The game was exciting and exciting. To the surprise of Europeans, Luan Jujie won the foil gold medal in this Olympic Games with impeccable performance, becoming the first Olympic champion in Asian fencing Olympic history, and this gold medal also became the first fencing Olympic gold medal in China.
However, only four years later, Luan Jujie, who was at the peak of his sports career, chose to retire and go abroad to become a Canadian citizen. It was not until 2008 that Luan Jujie, at the age of 50, once again represented Canada in the Beijing Olympic Games. On the field, she held high a red banner with the words "Good Motherland" and walked around to pay tribute to the audience. After this TV picture was broadcast, the people of China were deeply moved by her patriotic spirit.
Then, why did Luan Jujie, who won the first fencing champion Olympic gold medal for China, choose to retire only a few years later and then join Canadian citizenship to represent Canada?
Luan Jujie, 1958 was born in Nanjing, Jiangsu province in September. She loved sports since she was a child, especially badminton. /kloc-at the age of 0/5, she entered an amateur sports school and began to practice badminton professionally under the guidance of her coach. However, by chance, after she came into contact with fencing, she immediately fell in love with this more challenging project and turned to foil training. Only four months later, at the age of 16, she participated in the national competition for the first time and won the individual foil runner-up, which greatly shocked sports teams at all levels. From then on, this fencing genius who came out of amateur sports school began to emerge.
It took only two years for Luan Jujie to shine on the world fencing stage from amateur sports school to provincial team and then to national team. At the 1978 Madrid fencing world youth championship, she was stabbed in the left arm by her opponent's sword in the final, but with strong will, she persisted in playing for five games and finally won the runner-up and became the owner of the best performance in Asia, while she was still under 20 years old.
After returning home, Luan Jujie persisted in winning glory for his country with injuries. This story was quickly presented to the higher authorities by the Sports Commission in the form of a briefing. At that time, the national leaders attached great importance to it and instructed to vigorously publicize this spirit of daring to struggle. Because of this, the writer Li You also created a reportage called "Drawing the Eyebrow Sword", which was serialized in major newspapers and periodicals, and Luan Jujie became a household name in China for a time.
In the face of great honor, Luan Jujie was not complacent. In order to strive for greater achievements, she trained harder. If others practice for two hours, she will practice for four hours, and never rest on Sundays and holidays. However, this kind of high-intensity training eventually overdrawn her body and was diagnosed as nephritis.
However, Luan Jujie was not intimidated by his illness. While receiving treatment, she continued to insist on high-intensity training. Finally, at the 23rd Los Angeles Olympic Games on 1984, she defeated the 32-year-old German world famous Hanisch with an absolute advantage of 8:3, won the women's foil championship and reached the highest podium in the Olympic Games, which reached the peak of her sports career.
In Luan Jujie's memory, people were far more interested in spiritual pursuit than material yearning, and the attraction of certificates was far greater than bonuses. The athletes only have the motherland in mind. Although there are no such high rewards and incentives as today, their courage and determination to win the world championship are not inferior.
However, with the continuous aggravation of his illness, Luan Jujie, who was at the peak of his sports career, had no choice but to retire on 1988. Because there was no international fencing referee in China at that time, China fencers often suffered unfair treatment on the field, so she decided to study in Canada, learn a foreign language and become an international fencing referee.
While studying abroad, Luan Jujie met Gu Dajin, the love of his life, and soon they returned to China to get married. 199 1 year, 33-year-old Luan Jujie gave birth to her first child. It was this child that made Luan Jujie, who could have enjoyed the treatment of the Communist Party of China and had no worries about food and clothing, busy.
It turned out that this newborn daughter was diagnosed as congenital dysplasia by the hospital. Not only is her intelligence lower than ordinary people, but her heart also depends on a pacemaker to work normally. In order to keep her daughter alive, she has to bear high medical expenses and advanced medical technology.
At that time, the domestic medical conditions were not superior and the income level was not high. Canada has formulated an attractive subsidy policy for children with congenital diseases. In order to save her daughter's life, Luan Jujie had to give up her job and position in China and become a Canadian citizen. After that, she joined a local fencing club named Edmonton, and besides being a coach, she also represented Canada in the competition and won the prize.
When Luan Jujie first arrived at the club, there were only 58 students studying fencing. With the aura of Olympic champion and her persistence and hard work, it has now become the largest fencing club in Canada and has trained many excellent fencers. According to statistics, in her 30-year teaching career, there are no fewer than 3,000 disciples, which can be said to be full of peaches and plums.
Fortunately, Luan Jujie's second daughter, Gu Mengyuan, and her son, Gu, are not only healthy, but also inherit her excellent talent in fencing. Today, both of them are members of the Canadian fencing national team, and their achievements are among the best in the domestic fencing field.
Because the Edmonton Club is a non-profit organization, Luan Jujie's income is not high, and foreign athletes want to enter the national team by training at their own expense and participating in various competitions, which makes Luan Jujie, whose son and daughter have joined the Canadian national fencing team, both happy and worried. She is happy that her favorite fencing career has a successor, and she is worried that a pair of children will have to pay for many competitions to be selected for the Olympic Games, which makes her feel financial pressure.
Despite living in a foreign land for more than 30 years, Luan Jujie has never forgotten his motherland. She has been eager to draw her sword and fight in the sword altar of the motherland. This dream finally came true at the age of 50.
After Beijing's successful Olympic bid, Luan Jujie was overjoyed. In 2005, when she was invited to participate in Jiangsu TV variety show, she bluntly wanted to participate in the Beijing Olympic Games. Although it is impossible to go out instead of the motherland, it is still possible to represent Canada.
But as early as 2000, Luan Jujie never participated in international competitions, nor did he compete for the points of the national team. However, after she expressed her wish to participate in the competition to the Canadian Sword Association, the Canadian Sword Association made an exception and agreed to her application, allowing her to compete for Olympic tickets at the age of about 50. Next, she must participate in all A-level competitions organized by the International Sword Federation in Asia and America. Whether she can enter the national team depends on her scores and points.
As the Canadian national team was formed temporarily, all the players participated in the Olympic qualifiers at their own expense. In order to participate in trials and training, Luan Jujie had to stop coaching, and his income naturally plummeted. However, the high cost of participating in the trial, coupled with the large operation cost of her daughter's pacemaker replacement operation, made Luan Jujie, who was engaged in training, exhausted physically and mentally. At one time, she wanted to give up the competition, but the motivation to realize her motherland's dream was to stick to the end and successfully represent the Canadian fencing team in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
In the fencing field of this Olympic Games, when Luan Jujie, 50, appeared, although she represented other countries, the domestic audience were all moved by her Olympic spirit of daring to fight and fight.
In the first round, Luan Jujie beat 20-year-old Tunisia teenager Bubeck with a score of 13-9. At the scene of the successful promotion, in the face of many compatriots and cameras in the stands, she frequently took out a banner from her bag and waved it to the audience. The three characters on the banner were particularly eye-catching.
Although Luan Jujie lost to Eda of Hungary in the final of 16, she said that her personal goal has been achieved and she wants to win the championship in her motherland.
In an interview with the media, Luan Jujie said that at the age of 50, he returned to his motherland to participate in the competition in order to let the people of China know that he was recognized in Canada and did not embarrass them.
From then on, Luan Jujie traveled back and forth between China and Canada, threading the needle for the world exchange of fencing. In 20 18, at the age of 60, she participated in the world veteran fencing championship and won the women's foil individual championship in one fell swoop, which shows that the former first sword in the East still has good skills.