Text: Wu Liuqi
Editor|Film and Entertainment Pioneer
On August 1, the final of the men's 100-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics kicked off.
Chinese swimmer Pan Zhanle broke the world record with a time of 46.40 seconds and won the gold medal!
became the fastest swimmer in the world today.
Such a proud achievement can't help but make people think of Sun Yang back then,
At that time, he was well-deserved as the "first Chinese swimmer", but now he rarely appears in people's field of vision.
After digging deeply, I found out that the "initiator" of Sun Yang's life tragedy was not a drug test, but his own mother.
Broke the record and won the gold medal, creating the history of Chinese swimming
Before Pan Zhanle was able to win this gold medal,
People who don't pay attention to swimming events, almost no one has heard of his name.
And he broke the world record this time,
won one of China's most valuable championships in this Olympic Games.
Such achievements have created the history of Chinese swimming.
Many people don't have much concept of Pan Zhanle's 46.40 seconds.
We can roughly compare,
Sun Yang's best time in the 100m freestyle was 49.27 seconds.
World star Phelps best time in the 100m freestyle was 47.51 seconds.
Although the two of them are good at different projects from Pan Zhanle,
But it can also reflect to a certain extent that the 100-meter freestyle wants to swim in 47 seconds.
For most athletes, this is an extremely difficult task.
Pan Zhanle's victory this time is of extraordinary significance.
not only won the first gold medal for the Chinese swimming team at the Paris Olympics,
It has greatly improved the morale of the Chinese swimming team and lifted people's hearts.
And he broke the monopoly of white people in the 100-meter freestyle.
Like Liu Xiang back then, he changed the world's prejudice against Chinese.
This Olympic Games, because of the deliberate smear of some Western countries,
The athletes of the Chinese swimming team have suffered a lot of unfair treatment.
Pan Zhanle's gold medal is undoubtedly the best riposte to them.
He proved in front of the world that there is nothing that the Chinese cannot do!
In 2014, 10-year-old Pan Zhanle was already making his mark in swimming competitions.
When asked by a reporter what his future goals are,
He said: "It's faster than Sun Yang."
At that time, Sun Yang was already a world champion, and people only regarded Pan Zhanle as a childlike and bragging.
But no one expected that the child who "bragged" back then would really swim faster than Sun Yang.
Now 19 years old, Pan Zhanle has become a rising star in the Chinese swimming world.
And as the goal he has been chasing,
Why did the "first Chinese swimmer" suddenly disappear?
Tenacious struggle, it has become the highest mountain in China's swimming world
Sun Yang was born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province into a sports family.
Both parents used to be excellent volleyball players on the provincial team.
Sun Yang inherited their excellent sports genes,
Destined to take the road of sports.
Although the parents did not want their son to embark on this difficult road,
But it's a pity that Sun Yang's innate advantage doesn't go sports.
When he was 6 years old, he was introduced to swimming for the first time.
At the age of 13, he joined the Zhejiang swimming team and became a professional swimmer.
Sun Yang trained very hard in the provincial team, and his results also improved by leaps and bounds.
In just 3 years, he entered the Chinese national swimming team.
In the years that followed, he began to participate in various international swimming competitions,
I didn't get a good result, but I got a lot of experience in the competition.
In addition to the daily necessities of eating and sleeping, as well as a short rest period,
Sun Yang spends almost all of the rest of his time training.
Because he had been in the water for so long, his fingerprints were soaked beyond collection.
"Hard work pays off",
Such hard training finally brought Sun Yang to a turning point in his fate.
Sun Yang performed well in the 2010 Asian Games,
First, he won his first Asian Games gold medal with his teammates.
Then he broke the Asian record in the men's 1500m freestyle.
His life began here and opened the most glorious chapter.
In 2011, Sun Yang won his first World Championships gold medal.
This made him the youngest world champion in Chinese history at the time.
And he held this record for 13 years.
In the same year, he also set a new world record in the 1500-meter freestyle.
At the 2012 London Olympics, Sun Yang won the gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle event.
At the same time, he set a new Olympic record and was the first male athlete in mainland China to win the championship in swimming.
He went on to win gold in the 1500m freestyle and set a new world record.
In 2017, Sun Yang reached the Grand Slam and became the tallest mountain in Chinese swimming.
The Chinese men's swimming event won a total of 18 gold medals in international competitions.
Sun Yang alone won 14 of them.
When he was still there, people thought that swimming was China's strong point.
When he fell silent, people understood that it was only Sun Yang who was strong.
"No one is perfect", Sun Yang's achievements have indeed attracted worldwide attention, but his shortcomings have also affected his life.
Success is also Yang Ming, defeat is also Yang Ming
If you look closely at Sun Yang's growth trajectory, you will find that there has always been an inseparable person by his side.
This person is his mother: Yang Ming.
Sun Yang embarked on the road of swimming, thanks to Yang Ming's contributions,
She took meticulous care of Sun Yang, made Sun Yang and ruined Sun Yang.
Since Sun Yang began to learn to swim, Yang Ming began to accompany him "360 degrees without dead ends".
Pick-up, cooking, laundry, trouser ties, she does all the work by herself.
Other people will be more or less repelled by this excessive doting,
But Sun Yang relied very much on his mother's care, and slowly turned into a "giant baby" without opinions.
Whether it is ordinary training or major competitions, Sun Yang has to take his mother with him.
If the leader and coach don't agree, he will use not playing as a bargaining chip to threaten them.
Sun Yang was taught a lesson by his teacher after making a mistake, but Yang Ming thought that his son should not suffer this kind of grievance.
I went to the swimming team again and again to make a big fuss, and I will never stop until the whole world is turned upside down.
Sun Yang was also pestered by his mother, and finally turned against his teacher.
Yang Ming was overly doting, which made Sun Yang have a lot of problems in dealing with people.
His age is often not proportional to his naïve psychology.
In the collective, he often does not take into account the feelings of others and acts childishly.
In order to provide himself with a good training environment, he will even kick his teammates out of the stadium.
"Giant Baby" Sun Yang was driving without a license and crashed into a bus in 2013.
He became the first world champion to be administratively detained on the mainland.
The coach of the national swimming team also hit the nail on the head in his evaluation,
Sun Yang's body and talent are rare in 50 years, but his personality and temper are also rare in 50 years.
If Yang Ming's doting just made Sun Yang a little naïve, it would actually be understandable.
But the mother's influence on her son for decades,
In the end, Sun Yang fell directly from the altar and never regained his former glory.
In 2018, when Sun Yang was inspected for illegal drugs,
Suspecting the identity and professionalism of the inspectors, they refused to cooperate with the inspection.
FINA just ruled that Sun Yang had not committed a violation.
This matter was originally wrong on the part of the inspection agency,
As long as the communication is reasonable, it is a small matter of trouble at most.
But Yang Ming, who has been strong all her life, and the willful good son she cultivated,
How can you suffer such a loss?
They unceremoniously broke up the blood samples taken by the inspectors,
Directly blasted them out,
There is no bearing or rules to speak of.
A series of "mystery operations" turned this small incident into a huge tragedy.
In the end, Sun Yang was labeled as a "violent protester" and banned until the end of May 2024.
For an athlete in his prime, a four-plus four-year ban is almost fatal.
Even if Sun Yang can still compete in the future, it will be difficult to represent the country in competitions.
Falling from the peak of his life to the bottomless abyss, Sun Yang's ban affected him not only personally.
Unfair treatment, Chinese swimming into darkness
At the Paris Olympics, the unfair treatment of the Chinese swimming team made the Chinese people angry.
Continental swimmers are inspected several times more often than athletes from other countries.
And Qin Haiyang, the athlete who has been inspected the most in the mainland, has been 46 times in the past year.
Despite this, frequent inspections are unjustifiable,
It can even be said to be a naked target.
But the athletes from the mainland still cooperate very well,
There was no excesses, and there were no complaints.
All this, if it has nothing to do with Sun Yang, can you believe it?
Sun Yang was banned, but did he take drugs in violation of the regulations back then?
There is still no accurate answer.
He used to be the pride of Chinese swimming, and of course we hope that he will "clean himself up".
But what is clear is that the "Sun Yang incident" did affect the Chinese swimming world.
At this Paris Olympics, the main reason for the poor performance of the continental swimming team,
It's that too frequent inspections have seriously affected the state of the athletes.
They have to train every day, they have to get jet lag, and they have to be checked from morning to night.
I couldn't even sleep well, so it was difficult to play my due strength during the game.
A few days before the start of the competition, several advantageous items of the Chinese swimming team,
Failed to win a gold medal, which shrouded the mood of all the players in darkness.
Until now, Pan Zhanle won the first gold medal,
It has brought a ray of hope to the Chinese swimming team.
What about being targeted?
No difficulty can stop the Chinese.
epilogue
Don't perish in silence, explode in silence.
Sun Yang has brought Chinese swimming to the world's height, and his contribution is undeniable.
Regardless of whether Sun Yang can stand on the stage of the World Series again in the future,
He is the tallest mountain in Chinese swimming so far.
We also hope that there will be more and more young heroes like Pan Zhanle in China.
Only in this way can China's swimming industry move to a new peak.
Some references:
"Ten Years of Sun Yang's National Team: Gorgeous Transformation, Start Again with Dreams"|Tencent Sports
"Sun Yang won the third gold medal of his individual, and he is the first person in the Chinese swimming Olympics"|Netease Sports