Chapter 20 Depressed zodiac year

2003 is my birth year.There is a saying that people in the year of birth will not go well, so they should tie red strings, red belts and other things to ward off evil spirits.I just don't believe in this evil.As a result, this year, I have been stumbled. In 2003, the International Diving Grand Prix held a total of 9 stations. Due to the impact of SARS, the Chinese diving team only participated in 4 of them.The first stop was the Australian Grand Prix in mid-February. Hu Jia and I participated in the 10-meter platform singles and doubles competition at the same time. In the end, both of them lost to Australian player Hulme, and I only finished third.It's really evil.

Five days later, we moved to Zhuhai. Although we took advantage of the right time and place, we won the top four in the 10-meter stage and I returned to the championship. But in the doubles competition, Hu Jia and I lost to the Australians Hulme and Newbury again.The biggest magic weapon for the Australians to win is to pursue difficulty at all costs.Although the technical details and the stability of performance are not as good as ours, they gave full play to their advantages of good strength and long time in the air after take-off, and practiced the top difficulty movements of 3.8.At that time, none of my difficulty coefficients exceeded 3.6.

Of course, we can stand in the forefront of the world, not by the degree of difficulty, but by stability.Therefore, these two losses did not cause us enough attention. But the next two accidents completely ruined my world championship dream. Before going to the Barcelona World Championships, due to SARS, we have been conducting closed training in Jinan.But when I was about to set off, I accidentally found me. Before we do 3-meter springboard, 5-meter springboard or 7-meter springboard training, we must go through steps one by one, and then jump down.That day, my enthusiasm for training was unprecedentedly high, because I CHUA another movement very neatly.I walked up the steps whistling, imagining how I would spend my spare time after training.

I was in a great mood when I tumbled down from the air.But I didn't expect Tang Shaoyun to appear after jumping into the water.I didn't even expect that the two of us would collide in such a dramatic way.When I was about to swim to the edge of the pool, I stretched out my arms slowly and relaxed, while Tang Shaoyun just finished her movements and came up from the bottom of the water with her head raised and her mouth open, just biting my arm!He was taken aback, and subconsciously closed his mouth fiercely!There were no sparks flying around, and no one fell on their backs, but a row of his teeth marks were clearly left on my arm.As neat as a razor blade.

Before I could appreciate his masterpiece, there was a sharp pain in my forearm.Immediately afterwards, the skin near the tooth marks turned over, and blood began to ooze out. "Brother Tian Liang, I'm really sorry, what should I do, I really didn't mean it!" The child had a look of sincerity and fear, as if he had made a huge mistake and was on the verge of crying. I was a little annoyed, and felt incredible. Facing this helpless child, I was too embarrassed to say anything about him.After all, he was innocent. "You kid is really artistic. When you rush up, you can still leave a hole for me like playing a violin." I joked.It is not a good crime to hurt the main players before going to a big game.I weighed my vocabulary carefully, for fear that one or two words of my own would embarrass him and live in the shadows. "Don't worry, it's okay, none of us who practice diving will break the skin."

Injuries are obviously not as easy as the joke.Although the wound formed a scar that night, as soon as it got wet, the scar would be torn like tissue paper, and the blood inside would flow endlessly.The day before departure, the wound was almost completely healed, but as soon as it touched water, it still hurt like being scalded by boiling water. Before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass are thrown away first. Is this a bad signal?My heart sank. On July 10, I arrived in Barcelona with the second batch of members of the Chinese diving team.The diving pool here also has a fantastic name: "Dream Chase" (on Montjuic Mountain).

In this place 11 years ago, I saw the crowning of the diving prince Sun Shuwei on TV and started my Olympic dream.That day, the sky was blue, the venue was hot, and the people were crazy.And all the moments about the championship are sealed in my memory. In the blink of an eye in 11 years, I have replaced Sun Shuwei as the absolute No. 1, but if I can win the championship here, what is more meaningful than this? But here, it seems that Chinese guests from afar are not very welcome.Since this is the first international competition after SARS, we are also the first team to break through the siege of SARS. From the organizing committee to the athletes and referees, from security checks to accommodation, and from all aspects of life, training, and competitions, we are full of people. Pride and Prejudice.This feeling is like seeing someone suffering from mad cow disease.But this kind of behavior also stimulated us, Zhang Lian said to me: The best way to deal with such colored glasses is to defeat them!

To use their buzzwords, you have the right to be arrogant, and we have the right to teach you a lesson. Of course, in order to relieve our tension, Zhang Lian still did a lot of work.On the second day after arriving, he took me, Xu Xiang and Guo Jingjing to the small park next to him for a "sightseeing tour" after training. It is really a beautiful park, located on the top of the mountain, with a panoramic view of the whole city, with flowers, grass, sea, and There is a pier nearby, and ships shuttle nearby.On the way down the mountain, we found a cactus forest.Among them, a cactus is so huge that it looks like a towering old tree, and there is a text card on it.

We decided to go up to visit this amazing cactus.However, before you can see the cactus, you have to walk through something like a water pipe exposed on the ground. The three of them stepped through the water pipe first, marveling around the cactus, and I also stepped over the water pipe.But something strange happened. As soon as I walked past, a large swarm of bees burst out of the tube.The weather in Barcelona was hot, and I was wearing short-sleeved shorts. Soon, I felt severe pain in my right thigh, and I was "shot".Zhang Lian and the others immediately surrounded me and helped me take care of my injury. Although I slapped my leg vigorously, trying to squeeze out the venom, it didn't seem to have much effect: I could only watch helplessly as the painful place gradually bulged, and finally formed a big wound. bag with black pinholes.

I'm a bit depressed, even the bees know how to bully me, which shows my bad luck.This package has no direct impact on the game, but it is self-evident for my psychological implications.Soon, the attentive Xinhua News Agency reporter discovered the "big bag" on my leg and humorously reported that Tian Liang was "attracting bees and butterflies" in Barcelona.This report attracted the attention of many domestic readers, and many people called Xinhua News Agency, telling me how to resolve the "poisonous kiss" of bees.Although I failed to adopt their secrets in the end, I am still very grateful to the media and domestic friends for their concern for me.

The game went on as scheduled. On the 19th, the 10-meter platform preliminaries began, and I only ranked sixth.But I don't mind the grade.This is only the preliminaries, and the results will not be brought into the finals. The good show will only be staged after the prescribed actions of the semi-finals begin. After the preliminaries, the Chinese lunch box ordered by the team was not very tasty, but it was better than the cold dishes in the athletes' restaurant.In order to catch the bus before 12 o'clock, go back to the dormitory and take a half-hour nap, and prepare for the semi-finals starting at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.I took the lunch box, dragged Hu Jia and ran to the shuttle bus, ignoring that I was only wearing slippers. The diving pool is not far from the straight line of the road, but you have to climb the steps of the grandstand as high as 20 or 30 meters.I was only focused on talking to Hu Jia, and I didn’t notice a small platform in front of the steps. This negligence cost me dearly: I missed the space, and my toes in slippers stuck out and hit the platform on the upper floor. steps.Like a banana peel, my body fell to the ground in a parabola in the air, and the lunch box in my hand also fell out of my hand, falling not far from me.Chicken soup and green vegetables, etc. began to flow out. Immediately afterwards, I felt a severe pain in the thumb of my right foot. I saw that the nail on the entire big toe was overturned and bloody. "It hurts so much! I may not be able to go back!" I grinned at Hu Jia. "It's okay! I'll support you!" he replied. But I can't stand up anymore, and I have to rest on the steps for a while.At this time, blood began to drip down like a stream of water.I looked at my watch, it was past 12 o'clock, and it was less than four hours before the afternoon game: the next semi-finals and finals, can I still do it? Sitting on the steps, I pinched my ankle to help stop the bleeding.But after a while, the blood didn't intend to stop, but I felt more and more tired, and I was about to faint. Lie on the steps with your eyes closed.That painful feeling told me that the injury was serious and that things were not going well.At this time, Hu Jia ran back and called the coach and the team doctor. Everyone saw me lying on the stand under the scorching sun, but I was sweating profusely and my face was pale. They lifted me up and laid me flat on the shady corridor on the top floor of the stands.I feel much more comfortable.Although I can't see anything when I open my eyes, my thinking activities have never stopped. It is a big question whether to continue the game in the afternoon or to abstain. I can think and prove that I haven't passed out, the injury is not serious, and I should be able to compete... I comfort myself like this. After a few minutes, they sent me to the infirmary, where they looked at my feet, checked my bones, took photos, bandaged them, etc., and were busy for nearly an hour. The afternoon nap is over, but the meal can't be delayed.I quickly ate the food, but I was still a little nauseous, and my feet were still painful. But at that time I already had an idea: even if I broke my leg, I would still have to compare.This is not because I have such a noble sense of honor, but because the head of the Chinese delegation at the time, Deputy Director Duan of the General Administration of Sports, said: "For a Chinese athlete, the competition is not only more than technology, but also more than spirit. Compared to style." Before the game in the afternoon, I did a simple full-set warm-up on land, and also practiced 407 knee tucks.But in order to avoid aggravating the foot injury, I chose to play directly. Although the toe is still there, at this time I had the idea of ​​losing before the first game.I haven't felt this way for a long time. Although I scored 84.66 points in the first movement, it didn't feel perfect. My arrogance and advantage seemed to be stuck by something.Something is wrong!In the past few years, I have never lost a hand in a big competition. This time, am I going to lose another world champion? I can't accept the fact that there is no lead. After six actions, only the fourth and sixth have played at the level, and the other ones are worse than one.It felt like just going head first into the water.When performing a reverse somersault, the two big toes must need to grab the platform.But I can't use my strength at all. If you try it before the game, the effect will definitely be better.I started to regret it. The finals went on like this, and the process was a bit like the 1996 Olympic Games, every jump was uneventful, every jump was very flat, and of course every score was not very high. In this way, I passed the championship and my dream, and only got the third place.After the game, even the Canadian Despati began to care about my injury: "Please look at his toes. In the sixth movement, he got a high score of 96 points, and many referees even gave it a perfect score." 10 points. He's still a formidable opponent." Even my opponent said so, I wished I could find a hole to drill down.I'm not a person who likes to look for objectivity. If you lose, you lose.Next year's Olympics, I will stand up again. In this way, with injuries, bee bite marks, two bronze medals, and a face darkened by the local hot sun, I returned to Beijing. At the end of 2003, because the diving hall in Beijing had not been renovated, we had to go to Tianjin for the last winter training before the Olympic Games. But just as my natal year was coming to an end, bad luck still didn't let me go. Thinking about this year, although I won many championships, I still lost the most important World Championships, so I practiced very hard.I want to use my hard training to fight against evil spirits and draw a successful end to my zodiac year. In the running training after morning exercise, I did not choose to relax and run like other veteran players, but ran wildly. That day at the 200-300 meter corner of the track and field, a small goal with a height of 1 meter suddenly appeared.Originally the goal was inside the track and field, but for some reason it was moved to the track. In the first few laps, I avoided the goal smoothly, but when I was sprinting on the last lap, I was about to throw off my teammates, tilt my head to scan others, and ignored the obstacles on the runway.Just like that, my legs hit the crossbar, and the goal was knocked far away.And under the effect of huge inertia, I fell directly on the ground. I couldn't move for a long time again.When I got up, my thighs were very painful.I patted myself, I felt fine, I was able to walk, so I limped back to the dormitory. I lay on the bed and rested for a while. It was time to have breakfast. I wanted to go to the cafeteria to eat, but my legs were so painful that I couldn't move at all, so I had to ask Zhang Lian to call the doctor for me.At 6:30 in the morning, the doctor in the infirmary was still resting, but he was forcibly woken up and put ice packs on my legs. Fortunately, apart from the pain, I also felt hungry. My roommate Qin Kai helped me bring food back from the cafeteria.After breakfast, the leader of the diving team and other coaches came to visit me, and I was crippled. The next day, the injured part of the thigh started to congest. According to my experience, it will definitely not get better in a week. On December 24th and 31st, the national diving team conducted two very important team tests, but I didn't catch up with them, and I didn't even step out of the door. At the critical moment of preparation for the Olympic Games, I was about to go to the World Cup. I was injured.I said to them: It's okay, although it hurts a bit, it will be fine soon. Sure enough, two weeks later, through acupuncture, application, and medication, I soon appeared in front of everyone alive and well. 2004 is here.