Chen Zhaodi: The hero of five consecutive women's volleyball championships and the first female general in sports. Her death touched the mountains of Lang Ping.

On the afternoon of April 20 1 March, a huge farewell ceremony was held in the Shandong Auditorium of Babel in Beijing. Chen Zhaodi, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army and consultant of the China Volleyball Association, died at the age of 58.

Chen Zhaodi was the main player of China women's volleyball team in the period of five consecutive championships. She won the World Cup in 198 1 and the World Championship in 1982. At the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, she and Song Shixiong explained the women's volleyball competition, which left a deep impression on the fans. It is worth mentioning that Chen Zhaodi is the first female soldier in the army to be awarded the rank of Major General in sports.

Chen Zhaodi, male, 1955, from Hangzhou, Zhejiang. She has shown outstanding athletic talent since she was a child, and she can run, jump and play ball. She is a famous athlete in the school. 1970 65438+February, Zhejiang Women's Volleyball Team was established. Chen Zhaodi, who is only 15 years old, joined the Zhejiang team and became a volleyball player.

Due to his outstanding achievements, Chen Zhaodi was transferred to the Youth Training Team of Beijing Institute of Physical Education on 197 1. At that time, Chen Zhaodi's style of play was tenacious, and he dared to fight and fight. He soon stood out among his peers. First selected by Bayi Women's Volleyball Team, and finally selected by Yuan Weimin with 1976.

At that time, just after the Cultural Revolution, the newly reorganized China women's volleyball team entered the international competition for the first time, and the results were not satisfactory. In order to improve their performance, head coach Yuan Weimin conducted strict training for women's volleyball players.

Once after training, Yuan Weimin asked the players, "Who wants to practice more?"

But the girls were exhausted after a day's training, and no one responded to Yuan Weimin's words. Chen Zhaodi thought: Then I will practice for a while! So I took the initiative to walk over.

The training procedure stipulated by Yuan Weimin is to let the athletes touch the barbed wire on the sideline first, then run to the 3-meter line to save the ball by tumbling, and then run back to start the next round of saving the ball ... A * * * must catch 15 good balls before it is over.

Chen Zhaodi managed to catch the first few balls, but when she caught the ninth ball, she was too tired to run, so she missed it. At this moment, Yuan Weimin said, "You missed, you buckled a ball!" "

Chen Zhaodi was so emotional that he missed the last few balls. When the ninth ball disappeared from her eyes, Yuan Weimin said that her strike was deducted and she was asked to start over.

Chen Zhaodi suddenly became angry. She shouted at Yuan Weimin, "I took the initiative to practice anyway. I will not practice in the head office! " Then she went out.

Yuan Weimin also roared: "If you don't want to practice, don't practice? This is training, not joking! You left today, and you will be the first to practice tomorrow! "

Chen Zhaodi looked back again, not because she was afraid, but because she didn't believe it. She thought, I must pick up 15 and show it to the coach!

Yuan Weimin still slowly serving, as if nothing had happened. Chen Zhaodi's physical strength was overdrawn again, and she couldn't stand it, so she turned to retreat again. But when she walked to the door, she still felt unwilling. She turned back to the training ground for the third time and finally scored 15 with amazing perseverance.

Chen Zhaodi's story of "three in and three out" became a symbol of the spirit of women's volleyball. At that time, in the women's volleyball team, she was old, and her teammates saw that she could persist and train more actively. This story was later written as an article "Hard Training" and selected as a junior high school Chinese textbook.

Through hard training, Chen Zhaodi has become a famous setter of China women's volleyball team. She not only has excellent single defense ability on the court, but also creatively uses the "double fast" tactics with Chen Yaqiong, which officially kicked off the innovation of the second and third positions in volleyball.

1978, Chen Zhaodi returned from the national team to Bayi team to play the national first-class league. His first injury was an accidental scratch on his left arm. 1June, 979, Japanese women's volleyball team visited China and played a match with China. When Chen Zhaodi blocked the game, Keiko, who was facing the other side of the net, forced the injured part and caused a fracture.

However, in the two-month National Games, Chen Zhaodi hung his left arm with a bandage and one hand was injured. She won the reputation of "one-armed general" with tenacious fighting spirit.

In the 3rd Women's Volleyball World Cup final on1981116 night, Chen Zhaodi accidentally sprained her waist in the third game. Nevertheless, she tried her best to defend the opponent's attack. China and Japan fought fiercely for 2 hours and 5 minutes, and finally won the first world championship successfully.

After the game, Chen Zhaodi couldn't stand up in pain and had to be helped to the podium by his teammates. The scene made people cry. Tonight, audiences all over the country remember "desperate Saburo" Chen Zhaodi.

In 1982, Chen Zhaodi won the world championship with the women's volleyball team. 1983, Chen Zhaodi officially retired and entered the Beijing Institute of Physical Education. After graduation, she served as the leader and coach of Bayi Women's Volleyball Team and the head coach of China Youth Women's Volleyball Team.

1In the summer of 986, Chen Zhaodi, then head coach of China Youth Women's Volleyball Team, led his team to Rong. When organizing team training, she often feels sick and complains to her colleagues: "The peppers in Sichuan are so hot that they burn her stomach!"

Colleagues reminded her: "You didn't?"

The colleague's words reminded Chen Zhaodi that she went to the hospital for an examination and found that she was pregnant. But her first reaction was: children can't have them. Because I was busy with my career at that time, I didn't have the energy to raise my children, but if I had an abortion, I had to rest for half a month. But as the head coach herself, she will miss preparing for the Asian Youth Women's Volleyball Championship. Finally, she decided to keep her children and continue to organize team training.

One day, Chen Zhaodi stood on the high platform and pitched for the players. At this time, the team leader rushed in and shouted at Chen Zhaodi: "Come down quickly!" Only then did I know that the coach had been pregnant for three months.

In the end, China Youth Women's Volleyball Team won the runner-up in the Asian Championship and got the ticket to the World Youth Women's Volleyball Championship.

Just as Chen Zhaodi was preparing to make great efforts in the coaching position, 1988, she had rectal cancer surgery and had to give up her job as a volleyball coach temporarily and bid farewell to the volleyball court.

At the beginning of 1989, Chen Zhaodi recovered from a serious illness. At this time, China women's volleyball team rallied, and the State Sports Commission intends to seconde her as the team leader. At this time, Hainan Province also wanted her to be appointed as the deputy director of the Culture and Sports Department. At that time, Chen Zhaodi's lover also worked in Hainan. If she goes to Hainan, she will not only have a good job, but also be reunited with her lover and daughter. But after careful consideration, she decided to return to the national team.

After returning to the women's volleyball team, Chen Zhaodi deeply felt that under the impact of the tide of commodity economy, the ideological work of sports teams in the new period could not be conformist. He asked himself to be more careful, and all the details were beautiful. She not only trains and lives with the team members, but also often chats, laughs and entertains with them. It was in this kind of communication that she mastered the ideological trends of the players.

After getting familiar with the players, Chen Zhaodi felt that compared with the old women's volleyball team in the 1980s, they lacked the fighting spirit of taking volleyball as a career, so she often told the players stories about the old women's volleyball team. Encouraged by this, the players expressed their desire to learn from the old women's volleyball team, strive to improve themselves and live up to the hopes of the people of the whole country.

Chen Zhaodi led the women's volleyball team to win the third place in the World Cup with 1989 and the second place in the World Championships with 19 1, but it also experienced the seventh trough of the Barcelona Olympic Games with 1992. Later, she recalled the failure and said, "It felt like death.

From 65438 to 0993, Chen Zhaodi returned to work in the military system, and successively served as director of the Cultural and Sports Bureau of the General Political Department, deputy political commissar of the General Political Department and deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Headquarters.

Returning to the army to engage in administrative work is a brand-new challenge for Chen Zhaodi: in the past, being an athlete, coach and team leader was mainly about moving, but now sitting in the office is mainly about static; In the past, only volleyball was in charge, but now volleyball, basketball, track and field, swimming and other events are in charge. Chen Zhaodi is busier than before.

However, Chen Zhaodi once again overcame these difficulties by his own tenacity. As long as there is a game to liberate the army, she will go to see it. As long as there are questions she doesn't understand, she goes to others for advice. Although she made some jokes, she quickly became familiar with the business, from a "volleyball expert" to a "saint"

1995 10, Chen Zhaodi participated in the Military World Games with the PLA delegation and won 13 gold medals, ranking third in the total number of gold medals. From 65438 to 0996, after the start of China Volleyball League, Chen Zhaodi always used his spare time as the technical representative of China Volleyball League.

In 2006, Chen Zhaodi was awarded the rank of Major General for her outstanding work, becoming the first female general in sports. Regarding the rank of general, she once said: "If winning the championship is the persistent pursuit of athletes and the general is the glorious dream of soldiers, then now my dream has really come true!"

Despite her outstanding achievements in her career, Chen Zhaodi has always felt very indebted to her family, especially her daughter Chen Guo. Because Chen Zhaodi often goes deep into the sports teams of various military regions, and there are no air traffic control children, Chen Guo has been attending boarding schools since childhood and can only go home on weekends. Whenever Chen Zhaodi is on a business trip, colleagues will take the children home for the weekend.

However, Chen Guo was very sensible from an early age. She likes to help her classmates at school and is often rated as "Top Ten Teenagers". She was admitted to Nankai University with excellent college entrance examination results.

Chen Zhaodi is an enlightened mother. She has a good relationship with her daughter. She once said, "We often chat online. I never interfere in her affairs and fully respect her own wishes. I feel that there are some things that she prefers to chat with her classmates and friends, so I won't force her to ask. It's no wonder that everyone has their own circle of friends and their own trusted interlocutors. "

20 13 February, Chen Zhaodi's cancer recurred again, and he had to be admitted to the General Hospital of the Chinese People's Liberation Army for treatment. Although she actively cooperates with the treatment, her condition has been repeated and the pain is often unbearable. Whenever she is in pain, her daughter lets her bite her hand. Her daughter said, "Every time you bite me, I know you are sad. I can feel how hard you bite. I'm not afraid of being bitten by you. As long as you are strong enough to survive, I will endure it again. Come on! "

While Chen Zhaodi was in hospital, Lang Ping, who was far away in the United States, came back to visit her. She looked at her former teammate lying in the hospital bed and couldn't help crying. At the last moment of her life, Chen Zhaodi did not talk about her illness, but exchanged the training tactics of the new women's volleyball team with Lang Ping. She hopes that Lang Ping can return to China and continue to shine for the China women's volleyball team.

But the miracle didn't happen. On March 3 1 day, the hospital issued a notice of critical illness. On April 65, 438+0, Chen Zhaodi died at the age of 58.

On the day of the memorial service, the old women's volleyball players Lang Ping, Sun Jinfang and others, led by the old coach Yuan Weimin, came to the scene one after another to see their old teammates for the last time. Together, they sent a flower ball to Chen Zhaodi, which read: "We are proud of you and will miss you forever!"

At that time, the China women's volleyball team had entered a trough, and someone inside the women's volleyball team suggested inviting Lang Ping, who was in the United States, to coach in China. However, Lang Ping herself hesitated for various reasons, but after seeing Chen Zhaodi who was seriously ill, she finally decided to return to China. She said, "Why can't I make some sacrifices when China women's volleyball team needs people most?"

Finally, Lang Ping came back, and she led the China women's volleyball team to another peak, which continued the glory of the women's volleyball team. I believe that Chen Zhaodi will be pleased to see these achievements in the spirit of heaven!

The poet Cang Kejia once said in Some People: Some people are alive, but they are dead; Some people died, but he is still alive. Although Chen Zhaodi has gone, the spirit of the women's volleyball team she represents will always exist, and she will become the eternal spiritual guide of sports in China!