Many people only see the scenery of athletes winning gold medals for their country, but pay little attention to their lives after retiring from injury, can you believe that a long-distance running champion who won 19 gold medals finally fell into a stall for a living? Do you think it's ridiculous? What happened to her? This issue with Dove to talk about the heartache life of long-distance running champion Ai Dongmei, friends who like my video long press like point attention, your support is the biggest motivation for my update, we continue to look down!
Ai Dongmei
Ai Dongmei was born in 1981 in a small county in Heilongjiang Province, when she was a child, she liked to play with her friends everywhere in the village, often went out to play without food, basically could not find anyone, the nature of playing and loving to shop also made her motor nerves very developed and ran particularly fast, to the age of primary school, due to the distance from the school, Ai Dongmei often ran to school at a speed of 100 meters sprint, so back and forth she is running very happy, in the primary school her favorite is the physical education class, every time the teacher arranges students to run, She is the most active, always run first when running, to the fourth grade of primary school, Ai Dongmei's sports talent was excavated, she was recruited into the school's athletics team, her life began to be occupied by athletics, she got up at 4 o'clock in the morning to go to the morning exercise, she and her teammates ran from the school to the village entrance and then turned back and forth to train, when the class time was obedient, after school at five o'clock in the afternoon, she continued to run 10 laps of training on the school playground, just like this, under the more systematic training, Ai Dongmei ran faster and faster.
In a school games women's 3000 meters competition, training during the fingernail damage in the competition friction and bleeding, she can grit her teeth to insist on running 7 laps and the first to run to the finish line, in this track and field competition won a prize of 20 yuan, she is very happy that this is the first time she won the first pot of gold with her own efforts, she secretly decided to run longer and faster in the future races to win more prizes. Because she is very good at running, she is famous in school, and her classmates affectionately call her a small rocket, thinking that she runs as fast as a rocket, from the school games to the county-level games to the municipal games, Ai Dongmei can win the opponent and win awards.
Once Ai Dongmei saw a news about the municipal marathon after participating in the county-level games, the prize money was a bicycle, the bicycle at that time was as precious as the current car, considering that there was really no means of transportation at home, 13-year-old she decided to participate in this marathon, she finally used the strength to suckle and insisted on running to the end to win the prize, the referee was surprised to see that the first place was actually a primary school student, she had such a strong perseverance at a young age, Such a talented long-distance runner soon attracted a lot of attention, including Wang Dexian.
Wang Dexian
He found that Ai Dongmei has a lot of talent for long-distance running and decided to take her to Beijing for training, Wang Dexian was the head coach of the national long-distance running marathon training team, so he also personally went to her parents to discuss and invite her to the locomotive sports team, and said that Ai Dongmei will be assigned a good job as long as she becomes a professional athlete after retiring, her parents have no culture, but they feel that someone is willing to cultivate their children and agree, and Wang Dexian is treated as a noble person who keeps thanking her, at this time they feel that the child's future is bright. But will the truth really turn out to be what they want?
In this way, Ai Dongmei has been training with Wang Dexian since 1995, when she was only fourteen years old, and here she was about to start eight years of training. Came to Beijing locomotive sports team, Ai Dongmei adapted quickly, because this belongs to the suburbs of Beijing, for her and the rural environment at home is no different, here she receives more professional and more rigorous training, training and competition occupy a lot of her time, she almost did not have time to go out shopping to see the scenery of Beijing, the coach Who brought herself to Beijing Wang Dexian will not care about their lives and psychological pressures at all in addition to training, and in order to allow athletes to be more focused on training, Wang Dexian will put them in a closed environment to train, if they do not practice well, they will lose their temper and beat people, and even do not allow athletes to contact their families frequently, and family members will also turn them away when they come to visit, saying that it is to not affect the training of athletes.
Without allowing too much socializing and not allowing people to go home often, many athletes can't accept the choice not to do it under such harsh conditions. But Ai Dongmei still continued to endure and persevere, for the parents at home also for themselves to have a better way out, after all, training for so long has also been carried over, and it is really sorry to give up on giving up the national gold medal in the competition. And sports from childhood to adulthood has been all she has, is her only way out, so she relies on this belief to persevere in one more and more rigorous training.
She also went out to participate in large and small athletics competitions with her own efforts and achieved excellent results, in 1999, 38,000 runners from 34 countries and regions registered to participate in the Beijing International Marathon, and 18-year-old Ai Dongmei participated in the competition as a representative, which was a challenge and an opportunity for her, and she cheered herself up in her heart: I must win! In this way, Ai Dongmei ran 2 hours 29 minutes and 30 seconds to become the champion, and then in the Dalian International Marathon, Ai Dongmei ran 2 hours 34 minutes and 2 seconds to win the women's full marathon championship, and then won the Japan Chiba Highway Relay Championship.
18-year-old she can be described as famous, everyone knows that this girl runs fast and steady, several consecutive competitions she have won the championship, naturally also became the object of Wang Dexian's key training, but she did not know that in Wang Dexian's strong training under such pressure, Ai Dongmei's body has long been overwhelmed, and finally fell in a training leg and was hospitalized for several months, serious leg injury means that she has to terminate her sports career by running to eat, no matter how hard she tries to do rehabilitation, it is difficult for her to run as fast as before. And Wang Dexian saw that she was injured and could no longer run, but he ignored her, and in 2003, Ai Dongmei was extremely disappointed and chose to retire.
After retiring from the army, she was not assigned a good job, and then she went home to get married and have children, and followed her husband to farm at home, but her feet had long been deformed because of the perennial training, she could not do too heavy farm work at all, she could only take charge of all the housework with her children at home, and worked hard for the chai rice oil and salt of life every day.
She looked in the mirror at herself after retiring so sad and difficult, she remembered that Wang Dexian said that she would arrange work after retirement, but she had nothing, remembering that there were 19 medals in her career, at least hundreds of thousands of bonuses, but she did not see a point, thinking of this, she remembered that Wang Dexian had helped them these award-winning athletes to keep the prize money on the grounds of young age, but after she retired, Wang Dexian did not return the bonus to her, and now that she is living so poorly, he is unwilling to give the prize money.
Ai Dongmei decided to unite with his former teammates to find Wang Dexian to return the money, but Wang Dexian pretended not to know this matter and refused to take the money out, there was no way, Ai Dongmei and his teammates could only sue Wang Dexian in court, the past love was not there, the two sides completely broke up, Ai Dongmei and his teammates identified Wang Dexian as a coach, on the grounds that the athletes were young, took their bonuses and did not return them, Wang Dexian did not agree with this statement, they continued to point out that Wang Dexian often beat and scolded the team members during training, saying that the strong pressure training he formulated was unreasonable. It is true that some athletes have suffered varying degrees of injuries to their feet as a result of training, but Wang Dexian continues to argue and can only wait for the trial.
Waiting for the verdict takes time, during this time Ai Dongmei's life is worse, the lawsuit cost a lot of money, and she has no income, in order to survive in Beijing, she decided to take out her treasured gold medal stall to sell, the price is only a few hundred yuan, the price is amazingly low!
Passers-by saw her and casually took photos of her and posted them on the Internet, which caused a heated discussion, and the athletes who used to win glory for the country fell into stalls selling gold medals? Everyone saw such news and expressed their heartache for her, so many people found her to help, with the fermentation of the incident more and more people paid attention to this matter, and some lawyers fought for her for free, and finally she won the lawsuit and successfully got back her own hundreds of thousands of bonuses.
Back at home, the local relevant departments also helped her, and the hospital did free foot treatment for her, and the body slowly recovered her health and got a job, Ai Dongmei was very moved, and her life gradually got on the right track with the help of well-meaning people, she said: "Thank you for these good people who have helped me, I have the opportunity to do my best to repay the society!" ”
Although the matter of long-distance running champion Ai Dongmei has been solved, but the sports circle is so big, one Ai Dongmei's problem has been solved, what should other Ai Dongmei do? Can those athletes who have been working silently and diligently have a good result? I think the plight of athletes after retirement is a problem worth paying attention to, and for a coach like Wang Dexian, as a coach, he ignores the spirit of sportsmanship and becomes a slave to money, for such a person, how do you think to punish? Feel free to leave a comment below to discuss.