Behind the success of Olympic champions

A gymnast worthy of respect from each of us - Chusovitina. After retiring, this great mother could have enjoyed a happy family life, but unfortunately her child was diagnosed with leukemia, so she decided to return to sports. And she transformed herself from a vaulting expert into an all-around female gymnast. Many 33-year-old people are enjoying the warmth of family, but the 33-year-old is still working hard in the competition to treat her son's illness... In the past 7 years, she has continuously participated in various competitions and won one gold, two silver and three medals. A good result of bronze... Such a great and dedicated mother, I really hope she can be healthy and successfully get a medal... After all, this year she represents Germany in order to create good medical conditions for her children. Team competition, victory in the first battle, maybe this mother's future journey will be smoother, but after all, she is not young anymore. I hope this mother can achieve good results in 2008!

"One", the 24-year-old Shaanxi girl Guo Wenjun performed well in the women's air pistol final, overturning Pajerina of the Russian team and winning the championship with a record-breaking score of 492.3 points, winning for the Chinese Army. Beijing’s third gold medal.

With a "pop" sound, Guo Wenjun fired the most important shot in his life. 10.8 rings! A dream shot where the bullet and the bullseye almost overlap! ! Guo Wenjun, a 24-year-old girl from Xi'an, reached glory in her first trip.

When happiness came like this, Guo Wenjun's eyes became moist. Not many people know that there is actually a lot of sadness hidden behind this heavy piece.

Her father disappeared

She was only 14 years old that year

When Guo Wenjun was very young, his parents divorced, and Guo Wenjun lived with his father Guo Jingsheng. The relationship between father and daughter relying on each other has become the backbone of Guo Wenjun's life.

In October 1997, 14-year-old Guo Wenjun was selected to attend the Municipal Military Sports School to learn shooting from coach Huang Yanhua. In April 1999, on the night when Guo Wenjun followed Coach Huang to Chengdu to participate in a competition, Guo Jingsheng found Huang's wife and solemnly asked her to tell her: "I am going away, so my daughter will be left in the hands of Coach Huang. Please treat him as your own." Just like his own daughter, he raised Wen Jun to be a talented person." After saying that, Guo Jingsheng disappeared into the night.

Back at the rental house where Guo Jingsheng lived, Guo Wenjun only saw a gray windbreaker hanging on the wall, which his father often wore. Guo Wenjun couldn't help crying. Huang Yanhua tried every means to find Guo Jingsheng, but no one knew his whereabouts.

From then on, Guo Wenjun could only live and eat for free at the military sports school. In 1999, her aunt sent her 2,000 yuan, and together with the 500 yuan championship bonus she won in the provincial youth competition in August, the 2,500 yuan became Guo Wenjun's entire property.

Life is rough

Left the team twice to work in shopping malls

After losing his father, Guo Wenjun, who was already introverted, became even more taciturn. During the winter vacation of 1999, Guo Wenjun heard from the landlord who rented a house to his father that someone like Guo Jingsheng was wandering outside the door, so he went to the rental house every day to wait. Because the key was lost, she had to carry a ladder and climb in through the window. I waited in the house for a week and still didn't see my father.

Perhaps the longing for his father gave him the motivation, and Guo Wenjun’s grades skyrocketed. But one day in mid-January 2002, Guo Wenjun suddenly disappeared. It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that Guo Wenjun's mother Zhang Lin called Coach Huang and said, "The child doesn't want to practice anymore." After consideration, Huang Yanhua did not deal with Guo Wenjun's private departure from the team. Instead, he asked Zhang Lin to take his daughter to Shanghai to relax. A week later, Guo Wenjun came back on his own and practiced hard like a changed person.

Guo Wenjun did not perform well in the fifth City Games. So I "didn't want to practice anymore" and went to work as a clothing salesperson at Xi'an Kaiyuan Mall. But the hard working life made Guo Wenjun feel that although training is boring, it is also a kind of happiness.

“Only when I really put down my gun do I realize how much I love it.” Finally, after nearly a year of working, Guo Wenjun raised his beloved pistol again.

I want to see my dad

It’s a missing person notice

Having aimed in the right direction, Guo Wenjun’s shooting road is getting smoother and smoother. He entered the provincial team at the end of 2005 and joined the national team in 2006.

When he arrived at the national team, Guo Wenjun’s potential was fully unleashed. Just two months later, Guo Wenjun competed abroad for the first time and won the air pistol individual silver medal and team medal at the Doha Asian Games.

So much so that Wang Yifu even publicly lamented, "This kid is a shooting genius who only comes out once in a hundred years."

However, after the six-city meeting in October 2007, Guo Wenjun’s thoughts began to stir again. She told Huang Yanhua that she felt uncomfortable when she saw her father's scarf, and she couldn't bear the torture every day.

Huang Yanhua understood the pain in his disciple's heart, but he did not want this outstanding shooting talent to die on the road to glory. He once again used the provocation method and said: "The meeting is coming soon. If you give up, your father will definitely be disappointed when he finds out. If you take it, this will be the best missing person notice, and your father may come to find you."< /p>

The effect of the stimulation method is very direct. Huang Yanhua said: "She told me that she must perform well and let her father see it."

So, in 2008, Guo Wenjun won the Asian Championships Air pistol champion, and edged out national champion Tao Luna in the national team selection.

On the court, Guo Wenjun, who has "special motivation", did not disappoint. After a suffocating fight, Guo Wenjun finally hung it on his chest.

The growth story of "Second Day" Olympic champion Wang Liping

The exciting scene of Wang Liping winning the only gold medal in track and field for China in the Sydney Olympics seems to have gradually faded from people's memories. , interviewed the National Race Walking Championships, and what I felt most deeply was the influence of the first Olympic champion in Dandong’s history on the local people. All the citizens were proud that Dandong had this race walking champion. Yesterday afternoon, Director Jiang Yide of the Dandong Municipal Sports Committee told reporters the little-known story of Wang Liping's growth.

Wang Liping was born in rural Fengcheng City in 1976. Her mother was a simple farmer. The family's living expenses were only supported by her father, who worked at a coal mine tobacco purchase station in Fengcheng City. They lived a tight life. Wang Liping has had athletic talent since she was a child. Every time the school held a sports meeting, she always came first. In June 1989, Wang Liping was selected by Fengcheng City Sports School and switched to race walking.

The next year, Zhao Shiliang recommended Wang Liping to Wang Kui, a famous coach in the Chinese race walking world at the time, and transferred her to the Liaoning team for trial training. Since Wang Liping was particularly hard-working in training, Wang Kui kept the thin little girl and immediately rewarded her with a set of sportswear and a pair of sneakers. From then on, Wang Liping, Chen Yueling, Wang Yan, Liu Hongyu and others became fellow disciples and sisters. Wang Liping had a bad gastrointestinal condition and would vomit when she exercised heavily. However, good results must be accompanied by heavy exercise. So on the training ground, Wang Liping often vomited until only yellow bile was left. Even coach Wang Kui couldn't bear to watch it anymore.

In 1996, Wang Liping almost ended her race walking career. At that time, on the eve of the Atlanta Olympics, top race walkers from across the country gathered in Yunnan for the Olympic trials. During training, Wang Liping's knee injury recurred and became more and more serious. At first she could barely train, but later she felt excruciating pain every step of the way. The doctor told Wang Liping that she must give up the walking race immediately, so Wang Liping had to return to her hometown to recuperate. Two months later, Wang Liping stood on the training field again with her pain relieved slightly, gritted her teeth and started training again.

With tenacious perseverance, Wang Liping finally overcame the injury and her performance improved significantly. Before the 1999 World Cup, a qualifier was held in China. In the "pinch attack" of many players including Liu Hongyu, Wang Yan, etc., Wang Liping came out in second place. For the Sydney Olympics, Wang Liping is not on the official list. She has to go through the trials to gain the right to participate in the Olympics.

Wang Liping ranked first in the first and second trials. The last stop was Dalian Lushun. Four days before the competition, Wang Liping's knee injury recurred. Her coach hurriedly invited experts from Harbin to provide her with physical therapy. Two days later, before the start of the game, Wang Liping was pleasantly surprised to find that her knee no longer hurt. After 20 kilometers, Wang Liping was the champion again. With three trials championship titles, the "unknown" Wang Liping caught the last train to Sydney.

"Three" Marathon runner Bartini - the Olympic champion who ran from a dairy farm

Some people deny that Athens is a holy place where myths are created. But many people did not expect that in the men's marathon, the last eye-catching event of the Olympic Games, they would be the first to run into the opening ceremony venue of the first Olympic Games, the Panasinaiko Stadium in Athens, and the first to cross the finish line. The winner was not the men's marathon world record holder Tegat from Kenya and the powerful African athletes in this event, but Italy's Stefano Baldini, whom many people are not familiar with.

However, anyone who knows track and field knows that Baldini is not an "alien", but the only one who has dominated the world's long-distance running and marathon competitions in recent years. A white marathon runner who can constantly compete with and achieve good results in the World Championships and several famous marathons in the world. Therefore, before the game, the Italians had already "secretly" kept this precious gold medal in their account.

Baldini, who was born on a dairy farm in Bustenovo, Italy, has very good marathon talent and performance. Under his leadership, the Italians ranked second only to Africa in the men's marathon event. Powerhouses Kenya and Ethiopia.

Bardini’s marathon career began in October 1995 in Venice, Italy, when he finished 11th in 2 hours, 11 minutes and 01 seconds. A year later, he finished in Parma Won the World Half Marathon Championship. But his big breakthrough came at the famous British London Marathon in 1997. Not only did he set his first Italian national record with a time of 2 hours, 07 minutes and 57 seconds, but he also finished second behind Portugal's Pinto. , which surprised the organizers of the event.

After winning the marathon championship at the European Athletics Championships in 1998, Baldini won the bronze medal twice at the 2001 World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada and the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris, France. For Baldini, this year's Athens Olympics is an important turning point in his sports career, because he had to give up the chance to win a medal due to an arm muscle injury at the Sydney Olympics four years ago. That painful experience is still unforgettable for Baldini, but it made him stronger.

Bardini and his coach go to the plateau of Namibia every winter to train, and every time he comes down from the plateau, his results are very good. This year's Athens Olympic marathon is held on the original marathon route where the Greek hero Philibides ran to Athens to report the good news of victory in 490 BC. There are many hills and hills, and the hot temperature in Athens in August is a challenge for the athletes. A severe test. But Baldini made full mental and other preparations for this. Sure enough, Baldini began to catch up with the leading Brazilian player Lima at the 35th kilometer of the race, and finally lived up to expectations. Following Boldin at the Seoul Olympics, Baldini became the second Italian to win this Olympic gold medal.

When Baldini, wearing an olive branch wreath on his head, stood on the championship podium at the Olympic Stadium and accepted the gold medal awarded by International Olympic Committee President Rogge in front of billions of viewers around the world, he Became the pride of Italy.