Fifteen years of dream chase "ballet in water"

Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client Correspondent Chen Junwan Nomoto Sword

In the 19th World Swimming Championships, which ended on June 21st, the Chinese team won the championship with 94.7202 points and won the gold medal of the World Championships for the first time. This is a gold medal for the Chinese team's history, and it is also the historic breakthrough of the Chinese Swimming Team since its establishment in 1983.

What makes the people more excited and excited is that among the national swimming players participating in the competition, there is a Luzhou athlete. She is Fan Jiayi.

"It is still very excited to create history for the country." On June 26, in an interview with a reporter, Fan Jiayi said that he was grateful to the country for giving her such a good opportunity to go abroad. Because of the epidemic, many athletes have no chance to go abroad now. This time it can give us such a good guarantee and give a lot of support in all aspects. "I am all good in Budapest. Thanks to the Father of Luzhou to pay attention to me. I will also double hard, train well, and strive to return everyone with better results." Fan Jiayi said.

"Every night we will stay in front of the TV on time to watch their wonderful events." Fan Jiayi's mother Li Si said that when they saw them winning the championship, the whole family was very happy and excited, almost tears.

Success is not achieved overnight. Behind all the praise and medals is Fan Jiayu's hard training and hard work from ordinary people for fifteen years.

For the first time, Fan Jiayu's swimming with Fanxing was in 2007. The coach of the Chenzhou Sports Bureau went to school to choose materials. Because Fan Jiayi danced from elementary school, the coach felt that she was very good in all aspects and had a dance foundation. After practicing her for more than half a month and sent her to the Provincial Swimming Center.

"At that time, the leader of the provincial swimming team asked me to help him recruit a few fantastic swimmers, so I selected the elementary school in the urban area." Fan Jiayi enlightened coach Jiang Qixiao said that at that time he issued a total of 9 schools. Only Fan Jiayi came. Through training, he found that the comprehensive quality of Fan Jiayi was very high, and what he learned. After several months of training, Fan Jiayi was sent to the provincial swimming diving center.

When he left Luzhou, Fan Jiayi was more than eight years old. As a parent, he was still very reluctant. "Every time the child is crying on the phone, we will rush over to see her." Li Si said, whenever we said that she would take her back to Luzhou, she would stop crying immediately, while reading a book while saying You go. "It shows that she still loves this sport, so she insists on staying." Li Si said.

In the days of the provincial team, her parents still hesitated. Because Fan Jiayi’s academic performance has always been very good, and the coach of the provincial team said that with her age, she may only grow to about one meter six or two, and it cannot meet the standard as a swimmer. Let Fan Jiayi go back to school to continue studying.

"In the Spring Festival of 2007, we took home the family back to the Spring Festival. In fact, it was already decided that she would no longer send her back to the provincial team after the Spring Festival." Li Si said that after knowing this decision, Fan Jiayi began to cry, and finally respected her individual. The willingness to continue returning to the provincial diving center training.

Open softness, splitting, upside down, and underwater qi are the basic skills that a fantastic swimmer must have. This is like a devil training for Fan Jiayi, who was only 8 years old at the time. "I have forgotten how many times I have fainted because of my breath, and every time I do n’t have to be flexible, I will be stiffly pressed by the teacher. During the period, Fan Jiayi was so emotional.

After three years of hard training, in 2010, Fan Jiayi officially joined the provincial team. In 2016, she was selected into the National Swimming Team. From then on, she opened her "ballet in the water" to pursue a dream journey.

[Edit: Liu Ye]

[Source: Hunan Daily · New Hunan Client]

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