When it comes to the athletes who won gold and silver on behalf of China in the arena, people can always be proud of them from the bottom of their hearts.
However, the career of athletes is always short, and long-term training often leads to athletes having difficulty adapting to society, which can't help but make countless athletes experience the pain of life to a greater or lesser extent after retiring.
Among them, the most typical is the talent of the weightlifter who is known as the first Hercules in Asia. After leaving the weightlifting arena, Caili's life has changed so much that his wife has to post online about her grief.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >01, the first Hercules in Asia</h1>
Caili's wife's post was posted on her daughter Caijianhan's social media account. The article mentions that in the 18 years since Caili's death, the life of the mother and daughter has been difficult, which makes some netizens can't help but wonder curiously: How can Caili's wife and daughter live so badly?
You know, the talent born in rural Liaoning in 1970 has been stronger since he was a child. Unfortunately, the poor family's situation not only could not let the talent exert its talents to the fullest, but because he had a lot of strength to eat, it became a heavy burden on the family, almost making the food and clothing of the whole family a problem.
Not only that, but because of the inherent big man, he was often discriminated against by his classmates in school. In desperation, CaiLi simply chose to drop out of school and go home to do farm work for his parents in order to reduce the burden on the family.
One day, He was able to work in the fields as usual. At this time, a passerby in Tanabe suddenly stared at Caili deadly, and the more he looked, the more he was happy, as if he had discovered the world's most precious treasure.
CaiLi felt strange and couldn't help but talk to passers-by. It turned out that this passerby was a weightlifting coach of a sports school, and he came to the countryside this time to find good seedlings for weightlifting, and talent was the best choice in terms of physical fitness and farm work.
Delighted, the coach couldn't help but ask Caili: "Would you like to go to the weightlifting team with me and become a professional weightlifter?" ”
Cai Li said hesitantly, "Then you have to ask my parents what they mean."
As soon as the coach heard this, he immediately went to Caili's home to visit his parents. Who knows that as soon as the parents heard the coach's explanation, they immediately stopped doing it. They said bluntly to the coach: "What is weightlifting, we don't understand." But if you take your talents away, my family will have one less strong laborer. ”
The coach hurriedly explained the significance of the weightlifting team to Caili's parents, telling them that if Caili could win gold and silver for the motherland in the weightlifting event in the future, he would be a hero in everyone's minds.
Perhaps it was the coach's sincere attitude that impressed Caili's parents, and the two old men finally nodded slowly and said to Caili: "Child, you should follow the coach and do a good job." ”
I have to say that talent is indeed talented in weightlifting. After coming to the weightlifting team, he quickly adapted to the life of the team at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people. In daily study, the general team members have to practice for a long time to master the essentials of the movement, and the talent only needs to train a few times to achieve good results, which makes the talent quickly surpass the brothers who contacted the weightlifting earlier than him, and became the seed player in the weightlifting team.
In 1985, at the age of 15, he was recommended by his coach to appear on the field of the Youth Games. Only to see the talent on the field calmly walk to the barbell, take a deep breath and suddenly raise the barbell high above his head, and easily win the 110 kg championship.
For a while, everyone was sighing that this young-looking player had such a powerful explosive force in his body. In the midst of the disturbing discussion, Caili quietly returned to the training ground with the gold medal, trained hard day and night, and finally at the age of 20, he won the Asian Games weightlifting championship again, and also broke the Asian Games record, known as "Asia's first Hercules".
Since then, he has been full of talent and firepower, winning more than 40 national championships and more than 20 Asian championships in just a few years, becoming the athlete with the largest number of champions in China, and becoming famous for a while.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="3" >02, poverty and disease</h1>
In the middle of the day, the day is rising, and the monthly profit is losing. Behind the infinite scenery is the growing age of talent and the increasingly difficult to load high-intensity training. In 1993, Caili chose to retire and prepare to work as a coach in the future, constantly training talents for the weightlifting career.
However, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very bone. After leaving the weightlifting team, Caili failed to get the coaching job he wanted, and had to go to the major talent markets and embark on a long job search.
However, the athlete's career has brought him countless injuries and illnesses, and he can't engage in heavy physical work, and because of his lack of education, he can't enter the white-collar industry, and finally he tried his best to find a job as a janitor in the Liaoning Provincial Sports Academy.
The meager salary of the janitor has caused the standard of living of the talent to plummet. During that time, Caili's daughter was often sick, and Caili had to work hard to make money, sometimes even working for more than 24 hours in a row, just to earn a little more overtime pay, so that she could add more dishes to her daughter at the next meal and add some nutrition.
High-intensity work completely ruins the health of talent. In 2003, at the age of 33, Heli died of suffocation from sleep apnea, leaving his three-year-old daughter and wife to continue to struggle in the abyss of poverty.
According to Caili's wife, in fact, Caili already knew that he was not in good health, but the respiratory equipment needed to treat sleep apnea cost thousands of yuan in just one hour, and the poor talent could not afford this medical expense, and could only let the disease continue to worsen.
Even at the moment when Caili fell, Caili's wife wanted to save her husband's life, but found that there was only 300 yuan left in the family, which was not enough for the operation. In a hurry, Caili's wife searched for neighbors and friends, and borrowed one or two thousand, but it was too late, and Caili left his beloved family forever.
Some people say that talent does not die of disease, but of poverty. Admittedly, the departure of an athlete who is famous in this way is too stimulating to the public.com.
After all, in the eyes of most people, athletes use their youth to fight on the field and win honors on behalf of the motherland, and the prize money obtained in the competition alone is enough to make the athletes have no worries about food and clothing after retirement.
But Caili used his own experience to break the public's illusion. People suddenly find that when the original athletes leave the field, they become ordinary people, and sometimes the standard of living is not as good as that of ordinary people.
This is the sadness of talent, and it is also the sadness of all athletes. Fortunately, the talent was quickly fermented after being reported by the media, which attracted the attention of people from all walks of life in the sports world.
Since then, the welfare of athletes in the field of competitive sports has been continuously improved, and now retired athletes can not only get financial subsidies, but also get many talented athletes who dare not think of job opportunities, and some outstanding athletes have been guaranteed to colleges and universities for further study after retirement, and there are more possibilities in the future.
It is believed that with the continuous improvement of various welfare measures to protect retired athletes, the tragedy of talent will never be repeated. Professional athletes will set sail after retirement and continue to write the glory of life.
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Author: Liyuan Moon Night