1. Deng Yaping’s inspirational story

On February 26, 1998, Deng Yaping flew to Cambridge with complicated emotions. For her, this is naturally a very rare opportunity, but it is also a difficult start. "The next day is the day when school starts. There are 9 students in the class. The classroom is not big. 9 desks and chairs are arranged in a semicircle facing the blackboard. The teacher first asks everyone to introduce themselves.

After giving each person two handouts, the lecture began. There was no discipline in the class, and the explanation method was very casual. While the teacher was giving lectures, the students rushed to answer questions. Deng Yaping took the class in the fog of Yunshan. Finished the class. Four or five weeks have passed, and I have worked fifteen or six hours a day, but the results are not great, and the improvement of my English level is not significant.

Newham College, where Deng Yaping studied, is affiliated. A small college at the University of Cambridge, similar to a language training college in China. The students here are mainly foreign students, and Deng Yaping is the only international student from mainland China. In order to catch up on her homework, Deng Yaping wakes up early and sleeps only a few hours a day. /p>

In the first month or two, she couldn’t understand what the teacher said. She copied everything the teacher wrote on the blackboard. After returning home, Deng Yaping looked through the dictionary and read it again. . The daily life is relatively monotonous, and the class time is four and a half hours. There is a lot of homework after class, and eating seems to be very troublesome for her.

Although her foundation is worse than other students, she always has a lot of homework. I was unwilling to give up and wanted to surpass others. This competitive mentality gradually began to change: "After all, the foundation is different. From an athlete to a student is a very big transition, and there is also a process of learning and improvement." "

Back at Tsinghua, the title of Deng Yaping's graduation thesis was "The History and Development of National Football". From the opening report, to the first submission of the paper, to the final revision of the paper, Deng Yaping not only mastered every item I met the standards and was ahead of schedule step by step. "I finally put on my bachelor's cap and gave a speech to the teacher in fluent English at the graduation ceremony. "

2. Guo Jingjing's inspirational story

It was as quiet as anyone. The diving hall with more than 4,000 people was extremely quiet. Even the audience felt a rare sense of calm, because before After four rounds of action, Guo Jingjing on the springboard has become synonymous with "invincible". Guo Jingjing was very calm when she stepped on the springboard in the last round. After all, she has experienced 17 years of being beaten by water and waves.

17 years ago, she was only 6 years old and still in kindergarten. At that time, the coach of the sports school came to choose her team members and took a fancy to her. She thought she was going to learn swimming, so she happily followed the coach to the diving pool. She felt a little regretful when she stood up. She refused to jump no matter what. She was forced to jump once by the coach. Hey, she was chosen.

When she was 11 years old, Guo Jingjing went to Nanjing for training with the team and was beaten. The then national team coach Yu Fen asked her: "Do you want to join the national team?" She replied innocently: "Yes!" A glorious road to the championship began for her in the 1994 National Diving Championships. After Guo Jingjing won two gold medals in the women's ten-meter platform and three-meter springboard, people exclaimed: China has produced another 13-year-old prodigy!

The extraordinary achievements in 1994 and 1995 However, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics brought her the first major setback in her life. Although she was still ahead of all opponents in the Olympic preliminaries of the women's ten-meter platform. , but ended up in fifth place due to mistakes in the finals.

After that, she changed from taking care of the platform to focusing on the springboard. The comeback of the "diving queen" Fu Mingxia often made Guo Jingjing finish second in Athens. Before, Guo Jingjing participated in two Olympic Games and only won two silver medals.

No matter what the outside world thinks of Guo Jingjing, the Chinese diving team coach knows very well the strength of several coaches who have coached her. It is said that this player has strong take-off, good coordination of movements, and high understanding. If it were not for his lack of "ambition", Fu Mingxia would probably be defeated by Guo Jingjing in the game.

This is indeed the case. After Fu Mingxia retired, she quickly consolidated China's dominance in the women's springboard. At the 2001 World Championships, the 2002 World Cup, and the 2003 World Championships, she won the women's three-meter singles championship in the highest level of diving every year. < /p>

She missed a move in the single preliminaries, but she has developed a normal mind after having been through the sea. After calmly competing in the semi-finals, Guo Jingjing’s points for the required moves have risen to the first place. In the final four. After finishing the rotation, Guo Jingjing was almost perfect, leaving her opponent far behind.

On the last jump, Guo Jingjing calmly smoothed her hair, took off from the plank, somersaulted outwards for one and a half times, and then turned for two and a half times. , she completed the action cleanly in the air, and entered the water with a "swipe" sound, and the five-star red flag on the scene immediately waved. After coming out of the water, Guo Jingjing's smile spread like ripples in the blue pool.

3. Lin Dan's inspirational story

When Lin Dan was a child, his mother always liked to dress him as a girl. At that time, Lin Dan was chubby and had long hair that almost covered his ears. Her little face was still smeared red by her mother, and when she put on the red clothes her mother bought, she looked like a little girl. In the early 1980s, learning electronic keyboards became popular across the country.

At that time, Lin Dan was in preschool. All the students in the class were taken to learn electronic keyboards by their parents, and Lin Dan was no exception. His mother bought him a "Casio" electronic keyboard, worth one or two hundred yuan. This price was already very high at the time. However, such an expensive electronic keyboard failed to attract Xiao Lindan's attention. He sat in front of the electronic keyboard every day and only moved his fingers.

This really stifled the active little Lin Dan. Just after playing for a while, he wanted to get off the chair and walk around. As a result, he only practiced for a week and he no longer wanted to play. I’m willing to practice. Lin Dan's father and mother are both sports enthusiasts. His father likes to play table tennis and volleyball, and his mother swims and plays basketball. She often represents Shanghang County in Longyan competitions.

My mother thought that if her son didn’t want to practice the electronic keyboard, he had to practice something else. So, when she was playing basketball, she took Lin Dan with her and let him run and play on the court by himself. At that time, the Shanghang County Gymnasium had children's amateur badminton training, and many children around Lin Dan went there to practice. Once, Lin Dan went to the gym with them to play, and he saw badminton for the first time.

Seeing the children running around, swinging the racket and catching the ball, Lin Dan was immediately attracted, as if he had found a sense of familiarity. That year, Lin Dan was 5 years old. Soon, Lin Dan entered the training class. But because it’s an amateur class, it’s actually more about having fun. The children practiced basic skills such as holding the racket, swinging the racket, and skipping rope together. When the coach was not paying attention, Lin Dan secretly played games with the children.

That time was happy and carefree. At that time, Lin Dan showed his unwillingness to admit defeat and his strong self-esteem at a young age. Among the training items at that time, the only thing that scared Lin Dan was the leg press. At the beginning, the child's ligaments were not stretched and his legs could not be pressed down, so the coach helped him press down. Little Lin Dan cried in pain and pressed while crying. After returning home, his mother continued to help him press down.

However, no matter how painful it was, my mother never heard him say that he didn’t want to practice. On weekends, the training team has to run long distances, running twice around Shanghang County, which is at least several kilometers. Lin Dan is the youngest in the team. He cannot run in front, so he follows the older team members. To finish the race, never stop halfway.

If he loses, Lin Dan starts to cry before the coach says anything. In the amateur class, Lin Dan is the only child who plays with his left hand, so the coach pays special attention to him. Although Lin Dan's technical level is not the best in the class because he is too young, his physical fitness is outstanding. During the technical evaluation in the class at that time, his basic movements, footwork, front and back touch lines, etc. were among the best. .

In 1992, 9-year-old Lin Dan successfully entered the Fujian Provincial Sports School and came to Fuzhou, 600 kilometers away from Shanghang County. Lin Dan spent his first semester at the provincial sports school with tears. Lin Dan entered the Provincial Sports School in the winter of that year. He had always been afraid of the cold and was not used to dormitory life. Ever since his parents who sent him to Fuzhou left, he started crying, almost every day.

Sometimes even during training, Lin Dan started to cry when he missed home during practice. When the coach saw it, he asked him to stand aside and practice again after he finished crying. After training, when he returned to the dormitory, he would often be alone in a daze, and unknowingly he would start crying again. Later, Lin Dan began to write letters to his family, one letter a day, and the subject was basically: Mom and Dad, I miss you, come and see me.

To this day, Lin Dan’s mother still keeps some of the letters. Fortunately, Lin Dan's grandparents and uncle were in Fuzhou, which somewhat eased Lin Dan's homesickness. Every weekend, Lin Dan would go to his grandma's house to eat some delicious food, call his mother, and return to the sports school on Sunday. When he first arrived at the Provincial Sports School, Lin Dan, who had never been away from his parents since he was a child, had no ability to take care of himself and didn't know how to change his clothes.

I don’t know how to make the bed, let alone change the sheets and pillowcases. The whole thing is filthy. In the first week at the sports school, because he was always alone in a daze and missed home, crying in the dormitory and unable to remember to take a shower, he actually didn't take a shower for a whole week. It was only when Lin Dan returned to the sports school from home at the end of the first semester that his homesickness eased.

After surviving the initial adaptation period, Lin Dan’s characteristics of refusing to admit defeat and having strong self-esteem emerged. Soon, he learned to change clothes and wash sheets, and his ability to live independently was significantly enhanced, especially during training. Lin Dan's mother said that once, Lin Dan had a fever and was given an intravenous drip, but he did not want to delay training and did not ask for leave from the coach. He continued training after returning from the hospital.

4. Sun Yang’s inspirational story

Sun Yang is an outstanding student of Bond Education, a charity ambassador of Bond Education, and a double champion at the 2012 London Olympics. Father Sun Quanhong used two words to describe his son Sun Yang: smart and sensible. In the eyes of his father, his son Sun Yang has always been smart. Before he decided to major in sports, his grades in school had always been good.

Since entering the public eye, Sun Yang has given the impression that he cried several times. Sun Quanhong said: "The two times that impressed me deeply were the 2008 Shaoxing National Swimming Championships. At that time, he felt that practicing He did well and was able to compete with Zhang Lin, but he didn't expect Zhang Lin to perform so well. The gap between him and Zhang Lin widened so much that he cried like a mess while holding the silver medal.

The other time was last year's Asian Games. He was running for Park Tae-hwan in the 400 meters, but he didn't expect to miss by a little bit. Later, he cried with joy when he won the 1,500 meters. He is a simple child, and crying may be a kind of emotional catharsis for him, which I can understand. ”

Starting in 2006, Sun Yang’s performance improved rapidly and he got the opportunity to study and train in Australia. Yang Ming also accompanied him, but they did not live in the same hotel and could not ride back and forth together. Mother and son When they arrived at the training venue, Yang Ming sat and watched him train, and then talked on the phone again in the evening.

Recalling those days, Yang Ming broke down in tears. In March this year, his hand was injured and the wound was severely swollen. , the pain was too much to lift, but he still insisted on swimming 20,000 meters a day. I was afraid that if he continued to practice, he would become useless and call him lazy. I'm lazy. How can I achieve today's results if I'm lazy? You're still a university physical education teacher!"

"He is now more and more able to use his brain in swimming and will analyze where he needs to improve, especially from After returning to Australia, we can clearly feel that he is becoming more and more confident in his behavior and becomes more like a man." Yang Ming also revealed a secret about Sun Yang. "He always told me at home, Mom, look at my current results, it's not impossible to be in the top three in the Olympics, right? In fact, I know that he dreams about one day becoming the first Chinese men's swimming Olympic champion. "

On the evening of July 27, London time, Sun Yang said to Yang Ming: "Mom, you must enter the competition venue early tomorrow. The sooner I see you, the better." So at 7 o'clock the next day. At 15 minutes, Yang Ming arrived at the door of the London Aquatic Center. "They haven't opened the door yet, and you can't go in until 8 o'clock. Other children may be nervous when their parents are present, but Sun Yang has been training with me since he was a child, so that he can be at ease."

On August 1, London time, in the final of the men’s 4×200m freestyle relay, Sun Yang was the last one. The national audience saw him chase from fifth place when taking over to third place at the finish line. , the scene of losing strength and falling by the swimming pool. That night, Sun Yang comforted everyone on Weibo, "Please rest assured."

Now that he is home, Sun Yang speaks the truth: "Mom, the individual event is okay, but during the group event, my legs are really shaking. Because I am waiting by the pool, and we I kept falling behind again, and I really wanted to jump in quickly. But once I entered the water, I felt better and I wasn’t nervous anymore.”

After becoming famous in the London Olympics, netizens gave Sun Yang a nickname. Sun Mengmeng". "Moe" comes from a Japanese comic term, meaning cute. "He is quite cute, attentive and sunny." Zhu Ying remembers that when Sun Yang was a child, he would "observe what kind of drinks this coach likes to drink, what kind of tea that coach likes to drink, and then bring them to everyone from home."

5. Liu Xuan’s inspirational story

Unlike many athletes who have shown their sports talents since childhood, gymnastics champion Liu Xuan is a late bloomer. When she was a child, she was not the best student in the eyes of the coach, but she had a tenacity that other children of the same age did not have. She started practicing gymnastics at the age of 5 and continued until she was 21. After a long period of 16 years, she finally won three Olympic medals. , becoming the first Chinese women’s gymnast.

On March 12, 1979, Liu Xuan was born in Changsha, Hunan. When she was a child, Liu Xuan was a well-behaved girl. Her physical fitness is not very good. In order to make her grow healthier, her parents sent her to the children's palace bodybuilding class. That year, Liu Xuan was just 5 years old.

Because she was the shortest, Liu Xuan was at the end of the line when she came to the bodybuilding class, learning moves from the girls. She studied very hard and took every action seriously. The coach was very happy to see it and thought: "This little Liu Xuan has practiced so well!" After that, the coach began to conduct special training for Liu Xuan.

When she was in elementary school, Liu Xuan was very good at her homework, scoring 100 points in both Chinese and mathematics. Every day, after finishing her homework at school, Liu Xuan insists on going to the children's palace bodybuilding class to train. At the age of 8, Liu Xuan was elected to the Hunan Provincial Sports Bureau to participate in training. She practiced so hard that she even had blood blisters on her hands.

However, she was not afraid of hardship at all. When the blood blisters were better, she continued to practice. In this way, calluses slowly grew on her hands. Since she still needs to hold the bar when practicing the uneven bars, whenever the calluses on her hands get thicker, Liu Xuan has to ask her father to flatten them with a razor blade. The longer you practice, the more blades you will need. Dad knew that Liu Xuan's hand must be very painful. However, Liu Xuan endured the pain and said nothing.

Once, my father went to the store to buy a blade.

The salesperson was a child under 16 years old. When he saw Liu Xuan's father buying so many double-sided blades, he asked in confusion: "Uncle, no one uses such blades to shave now. Why did you buy so many?" /p>

Liu Xuan’s father said: “I don’t use it, it’s for my daughter!” The salesperson asked again: “Using it to sharpen pencils? It’s not safe!”

“It’s not for use. I came to sharpen pencils to sharpen the calluses on my daughter’s palms! She is a gymnast.” Hearing this, the salesman was moved and said, “Uncle, these blades are from me to give to your daughter. She is so young and has to suffer.” After so much suffering, I should give some love!"

Once, grandma took Liu Xuan's hand and shouted to Liu Xuan's parents distressedly: "Why do you let your children suffer like this? Stop practicing!"

Actually, mom and dad also feel sorry for Liu Xuan. My mother practiced gymnastics when she was a child and knows how hard it is to practice gymnastics well. However, if my daughter cannot achieve success in this area in the future, does she still need to train so hard?

So, the father ran to ask the coach: "Liu Xuan's performance in the gymnastics team is classified as excellent, above average, or average." Or is it on the lower side? If she can practice well, let her practice; if not, I will let her go back to school, otherwise, both sides will be delayed!" The coach told his father truthfully that Liu Xuan's current grades are only average or medium. At a high level, it’s unclear whether I can achieve results in the future.

After careful consideration, his father agreed with Liu Xuan to continue practicing. He thought that as long as his daughter had a little hope, she should not give up easily. Liu Xuan lived up to her father's expectations. At the age of 13, Liu Xuan was selected into the national training team. After more rigorous training, Liu Xuan's results have become outstanding. However, when preparing to participate in the 12th Asian Games held in Hiroshima, Japan.

An accident during training tore the medial ligament of Liu Xuan’s knee. Although it can grow well in the future, the time for the competition is coming! Liu Xuan was so anxious that she almost cried. How much she cherished this opportunity. !In order to improve her training performance, Liu Xuan gritted her teeth and persisted in practicing, but unfortunately she broke her ligament and had no chance to participate in the Asian Games!

When she received a call from her parents, the first thing Liu Xuan mentioned was not how severe the broken ligament was. It hurts, but said: "I was kicked off the Asian Games list, I am very sad!" Hearing their daughter crying, her parents were very heartbroken and immediately rushed to Beijing to visit and asked a doctor to treat Liu Xuan. Dad had learned massage for a while because Liu Xuan practiced gymnastics.

So, her father massaged Liu Xuan every day and cooperated with the doctor's treatment; at the same time, Liu Xuan often did recovery exercises according to the coach's guidance. Soon, Liu Xuan's injury healed. Liu Xuan smiled because she could participate in the Asian Games. That time, she cooperated with her teammates and won the women's team championship and also won the second place on the individual uneven bars.

Extended information:

Deng Yaping, born on February 6, 1973 in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, is a former Chinese women's table tennis team player, Olympic champion, and table tennis Grand Slam winner. He is the founder of Henan Deng Yaping Sports Industry Investment Fund.

Guo Jingjing, born on October 15, 1981 in Baoding, Hebei, is a former Chinese diving team athlete and Olympic champion. In 1988, Guo Jingjing began diving training in Baoding, Hebei. In 1993, Guo Jingjing was selected for the national diving team.

Lin Dan, Han nationality, was born on October 14, 1983 in Linjiang Town, Shanghang County, Longyan City, Fujian Province. Chinese badminton men's singles athlete. Badminton men's singles champion at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics.

Sun Yang, born on December 1, 1991 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, is the captain of the Chinese national swimming team, the world record holder in the men's 1,500-meter freestyle, and the Olympic record holder in the men's 400-meter freestyle.

Liu Xuan, born on August 12, 1980 in Changsha City, Hunan Province, is a Chinese gymnast and actor. In 1992, Liu Xuan participated in the National Gymnastics Championships and won the uneven bars championship.

Reference materials: Deng Yaping-Baidu Encyclopedia Liu Xuan-Baidu Encyclopedia Sun Yang-Baidu Encyclopedia Colin Dan-Baidu Encyclopedia Guo Jingjing-Baidu Encyclopedia