Weimar? Rudolph is an American woman track and field athlete who struggled and overcame her fate. She was born on June 23, 1940 in the United States in Tennessee, a poor black family, she just learned to walk when she contracted two pneumonia and a scarlet fever after being bedridden, almost killed, and at the age of four suffered from polio, walking with a limp, must rely on a brace to support. Rudolph's perseverance was quite amazing, and with the help of her family, she had recovered to the point where she could walk normally after 7 years of hard work through rehabilitation and massages from her family, and at the age of 11, she took the brace off for the first time and played barefoot to follow her older brothers in basketball. Later he began to practice running every day, a limp left leg was actually corrected in the exercise, the body is also strong because of participation in sports. By the age of 12, she was completely free of the brace. She appeared at the 16th Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956, winning a bronze medal when she was just 16 years old. Four years later, at the 17th Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, Rudolph shocked the world by winning three gold medals in the 100 meters, 200 meters and the 4x100 meter relay, and was dubbed the "Black Antelope", making her both the World's Best Athlete of 1960 and Miss Olympia. "She became both the best athlete in the world in 1960 and Miss Olympia. The story of the "Black Antelope" tells us that in this world, firm beliefs and unremitting efforts can enable people to overcome all the difficulties, and as long as you work hard, you will have success.
Luo Xuejuan won the gold medal by supporting her illness
Luo Xuejuan is a girl from Hangzhou, who was selected by her school's physical education teacher to receive breaststroke training in the first grade of elementary school. Luo Xuejuan worked very hard, and insisted on participating in the training from April to October every year, practicing for at least 2 hours every day until her body was shivering. Luo Xuejuan's parents gave her a good family education and guided her to set a great ambition from childhood. Luo Xuejuan lived up to the expectations of her teachers and parents, and eventually became the new leader of the Chinese swimming team after the "Five Golden Flowers" of Zhuang Yong, Lin Li, Qian Hong, Yang Wenyi and Wang Xiaohong, and was the winner of 3 gold medals in the 2003 World Swimming Championships. Before the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Luo Xuejuan's health condition had not been good, with a congenital lack of potassium in her blood, easy to fatigue when engaging in strenuous exercise, and a feeling of oxygen deprivation during training, which could even affect her heart. However, for the honor of her country, she decided to exhibit for her country again, and in the final of the women's 100m breaststroke at the Athens Olympic Games, she won the Olympic swimming gold medal for the Chinese swimming team, which had been absent for 8 years. When she appeared again in the 4x100 meters medley relay and grit her teeth to swim through the 2nd stick, there was a heart-wrenching scene: until the 3rd player almost swam to the finish line, she was still floating in the pool with a painful expression, and finally, had to leave the field under the help of coaches and volunteers. Luo Xuejuan's Olympic gold medal was so high that she was named one of the "Top 10 Chinese Stars of the Athens Olympics" by the Xinhua News Agency's Olympics Reporting Team.
At the 10th Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932, American athletes Hilly and Decarie Carson won gold and silver medals in the high jump. Two people in *** with the training had encouraged each other, learning from each other, formed a deep friendship. On the podium, the two cheered and embraced, after the respective medals will be cut in half, interchange half and then welded, become gold and silver half of the medal, as a testimony of eternal friendship.
Olympic champion Wang Liping's growth story
Sydney Olympics Wang Liping for China's track and field won the only gold medal of the uplifting scene, it seems to have faded from people's memories, interviews with the National Race Walking Championships, the deepest feeling is the history of the first Olympic champion of Dandong in the local masses of the impact of the public are not for the people in Dandong has this race walking champion and feel Proud. Yesterday afternoon, Dandong Municipal Sports Committee Jiang Yide, director of the reporter told the little-known story of Wang Liping's growth.
Wang Liping was born in 1976 in Fengcheng City, rural areas, her mother is a simple farmer, the family's living expenses rely only on a coal mine in Fengcheng City, tobacco buying station work to maintain her father, the days are tight.
Wang Liping has been a talented athlete since she was a child, and has always been the first to win every sporting event held at her school.
In June 1989, Wang Liping was selected by the Fengcheng City Gymnasium and switched to racewalking.
The next year, Zhao Shiliang recommended Wang Liping to Wang Kui, a famous coach in China's race walking industry at that time, and transferred her to the Liaoning team for trial training. Because Wang Liping was particularly hardworking in training, Wang Kui left the skinny little girl behind, and immediately awarded her a set of sportswear and a pair of sports shoes. From then on, Wang Liping and Chen Yueling, Wang Yan, Liu Hongyu and other people become the same sister. Wang Liping gastrointestinal problems, a large amount of exercise to vomit, but good results must be accompanied by a large amount of exercise training, so the training ground, Wang Liping often vomit only yellow bile water can be vomited, even Wang Kui coach can not bear to look down.
In 1996, Wang Liping nearly ended her racewalking career. At that time, on the eve of the Atlanta Olympic Games, the national race walkers gathered in Yunnan for the Olympic trials. Training, Wang Liping knee injury recurrence, more and more serious, the beginning of the training can barely, to later take a step to the heart of the pain. Doctors told Wang Liping, must immediately give up walking, Wang Liping had to return home to recuperate. Two months later, Wang Liping with a little relief from the pain, and then back to the training ground, gritted his teeth and restarted training.
With tenacity, Wang Liping finally overcame the injury, the results have improved significantly. 1999 World Cup before the domestic qualifiers, including Liu Hongyu, Wang Yan, and many other good players "pincer attack", Wang Liping out of the results of the second place. Sydney Olympics, Wang Liping is not in the list of regular selection, she has to go through the trials to get the right to participate in the Olympic Games.
The first station, the second station of the trials, Wang Liping two consecutive first. The last stop in Dalian Lushun, four days before the game, Wang Liping knee injury recurrence, her coach rushed from Harbin to experts, for her physical therapy. Two days later, before the start of the race, Wang Liping surprised to find that the knee does not hurt. 20 kilometers down, Wang Liping is again the champion. With the title of champion of the three trials, "unknown" Wang Liping took the last train to Sydney.
Marathoner Baldini - Olympic champion from the dairy farm
Some people deny that Athens is a holy place where myths are created. But many did not expect that in the men's marathon, the last high-profile finale of the Olympics, the first to run into the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, the site of the opening ceremony of the first Olympics, and the first to cross the finish line to win, was not the Kenyan men's marathon world-record holder, Tegat, and the strong African runners in this event, but the Italian Stefano Baldini, who is unfamiliar to many people. Fano Baldini of Italy, unfamiliar to many.
However, anyone who knows track and field knows that Baldini is not an "alien" but the only white marathoner who has been able to consistently compete in the world championships and some of the world's most prestigious marathons and achieve good results in a world where Africans have largely monopolized the world's long-distance running and marathon races in recent years. Therefore, the Italians had already "sneaked" this valuable gold medal into their books before the race.
Born on a dairy farm in Bustenovo, Italy, Baldini is a very talented and accomplished marathoner, and under his leadership, the Italians finished second only to African powerhouses Kenya and Ethiopia in the men's marathon.
Baldini's marathon career began in October 1995 in Venice, Italy, when he finished 11th in 2 hours, 11 minutes and 01 seconds, and a year later he won the world half-marathon in Parma. But his big breakthrough came at the prestigious 1997 London Marathon in England, where he not only set his first Italian national record with a time of 2 hours, 07 minutes and 57 seconds, but also surprised race organizers by finishing second behind Portugal's Pinto.
After winning the marathon at the European Athletics Championships in 1998, Baldini went on to win bronze medals at the 2001 World Championships in Edmonton, Canada, and the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris, France. For Baldini, this year's Athens Olympics is an important turning point in his athletic career, as he had to give up his chance to win a medal at the Sydney Olympics four years ago due to an arm muscle injury. That painful experience still haunts Baltini, but has made him stronger.
Baltini and his coach train in the Namibian highlands every winter, and he has done well every time he has come down from the highlands. This year's Athens Olympic marathon was run on the original marathon route where the Greek hero Philippides ran to Athens in 490 B.C. to report his glad tidings of victory, and the many hills and hills, along with the hot temperatures in Athens in August, made it a tough test for the athletes. But Baltini was well prepared for it, mentally and otherwise. Sure enough, Baldini began to overtake the leading Brazilian Lima in the 35th kilometer of the race, and eventually lived up to the hype by becoming the 2nd Italian to win this Olympic gold medal, after Boldin at the Seoul Olympics.
Baldini became an Italian hero when he stood on the winner's podium in the Olympic Stadium wearing a wreath of olive branches and accepted the gold medal from International Olympic Committee President José Rogge in front of billions of spectators around the world.
(3) Liu Xiang has unlimited youth
Five years ago, two 16-year-olds were selected together for the Shanghai sports team: one called Afa, who majored in the 400 meters; and one called Liu Xiang, who majored in the 110-meter hurdles.
According to the standard of two people in a dormitory room, Afa and Liu Xiang became roommates and spent a year together.
"He can achieve now, I think hard work is necessary, but talent is also very important. To change into me, is 24 hours a day non-stop practice, also useless." Recall that and Liu Xiang together scene, A hair some stammers: "really can't think of, that has been a long time ago ......"
He this person is very love clean
Liu Xiang is very love clean, clothes and shoes are never are spotless. In the dormitory, he is also very neatly arranged for his living things. The arrangement of the bed is never neat and tidy, shoes are also a smooth arrangement under the bed. Even if there is any spot on the wall that doesn't suit his eyes, he will take out the sports posters issued by the school and paste them on, and said that it is considered to be a simple decoration for the dormitory.
Whenever he has time, Liu Xiang takes the initiative to organize the dormitory, and I also follow along. It is also for this reason that our dormitory has been assessed as a "civilized dormitory" by the hospital.
Both of us don't like to make a fuss. There is nothing to do, we will also stay in the dormitory: flipping through textbooks, reading magazines, listening to music ...... However, in terms of learning, he is better than me, especially in English. I don't know what to say, those I don't know what to sing English songs, he listened to a few times, actually can be very smooth to sing a couple of lines.
He always said Shu Qi is very beautiful
"The cool wind has a letter, the autumn moon is boundless, loss of my Si Jiao's emotions, as if the days are like years, although I'm not a jade tree, handsome, but I have a broad mind with strong arms ......"
This is Zhang Wei, who has been the first to say that Shu Qi is very beautiful. p>
This is Zhang Weijian played Wei Xiaobao said a paragraph of the line, in the young people once very popular, but also become Liu Xiang a long time in the mantra. Sometimes he would say it a dozen times a day.
In my impression, Liu Xiang's favorite is Shu Qi. Whenever Shu Qi's ads appear on TV, Liu Xiang has to marvel at them: "Shu Qi is really beautiful, that skin is really good! ......" Later, as long as he saw posters and advertising stickers of Shu Qi, he had to stop and marvel for a while.
Pimples make him sad
Talking about Liu Xiang marveling at Shu Qi's good skin, it is impossible not to talk about Liu Xiang's face. At that time, his face was almost full of pimples.
For this reason, he also went to the Sixth Hospital and dispensed a lot of topical drops. Then, he looked into the mirror every day and carefully applied the potions to his face with a sad face.
Of course, what Liu Xiang really cared about was the competition. Once, he went to Xi'an to participate in a national competition, and he ended up taking an eighth place after a fall in the competition. Back in Shanghai, he was very self-condemning and told me, "This time I've lost a lot of face, my goal is the championship."
(4) First gold for Chinese Taipei Chen Shixin
A mountain of cheers rang out from the Faliro Olympic Taekwondo Hall in Athens.
On the court, Chen Shixin was already in tears.
This first Olympic gold medal for Chinese Taipei comes four years late.
Born in a taekwondo gym, Chen Shixin has practiced taekwondo since she was five. With the help of her father, who runs a dojang and teaches in Taipei, Chen Shixin won the World Cup in 1994 at the age of 14. She also won the best player award for her outstanding performance on the field.
In the 1996 World Cup in Brazil, Chen Shixin again won the title with ease. But after taking her second gold medal, her mood changed drastically. "There was no joy and I didn't feel challenged, the world championship title came too easily to me when I was only 16 years old," Chen Shixin recalled.
In Taiwan, where the administration has sports bonuses for world champions, the two world titles have already earned Chen Shih-hsin millions of dollars at a young age. Growing up in a dojang and always training and competing has changed her thinking.
"At the time, I was just thinking about how I didn't have to justify my existence by taekwondo. I wanted to take off my dojo uniform and leave, for sure," Chen Shih-hsin said.
With the support of her "boyfriend" at the time, Chen ran away from home after the World Cup in Brazil, and they both went to Taichung to work. A moment of willfulness, rebellion and the blind pursuit of freedom and love left her life in a struggle for more than two years.
During the time away from home, the underage Chen Shixin worked as a video game store girl, did pyramid schemes, and also set up stalls, and tasted all the sweet and sour in life. At the same time, due to running around, often stay up late, Chen Shixin's physical condition is getting worse and worse, practicing taekwondo when the abundant physical energy is gone, and at one time often cold, fever.
"In fact, whenever I was hurt outside, I wanted to go home, and I had the courage to walk to the door of my house, but I couldn't break through the knot and walk in because I knew how disappointed and desperate my parents and family members were for me. ......"
In 1999, stubborn and facetious Chen Shixin, after struggling for six months, chose to return home with a cake on March 18, her father Chen Weixiong's birthday. Her family washed away the dust and hurt she had felt for more than two years with warm embraces and tears of joy.
In May of the same year, Chen Shixin was admitted to the Taipei Physical Education Institute and put her uniform back on for training. After three wasted years, she returned to the dojo and practiced hard and tough.
She failed to represent Chinese Taipei at the 2000 Sydney Olympics because she had not competed in the previous three years. "I could only care about my teammates' performance on TV and in newspapers, and I was very upset. If it wasn't for my own capriciousness, I should have been in the Olympics ......"
Chen Shih-hsin made a comeback at the 2001 East Asian Games in Japan, winning her first gold medal after her comeback. She then went on to win back-to-back titles at the World Cup in Vietnam and the 2002 Asian Games in Busan.
But at the next World Championships in 2003, Chen Shixin lost badly. At the critical moment, Dr. Hsu Tae-gak from the Physiology Laboratory of the Taipei Sports Institute gave her a timely pull. Since then, Dr. Hsu has been prescribing adjustments for Chen Shixin and her teammates from the perspective of sports physiology, conditioning and improving all aspects of her weight, fitness and muscle strength.
After physiological adjustments and technical training, Chen Shixin won the championship at the Olympic Games Asian Regional Trials and finally got the Olympic ticket.
So there was a mountain of cheers at the Farilo Olympic Taekwondo Hall in Athens on the night of the 26th.
Chen Shixin said, "In competition, I always feel that my biggest opponent is myself. As long as I beat myself, I can win this meaningful gold medal."
The once-rebellious woman finally ushered in this belated gold medal for herself and for Chinese Taipei.
(5) Die even on the weightlifting platform -- Tang Gonghong tells the story behind the win
-- Tang Gonghong tells the story behind the win
Reporter Ying Qiang Wang Dong
"Spell, you feel free to lift, lift up lift down are heroes, die also die in the weightlifting platform," 21 on the weightlifting platform before the coach said to her words as if still ringing in the ears of Tang Gonghong.
24, won China's participation in the winter and summer Olympics since the 100th gold medal of Shandong girl Tang Gonghong and China's weightlifting
Heavyweight women's team deputy head coach Ma Wenhui to the Athens Olympic Games News Center Xinhua News Agency Athens Reporting Mission Department to accept an interview, and told her before and after winning the gold medal situation.
"At that time I was a little more nervous, our coach told me, don't think too much, you just go to lift, you lift up to lift up are heroes, die also to die on the weightlifting platform, do your best to lift on it, other consequences of the responsibility are on him," Tang Gonghong on the day of the scenario vividly remembered.
Then Tang Gonghong snatch competition play is not ideal, jerk competition South Korea's Zhang Meilan lifted 172.5 kilograms, the Tang Gonghong forced on the desperate situation, only one last chance of Tang Gonghong must lift 182.5 kilograms in order to win the championship.
"As a coaching staff can not say too much, at that time, we all know the situation, it was quite tense. The last handful I just touched her head and said, look at me in the eyes, now is the time to explode, lifting good lifting bad, the coach can not say anything, the leadership can not say anything, but we fought, died also to die on the competition stage," said Ma Wenhui.
"The night before the game we also made this preparation, this game is a vicious battle. We had a meeting until 12 o'clock at night, and then the regiment called all the coaches all the way to the regiment to study Tang Gonghong's tactics for an hour and a half, and then went back and continued to study until after 4 o'clock in the morning. So Tang Gonghong this gold medal, we arranged very carefully, the leadership personally give us the layout of the battle tactics, so this gold medal is largely benefited from the regiment. At the beginning of the time is not willing to tell the players these things, for fear of adding pressure to the players, "Ma Wenhui will win the title behind the secret and dish out.
"I then thought to spell it out, since the coach has said, there is no pressure and baggage, and finally spell it out," Tang Gonghong increased 10 kilograms as soon as she did. She finally succeeded, lifted 182.5 kilograms of heavy barbell, breaking the jerk and total world record, and for China to win a historic gold medal - the 100th gold medal.
(6) Olympic champion Ryu Seung-min is a table tennis prodigy
National athlete Ryu Seung-min won the men's singles final of the Athens Olympics on the 23rd, defeating Chinese athlete Wang Hao in a 4-2 victory to win the title and become the fifth athlete to win the men's singles gold medal at the Olympics following South Korea's Yoo Nam-kyu, Sweden's Vardnell, China's Liu Guoliang, and Kong Linghui.
Yoo Seung-min was born on August 5, 1985, and is originally from Seoul and lives on Ganghwa Island in Incheon. He was known as the "Table Tennis Prodigy" for his early talent in table tennis, and became the youngest member of the Korean National Table Tennis Team in 1997 at the age of 15, when he was in the third grade of junior high school.
In September 2000, the fledgling Ryu took part in the Sydney Olympics, where he was eliminated in the first round of the men's singles due to his lack of experience. Luckily, he was paired with his senior brother Lee Cheol-seung and made it to the semifinals of the men's doubles tournament, where he eventually finished fourth.
The following year, after Ryu graduated from high school, two table tennis clubs competed for the talented youngster. As Ryu registered with both clubs, he was unable to concentrate on practicing for more than a year. In the end, the Korean Table Tennis Association intervened and Ryu Seung-min ended up at Samsung Life Club. There, Ryu's table tennis skills improved significantly.
Since 2002, Ryu has been playing in a series of international competitions. At the Busan Asian Games, Ryu won the men's doubles title. At last year's China Table Tennis Open, Ryu was runner-up in men's singles. This year, Ryu won the men's singles title twice at the Egyptian Open and the U.S. Open, and rose to third place on the FIBA world ranking list.
With the Athens Olympics approaching, Ryu Seung-min suffered a sprained lower back and competed after a week's rest without recovering all his health. In the men's singles final, Ryu faced Wang Hao, China's rising star ranked fourth in the FIBA rankings. In terms of record, Wang Hao had won all six of his matches, and Ryu Seung-min had no chance of winning. Nevertheless, Ryu Seung Min was determined to win. He was a little nervous during the match, but he let it go and eventually won.
Yoo Seung-min's Olympic triumph is one of the highlights of South Korea's Olympic history. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, South Korean athlete Yoo Nam-kyu won the men's singles title, while Hyun Jeong-ho and Yang Young-ja took the women's doubles gold. Since then, Korean athletes have missed out on gold medals in three Olympics. After the match, Ryu Seung-min said he hoped his Athens gold medal win would lead to a resurgence of Korean table tennis.
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