The players all like coach Fu's training class very much. Fu Mingxia's teaching is not only heuristic and encouraging, but also tries to find time to play games. Fu Mingxia didn't have the joy of children in her childhood, and she didn't want these children to lose their childlike interest. When she demonstrates the movements to the students and plays with them, she thinks diving is a kind of fun, an art and an enjoyment. The training level of the trainees improved rapidly, from which Fu Mingxia realized that diving training could have been integrated with normal life! This feeling gave her the idea of coming back. Why didn't she resume training in her spare time? Most Olympic athletes in America are college students. They can learn and train correctly. Why can't Fu Mingxia? Fu Mingxia began to jump and practice more consciously or unconsciously, which she said was "fun and fitness". After the Atlanta Olympic Games, Fu Mingxia suddenly stopped training and became fat. After coming to Tsinghua for more than a year, due to intense study and exercise, she recovered her slim figure. She can still jump out of the two sets of difficult moves when she won the double crown in nifty practice. The good maintenance of physical state and competitive state has made her intention to come back stronger and stronger. When she retired, the Sydney Olympics seemed too far away. Now, she feels that it is getting closer and closer. She can't help but feel heartbroken when she comes across an article about the Sydney Olympic Games or someone mentions the Sydney Olympic Games. She finally realized that her Olympic dream had not been shattered.
But the determination to come back for a long time is difficult. Mature Fu Mingxia has learned to think from multiple angles. She thinks that her comeback has three advantages: first, she has a brand-new concept and understanding of diving, which is a kind of fun and art in her life; Second, the training time is not long, and the physical condition and air feeling remain good; Third, with Yu Fen around, the new teacher-student relationship is very harmonious in the new environment. However, she is worried that the school diving team will be established soon and the training facilities are not yet complete; After the news of the comeback comes out, it will attract social attention. Once you give up halfway or don't win the gold medal in Sydney, your belief in life will be hit hard and your perfect image of retiring in the world will be damaged.
What prompted Fu Mingxia to make up his mind was Yu Fen. Yu Fen suggested Fu Mingxia: "Practice first and give it a try. If you recover quickly and feel good, then announce your comeback. "
1998 During the summer vacation, Fu Mingxia began to resume training silently. Tsinghua University highly appreciates and supports Fu Mingxia's comeback. Fu Mingxia's training level recovered much faster than expected. The more Fu Mingxia practices, the stronger his confidence. He resolutely announced that he would come back to participate in the Sydney Olympic Games! At the time of the introduction of the domestic Olympic trials policy, the news of Fu Mingxia's comeback is directly related to the sensitive issue of Olympic quota. The National Tourism Management Center immediately made a public statement and welcomed Fu Mingxia's comeback. At the same time, it is emphasized that who can be selected for the Olympic team will depend entirely on the results of the series of trials.
Fu Mingxia knows that the aura of the double champion in the last Olympic Games will not bring any convenience for her to be selected for the Sydney Olympic team. She is ready psychologically: put down the star shelf of three gold medal winners in two Olympic Games and start from scratch to compete with her existing strength.
What Fu Mingxia didn't expect was that she didn't qualify for the domestic series! The trials of the series were all held in the domestic first-class division, but Fu Mingxia lost the first-class qualification after being banned for two years. To qualify for the first prize, you must take part in the second prize competition and win the top three. In the second district, most of them are children from 10 to 12.
1March, 1999, Nanning Diving Zone 2 started. Fu Mingxia competed with many children on the three-meter board. The children jumped in an arc, and Fu Mingxia jumped in a difficult movement to win the Atlanta Olympic Games. She danced seriously and won this strange and helpless champion on the journey of life with nearly 200 points higher than her children! Many coaches and referees have complained about Fu Mingxia. They think that Fu Mingxia is not only a double champion in the last Olympic Games, but also a world-class one. It's unfair to let Fu Mingxia jump out of the second division. They said, "The system is dead, but people are alive. There is no need to treat this world champion like this. "
Fu Mingxia smiled frankly: "When I won the world championship for the first time, I was as big as my opponent now. Clark of America thinks it's contempt for her personality to compete with me. Now I am not a world champion, and I am on the same starting line with these children. They are very cute, and this is really the happiest game of all my competitions. "
How Fu Mingxia can compete for the Olympic qualification and win the championship is a question of the domestic competition system, but as long as she participates in the Sydney Olympic Games, she will be crowned as the "defending champion". She is an Olympic champion for two years in a row, and no one can deny this fact. But she denied it herself! How many times did she tell herself: "You are not the world champion Fu Mingxia, you are just a novice Fu Mingxia! The competition only recognizes strength and does not recognize fame. " The process of deciding to come back is almost a process of denying your existing honor. The fact that she jumped from the second division shows that she has really put all the honors, personal troubles and worries behind her, endured humiliation, and started from scratch without hesitation! This is a spirit of indifference to fame and fortune, a realm of strength and self-confidence. With this spirit, what can stop the hero's dream from coming true? Fu Mingxia got the qualification to participate in the Jinan Championship and Wenzhou Open held two months later, and started a fierce competition for Olympic qualification.