I am waiting for you in Rio

Park Shin-jung has suffered from allergic asthma since he was a child, and his health has not been very good.When he was four years old, the doctor said that swimming can improve his physical fitness and is very helpful for the recovery of asthma, so his mother signed him up for swimming lessons. From then on, he started to swim.

Since then, Park Shin-jung's mother has supported his weak body to take him to the swimming pool every day, and has to get up early in the morning to prepare breakfast for him, which is very hard.And Pu Xinzhong is also very sensible, his training is very hard, among all the children in the swimming pool, he is the best swimmer.The coach is also very strict with him. Every time he swims 100 meters, other children can only swim in 1 minute and 10 seconds, but Park Shin-joong must swim in 1 minute and 05 seconds.

When Pu Xinzhong was [-] years old, his mother's illness relapsed, and he coughed up blood every day, which was very serious.Later, the hospital issued a notice of critical illness, and Park Xinzhong's father begged the doctor with tears to save his wife.At this time, the family's finances were also very difficult because of the medical treatment for my mother, and they even needed a loan.Park Xinzhong's training needs a lot of money every month, which is a big expense for the family, so Park Xinzhong said to his father: "Dad, I don't swim anymore, the money will be left for the family. Use it for mother's treatment."

But how could Dad let him give up halfway?The coach said that he has great potential, if he can train well, his future is limitless, so Park Shin Joong had no choice but to continue training.Fortunately, a miracle happened later, my mother survived, and the whole family was very happy.At this time, Park Shin-joong secretly went out to find a job without telling his family.But because he was too young, those bosses didn't use him, so he had to deliver newspapers in the end. This job earns very little money and is very hard. He has to get up and run around in the early morning, but Park Xinzhong has always insisted.

Winter in Seoul is very cold. Every time it snows, the ground will freeze for a long time, and the road will become slippery.It was still dark when Park Shinjoong went to deliver newspapers every day, and he would slip and fall many times, leaving blue and purple bruises all over his body.Once my mother accidentally saw it and asked him what was going on. He lied and said that he was injured during training.

Until this winter passed, he finally saved enough money, and went to the pharmacy to buy medicine for his mother.He told the clerk there that he wanted to buy the kind of medicine that would make his body better and stronger after taking it.So the clerk brought him a bunch of nutritional supplements, and Pu Xinzhong happily carried these nutritional supplements home for his mother to eat. Only then did his mother find out about his delivery of newspapers, and she was so distressed that she hugged him and cried.In fact, Pu Xinzhong's training is very intense, he doesn't even have enough time to sleep every day, and he even delivers newspapers, how can his mother not feel uncomfortable?

Later, as Park Shin-jung grew older, his grades got better and better, so much so that two coaches fought for him.Behind such achievements is his unremitting hard work and dedication over the years.

At that time, it was very common for coaches to beat and scold young athletes, and Park Shinjoong was naturally not immune.And if you are tired from swimming in the pool and want to rest by the pool, you will be trampled by the coach.What is even more sad is that not every coach's training methods are scientific. Park Shin-joong once caused intestinal volvulus due to unscientific training, and he almost fainted from the pain.

But he persisted in all these, because he found that if he won the championship, his mother would be very happy, and even his condition would improve, so this became his motivation.In such an environment, Park Shin Joong grew up day by day. At the age of 13, he stood out in domestic competitions, participated in the Athens Olympics at the age of 14, broke six Korean records in a row at the age of 15, won the gold medal at the East Asian Games at the age of 16, and became the three gold medalists at the Doha Asian Games and won the MVP at the age of 17.Then to the champion of the Melbourne World Championships in 07 and the champion of the 08 Beijing Olympic Games, and then to the loss of the Rome World Championships this year. In the past ten years of his swimming career, he has reached the peak and fell to the bottom.He has shed painstaking efforts and sweat, step by step to the present.

At the Athens Olympics in 04, he was too nervous and mistook the prepared password as the starting signal, and was disqualified from the competition.After leaving the field, without accident, he was severely scolded by the coach.He then locked himself in the locker room for more than two hours, feeling almost overwhelmed by feelings of loss and despair.But after he came out, he still smiled and comforted his mother, saying that it was nothing, and told her not to be sad. In fact, he was afraid that her bad mood would affect her body.

After returning to China this time, Park Shin Joong specially strengthened his take-off training.In the swimming pool, everyone else has finished their training tasks and left, only he is still practicing jumping again and again, which is boring and cruel.It is these tens of thousands of exercises that have made him such a precise and quick take-off reaction.At that time, Yang Yang only saw his stubborn back when he left the stage, but he didn't see the hard work he put in later.

In 06, Park Shinjoong became famous in the Doha Asian Games. At that time, among the swimmers in Tailing Athletes Village, he was the youngest and the most accomplished one.But where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and because of this, he was jealous and excluded by his teammates. No matter in life or psychology, he was lonely and painful.It was not until 2007, when his special management team was established, that he moved out of Tailing Athlete Village.

In 07 and 08, the Grand Slam of the World Championships and Olympics can be regarded as his two years of prosperity.But in 09, he suffered another disastrous defeat at the World Championships in Rome.This blow was fatal to him. Amid the media's doubts and crusades, the former national hero became a national sinner overnight.At this time, he was even desperate. After returning to China, he didn't take a step out of the house for three months, and even handed over his swimming equipment to his agent for safekeeping.

During these few months, his self-confidence suffered a devastating blow, and he felt that his mind was empty and he could not think at all.Now high-tech swimsuits are in power, and his swimming skills are not suitable for this kind of swimsuit, so should we continue?Where is the road ahead?Facing these questions, he was at a loss.

It was not until the end of 09 that he walked out of the house and went to eat with his family.In the restaurant, an old couple recognized him, and the old lady said to him, "Why haven't you heard from you? What are your plans for the near future?" South Korea is very respected, and even the elders generally use honorifics when talking to him.

Hearing what she said, Park Xinzhong felt very ashamed when he thought about his life like a walking corpse in the past few months, so he lowered his head and did not speak.

At this time, the old lady said again: "Those swimsuits that can make people swim fast will not be allowed to be worn next year. This is really good news."

What?High-tech swimsuits to be banned? !Pu Xinzhong raised his head abruptly.

It's no wonder that as a swimmer, he doesn't even know such news. It's because he has been too closed these days. Not only does he not go out, he even refuses to accept news from the outside world. This is also a kind of self-protection.And his family members are also under a lot of pressure, so they deliberately avoided this information.

Sure enough, after returning home, Park Shin-jung checked the Internet and found that high-tech swimsuits were indeed banned.According to the new regulations of FINA, since January 2010, 1, high-tech swimsuits will be banned worldwide, and all swimming competitions must use traditional textile swimsuits.After experiencing the hustle and bustle in 1 and 08, swimming has finally returned to the era of hard work.

After Yang Yang returned from his campaign in Rome in 09, he participated in the National Games held in Jinan, Shandong Province in September and won two silver medals in the 9m and 200m and a gold medal in the 400m.In addition, he also participated in two relay competitions, and his results were also good.

At the end of the National Games, on the night when he returned to Hangzhou, in his own room at home, Yang Yang sat at the desk, took out a blue hardcover notebook from the drawer, opened it, and read it seriously. wrote:

2009. 10, 26

Park, I lost to Brother Lin again in this race, yes, I lost in the 200m and 400m.But it doesn't matter, I will beat him in the future!Not only do I want to win him, but I also want to win you. You have to cheer up quickly, and we will stand on the podium together in the future.

Park, are you okay?I'm worried about you, but I know you'll get back on your feet.You haven't compared me yet, so you won't just give up, I know!

After Yang Yang finished writing these few sentences, he turned his gaze to the wall next to the table, where a pictorial of Park Xinzhong was pasted, which was from the 08 Olympic Games.At that time, Park Xinzhong even had a little baby fat on his face, and he smiled softly and obediently.Yang Yang couldn't help stretching out his hand, touched his face, and said softly, "Come compare with me."

Yang Yang looked at it for a while, and felt that the person in the pictorial seemed to be talking to him.It would be great if he could really talk, Yang Yang thought.He smiled, but he didn't even know he was smiling, then he turned his gaze away and landed on the notebook in front of him again.

This notebook is full of words he wrote to Pu Xinzhong, most of which are "Come on, you can do it"; there are also "I went to eat fried rice cakes today, it is really delicious, no wonder you like it"; even There is also "Don't fall in love, my mother said to concentrate on swimming".Most of these characters are in Chinese, and there are also some English and sporadic Korean. He started to write after he returned from Rome and learned about Park Shin-jung's growth process.Originally, he planned to register a private space to write in it, but considering that sometimes the team has closed training and is not allowed to surf the Internet, this is the most primitive way.

In November, Yang Yang participated in the Asian Swimming Championships; in December, he participated in the East Asian Games.In both competitions, he won gold medals in the 11m and 12m freestyle.

At the end of the year, the rankings of the National Federation Swimming Federation were announced. This year, Park Shin-joong's 400-meter ranking dropped to 14th, and the 1500-meter and 200-meter rankings were ranked 9th and 24th.Contrary to him, Yang Yang's world rankings have improved by leaps and bounds, rising to No. 1500 in the world in the 3-meter race and No. 400 in the world in the 9-meter race.