As the daughter of a weightlifting champion at the Asian Games in Beijing, perhaps she once had eyes filled with respect for her father and awe of weightlifting. Maybe she naively thought she would stand on the Asian Games podium like her father and be the center of attention. The reality, however, is that she had to bite the bullet on her own. With her mother suffering from breast cancer and shouldering the burden of life, the reading can't help but be heartbreaking.
It seems inappropriate to attribute the current state of the talented family to government inaction. According to reports, after Cai Li's death in 2003, the State General Administration of Sports and the Liaoning Provincial Sports Bureau approved a 50,000 yuan special care fund based on the talent's actual situation. At the same time, considering the young age of his daughter, the organization also took out a 50,000 yuan special insurance policy for her. However, the solution to the tragedy of the talent not only rely on the government's care and sympathy, but also rely on a series of deep-rooted problems such as the adjustment of the training mechanism of the athletes.
Traditionally, Chinese national team athletes are offered jobs by the government after retirement. Individuals can also choose their own way out. However, given the current situation of talented families, we can't help but wonder why retired athletes can't lead a stable life. Why can't a family that has devoted its life to weightlifting get the happiness it deserves? Why do we always chase the light of the gold medal but never care about the hardships behind it? Today, we can also understand that the difficulties experienced by Cai Li's family are in fact the result of an impatient society blindly pursuing a "sports power".
Just on August 10 this year, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper pointed out that China's sports, which is aiming at "having to beat the U.S.," will be miserable if it fails to win gold medals and retires away from the spotlight. A significant portion of the nation's 240,000 retired athletes are mired in disease, poverty and unemployment.
With these comments, we can easily see that the way retired athletes "retire" is still a common and thorny problem. Of course, in order to solve the various problems faced by athletes after retirement, the most important thing is to make appropriate adjustments to China's existing athlete training model. It is obviously not worth advocating going all out to train a gold medalist athlete. How can each athlete give full play to his or her potential? Yes, we can also keep a "back road" for ourselves while competing for our country. As for the countermeasures, we may wish to consider.