If you look carefully at Vanderbilt's head, you will see two shocking scars. These two coin-sized scars are not other people's decorations. They are traces left by leukemia patients after chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation. Such scars will tremble when people talk or even gasp. This year, 27-year-old Vanderbilt has a talent for swimming. However, at the age of 20, he was diagnosed with leukemia, which may not only take away his sports career, but also his life.
Fortunately, Vanderbilt won the final victory in the fight against the disease. After successful bone marrow stem cell transplantation, Vanderbilt back in the game. In 2008, he wrote the most heroic stroke in his sports career in Beijing. "Gold inlaid with jade" is the best reward for a hero who never speaks.
Where there are dreams, there will be miracles.
On the evening of August 8, when the Iraqi delegation with only four athletes walked into the National Stadium, it won more applause than the superpowers such as the United States and Russia. About half a month before the opening of the Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee disqualified Iraq from participating in this Olympic Games. Although the Iraqi team regained the right to participate in most competitions through mediation, the registration time for most competitions passed, and finally only four athletes in Iraq won the right to participate.
In this team, two rowers, Nozad and Djebbour, are wearing old uniforms. Even when they went ashore after the game, a reporter saw that their socks were torn in several places. As for the racing car ting used in the competition, it is also provided by the organizing Committee. Donna, a beautiful young sprinter, is cheerful and approachable. When she smiled and told you that someone shot her while she was training in China, you couldn't believe it. However, this is the fact that Donna's life has been directly threatened many times. It is in this situation that Donna and his coach keep on training. The second-hand running shoes on her feet were bought in the second-hand market in Jordan during one of the few overseas competitions, and the shoes have been worn out.
The result of the game can be imagined. Players Nozad and Djebbour finally reached the finish line in the preliminary round, and Donna failed in the first shot of the women's 65,438+000 meters. However, when they came to Beijing to participate in the competition, they had already created a miracle. As Donna herself said, "It has always been my dream to represent my country in the Olympic Games. No matter how difficult and dangerous it is, I will stick to it! "
Those who are familiar with gymnastics will be familiar with Sovikina's name. In gymnastics, a female athlete is already a "veteran" at the age of 20, but now the Kazakhstan veteran who represents Germany is 33 years old. In fact, as early as ten years ago, the athletes of Chu Institute had the same experience as many other female gymnasts. They took part in the competition in their teens, and after their twenties, they chose to retire, get married and have children. However, misfortune suddenly befell her: her son was diagnosed with leukemia shortly after birth, which requires a lot of money to treat. At this moment, Chusovitina, who has retired for six years, chose to come back to participate in the competition and earn money to treat her son. In the past few years, she can be seen in international gymnastics competitions, big and small.
In order to give her son a better treatment environment, Chusovitina moved to Germany and changed her nationality to represent the German team in international competitions. At the Gymnastics World Cup, the World Championships and the Olympic Games, people have seen this veteran who is over 30 years old fighting wits with athletes who are more than ten years younger than himself. In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Chusovitina appeared again. Surprisingly, the 33-year-old veteran won the silver medal in vault! This is also the only gain of German female gymnasts in this Olympic Games. The 33-year-old Chusuo not only has touching stories, but also is as good as those young girls in sports. The moment he stepped onto the podium, Chuso got the warmest applause from the audience.
She is a successful athlete and a great mother.
She did something with one arm that is difficult for ordinary people to do with both hands. Her name is Natalia? Patika, a strong girl born with a disability in her right lower arm, is known as the Polish Venus born for table tennis. 13 is Pattika's first high-profile appearance at this Olympic Games. She represented Poland in the first round of the women's team group match against China and Hongkong, although she lost the match by a narrow margin. But in the competition, this one-armed woman still won the respect and applause of the audience. Pattika, ranked third in Poland and ranked 147 in the world, has been fascinated by table tennis since she was seven years old. She participated in the Paralympic Games at the age of1/and won the table tennis championship at the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games at the age of 15. This year, she also defeated the world's sixth-ranked Singaporean Li Jiawei in the first round of the World Table Tennis Championships, proving her strength. Although Pattika didn't get a ticket to the women's singles in this Olympic Games, she was able to represent the Polish women's table tennis team in the women's team competition, and at the same time she tried to defend the gold medal in the Paralympic Games. As a disabled athlete, Pattika explained the true meaning of sports with a different kind of beauty and touched the world.