Eight years later, at the age of 16, she won the third place and bronze medal in the short track speed skating 1500m final of the 9th National Games. So she was attracted by more professionals and transferred to the national team.
Two years after joining the team, Wang Meng participated in the World Youth Championship for the first time and won the women's 500m championship, becoming the first world champion in China. After that, her "Meng era" slowly unfolded. A generation of legends on the short track speed skating field broke into public view.
On July 9th, 1984, Wang Chunjiang, a coal miner in qitaihe city, Heilongjiang Province, added another daughter. They named her Wang Meng.
Wang Meng grew up with short hair and loved to play with boys. Guns, swords, sticks and other toys accompanied her through her childhood. These preferences all come from my father's support. Wang Chunjiang likes his son, but there are only two daughters in the family. Therefore, he pinned all his hopes on his youngest daughter Wang Meng.
He called her "Laoer" and indulged Wang Meng in playing the boy's favorite entertainment. Instead, he showed a cold eye to his eldest daughter's behavior of buying dolls. With his father's love, Wang Meng grew up carefree.
When I was young, Wang Meng was naughty and often couldn't sit still in class. Usually, the first half of the class is to listen to lectures, and the second half is to play in your seat. Although she doesn't like studying, her grades are still excellent, which has become a thing of the past that she has been talking about.
Wang Meng is very active. She used to like martial arts because she was addicted to Shaolin Temple. Her family planned to send her to Shaolin Temple to practice martial arts, but she had to give up because the tuition was too high.
In those years, The Journey to the West also became one of Wang Meng's favorite plays. She yearned for the power of the Monkey King. In order to imitate the characters in the play, Xiao Wangmeng pursed the antenna on the TV set at home and played it as a golden hoop.
The antenna on the old TV can be extended and retracted. She hid it in the cuff and shook it as if it were a gold hoop. At that moment, Wang Meng was transformed into a sun walker who eliminated evil and promoted good.
Similar fun filled her childhood.
Once a house was built at home, Wang Meng joined in the fun with craftsmen and had a good time with cement and roof. In an interview many years later, Wang Chunjiang called her daughter's behavior at that time "coming into the house to uncover tiles" and even went to the original address to identify the "crime scene".
When he was young, Wang Meng was naughty and stubborn. Even if she broke her hand playing with a paper gun, it won't change her playful attributes. "I really can't stand it. I disappeared in a blink of an eye and went out." Wang Chunjiang said.
Until the age of 8, a long jump, which became the beginning of the girl's persistence in sports.
After watching Wang Meng's long jump performance, Ma, the coach of amateur sports school, was convinced that she was a plastic genius. He visited Wang Meng's parents twice, trying to persuade them to let her daughter enter the sports school.
Mr and Mrs Wang Chunjiang have their own plans. They have made a life plan for Wang Meng. Like most parents, they want her to study hard, then go to junior high school, high school and university, and then find a stable job in the future.
Wang Meng in childhood
However, Xiao Wangmeng failed his parents' plans. For three months, she sneaked to the sports school every day after school and followed the coach on the ice. Although she has no foundation, she still does better than other children.
This is her first experience of skating. Later, Wang Meng described the feeling at that time. "Like a swallow, it feels good to fly." She enjoys this state of freedom.
Seeing that this girl with sports talent is full of enthusiasm for skating, Ma once again went to Wang Meng's house to persuade her. After "three visits to the cottage", he finally accepted the student as he wished.
At this time, Wang Meng has just grown to 10 years old. No one knows that in a few years, she will grow into a world champion with numerous awards. Except for her professional ability, no one knows that she will go out again and again with her distinctive personality. ...
Wang Meng (middle)
On the road to becoming the "big devil", Wang Meng, who was prematurely optimistic, was not smooth sailing.
After formally learning skating, the problems that need to be overcome follow one after another. At that time, the accommodation environment of the sports school was poor, and the bed was made of several boards. The room was cold and wet. Before long, Wang Meng and other partners got eczema.
The conditions of ice training are not satisfactory. The skating rink is outdoors, and once the sun comes out during the day, it will cause the ice to melt. In order to practice on the solid ice, they usually wait until one or two in the morning to put on their skates and go to the battlefield.
In the initial practice, Wang Meng's feet were small, he couldn't find suitable skates, and he often rubbed his feet and bled. But she never complains. As long as she can get on the ice, she will always look carefree.
With the growth of age, the body gradually developed, and Wang Meng's weight also went up. The high weight gradually made her lose the advantage of skating, and even the coach who valued her at first sighed.
Under the management of his mother, Wang Meng bravely faced his predicament. She tried to lose weight. Besides running 10,000 meters every day, rain or shine, she only eats a small bowl of rice, and when she is hungry, she eats cucumbers to satisfy her hunger.
After more than a year, Wang Meng, who lost weight successfully, was able to return to the team.
The first turning point of fate happened after this. /kloc-When she was 0/6 years old, she was selected by the national team for participating in a sports event, and since then, she began the legendary open life of "Zhu Meng".
How powerful is Wang Meng?
She broke the women's 500-meter world record seven times and won the world championship for five years.
In the two Winter Olympics, China won seven gold medals, and she monopolized four.
In the international competition in 2008, Wang Meng became the first female short track speed skater to skate for 43 seconds.
In addition, she has 5 1 world champions. ...
Apollo, a famous American, once said that there are too many uncontrollable factors in the short track competition, so it is difficult to make an absolutely accurate judgment on the outcome, but "there is no suspense in one event, and that is the women's 500m, and the champion must be Wang Meng of China".
At the Vancouver Winter Olympics, after winning the 500-meter champion, Wang Meng began to have a fever, even to the point where he needed oxygen. At this time, she is in the physiological period. The coach advised her to retire, but Wang Meng insisted on playing. In the end, she won the gold medal of 1000 meters and the champion of 3000 meters relay race with strong willpower.
Just like the nickname given to her by the team members, "Wang Dana" means that as long as Wang Meng is here, she can win the championship.
However, Wang Meng is also frustrated. Sometimes, because she was convicted of a foul, she would angrily confront the referee. Although the final result will not change, she still wants the other party to know, "You should think about it next time you give Wang Meng a penalty."
In order to prevent players from other countries from being convicted of fouls because of collision and pushing, Wang Meng once secretly vowed that players from all countries could not catch up with himself. "You can't even see the shadow of my ass. See how you evaluate me. " Wang Meng said in an interview.
Many times, she has done this. Especially in her best 500-meter speed skating competition, Wang Meng usually throws others away with overwhelming strength, and finally glides across the finish line without any suspense in the excited tone of the commentator.
Wang Meng is confident, straightforward, rebellious and domineering. She always holds the belief that "I don't want to be the second, I want to be the champion".
This self-confidence comes from strength, and she always claims that she "has no opponent in the 500-meter speed skating competition" without modesty. So many times, Wang Meng on the court looks particularly relaxed. The scenes of "back hand sliding" and "grandpa walking" that let her out of the circle frequently appear in many competition videos.
In the women's13 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships/0/500m preliminaries, all the opponents were sprinting, and only Wang Meng followed behind with his hand behind his back.
With only the last four laps left, others began to speed up desperately, and Wang Meng was still sliding slowly. When the commentator "hates iron and does not produce steel" to speed up the explanation, Wang Meng always maintained his attitude.
It was not until the last two laps that the Great Devil really made a move. She overtook all her opponents in an instant and slid to the first place. In this process, Wang Meng has been carrying her hand without even swinging her arm. This is a relaxed and natural state until we cross the finish line.
NBC once commented that Wang Meng is the best short track speed skater in the world, because he can surpass any skater with no effort.
Facing the media, "Why do you like to sneak back?" Wang Meng replied in his usual humorous tone, "You have to pretend. Even if you can't slip, you can't take off this hand. " The frankness and boldness of the northeast people can be seen.
However, such a big devil with countless auras is sometimes subdued. That person is Li Yan, who is also a teacher like her mother and daughter later.
In 2006, 40-year-old Li Yan was hired to return to China as the head coach of the short track speed skating national team. Before that, she was a national team athlete, and after retiring, she worked as a short track speed skating coach in Slovakia, Austria and the United States.
The outspoken Wang Meng met Li Yan, who was highly effective. One is a 2 1 year-old, youthful world champion; One is a middle-aged professional coach who coaches the transnational speed skating team.
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Essentially, they are a kind of people with similar personalities. It is not easy to give up because of the same reputation. So since we met, the relationship between the two began with hostility.
The arrival of sinar made the coach who was in charge of Wang Meng return to the local team, which was the first place that made her feel uncomfortable. In addition, after returning from abroad, Li Yan made innovations in training methods and intensity, which made Wang Meng very uncomfortable.
Another small detail that annoys her is that Wang Meng can't stand Li Yan's speech mixed with English. All kinds of contradictions gradually alienated two people who lacked communication, and even secretly accumulated resentment.
In 2007, in the 500-meter short track speed skating final of Changchun Asian Winter Games, Wang Meng didn't high-five coach Li Yan. After the women's 1500m final, the most favored demon king only won the bronze medal. When the media cameras pointed at Wang Meng, she said angrily, "The coach didn't make any tactics for me, but only asked me' Do you know how to play', so I will apply to return to the local team myself. The training of the national team is not suitable for me. "
After the game, the speech was full of gunpowder, and some media wrote the teacher-student relationship into the news with the topic of "shelling" the coach. The topic was heated in the newspaper, and Wang Meng was soon banned for three months because of his remarks at that time, and Li Yan was also asked to reflect.
With this experience, both of them tried to communicate more and get to know each other better. When they met face to face again, they found a common goal: they all wanted to win more gold medals for their country.
"As long as the goals are the same." Wang Meng said. She began to be willing to communicate with Li Yan, whether it was about tactics, training or all aspects of life ... sometimes she played a little joke with Li Yan.
On the other hand, Li Yan noticed that Wang Meng's unusual sliding posture was easy to damage his waist, so he said in front of more than 20 people in the team: "A player with good explosive power like you doesn't need to keep grinding like this. When you feel that the training intensity is enough, you can stop skating. "
This gives Wang Meng, who loves face, enough vanity.
Li Yan's intention does not stop there. In order to better tap Wang Meng's advantages in 500-meter short track speed skating, she often leaves Wang Meng to practice alone. Wang Meng, who received special treatment, felt that he was taken seriously and worked harder to improve his skating skills.
"We have a good face in the northeast. You respect me one foot, I respect you one foot. Seeing coach Li Yan give me steps, I will work harder and never lose face for her. " The relationship between the two became closer bit by bit.
At the 20 10 Vancouver Winter Olympics, after defending the women's 500-meter short track speed skating champion, Wang Meng first skated around the field, then knelt on the coach's seat where sinar sat, kowtowed twice, and then got up and rushed to sinar. They hugged each other tightly and cried.
Wang Meng said gratefully, "She taught me to skate 500 meters."
Nine days later, she won the women's short track speed skating 1: 29 and 2 13 in the Winter Olympics. At this point, the speed skating team led by Li Yan swept all four gold medals in the women's event in an unprecedented way.
Wang Meng therefore called Li Yan "a woman who changed the history of short track speed skating in China."
From the initial "shelling" to clearing the air, all the unpleasantness ended in a hug at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Wang Meng even revealed in a later interview that she was in contact with coach sinar almost every day. During a training session, it happened that my teacher was on vacation in America. They exchanged emails every day, shared and listened to their daily life in time.
Li Yan's answer seems to give us another answer about their previous "right and wrong grievances".
In an interview program, Li Yan once talked about his first impression of seeing Wang Meng. "A child with great personality and extraordinary strength, but I saw that she was very picky. I must see her shortcomings to help her improve. "
However, it took Wang Meng four years to understand the teacher's good intentions.
At ordinary times, Wang Meng looks careless, but what contrasts with her straightforward personality is her carefulness.
Wang Meng is the most professional and reliable person in the team in the research and management of equipment. Teammates spend 10 minutes grinding skates every day, and she spends an hour tidying up her equipment.
In a 1500m competition, Zhou Yang's skates were broken, and he still won the championship successfully after replacing them with spare skates. The key to this matter is that Wang Meng has been managing Zhou Yang's skates. Later, Li Jianrou's skates were also managed by Wang Meng. "All the skates I managed won the championship." Wang Meng laughed.
In addition to being careful, Wang Meng's unknown side also includes the love of beauty.
She likes a refreshing hairstyle. When she saw Zhou Yang dye her beautiful hair color, she would rush to the same shop to dye the same color. When you see what new hairstyles are popular recently, you will be eager to try.
In the team, she has a good relationship with her teammates. When she first entered the national team, a group of sisters surrounded her to help with makeup, dressed her in cheongsam, high heels and even shaved her eyebrows. When the sisters retired, she became the big sister inside. This group of children took her as the backbone, posted her photos in the room, and put many puppet dolls in her room.
But the devil with a cold appearance never admits his inner softness. She only said that the dolls were sent by others, mostly by Zhou Yang.
Wang Meng has been galloping on the short track speed skating field, and no one can match him.
In 20 14, only 22 days before the opening of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Wang Meng, who was preparing for war in Shanghai, accidentally collided with his teammates during training and fell off the track. It led to a double fracture of the inner and outer ankles of the right foot and eventually missed Sochi.
After that, she faded out of the short track speed skating arena with a little regret, but she never left her favorite skating career.
At the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she partnered with Huang Jianxiang to explain the short track speed skating. Unexpectedly, the first explanation took her out of the circle again, and then she continued to climb the hot search ranking.
Why does everyone love Wang Meng?
We can see how attractive her explanation is, and a straightforward sentence can make people laugh. Some people say that Wang Meng's funniest explanation is always the next sentence.
As she said, "My eyes are rulers." Wang Meng can even find a foul in front of the camera.
In the live commentary, she excitedly continued to strike the table. "Who is this? People who push us! "
"see! This is the angle! Right here! Show it to me ten times! "
Later, the referee looked at it and gave the penalty result.
In the following Beijing Winter Olympics, every short track speed skating commentary was frequently published by Wang Meng with sharp and professional comments, and was also named "Zhu Meng" by netizens.
Any topic related to Wang Meng will appear in the hot search list as quickly as possible. Some netizens commented: Wang Meng is the big devil in the short track speed skating world and a model house in the commentary world.
People love Wang Meng, her frankness and sincerity, her inability to be a "person" and the power behind her madness and personality.
As an athlete, Wang Meng left the national team twice. The first time was because of disagreement with coach Li Yan, and the second time was because of going out to drink and fighting with the team leader.
With grievances, she was interviewed afterwards and apologized for the first time.
When he became the coach of the national team, Wang Meng also admitted that he was dead. In a match, the Dutch team was sentenced to advance directly to the final because of "kicking the ball". Wang Meng was not convinced, and talked with relevant technical representatives for more than two hours, and found out the law. Later, China was kicked in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and Wang Meng gave an accurate judgment at the first time.
As a commentator, Wang Meng did not follow the "routine" explanation.
A few days ago, when Wang Meng was broadcasting live, Wu Dajing gave her a rocket brush and advanced to the top of the list. Wang Meng directly kicked Wu Dajing out of the live broadcast room. "What brings you here? You go back to rest and prepare for the next game! "
After this incident, "Wang Meng kicked Wu Dajing out of the live broadcast room" boarded the hot search.
Madness comes from confidence; Pride comes from strength. It is Wang Meng's "true temperament" that has won people's love again and again.
It dates back to 2006, the Winter Olympics in Turin.
That year, Wang Meng 18 years old, participated in the Winter Olympics for the first time on behalf of the China team. In the women's 500-meter short track speed skating arena, she rode the dust and beat many excellent players to win the gold medal.
At the award ceremony, before the host read the name, the excited Wang Meng jumped on the podium.
At that time, people applauded Wang Meng's achievements, but she was not happy.
Later, four years later, she really did it.
At the 20 10 Vancouver Winter Olympics, in the women's short track speed skating 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters, she successfully defeated a large number of Korean athletes and won three gold medals, becoming the first triple champion in China's short track history.
Compared with her talent and strength, Wang Meng is not crazy.