysis results.

What's more valuable is that Lang Ping built all these wise strategies on accumulated hard work. She said, "In fact, there is no secret to victory, but to do well every day."

She is never vague about the basic skills training of women volleyball players. Arrange players to practice finger lying support, so as to exercise their finger strength and enhance the blocking effect. Wang Yimei, who is overweight, is always afraid of this link. Every time she finishes practicing, her finger hurts like it is going to be broken. But Lang Ping always calls the roll, chasing Wang Yimei to do finger support. "Damei, where are you hiding?"

Lang Ping has always set an example. Her joints often hurt with injuries, but after a five-hour training, she walked around and guided, sitting and resting for no more than 2 minutes.

It's no secret that Lang Ping worships Jordan. She reads Jordan's biography, and she will also tell the players about his excellent qualities. The most important thing she learned from Jordan is a pure sense of competition. When an athlete reaches the most advanced position in the world, the war he waged is his own war with himself.

"Jordan's psychological quality is excellent. When it comes to the critical moment, he will beat the life out of him, and he will generally be soft. He is afraid that if he can't score the goal, Jordan, on the contrary, the more intense the game, the more energetic he plays, the more he dares to shoot, that is, he can perform, that is, he can score. He felt that his value was reflected in his extraordinary performance at the critical moment. He said that no one in the world can stop him from scoring, and there is only one person, that is himself. To overcome yourself. "

In her autobiography, she wrote: "An excellent player is first of all a civilized person and an excellent person."

In 1986, after winning five consecutive titles, Lang Ping decided to retire and first studied English at Beijing Normal University. The following year, she went to study in the United States at her own expense through the "New China Education Foundation", and first came to Los Angeles where Chinese people were concentrated.

At that time, she had only a few hundred dollars on her, and because of the nature of her visa, she could not work, so her life had no source. Chinese in Los Angeles helped her and often held parties for her. But she depends on others for food and shelter, and still lives in a Chinese circle, which is contrary to her original intention.

At that time, the reason why she chose to study abroad was that she wanted to step down from the throne of the champion and start from scratch.

She knows that without the women's volleyball team, she is nothing. She must completely turn her life to zero and start learning new skills again. "I try not to be blinded by the great success and honor of' five consecutive championships' and keep my heart bright."

So she made a decision again and left.