Dialogue with Gong Lijiao | The most beautiful when fighting for dreams I am still the shot girl who chased dreamsFly into the homes of ordinary people
At the Tokyo Olympics, Chinese women’s shot put athlete Gong Lijiao went to the Olympics for the fourth time. In the end, she won the first gold medal of the Olympic Games for the Chinese delegation with a score of 20.58 meters.
In the isolation hotel room, when Gong Lijiao showed the gold medal to reporters through video, he still couldn’t restrain his excitement.
Starting to practice shot put in 2001, Gong Lijiao has gone through 21 years of pursuit of dreams. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2012 London Olympics, she won bronze and silver medals respectively. When everyone thought that in the 2016 Rio Olympics, Gong Lijiao was determined to win, but she played abnormally and ranked fourth.
With unfinished dreams, Gong Lijiao devoted himself to preparing for the fourth Olympic cycle. In a few years, Gong Lijiao has won almost all international track and field events, ranking first in the world. However, the Tokyo Olympics was postponed for one year due to the epidemic, which made Gong Lijiao, who has passed the golden age of sports, a bit more bumpy road to dream of the Olympics.
The consistent persistence of his dreams allowed Gong Lijiao to finally stand in the finals of the Tokyo Olympic Games women’s shot put. In the face of the long-awaited moment, Gong Lijiao instead behaved very calmly.
Under the attention of the audience, Gong Lijiao made his personal best score of 20.58 meters in the final shot, becoming the only player to exceed 20 meters in the final, perfectly demonstrating China’s power to the world.
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