Crossing the inferiority of the race, flaunting their might on the territory that others are good at, and the prince will have a kind of xiangning, such a bridge section can always stimulate the national pride of the people and make people's blood.
Throughout the decades of Chinese sports, there are only three male athletes who can do it: Liu Xiang, Sun Yang, and Ning Zetao.
At the 2014 Incheon Asian Games, a brother came out of the sky and won 4 gold medals, killing the South Korean swimming genius + Olympic champion Park Tae-hwan, who occupied the host advantage, and even suppressed the head of China's swimming leader Sun Yang.
At the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, the brother went one step further and won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle with the highest gold content, an unprecedented achievement that soon became a new national hero.
Good strength, coupled with the super high appearance in the entertainment industry, caused countless young girls to collapse and lick the screen screams, and let him mention the title of "small fresh meat".
"Small fresh meat" was still a positive word on the Internet in those two years.
In November 2015, netizens voted for the "Top 10 Most Influential Figures of China's Post-90s", which ranked third and had a rising status.
But what people did not expect was that a year later, he was entangled in a series of negative news, and his status plummeted. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, he encountered Waterloo with high hopes, and his best 100-meter freestyle did not even reach the final, ending his Olympic journey in disgrace.
A year ago it was hot, and a year later, the wall was pushed down by everyone, and the encounter of this brother was quite a bit of black humor.
This parabolic career parabolic injury Zhongyong, the Chinese sports male athlete face ceiling, Asia's first power idol to win the World Championships 100 meters freestyle champion, by the South Korean "art and sports elf" Sun Yan in a high-profile show of love of the small milk dog, by the female reporter to stalk and smear the rumors of the unlucky ghost, amateur golfer, water Liu Xiang, is the Chinese freestyle - Ning Zetao.
01
In 1993, Ning Zetao was born into a military family in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province.
His grandparents, grandparents, parents and fathers are all soldiers, and the three generations of grandchildren are red and professional, so Ning Zetao has been out of low-level interests from the moment he was born.
Ning Zetao's father served in the Air Force, his mother is a navy, if there is no accident, Ning Zetao will grow up to become a PLA soldier.
But the accident came out. Because he was the eldest son in the family, Ning Zetao grew up pampered and pampered, soaked in a honeypot, and naturally lived the life of a pampered young master who dressed to stretch out his hands and open his mouth to eat.
But the mother Liu Wenhong is a mother with a clear brain, and she feels that if the child is raised in this way, she must finish the calf. So he tried his best to take Xiao Ning Zetao to suffer and experience. In the end, Liu Wenhong gave Ning Zetao a swimming training class.
The reason why I chose to swim is because Ning Zetao has been afraid of water since he was a child, "to strengthen his body, he is afraid of what he will give you", this tiger mother education method is worth learning from all the parents of the second generation of rich second-generation officials.
But things went unexpectedly well. Ning Zetao, who overcame the obstacles of fear of water, was out of control, and after only three months in the swimming class, he became a swimming genius who stood out from the crowd and was extremely talented.
Later, Ning Zetao was favored by Guo Hongyan, the coach of the Henan Amateur Sports School, and soon recruited him to become a proud disciple of Coach Guo.
Since then, Ning Zetao's swimming career has been on the right track and he has officially become a professional swimmer.
Under the rule of "famous teachers out of high disciples", Ning Zetao's achievements have improved by leaps and bounds. Four years later, in 2004, 11-year-old Ning Zetao was selected for the Second Henan Provincial Sports Brigade.
In 2007, under the repeated coaxing of his family, 14-year-old Ning Zetao left his hometown to Shanghai and joined the naval swimming team under the guidance of national coach Major General Ye Jin.
Ye Jin is an experienced and rigorous coach who is good at teaching according to his aptitude. Therefore, he formulated a training plan for Ning Zetao, which was a great success in the future.
"Although Ning Zetao is thin, the rhythm and explosiveness of the action are very good, and a little carving will become a big instrument," Ye Jin once said of Ning Zetao.
In addition to training, Ning Zetao's amateur life is reading. He flipped through two biographies of Phelps and Lin Dan. It turns out that reading books is good in any era.
The blessing of talent + the iron blood of soldiers, these are the two major factors for Ning Zetao's success in the next few years. At that time, Ning Zetao already had it.
02
In 2011, 18-year-old Ning Zetao, who was at the age of a flower,000, had a oolong incident: he mistakenly ate clenbuterol pork, and the result was positive for the new crown nucleic acid test, and he was forced to isolate... Oh no, sorry to say wrong, crossed.
He tested positive for doping and was forcibly banned by the Chinese swimming team for one year. It's a bit of a black humor.
A year later, Ning Zetao lifted the ban and returned, and immediately ran away like a wild horse that had lost its reins and rushed to the peak of his career.
In 2013, in the men's 100m final of the National Swimming Championships held in Zhengzhou, Henan, Ning Zetao won the championship.
Although the national record was broken, Ning Zetao's performance at that time was only 48.60 seconds, which was the standard "nest horizontal" result, and it was not enough to watch the international arena.
One day in September 2013, in the final of the men's 100m freestyle at the 12th National Games, Ning Zetao swam 48.27 seconds, breaking the Asian record of 48.33 seconds set by Lui Zhibin. At 48.27 seconds, that's a bit of a feat.
After that, Ning Zetao won another gold medal in the 50m Asian record (21.91 seconds), the 100m freestyle gold medal at the East Asian Games, the gold medal in the 50m freestyle at the East Asian Games, and the gold medal in the 50m butterfly at the National Swimming Championships.
In June 2014, Ning Zetao participated in the 46th International Military Sports Swimming Championships as a soldier, winning the gold medal in the 50-meter freestyle and the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle, and broke the international military sports record in the project.
After a series of tumultuous operations were completed, Ning Zetao has been upgraded to a new generation of invisible bosses in the Chinese swimming world.
What Ning Zetao needs now is a big stage for talents to bloom. The opportunity soon came: the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.
At that time, the Chinese swimming world was in the era of Sun Yang's unification of the rivers and lakes. Originally, the Chinese swimming world was carried by Sun Yang and Ye Shiwen Twin Stars, but Ye Shiwen died prematurely and was fat like a big mother before the age of 20, so you know the result.
So the world-class top athletes who can get their hands on the Chinese swimming world have become Sun Yang alone. Sun Yang is a person with strong strength, flamboyant personality, arrogance, and the reputation of such people is often polarized, loving to die, hating to hate.
Moreover, Sun Yang, a person, likes to say something that highlights himself in public, causing discomfort to the public, inappropriate and embarrassing remarks... Simply put, it is low emotional intelligence.
Before the Incheon Asian Games in 2014, Sun Yang sent warm pre-match wishes to his old rival Park Tae-hwan in an interview: Park Tae-hwan may not win a gold medal.
Magically, Park Tae-hwan, who has home field advantage, finally did it.
03
As a rare swimming genius emerging from South Korea, Park Tae-hwan debuted earlier than Sun Yang and was the first Asian athlete to break the monopoly of European and American swimming events.
But after Sun Yang made his debut, Sun and Park entered a years-long mode of love and killing, and the relationship between the two was similar to Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu.
Therefore, the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, was an opportunity for Park Tae-hwan, who had been suppressed by Sun Yang for several years, to raise his eyebrows and prove himself again.
But the ideal is very full of reality is very bone. The first 200m freestyle final was played, and after 2 minutes of fighting between Sun Yang and Park Tae-hwan, the Japanese Kosuke Akino picked a peach.
In the 1500 meters and 400 meters, Sun Yang has absolute strength, and Park Tae-huan can only watch Sun Yang win easily and stand on the highest podium again and again.
In the freestyle relay, the Korean team was limited by the overall strength, and the chance of winning the championship was very slim. Therefore, Park Tae-huan's most certain gold winning point is the 100-meter freestyle that Sun Yang's big devil can't touch.
But this night is different from the past. On the field of the 100-meter freestyle final, there stood an invisible boss from China - Ning Zetao.
Ning Zetao had just narrowly defeated a Japanese in the 50m freestyle final to win the gold medal, and he was satisfied. But in the 100m freestyle, Park Tae-hwan is the defending champion and the competition is more intense.
But the plot of the 100-meter freestyle final is beyond everyone's imagination. The top 50 meters of eight runners are on a side, but after turning around, Ning Zetao is 2/3 of the way ahead of the second place Park Tae-hwan, and the lead is like "Bolt runs 100 meters - will be the top, a panoramic view of the mountains".
In 47.70 seconds, Ning Zetao won the championship strongly and made history, becoming the first Asian player to swim the 48-second mark.
So at that moment, the Asian swimming icebreaker, the 400-meter freestyle champion of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the enemy of Sun Yang's life, and the 1-meter 83 South Korean Oba -Park Tae-huan, became the hard background board of Ning Zetao's highlight moment.
Next, Ning Zetao and his big brother Sun Yang and others won the 4× 100-meter freestyle relay championship.
The 100m freestyle relay final was a duo between China and Japan, and the Chinese and Japanese teams fought without reservation at the beginning of the competition. The third stick Sun Yang played to smooth out the gap, and the fourth stick Ning Zetao appeared in the finale, like a small Li flying knife, instantly reversing the situation, and the first to reach the end.
Japan finished second, and South Korea finished third with a slight disadvantage of 10 meters behind China and Japan.
Ning Zetao's final event was the 4×100m medley relay, and the four Chinese players were Li Xiang, Li Suhao, Ning Zetao and Xu Jiayu, who later soaked in CCTV Wang Bingbing's crush.
After the first three sticks, the Chinese team is half a position behind Japan, and the trend has gone no matter how you look at it. But the moment Ning Zetao entered the water, the narrator Han Qiaosheng said in a loud voice: Ning Zetao is a soldier.
Thus came the moment of super-combustion that belonged to the Chinese. Only to see Ning Zetao incarnated as a brother riding the wind and waves, his feet seemed to be like an engine engine, catching up, the waves behind him were surging, and the japanese team's lead was gradually eroded.
In the last 20 meters, Ning Zetao became more and more courageous, and finally surpassed the Japanese runners to cross the finish line first.
As soon as Ning Zetao came out, who fought with him?
At the end of the game, commentators Han Qiaosheng and Zhou Yafei were excited and incoherent. In the last shot, Ning Zetao frantically won the advantage of the Japanese next door.
Japan finished second, and South Korea finished third with a slight disadvantage of almost 15 meters behind China and Japan.
At that Asian Games, China and Japan won 34 of the 38 gold medals in a frenzy, and the South Korean team, which occupied the home field advantage, did not receive anything.
Ning Zetao eventually won 4 swimming gold medals, surpassing Sun Yang to become the brightest star in the Asian Games.
Park Tae-hwan was praised by Sun Yang and got a score of 0 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze. So it's a bit of black humor.
04
Although in Incheon full of loads, but the Asian Games is only an Asian level event, and there is no European and American strong hands to press the line, so when Ning Zetao's 4 gold medals are mentioned, there is always a friendly voice of "no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are called kings".
The objective evaluation of Ning Zetao by those pretending to be deep in theory is: a little strength, but not much.
When it comes to the World Championships and Olympic Games, where all the world's top athletes appear, is Ning Zetao still alive?
It turns out that the spirit.
At the 2015 World Swimming Championships in Kazan, Russia, the Chinese Swimming Corps sent the strongest lineup including Sun Yang, Ye Shiwen, Xu Jiayu, Ning Zetao, Shen Duo, Fu Yuanhui, Zhang Yufei, Wang Shun and other strong players, vowing to compete with the world's top masters of European and American whites.
China's most certain gold grab is still Sun Yang. It turns out that this dude is always reliable on the international arena.
Sun Yang won the 400m and 800m freestyle championships again, the 800m achieved the 3rd consecutive world championships, and the 200m freestyle only ranked second with a disadvantage of 0.06 (Sun Yang withdrew from the 1500m freestyle due to heart discomfort at the 15th World Championships).
However, after Sun Yang's participation in the project, the Chinese men's team instantly faced the embarrassing dilemma of no gold medal to compete for.
But the good news came unexpectedly in the 100-meter freestyle: Ning Zetao reached the final of the 100-meter freestyle with 48.11.
The gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle, with a very high gold content, is the ultimate competition of human speed, strength, and technology, which is the crown jewel of swimming competitions.
Before that, the 100-meter freestyle was dominated by white Europeans and Americans, and there had been no Asians in the final for 40 years, and the probability of Asians winning the gold medal was similar to driving a car to kill a fish.
2015, Kazan, Russia, August 6, men's 100m freestyle final
In the final, London Olympic champion, American Adrian in the 2nd lane, Australian star, the winning big hit McVoy in the 4th lane, the Canadian master, the world number one of the year Condorelli in the 8th lane, the Belgian flying fish Pitt in the 6th lane, the Brazilian fierce Marcelo in the 7th lane, the Russian Sukrukov in the 1st lane, the Argentine Federek in the 3rd lane.
Ning Zetao finished second in the preliminaries and was placed in the 5th lane.
The world's top masters all appeared, and none of the world's top five were absent that year, a veritable flying fish battle.
At the beginning of the race, 8 runners go hand in hand, swimming the first 50 meters, and 8 runners lined up in a straight line. The narrator Zhou Yafei pretended to calmly introduce the situation at the scene, but the trembling voice betrayed her panicked heart.
In the last 20 meters after the turn, the 8 players were still in a straight line, and the competition entered a white-hot, but at this time, The second-ranked Ning Zetao began to exert strength, and the competition officially entered a climax.
In the end, as Zhou Yafei shouted out with all her might, "Rush! Take it down..............."
Ning Zetao was the first to go to the side and won the championship smoothly.
After the game, Adrian, Condoleli and others had all collapsed, lying on the waterline panting, while Ning Zetao seemed particularly calm, his eyes fixed on the big screen. At that moment, the 22-year-old from China's Henan province couldn't believe what was in front of him. 47.84 seconds, that's the number of miracles.
At that moment, we seemed to dream back to the Great Han, followed the 22-year-old Huo to the disease to attack the Huangsha of Qianli to behead the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, and fully felt the heroic spirit of a wolf Juxu and an eagle to promote the country's might.
At that moment, Ning Zetao was the only god in the world of Kazan, Russia. Tiger's mouth pulling teeth against the sky to change life, such a sports bridge after 7 years in retrospect, still makes people's blood boiling, surging heart.
At that moment, for Chinese, it didn't matter if the national football team could not qualify.
In Kazan, Russia in 2015, Sun Yang won the MVP of the World Championships, which is the supreme honor of the swimming superstar, but the light of this heavy MVP trophy seems to be completely overshadowed by Ning Zetao.
05
After the World Championships, Ning Zetao's personal reputation and status reached its peak.
After the World Championships, Ning Zetao's state further climbed. At the National Swimming Championships, Ning Zetao swam another 47.65 seconds, which has surpassed his Asian Games and World Championships victories.
At that time, it was rumored that Ning Zetao's usual training performance could reach about 47.50 seconds.
According to this trend, a year later, at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, the gold medal in the men's 100m freestyle is worth Chinese expectations.
But to everyone's surprise, some various gossip and black materials began to find Ning Zetao, and later spread more and more with a nose and eyes.
Some people say that Ning Zetao privately accepted endorsement ads to offend the leaders, resulting in the meal card being demagnetized, and he could only borrow the teammate's meal card to eat in the canteen; Some people said that he was deliberately targeted, forbidden to enter the dormitory, and no one gave him a watch during training; Some people say that he was asked to stay up all night writing checks and could not rest ...
Some people say that Ning Zetao wants to enter the entertainment circle in a high profile and disobeys the arrangements of the national swimming team; Others say that he is a victim of the game of capital and physique...
As an outsider, we naturally can't figure out what the truth was at that time, but Ning Zetao, who only qualified for the Olympic Games a few days before the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, was in a much less state than the previous audience.
At that time, Ning Zetao was thin and pinned, his muscles had lost 8 pounds, and his level had plummeted.
In the men's 100m freestyle semifinals, Ning Zetao only swam 48.37 seconds, ranking 12th and missing the final.
A year ago, ning Zetao, a new generation of national idols who stood on the clouds and enjoyed countless flowers and applause, became a dream of Nanke.
In fact, carefully analyzing the various news and follow-up developments at that time, we can roughly infer the reason for Ning Zetao's rapid fall in the 16-year Olympic Games: he made the same mistake as his predecessor Tian Liang.
The world's top ability, sunny and handsome appearance, let the capital like a fly to see blood pounced, under the siege of sugar-coated shells, Ning Zetao forgot his original intention to lose himself, private endorsements, and the swimming team, which ultimately affected the quality of training, resulting in a horizontal flow of three thousand feet.
The fall of Ning Zetao, although it did not have The sensational and bad comments of Liu Xiang at that time, it was also enough to make people sigh.
On March 6, 2019, Ning Zetao, who was only 26 years old, announced his retirement on his personal social media, and this day happened to be his birthday. Choosing to retire on his birthday, he must have some regrets and unwillingness in his heart about his career!
It is said that after retiring, Ning Zetao was poached by many countries and wanted to naturalize him as a foreign athlete, but he refused all of them one by one because he did not want to stand against China in the future.
As a swimmer from the army, Ning Zetao has kept the last bottom line of the soldiers.
epilogue
Throughout Ning Zetao's career, he was like a huge meteor, blooming with brilliant light.
The light was dazzling, instantly illuminating the empty dark night, causing more than a billion people to stop and watch, cheer and cheer, but soon fell silent, giving people an illusory unreal feeling.
Today's Ning Zetao, 29 years old, seems to have left for a long time, and the few classic moments he created are more and more like the fragments that fall in ancient legends.
These illusions are all because his career is legendary enough, his opponents are strong enough, and his achievements are beautiful enough.
Crossing the inferiority of the race, flaunting their might on the territory that others are good at, and the prince will have a kind of xiangning, such a bridge section can always stimulate the national pride of the people and make people's blood.
Throughout the decades of Chinese sports, there are only three male athletes who can do it: Liu Xiang, Sun Yang, and Ning Zetao.
But the strange thing is that their careers are all high and low, and they have a lot of accidents and can't end well.
Is this the madness of human nature? Or is it a moral slippery slope? Is it a natural disaster? Or is it a man-made disaster?
Hopefully, when the next Ning Zetao of Chinese sports appears, similar tragedies will not be staged again.