She was reduced from a weightlifting champion to a bath worker, earning 500 yuan a month. Her body showed male characteristics and she was unable to have children-

At about 2 pm on March 15, 2006, steam was steaming in a bathhouse in Changchun. A female bather skillfully put on a bath towel and rubbed hard on the female bather's back...

"Are you a national weightlifting champion? A national champion gives me a bath?" The female bather was very surprised. Surprised. The bather didn't answer. She sat tiredly in the corner with an embarrassed expression.

This female bather is the famous weightlifter and national weightlifting champion Zou Chunlan in the past. From champion to bathhouse worker, what has she experienced in her life?

Zou Chunlan's residence is a room with an area of ??less than 5 square meters. In addition to the bed, a coffee table occupies the largest area of ????the room, with a small TV placed on it and a bag of eggs next to it.

On a round table, Zou Chunlan carefully displayed the 14 various weightlifting medals she had won, including 4 gold medals.

Living such a poverty-stricken life, it is difficult for many people to imagine that she was once a famous weightlifter and national weightlifting champion in our country.

Zou Chunlan, a native of Meihekou City, Jilin Province, was spotted by the physical education teacher when she was a 14-year-old student because of her strength. She lifted 90 kilograms of barbells for the first time and fell in love with her from then on. this sport.

In 1987, Zou Chunlan entered the first sports team of Jilin Province. In September of the same year, at the National Weightlifting Championships, Zou Chunlan placed second in the snatch and first in the clean and jerk. Having achieved such excellent results as soon as she debuted, Zou Chunlan naturally became a key training target for the provincial first sports team.

In the autumn of 1988, at the National Weightlifting Championships, Zou Chunlan won three gold medals in the 44kg category: snatch, clean and jerk, and total score. Among them, the clean and jerk and total score broke the world record. Zou Chunlan's name suddenly shocked the weightlifting world.

In November 1990, he broke the national record in the 48kg class at the National Weightlifting Championships. In 1993, the Seventh National Games was the only competition in which Zou Chunlan did not win a medal due to injuries, and she retired in the same year.

In 2000, after working in the weightlifting team cafeteria for a period of time, 29-year-old Zou Chunlan took her file, said goodbye to her colleagues and friends, and sadly left the weightlifting team.

After leaving the sports team in 2000, although Zou Chunlan received 80,000 yuan in injury compensation, she quickly fell into financial difficulties due to her low educational level and poor livelihood.

In 2006, Zou Chunlan and her husband came to work in this public bathhouse in Changchun City, earning a meager income by rubbing the backs of customers.

Zou Chunlan has been working in this bathhouse for almost a year. She works as a bather and charges 5 yuan for each bath. Zou Chunlan gets 1.25 yuan. After a month, Zou Chunlan earned less than 500 yuan.

Zou Chunlan and his wife live in a room with an area of ??less than 5 square meters. The embarrassing life of the former national weightlifting champion is clearly revealed.

Due to being engaged in sports training all year round, Zou Chunlan completely neglected her studies. She only had less than the education of the third grade of elementary school and could not even pinyin.

In addition to being uneducated, she also lacks any skills. After long-term weightlifting training, Zou Chunlan had no expertise in practical techniques, and was very slow to learn other professions...

After leaving weightlifting, Zou Chunlan found it difficult to move forward. In the small room, there was silence for a long time, and Zou Chunlan said: "Looking back at the painful past is a kind of torture."

It is reported that the owner of this bathhouse is also an athlete, and is a fellow villager with Zou Chunlan. Met during training. Seeing that it was really difficult for her, he took her in here and provided her with free meals and accommodation as a way of helping her former colleagues.

Zou Chunlan, who is 1.5 meters tall, looks very thin. She can only have lunch between bathing. The meal she served was rice and stewed cabbage. She said: “I couldn’t stand eating rice and cabbage for a long time, so I scrambled two eggs to satisfy my craving.

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As a woman, the most painful thing for Zou Chunlan is that her body shows many male characteristics. Even if she takes estrogen drugs every day, the effect is not great.

Being an athlete During this period, he took a drug called "Dianabol" for a long time, which is a derivative of male hormones. It can accelerate muscle growth and enhance the body's strength and physical strength. After that, he had trouble with sexual symptoms for many years. > Every two or three days, after Zou Chunlan gets up, she looks in the mirror for a long time to see the changes on her face, and plucks out the black stubble that sprouts from her mouth. Affected by her early training, her body appears.

In order to maintain her female characteristics, Zou Chunlan needed to constantly take estrogen drugs, which cost her a lot of money, but had little effect.

She is a national champion, but she feels that she is not as good as ordinary people, and signs of the opposite sex often appear, and her inferiority complex still accompanies her to this day.

She is still unable to have children. After preliminary examination, the hospital said that her uterus is developing. Bad, she doesn’t know if it has something to do with the “Dianabol” she took during training.

Zou Chunlan has obvious male characteristics in many places, such as the heavy hair on her calves. The voice is thick and hoarse, the skin is as rough as that of men, etc.

Zou Chunlan said: "The vast majority of female athletes can restore their female characteristics after adjustment. It is very rare for me to have such a condition. Every day. They all took prednisone (a hormone drug), but the adjustment effect was not good. "

As she grows older, her physical strength becomes worse and worse, her heart is not good, and she often feels unable to do what she wants when taking a bath. Zou Chunlan really hopes to give birth to a child for her husband, but her body has No longer able to have children.

When Zou Chunlan was in trouble, she met Lao Zhou through matchmaking. On August 18, 2001, the two got married. > Lao Zhou is 7 years older than Zou Chunlan and lives in Chaoyang Town. In the late 1980s, he was influenced by the movie "Shaolin Temple" and thought it would be good to be a monk. When he was nearly 30 years old, he became a monk in a local temple and began to travel around the world. .

After getting married, the two lived in Lao Zhou's brother's house. Lao Zhou made 500 yuan a month by delivering beer to the wholesale department. However, the job of delivering beer was really precarious and the income was very unstable. , There was no other way, so they started to think of other ways to make a living.

He said that the General Administration of Sports has always attached great importance to the employment placement of athletes. The country has introduced a series of retirement policies. Athlete placement and protection policy.

After Zou Chunlan’s situation was disclosed by the media, the domestic response was very strong. Many companies invited her to work for the purpose of promoting and hyping themselves, but Zou Chunlan felt that she was uncultured. The level was too low and she just wanted to learn a trade.

At this time, the All-China Women's Federation and the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau decided to help Zou Chunlan start her own business. She bought a set of laundry equipment and opened a dry cleaning shop.

Zou Chunlan's laundry business did not go smoothly at first, firstly because she had no experience, and secondly because of the fierce competition in the market. The price of laundry has been reduced and the quality of service has been improved.

Seeing Zou Chunlan’s sincere service attitude and her reputation as a weightlifting champion, many people choose to do laundry at her dry cleaners.

Zou Chunlan realized that if she was uneducated, everything would have to start from scratch. Life was very difficult, but it was often not others who knocked her down, but herself. She vowed in her heart to be a "champion of life." ".

In order to provide customers with higher quality services, when she receives the clothes, she will carefully check them first, mark the stained areas, and then hand them over to the laundry worker.

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Through her hard work, the business of the dry cleaning shop is getting better and better. There are five people in the laundry, a washer, an ironer, and a front desk. In order to generate income, Zou Chunlan asked her husband. I learned shoe repair skills and also started a shoe repair business.

In 2008, Zou Chunlan was named an "Influential Chinese Women of the Era at Home and Abroad" by the All-China Women's Federation. In 2009, she was named a female entrepreneurship model in Jilin Province.

With the help of the state and her own efforts, Zou Chunlan has rediscovered herself. From an Olympic champion to a bathing worker, and from a bathing worker to today's "boss lady", Zou Chunlan's life Another counterattack.

Regarding her past, Zou Chunlan was very emotional: "That is the path I chose. Even if I can have my own children, I will not let her go again. I will devote all my youth to it." If I end up in this situation like her mother, how can I bear it?”

Yes, the employment placement of athletes is a matter of historical evolution, and it is a transition from a planned economy to a market economy? problems that arise during the process.

In order to solve the problems of retired athletes’ study, employment and social security, the country has formulated and issued a series of policies and regulations.

In addition to requiring the establishment of an employment training system for retired athletes, it also emphasizes the establishment and strengthening of an integrated training and education system to ensure that athletes receive nine-year compulsory education with quality while completing training and competition tasks, and relax the requirements for athletes Admission requirements so that athletes can master livelihood skills as quickly as possible.

But at the same time, we have also seen that in some backward and poor places in our country, there are not a few children who choose to pursue sports dreams and Olympic dreams because of poverty.

Coordinated development of economy and sports may be the fundamental way to solve these problems.

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