Yang Xia is a famous Chinese female weightlifter. Do you know the story about Yang Xia?
Yang Xia grew up on a backstreet slope in Baojing, western Hunan. When she was a child, she didn’t like playing with dolls, but liked to dance with knives and guns. She often used her own knife to chop open the surrounding growths. A small shrub or something. The mountains and rivers of western Hunan have influenced Yang Xia. She also believes that her character has a lot to do with the folk customs of western Hunan. Most of the people in Xiangxi are very simple and straightforward, with an unyielding and progressive spirit. .
Yang Xia’s road to the championship was not smooth with her unyielding spirit. Yang Xia was originally an athlete in the 59kg category, but due to the competition, the coach asked her to lose 12kg and drop to the 53kg category. This was a very difficult process. She basically cannot eat normally. She drinks a sip of milk and an egg in the morning, eats two pieces of fish at noon, eats nothing at night, and drinks a glass of milk before going to bed. In this way, I lost 12 pounds in one week. According to Yang Xia's recollection, she was so uncomfortable that she had cramps and her muscles shrank into a ball.
From then on, Yang Xia became silent. She closed herself off and was unwilling to talk to anyone, not even to communicate with the coach. Yang Xia recalled: "Then one day, I couldn't hold it in any longer. I really went crazy. I said I wouldn't practice anymore. I had to leave. So I wrote two notes and one note to I lost the coach, and the other one gave me a best friend, Wu Xiangmei. What he wrote seemed to be: Coach He, Coach Chen, you don’t have to worry about me. I have grown up and I am responsible for my actions. I don’t want to practice now. Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.”
When she returned home, the car drove along the mountain road all night. When she got home the next day, she told her family that she would never practice again. Her father did not criticize Yang Xia. He just said, no matter whether you won the championship in the Eighth National Games or not, you are still my daughter. You must go back and complete this mission. Many athletes especially want to participate and participate. No, you have to get it done. Four days before the Lunar New Year, her father sent Yang Xia back to Changsha.
Yang Xia recalled: "We set off from our county at 8 o'clock in the morning. The weather was very cold at that time, and there was ice and hail on the road at noon. I was shivering in the car. Dad asked me if it was cold. I said it was okay. I asked my dad, "Are you cold?" He said he was not cold, but I saw my dad's feet were shaking. I reported to the leaders and coaches, while I was in a hurry to catch the bus home for the day. Looking at her father's disappearing figure, Yang Xia felt particularly uncomfortable. She secretly told herself that no matter what difficulties she encountered in the future, no matter what happened, as long as she thought of her father's sacrifice, she must use the greatest courage to overcome any difficulties. . Later, at the Eighth National Games in 1997, Yang Xia won the championship.