200 Hero Growth Stories. Olympic Heroes Volume

Author: Qu Shenghui
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: When the passionate Liu Xiang, like the wind, sprinted first to the finish line, draped in the national flag, and loudly declared to the world, "China has me, Asia has me," were you proud as a Chinese? Did your heart swell with excitement when you heard the number of medals increasing day by day? This book gives you the opportunity to get close to Olympic heroes and takes you into the growth stories of 200 Olympic champions!
1. Based on competitive sports to promote the sound development of the human body and mind;
2. Educating the youth through sports competition to establish friendship and understanding, thereby creating a happier and more peaceful world;
3. Promoting the Olympic principles worldwide to enhance international friendship;
4. Gathering athletes from all over the world to participate in the Olympic Games every four years.
——Olympic Charter
Ancient immortal god, beautiful, great, and upright father. We pray for your descent to the mortal world to reveal yourself, so that the renowned heroes may stand in this vast sky as witnesses to your glory. Illuminate the running, wrestling, and throwing events, these sublime competitions of all-out effort. Bestow upon the victors wreaths woven from olive branches, shaping their steel-like bodies. Valleys, mountains, and oceans shine in harmony with you, like a temple built of colorful rocks. This grand temple, people from all over the world come to worship. Ah! Eternal ancient god.
——Olympic Hymn
Life always holds some scenes that remain vivid over time, some experiences that deeply move us, and some moments that ignite our passion. Greece is a place where myths are born, where the Olympic ideal of "nothing is impossible" is interpreted, and where classic scenes linger in our memories: the passionate Liu Xiang, like the wind, sprinting first to the finish line, draped in the national flag, loudly declaring to the world, "China has me, Asia has me"; the girls' final powerful smash, exchanging gold medals for past glory and opening new dreams with victory; the two dark-skinned Chinese tennis girls defeating one superstar after another, miraculously making the five-star red flag flutter high.
If the sports arena is a battlefield in peacetime, then athletes are the heroes who dominate this battlefield! After reading this book, you will discover that champions were once just like you—diving champions feared water, table tennis champions were punished for standing up, and almost everyone has had arguments with their coaches; long-distance runners played tag, a simple slingshot was the training tool for shooting champions, and a makeshift sand pit was the cradle for gymnastics champions. What you share in common is that you all have beautiful dreams—your dream might be to become a scientist, inventing and creating; a writer, tilling the seas of literature; a military strategist, planning and strategizing, while theirs is to become world champions.
After reading this book, you will find that their growth paths share common traits: a spirit of enduring hardship, an unyielding will, unwavering confidence, and an unextinguished passion. Inspired by the Olympic spirit of "higher, faster, stronger," your dreams will surely come true!
This book mainly introduces the growth stories of 200 Olympic champions, including Xu Haifeng, Lang Ping, Lou Yun, Gao Min, Zhang Guozheng, Zhang Ning, Sun Shuwei, Zhang Jun, Gao Ling, Liu Xiang, Luo Wei, and Xing Huina.