She is the German Chusovitina who won the ninth place in women's all-around gymnastics at the Olympic Games today. Her story touched the world. Female gymnasts are often girls under the age of 18, but the 34-year-old Chusovitina has participated in the Olympic Games for the fifth time, representing the third country. She is a "living fossil" of women's gymnastics for nearly 20 years, and she is also the only player in the international gymnastics world who fights for her son.
Chusovitina, who participated in the Olympic Games five times, is a miracle of gymnasts. 1Barcelona in 1992, 17 years old, she won the gymnastics women's team gold medal for the first time on behalf of CIS; Later in Atlanta, Sydney and Athens, she represented Uzbekistan; In this Beijing Olympic Games, Chusovitina put on the clothes of the German delegation again.
At this age, changing her nationality, Chusovitina's initial motivation for participating in the Beijing Olympic Games was to earn more bonuses to treat her eldest son Aletha's leukemia. In 2002, Alisha was diagnosed with leukemia. Chusovitina and her husband are overwhelmed by high medical expenses. The medical conditions in Uzbekistan are average, and the government subsidy of $300 per day is not enough. Chusovitina chose to come back to participate in the competition in order to get the bonus to treat the child.
I heard that a hospital in Cologne, Germany, has a particularly good effect on leukemia. At the end of 2002, Chusovitina and her husband moved to Germany with Alisa. Chusovitina has not quit the top three in the world for five consecutive years, and her outstanding performance has also made the German sports department extend an olive branch. In the following five years, Chusovitina participated in the tour crazily. In order to participate in as many competitions as possible, she also practiced all-around. "My son is all I have. As long as he is ill, I will stick to it. He is my motivation. "
Because only ranked ninth, Chusovitina appeared in the mixed zone early. A German reporter asked her about Alisha's health. The great mother smiled happily. "He went to school in August 1 1, so he couldn't come to Beijing. In June this year 1 1 he will be 9 years old. I call him every day and hear his voice, which is a great encouragement to me. " It is reported that Aletha's condition has gradually stabilized, and he seldom goes to the hospital except for regular blood tests.
Xu Zhiping
Passing through the city: Yueyang
Number of sticks: 76
Xu Zhiping said openly on the phone that he was a disabled person, but also stressed that he was severely disabled and needed to walk with crutches all his life. However, this did not detract from Xu Zhiping's love for sports.
He is the only disabled shooter in our province who has entered the national team. He has won many awards in many international and domestic competitions. Xu Zhiping said, "I have participated in many sports meetings, and the only time I didn't have a chance to participate was the Olympic Games. It really made up for my regret as an Olympic torchbearer this time. I feel very happy, which is a memorable thing in my life. " Today, Xu Zhiping will carry the torch relay in a wheelchair, which is about 60 meters away. Therefore, it took him two months to make a wheelchair by himself, which cost 1000 yuan. Moreover, the wheelchair is not living, but moving, and rolls forward by the strength of the arm. Xu Zhiping proudly said: "Although I am in a wheelchair, I want others to see my healthy and uplifting spirit."
Huyin
Passing through the city: Yueyang
Number of sticks: 94
Hu Yin presided over and planned more than 50 mass sports events, and also participated in the establishment of Changsha Basketball Association in 2006. Therefore, for him, sports have become an indispensable part of life. In order to welcome the arrival of the Olympic flame and be an excellent Olympic torchbearer, Hu Yin made a lot of preparations. One of them is actually quitting smoking. He explained with a smile: "Sports is the embodiment of health and civilization. Now everyone advocates a green Olympics and a people's Olympics, so I think it is what a torchbearer should do to smoke less and reduce environmental pollution." In addition, Hu Yin is still trying to play the role of "Olympic promotion ambassador". He said that from the day he signed up as a torchbearer, he tried his best to popularize Olympic knowledge to everyone around him and persuade them to participate in Olympic activities.
Yedda Chen
Passing through the city: Yueyang
Number of sticks: 135
According to the data, Chen was the first volunteer to donate hematopoietic stem cells to Taiwan Province. Her love and courage once saved the life of a compatriot in Taiwan Province Province, and her deeds were tracked and reported by many media at that time. However, for these honors, Chen just smiled indifferently when he mentioned them yesterday. In her view, most of the Olympic torchbearers selected for Yueyang Railway Station relied on the "good reputation" accumulated when donating hematopoietic stem cells at that time. In order to run these hundreds of meters well, Chen, who is not good at sports, said that she has been busy climbing mountains recently. But what makes her most happy is not that she can be famous and honored as a torchbearer, but: "I can pass on my love through the torch relay and let more people help those around me who need help."
The opening ceremony of the Olympic Games was gorgeous and beautiful, attracting worldwide attention. More than ten thousand actors showed their charm in the performance of "Beautiful Olympics", and the only solo program "Silk Road" in the chapter of "Brilliant Civilization" attracted the attention of billions of viewers around the world with its unique creativity. Even when people are intoxicated with the beautiful pictures of the scene, the real A-corner actor of this program is lying quietly in the hospital bed, struggling to the death with the disease. ...
She is Ada, a famous young dancer in China, the winner of both "Wenhua Award" and "Five One Project Awards", and the only Silk Road one-man performer at the opening ceremony of this Olympic Games.
The audience may still remember that in the Spring Festival Gala in 2006, Ada and dancers Yang li Ping and Tan Yuanyuan performed the dance "Three Friends in the Cold Year-Songzhumei", which became a highlight of the Spring Festival Gala that year. At that time, they appeared on the stage of the Spring Festival Evening in three different dance forms. Critics once commented that Tan Yuanyuan is a tall and straight pine tree, Ada is a fiery plum, and Yang li Ping is a beautiful bamboo. The three dancers interpreted the meaning of artistic beauty in classical, ballet and national ways respectively.
However, just when this brilliant dance flower just bloomed in prime time, it encountered an accident!
These days, all kinds of news began to spread on the internet, and people speculated and cared about the actor's injury.
One second changes the course of life.
There are countless seconds in life, including moments of youth and unexpected moments. On the evening of July 27th, there were only three days left before the first rehearsal with the audience on the 30th, and only ten days before the official opening of the Olympic Games. Roadshow staff are preparing carefully. Ada came to the Bird's Nest early that morning to make up and prepare clothes. Although her program is only two minutes, after hundreds of careful rehearsals, the synthesis of all the extras has reached the stage of preparing for the official performance.
I have rehearsed many times in the "Bird's Nest" and various departments before. Every time it is so perfect, every time it is amazing. Every time, in her fingertips and colorful glare, she is weaving the glory and dream of this Inner Mongolia girl.
At 20: 25 that night, the music started, the Silk Road (formerly known as Tianya Haijiao) set out, and Ada came out. The fluttering dresses and long colorful silks fly beautifully, sometimes like frozen Dunhuang murals, and sometimes like dancers on the ancient Silk Road. The "flying dance" in the air is supported on that "electronic tissue paper", which is illusory and elegant. Feeling the long history and splendid culture, she indulged in dancing on "electronic paper towels", and her whole body exuded dazzling brilliance, as if floating lightly on the ancient desert blue sky, staring at the land under her feet and praying for people.
Just as she is spreading the luxurious beauty with her "devil-like" limbs and enjoying the century-old dream of China dancers, Ada will jump from "electronic paper towel" to another platform as required. This platform is mobile, made of a moving car, and artificially pushed below. However, when Ada started to jump on this platform, his left foot just stepped on it, and his right foot didn't arrive yet, but the platform moved ahead of time!
Ada's bright smile on his face hasn't been put away, so he fell backwards from the platform nearly three meters high! After Ada fell on the air, his back just fell heavily on a track on the ground, and with the impact of jumping ... The atmosphere at the scene suddenly became tense, and the air seemed to solidify. People rushed over and rescued her carefully. At the same time, they started the first aid plan and sent it to the nearest hospital designated by the Olympic Organizing Committee for rescue!
Experts rushed to the consultation and operated overnight. The major operation lasted for six hours and didn't end until dawn. Worrying six hours waiting for the doctor's final diagnosis: the twelfth thoracic vertebra is seriously dislocated and the nerve is seriously damaged!
One second, just one second! If the car platform had not been dismantled in advance, Ada would have been safe and sound in a second, and this program, which lasted only two minutes in total, fell short in this second!
The most feared result also appeared: although Ada was conscious after the operation, his lower body was unconscious! Tears began to hang silently on the beautiful face of "Dance God".
"You will always be an asshole!"
Ada's parents came from Hohhot. The parents, who were happily preparing to watch the opening ceremony at home, were heartbroken when they faced their only daughter lying in the hospital bed.
Zhang Yimou came, Zhang Jigang came, Chen Weiya came, and officials of the Olympic Organizing Committee and leaders of relevant units also came. The leading colleagues of the Dance Academy and the Youth Dance Troupe are anxious and come to visit. People silently pray for her and expect Ada to stand up again, although this hope is only a good wish at present.
At the most tense moment of rehearsal, such an important thing happened to the actors, which was a huge loss to the actors themselves and the opening ceremony, and made the three directors very anxious and sad. Zhang Yimou, the general director, said to Ada in front of his hospital bed: I am very sad that you have paid such a high price for the Olympic Games and the country! We thank you, the country thanks you, and we hope you can actively cooperate with the treatment and get well as soon as possible. Zhang Jigang, the assistant director, told Ada tearfully: You are the forever A-corner in this program! We will always put your name on the program of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games!
"Due to the wrong operation of the platform, the soloist Ada stepped on the air and fell from a height of nearly three meters. Actor Ada was seriously injured, and he paid an irreparable price for it ... "This was written on a" description "material in the operation center of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games, which made people feel the dignity of the word" irreparable ". In this "explanation", Ada was also highly praised, saying that she "performed well in the opening ceremony, worked hard, was not afraid of hardship and fatigue, always put' the interests of the motherland above everything else' in mind, and completed every performance with practical actions, which was well received by the leaders and all the staff."
It is reported that during several months of rehearsal, Ada was the only one-man performer in the opening ceremony. No matter whether it is windy or rainy, she comes to the rehearsal site early, works extremely hard and never asks for leave.
Qiang Jian Ada
A few days ago, the reporter made a special trip to the hospital to visit Ada. The ward is filled with flowers sent by friends, and Ada has just been pushed back from the hyperbaric oxygen chamber of the hospital. Seeing the reporter, I still tried to reach out and greet the reporter, but two strings of silent tears flowed out in my eyes.
Not long ago, Ada also made an appointment with a reporter on the phone. In September, she invited reporters to watch her dance performance at the newly completed National Grand Theatre. She said that she would go to America for a series of trips in October. I didn't expect this meeting to be in the hospital.
Liu's father is a cadre of political and legal system in Hohhot, and Liu's mother is a medical worker. When meeting with reporters, they all choked up when they spoke, and Ada fell down, which had such consequences for their parents. Father Liu, a man from Inner Mongolia, couldn't say a few words to the reporter, but he kept crying. "I like dancing since I was a child. I asked her to learn swimming and painting before, but she was not interested. At the age of nine, I began to get in touch with dance, just like an obsession, until I was admitted to the affiliated middle school and university of Beijing Dance Academy. The children inside have suffered too much. " Ada is the apple of her parents' eye. In the first three years of the affiliated middle school, because of my young age, my parents spent more than ten hours every Sunday from Hohhot to Beijing overnight to wash clothes for my daughter and take care of her life. In the past three years, her parents have spent more than 65,438+050 Sundays on buses and trains without interruption. "We are happy as parents when we see our daughter's achievements step by step." Mother Liu told reporters that at first, she was afraid to watch the exercises, which made people feel unbearable. How many times did she really want to bring her back for another project? Later, she watched her daughter participate in the "Lotus Cup" national dance competition on the spot, and was deeply shocked by her beautiful dancing on the stage, which made her determined to support her daughter to step on the dance stage. At that time, Ada won the silver medal in the Lotus Cup National Dance Competition at the age of 19. In 2004, he won the gold medal in the Sixth National Dance Competition for his solo dance "Rouge Kou", in 2005, he won the gold medal in the Lotus Cup National Dance Competition for his solo dance "Orange is Red", and in 2007, he won the only double prize in China for starring in the dance dramas "Story of Building a City" and "red river valley". In the same year, she represented China in the first Asian Youth.
Over the years, Ada has performed all over the world. In France, Italy, Russia, Japan and other places, her performances always caused a sensation and received rave reviews. Although young, Ada has become the youngest "winner" in China dance circle, and is known as "Liu Yi Leg" and "Top Dance King" because of his excellent leg skills.
Ada's influence in the dance industry has attracted the attention of domestic and foreign media. Not long ago, The New York Times headquarters sent a reporter with an interpreter to Beijing to find Ada, and made an appointment to do a full-page interview after the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games. But now, the topic of the interview will be repositioned.
"My daughter was unwilling to fall behind since she was a child, and she has a strong will. I believe that she will satisfy her current situation and redesign her life path. " When Liu's father said this, his eyes were full of tears. In order to let the reporter take the first photo after the injury, with the help of his family, Ada changed from lying flat to lying down for the first time. He asked his family to help him with his hair, put up a victory sign and forced a smile for the camera. "I don't regret that a dancer fell for the Olympics. I will spread another kind of beauty ... ",Ada told reporters gently and firmly.
Yes, as a professional artist, it is an unparalleled realm and the highest honor to sacrifice his art and life on the national stage and contribute his strength to the brilliant Olympic cause. Her spirit will always stand on the art stage!
When I was young, when my parents named me Liu Yan, I wanted her to be as strong as a rock. After 17 years of art, she has climbed one artistic peak after another, and moved towards brilliance step by step. But now, at the age of 26, she is facing new challenges on the road of life. Obviously, this challenge is more difficult and long than crossing any artistic difficulty.
We sincerely wish Ada a speedy recovery and create another miracle in her life journey.
10 km marathon swimming competition is a new event of this Olympic Games, and it seems destined to be born for legend. Yesterday morning, Van der Veeden of the Netherlands won the first place in the men's competition at Shunyi Water Sports Ground in 1 hour 5 1 minute 5 1.6 seconds, becoming the first 10 km marathon swimming champion in the history of the Olympic Games. This unique experience of suffering from leukemia, this unique "Olympic first gold", will surely go down in the history of the Olympic Games. (China Youth Daily, August 22)
There are many touching scenes in this Olympic Games, such as: a middle-aged mother struggling hard to earn a bonus to treat her son; There is a wife who saw the gold medal without any complaint, but gave comfort in the most beautiful language; Iraqis in old clothes and worn shoes are still taking part in the competition. There is another scene that is equally touching. American breaststroke swimmer Shangtuo was diagnosed with cancer on the eve of the Olympic Games, but he resolutely came to compete; Du Toit, a South African girl, still finished the women's 10 km marathon without her left calf. Especially the Dutchman Van der Wei Deng, who was once a terminally ill leukemia patient, has now won the first men's marathon swimming champion in Olympic history.
The Olympic Games is the highest level of sports competition, and there are many strong players in the world. If you want to win the gold medal here, you need a very high level of competition and strong physique, especially the 10 km marathon swimming competition, which is a challenge to the limit. Intense exercise requires athletes' will and endurance. It may be unbelievable that a terminally ill person can achieve such good results and win the championship in the competition of all people.
Van der Wei Deng can create miracles because of many factors, but one thing is undeniable, and that is spirit. Without the persistent pursuit spirit of never giving up, he can't overcome the disease. Without never back down's spirit, he could not have returned to the swimming pool. Without the indomitable fighting spirit of never giving up, he could not overcome many difficulties, meet challenges and win. With this spirit, down-to-earth, step by step to pursue new dreams, thus writing a great legend.
Olympic medals are desirable and intoxicating, but the touching scenes and events in the Olympic Games are the most dazzling. They make seemingly insurmountable obstacles and impossible goals possible and perfect, and they make the bumpy life brighter and more exciting. The Olympic Games is not only a display of the highest competitive level, but also an imposing manner, an aura and a realm, which adds new brilliance to the Beijing Olympic Games and makes it even more dazzling.
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Xu Chuang, the only global Special Olympics ambassador in China, Qiao Meili, the global Special Olympics leader, and more than 65,438+000 international and domestic Special Olympics champions ... All the Special Olympics "stars" come from a group of mentally retarded children. Wang Ying, secretary of the Party branch and principal of Pudong New Area Auxiliary School, who lives with these children day and night, has just won the title of "March 8th Red Flag Bearer". The reporter interviewed her several times, but failed to "squeeze out" the time.
On March 6th, she was caught red-handed by a reporter at the commendation meeting of Women's Day on March 8th in Pudong New Area. She still looked apologetic: "I'm going to attend a teaching meeting soon, and I have to study tomorrow. I can only give you a short time." During the 20-minute conversation, Wang Ying talked about "moving" the most.
touch of my hand
Reporter: "Why did you choose special education? In the eyes of ordinary people, even if you pay a hundred times of hard work and sweat, you may not get anything? "
Wang Ying: "When you walk in, you will find that this is a very' pure' world. The innocence of the children, the love and dedication of the teachers, let me live in touch every day, and also inspire my maternal nature. "
65438-0999, Wang Ying, an English teacher in a primary school, was transferred to the former Shangnan auxiliary school (now merged by the Pudong New Area auxiliary school) and began to deal with special children. This year, she was 29 years old and her daughter just went to kindergarten. In the face of a major turning point in her career, she also had concerns at first. But slowly, she found many touching places on the children and lit them with her heart. When Qiao Meili, the leader of the global Special Olympics, first arrived at the auxiliary school, her academic performance was often only a few points, and her personality was withdrawn. Tutor Yinghe Wang started with the simplest walk hand in hand, took her step by step to the podium of the Special Olympics Forum, and watched her "burn the midnight oil" for several nights to read a manuscript. Listening to Special Olympics officials praised her as "a decent leader".
Touching teachers and students
Reporter: "Why have these special children changed so much?"
Wang Ying: "Because we confidently educate mentally retarded children with high expectations, so that each of them can have the dignity of life, experience the happiness of life and enjoy the value of life."
Wang Ying believes that as long as there is love and the right methods are used, special children can also create "miracles". After becoming the principal in 2004, she became a "clockwork leader" in the eyes of her colleagues: in order to facilitate the walking of cerebral palsy students, she rushed to the school barrier-free facilities construction site every summer; In order to prevent disabled students from crossing the road in class, she adjusted the special classroom in the north school to the south school; For the employment of children with mental retardation, she tries her best to help them learn various skills and persuade enterprises to accept the social practice of children with mental retardation ... She shuttles to three campuses every day, moving and inspiring school teachers, children and parents not to give up easily. With everyone's efforts, moderate and severe students have learned basic self-care; 400 students who graduated from vocational classes found their own jobs; There are 8 small gymnasts in the school who will represent China in the Special Olympics held in June 5438+ 10 this year.
Touch your daughter
Reporter: "Do you understand that your family is so involved in this kind of work? Are you a good mother in your daughter's eyes? "
Wang Ying: "I always follow the example of my students to educate my daughter. Although I usually don't spend enough time with her, she always says' I am proud of my mother'. "
Wang Ying, who has high expectations for children with mental retardation, has always taken a natural attitude towards the study of her 12-year-old daughter, only demanding high moral education for her daughter, and often inspires her daughter with stories of special children such as Xu Chuang and Qiao Meili. Not long ago, I specially organized students from my daughter's school to visit the auxiliary school, so that my daughter could know more about her busy career every day.