"You are a national weightlifting champion? The national champion gave me a bath? " The female swimmer was surprised. The washerwoman didn't answer. She sat wearily in the corner and looked embarrassed.
This female bath worker is Zou Chunlan, a famous weightlifter in the past and a national weightlifting champion. From champion to bath worker, what has her life experienced?
Zou Chunlan's residence is a room with an area of less than 5 square meters. Besides the bed, a coffee table occupies the largest area of the room. There is a small TV on the coffee table with a bag of eggs next to it.
On a round table, Zou Chunlan carefully fiddled with the 14 enumeration heavy medals he won, including 4 gold medals.
Living such a poor and embarrassed life, it is hard for many people to imagine that she was once a famous weightlifter and a national weightlifter in China.
Zou Chunlan, a native of meihekou city, Jilin Province, 14 years old, was attracted by physical education teachers because of her great strength. She lifted 90 pounds when she first touched the barbell and fell in love with the sport from then on.
From 65438 to 0987, Zou Chunlan entered the first comprehensive team of Jilin Province. In September of the same year, Zou Chunlan won the second place in the snatch and the first place in the clean and jerk in the national weightlifting championship. As soon as she debuted, she achieved such excellent results that Zou Chunlan naturally became the key training object of the first comprehensive team in the province.
1in the autumn of 988, Zou Chunlan won three gold medals in the snatch, clean and jerk and the total score in the 44kg class, among which the clean and jerk and the total score broke the world record. Zou Chunlan's name suddenly shocked the weightlifting world.
1990165438+10, the national weightlifting championship, breaking the national record of the 48kg class. 1993, the 7th National Games, due to injury, was the only competition in which Zou Chunlan didn't win a medal, and retired in the same year.
In 2000, after working in the canteen of the weightlifting team for a period of time, 29-year-old Zou Chunlan took his file, bid farewell to his colleagues and friends, and left the weightlifting team sadly.
After leaving the sports team in 2000, although Zou Chunlan received 80,000 yuan in injury compensation, he soon fell into economic difficulties due to his low education and poor life.
In 2006, Zou Chunlan and her husband came to work in this public bathhouse in Changchun, earning a meager income by rubbing customers' backs.
Zou Chunlan has worked in this bathing place for almost a year. She is a bath worker. She charges 5 yuan for each bath, and Zou Chunlan can get 1.25 yuan. A month later, Zou Chunlan earned less money than 500 yuan.
Zou Chunlan and his wife live in a room with an area of less than 5 square meters. The embarrassing life of the former national weightlifting champion is beyond doubt.
Zou Chunlan has completely neglected his studies because he has been engaged in physical training all the year round. She is not in the third grade of primary school, and she can't even read pinyin.
Besides being uneducated, she still lacks a skill. After long-term weightlifting training, Zou Chunlan has no practical skills and is slow to change careers. ...
Zou Chunlan felt very struggling after leaving weightlifting. In a small room, after a long silence, Zou Chunlan said, "Recalling the painful past is a kind of torture."
It is reported that the owner of this bath is also an athlete, and Zou Chunlan is a fellow villager and met during training. It was not easy to meet her, so I took her here and provided her with free accommodation, which was a help to my former colleagues.
Zou Chunlan, who is 1.5 meters tall, looks very thin and can only take care of lunch when taking a shower. She served rice and stewed cabbage. She said, "I can't stand eating rice and cabbage for a long time, so I fried two eggs to solve my problem."
As a woman, the most painful thing for Zou Chunlan is that she shows many male characteristics physically. Even if she takes female drugs every day, the effect is not great.
Taking a drug called "Hercules tonic" for a long time during the period of being an athlete, that is, steroid, is a derivative of androgen, which can accelerate muscle growth and enhance physical strength. Since then, signs of the opposite sex have troubled him for many years.
Every two or three days, after getting up, Zou Chunlan has to look in the mirror for a long time to see the changes on his face and pull out the black stubble that comes out of his mouth. Influenced by early training, there are many signs of men.
In order to maintain female characteristics, Zou Chunlan needs to take estrogen drugs continuously, which costs a lot, but has little effect.
Although she is a national champion, she feels inferior to ordinary people. Signs of the opposite sex often appear, and her sense of inferiority is still with her until now.
She can't give birth now. After preliminary examination, the hospital said it was uterine dysplasia. She doesn't know whether this has something to do with eating "Hercules" in training.
In Zou Chunlan's body, there are obvious male characteristics in many places, such as her leg hair on her calf is very heavy, her voice is heavy and hoarse, and her skin is rough like a man.
Zou Chunlan said: "Most female athletes can recover their female characteristics after adjustment. It is very rare for me to take prednisone every day, but the adjustment effect is not good. "
With the growth of age, her physical strength is getting worse and worse, her heart is still not good, and she often feels overwhelmed when taking a bath. Zou Chunlan is eager to have a child for her husband, but her body is infertile.
Zou Chunlan met Lao Zhou through the matchmaking of others in the predicament. On August 200 1 year 18, they got married.
Lao Zhou is seven years older than Zou Chunlan and lives in Chaoyang Town. In the late 1980s, influenced by the film Shaolin Temple, he felt it was good to become a monk. When he was nearly 30 years old, he became a monk in a local temple and then began to travel around.
After they got married, they lived in Lao Zhou's younger brother's house. Lao Zhou delivered beer to the wholesale department and earned 500 yuan's income every month. However, the work of delivering beer is really precarious and the income is very unstable. There was really no way, so they began to think of other ways to make a living.
He said that the General Administration of Sport has always attached great importance to the job placement of athletes. The employment placement of athletes is a difficult problem, so the state has issued a series of resettlement and security policies for retired athletes.
After Zou Chunlan's situation was disclosed by the media, the domestic response was very strong. Many companies invited her to work for their own motives, but Zou Chunlan felt that her education was too low and she just wanted to learn a trade.
At this time, the All-China Women's Federation and Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau decided to help Zou Chunlan start a business. After careful consideration, Zou Chunlan bought a set of laundry equipment and opened a dry cleaner with the help of the All-China Women's Federation.
At first, Zou Chunlan's laundry business was not smooth, for one thing, because she had no experience, and for another, the market competition was fierce. In order to win customers, she reduced the price of laundry and improved the quality of service.
Seeing Zou Chunlan's sincere service attitude and reputation as a weightlifting champion, many people choose to do laundry in her dry cleaner.
Zou Chunlan realized that it doesn't matter if there is no culture. Everything has to start from scratch, life is very difficult, but it is often not others who knock themselves down, but themselves. She vowed to be the "champion of life" in her heart.
In order to provide better service to customers, when she collects clothes, she should check them carefully first, mark the stained places, and then give them to the laundryman.
Through her efforts, the business of dry cleaners is getting better and better. There are five people in the laundry room, a laundryman, an ironing worker and a front desk. In order to earn income, Zou Chunlan asked her husband to learn the skill of repairing shoes, and by the way, she also undertook the business of repairing shoes.
In 2008, Zou Chunlan was named "Influential Women in China at Home and Abroad" by the All-China Women's Federation, and in 2009, she was named as a model of female entrepreneurship in Jilin Province.
With the help of our country and our own efforts, Zou Chunlan found herself again. From the Olympic champion, to the bather, and then from the bather to today's "boss wife", Zou Chunlan's life is once again counterattacked.
Regarding his past, Zou Chunlan was very emotional: "That is the road I chose. Even if I can have children of my own, I won't let her go again. I devoted all my youth to sports. In the end, how can I bear to be in her mother's situation? "
Yes, the employment placement of athletes is a historical issue, and it is a problem in the process of the transition from planned economy to market economy.
In order to solve the problems of study, employment and social security of retired athletes, the state has formulated and promulgated a series of policies and regulations.
In addition to requiring the establishment of employment training system for retired athletes, it also emphasizes the establishment and strengthening of the integration system of training and education, ensuring that athletes receive nine-year compulsory education while completing training and competition tasks, relaxing the admission requirements for athletes, and enabling athletes to master their livelihood skills as soon as possible.
But at the same time, we also see that in some backward and poor places in China, there are not a few children who choose to pursue sports dreams and Olympic dreams because of poverty.
The coordinated development of economy and sports may be the fundamental way to solve these problems.
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