In the short-track speed skating mixed relay on February 5, 2022, the Chinese team won the first gold, all the team members cheered and embraced each other, and cried tears on the spot.
Even the battle-hardened Wu Dajing and Fan Kexin were overwhelmed and cried out with their fists raised.
They finally stood on the podium, received the medals in the flowers and applause, and got their share of the glory. Watching the bright five-star red flag rising, pride and pride instantly filled the hearts of Chinese people.
"I've been waiting for this gold medal for twelve years", Fan Kexin choked up several times and said this in the post-game interview. As a veteran of the sport, this gold medal means a lot to the 29-year-old.
This is her dream, but also the motivation behind so many years of hard training, she wants to win for the country, to prove their own strength, even if the disease has made her can not straighten up, but she still insisted on choosing to fight for the dream.
Even commentator Wang Meng couldn't help but shout, "Fan has finally realized her dream!"
Right, she finally realized her dream, this a bit thin, resolute-eyed, tomboyish girl, cried again and again after the game, several times ulcerated.
Fan Kexin's parents watched their daughter on TV, full of pride and heartache, no one better than them to understand their daughter's journey, what has gone through?
On September 19, 1993, a little girl was born, and her parents named her Fan Kexin, hoping that she would grow up healthy and happy.
The little girl was very cute and chubby, and people loved her everywhere she went.
The first time I've ever seen a girl in a car, I've seen her in a car, and I've seen her in a car, and I've seen her in a car, and I've seen her in a car.
However, originally thought that life will be so peaceful to continue, but the little KeXin's family had a change. The new father failed to do business, lost a sum of money, can only leave his son to continue to study in his hometown, and take the little Kexin to go to the Qitaihe to join the relatives.
All the way to the shaky, wheel-turning, small can be new in the arms of his mother finally came to this place, with only 300 yuan left in money, hither and thither before renting a 7 square meters of tin room.
The monthly rent for this tin room is 130 yuan, and the parents had to bite the bullet and pay the money.
They were the only ones who could afford to pay the rent, which was $130 a month, and their parents had to pay it through their teeth.
In this way, the family of three crowded in the winter cold, summer heat of the small house, every morning at dawn to get up to work, to customers repair shoes and bicycles, until the afternoon to eat.
And lunch was no better, just a bowl of bland white porridge, not even a pickle they had eaten for a month, and the table and chopsticks were in a state of disrepair, but little Kexin ate very well.
Because life is really poor, the family's food and clothing are all can save on saving, even the pants worn by Xiao Kexin are not bought, is the mother from the garbage heap out of the cleaning, after sewing and mending and wear for many years, but Xiao Kexin does not feel ashamed.
As his mother suffered from leg problems, it was difficult for him to walk, so he grew up doing some housework, giving his parents a hand, and doing some simple shoe repair work.
After entering elementary school, Kexin would pick up some scraps along the road every day after school and sell them to ease the burden on his family.
The child's understanding of the parents to see in the eyes, pain in the heart. They feel sorry for these two well-behaved children, let the children follow the suffering, even the New Year's Eve dumplings, can not afford to buy, or kind neighbors to send over to eat.
Looking at the children eat eat, this strong father turned his back and wiped the tears of guilt.
But the family's difficulties didn't dampen their enthusiasm for life. Xiao Ke's new class opened a dance class, and her parents decided to send their child to learn so that she could wear a pretty little dress and dance in the studio like other little girls.
After a week of learning, the naturally hyperactive Kexin clamored that she didn't like it and didn't want to go to dance school. After careful questioning, I realized that the original school has to pay 150 yuan costume fee, Kexin do not want to add to the burden of their parents, so they lied that they do not like the dance.
At the insistence of Kexin, his parents could only give up the money to pay for his child's costume.
In this way, Kexin grew up in this difficult environment, this tin room also carries all the childhood memories of Kexin, the family gathered around at night to talk and laugh into the sweetest memories.
Life can't always be a low point, and so is little Kexin. Finally, when she was eight years old, she met someone who helped her change her fate.
A neighboring aunt, who often came to the store to take care of business, saw that Kexin was so thin, and told Kexin's mother: "There is a group of children training every day at the stadium, and I don't know what they are doing, so let's let Kexin go and see what's going on."
The neighbor's aunt led Kexin to the stadium to watch, coincidentally met the short-track speed skating coach Ma Qing Si, noticed that Kexin watched with great interest, the coach asked Kexin if she wanted to try, so she let her run a few laps around the stadium, jumped a few times in place, and found that Kexin, although skinny, but the physical quality is good, and decided to take the child to let her and the group to train together.
"How much does it cost to learn this?" Kagoshin tilted her head and looked at the coach.
Coach Ma touched Kagoshin's head and said with a smile, "If you train hard, I won't charge you."
When he heard that, he thanked the coach and ran home to tell his parents the good news.
After realizing the difficulties of his family, coach Ma asked him if he really liked the idea, and when he saw him nodding his head, coach Ma spent 150 yuan out of his own pocket to buy a pair of second-hand skates for him, so that he could take part in the training normally.
In this way, Xiao Ke Xin got up early every day to go to the stadium to practice, to the class time and ran back to the backpack to school, after school back to do their homework, and then rushed to the stadium.
As long as there is time, a circle of skating to stop, fell down and continue to stand up, bumped into the never cry. Mom looked at the side of the heart, children all over the body are scars, everywhere is a piece of blue and purple , but the child like, mom can only silently support.
Small Kexin in the Ma coach's leadership, technology is also getting better and better. In 2003, the 10-year-old Xiao Ke Xin was selected by coach Meng Qingyu to enter the Heilongjiang short track speed skating team.
Just into the new team can not adapt to the new way of training also let her eat, she can only silently wipe away the tears, and more strict requirements for their own.
But the worn-out skates can't stand up to the strain, and Xiao Ke Xin's skates are so bad that she can't wear them anymore. She could only stand helplessly at the edge of the rink, watching her teammates slide on the ice. Finally, she couldn't hold on any longer and ran out crying.
Kexin later recalled the situation, choked up and said: "In fact, my family has no money to buy a pair of skates and shoes, I remember that the pair of skates is 2,500 yuan, he (Meng Qingyu) not confiscated a penny, at that time, 2,500 yuan may be the family's living expenses for a year. "
Coach Meng told her, "You must practice hard and use your own efforts to change the conditions of your family."
Kexin has a brand new pair of skates for the first time, and she remembers the coach's teachings and resolves that she must rely on her own efforts to repay her parents and the coach, and to improve the conditions in her family.
"Mom, we no longer live in this 7 square meters of small house, I designated to earn you a championship building." This is the promise that Fan Kexin gave his mom. However, fate has once again given Kexin a blow to the head.
In her entry into the provincial team, the future looks bright, long-term load training coupled with malnutrition, she was diagnosed with severe adolescent iron-deficiency anemia, hemoglobin content is less than one-third of the general population.
Previously in 2006, Coach Meng realized that Ke Xin was too thin and probably malnourished. I've also advised my wife to ask her to come over to take care of the child, but I haven't waited for my wife to come over, so I've been in a car accident on my way to send my youngest member of the team to train.
Looking at the poor child, the mother of the grief, crying and persuade her to give up, but can be new lying on the bed and begged: "I want to skate, I must skate."
Ma coach also heard the news came to see the skinny and bony can be new, hurry to arrange for acquaintances to go to a major hospital to take her treatment, after continuous treatment of dietary supplements, can be new only in 2009 to return to the provincial team, selected to enter the youth team.
And in March of the same year won the short track speed skating test match 500 meters runner-up, the end of the year won the Harbin station women's 500 meters champion.
The following year at the World Championships, she and her teammates worked well together to win the women's 3000m relay, which became the race she remembers the most.
Fan Kexin also trained harder to keep up with her teammates even when she wasn't feeling well, and never dragged her feet. She was only 17 years old at the time, and with her hard work and passion, she became the new star of short track speed skating in China, and since then she has made a name for herself.
Fan Kexin has done it, from a skinny kid with nothing to lose, to become more resilient and powerful.
Over the years, her parents have struggled to see her child for several years, and in order for her child to focus on her training, her parents have never bothered her, but have quietly supported her behind the scenes, becoming her strong backing. She was also able to fulfill her promise to move her parents into a bigger and better neighborhood.
"I can improve the conditions inside my house when I win the world championship and win glory for my country." Fan Kexin has said in interviews. She has never shied away from her childhood sufferings, because it is these experiences that can make her more determined to go on.
At the same time, she y loved the field and managed to break through again and again despite her illness.
But she is still the same passionate Fan Kexin, excited and happy will still cry loudly. When she visited the skating kids, she couldn't help but cry when she saw them crying: "I don't know why I'm crying, I just think it's not easy for them."
Or think of her own childhood hardship, she told the children must cheer hard, the future together on the podium.
With so much glory on her side, along the way Fan Kexin didn't get cocky and didn't stop, she always took every race seriously, and she never gave up even when her knee cartilage was injured from the long training sessions. Looking back, she felt everything was like a dream.
"Which athlete do you think is your biggest rival now."
"Myself."
After winning the mixed relay, Fan Kexin finished third in the women's 3,000-meter relay on Feb. 13, kneeling y and kissing the ice softly before leaving the arena with a smile on her face, always in love with the rink as if she were just getting into skating.
Her hometown of Qitaihe also rewarded her with a million dollars to work harder, and her parents happily accepted the award and eagerly welcomed them into the house.
Fan Kexin replied, "I think kissing the ice is a start, not to retire, because I finally won the Olympic title. I'm only 29 years old and I still have the ability."
Fan Kexin said he was thankful, thankful for the strength of the motherland, thankful that the motherland can create such an opportunity to show their strength, and thankful for the program of short track speed skating, thankful for the coaches, thankful for the players.
She has too much to thank, in addition, she should be most grateful to herself, thank you for not giving up, thank you for your hard work, thank you for not forgetting the beginning, thank you for the heartache and difficulties along the way, so that she can step by step to today.
These races have made her shed too many tears, and these tears have touched everyone y.
She said half-jokingly, "I'm just 29 years old, and there are foreign players who are still competing at 50. I'm still young, I have the ability, and more importantly, I still like this program. "
We believe in Fan Kexin, and we fully support her, and hope that in the future she will continue to shine on her favorite stage. We also hope that our country is getting stronger and stronger and heading for prosperity.