After Cecil Mehmel, the absolute main force of the American gymnastics team, was injured unexpectedly last week, other main players of the American team had to shoulder more hopes of helping the home team win gold. Nastia Liukin, who comes from a gymnast's family, is one of them. Liu Jin, who started gymnastics at the age of 4, is best at balance beam and uneven bars. In the 2005 World Championships, she won these two championships alone, creating the best moment of her career. Although her ankle injury made her miss most of the competitions in 2006, Liu Jinyong won the runner-up in women's team, balance beam and uneven bars in last year's World Championships, which once again announced her return.

However, most people are familiar with Liu Jin through his superb performance on the court. When the Olympic Games is about to begin, let's interpret the gymnasts inside and outside the stadium from more aspects:

1. Russian interview

Although Liu Jin is an American athlete, his parents are both famous gymnasts in the former Soviet Union. Liu Jin's father won the gold medal in gymnastics at the Seoul Olympic Games, while his mother was the world champion in rhythmic gymnastics. Liu Jin was born in Moscow and speaks fluent Russian. Although he moved to the United States with his parents when he was two years old, Liu Jin talked with Russian journalists in fluent Russian at the World Championships held in Stuttgart last year.

2. There is no plan for retirement.

As an athlete, Liu Jin has a brilliant career. She is the winner of six national champions and three world champions. However, she said that the Beijing Olympic Games will never be her last time. "I will continue to fight, and I will participate in the 20 12 London Olympic Games."

Participate in advertisements and movies.

During the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, her short advertisement for Adidas was all the rage. Liu Jin also appeared in the gymnastics film Unswervingly directed by Jessica Bendinger, the screenwriter of Sex and the City.

4. Songs that inspire progress

Liu Jin said that rapper Eminem's "Lost Yourself" was a song that she constantly absorbed in the competition.

5. Liu Jin equipment

Like most big-name athletes, Liu Jin also showed his personality in competition equipment. Her favorite color and her signature can be noticed when watching the game.

6. Decrypt the background music on the field

While watching the figure skating competition in the 2006 Winter Olympics, the music of runner-up sasha cohen attracted Liu Jin. This folk song "Black Eyes" from Russia has since become the music that sounded in her court.

7. China's fear of acupuncture

Every athlete's career is more or less inseparable from injuries, and Liu Jin has also encountered such problems. However, she was always afraid of the China acupuncture therapy she tried, although she said it was actually very effective for her.