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Preface
She started swimming at the age of 7, entered the national team at the age of 14, and won China's first swimming Olympic gold medal at the age of 20, opening the golden age of Chinese swimming.
However, at the peak of her peak, she chose to retire, devote herself to the entertainment industry, and moved to Singapore after getting married, and also enrolled her two children in the United Kingdom, this person is Zhuang Yong, the "legend" of Chinese swimming.
But why did she retire at the top of her game? What did she do after she retired?
Retired at the peak
In 1993, after the National Games, there was a shocking news in the swimming world that Zhuang Yong had retired, which caused an uproar among many people, because not long ago, she defeated Thompson to win the women's 100m freestyle championship at the 25th Barcelona Olympic Games.
This is China's first swimming Olympic gold medal, Zhuang Yong made history, the newspapers at the time have published this news, visiting her has become the dream of every newspaper, but before the competition, no one believes that Zhuang Yong can win the championship.
In 1988, at the Seoul Olympic Games, Zhuang Yong won the silver medal in the women's 100-meter freestyle with a time of 55.47 seconds, breaking the breakthrough of zero medals in Chinese swimming in the Olympic Games, and also set the best result in Asia at that time.
But after that, she seemed to have fallen into some kind of bottleneck, and her results plummeted, and many people thought that she was Jiang Lang's talent and short-lived, so at the beginning of the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, everyone was not optimistic about her, and they all thought that Thompson could win the championship.
But all the media are scrambling to report Thompson's deeds, Zhuang Yong at this time is somewhat unhappy, but she is not discouraged, at the moment of the start of the game, Zhuang Yong immediately entered the state of the race, after surpassing Thompson in 50 meters, he has been in the lead until the end of the game.
Zhuang Yong broke the embarrassment of no gold in China's swimming world, and also made the Chinese national anthem sound in the Olympic champion position, and major newspapers rushed to report her championship deeds, and the people across the country also boiled.
Article information source: Chinanews--- 2012.07.29: "Counting China's First Gold Moment - Zhuang Yong in 1992"
Immediately afterwards, Zhuang Yong won the silver medal in the women's 50-meter freestyle, and cooperated with other teammates to win the silver medal in the 4×100-meter freestyle.
In 1993, at the 7th National Games, Zhuang Yong was still online, won a gold, silver and bronze results, and then announced her retirement, at this time she was only 21 years old.
But after learning the news, many people were shocked, countless domestic and foreign teams wanted to invite her to be a coach, but Zhuang Yong refused, she said, "At that time, she had already won all the gold medals that could be won on the side, and she was a little empty, and she didn't want to deal with swimming anymore, it was boring."
Changed careers after retiring
In the sports world, Zhuang Yong is a champion with many honors, if she continues to work in sports, it is very easy, but when she enters the society, she has no experience, and everything has to start from scratch.
As soon as she retired, Zhuang Yong came to Hong Kong, at that time, Hong Kong was like a peak, full of opportunities, especially in the entertainment industry, so she threw herself into it and made several movies, such as "Natural Pair", "Leopard Girl", "Full-time Thief" and so on, but Zhuang Yong's acting skills were limited and always tepid, so she gradually gave up being an actor.
Article information source: Sina Entertainment --- 2008.09.29: "Exclusive Planning: Sports Star Cameo Movie Inventory: Zhuang Yong"
turned around and came to Phoenix Satellite TV and ESPN as the host, during this period of time, Zhuang Yong began to slowly forget that he was an Olympic champion, began to contact new things, and met some new friends, but after a long time, Zhuang Yong felt that his value did not seem to be reflected, although the host's salary was very high, but she was still very empty.
During this time, Zhuang Yong also met Liu Yong, a sports host of Hong Kong TVB, and completed the wedding with him, but soon after the two moved to Singapore, they divorced for various reasons, and Zhuang Yong returned to Shanghai and said goodbye to Hong Kong.
In 1998, Zhuang Yong's friend Wang Min for many years found her and wanted to cooperate with her to open a company, and the two of them together established a "Tulip Media" specializing in outdoor advertising.
But at the beginning of its establishment, the company's development is still very difficult, and Zhuang Yong has the title of Olympic champion, which can be used as a stepping stone, many people are willing to meet Zhuang Yong, largely because she is like an Olympic champion, and wants to see how she is doing now.
However, whether the stepping stone can be done in the end depends on its own strength, and many times when he encounters something he doesn't understand, Zhuang Yong will communicate with the seniors in the sports industry and business, such as Li Ning, Li Xiaoshuang, etc., and they can often be inspired.
In 2003, Zhuang Yong took a fancy to the LED large screen market, and soon put into it, she was also very ambitious to say "to be China's largest LED media operator", she also said that she did it, the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games LED operation right is hers.
Article information source: Oriental Morning Post --- 2013.01.08: "Zhuang Yong: I also hugged my companions and cried when I started a business"
But the work has taken shape, and there is a lot less time to spend with the children, because she is not at home for a long time, Zhuang Yong even called her and said "I don't want you anymore if I don't come back".
Foreign Nationals
In 2003, Zhuang Yong and Shen Jianqiang registered their marriage in the United States, and gave birth to "monkey baby" Shen Junyan in 2004, she likes the child very much, but she does not know how to be a good mother, because the company is in its infancy, so she spends little time with the family.
Because the child was born in the United States, he naturally joined the United States nationality, which caused some sensation, but the child's life is in China, and the child's education is also a Chinese-style education "strict mother and father", as the child grows up, Zhuang Yong gradually retreats from the first line to the second line, like more with the child.
After her son was older, Zhuang Yong gave birth to another daughter, because her son was very clingy to herself at that time, so she discussed with her husband who she would stick to if she gave birth to a daughter, hoping that she would stick to Shen and be strong, otherwise she would be really jealous.
Article information source: CCTV ---2008.08.14: "Swimming Mother: Zhuang Yong"
Now with the support of Zhuang Yong, her son has been admitted to a very good university with golf as a specialty, and her daughter is also under her guidance, and she has a great talent in painting.
The children are growing up, Zhuang Yong has also started his own new challenges, the self-media industry, one day the daughter who has been in junior high school told Zhuang Yong that she can be independent now, and Zhuang Yong does not have to accompany her every day, which makes Zhuang Yong start to think about trying new things.
After thinking about it for a while, Zhuang Yong formed his own team, joined a short video, and shared his insights on parenting, sports, and skin care, and soon became an "Internet celebrity".
Article sources:
Chinanews---2012.07.29: "Counting China's First Gold Moment - Zhuang Yong in 1992"
Sina Entertainment ---2008.09.29: "Exclusive Planning: Sports Star Cameo Movie Inventory: Zhuang Yong"
Oriental Morning Post ---2013.01.08: "Zhuang Yong: I also hugged my companions and cried when I started my business"
Xinmin Evening News ---2023.07.26: "Beautiful and sassy! She won the first Olympic gold medal in the history of Chinese swimming, and now she has a successful career and has both children and daughters, and she will set off again at the age of 51......"