Chapter 10 national team road

One day in February 1993, Zhang Lian came up to me and told me: "Tomorrow, I will take you to the national team."I still remember his calm tone, as calm as giving a quiz.For so many years, no matter how thrilling the moment is, he can always deal with everything calmly. With him, I feel at ease. After the 1992 Olympic Games, we moved from the Sikuaiyu training base to the Asian Games Village.Here, the Shaanxi diving team hired a full-time nanny to take care of our daily life. We stayed in a room in the swimming pool.Since there are no windows and the lights are not turned on, the room is pitch dark; the room is small, so the bed frame is removed and the mats are directly slept on, which is a bit like the "tatami mats" used by the Japanese. Ritter bored.In order to save electricity and pay less electricity bills, we always turn off the lights, so that whenever I enter the house, I can fall asleep immediately, and sleep in the dark, without knowing the time at all.

But I said to myself, all this is just the darkness before the dawn. At that time, the team bought a set of audio equipment such as video recorders and tape recorders, and I was exposed to karaoke for the first time.In the beginning, I liked to sing with everyone, or sing along to the song.Finally one day, I was surrounded by everyone in front of the microphone.Hearing my own voice was weird, strange, completely different from what I imagined, as if it came from another world.I do not like this feeling. I don't know if it was accidental or inevitable, but I sang Chen Shuhua's "When I Wake Up".In the sad melody, I felt that it was time for me to end my sleepwalking and wake up.

After waking up from a long dream in the dark before dawn, I found that the world was not the same as before. Because, I want to enter the national team. It was a certain day in February 1993. Zhang Lian walked up to me and told me: "Tomorrow, I will take you to the national team." I still remember his calm tone, as calm as giving a quiz.For so many years, no matter how thrilling the moment is, he can always deal with everything calmly. With him, I feel at ease. But these words set off huge waves in my heart.I'm crazy with joy! Into the national team, is this true?Since the day I started diving, I have imagined this scene countless times in my dreams, dreaming of competing shoulder to shoulder with masters such as Sun Shuwei, and accepting the guidance of authoritative coaches such as Xu Yiming.But he was sent back by the Sichuan provincial team. After joining the Shaanxi team, he was repeatedly defeated in national competitions. In Beijing training camp, he was blindsided. Sun Shuwei and his sway in front of the TV seemed to be still yesterday.

If this is a dream, please let me stay in the dream for a little longer, and let me, an ugly duckling born in poverty, feel more like a prince. But it's true!Thank goodness!I can continue to dream and fly in a higher level hall! To be precise, at that time, I was only a member of the national team training camp. At the end of 1992, the national team organized a big training camp in Nanning, Guangxi. At that time, the top players from all provinces were among them. In addition to me, the Shaanxi team included Wang Xuan, Feng Qin, and Yan Hui. In that training camp, the national team divided all male and female diving players into two groups, led by Wu Guocun and Yu Fen respectively, and the head coach was Xu Yiming.Zhang Lian and I belong to the Wuguo Village group.

Coach Wu's training is very strict and severe, so the amount of training in our group is particularly large.After each water training, they have to go to the track and field for quality training.At this time, my running ability is fully reflected, which is the result of running and watching video games when I was in elementary school.However, Wu Lian has very high demands on me, stipulating that I must enter the top few every time I run. The runway of the track and field field is paved with cinders, and there is a 500-meter lap. It is no problem to take the top few times once or twice, but every time you come to the top, that is "Superman".I think that even the team known as the devil training now cannot achieve the amount of exercise we did back then.Fortunately, I was young, practiced hard, and my physical strength recovered quickly.I came back from training at 8 o'clock in the evening. Anyway, no matter what I saw, I just ate whatever I saw.Vole meat, a specialty dish in Guangxi, I thought it was very sweet when I ate it for the first time, but when I heard it was voles, I was so disgusted that I almost vomited it out...

In that training camp, I had close contact with Olympic champion Sun Shuwei for the first time.