Chinese gymnastics has always been China, and it is known as the dream team of Chinese sports together with eight teams including Chinese table tennis and diving.
And Cheng Fei has drawn an indelible mark in the history of gymnastics in China, and the international sports world has named a gymnastics movement after her, called "Cheng Fei Jump".
It's been more than 10 years since she retired, and what kind of life is she living now?
On May 29, 1988, Cheng Fei was born in an ordinary family in Huangshi, Hubei, she and her mother's father were both employees of an auto repair shop, and the family conditions were not rich.
But in the past, Cheng Fei's father had practiced martial arts, so he had his own dedication to sports and had strong requirements for his daughter's physical fitness.
But Cheng Fei was not physically strong when she was a child, and she often went to the hospital when she was sick, so her father thought about sending her to learn sports, maybe her body would gradually get better.
At that time, because of the emergence of Deng Yaping, Chinese table tennis has reached a new peak, and table tennis has become a popular project for the whole people, plus Cheng Fei's father's father is familiar with the table tennis coach of a sports school, so Cheng Fei's father is about to send Cheng Fei to learn table tennis.
But the reality made Cheng Fei's father feel very frustrated, Cheng Fei didn't have any talent in table tennis, and her body didn't get better, just when he was thinking about whether to take his daughter back to live an ordinary life, the sports school suddenly gave him a **, which also brought an important turning point in Cheng Fei's life.
This hit ** is Cheng Fei's father's friend Ke Jin, because he found that Cheng Fei's body coordination and flexibility are very good, so he specially gave him this **.
And Cheng Fei's father knew that his daughter could continue on the road of sports, so he was very excited to agree to his suggestion. So Cheng Fei switched from table tennis to gymnastics and began her gymnastics career.
After transferring to the gymnastics team, Ke Jin recommended Cheng Fei to the more experienced coach Yao Juying to practice basic skills.
In addition to training in the sports school, the father also does his best to help his daughter train at home.
In this way, after several years of training, Cheng Fei's excellent performance gave her the opportunity to study at the Wuhan Sports Institute.
At that time, Coach Zhao Hanhua, who was in charge of gymnastics training in the sports institute, praised Cheng Fei for her performance after watching Cheng Fei's performance.
But the cost of studying in a sports school is quite a lot, which is undoubtedly a huge pressure on Cheng Fei's father and mother.
After Zhao Hanhua knew about their family's situation, he applied to his superiors, hoping that the school could give Cheng Fei the treatment of formal sports students, and at that time, formal sports students not only did not have to pay tuition, tuition and miscellaneous fees, etc., but also received a certain amount of living expenses every month.
This made Cheng Fei's father very happy, and he kept telling his daughter to train hard. At that time, Cheng Fei was only 7 years old, which was the age when her peers had just entered elementary school, but she already had such a stable treatment.
After more standard training, Cheng Fei has greatly improved both her movements and skills.
She trained like this for 4 years, and when she was 11 years old, she participated in the selection of the Hubei Provincial Gymnastics Team. With her strength and talent, Cheng Fei successfully became a member of the provincial gymnastics team.
After studying and training in the provincial gymnastics team for two years, Cheng Fei scored six more generals in five passes and entered the national gymnastics team. Just when she was 13 years old, and her peers had not yet graduated from primary school, she had already become an athlete who could win glory for her country. And the sweat and hardships she paid are not something that ordinary people can imagine.
In the national gymnastics team, she met coach Lu Shanzhen, who was of great significance to her gymnastics career. Lu Shanzhen is famous in the gymnastics world, because there are countless champions trained under him.
Entering the national team with many outstanding players, Cheng Fei felt an unprecedented sense of crisis, and Cheng Fei herself is a more introverted and introverted person, plus she left her hometown and came to Beijing, she missed her family very much at a young age, and she was not suitable for life in the national team at the beginning.
But thanks to the help and care of Coach Lu Shanzhen, Cheng Fei slowly stimulated his fighting spirit and devoted himself more wholeheartedly to training.
In 2003, this was the first time Cheng Fei went abroad to participate in a relatively large event, but she did not have the slightest stage fright. At the Asian Championships, Cheng Fei won the first place in the free exercise and vault events in one fell swoop with her perfect performance, won the first gold medal in the international competition in her life, and also made a very good start to her gymnastics career.
A year later, Cheng Fei went through layers of selection and got a place to participate in the gymnastics event of the Athens Olympics. Being able to participate in the Olympic Games can be said to be the dream of every athlete, and Cheng Fei has made sufficient preparations for this Olympic Games, waiting to show her glory on the field and win glory for the country.
But perhaps due to a lack of experience in major competitions, Cheng Fei missed out on a medal in the floor exercise and only finished fourth, but she was not discouraged.
After coming back, Cheng Fei and the coaches carefully reviewed, and they found that compared with free exercise, Cheng Fei had more advantages in the vault event, so Cheng Fei immediately changed her training plan.
So Cheng Fei devoted herself to training again and was fully prepared for the next game.
Through competitions again and again, Cheng Fei has also accumulated a lot of experience. Finally at the 2005 World Gymnastics Championships, Cheng Fei not only won the championship and set a new world record, but her vaulting action made everyone jaw-dropping, and was named "Cheng Fei Jump" by her name Cheng Fei in the international sports world, leaving an immortal myth in the gymnastics world.
Since then, Cheng Fei has won numerous awards in gymnastics, whether it is vaulting, floor exercise, or balance beam, she has very good results.
In November 2007, she was appointed captain of the Chinese women's gymnastics team. In 2008, although she only won the bronze medal in the vault event at the Beijing Olympics, she quickly adjusted her mentality and led the gymnastics team to win the free ** sub-team championship.
In the following years, she led other gymnasts to win one medal after another, and she was known as the "Sports Emperor" by virtue of her super strength.
In 2012, Cheng Fei struggled in gymnastics for nine years, and won countless medals of all sizes.
She could have continued her career as a gymnast, but during one training session, she suddenly felt severe pain in her Achilles tendon due to the accumulation of long-term pain.
When she went to the hospital for a check-up, she found out that she had ruptured her Achilles tendon, which required a long period of rest and recovery, and she also had to reduce strenuous exercise afterwards, which was undoubtedly a fatal blow for a gymnast.
Cheng Fei couldn't accept this fact at first, but under the comfort of her teammates and the guidance of her coach, Cheng Fei finally decided to retire, because she was already 25 years old at that time, and she had passed the most glorious age of an athlete.
After retiring, because there was no strict training and diet control as before, coupled with the drugs to be ingested every day for treatment, Cheng Fei's weight increased rapidly, and even reached more than 200 pounds.
And getting fat is not just an example of Cheng Fei, many athletes have changed their weight and body shape after retiring, such as gymnast Guan Chenchen, who won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics.
This is actually a very normal phenomenon, and they do not rely on their looks and figure to eat, on the contrary, they sacrifice their physical health, and they have won medals one after another for the country, and we are not qualified to laugh at their figure.
As Cheng Fei's injury slowly recovered, under the advice of coach Lu Shanzhen, Cheng Fei transformed from an athlete to a gymnastics coach. Her former alma mater, Wuhan Sports Institute, specially hired Cheng Fei as an associate professor.
Although she is a bit overweight now, more than 20 years of training has made her remember these movements in her bones, and she can still perform at a super high level when showing for those athletes.
Being able to return to the gymnastics project he loves again, leading one good seedling after another, teaching all his skills, and letting them win glory for the country is also a very proud thing for Cheng Fei himself.
has a stable career, but the people around her are anxious, that is because Cheng Fei has been single for so many years, and her parents, coaches, and relatives and friends all hope that she will find her suitable other half to get married and have children as soon as possible.
But she herself is not in a hurry about this matter, because she is very satisfied with her life alone, and she also hopes that the other half is truly in love, and she does not want to find the other half in order to get married and complete this task.
Cheng Fei dedicated her best youth to gymnastics, and her efforts have paid off for her, making her an indelible mark in the history of Chinese gymnastics.
Although she has been retired for a long time, she still uses her own actions to do her own strength for the development of Chinese gymnastics, and hopes that her life can get better and better.