Li, male, a member of the China Men's Gymnastics Team, was born in July of 198 1, a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, and a bronze medal winner of the Athens Olympic Games. He practiced gymnastics at the age of 5, entered Changsha Sports School at the age of 6, joined Hunan Gymnastics Team at the age of 12, and was selected as the national team at the age of 15. 1997, 16-year-old Li won the men's team championship at the World Gymnastics Championships, becoming the youngest world champion in the history of the China men's gymnastics team. So far, Li has won the world championship of 13.
On the morning of September 4th, Li, the leader of the national gymnastics men's team, returned to Changsha accompanied by his companions. Tucki was the first to get off the train, and his mother, Pan Jianguo, hurried to meet him with flowers. When the mother and son met, Tucki hugged her mother and shed tears again because of failure.
Just two days after returning to China, Tucki declined all media interviews except for attending the activities of relevant departments in Hunan. In the new house he just moved into two months ago, he stayed with his parents, listening to the long-lost kind nagging and enjoying the rare family happiness. On the morning of the 6th, Li left home and returned to Beijing by plane. In front of the boarding gate, Tucki said goodbye to his mother. Suddenly, he found that his mother, who was under 50 years old, had a little white hair fluttering in the wind. My mother is old and has broken her heart for her son's gymnastics career. And she was under great pressure when she lost in the Olympic Games. The early autumn morning breeze in the south has been somewhat cool, but Tucki's heart is surging and his blood is boiling. Considering what his mother has done for him for so many years, he doesn't want to lose his dream when he is young. Dream, report.
In response to his mother's hard work, Tucki once again started his four-year Olympic journey without looking back. ...
Holding hands, the mother helped her son to the gymnastics road.
When Li was a child, he was a notorious naughty boy in the yard. He either somersaults in the yard all day or practices handstand at home. He never sat down for a while, and the small wounds and scars left by falls and beatings never stopped. When he was more than two years old, he playfully jumped from the second floor to the sand on the first floor. Mother Pan Jianguo cried for fear that something would happen to her son, but Tucki shouted, "I am Huo Yuanjia, and I am not afraid of anyone." . When Tucki was 5 years old, Pan Jianguo occasionally saw an advertisement for an amateur gymnastics class in the street. She immediately thought of her son's active nature and obsession in his eyes when he watched Li Ning's game on TV at the age of 3. After returning home, the mother said to her son, "Pumbaa, let's learn gymnastics!" " "
When I went to the amateur sports school for an interview, coach Qiu Qi saw that Tucki's father Li Zhenyu was over 1.8 meters tall. He was afraid that Tucki would be as tall as his father, so he didn't want it. Pan Jianguo immediately explained: I am only a little over 1.5m, and boys are generally like their mothers. I guarantee that he will meet your height requirements. Qiu Qi reluctantly agreed to let Tucki do the standing long jump. He is thin and can jump farthest among all the children. The coach patted his little ass approvingly, but Tucki turned and slipped away like a loach. "What a clever boy, go in and play." Tucki, the first one to walk into the gymnasium, looked here and touched there. He had never seen the rings before. He put his foot into the rings, grabbed the slings and playfully swung. It's time to get off work, but Tucki is sweating and still doesn't want to leave. He broke free from his mother's hand and turned to the coach and said, "I'm going to play again!" " "
A week later, Tucki received an admission notice from an amateur sports school. Training is hard. In order to give their son enough nutrition to maintain his physical strength, the couple, as ordinary workers, scrimped and saved. For three years, Pan Jianguo didn't even buy himself an inch of cloth. But young Tucki couldn't understand his parents' hard work, and he began to get tired of this hard and boring gymnastics. What is more worrying is his stubborn childishness. In the training class, he often avoids the coach's eyes, hides in the corner, and sometimes simply goes out to play slingshot and football. To this end, the coach criticized him a lot and informed his parents. Parents have told him many times, but the child's nature is hard to change for a while.
Once, when my father was on a business trip, Pan Jianguo happened to be ill and had a high fever. Tucki thinks no one can take him to training. Just as he was dreaming a happy dream, his mother lifted the corner of the quilt. Tucki got up reluctantly and ate her mother's poached eggs. Pan Jianguo set off with his son on his back. Although Tucki is stubborn, she can still feel her mother's feverish body temperature, heavy breathing and sweating in early winter. He began to feel sorry for his mother, so he hurried down to let her rest. After a short rest, Pan Jianguo will continue to carry his son on his back. Tucki disagreed and said, "Mom, you are so ill that you must send me to do gymnastics. I don't want your back, you hold my hand and I'll go by myself. " Early in the morning, Pan Jianguo took his son by the hand and walked top-heavy on the street in Changsha. Mother said, Tucki, do you like Li Ning's brother? Tucki said of course. "Li Ning's eldest brother also suffered a lot from gymnastics, so he can win a lot of gold medals. I don't think you can bear hardships and have fun. Mom thinks you definitely don't like him. " Pan Jianguo said. "Like him, like him, I want to get a basket of gold medals, more than him." Tucki some nasty. "Then why are you so afraid of suffering and don't practice well?" The mother gave her son an army. At this moment, Tucki smiled shyly at his mother. After sending his son to the gym, Pan Jianguo sat against the wall for two hours, out of breath. That night, Tucki said to his mother, "The coach praised me and said that I have made progress today."
Since then, he has never discounted the tasks assigned by the coach. Once, when practicing the horizontal bar, my palm was worn out and infected with pus. Tucki went to the infirmary to remove pus, and then returned to the training ground. Pan Jianguo said, I ask the coach for leave, and you ask for two days off. Tucki said, "I haven't finished my training task yet. If I take a break, mom, you will definitely say that I can't suffer any more. "
Pan Jianguo had only seen his son cry once before, and that was when he was in the provincial team. A player older than him hit him and he fought back. But Tucki still felt wronged and cried with her mother when she got back. While wiping his son's face with a towel, Pan Jianguo asked, "You told your mother that it was right to hit people." "No" "But why did you hit someone?" "He hit me first." Pan Jianguo took Tucki to sit beside him and said to his son seriously, "He hit you. You can talk to the coach or reason with him. You are mom's good boy. I don't care who started it. It is wrong for you to hit people. Remember, apologize to that player tomorrow. " The next day, Li Zhen apologized to his teammates. It is the reasonable education that makes Li get along well with coaches, teammates and staff from the provincial team to the national team, especially his fame is growing.
Li is with his parents.
Unfortunately, maternal love dispelled the clouds.
When he was in Hunan team, Li had begun to make his mark in national competitions, so he was selected for the national gymnastics team before he was 15 years old. The day before he left, Tucki and his mother saw a pair of sneakers that they liked very much but were very expensive. He lingered in front of the counter for a long time, but he finally walked away when he thought that it would cost his mother more than two months' salary to buy this pair of shoes. He knew that his mother would definitely buy it for him, but he didn't want to add a lot of expenses to his less wealthy family. Soon, Tucki forgot about it. But just as he was packing, Pan Jianguo handed him the sneakers like a magician. Tucki was not happy at this time, because he knew that his mother didn't know how long it would take to save money to fill this "vacancy". Now, these shoes are no longer worn, but Tucki still keeps them.
Pan Jianguo is worried about Tucki. She called him twice a week to ask about his training and life, and also contacted the coach to ask him to discipline Tucki more. Because of Tucki's good foundation, high understanding and flexible body, he soon stood out. Before the 1997 World Gymnastics Championships held in Lausanne, Switzerland, the team decided to let Tucki out according to his performance. Tucki told the news to his mother. Pan Jianguo thought it was his son's first time to participate in a major international competition, so he asked for a month's leave to take care of his son. In the damp basement of the Sports Bureau, Pan Jianguo didn't know how much soup he cooked for Tucki, but he often used steamed bread and pickles to solve the problem. Before the war, Pan Jianguo told Tucki not to be nervous, to be open and to believe in his own ability. Even if he lost, he accumulated on-the-spot experience. In fact, Pan Jianguo himself was too nervous to sleep well at night. In that competition, 16-year-old Li played in the men's team finals four times, won the team championship with his teammates, and became the youngest world champion of the China gymnastics men's team. After returning home, he bought many gifts for his parents with the bonus from the team. Although the dress she bought for her mother doesn't fit her, Pan Jianguo often wears it because she thinks it is of great significance.
However, just as Li launched an impact on a higher goal, the accident happened. During a training session, his right elbow was broken. Although the injury healed after timely treatment, due to years of strain, Tucki's right hand can no longer be put on his shoulder as freely as a healthy person. The sequela left by the injury has a great influence on pommel horse, a supporting project mainly relying on upper limb strength. Since then, he has never been able to train pommel horse systematically (after the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000, he simply stopped training). An excellent project that once won the championship was ruined by injury. Li is unwilling. He is an all-around athlete with strong strengths and strong weaknesses. 200 1 9th National Games, did not participate in the pommel horse competition, but still entered the top eight in all-around. Tucki has always believed that only the all-around champion can truly reflect the level of athletes, and he vowed to win an all-around world champion. But the dream ship just set sail and ran aground on the injured beach.
Tucki was depressed and hesitant, and his mood once fell to a low point. Although he still called home as scheduled and tried to pretend to be carefree and happy, careful Pan Jianguo found clues. Under her mother's repeated questioning, Tucki, who was afraid of her family's worries, had to tell her the situation. Pan Jianguo thinks this matter is very serious. This concerns his son's future career and future. This is a hurdle on the road of life! Regardless of her illness, she immediately rushed to Beijing with her husband. She first asked head coach Chen Xiong about Tucki's injury and its influence on the future. Then she enlightened her son: You can become the youngest world champion of men's gymnastics in China, which proves that you are very capable. Although the elbow joint is injured, I can't practice pommel horse and participate in all-around competitions, but it has little effect on the training of other events. Mom knows that you are high-spirited, but since this is the case, you must dare to face it. If you practice hard, you can also win the world championship and win glory for your country. Do you remember Thomas' all-out confrontation in the Youth Palace that year? In order to compete with others, you have done more than 100 continuously and refused to dismount. Finally the coach scolded you. At that time, my mother was very happy and thought my son had a bright future. Today, my mother also believes that as long as you practice hard, you will be more promising in the future.
In order to reduce the adverse effects of drugs on Tucki's training, Pan Jianguo looked around for better treatments. When she heard that a herbal medicine was very effective, she braved the heat and went to the countryside to collect herbs for half a month. Once, she met a snake. Born afraid of snakes, she was so scared that she sat down on the hillside, but for her son's sake, she finally got up the courage and collected a bag of herbs before going home.
Mother's care greatly shocked her son and brought him new strength. Out of the gloom, Li won the floor exercise and parallel bars in the gymnastics final of the World Cup 1998, and easily won the gold medals in team and vault at the World Championships in Tianjin the following year. With Li's retirement, his calm general demeanor and brilliant achievements over the years have made people see that a moment of "ruling the world" belonging to Li has arrived. In 2003, at the Anaheim World Gymnastics Championships to celebrate the centenary of gymnastics, Li won three gold medals in team, vault and parallel bars for his rare difficult movements named after him. At that moment, his first thought was his mother by the Xiangjiang River on the other side of the ocean. He immediately sent a message: Mom, I succeeded again. Thank you for your hard work!
My mother's son is still the best in her dream of losing Athens.
Before the Athens Olympic Games, people in the industry and many media believed that Li's men's team, parallel bars and vault were the most sure gold medals. And many people believe that Li, who has won the 13 world championship, will break the record of Li Ning 14 world champion in this Olympic Games. Facing the reporters, Pan Jianguo kept a low profile. She asked reporters not to put too much pressure on her son so that he could participate in the competition with a normal heart.
Mom's worry is not unnecessary. First, because her teammates had problems, the group ranked fifth. Subsequently, she ranked seventh because of heel hook injury and vault slip. Next, she only won a bronze medal in the parallel bars jump. It was successful for others to win the third place in the Olympic Games, but Li, the bronze medal winner, was a complete waterloo. In an instant, Tucki's dream turned into a painful memory and was left in the salty night wind in the Aegean Sea. Waiting for you to watch TV in the Li family, the first reporters who celebrated the scene after they were ready to capture the success left. This huge new house is very quiet at the moment. A reporter in Athens helped Tucki get through to his home phone. Hearing her mother's voice, Tucki burst into tears. The mother, who is thousands of miles away, is so heartbroken at the moment-her son has fallen under the great trust of the people of China, and he will bear countless accusations. Of course, my mother is distressed-Tucki is my mother's pride, not only because of his brilliant sports achievements, but also because he is a filial son.
As Li's athletic performance continues to climb, various honors come one after another: Top Ten Athletes in China, Best Gymnast in China, Best Athlete in China Sports TV Award, Most Popular Athlete, etc. He also entered the Great Hall of the People as the youngest member of the presidium of the National People's Congress, and was represented by representatives from all over the country. Although he has a halo envied by countless people, as the only child in his family, he understands the hardships his parents have paid for him over the years and deeply understands his responsibility to take care of and support his parents. On the eve of the Sydney Olympic Games, Li, who was gradually financially able, saw that his parents were having a hard time at work and asked them to "retire internally" and enjoy their old age at home. In order not to let parents worry about themselves, Tucki never reports good news or bad news. The winter before last, he caught a bad cold, which lasted for more than a month before he got well. It was not until Pan Jianguo went to Hunan to do a program that a reporter from Beijing told him that they knew about it. The mother immediately called her son and scolded him: Why didn't you tell home that you were ill? Tucki said airily, "A minor illness is nothing. It has been cured for a long time." In fact, this disease has affected his training.
In people's eyes, Li is a fashionable and sunny boy, but his teammates who are familiar with him all say that he is a very careful person. Once in a foreign competition, after the competition, my teammates went out shopping to see the scenery as usual, but on the way back to the hotel, I walked and disappeared from Tucki. My teammates think that the local social order is not good. If Tucki is hijacked, it is no joke, so they all go back along the road to look for it. As a result, I found Li in a drugstore, only to see him sweating like rain with his boss. It turned out that he thought his father had a bad stomach and went to the drugstore to buy medicine for his father.
After the Olympic Games, in order not to affect his mood, Pan Jianguo adjusted his mental state in the shortest time. The day before Tucki went home, she went to a famous beauty salon that she had never been to, and carefully prepared a bunch of flowers for her son. She also invited many relatives and friends as well as Tucki's former coach, teammates and neighbors to form a huge group of relatives and friends to meet him in order to give her son some psychological comfort.
When the new house was renovated, Pan Jianguo specially chose the largest Chaoyang room as his son's honor room. During Tucki's two days at home, his mother talked a lot with her son who returned to his new home for the first time in the honor room, helping him analyze the reasons for his failure. Pan Jianguo believes that due to the influence of state and injury, Tucki failed to succeed, but there is no problem with his skills. She looked it up on the Internet and found that his "signature" movements "Li Jump" and "Li Diao" still lead the trend of men's gymnastics in the world today, and no one can complete these two movements in a year or two. Mother can understand that Li lost her former liveliness when she came home. She comforted Tucki, saying that you are only 23 years old now, and there is still a lot of room for improvement in technical movements in the next few years. Li Donghua, a former national team, also won the Olympic pommel horse championship at the age of 3 1. Li Ning achieved the glory of his sports career when he was nearly 30 years old. As long as you have courage, there is no hurdle to cross. The mother also told her son that the family was ready to serve him at any time, and if necessary, she could even go to Beijing to take care of his life. Finally, the mother lovingly patted her son on the shoulder and said that all relatives, including the mother, are expecting your success again and believe that you have the ability to be brilliant again.
postscript
Centennial Olympic Games, Return to Hometown. The most wonderful and successful Olympic Games in modern Olympic history came to an end in her hometown of Athens. This event has created a group of heroes, and at the same time, it has also made many former heroes walk off the altar. People cheer for the winners, feel sorry for the losers, and of course there is ridicule and disdain.
However, time will eventually dilute everything, and athletes will eventually return to the boring and hard training in the past. The pressure they have suffered and the hardships they have experienced are hard for ordinary people to understand. The heavy home behind them is the harbor where their tired hearts live. Only those who are closest to the family and love them the most really like their happiness and grieve for their sadness-there is only one champion, and most people can only end in failure on the way to sprint. They have high hopes that their families will silently share the blame and pressure with them.
"Gold is expensive, silver and copper are expensive. As long as you work hard, no card is also a hero. " This poem, to paraphrase the famous Hungarian poet Petofi, just embodies the connotation of sports. In a few years, the athletes will leave the stage where they shed sweat and tears. The truth left by fame and fortune is that they have worked hard for that wonderful stage, and their relatives behind them have been caring about them and silently dedicating them. Therefore, I think that the hero who holds flowers and the person who pays for it are equally worthy of applause; Lonely players are as amiable and respectable as relatives.