Are all Olympic athletes rich second generation?

No, mostly children from the countryside. For example, Yi Siling, who won the first gold medal in London, was left with her 90-year-old grandfather Yi Li Fang, but in Yi Li Fang's house of less than 20 square meters, more than 30 passers-by were crowded. Yi Siling's parents, Yi Zejun and Ouyang Guifeng, worried that too many people came to their home, went out to hide. "Some people said that they went to Beijing, and some people said that they lived in a hotel and didn't know where they went." An hour after Yi Siling won the championship, the reporter of Chenzhou Daily, who was waiting in Yijia, told this reporter in the sound of firecrackers. On that day, Yi Zejun's mobile phone was exploded, and almost every reporter who got through got an answer: "Stop fighting." Take Li, a weightlifting champion, for example: After his family came to London, Li often sat at a table with reporters for dinner. After a long time, he will talk about his "five golden flowers": "I have five daughters, and Xue Ying is the youngest. She has a sister above, who is also a weightlifter. When I was a child, I watched my sister lift weights, and Xue Ying embarked on this road. " Li's "sister" is Li Xuejiu. 10 years ago, at the 15 World Weightlifting Championships, Li Xuejiu set a new world record in clean and jerk set by North Korean player Li Chengji and won a gold medal for China. But she was injured afterwards and failed to qualify for the Athens Olympic Games. "Her dream is to participate in the Olympic Games. We are all very sad that she didn't have the opportunity to participate." Li said that now my sister's dream has finally been realized by her sister, which is also a kind of perfection.

In chatting, I never admit that my family is poor. "To tell you the truth, at that time, my family was poor and I couldn't afford to read books. My first three daughters only went to junior high school and dropped out of school to work. " After that, Li Xuejiu began to make achievements. He had food and shelter in the weightlifting team and had a better life at home.

Dare not call my daughter.

When her daughter takes part in the Olympic Games, she can also go abroad, which Li never dreamed of before. About two months ago, Tencent got him a visa and bought a plane ticket. This is the first time that Li, who is over 60 years old, has gone abroad. He quickly picked up the cut wheat, set out from a village in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province, took a bus to the city, changed trains to Zhengzhou, and then flew to Beijing, where he took off again and finally arrived in London. His only regret is that everyone else is going to travel together, but his wife can't come because of cerebral thrombosis and coronary heart disease.

"Xue Ying knows I'm here, but I haven't called her for fear that she would be distracted." Tencent has prepared the telephone number of London for every "champion relative", but Li's telephone number has never been heard from. The quiet old man has only one thought in his heart: wait until Xue Ying wins the championship.

While waiting for her daughter's competition, Li and relatives of other champions went to London. "When we went to Big Ben and the British Museum, we didn't buy anything. Things are too expensive. A pound cost us ten dollars. If I spend five pounds, it is equivalent to 50 dollars. It is not worthwhile to make money in the countryside and spend here. " Seeing the price tag of each commodity, Li's first reaction was to consider the exchange rate. So far, he said he didn't know how much his daughters' bonuses were. "I never ask them how much bonus they got. Both of them left in their teens, and they were not allowed to go home from the provincial team to the national team. They go home once or twice a year and stay for three or two days before leaving. After the Asian Games, Xue Ying came back and bought some clothes and snacks for his family. Their life has just begun and they will spend a lot of money in the future. "

Continue to be a farmer in the future

When a family has won the championship twice, the envy of the villagers is indispensable, but in Li's words, "it is useless to talk verbally." "To tell the truth, what can you do when you are famous? Can it be cheaper to buy pesticides and fertilizers? " Li's words make people laugh. Just as people say that it is hard to practice weightlifting, he regards it as an inevitable choice in life: "In the countryside, no matter which way you take, you are trying to find a way out. Weightlifting is hard, but this thing has no regret medicine, only progress. "

Today, all four daughters are married, three of them are locals, and Li Xuejiu lives and works in Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. Li and his wife are still farming seven or eight acres of land, planting wheat and corn, and their annual income is only three or four thousand yuan. The tile house built more than ten years ago is now obsolete, but there is no money to renovate it. It was suggested that once the daughter won the Olympic champion, so many bonuses were enough for them to move to the county, but Li didn't think so. "What should I do if I move?" Farming is our duty. People can't forget this. It is good for them not to farm out. We still keep our responsibilities. "