Xinhua News Agency, Paris, August 10th (Reporters Le Wenwan and Zhang Baihui) On the evening of the 10th, amid the shouts of "Come on Team China," Li Qian, who competed in the Olympics for the third time, defeated Panamanian veteran Veron to win the championship. The Chinese boxing team won its third gold medal at the Paris Olympics. After the game, she hugged Veron, who is also an Olympic veteran of three dynasties. "Preparing for the Olympics is not easy. This is a mutual sympathy between athletes." Li Qian said.
On August 21, 2016, in the women's 69-75 kg boxing competition at the 2016 Rio Olympics, Chinese player Li Qian won the bronze medal. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Cheng Min
This is Li Qian’s 17th year of boxing. From the bronze medal in Rio, the silver medal in Tokyo, to the gold medal in Paris, boxing has accompanied her through half of her life and taught her a lot about life. reason.
The first lesson boxing taught Li Qian was to face her fear. "A real punch to the face will arouse instinctive fear. But after overcoming the fear bit by bit, I found that I have grown slowly. Although it hurts to be hit by a fist, I will find ways to avoid it. The opponent attacks and seizes the opportunity to fight back. I no longer avoid the pressures and challenges in life.”
On August 8, 2021, in the women’s 75kg boxing finals at the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese player Li Qian won the silver medal. . Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Dongzhen
The second lesson that followed was persistence. "My parents were firmly opposed to me practicing boxing at first. They thought who in the right mind would want to be punched in the face every day? I tried to persuade them for a long time before they agreed. Because of this, when I wanted to give up halfway, I would feel unable to do so. To save face, I persisted.”
Li Qian said that she wanted to thank everyone for her persistence when making key decisions in life. "After losing the game, the feeling of wanting to give up was the biggest challenge that needed to be overcome, and I kept convincing myself to persevere. After losing in the Tokyo finals, it hit me hard. But if I had given up at that time, I would not have won the prize. This gold medal. I had a lot of regrets, but the moment I got the (gold medal) and the referee raised my hand, I felt that all the regrets, bitterness and tiredness were gone.”
Li Qian was originally a basketball player. It seemed that she switched from collective events to individual events, but she felt that the team spirit was always there. "Boxing seems like a person fighting alone in the ring, which seems very lonely. But in fact, behind the ring, whether it is the coach, sparring partner, support staff or center leader, everyone has gathered strength for me and supported me to move forward. Climb. The sense of teamwork always surrounds me.”
From joining the national team in 2008 to officially representing the Chinese team in international competitions in 2013, Li Qian served as a sparring partner for five years. She said this time taught her about the big picture.
"When I was training, I accompanied the main players wholeheartedly. I would not feel that if they went up, I would not have a chance. Because in the process of accompanying them in training, I also accumulated rich experience, whether on the field or on the court. The confrontation and the pressure of the game have made me more mature," Li Qian said.
The London Olympics established a women's boxing event for the first time. In the following 12 years, Li Qian collected gold, silver and bronze medals at the Olympics and witnessed the continuous growth of the Chinese women's boxing team. She understands life through boxing and said: “I hope to influence more sports people and sports enthusiasts through my own influence, so that Chinese boxing will develop better and better.”
(Source: Xinhuanet)
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