Chapter 19 angels and devils

Honor is both an angel and a devil. She will maximize your value and destroy you when you can't resist the temptation. After ten years of hard work, no one asked him, and he became famous all over the world in one fell swoop. Some people say that honor is a double-edged sword. While he is depicting the most magnificent prospect to you, he is also calculating when I will give you a "gentle sword". I said that honor is both an angel and a devil. She will maximize your value and destroy you when you can't resist the temptation. For quite a long period of time after winning the championship, the halo of luck always favored me: In 2001, I collected all gold in a series of competitions such as the World Championships, Universiade, Friendship Games, and Ninth National Games, and I have already won the championship in the platform jump event. Tian Liang's imprint.This year, I was selected as the torchbearer of the opening ceremony of the Universiade, the first of the top ten athletes in the country, and was also nominated for the 21st Jesse Owens International Award.

And Zhou Jihong, the leader of the Chinese diving team, also began to determine that Guo Jingjing and I will be the leading figures after Fu Mingxia and Xiong Ni, and the media are constantly comparing the differences in the quality of the core characters between me and the big brother Xiong Ni. From the perspective of Olympic experience, Athens will be my third Olympic Games, while Xiong Ni will be in Sydney for the fourth time.In terms of setback education, Xiong Ni's first two Olympic trips were like nightmares, and then he had a tortuous experience of retiring first and then coming back.Although I also had the night of tears in 1996, and the struggles and helplessness before success again and again, it is certainly not as ups and downs as his.What's more, he has the unique experience of turning from the platform to the springboard.

But as far as I am concerned, I don't care about the title of the so-called leader.As a leader, you not only need to have extraordinary skills, but also have the courage to stand up in key competitions, and the calm demeanor in life-and-death duels.It is also the so-called spiritual power --- Xiong Ni undoubtedly has this kind of power.But I just want to do everything I have to do. The current Chinese diving team is no longer as easy as it used to be to win the gold medal, and it is impossible to easily surpass foreign players by a few points.Behind the prosperity of the dream team, there is a huge crisis hidden.At present, a large number of young foreign players are walking to the forefront of difficulty, and they dare to play at critical moments. Every time they win the championship, the Chinese win very hard, walking on thin ice.In the words of Team Leader Zhou: "Every game is full of fear and trepidation. Chinese diving has no advantage at all. We cannot be called a dream team, but a team of hard work." Therefore, every time I play, I will Remind yourself: Never ignore your opponent, but always believe in yourself.The opponent of the Chinese team is not only Sautin we mentioned before, every opponent is a threat and deserves respect.

And all kinds of temptations around me also began to increase.The first is the temptation of the market.More and more sponsors are trying to tap my business potential. They invite me to talk with me through phone calls, leaders at all levels, or friends, hoping that I can become the image spokesperson of their products.Followed by the temptation of the entertainment industry.All kinds of "star scouts" began to use three layers of unruly tongues to carry out arduous lobbying work. The blueprint drawn out made people's hearts slammed. movies etc. It is easy to say that giving up.After all, it is difficult for outsiders to imagine and understand the boring, monotonous and difficult diving.Usually there are no competitions, and in many cases we can only carry out day-to-day training in the diving hall.If you want to persevere, it means that you will pay your countless efforts and sweat.If I retire at the peak of my career, I can leave a good impression on the audience and continue my popularity. "Why do you work so hard? You should start your own business. There is a vast world outside." People often advise me.

I know very well how exciting the outside world is. Of course, there are also many irresistible "splashes" outside.I am even more aware that I, Tian Liang, can grow from an unknown person to today's collection of thousands of favors, all thanks to diving.I am still young, only 21 years old, and I will only be 25 years old four years later. I am in the golden age of an athlete, and I still have potential to be tapped in my profession.What's more, after the successful bidding of the Beijing Olympic Games on July 13, my mood has never been so comfortable: In 2008, if I can stick to that day, or participate as a sportsman What a wonderful thing it would be for a luxurious event.If you let me go now, I will regret it for the rest of my life.

As for tapping other potentials, I think it's not time to think about it yet.Once I choose what to do after thinking about it, I will definitely treat it with the same focus as I like diving. In fact, under the arrangement of the national team that year, I only chose a few advertisements such as Reebok brand spokesperson, a certain brand of chocolate and eye drops advertisements. Matches do not conflict.Similarly, this is also the reason why I said NO to the famous Hong Kong director Tsui Hark.Director Tsui Hark has always been very famous. After the Olympics, he I was invited to participate in the filming, but due to the conflict between the performance time and the training schedule for the World Swimming Championships, and this kind of martial arts approach, I never tried it.Therefore, his first electric shock died just like that.

What I miss most is the pool of clear water.After a series of celebration activities, in November 2000, I couldn't wait to devote myself to the training of the national team. In 2001, due to the fact that there were not many masters participating in the first few races, most of the teams sent were second-tier teams. I made my first appearance after the Olympics in the Canadian and American grand prix in May. The US station is my first time participating as an Olympic champion.The bad thing is that although the Olympics have passed 7 months, I am still immersed in the halo of honor.Like a rookie, I feel that everyone is my opponent, and I am even more afraid of the feeling of walking on the ten-meter platform.I am the Olympic champion, if I lose, what kind of shock will it cause in the country?

The Olympic champion has unconsciously become a heavy burden for me, and I can no longer bear the weight of this title. In this case, one can imagine my state and performance: In the end, I lost and only jumped to third place. This defeat was a blow to the head, and it made me wake up quickly, and it also made me lose my championship airs. In the next race in Mexico, I started to get my position right.Although the opponents were still those people, I easily won the championship.I get it, if the Honor Japan Swimming Championships in July is treated correctly, the ups and downs are tense, and this is a time when the diving team is wolf.But for me, winning the Olympic singles championship, but missing the World Championships singles championship, this huge contrast makes me the most exciting.

I am determined, no matter for myself or the team, I must keep the championship. On July 27th, the first double platform final, we won the championship with a score of 361.41 points.In the Olympics, I lost this event, which is a good sign, and the single gold medal is in sight. Two days later, the men's Taiwan finals.After two rounds, I was only third, behind Canada's Despatie and Cuba's Guerva. This makes me very uncomfortable.It's okay to fall behind Sautin, but I didn't expect to be more than ten points behind these two guys, which really made me angry.Maybe the more anxious I was, the more I performed poorly. In the subsequent 626B and 207B moves, I was still more than 10 points behind Despati.

"Everyone is nervous, there are two more moves! Let go of the jump, and you can pull it back later. You are the strongest." It was Team Leader Zhou who said this.The encouragement that team leader Zhou gave me at this moment is unintentionally a shot in the arm. Didn't I earn back after falling behind my opponent by more than 30 points in the Olympics?Now the opponent is only leading by more than ten points, what's the rush?Thinking about it, my heartbeat slowed down.I completed the subsequent 407C and 307C cleanly, and also won my first World Championship. In the following National Games, I jumped out of a set of almost perfect movements and won the championship with more than 750 points.So far, I have achieved a result that I never dreamed of, and won the single championship in all types of diving competitions

In 2002, my competition was also very smooth. In June, I won two championships in the Spanish World Cup Diving Competition.The World Cup was barely covered because it collided with football, but I still won two titles. In the Busan Asian Games in November, I also won the championship without any risk.He was also elected as the representative of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the youngest representative.He was also the winner of the TV Sports Award for Best Male Athlete that year. I remember that the reason why I was evaluating me back then was: He is a new generation of diving prince and the leader of the Chinese men's team.From the young youth in Atlanta in 1996 to the lonely defeat in Seville in 2002, Tian Liang wrote a series of moving legends between the ten-meter-high platform and a pool of clear water.His perfect entry into the water amazed everyone; his brilliant smile made countless people crazy.He opened the sunshine era of Chinese diving. I seem to have found my time.