Editor captain Zhang

China's female gymnastics queen Cheng Fei has won nine consecutive world championships, including two Olympic Games, three World Cups and three world championships.

She is skilled and dances beautifully in gymnastics. "Backhandspring 180 straight forward somersault 540" is even named after her-"Cheng Feitiao".

Cheng Fei devoted all his youth to gymnastics. At the age of 25, she retired due to injury.

After retirement, she wants to be an ordinary person, have children and find her own happiness.

What is the story of her life?

Has she found love now?

The queen's road to winning the championship is not easy at all.

Cheng Fei, 1988, was born in Huangshi, Hubei Province on May 29th.

Her father, Cheng Ligao, is a martial arts athlete who has been an athlete for more than ten years. It was too difficult to be an athlete at that time, and livelihood might become a problem. Cheng Ligao had to work and get married.

He works as a dispatcher in Dongfeng Automobile Factory with a monthly salary of 500 yuan.

The family lives in a small house of more than 40 square meters, and life is very difficult.

Since Cheng Fei was born, she has been a sickly child, suffering from serious illness and minor illness, which makes Cheng Ligao very headache.

Cheng Ligao believes that only sports can improve Cheng Fei's health, and he hopes that Cheng Fei can grow up healthily.

As a result, when Cheng Fei was 4 years old, Cheng Ligao wanted to send her daughter to a sports school to learn sports. On the one hand, she can improve Cheng Fei's physique, on the other hand, she places her unfulfilled dreams on Cheng Fei.

That year, Deng Yaping was in full swing and table tennis was hot. There is a "table tennis craze" in China, and everyone likes to play table tennis.

Cheng Ligao rode this heat wave to send Cheng Fei to play table tennis.

But after practicing table tennis for a while, it seems that there is no improvement. On the one hand, his physical condition doesn't seem to have improved very well, and on the other hand, his table tennis skills haven't improved, which makes Cheng Ligao very anxious.

Perhaps it is fate. The coach of Jinke in Huangshi "Amateur Sports School" in Hubei Province is called Cheng Ligao.

And this phone call changed Cheng Fei's next life.

Coach Jinke told Cheng Ligao on the phone that Cheng Fei's figure is very suitable for gymnastics and recommended her to learn gymnastics from coach Yao Juying.

Cheng Ligao was overjoyed when he heard that his daughter was a gymnast. He agreed to coach ke's suggestion without thinking.

But all this, in the view of Cheng Fei's mother, is actually worrying.

She is worried that her daughter can't bear the high-intensity training and the uncertainty if she enters the sports circle.

However, Cheng believes that excellent athletes are almost always trained from childhood; He insisted on sending Cheng Fei to gymnastics. He believed that Cheng Fei would become an excellent gymnast.

Unable to overcome Cheng Ligao's decision, Cheng Fei's mother still let Cheng Fei practice gymnastics.

But gymnastics training is not so easy, besides perseverance, congenital deficiency should be overcome.

Cheng Fei's foot is born as an "outside eight", which is a serious injury for gymnastics training.

Cheng Ligao took the cloth and wrapped it around Cheng Fei's feet, hoping that she could correct the situation of Waiba by walking.

Of course, this method will not work. After all, foreign teachers are born, so it is impossible to improve. But indeed, in order to let Cheng Fei practice gymnastics, Cheng Ligao exhausted all the methods he thought possible.

What if the family is poor and can't afford gymnastics equipment?

Because of its simplicity, Cheng hung a barbell on the roof beam, which represents the horizontal bar. Two are parallel bars; He drew two lines on the ground with chalk as Cheng Fei's balance beam.

Even the pot cover at home has become a balance training equipment for Lei Xiaocha and others.

In addition, Cheng Ligao never wastes any time in training.

Every day before dawn, Cheng Ligao will wake Cheng Fei up, wash his face and then take Cheng Xiaofei to start morning running training, and run all the way to the gym to start gymnastics practice all day.

From the age of 4, day after day, never stopped.

For a little girl, she is still a playful age, but she has to accept boring training, which also makes Cheng Fei unbearable. It's too hard to train. Cheng Fei is still a child after all.

The pain and scars caused by practice made Cheng Fei want to give up studying.

Several times, Cheng Fei sent the training hall away, secretly went home and cried with his mother that he didn't want to train.

Mother hugged her lovingly and coaxed her, but father followed her home and picked up rattan to punish Cheng Fei.

Former athlete Cheng Ligao thinks training is very hard, and he thinks it's nothing.

Whenever Cheng Fei wants to give up, his father always reprimands him severely. It can be said that every training of Cheng Fei is completed in tears.

But Cheng Fei's eyes were so firm when her father helped her train, and she knew that his father was actually doing it for her. She is very sensible and will never lose her temper after training, because every time her father inculcates her, it is a great help to herself.

In this way, Xiao Chengfei trained for three years. In the first grade of primary school, her father sent her to Wuhan Institute of Physical Education for more formal training.

But the family is poor, and Cheng Fei's family can't afford the tuition. Wuhan Institute of Physical Education charges 1 1,000 yuan a semester, which is twice the monthly salary of Cheng Ligao. This made him anxious and didn't know what to do.

Fortunately, there is a saying well:

"Let the horse not be a bole, and there will be thousands of miles of peace."

Cheng Fei's first trial training in the sports school surprised Zhao Hanhua, a famous gymnastics coach of Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. At an early age, only three years of training can make such precise movements. Cheng Fei's progress far exceeds that of other children of the same age.

Seeing this rare talent come to Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, Zhao Hanhua immediately told the top management: Cheng Fei is a gymnast for many years, hoping to give her formal admission treatment as a student of the Institute of Physical Education.

Wuhan Institute of Physical Education immediately approved the coach's request. At the age of eight, Cheng Fei became the youngest middle school student in Wuhan Institute of Physical Education. Until now, no one has been treated like this.

If you want a good horse, you must let it eat good grass. In addition to exempting Cheng Fei from studying, Wuhan Institute of Physical Education also provides free accommodation in the dormitory, which helps Cheng Fei to solve the problem of food and clothing and let her train with peace of mind.

Cheng Fei, on the other hand, is not ashamed of his school and his father's cultivation. In the near future, she will shine her own light.

In 2004, when Cheng Fei/Kloc-0 was 6 years old, it happened that someone was injured in the national gymnastics team, so Cheng Fei, who was selected as a reserve player early because of her excellent performance, made up enough places to represent the country in the Athens Olympic Games.

But she has no experience, and only got the fourth place in the floor exercise.

However, the first appearance without any experience can achieve such excellent results, which has also attracted the attention of the world gymnastics community to this supernova. In this gymnastics circle, it was a precious experience for Cheng Fei. Because of her unexpected participation, she was able to stand on the Olympic stage.

After the Olympic Games, Cheng Fei returned to China in disappointment. At this time, her father Cheng Ligao was beside her to comfort her. Don't be discouraged, say that she is already great. Work harder, and gymnastics will be her world in the future!

Encouraged by his father, Cheng Fei quickly cheered up and continued to practice.

After the Athens Olympic Games, Cheng Fei suddenly received instructions from the coach to practice vault instead. At first, Cheng Fei was puzzled.

She said to her father:

After all, vault has always been the weakness of China gymnastics tradition.

After listening to Cheng Fei's words, her father Cheng Ligao comforted her and trusted the coach's decision, because the competition for free exercise was fierce and there were many people practicing. Maybe practicing vault can take a different path?

Smart Cheng Fei listened to his father's advice and began to practice vault. It was not easy to change the project at first, but Cheng Fei, who had a good foundation, gained more experience through more practice.

20 15 Melbourne World Gymnastics Championships, Cheng Fei's first attempt was a blockbuster.

She not only won the first gold medal in the history of vault in China, but also named the vault action of "back handspring 180 forward somersault 540 degrees" after her name-"Cheng Feitiao".

After becoming famous in Melbourne, she started the road of "back cover".

Since 2005, she has arranged three gold medals in the World Cup and three gold medals in the World Championships, becoming a sister of the national team; But she is still not satisfied with this. She wants to prove herself through the stage that every athlete dreams of-"Olympic Games". It seems that no amount of champions can match an Olympic gold medal.

She continued training for 2008.

Before the Olympics, she took over as the captain. She is under great pressure to shoulder such a great responsibility at an early age. She was only 19 years old that year.

Pressure to every morning, just get up, Cheng Fei will yell to wake up teammates who are still sleeping:

Howling returns to roaring, but after venting, she always cleans up her mood and continues to practice, because Cheng Fei knows what mission she is shouldering.

In 2008, the people of China were proud of it. In this year, the scenery of the Beijing Olympic Games opened, and Cheng Fei also put on the shirt of the women's national gymnastics team to compete in the Olympic Games at home.

She led the China women's gymnastics team to win the gold medal in the team floor exercise, which was the first in history. More importantly, she won the prize at home. In addition, she also won the bronze medal in vault.

At the award ceremony, Cheng Fei accepted everyone's cheers with a smile on her face, but she was sad that she didn't win the gold medal in the individual event.

After the award ceremony, Cheng Fei returned to her apartment, turned off her cell phone and burst into tears.

After the Olympic Games, she tidied up her thoughts and set a new goal for herself. Come back in four years!

But Cheng Fei has accumulated many old and new injuries through training. After the Beijing Olympic Games, Cheng Fei continued to train seriously, but he always felt overwhelmed.

On the eve of the 20 12 Olympic Games, less than one and a half months before the opening ceremony, Cheng Fei's achilles tendon was torn. In a floor exercise, she accidentally tilted her center of gravity and threw herself on the mat.

China suddenly lost the general who had seven world gold medals.

Because of injury, she will miss the 20 12 London Olympic Games.

On the day of the national team's departure, she said goodbye to her teammates outside the car, barely pretending to smile on her face, but her heart was mixed.

Cheng Fei sent all the players away and watched the car leave. His face could not conceal his inner loneliness.

At that Olympic Games, in the absence of Cheng Fei, China women's gymnastics team won the gold medal on the balance beam only by Deng, and only ranked fourth in the team competition.

Looking at the teammates who have tried their best on TV, Cheng Fei thought for a long time, and his heart was full of thoughts.

After discussing with the coach and defender, she decided to retire at the age of 25, considering her physical injury and future treatment.

Cheng Fei works really hard. At the moment when she announced her retirement, she finally released the pressure accumulated for many years and finally had a good sleep at night.

20 13 Wuhan institute of physical education announced the appointment of cheng Fei as a coach, with the title equivalent to associate professor.

This is a new challenge for Cheng Fei, because she doesn't know whether she is qualified for this job.

After all, professors are very different from athletes. Although she is an Olympic champion, it doesn't mean that she knows how to teach.

Fearful, Cheng Fei decided to work harder to make up for the shortcomings of his professional knowledge.

She played the same spirit as gymnastics, and learning was repeated; Whenever she has time, she will go to the library. She studied sports-related professional knowledge and finally successfully entered Wuhan Institute of Physical Education.

In addition, in the process of teaching, she also found that there are very few gymnasts in China now, and even fewer of them practice from the basic level like her.

In view of this phenomenon, Cheng Fei made greater efforts to do basic education, hoping to teach basic gymnastics to children.

She is not teaching a professional gymnastics training team now, but a children's interest gymnastics class.

According to her experience, she told her parents the importance of exercise today. She hopes that more and more children can be exposed to gymnastics and sports.

Today, Cheng Fei is still working hard for grassroots sports in Wuhan.

However, with retirement, as a "teacher Cheng", her figure has become out of shape.

In fact, many athletes will face the problem of physical deformation after retirement, such as the late basketball star Kobe Bryant, who was found to have gained weight after retirement.

Indeed, after the athletes retire, the high-intensity training suddenly disappears, and the diet will not be as strict as that of the athletes, which may lead to obesity.

Cheng Fei inevitably encountered this problem, and she was "easy to get fat".

As early as after the Beijing Olympic Games, she had gained a lot of weight, which was maintained by diet control and training. Now that she is no longer an athlete, she has been taking related drugs to treat injuries for many years, which has led to a gradual round figure.

Being out of shape makes friends and relatives around worry about her, because her appearance may be related to her lifelong events.

She became famous at a young age. She/Kloc-won her first gold medal at the age of 0/5 and retired at the age of 25. Plus, she is an associate professor, which seems to make people feel "unattainable".

With this aura, many boys feel unworthy even if they want to get close to Cheng Fei.

However, Cheng Fei remained confident. She thinks it is the most beautiful to be herself, and there must be a man who can accompany her to grow old together on the way back from abroad. She doesn't care what the other person is, as long as she loves the other person.

Cheng Fei has no love experience, and his contact with boys is limited to the boys of the national gymnastics team.

She doesn't know how to get along with boys, which also makes her very upset.

At the same time, her father Cheng, who grew up with her, is also worried about her. He took the initiative to arrange several blind dates, hoping that Cheng Fei could have a good boyfriend, but Cheng Fei always regarded each other as "good buddies", which also gave his father a headache.

Shanzhen Lu, Cheng Fei's master, also joked that he didn't know when he would see Cheng Fei get married. However, not long after that, the coach died in 2020. Before his death, he was still talking about the marriage of his favorite apprentice Cheng Fei.

Friends are also trying their best to help Cheng Fei find a boyfriend, hoping that she can really get married one day.

And Cheng Fei, whenever outsiders ask her why she is not married, she always says that she believes in "fate", and many things can't be forced. She will continue to work hard until the day when she meets the only thrill.

She said that she did not reject marriage, and believed that in the near future, she would find a suitable husband after being single for 33 years.

Cheng Fei's life is full of legends.

After retiring for many years, on the talk show "Lu Yu has an appointment", his father Cheng Ligao wrote a letter to Cheng Fei, in which he confessed Cheng Ligao's disappointment with his daughter:

Finally, at the end of the letter, my father also mentioned that I hope she can find a good son-in-law and be good to Cheng Fei. I want nothing more.

After listening to the letter, Cheng Fei burst into tears. She recalled her father's dribs and drabs over the years and his companionship in childhood training, and made up her mind to find a good family!

Now she is still on the road of pursuing love, hoping that one day, she can find her own happiness!