Celebrity Story: Fu Yuanhui, a girl who used "prehistoric power" in the Rio Olympics

The girl from Hangzhou who used the power of ancient times became the new Internet celebrity of the Rio Olympics

From the "golden words" spoken after the women's 100-meter backstroke semifinals on August 8, to August Winning the bronze medal in this event on the 9th showed her candid nature. She has become a "walking emoticon" and "a joke maker delayed by swimming" in the hearts of netizens.

For a time, Fu Yuanhui’s emoticons spread all over Weibo and WeChat Moments. Follow her! Chinese netizens expressed their love for Fu Yuanhui in this way. Overnight, the number of her Weibo fans increased by 2 million! Some netizens jokingly said that in order to love her, we have exhausted our "prehistoric strength."

Over the past two days, Fu Yuanhui’s jokes, expressions and even her short-sightedness have become her “new skills”, making her so popular on social media that she has no friends. Even CCTV Guest commentator Zhou Yafei would joke, "The anticipated moment has come, Fu Yuanhui is walking towards the interview area."

But while being amused by this little girl and "laughing every time you watch it", have you ever thought about whether you can really understand her "prehistoric power"?

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The "joke maker" in front of others "who knows what he has been through behind the scenes"

Fu Yuanhui in front of the camera, when he heard that he broke the record, he laughed so hard that his teeth were exposed, and his legs cramped and he moaned unabashedly. Yelling, but behind the funny emoticons and "ADHD"-like body language, there is pain that ordinary people can't imagine.

Only four months ago, Fu Yuanhui was still at a low point in her personal state. In August 2015, at the xx Kazan World Swimming Championships, Fu Yuanhui won the women's 50-meter backstroke championship with a time of 27.11 seconds. But after that, not only did she fail to advance all the way, she even almost lost her qualification for the Olympics.

After the World Championships, Fu Yuanhui injured her waist and had to recover while training. His body was still not recovering well, and head coach Xu Guoyi was hospitalized due to illness. Fu Yuanhui had to readjust to adapt to coach Li Xuegang's training methods. Subsequently, she fell ill several times and became weak. When she trained, her lymph nodes would become inflamed.

In April this year, the National Swimming Championships and Olympic Trials were held in Foshan. At this time, Fu Yuanhui had suspended system training for half a year. In the women's 100-meter backstroke event, where she exploded with "prehistoric strength", she advanced to seventh place in the semi-finals and finished eighth in the finals, almost missing out on a ticket to the Rio Olympics. Her friend once said: "I feel sorry for her, not only because of the loss of results. I feel sorry for her even more. I can only keep the tears for myself."

In the interview after the semi-finals, Fu Yuanhui also mentioned Three months of recovery training before the Olympics. She said, "The devil knows what I have been through! Sometimes I really felt like I was going to die. The training at that time was really worse than death."

After the Foshan Olympic Trials in April, Fu Yuanhui I thought about giving up, but returned to the training ground with the encouragement of my teammates. When her father Fu Chunsheng recalled that period of devilish training, he said: "The intensity was something she had never experienced since she was five years old when she swam until now. When we talk about this, we are all sad and sad."

Even so. In Brazil, Fu Yuanhui did not make people feel relieved either. Due to the herniated disc in her waist, she could not move her waist, her shoulders were uncomfortable, and in the most severe cases, she could not lift her hands.

With the pressure of the competition and poor health, Fu Yuanhui's mental state before the game was very delicate. Fu Chunsheng revealed to the media that before the game, he had been chatting with his daughter until three in the morning. He asked his daughter to take photos of the scenery in Rio de Janeiro and send them to him, but the two had a tacit understanding and neither one mentioned the game the next day.

There are no new injuries on her body

Of course Fu Yuanhui's "prehistoric power" will not be suddenly exhausted in just a few dozen seconds on the field. On the contrary, this This strength was slowly accumulated during months of preparations and more than ten years of hard training, and finally burst out in one fell swoop.

Like Fu Yuanhui, every athlete standing in the Olympics today and known to the world has experienced a growth process that exhausted "prehistoric strength".

Diving star Wu Minxia, ??who just won her fifth Olympic gold medal, had already reached the Grand Slam of her life four years ago, but she persisted for another four years.

During her 17-year diving career, Wu Minxia suffered many injuries on her shoulders, waist, knees, etc. In March of this year, she accidentally hit a springboard during training, causing a 10-centimeter-long wound on her tibia. After only a week of rest, she asked to resume training. "You can practice whatever you can in preparation for the injury."

Wu Minxia once lamented that there were no new injuries on her body. When she walked off the field, she was just a woman in her early 30s. Just imagine how many of her peers could bear such an injury?

Not all efforts will be rewarded. Chen Lijun, the 2013 World Weightlifting Championship champion and the 2010 World Youth Championship champion, was the favorite to win the championship on behalf of the Chinese team. On August 8, local time, in the men's 62kg weightlifting final at the Rio Olympics, Chen Lijun failed due to leg cramps and incomplete attempts in the first attempt. He failed to lift the barbell above his knees in the second attempt and was ultimately forced to abstain. This is the first time since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics that a Chinese weightlifter has withdrawn due to cramps. Afterwards, during an interview, Chen Lijun cried and apologized. For the audience, what we may lack is just the instant joy brought by a medal. But for athletes, it may be a long-lasting feeling of guilt. In the longer term, if there is no guarantee of a medal, weightlifters who are forced to retire will face multiple problems unimaginable in the rest of their lives from physical strain and external survival pressure.

No matter how you say it, being able to stand in the Olympics is already the best among athletes. There are also a large number of athletes who have already shouldered a heavy price of training when they failed to win tickets to major competitions or even when they were underage, and even their life trajectories were changed as a result.