Chapter 21 stimulus 2004

If 2003 is destined to be the biggest splash in my life, then in 2004, I hope I can have a turning point.However, in the face of the most important opportunity, I missed. In 2003, I didn’t follow the advice of my good friend Guo Guo (Guo Jingjing): I tied the red rope, but I encountered a series of bad luck. I never had so many "" Bizarre" injuries.Going into a new Olympic year, I am determined to change my image.Good luck starts from the "head", so I kept my hair up and developed my will. In February, when the team went to the World Cup in Athens, Wang Tongxiang, the Chinese head coach of the Australian diving team, saw me puzzled for a long time, and then joked as usual: "Hehe, Xiaopingtou is gone, and now I have changed to a mature man's route? !"

Indeed, what is mature is not only the appearance, but also the mind that has been tortured in the past year.In this World Cup, the Chinese diving team won all the double event gold medals, but lost most of the individual gold medals.The reason why I did not add the prefix "all" is because I defended the last dignity of Chinese diving in the 10-meter platform, and won with a particularly large advantage.Otherwise, the domestic media will give the Chinese diving team the title of "Chinese Double Team". Looks like it's my turn! In the Zhuhai Grand Prix in April, I won very well at home.With the belief that I must win, I participated in the Canadian and American Grand Prix in May.In Canada, I got an easy first place in the preliminaries on May 1, and it seemed only a matter of time before I won the gold medal in the final.The final will be held on the 3rd, and the 2nd is a rest day.But I am used to being with training as a companion, and I feel a little troubled when I am free.Hey, who told us to work so hard, let's train obediently!

However, due to a small negligence during the training, my arm accidentally touched the platform when I was somersaulting in the air. There was no fracture, but I still scratched a little skin. Originally, this was a small incident that easily happened during training, but it really frightened the foreigners.Doctors, coaches, and team members went out together, grabbing medicine and bandaging.At first I thought that foreigners would make a fuss over my injuries.At that time, I lamented that there was a gap in the concept of injuries at home and abroad.But Zhang Lian told me: They care about me not because I am an Olympic champion, but because the host player, Christie, happens to be 13th in the preliminaries.If I continue to compete, it means that Christie will definitely miss the final.

Sure enough, in those two days, Christie, whom I was not familiar with at first, came to see me.That eagerness made people feel a little unbearable. For me, it is very easy to be a sympathetic person and carry forward Bethune's spirit of internationalism.But out of the concept of maintaining fair competition and cherishing the sense of honor accumulated over the years of hard work, I chose to participate in the competition. Before the semi-final, I came to the training ground, and Christie also came.With no final rights, he just stood helplessly by the pool.I didn't dare to look at his eager expression, I just moved my body a few times indiscriminately, hoping to find the feeling of the past, but my arms really couldn't bear the impact of jumping off the platform.So, when the game was about to start, I proposed to the organizing committee: abstain from the game.

After getting the news of my withdrawal, Christie and his coach rushed to the stage, quickly took off their sports clothes, and seized the last time to warm up.From his excited eyes, I saw a valuable spirit: that is almost paranoid love for this project.While he may be destined to hover outside the top 12 in the world, his love of diving has kept him going until the end. Undoubtedly, his persistence made him finally wait for the opportunity.Regardless of the final result, he is the final winner. At that moment, a layer of warmth rose from the bottom of my heart. Obviously, I was moved by this move.I saw my own shadow from him!

I did not watch the semifinals and finals where Tian Liang was absent.But after the game, Christie came to my room, jumped at me, gave me a big hug, and said sincerely: THANK YOU.Although he didn't get any good grades. Until now, I feel very regretful. Due to the rush of time, I did not leave the phone number and E-MAIL of this lovely man, so I lost contact with him.At this moment, he must be eating a hamburger while struggling to read a book.Or run to death after get off work in order to receive an hour of diving training. I don't know, what should he think after seeing my performance in the Olympics, maybe he will say: This is the Olympic spirit; I don't know, has he heard of the series of turmoil after the Olympics?If he was here, he would definitely persuade me: Cherish diving, because you love this sport!

With the touch of Christie, I came to the United States.The wound is scarred, and the opponent is still those "old guns".But I thought of Christie's firm eyes, and I felt that with such good conditions, I should win.Here, despite the high outdoor temperature, I still prepared for the training competition very seriously. As a result, I won the singles and doubles championship. Although in the finals in Mexico in June, I repeated the mistakes of 1997 and once again handed over the single and double gold medals on the diving platform.But this little episode obviously couldn't stop my desire for an Olympic gold medal.The European Football Championship in those days, "

The myth of winning the championship staged by the "dark horse" Greek team deeply inspired us, the mentor and the apprentice. Zhang Lian told me: "This is a relaxation before the Olympics. It aims to confuse the opponent and leave the pressure of winning the championship to the opponent before the game.Don't think of yourself as a champion, but put yourself in a very low position to attack others.When you arrive in Athens, you have to be the dark horse and have the last laugh! " Afterwards, in the closed training in Jinan, I practiced very hard. I lost a lot of weight and my muscles became particularly "stylish".I remember that when I was interviewed by CCTV's "News Meeting Room", the host took 8 gold coin chocolates packaged in the shape of gold medals and asked the team leader Zhou: "Among the 8 Olympic diving events, how many gold medals do you plan to win?" Team leader Zhou He tactfully replied: "It's not up to me to decide, and I can't win the gold medal. We have to work hard and prepare for the eight events. Sometimes we set our targets high and fail to reach them. People say you are bragging and put your own The target is set very low, people say you lack confidence, so it is difficult for us to say a specific target now, we are determined to strive for eight gold medals, and we must not give up on each gold medal.” However, when the host asked the same question When it was thrown to me and Guo Guo, we both took two pieces of chocolate.That's right, the Olympic goal I set for myself is two gold medals in singles and doubles.

On August 9, we arrived in Athens.Although in various reports, people have complained about the lazy style of the Greeks, but the latter still made the Olympic Games a relatively successful event. Athens, here I come! Olympic Games, I, Tian Liang, are here again! In Athens, the number one goal I set for myself was not to get hurt.After experiencing so many major competitions, I know how important it is for a player to perform normally to avoid injuries.A strong body is the prerequisite for all good results. But the more I don't want to get hurt, the more trouble I have.During a training session after arriving in Athens, my left toe accidentally touched the diving platform.Although it wasn't the relapse of the old right ankle injury that Team Leader Zhou and Zhang Lian were worried about, and it wasn't a serious problem for the game, but it's not a good sign to die before the big game.

I don't want everyone to pay too much attention to this issue, but there are still photographers who recorded the injury from various angles.For a while, the media even worried that the diving prince would replicate the tragedy of the 2003 World Championships?For this association, I seem a little helpless, but I also understand it.Before such an important competition, any disturbance will touch everyone's sensitive nerves, let alone me as the leader? fortunately!After a day off, I went into training the next day. On August 14th, the first day is a double competition.We have a lot of opponents, the Australian combination Hulme/Newbury has defeated us several times, and their difficulty factor is 0.6 higher than ours.Moreover, we face many difficulties ourselves.My partner is Yang Jinghui, who is four years younger than me. We have been partners since the Universiade last year. After that, we both met gold all the way and won the World Cup in February.But he lost in the finals in Mexico, the last stop before the Olympics.Those victories in the past cannot be equated to the Olympics, and no one can guarantee that we will be able to perform at a normal level and cooperate tacitly.

But for me, since I fell behind in the pair gold medal four years ago, my biggest hope is to get the Olympic pair gold medal.On the one hand, I want revenge, on the other hand, I believe in our ability.We played against the Australian pair 6 times this year, and we only lost 1 time in Mexico. As a veteran who has competed in the Olympic Games for three times, I feel that it is necessary for me to instill all my insights and experiences into my juniors.In the dormitory, I explained Yang Jinghui in detail from the opponent's style to the consistency of positioning. I've never felt so confident.The day before the competition, Li Hua, director of the swimming center, said to me with a smile: "Dive well, we believe you can win the gold medal." Before the competition, the default goal of the diving team was four gold medals. A "military order" was issued to win two gold medals each.Regarding Director Li’s words, I stuck out my tongue mischievously, pointed to the newly decorated podium in the distance and said, “Don’t worry, you can watch me smile on the champion’s podium tomorrow!” The night before, I didn't have as much insomnia as I did two years ago.I slept very soundly and peacefully. After the start of the competition, except that the first jump was somewhat nervous, which allowed the Australian opponent to win by 0.80 points, our cooperation was not tacit enough. Our performance in the next 4 jumps can be described as perfect: the second jump We surpassed by 3.6 points. In the third jump, we jumped 5253B to pull the distance to more than 8 points. In the fourth jump, the opponent’s difficulty coefficient was 3.6, while ours was 3.2. However, we achieved a high score of 92.16 with excellent and stable performance.The first four jumps have actually left the opponent behind, leading by nearly 20 points.In the last jump, the Australian team not only failed to catch up, but was even robbed of the silver medal by the British. Some people say that it is a bit risky for us to defeat our Australian opponent who has cooperated for six years.However, double diving itself has the characteristics of performance, and we should not only pursue the difficulty of movements, but also affect the stability and beauty of movements.In the Sydney Olympics, the temporary combination of Sautin/Lukasin was able to defeat me, relying on the quality and stability of the movements. This time, I became the old Sa. After four years of revenge, I finally vented the anger of not having an Olympic double gold medal.After receiving the award from the champion, Yang Jinghui and I waved the bright five-star red flag while walking.A reporter said that wearing an olive crown on my head and holding an olive branch in my hand, I really looked like a prince at that time.At that time, my excitement was all written on my face, because my dedication was directly proportional to my joy.When I walked to the auditorium, Li Minghua, director of the Shaanxi Sports Bureau, who came to watch the game, grabbed me. I was so excited that tears filled my eyes, and I was smiling happily. This moment was captured by Zhang Lian with his camera. . I have won the double gold medals in other world competitions many times, but this is the only one I lack.And after this competition, I can throw away all the baggage and concentrate on preparing for the solo competition.After the game, a Hong Kong female reporter asked me a gossip question: "You are very suitable to be an actor, do you have any plans to film in the future?" I happily replied: "The most important thing now is to perform well in the next one." "Show"—a platform jumping competition two weeks later." Due to the TV broadcast and the arrangement of the venues, the diving competition of the Athens Olympic Games is called a "marathon" schedule. My double diving competition is the first day, and the single final will have to wait until the day before the closing ceremony of the Olympic Games. There are two weeks in between. when.After the pair won the championship, the first thing I thought of was to be very careful with every step I took.I have always had the habit of being negligent, and I have a little accident from time to time, just like the situation in last year's World Championships and this year's Canadian Grand Prix.During these 14 days, there must be no injuries or accidents; secondly, calm down and train well.As far as self-protection is concerned, I have done a very good job, I have not suffered any injuries, and my training level is quite high. In my spare time, I take a few teammates to go for a walk in the international area, go to the Internet cafe to queue up to play video games and play billiards.Although there are Asian restaurants in the Olympic Village, there are no delicious food suitable for us. There are often Thai and Japanese dishes, but there are not many Chinese dishes.I also had to treat it as Chinese New Year when I encountered delicious food, and make do with it most of the time. During the entire Olympic Games, I lost a lot of weight. The day before the Men's Taiwan final on August 27 was my 25th birthday, and I went to training hungry because I had to prepare for the warm-up.In the morning, as soon as I got on the bus to the competition venue, the Ukrainian player Norman and his female coach, who were playing side by side with me, came to me together and said to me; HAPPY BIRTHDAY! They also gave me a small hand-woven flower basket.Norman is 31 years old. He is my opponent and a foreigner. He even knew about my birthday and gave me a birthday present. At that moment, I was completely moved! But in the face of tomorrow's tough battle, I'm not in the mood to blow out birthday candles.The best birthday present I hope to receive is naturally the men's Taiwan gold medal.For this reason, I was not present at the women's 3-meter springboard final to cheer for Guo Guo and Wu Minxia who participated in the women's 3-meter springboard final.There is no TV in the room, which is good. I don't have to be excited and consume energy for the ups and downs of my teammates.You must know that watching teammates play is more involved and worrying than me fighting in person.I only learned about the results through the Internet after the game. In the preliminaries, I finished third, and my main opponents were Australia's Hulme and Canada's Despatie.I can basically accept this ranking.My advantage is not in the prescribed movements, and judging from previous Olympic competitions, the first place in the preliminaries basically missed the championship. But I also know that the intensity of single-person competition is much greater than that of double-person competition.Despite the fact that Despati from Canada is only 19 years old this year, he is not much worse than me in terms of technical strength, difficulty or psychological quality.In the Mexican finals, it should be said that I danced pretty well, but in the last jump, he jumped out of six 10 points and one super high score of 9.5 points to win me.But I can't say I'm afraid of him, after all, I beat him a lot. It's time for the decisive battle! In the first round, Hu Jia played fourth from last and scored 83.70 points.My starting move is 5253B, and the difficulty factor is 3.4.This is my king's action, and it is also the first action. The Peruvian referee scored a perfect score of 10 and scored 95.88 points.Canada's Despati played second last, he scored 86.40 points. At the start, I had a 10-point lead over Despati, who was second. In the second round, I used the newly learned 109C movement with a difficulty coefficient as high as 3.5.From my competition experience, the success rate of this action is the lowest. In yesterday's preliminaries, I made a mistake in this action.If this movement is done well, the gold medal is like a cooked duck, which cannot fly out of my palm.But if the jump is not good, the gold medal will be more hanging. I am a person who likes challenges. The more difficult movements I encounter, the more confident I am to challenge them. I am not going to break through blindly.My mind is full of technical essentials.If you don't jump well, the champion may be hanging!This action is so critical.I am fully prepared.jump down. success!I really want to express my excitement: the duck is really cooked, and the gold medal is close at hand.I lead the second place by more than twenty points.The next few moves are all sure-fire moves, and the possibility of jumping badly is very small. As long as I perform my moves normally, I will be the champion if I perform to everyone! Maybe because of this momentary joy, I made a mistake in the third and fourth jumps, especially the fourth jump. It was not big, but it was enough to make my advantage disappear, and I returned to the starting line.Subconsciously told me that the gold medal may fly away, not necessarily mine.I lost the previous score advantage, and the psychological advantage was gone.The latter two actions are crucial.The fifth jump was a move I was relatively good at, but my lead was completely gone, and I still lost to Hu Jia by less than two points. Just make the last jump. In the last jump, Hu Jia played in front of me and scored the highest score of 100.98.My movements were the same as his, but unfortunately I was a little insufficient when entering the water, and I got 86.70 points.Ordinarily, this score is not too bad, but compared with Hu Jia's high score, it seems too mediocre.Helm after me also jumped this action, performed well, and surpassed me by one point in total score. After climbing out of the water, I knew that the gold medal was hopeless, but Hu Jia would definitely keep the championship position.I was the first to congratulate him.He stood behind the platform, waiting for the last two competitors to move.I was the first person in the Chinese diving team to congratulate him.Since the Sydney Olympics, he has been training hard and playing silently. He has given so much and this is the credit he deserves. After congratulating Hu Jia, I started a "dialogue" with myself: Competitive sports are really charming, full of suspense and drama, and even cooked ducks can fly.That's why so many people love sports and enjoy watching it.I was the best prepared, the most powerful, and had the highest winning percentage in previous competitions, but in this Olympic Games, I failed to win the final victory.This is sports. The game is over, and I want to understand one thing: this is just a game that has been endowed with special meaning and attracted the attention of countless people. No matter what the prefix is, this is a game after all. There are no generals who are always victorious in the world, and failure is not terrible.What's more, I didn't make a particularly big mistake myself, it's just that the two moves in the middle were not eye-catching enough. I didn't lose to my opponent, but to myself. Someone asked me: "What do you think about winning the bronze medal by one or two points behind foreigners?" I replied: "For Chinese diving, there is no difference between second and third place, but our athlete won the championship. It's the most important thing. For me, I'm a loser in this game." However, later on, a domestic media titled "Tian Liang Lost to the Devil in My Heart" said that I lacked manners. After Hu Jia won, I turned my head and walked away when faced with the hand extended by him.After reading this report, I feel very uncomfortable.I guess the situation at the time was not that the reporter was not there, or did not watch the entire game at all, and only drew this conclusion from the live clips on local TV.Although I failed to defend my title, the final winner is China, my teammate and junior. I regret for myself, but I am also happy for Hu Jia.I have been fighting on the field for so many years. Winning or losing is a common matter in military affairs. This is the most basic professional ethics of athletes. I have never been the kind of person who is jealous of others' success.I was not able to grasp the chance of winning, and the successful defense of the title has already made me very sad. This kind of false report makes me speechless.Fortunately, reporters from many domestic media were at the scene of the Olympic Games coverage and clarified the matter for me one after another.Hu Jia also proved in future interviews that I was the first person to congratulate him after the game. After the competition, Zhang Lian patted me on the shoulder, as usual, and said loudly: "It's okay, you danced well, try your best! Hu Jia is indeed a better dancer!" Seeing Hu Jia, he opened his arms with a smile Welcome over and congratulate Hu Jia with the warmest hugs. After I accepted the media interview and press conference in the mixed zone with mixed emotions, and when all the hustle and bustle subsided, I returned to the Olympic Village. Many relatives and friends in China sent text messages to comfort me.I didn't reply, my heart was full of gratitude.In no mood I called my family, they must have seen the live broadcast of the game at home.At this moment, I just want to be alone for a while... Walking in this Olympic Village, where I have been staying for nearly 20 days, the scenes from the competition just now always flash in my mind.If I could do it all over again, I might be more cautious and better.There can be many more competitions of various types, but the Athens Olympics has just passed away and will never come back. For my strength, I have always been full of confidence.For the defeat in Athens, I couldn't figure it out. The only thing I can conclude that night is that this is the charm of competitive sports.In the process of preparation and competition, I worked hard and paid, and I once had the advantage, but I still lost the game.I don't want any excuses!